Indigenous Love and Rage: Resistance to Settler Colonialism

Registration required: https://actionnetwork.org/events/indigenousloveandrage

🗓Monday November 10 at 6 pm

📍1803 East 1st Ave. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands

Featuring:

✨​sχɬemtəna:t St’agid Jaad Audrey Siegl​ is a Musqueam matriarch and warrior. Audrey has been active on grassroots environmental and social justice-political frontline movements, raising awareness on MMIWG2S+, advocacy on DTES issues such as housing and the toxic drug crisis, and making connections between extractive industry projects on Indigenous lands and violations of Indigenous rights.

✨​Glen Coulthard​ is a founder and instructor at Dechinta Centre for research and Learning, associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and Department of Political Science at UBC, and the award-winning author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Glen is Yellowknives Dene.

✨​Laura Holland is of Wet’suwet’en Nation, Laksilyu, House on a Flat Rock. Laura and her family have been fighting for Justice for Jared after Jared Lowndes was murdered by the RCMP in 2021. Their work has been fighting the ongoing stigma that was created by police and all those that protect them. Laura's life's work for decades has been advocating for Indigenous people against colonial systems.

Poster uses art by Gord Hill (Kwakwaka'wakw Nation), used with permission

Event Details:​

Weaving Our Worlds humbly invites you to an evening of Indigenous knowledge-sharing and Indigenous resistance to settler-colonialism. Indigenous peoples continue to resist many colonial violences — capitalist extraction and land theft, policing and incarceration, the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous relatives, drug poisoning crisis, ongoing apprehension of Indigenous children, and settler racism and domination — while asserting Indigenous knowledge, culture, and life.

Alex Wilson, land-based two spirit educator from Opaskwayak Cree Nation, writes "Our knowledge, cosmologies (how we understand ourselves within the wider multiverse), and all of the relational structures that connect to that knowledge have been impacted and, to some degree, severed by colonialism. When we say ‘Land Back,’ we are acknowledging and invoking those ancient knowledge systems and calling for a validation of them in our contemporary times.”

💰​​Free. We will collect CASH donations at the door with all proceeds going to Lax’Yip Firekeepers and Wet’swuwet’en Yintah

🥗​Light meal served by our FTP comrades at 6 pm. Food will be put away by 6:20 pm so people remain masked. Please bring a container if you want to take food away.

⏳​Event starts at 6:30 pm

​🧡​ASL-English interpretation confirmed.

🚫​We never collaborate with any policing agency. This includes never allowing entry to cops, cbsa etc, nor ever providing information or immigration status of people.

​😷​Masks required to ensure that the day is accessible to immunocompromised comrades and protects all of us. Presenters and ASL interpreters may remove masks while presenting. Masks will be available on-site.

🧒🏾​Child-friendly space, and there is also a playroom in the venue. Childminding for children under 8 years can be requested through the registration form. For older children, we have unsupervised activities like board games and a movie screening.

♿​Venue has an accessible entrance at street level, which gives access to hall, washrooms, and kitchen. The washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm.

🌸​We welcome curiosity and conversation! This does not extend to harassing, discriminatory, oppressive speech or actions especially related to marginalised genders, sexualities, race, religion, disability, age, appearance, etc Everyone commits to a welcoming and dignified environment for all.