This song is a product of a request from the Wet’suwet’en Matriarch Auntie Janet, who must routinely confront the RCMP as they trespass on her private residence.
On 22 June 2022, a 27-year-old woman who, in desperation, attempted to self-immolate in the notorious Moria 2 camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, now faces trial for arson.
Life in Palestine is already unliveable. I was only here a month. What I saw just scratched the surface.
In an unprecedented move, Greek authorities have charged a refugee with the drowning of his 6-year-old son during a shipwreck. On 18 May 2022, he will be on trial in Samos together with his co-passenger, who is facing life imprisonment for steering the boat. Seventy organizations across Europe call for the charges against the #Samos2 to be dropped.
The human rights groups Aegean Migrant Solidarity, borderline-europe e.V. and the European Democratic Lawyers will monitor the trial. Twitter: @BorderlineEurop; #Samos2
The impunity of illegal Israeli settler violence has gone too far. The occupation now draws on settler violence do do their dirty work.
In response to the ‘Freedom Convoy,’ CPT offers tangible action items to confront rising white supremacy, racist policing, and far-reaching emergency legislation in Canada.
When the Wet’suwet’en talk of land defence, it is so much more than simply defending their home.
We stood alongside those with whom we have our disagreements but who share the position that there should be no ‘camps’ because camps are prisons. But we also stood amongst our opposition, those who do not want camps because they can’t stand the people in them.
The roadmaps for decolonization have been written. Through movements centered in Indigenous solidarity we can shift our understandings of sovereign from individuality to relational strength in sharing.
For now, the Wedzin Kwa runs clear. Its waters are safe to drink and support recovering populations of sockeye, Chinook and Coho salmon. Grizzly bears and black bears fish from its banks, as do the Wet’suwet’en people.