#landdefender — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #landdefender, aggregated by home.social.
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*One of my fierce sisters from another mister & fellow land/forest/water protectors, Jocey Alec & her family from #Wetsuweten #FirstNation are in this #documentary.
The #BCNDP & #GovernmentOfCanada are both still trying to criminalize environmental & #IndigenousSovereignty activism. The #BCgovernment created #RCMPCIRG in 2017 to crackdown on protestors. They are strictly a corporate mercenaries branch serving industry interests not public interests. Citizens tax monies are being exploited by BC NDP to pay these militarized thugs to commit violence so #ecocide corporations can profit more.*
Is #Canada at a point of no return, suffering the effects of #ClimateChange and worsening #wildfire seasons? Two controversial pipelines, the #TransMountain Expansion Project #TMX and #CoastalGasLink #CGL are being expanded and threatening the natural home of historically oppressed First Nations in Canada. But several First Nations are leading the fight against these massive #pipelines and becoming key advocates for protecting #nature from climate change.
Being a #LandDefender comes at a cost: harassment, detentions by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
#RCMP and threats from private security. But, in the face of setbacks, these #Indigenous #activists press on: “We are still fighting. This dance is not over yet.” In this episode, we hear the stories of the #IndigenousCommunities on the receiving end of these huge pipelines and their fight for the protection of both humans and nature.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g6-yzORlse4
#BCpoli #CDNpoli #BritishColumbia #Landback #Decolonization #ColonialCrimes #UNDRIP #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #ClimateAction #PowerToThePeoples #IndigenousLandDefense #Environmental #ecological #ProtectTheWild #OneEarth #NatureIsSacred #ProtectTheSacred
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Land defenders build tiny house in Campus Community Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1348665/land-defenders-build-tiny-house-in-campus-community-garden/ #CampusCommunityGarden #CampusCommunityGardens #ccg #CCGUvic #colonialism #FriendsOfGitxsanAndGitanyow #garden #gitanyow #gitxstan #IndigenousSovereignty #LandDefender #Pipeline #PRGTPipeline #PrinceRupertGasTransmissionPipeline #resilience #StudentProject #TinyHome #TinyHomeProject #TinyHouse #UniversityOfVictoria #uvic #UvicCCG #UVicGardens
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Land defenders build tiny house in Campus Community Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1348665/land-defenders-build-tiny-house-in-campus-community-garden/ #CampusCommunityGarden #CampusCommunityGardens #ccg #CCGUvic #colonialism #FriendsOfGitxsanAndGitanyow #garden #gitanyow #gitxstan #IndigenousSovereignty #LandDefender #Pipeline #PRGTPipeline #PrinceRupertGasTransmissionPipeline #resilience #StudentProject #TinyHome #TinyHomeProject #TinyHouse #UniversityOfVictoria #uvic #UvicCCG #UVicGardens
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If you are able to, please donate to this dear Indigenous leader's fundraiser that some dear comrades have created to help with all the medical and related expenses she has been incurring this year, because of cancer and other health issues. One of our cofounders has looked up to her so much all these years, and grown as a leader in their community from opportunities that she shared with them.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/mutual-aid-for-beloved-community-leader
#Indigenous #MutualAidRequest #IndigenousMutualAid #LandDefender #WaterProtector #Palestine
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Boosting this call from some beloved #StandingRock family.
"Help Man Red start a farm camp
Make a donation to support the farm camp
Venmo - @ChristopherFrancisco2021
Cash App - $manred2021
Indigenous land defender Man Red is going home to Shiprock, New Mexico to visit, with the intention of starting a farm camp there over the next few years that he's calling Ho`zho Camp. He hopes that the farm will become a place for his family and other frontliners seeking community and a place to heal. His long-term goal is to create an eco-village on the farm for healing and connection. He is looking for funding to cover the costs for travel, living expenses, and fixing a tractor that will be used on the farm.See videos of his work at Ho`zho` Camp and supporting elders in the community at bit.ly/rezlife3 and bit.ly/rezlife4
You can also support Man Red through his patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/ManRed "#Indigenous #LandDefender #WaterProtector #MutualAidRequest #IndigenousMutualAid
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A dear frontliner friend of ours is in need in the last 2 weeks of their pregnancy. They fight for this world, the least we can do is help them in this time of life and joy.
Fund directly:
Apps: brokebackwolfpack
GFM: https://gofund.me/38f7b54f#MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #Frontliners #LandDefender #WaterProtector #TransRightsAreHumanRights #HealthCareAccess
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A dear frontliner friend of ours is in need in the last 2 weeks of their pregnancy. They fight for this world, the least we can do is help them in this time of life and joy.
Fund directly:
Apps: brokebackwolfpack
GFM: https://gofund.me/38f7b54f#MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #Frontliners #LandDefender #WaterProtector #TransRightsAreHumanRights #HealthCareAccess
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A dear frontliner friend of ours is in need in the last 2 weeks of their pregnancy. They fight for this world, the least we can do is help them in this time of life and joy.
