Ancestral Pride ~ Warriors Rising Help Us Rebuild
Our friends need funds to get them and their kiddos settled back at home and to pay for the costs of travel to court dates.
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Kickstarter: ‘Beginnings of my Heart”
“The Beginnings of My Heart is a feature film that tells the story of a Native American girl (“Heart Girl”) who is experiencing love for the first time. Hidden secrets from her past, that she has not yet come to peace with, come back to haunt her and steal her heart. She will have to travel through her apartment hallways to find the spirits that have stolen her heart and convince them into giving her heart back by having them come to peace with their own past traumas.
Our film is one that shows the challenges of insecurities and trauma. It speaks of when you find true love for the first time and have to make sure not to focus on your perceived faults. This could lead to bad spirits, for they will take what you don’t appreciate. A first panic attack can feel like a heart exploding.
As a Native American family growing up on the reservation, we learned to make our own toys and build our own forts in the mountains. Making the choice to steer away from CGI and instead incorporate stop motion and real built sets felt appropriate. Films like City of Lost Children, Fifth Element, The Brothers Quay, Little Otik, The Cream Master Series is how we fell in love with cinema. Using traditional techniques for Heart Girls journey will give us the chance to grab that piece of her heart as a viewer.”
The cast thus far includes Devery Jacobs (Rhymes for Young Ghouls, The Sun at Midnight) and MorningStar Angeline (Drunktown’s Finest, I Am Thy Weapon).
Check out our Kickstarter via https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1245793154/help-us-make-the-feature-of-the-beginnings-of-my-h?token=f4686bc7
You can also follow us on social media:
We deeply appreciate all support whether it is actual funding or simply sharing our Kickstarter campaign.
(Source: http://morningstarangeline.tumblr.com/)
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/morningstarangeline-kickstarter-beginnings-of/
“Supernatural Guardian of Lax U’u’la”
Limited Edition of 10 digital prints, 8.5"x11", original acrylic painting by Goot-Ges @lilfire17. Prints available at: http://voicesbook.storenvy.com/collections/1438636-art-by-goot-ges/products/18539185-supernatural-guardian-of-lax-uula
“Supernattural Guardian of Lax U’u’la”
Painted on Tsimshian Territories.
Acrylic paint on canvas.
Autumn 2016
This painting depicts Wolf protecting the island of Lac U’u’la from the destruction proposed by Pacific North West LNG.
Goot-Ges is a Tsimshian, Haida and Nisga’a woman from the house of Txaatk’anlaxhatkw, of the Village of skulls. Out of a dream she collaborated with five other Indigenous Women to begin the occupation of Lax U’u’la, also called Lelu Island. A mother of 3 babies Goot-Ges is a powerful force against the Colonial State, defending waters and land along the North West Coast.
Sale of Goot-Ges’ art goes directly to supporting her family and furthering the work of Yakguudang.
https://yakguudangjournies.wordpress.com/
#laxuula #leluisland #gootges #tsimshian #painting #indigenousart #landdefenders #indigenousresistance #indigenous (at Lelu Island)
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/supernatural-guardian-of-lax-uula-limited/
“Flora Banks”
Prints available in store:
http://voicesbook.storenvy.com/collections/1422062-photography/products/18306446-flora-banks-lax-uula-2016
Shot on 35mm B&W Film with no digital editing. Original photograph by Wülfgang Zapf.
50% of all sales goes directly to Land Defenders featured in the Voices Project.
Photo of the Flora Banks at low tide. It is where one generation of salmon cross the next. Located in the channels between Lax’U’u’la and adjacent islands.
Lax U’u’la, is located at the mouth of the Skeena river. Adjacent to the island are the Flora Banks, an area made up of glacial silt from the last ice age where eel grass flourishes. The Flora Banks and the eel grass that grows there is a crucial habitat for young Salmon smolts who as adults will run the Skeena river. The eel grass provides shelter from the strong currents and tides while the smolts acclimatize to their new lives in saltwater and adult salmon re-adjust to begin their journey up the river. This is a place where one generation of salmon passes another. The straight next to Lax U’u’la teams with porpoises, humpback whales pass through the region and wolves hunt the deer who find bountiful food on the island. We were told the ancestors and wild spirits of the animals protect Lax U’u’la.
It is on this small marshy island, covered in berries, ancient cedars and eagle’s nests that Petronas and Pacific North West LNG (PNW LNG) scheme to build an export facility for gas fracked in the North East of so called bc.
