Cam Scott

is a writer and organizer from Winnipeg, Manitoba; Treaty 1 territory and the homeland of the Métis Nation. His books include ROMANS/SNOWMARE and VANISHING SIGNS (forthcoming from ARP Books in 2022).

Below the Barricades: On Infrastructure, Self-Determination, and Defense

Below the Barricades: On Infrastructure, Self-Determination, and Defense

On this basis, one practice of blockading—of geographically isolated assertions of land-based sovereignty by remote nations—connects directly with another, the chokepoint protests of organizers in cities and distribution centers. This conveys the agency of Indigenous land defenders directly to urban locales, and drafts new possibilities for settler and working-class solidarity with anti-colonial struggle—a solidarity that again traverses the infrastructure it would obstruct, in a demonstration appropriate to the scale of global capitalism.