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UNBC Livestream | University of Northern British Columbia

UNBC Livestream | University of Northern British Columbia

Watch the live stream of a panel discussion with Freda Huson, Helen Knot and Goot-Ges!  2pm today!

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Our deer friend Goot-Ges has just launched her first book of stories.  
The e-book is available here and we hope to have hard copies available
on our Voices Store soon!

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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.  In this book you can read stories spun from the fabrics of dreams, from the places where Ancestors speak, from a deep being of the land.

So please, support Indigenous Land Defense and drop some fliff for a good read.

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**ONLINE STORE NOW OPEN**

**ONLINE STORE NOW OPEN**

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ARTWORK BY BEYON WREN MOOR FOR SALE!
PHOTOGRAPHY BY WÜLFGANG ZAPF FOR SALE!

• Screen Printed Shirts & Patches

• High Quality Poster Prints

• Photographic Prints 

• Giclée Prints

(funds raised go directly to indigenous women and two-spirit land defenders on the frontlines)

wulfgangzapf:

teachanarchy:

Warrior Communique from #NODAPL
 

Late last night, lit by the fire of burning barricades, a warrior in the frontlines of #NoDAPL issued a call out for local actions in solidarity with their fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Fuck Yes.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/wulfgangzapf-teachanarchy-warrior-communique/

Urgent Legal Defense Funds

Several
 Indigenous Activists from the West were arrested. At this point Crow, Sacheen and Kanahus have been released.  However West Coast warriors are still in need of legal funds.

Please e-transfer to hwalia8@gmail.com [as requested by family
 members and legal counsel]. We need to raise 2000 USD = 3000$ CDN
 immediately.

More
 information and updates below

LEGAL FUNDS NEEDED ASAP! SUPPORT WEST COAST WARRIORS!

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 Read update from Kanahus below *

Today
 eighty water protectors were violently arrested near Dakota Pipeline construction
 sites. As written by Red Warrior Camp “You are trespassing on Native
 Land. You are protecting the destruction of our sacred sites. Put down your
 guns, turn in your badges. Understand the indestructible spirit of indigenous
 people walking with prayers and sacrifice of our ancestors for sacred
 water.”

Four
 of those arrested are well known West Coast land defenders and members of the
 Secwepemc Women’s Warrior Society, Ancestral Pride and West Coast Women
 Warriors Media Cooperative: Kanahus Manuel, Queen Sacheen, James Joe Crow and
 Rose Stiffarm.

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 IMMEDIATE LEGAL FUNDS ARE NEEDED! ***

Please
 e-transfer to hwalia8@gmail.com
 [as requested by family members and legal counsel]. We need to raise 2000 USD
 = 3000$ CDN immediately.

Legal
 is needed ongoing for all water protectors: https://www.generosity.com/…/red-warrior-camp-legal-fund-no… andhttps://fundrazr.com/campaigns/d19fAf

ALSO
 SUPPORT BY CALLING AND DEMANDING RELEASE:
 The Morton County Sheriff’s dep’t: (701)
 667-3330 or (701)667-3405
 Jail: 1-701-667-3318
 or 701-328-9921

WORDS
 FROM KANAHUS:

“Things
 are very disorganized at the jail, because they arrested 80+ people today.
 Earlier in the day they did not even have a list of all the people they had
 in custody. In a cell with 30 women and there are others in other cells. Sacheen Seitcham
 and Joe James Crow are also among those arrested as is cinematographer Rose
 Stiffarm. we were doing a peaceful prayer march through fields. Construction
 has been happening in important areas and some people chained themselves to machinery.
 The riot police put paper/cloth bags over the heads of those defenders. The
 people in the prayer march were away from the construction zone and just in a
 field when the riot police swarmed the field, they pepper sprayed people,
 threw underage girls on the ground and swept and arrested all the people on
 the field. Again, that was not supposed to happen, we were all in a peaceful
 prayer march away from construction. It was local, state and federal police
 that descended on them and arrested.”

The supervisor said they will all be charged with “criminal
 trespass” and “inciting a riot”.”

Voices shot an update for the wonderful Christine Jack on our last visit.  Christine Jack is a St’at’imc Life-Giver, Two-Spirit Land Defender and Spiritual Leader.  She lives on a territory called Ulluisc which is the location of ancestral villages, diverse wildlife and medicines.  Christine was asked by her Elders to defend Ulluisc and now that is what she does.  From Standing Rock to Ulluisc Defend the Lands and Waters.

(Source: https://www.facebook.com/)

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/voices-shot-an-update-for-the-wonderful-christine/

Spotted this one by the ocean in lekwungen territory #solidaritywithstandingrocksioux #solidaritywithstandingrock #SouthDakota #NorthDakota #Amerikkka #nodapl #graffiti #seabirds #standingrock #solidarity #redwarriorcamp #lekwungenterritory #victoria #cadborobay (at Lekwungen Territory)

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/spotted-this-one-by-the-ocean-in-lekwungen/

ATTENTION!! Our friend Kanahus Manuel of the Secwepemc nation
has been arrested this morning at Standing Rock along with 21 other
water protectors! Free our warriors! #FreeKanahus #KanahusFreedom #Secwepemc  #NoDAPL #BlackSnakeKilla #ResistTheBlackSnake #WaterProtectors #WaterIsLife #RespectNature #RezpectOurWater #LandDefenders #StandWithStandingRock #Lakota #Sioux #StandingRock #CantDrinkOil #NoDakotaAccessPipeline #mniwiconi #SacredStoneCamp #RedWarriorCamp #IndigenousResistance #Liberation #KeepItInTheSoil #Amerikkka #NorthDakota #SouthDakota #IndianCountry

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/attention-our-friend-kanahus-manuel-of-the/