There are 8 facilities planned for the Tsimshian’s territories around colonial Prince Rupert.
In August of 2015 five Women of Haida, Gitxsan and Tsimshian descent, with the support of the Hereditary House Leader for the Gitwilgyoots tribe responsible for Lax U’u’la, began an occupation of the Island. Since that moment they have been offering their prayers, utilizing the medicines of the island, raising their children and going out onto the water to courageously stop the work of surveyors hired by PNW LNG. Many warriors and supporters have joined these women in their fight for the land, waters and life.
#waterislife #voicesbook #leluisland #indigenousresistance #bwphotography (at Lelu Island)
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/flora-banks-prints-available-in-store/
2Spirit Warrior Society
As many of you know we are part of a crew, with our fierce lovely friends all over Turtle Island, raising funds for our other loves in the Two Spirit Warrior Society. Here’s a little update we wrote regarding whats going on with the Dakota Access Pipeline and info. about the fundraiser.
xoxoxo
Thank
you tender babes for helping us raise $ 689 for the Two Spirit Warrior
Society! There is still a ways to go to meet our goal, so please give
generously if you are able to and please share.
Some
people have been asking the organizers of this fundraiser “what is
happening at Standing Rock?" And that is a great question. One of
the tactics of the oil companies, banks, and State powers who want to
see the pipeline happen is to manipulate support for resistance through
corporate media by providing misinformation and partial truths. Yes, Water
Protectors have had a hard fought victory, as the main stream media has
reported – however the project is not dead and it is crucial to follow this through to the end, we must
not waver now.
The focus of corporate media and use of language saying “the pipeline is no longer
being built” is intentional miss information. Through partial truths,
mass media outlets are redirecting attention elsewhere so as to weaken
the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline; resistance that has been growing all over Turtle
Island. This can leave Water Protectors vulnerable.
What
more accurately has happened is the U.S. Army Corps did not grant permission to put the
pipeline under the river (the easement).
Wherever the pipeline is routed to, it will
damage water systems and ecosystems. Dakota Access hasn’t packed up
and left– they still have floodlights on, equipment ready, and private
security. Razor wire and police still stand between water protectors and
the drill site. They aren’t leaving, they’re lying in wait.
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics, the companies behind the
project, called the ruling a “purely political action”, accused the
Obama administration of abandoning the rule of law “in favor of currying
favor with a narrow and extreme political constituency”, and said the
pipeline project would go ahead.
President-elect Trump has expressed explicit support for the
pipeline, and it is expected that he will over turn the U.S. Army Corp decision after his
inauguration on January 20.
Trump
and his pro-oil, climate-change-denying cabinet pose a serious threat to
the environment and to indigenous sovereignty.
This fight is far from
over.
Our
two-spirit friends are gathering resources to fight the re-emergence of
the black snake, and to make sure this temporary victory holds.
The
camps have been reduced in numbers, and for the most part supplies are
being organized by internal camps. Many of the original funds have been
disconnected, or are not available to people on the ground. It is
important to continue to support the groups who are sticking it out,
including Pueblo Camp, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Red Medicine Liberation
Camp, and the Two Spirit Warrior Society. It is important to recognize
that Water Protectors are throwing down now, as we speak all along the
length of the Black Snake, not just at Standing Rock and that this
diversity is crucial to stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Please
support this work if you are able to – every dollar counts! Please tell
your friends about it.
<3
Here are some links to articles if you would like to read more about what is currently going on.
“Standing Rock Activists Stay in Place Fearing ‘Victory’ was a Trick”
Photo credit: Wulfgang Zapf
One of the smaller examples of life that our responsibility as caretakers of the earth to protect and love.
“Limpets”
Lax U’u’la – 2016
By Wulfgang Zapf
Photographic prints available in the store! http://voicesbook.storenvy.com/collections/1422062-photography/products/18306503-limpets-lax-uula-2016
Shot on 35mm B&W Film with no digital editing. Original photograph by Wülfgang Zapf.
50% of all sales goes directly to Land Defenders featured in the Voices Project.