Fund directly:
Apps: brokebackwolfpack
GFM: https://gofund.me/38f7b54f#MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #Frontliners #LandDefender #WaterProtector #TransRightsAreHumanRights #HealthCareAccess
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Canada's first 'prisoner of conscience' is an Indigenous land defender
https://grist.org/indigenous/canadas-first-prisoner-of-conscience-is-an-indigenous-land-defender/
The distinction is given to people who are incarcerated for their politics, religion, or ethnicity as well as other personal and protected statuses.
#Canada #LandDefender #PoliticalPrisoner #Indigenous #Wetsuweten #CoastalGaslink #CorruptGovernment #nonviolent #AmnestyInternational #Chief #Resistance #Ecocide #LandTheft
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/criminalization-wetsuweten-land-defenders/ the Canadian government continues to war against Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Peoples continue to defend against the destruction of land and water. #WaterProtector #LandDefender #LandBack #Wetsuweten #Canada #Indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #Indigedon
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[Photos] Celebration of the Life of Klee Benally at the Orpheum Theatre
January 7, 2024 via #CensoredNews
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/01/celebration-of-life-of-klee-benally-at.html
#KleeBenally #IndigenousActivist #ClimateJustice
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via #CensoredNews
The Celebration of #Klee's life will be held on January 6, at 2 p.m., at the Orpheum Theatre in Flagstaff, #Arizona.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/01/warrior-klee-benally-never-surrendered.html
#KleeBenally #IndigenousActivist #ClimateJustice
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In Memory of #KleeBenally: An Interview with #Blackfire
January 3, 2024
via @CrimethInc"Early on December 31, 2023, the #Diné land defender, organizer, author, and musician Klee Benally passed away at the age of 48. In his memory, we present an interview that we conducted in 2009 with Klee and his siblings in the punk band Blackfire. At that time, they had already been making music together for twenty years.
"A dedicated and demanding proponent of #IndigenousLiberation, Klee fought on a wide range of fronts, emphasizing the importance of both concrete and spiritual forms of #resistance and critically exploring the possibility of an #IndigenousAnarchy.
"As the eulogy published by Anarchist Agency recounts,
"'Klee was living in Flagstaff, Arizona at the time of his passing. He was born October 11, 1975 in #BlackMesa and worked nearly all his life at the front lines of struggles to protect #Indigenous sacred lands. Klee was a driven organizer with projects such as #IndigenousAction Media, #Kinlani #MutualAid, and #IndigenousMutualAid. He also helped establish #TáalaHooghan Infoshop, #ProtectThePeaks, and #OuttaYourBackpackMedia, and volunteered with #HaulNo.'
"'Haul No is a campaign against #UraniumMining in the #GrandCanyon. #LandDefense struggles were especially important to Klee.
"In addition to all this, Klee was a filmmaker and musician. You can view many of Klee’s films here. In addition to his decades in Blackfire, Klee also played in the band Appropriation and recorded various solo projects."
Read more: https://crimethinc.com/2024/01/03/in-memory-of-klee-benally-an-interview-with-blackfire
#IndigenousActivist #ClimateJustice #LandDefender #IndigenousAnarchist
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TY to @peterjriley2024 for making me aware of this website.
Donations Accepted for the Family of #KleeBenally
Published 7 hours ago
on January 2, 2024
"The family extends their appreciation for the fierce outpouring of support. We cannot thank you enough. Ahééhéé.
"If you would like to make a donation, we are currently accepting them for a few immediate needs. These donations will ensure that he is returned to the earth through our cultural protocols and that the projects that he was recently working on & volunteering with can be financially eased.
- Donations for family expenses
Family expenses will be utilized for burial expenses.
- Donations for #TaalaHooghan expenses
Property related costs and utilities are due at Táala Hooghan. Donate here to help offest those costs.
- Donations for #HaulNo!
Klee was deeply involved in Haul No! to stimulate actions of resistance against #EnergyFuels’ #PinyonPlain / #CanyonMine #UraniumMine, Energy Fuels’ #WhiteMesaMill, and related transport.
- Cash donations can also be accepted in person.
"#IndigenousAction will continue the protection and fight for #MotherEarth & #HumanRights that Klee passionately fought for."
https://www.indigenousaction.org/donations-accepted-for-the-family-of-klee-benally/
#UraniumMining #FirstNations
#IndigenousAnarchist #KleeBenally #MutualAid #Dineh #IndigenousActivist #NativeAmericanActivist #FirstNations #Resistance #ClimateJustice #BigMountain #ClimateWarrior #LandDefender #MutualAid -
#KleeBenally, #CulturalAdvocate and #LandDefender, dies at 48
By Kianna Joe | Dec 31, 2023
KINŁÁNÍ-DOOK’O’OOSŁÍÍD – "Klee Benally died the morning of Dec. 31, 2023. He was 48.
