[Indigsol] Indigenous Solidarity w/ Palestine

[IPSMO]

Statement in Solidarity with Palestine
from Families of Sisters in Spirit
http://fsis-mmiw.com/2014/07/31/statement-in-solidarity-with-palestine/
(full text included at bottom of this email)


Palestine and the Onkwehonwe
By Clifton Arihwakehte Nicholas
http://www.tworowtimes.com/opinions/opinion/palestine-and-the-onkwehonwe/


Diné for Sanctions Against Israel
Letter with four demands, accompanied by protest photo
https://www.facebook.com/ipsmo/photos/pb.116217665061833.-2207520000.1406952083./925950110755247


Turtle Island Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine
Image by Tom Greyeyes
https://www.facebook.com/ipsmo/photos/pb.116217665061833.-2207520000.1406952003./927805157236409/


Reply to Elizabeth May of the Green Party
from Bob Lovelace
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=797528703600479&id=222117117808310



... and less recent items:



2013 - From Turtle Island to Palestine: Lee Maracle
http://vimeo.com/80576003 (video, 19min)


2009 - Of sowing and harvests
Zapatista's Subcomandante Marcos' speech on Gaza
http://mywordismyweapon.blogspot.ca/2009/01/of-sowing-and-harvests-subcomandante.html


2006 - Lee Maracle letter to the AFN
http://www.cpavancouver.org/index.php/2006/01/01/lee-maracle-to-the-afn/



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*Statement in solidarity with Palestine* #freefreePalestine

http://fsis-mmiw.com/2014/07/31/statement-in-solidarity-with-palestine/

Families of Sisters in Spirit (FSIS) is a grassroots volunteer collective
of family members of murdered and missing Indigenous women with support
from Indigenous and non-Indigenous/settler friends and allies. FSIS is
based on unsurrendered and unceded Algonquin Territory in Canada’s capital
Ottawa (province of Ontario). We accept no government funding and reject
the idea that FSIS legitimacy and success comes from engaging with the
settler colonial state. Our lifework is rooted in honest and meaningful
engagement rooted in community self-determination–outside the nation-state–
to embody Indigenous values of love, friendship, mutuality, respect,
interdependence, and collective healing and justice.

FSIS has been following the current/ongoing siege on Gaza and occupied
territories of Palestine very closely on social media. We feel
simultaneously helpless, heart-broken, enraged, and emboldened to act. We
bear witness to unspeakable acts violence of collective punishment; images
of brown children literally blown to pieces and hospitals, schools, parks,
neighbourhoods, beaches and civilians targeted with impunity to make way
for annexation of lands for illegal Israeli settlements.

We see very clearly the parallels between the violence of settler
colonialism –past and present–across Turtle Island (North America) and the
occupation of Palestine via continuation of genocidal settler colonial
policies. We view struggles to protect our homelands, identities, and lives
as interconnected and inseparable from what is happening to our Indigenous
brothers and sisters in Gaza.

FSIS rejects mainstream media discourses and ‘official’ statements from
federal government parties which function to condone and further entrench
genocide. We fully reject and oppose Canada’s and the west’s complicity in
the destruction of Palestinian territorial lands and deliberate
annihilation of a sovereign People.

Our spirits, prayers, unconditional love and support are with the people of
Palestine; with the thousands killed and injured, and the millions
affected. We hold close to our hearts the undying resistance and resilience
of Palestinians in the face of unimaginable trauma, loss, grief, rage, and
fear. The words of Rafeef Ziadah* come to our minds as we honour and
celebrate Indigenous Palestinians for waking up every morning to teach the
rest of the world life (sir).

With our whole hearts and spirits we denounce the war being waged on
Indigenous Palestinians under Israeli apartheid, illegal occupation, and
ongoing colonization of Palestine. FSIS refuses to sit idly by as this
wholesale destruction continues. There must be an immediate ceasefire,
Israeli arms embargo, and widespread support for the international boycott,
divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement.

We call on Indigenous and settler folks in solidarity to make these
necessary connections between our intersecting struggles and to make
explicit our committed resistance to colonialism so that we can live as we
were always meant to be, as thriving, free, sovereign Indigenous peoples.

All our relations.

FSIS:
Bridget Tolley, Colleen Cardinal, Kristen Gilchrist

* Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM




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