Thread by @bank4future

The #Wetsuweten solidarity call is starting now!! We will be livetweeting it on this acc 😊

You can watch the livestream HERE 👇 act.leadnow.ca/LivestreamComi… #KillTheDrill #CoastalGasLink #RBCIsKillingMe

What a beautiful song to start us off 🎶🎶🎶 ❤️❤️❤️

Live transcripts are available in English and French and a live translation is available in French as well!

There will be a Q&A at the end... email your questions to
[e-mail]! #KillTheDrill

“Nothing has changed in 150 years in so-called Canada. And nothing has changed for us since time immemorial. We will never leave these territories, and we will continue to assert our rights to uphold our laws on our lands.”
-Sleydo’ Molly Wickam

Chief Woos: “Agreements under duress are not agreements at all. They are coercions.” #KillTheDrill

“Canada is the only G7 country to have recurved three letters from the @UN, reprimanding it for its continued and escalating violence on Indigenous Peoples.”
-Chief Woos

“The liberation of my people and the realization of our self-determination is a path towards healing the planet. It’s why we call you here today, to ask you to stand with us, to speak up so we can hold accountable the people responsible.”
-Chief Woos

All this at a time when even the @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres says that countries increasing their fossil fuel extraction are truly dangerous radicals... not myself, not Sleydo’, not Woos, nor our cousins and allies that peacefully are defending our lands...

...while guns are pointed at our heads. The dangerous radicals are the people allowing more fossil fuel extraction as our world races towards worsening impacts and pushes the boundaries of a livable planet.”

-Chief Na’Moks

The financial institutions that bankroll #CoastalGasLink are culpable. The big banks in Canada are all financially tied to CGL, with @RBC being the worst. Banks & institutions around the WORLD are funding this fracked gas pipeline that is trespassing on #Wetsuweten land.
-Sleydo’

“What do the billion-dollar financial institutions bankrolling this project have to say about their involvement with the oppression of Indigenous Peoples to extract resources and profit from their land?”
-Adriana (@leadnowca)

Adriana (@leadnowca): @RBC is a critical investor and funder of the #CoastalGasLink pipeline. Publicly, RBC makes grand commitments to respect Indigenous rights, ethical investing, and climate action, but they aren’t walking the talk.”

“@RBC is not only funding Coastal GasLink to the tune of $315 MILLION, it is the linchpin to a $6.5 BILLION loan backed by 26 other banks. Even though RBC has made commitments to Indigenous human rights, they continue to fund CGL’s violence against #Wetsuweten people.”
-Adriana

Lots of action items being shared! There is so much you can do, from leveraging social media to sending emails, to making phone calls, to coming to camp, to signing up for @Gidimten’s mailing list. A toolkit will be shared soon as well! #KillTheDrill

Action toolkit!!!

https://twitter.com/bank4future/status/1529973679760855041

“Canada is the only G7 country to actually increase the pollution to this planet, and we’re criminalizes for standing up, for protecting air, land, water, human rights, Indigenous rights.”
-Chief Na’Moks

“We've got nothing to deserve this kind of treatment. We are simply living out our laws, which are older than so called Canada itself… Together nothing can stop us. Take to the streets, take direct action, and show the world that the Wet’suwet’en and hereditary chiefs will-

-never stand down. Show them that you will never stand down, but that we will rise up and do the right thing
for all of our futures.”

-Closing remarks from Sleydo’