[antiwar-van] NOII-Van Launches Inheriting Resistance: A Community History Project]

[Harsha Walia]

Inheriting Resistance: A Community History Project

No One Is Illegal Vancouver Coast Salish Territories is humbled and
excited to announce our latest project titled “Inheriting Resistance”.

http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=4225

“Inheriting Resistance” came about in light of the recent passing of
beloved elders and community members Phillipa Ryan and Hari Sharma. Their
life and work has taught and inspired many of us in the NOII collective,
as well as many individuals within the broader community.  We are reminded
of the stories and lessons which remain to be shared and learned from in
order to create a meaningful intergenerational movement.

Over the next year, NOII will be documenting the untold stories of people
in our communities who have been involved in and who have shaped a
diversity of social justice struggles on unceded Coast Salish Territories
over the past 20-40 years. We will be interviewing 10-12 people and will
be posting shorter, edited videos and transcripts of interviews throughout
the year. In 2012, we will be launching a booklet with compiled archival
material as well as the full-length video interviews.

Some of the questions we will be asking include:
- Who or what inspired you to get involved?
- What kept you involved and going especially during hard times?
- What advice would you give those activists who are organizing today? -
What is the most successful campaign or movement you have known in terms
of building community power and affecting change?
- Tell us about love.

The project is based on a deep desire held by many of us as young
activists to learn more about the history of our movements (anti-war,
anti-poverty, anti-racist, Indigenous, labour, queer, anti-imperialist,
feminist and migrant justice) and to directly learn from those people who
have paved the path of resistance for our generations. We acknowledge that
this project is one small part of centering the perspective and wisdom of
older activists, organizers, and revolutionaries, and that unfortunately
we will be unable to interview as many people as we would like to.

We are committed to honouring the legacy of those who have struggled
before us – and in many cases, who still continue to struggle alongside us
– for social, economic, political, and environmental justice.  Together,
we envision a humanity where everyone has the right to sustenance and the
ability to provide it, where we are free of oppression, and are able to
live meaningfully in relationship to one another and in reverence for
Mother Earth that sustains us.


For more info:
Email noii-van at resist.ca or call 778 848 0722
Website: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=4225
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No One is Illegal-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories is a grassroots
anti-colonial migrant justice group with leadership from members of
migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. We strive and struggle for the
right to remain, the freedom to move, and the right to return. As a
movement for self-determination that challenges the ideology of
immigration controls, we take action to combat racial profiling, detention
and deportation, the national security apparatus, law enforcement
brutality, and exploitative working conditions of migrants. The ongoing
apartheid reality instituted through reserves and sweatshops is one that
must be fundamentally uprooted and transformed. We envision a humanity
where everyone has the right to sustenance and the ability to provide it,
where we are free of oppression, misery, and exploitation, and are able to
live meaningfully in relationship to one another and in reverence for
Mother Earth that sustains us.

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