Photo of a cluster of Limpets holding tight to a rock exposed at low tide in Tsimshian waters near Lax U’u’la. (at Lelu Island)
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/one-of-the-smaller-examples-of-life-that-our/
Solidarity With Two Spirit Warrior Society
Solidarity With Two Spirit Warrior Society
At Standing Rock and across the expansive, multi-state, length of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Water Protectors are risking everything to lay down their medicine, send up their prayers and place their bodies in the way of the Black Snake. This struggle continues, the Black Snake has not yet been defeated.
Among these Water Protectors are our 2Spirit comrades who have been throwing down since the beginning, who commit to continue the fight on the ground to protect, land, water, air and all the creatures of our Mother Earth.
Recently two very close friends of ours, St’at’imc and Anishinape Water Protectors, have reached out for support and much needed resources.
These 2 Water Protectors have been central to the establishment of a 2Spirit Warrior Society throwing down in the struggle against DAPL. It was established so that 2Spirit Water Protectors who are not Pacifists nor their apologists, can be true to themselves among people with shared experiences while coordinating for themselves and in collaboration with other camps involved at Standing Rock. Unsurprisingly the 2Spirit crew does not receive a lot of visibility, which as we know is not always safe and desirable, and thus a lot of the resources do not make it to them.
In response to this call from our loved ones we have committed to coordinate support from afar and so have reached out further to our Queer and 2Spirit network of Land Defender friends in so-called Vancouver, Oakland California, NY, Seattle and Great Falls MA to create a small core of coordinators across turtle island in solidarity.
Our friends have communicated that they need a 4×4 truck with a trailer. This will help them move materials, get their crew to actions and get their crew to their court dates.
They have also asked for a Yurt so that they have adequate shelter to hold it down.
We are currently coordinating with friends to source, purchase and deliver these needed items. What we need from you is the funds to make all this possible.
If you have any questions please direct them to: twospirit2016@gmail.com
finally an update! <3
Hello Lovelies,
As autumn settles in deep and we approach the darkest day and longest night of the year we’re happy to have found time to share with you all.
Amidst the cold the fires of resistance are burning bright and fucking hot all over Turtle Island.
We continue to feed those fires.
About two weeks ago deer beyon traveled south and east to bring supporters to Standing Rock. Beyon has joined water protectors and is throwing down and supporting the fight for water, land and life in solidarity with the Sioux Nation. After, she is on her way to their other home in so called Massachusetts to work on the illustrations for the book.
Here on Lekwungen Territory, Wulfie, has been fighting the eventual demoviction from their home, and is joining with a growing movement in the city against displacement connecting processes of ongoing colonialism, homelessness and gentrification. Work continues here to support front lines through raising funds, care work and solidarity actions.
If you are not able to make it to Standing Rock yourself and are wondering how you can support Indigenous Land Defenders here’s an update on what some of our friends, the incredible Women and Two-Spirit Land Defenders we are working with on the Voices Project, are up to.
Queen Sacheen and her partner Crow have been holding it down with the Red Warrior Camp for well over a month now… going on two! If you are able to send this Grandma, Medicine Maker, Media Ninja and Front Line Warrior a little love this December it would be hugely appreciated. Best gift idea we can think of 🙂
You can sign up to support Sacheen with a monthly donation here!
Our deer love Goot-Ges is gathering resources for spring time land defense while continuing her work protecting the Oceans from Fracked Gas export, raising babies and finishing a book.
You can support her work by purchasing any photography print or purchasing any art by Goot-Ges from our storenvy.
We’ll update y’all on more ways to support Indigenous Resistance and the Protection of Land and Waters in the coming days. And encourage your fams and friends to give big because warriors on the front lines are throwing down for all of us and our future generations!
Lots of love darlings.
Wulfie and beyon.
xoxo
This is the incredible print, Dandelion, by
beyon wren moor that we are giving away as a back patch free with any
purchase from our online store. The $$ from all sales goes directly to
supporting the Voices project or directly to Indigenous Women and
Two-Spirit Land Defenders. Offer ends December 5th <3
Check out our store here: www.voicesbook.storenvy.com
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/this-is-the-incredible-print-dandelion-by-beyon/
400 DAPL protesters ‘trapped on bridge’ as police fire tear gas, water cannon (VIDEO)
Officers have deployed water cannon on the protesters in below-freezing temperatures, and are using LRAD sound devices. Earlier, there were reports of rubber bullets fired. Vehicles which appear to be armored humvees have arrived at the scene…
fuck
this
shit
Whose side are you on now, whose side are you on.
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/thescurfofworse-ndndoll-400-dapl-protesters/
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