Turtle Island Solidarity Network

Today, let us remember in our prayers Indigenous peoples’ struggles to stop the ongoing destruction of their ancestral lands in Iraqi Kurdistan, on Turtle Island, in Palestine and around the world. The world’s insatiable thirst for resources that the transnational and local industries seek to fulfill are stronger than governments’ respect for human rights—including the rights of Indigenous peoples—and the rights of Pachamama/Mother Earth.   We saw an example of this disrespect this past week when heavily militarized Canadian police protected a fossil fuel company tearing up Wet’suwet’en land, just like oil companies have done to Kurdish farms and villages in Kurdistan.

Solidarity march in Toronto with Wet’suwet’en

Please pray for a restorative response on the part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Coastal Gaslink, the British Columbian and the Canadian Federal government to the eviction of Coastal Gaslink by the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, who expelled Coastal Gaslink from their territory in north-central British Columbia. Pray for a just peace to arise from the standoff.

By Emily Green

We give thanks for the years of advocacy and relationship-building work of the Haudenosaunee Wildlife and Habitat Authority. We are grateful for the cultural vitality of Indigenous Nations across Turtle Island, who maintain the spiritual and cultural traditions of mutual respect and with Creation and with other nations. With Christian communities around with world celebrating Advent III (Joy), we share our grateful joy at a successful harvest uninterrupted by non-Indigenous protestors.