Week 27
So this is my worst Strike selfie yet - accidental shot while struggling to hold the ph for the pic at which point my camera died ;)
#Wetsuweten shirt art credit @christibelcourt
Thread incoming, will be pauses while I type
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None of this should be taken as my own original thoughts, tho is not the fault or deficiency of the original thinkers if I get anything wrong.
I'm doing this in the context of my #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike, because the Winnipeg youth Climate Strike group, @mbyouth4climate, has been very involved in #WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada actions.
Canadians - listen up. Most of us don't put this together for ourselves.
I'm serious; we're participating in a multi-generational mass delusion that Canada exists in the way we believe it to exist.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
& so far, carried along on the momentum of the affluence that is the inheritance of our colonial resource-grab origin, that's been enough.
(spoiler - they aren't trying; it's been decades and we're still a nation of mostly oblivious authoritatians).
Our colonial ancestors didn't secure the right. They did not conquer Indigenous peoples, and they did not secure the right in treaty-making or negotiation.
1) that the doctrine of terra nullis ("no one with legal rights to the land lived here before we got here") is invalid;
3) and that given 1 & 2, and the absence of documents to show that Indigenous peoples *ceded* the land to Europeans, "Aboriginal title" exists.
#WetsuwetenStrong
(Canada basically began to violate the Treaties it had negotiated before the ink was dry on each of them)
#ShutDownCanada #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #LandBack
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada #LandBack #ClimateStrike
Indigenous peoples saw how settler education was valuable in the world as it was evolving, and they wanted that for their children.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
From 1879 - *1996*, the Canadian government operated (and/or allowed the operation of, by churches) Indian Residential Schools.
(personal context: I graduated from high school in *1991*)
I will not detail the situation; accurate information is available via many Indigenous writers, and through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #ShutDownCanada #ClimateStrike
#ShutDownCanada
From this insistence was born the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
#LandBack
#ShutDownCanada #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
Including an integration into Cdn school curriculum.
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #ShutDownCanada #Wetsuweten
Because starting in 1996 with the RCAP, teachers (and parents) have slowly been learning more and more about the history of genocide in Canada.
#ShutDownCanada
Genocide! oh my! our privileged children can't learn about *that*, they're too delicate and innocent!
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #LandBack #ShutDownCanada
#ShutDownCanada #LandBack
NO Indigenous 5yr old who started kindergarten in 1996 went to kindergarten at a Residential School.
❤️
#LandBack #ShutDownCanada
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #ShutDownCanada
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #LandBack
#FridaysForFuture
Some provinces do better than others, some schools do better than others, some *teachers* go above and beyond. ❤️
Some *parents* go above and beyond. ❤️
#LandBack
... but the thing about information is that it... cannot be contained anymore.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #AllEyesOnWetsuweten #ShutDownCanada #LandBack
Started to get taught.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
#LandBack #ClimateStrike #ShutDownCanada #Wetsuweten
#IdleNoMore #ShutDownCanada
And then the Delgamuukw and Tsilhqot'in verdicts (refresher: "Aboriginal title exists") were delivered
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #IdleNoMore #ShutDownCanada
And we have an Indigenous population, increasingly healing from intergenerational trauma, increasingly speaking out...
#IdleNoMore #ShutDownCanada
#IdleNoMore #ShutCanadaDown #WetsuwetenSoludarity #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
The Delgamuukw decision?
That involves a Gitxsan claim.
The Gitxsan are the literal, actual neighbours of the Wet'suwet'en.
#ShutCanadaDown
#LandBack
They oppose the route CGL is insisting upon.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutCanadaDown #LandBack #AllEyesOnWetsuweten
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #LandBack #ShutDownCanada
The hereditary chiefs refuse to back down, knowing the time may finally be at hand to assert their sovereignty.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #ShutDownCanada #LandBack
#Wetsuweten
But the Supreme Court finding that Aboriginal title "exists", with the Delgamuukw and Tsilhqot'in verdicts, doesn't mean Canada automatically conducts a make-over to redress all the intl law & human rights we're violating.
Nope.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #LandBack
So that effort hasn't begun yet, never mind possibly be resolved in the timeframe of the RCMP invading #Wetsuweten territory.
#ShutCanadaDown #LandBack
I feel like I didn't get all of what I was wanting to say across in this thread -
#MMIWG #WetsuwetenSolidarity
Those who *are* anti-pipeline (not just opposing the intended route) may also be unwilling to incur the statistically increased incidence of violence that extractive industry projects bring.
