Indigenous Women on the Front Lines Speak
Thank you.
🖤
With your support we raised nearly $1500 for water protectors.
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Winners
have been notified by email. We will post the final total as well as
the winners once we have consent to share names and have sorted out
shipping costs.
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Thank you.
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Photograph by Amber Bracken
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/thank-you-with-your-support-we-raised-nearly/
Brave, generous creatures,
We
have somethings of a most exciting nature to share with you all.
Four of our wonderful loves have offered
additional prizes that you can win with the purchase of a 2Spirit Warrior
Society Raffle Ticket. Tickets are $5
each and a name will be drawn for each prize in the raffle.
Every buck raised through this raffle will
go directly to 2Spirit Indigenous Warriors throwing down on the ground against
the Dakota Access Pipeline. We are in
direct communication with this crew as it is made up of some of the people we
love dearly. Times are desperate with the raid yesterday and arrest of 76 Water Protectors and ongoing raids today at Sacred Stone. The
2Spirit Warrior Society are gearing up to mobilize and we are pushing to meet
our fundraising goals in order to ensure they have a reliable ride for arctic
conditions to make it to court dates, actions and reach medical aid when needed.
From this need, love and solidarity have
come these incredible gifts from queer artists across Turtle Island.
Artist Nick Berger, (they/them) is an artist and musician living on occupied
Pocomtuc Territories in so-called greenfield massachusetts who has donated a 6″ hoop
custom embroidery of anything you want!
You can check out more of their work here <3
bubzee is an octopus from the west, who
reaches into dreams with her many arms and pulls free from them the thick globs
of paint stuck to the innards of our eyelids that she looks at when she is
dreaming. bubzee offers 3 pretty patches
as gifts for you to win through the raffle.
Bug Crü, a queer metis artist,
illustrator and tattooist living on un-ceded and occupied Coast Salish
territories has contributed a print, ((Ø)),
to help raise funds for the 2Spirit Warrior Society.
Check out their work here: http://centipedes.tumblr.com/info
Ruby Doom
draws and tattoos on Pocomtuc territory and there is an original drawing by her
own hand among the treasures that the luck of the draw may provide to you.
Ruby Dooms art lives in digital land here.
So dear feral ones, in the spirit of
mutual aid and all that is still wild and ungovernable upon the body of the
earth, support the 2 Spirit Warrior Society and all the artists, healers and
makers who have contributed their labours.
Please contribute financially if you
can by entering the raffle and share our updates broadly with your family,
friends, co-workers, co-conspirators, lovers, bio fams…
xo
top photo by wulfgang zapf on Kaska Dene territory, bottom photo stolen from the internets found with no attribution and edited.
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/brave-generous-creatures-we-have-somethings-of/
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