Indigenous Women on the Front Lines Speak
Support Flo, Wolverine’s widowed partner and Wolverine’s Grandchildren continue the farm they built together.
https://fundrazr.com/flowolverinefarm
“You need two hands to fight the system. You cannot have one hand asking for something and the other one closed. You have to be able to fight with both hands.”
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/support-flo-wolverines-widowed-partner-and/
Tomorrow, Tuesday March 21st Wulfgang is gonna be on the radio having
a discussion with Lil’ Fire Woman about Emotional Labour and Care Work
on Front Lines.
You can tune in on your radio 100.5 FM or head to the coop radio website to find the live podcast http://coopradio.org/content/listen .
Tune in by 1 to catch them. <3
….photo by wulfgang… who apparently has a lack of not ridiculous photos of themselves.
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/tomorrow-tuesday-march-21st-wulfgang-is-gonna-be/
https://www.gofundme.com/ep2zww9k
Our friends Molly Wickham, who we visited and interviewed last summer for the Voices Project and her Sister, Jennifer, who is writing the forward for Voices: Indigenous Women on the Front Lines Speak, have put out a call for support for the Indigenous Life School.
Indigenous life school is gearing up for a spring gathering in april
2017. At this time, one of the families will begin construction of a new
traditional pit house, the families will learn how to care for and ride
horses, and focus on archery as a means of self sustainability.
We are looking for your support to assist families with travel and food
costs as well as supplies for the traditional pit house.
Your support will go directly to indigenous families who are working
hard to raise their children in a traditional way–providing them with
land based, experiential learning opportunities such as building their
own homes.
Raising children on the land, in their culture is the most important work that can be done to protect all life. Please share the fundraiser with your networks and give if you can.
xo
beyon and wulfie
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/httpswwwgofundmecomep2zww9k-our-friends/
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/
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!
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.
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/wulfgangzapf-teachanarchy-warrior-communique/
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
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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”.”
Re-posted from line9shutdown.ca.
On the morning of December 21st 2015 Vanessa Gray, a young woman from
Aamjiwnaang First Nation, with the support of Stone Stewart and Sarah
Scanlon, shut down Enbridge’s Line 9 on Anishnaabe Territory just
outside of Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia.
At approximately 7:30am the three arrived at the valve site and
called Enbridge Inc. to inform them of the action and requested that the
pipeline, and its flow of oil, be turned off. At this point, the three
shut down the pipeline’s manual hand wheel and bike locked their necks
to the valve in an act of civil disobedience to prevent the operation of
the pipeline.
The Charges
They were arrested, held overnight and released with minimal
conditions. All three were charged with counts of Mischief Over $5,000
(maximum sentence of 10 years in prison) and Mischief Endangering Life
(maximum sentence of life in prison). Stone Stewart was also charged
with Resisting Arrest.
There are no known prior accounts of activists being charged for
Mischief Endangering Life, which leads us to believe it is a scare
tactic to discourage land defense and resistance against the fossil fuel
industry.
Vanessa, Stone and Sarah are currently awaiting trial to fight these charges.
Line 9 is a highly contested tar sands pipeline that began shipping
diluted bitumen in December 2015 between Sarnia and Montreal. Those
involved in this action assert that the operation of Line 9 is a
violation of Indigenous sovereignty and treaty rights.
“The crown is failing in their obligation to consult with first
nations about pipelines,” said Sarah Scanlon. “As settlers it’s our
responsibility to respect Indigenous land rights and support those
protecting the land and water on the front-lines.”
Line 9 has faced opposition from several of the 18 First Nations
along its route. Chippewas of the Thames First Nation is currently
challenging the pipeline in Supreme Court, on the basis of
non-consultation. Aamjiwnaang First Nation, among others, testified to
the National Energy Board that they were never consulted with when Line 9 was built.
“The fact that line 9 is currently in operation really just adds to
the urgency for people to act. I’m here because the negative impacts of
the oil industry are taking place right now, every day,” says Stone
Stewart.
The tar sands are known to be the second leading cause of
de-forestation in the world and permanently contaminate over 7 million
barrels of water every day.
Locally, Aamjiwnaang First Nation experiences skewed sex ratios and
high rates of cancer, respiratory illness, and developmental disorders
as a result of pollution from nearby petrochemical refineries.
“It’s clear that tar sands projects represent an ongoing cultural and
environmental genocide,” Vanessa Gray asserts. “I defend the land and
water because it is sacred. I have the right to defend anything that
threatens my traditions and culture.”
Line 9 Shut Down In Sarnia – Ricochet Media:
Activists Shut Down Enbridge’s Line 9 in Canada Again! – The Indignants
Courthouse Rally: Line 9 is Scarier than Prison – Submedia.tv
I don’t have the heart to sit here and see it happen. Right now they’re drilling on Digby Island to
see how far they go before they reach rock bottom and then they’ll understand
how much, they call it bio mass waste, they have to take out, which is all the
living peat moss and rare plants and then they’re just going to dump it on the
other side of the island.
–Goot-Ges
We realised people need to occupy that Island. We learned form Enbridge that we can’t count
on the government of Canada’s processes, we can’t count on petitions, we can’t
count on protests; the government just ignores all this stuff. And we need
the people who have legal rights and title to that land. It’s unceded territory.
–Christie Brown
Goot-Ges is a Haida, Nisga’a and Tsimshian woman from the
village of skulls, Gingolx, in the Nisga’a Nation whose clan is Raven from the
house of T’tanihaulk. She is a
land defender, freelance writer, radio producer and independent mother of
three. In August of 2015 in
collaboration with four other Indigenous women Goot-Ges began an occupation at
Lax U’u’la, which continues to protect the island and surrounding waters from
destruction to this day. Her work is
rooted in cultural practice: prayer, story telling and medicine as healing and
an integral aspect of resistance to ongoing colonization. She has founded and supported countless
projects assisting her people in healing inter-generational trauma and ending
gender based violence.
Check out
Goot-Ges’ most recent project Yakguudan, which means ‘to respect all life’ in Haida.
Christie Brown of Gitxan and Scottish descent has worked to
defend the lands, waters, salmon and lives of her people against the Northern
Gateway pipeline and Petronas’ Pacific North West LNG export facility. Her creative forms of resistance merge the
contemporary tools at hand with the revitalization of traditional skills and
hereditary systems. In August of 2015 in
collaboration with 4 other Indigenous women Christie organized and began an
occupation of Lax U’u’la on unceded Tsimshian territory. Christie’s work defending Lax U’u’la, the
Flora Banks and it’s protective eelgrass and the Skeena River continues to this
day.
Support Christie and her work
upholding Tsimshian Law to protect Lax U’u’la for future generations.
https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/i-dont-have-the-heart-to-sit-here-and-see-it/