#ShutCanadaDown #LandBack
With that being said, let's pay some silent respects to the missing & murdered, and the wounded families & communities left behind, before continuing.
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Ok, so having sent our thoughts to those who've gone missing or were murdered along the Highway of Tears, and the families and communities there with holes torn thru them, let's return to the #ShutCanadaDown actions.
#LandBack
It's not even a tarsands project; it's nat gas destined for the Kitimat BC liquified nat gas facility.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada
#WetsuwetenStrong #LandBack #ClimateStrike
(wet-SO-wetten, as an approximation, fyi. Land heavy on the "SO".)
#ShutDownCanada
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #LandBack
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada
... grappling with the problem of natural gas use is almost a taboo subject.
#ClimateEmergency #WetsuwetenStrong #decarbonize #1o5C #ClimateStrike #FridaysForFuture #ClimateJustice
#Wetsuweten
No Indigenous community within the aspirational borders of the country currently known as Canada can let that CGL pipeline be built against the will of the traditional governance of the #Wetsuweten.
#ShutDownCanada #LandBack
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong
#ShutDownCanada
#LandBack #IdleNoMore
#WetsuwetenStrong #ShutDownCanada #LandBack
* non-Indig allies need to stand up right now too, but in this tweet I'm talking about those with claims to actual *sovereignty* - Indig ppl.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada #LandBack #AllEyesOnWetsuweten
And in settler Court, legal precedents matter.
And Indigenous people trying to regain some semblance of (or full) sovereignty from the colonial State, are already working from a deficit in settler Court:
#WetsuwetenStrong #LandBack
Like, *no matter* what logic or evidence says, if in so ruling, it would "un-make" Canada.
So please, look into that for yourselves & listen to folks who know their stuff, versus me.
That's merely what I've pieced together from reading & listening.
#LandBack #WetsuwetenStrong #ShutDownCanada
#WetsuwetenSoludarity #WetsuwetenStrong
#LandBack #ShutDownCanada
And I don't think they're going to back down.
It's time.
#IdleNoMore #WetsuwetenStrong #LandBack #AllEyesOnWetsuweten
It's time because those Indig millennials & their younger siblings and cousins are healing the world, even tho the world has no right to expect that of them.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #IdleNoMore #ShutDownCanada #LandBack #AllEyesOnWetsuweten
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong
This
Cannot
Stand.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #ShutDownCanada #LandBack #IdleNoMore
Even if it means their own lives will have to change.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada #LandBack #ClimateStrike #ClimateJustice
How any wealth and power Canada has in the world comes from the ongoing authoritarian control over stolen land for the purposes of profits from resource extraction.
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #ShutDownCanada #WetsuwetenSolidarity
Even to the point of using violence to enforce their control.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #AllEyesOnWetsuweten #ShutDownCanada #ClimateStrike #1o5C #LandBack #WetsuwetenStrong
#ClimateStrike #ShutDownCanada #WetsuwetenSolidarity #LandBack #1o5C #ClimateJustice
#FridaysForFuture #ShutDownCanada #WetsuwetenSolidarity
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #Biodiversity #FoodSecurity #ClimateEmergency #1o5C
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #HumanRights #WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada #LandBack
it's all genocide.
At our hands.
For our affluence.
#ShutCanadaDown #ClimateStrike #LandBack
It's time.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #ShutDownCanada #LandBack #AllEyesOnWetsuweten
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Quietly & resolutely standing as allies to Indigenous youth.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ClimateEmergency #LandBack
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Some of it will be used in fracking operations that will feed into the CGL pipeline the #Wetsuweten hereditary chiefs are refusing to allow to be built
That the Canadian state is sending in militarized RCMP for
The youth see.
#ShutDownCanada
A full TWENTY-FIVE percent of all of it ends up being used by tarsands operations.
Which impact other Indigenous Nations.
And all of it impacting us all, sooner or later, as it is burnt.
#WetsuwetenSolidarity #ShutDownCanada #ClimateCrisis
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
It's time.
The colonial fiction must enter into right relationship with the original peoples of this land.
No more delusions.
You cannot unsee.
It's *time*.
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#WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwetenStrong #ShutDownCanada #LandBack #ClimateJustice