"Benally’s family will be having a family meeting later today to share a formal announcement of Benally’s life, according to an #IndigenousAction social media post.
"Benally was from #Dziłyíjiin, Arizona. He was from the Tódích’íi’nii and #WanderingPeople clans. He relocated to #Kinłání, where he proudly stood tall with Dook’o’oosłííd.
"In his last interview with the Navajo Times on Dec. 7, Benally credited his father, #JonesBenally, a respected and known #hataałii, who shared the #Diné traditions and culture with him.
"Klee Benally’s teachings growing up laid a foundation for who he was as a Diné and led to him fighting for the sacred Dook’o’oosłííd.
"'For Diné people, it represents a part of our cosmology and being,' Benally said on Dec. 7.
'Each mountain is a part of our creation account set forward for our boundaries, Diné Bikéyah, where we walk around.'"Benally described the mountains as leaders that hold and share teachings for Diné.
"Countless comments from people who knew and followed Benally shared their sudden sadness but described Benally as a 'one-of-a-kind' wise son, brother, uncle, or grandpa.
"Along with fighting for sacred elements, Benally was an #artist in many mediums, writer, musician, and filmmaker.
"On Thursday, Dec. 21, Benally launched his book, '#NoSpiritualSurrender,' released in November.
"The book delves into Benally’s experience fighting for sacred places and why he does it to protect #nahasdzáán.
"Benally recounted the many times he had been #arrested in the Dec. 7 interview, along with tying himself to heavy machinery to send a message that he wasn’t going anywhere for the land’s sake.
"Benally’s work reflected his dedication and understanding of fighting for land and its #IndigenousPeoples.
"Benally worked endlessly for the community and land, which are grateful to have been protected by a dedicated Diné."
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/klee-benally-cultural-advocate-and-land-defender-dies-at-48/
#Dineh #BigMountain #IndigenousActivist #NativeAmericanActivist #FirstNations #IndigenousAnarchist #Resistance #ClimateJustice #ClimateWarrior
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When I went to visit my Jehovah’s Witness parents a month or so ago, I told them that I was fighting for and doing my best to protect the land. They told me I shouldn’t bother since this was all foretold in the Bible and everything will be soon destroyed in Armageddon anyway. I’m so glad I left that religion decades ago, but depressed that so many people don’t believe a healthy planet is worth fighting for. #ExJW #armageddon #ClimateCatastrophe #LandDefender #JehovahsWitnesses
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#Yaqui Activist Released from Prison after 7 years: Fighting the #GasPipeline in #Sonora, #Mexico
July 17, 2023, via #CensoredNews
"#Indigenous #Yaqui leader #FidencioAldama is free after 7 years in prison and has been found not guilty of homicide! He vows to continue to oppose the gas pipeline from the company #IEnova, a subsidiary of the transnational U.S. company #sempraenergy
"#FidencioAldamaPerez is an #Indigenous Yaqui #LandDefender and #PoliticalPrisoner from the northern Mexican state of Sonora. He was arrested on October 27, 2016, and later sentenced to fifteen years and six months in prison on trumped-up charges related to a death in the community of Loma de Bácum, Sonora."
Read more: https://fidencioaldama.org/en/news/
La Jornada San Luis reports
Cristina Gómez Lima, correspondenthttps://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/yaqui-released-from-prison-after-7.html
#IndigenousNews #LandDefenders #Mexico #ACAB #BigOilAndGas #DirectAction #CriminalizingDissent #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #RightToProtest
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Bought this #Indigenous #handmade #RecycledPaper #journal book & told folks, I'm gifting it to one of my many native friends in town. 20 minutes after I said that - my friends Raven(Wolf) & Marco walk into ReStore. I knew #Creator led us back together & the book is supposed to be #gifted to Raven.
She was one of my #NativeActivist #LandDefender besties at resistance camps. We stood side by side while facing off with RCMP corporate mercenaries in remote forest protection camps. -
“#Canada is sending me to #jail because I was doing the work the #colonial #government failed to do – #protecting my territory & my nation from a catastrophic #oilspill ” he said “#TsleilWaututhNation has worked for a decade to oppose the $TransMountain #pipeline , but #PrimeMinister #Trudeau #failed us, so I am left with no choice but to do whatever I can to stop it.”
#landdefender #Indigenous #FirstNations #Unceded #Native #StolenLand #BCNDP #NewDeathParty #BCPoli
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Secwépemc Matriarch, Miranda Dick, and two others were sentenced to 28 days in jail for holding a ceremony for the water on the TMX line near Kamloops, BC in October 2021. https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloops/412622/Packed-courtroom-breaks-into-loud-song-as-pipeline-protesters-handcuffed-taken-to-jail#.Y_e7kDdcD5E #Indigenous #ReconciliationIsDead #IdleNoMore #LandBack #Apartheid #WaterProtector #LandDefender #WaterProtectors #LandDefenders