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I never think of the land as a separate
being from myself.  It’s part of who I
am. My ancestors bled for the land,
their bones are in the land, their ashes are in the land and in the water.

-Queen Sacheen

When war is happening every day to our people, when
war is happening every day to our fucking psyches and our minds, through social
media, and resource extraction, through neo-colonialism, through our elected
leaders signing papers with corporations these are acts of war.  So everyday when I am praying in the morning
and praying when I go to bed I am praying to be strong enough to fight that
war. 

-Queen Sacheen

Xhopakelxhit, Sacheen Seitcham,

is a Snuneymuxw, Nuu Chah Nulth, Coast Salish and Cree Grandmother, Medicine Maker, Water Protector and Strategist.  Co-Founder of the Coast Salish Native Youth Movement, The West Coast Women Warrior Society Media Cooperative, Yaakswiis Warriors, Imperial No More and Ancestral Pride Sacheen’s life is dedicated to the futures of the children.  In August of 2016 Sacheen and 3 others were arrested for attempting to block the restocking of a fish farm in Ahousaht waters and in the autumn Sacheen and her family were throwing down with Red Warrior at Standing Rock and providing crucial on the ground media coverage.

Sacheen’s work relies on the support of people like you dedicated to Indigenous Sovereignty and Protection of Water, Land and Life.  With court dates coming up on both sides of the colonial border, family to support and Imperial Metals, the Kinder Morgan Pipeline and Cermaq to fuck up your donations are crucial.

Please support Warriors.

E- transfers can be made to: mamazonscreations@gmail.com

Sign up to make a monthly donation

Donate Sacheen’s work with Imperial No More

or Donate directly to support Sacheen

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/i-never-think-of-the-land-as-a-separate-being-from/

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This week we move towards the fullness of
the moon.

As she/they/zi fills so do we.

We are water and our own tides are drawn by
her/them/hir.

Oceans within us.

We are full of the magnitude of the seas, rains,
tears and wild currents.

We are full of power. 

Notice your fullness as she/they/zi grows to light
the night sky. 

Reflect on the nature of your power.

And when the time comes release.

Release your power into the world and allow
your magics to do their work.

The ones who walked with queer, brown, mad,
feral, ferocious, tender love on the body of our mother before us ask no less
of us in these times of growing calamity.

Look within yourself.  Ask the creatures around you for help.  And draw out your own abilities in service of
the earth and all those deemed too dangerous to be left free by white
supremacy, colonialism, cis-supremacy, pathology…  let our inner fires burn as bright stars and
our kin never to burn by the violent hands of white patriarchy ever again.

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Queer, Anti-Racist print maker Annie Banks is a white settler living and organizing in Huichin, on Chochenyo Ohlone territories, in the Bay Area.  She works her magics in collaboration with fellow facilitators and organizers, artists and makers; crafters of practical magics.  Annie’s ability to learn from those around her and then transform that information into accessible mediums through words and images is a powerful gift.

 The print pictured at the top, created in solidarity with all the Water Protectors throwing down against the Dakota Access Pipeline is a gift from Annie to those contributing material supports to the 2Spirit Warrior Society.

An Offering to you. 

You can find more of Annie’s work here <3.

And please enter the raffle in support of the 2Spirit
Warrior Society to ensure fellow warriors of the earth do not enter battle
without all the protections we have to offer in the way of material support,
spells and prayers.  

 https://2spiritwsraffle.tumblr.com/

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Enter the raffle for a chance to win one of
Annie Banks’ prints and allow the product of her magics to flow into
your own currents.  And let your networks know about the work taking place here.

Share in the power of witnessing one
another’s paths as we move along our own.
Let the tides move and gather and flow through you.  Rain fire down upon our enemies offer
protections to our kin and soothing hands, tender hearts to the wounded.

 xo

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/this-week-we-move-towards-the-fullness-of-the/

by Ladonna Bravebull Allard, Sacred Stone Camp, Feb 5, 2017,via Earth First! Journal

“This movement is not just about a pipeline.  We are not fighting for a
reroute, or a better process in the white man’s courts.  We are fighting
for our rights as the indigenous peoples of this land; we are fighting
for our liberation, and the liberation of Unci Maka, Mother Earth.  We
want every last oil and gas pipe removed from her body.  We want
healing.  We want clean water.  We want to determine our own future.“

https://warriorpublications.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/to-save-the-water-we-must-break-the-cycle-of-colonial-trauma/#more-14715

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/by-ladonna-bravebull-allard-sacred-stone-camp/

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Brave, generous creatures,

We
have somethings of a most exciting nature to share with you all.

Four of our wonderful loves have offered
additional prizes that you can win with the purchase of a 2Spirit Warrior
Society Raffle Ticket.  Tickets are $5
each and a name will be drawn for each prize in the raffle.

 https://2spiritwsraffle.tumblr.com/

Every buck raised through this raffle will
go directly to 2Spirit Indigenous Warriors throwing down on the ground against
the Dakota Access Pipeline.  We are in
direct communication with this crew as it is made up of some of the people we
love dearly.  Times are desperate with the raid yesterday and arrest of 76 Water Protectors and ongoing raids today at Sacred Stone.  The
2Spirit Warrior Society are gearing up to mobilize and we are pushing to meet
our fundraising goals in order to ensure they have a reliable ride for arctic
conditions to make it to court dates, actions and reach medical aid when needed.

From this need, love and solidarity have
come these incredible gifts from queer artists across Turtle Island.

Artist Nick Berger, (they/them) is an artist and musician living on occupied
Pocomtuc Territories in so-called greenfield massachusetts who has donated a 6″ hoop
custom embroidery of anything you want!

You can check out more of their work here <3

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bubzee is an octopus from the west, who
reaches into dreams with her many arms and pulls free from them the thick globs
of paint stuck to the innards of our eyelids that she looks at when she is
dreaming.  bubzee offers 3 pretty patches
as gifts for you to win through the raffle.

 http://www.bubzeeart.com/

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Bug Crü, a queer metis artist,
illustrator and tattooist living on un-ceded and occupied Coast Salish
territories has contributed a print, ((Ø)),
to help raise funds for the 2Spirit Warrior Society.

 Check out their work here: http://centipedes.tumblr.com/info

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Ruby Doom
draws and tattoos on Pocomtuc territory and there is an original drawing by her
own hand among the treasures that the luck of the draw may provide to you.

 Ruby Dooms art lives in digital land here.

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So dear feral ones, in the spirit of
mutual aid and all that is still wild and ungovernable upon the body of the
earth, support the 2 Spirit Warrior Society and all the artists, healers and
makers who have contributed their labours.

Please contribute financially if you
can by entering the raffle and share our updates broadly with your family,
friends, co-workers, co-conspirators, lovers, bio fams…

 https://2spiritwsraffle.tumblr.com/

xo

top photo by wulfgang zapf on Kaska Dene territory, bottom photo stolen from the internets found with no attribution and edited.

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/brave-generous-creatures-we-have-somethings-of/

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Dear wild ones,

Thank you!

With your help we’ve sold over 100
tickets in support of the 2Spirit Warrior Society, the people we love on the
ground fighting the Black Snake; The Dakota Access Pipeline.

With only 2 weeks left we still need the support of many more
people in order to reach our goal of selling 2000 tickets.

This means we need you.  We need you to help spread the word to
everyone among your webs of interconnection so that we can get resources to 2Spirit Indigenous Land Defenders.  The fight on the ground is not over, the violence has not abated, the need for support only grows.

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A friend of ours recently wrote to us and
said, “The white supremacist colonial
heteropatriarchal state is trying to kill us. still.  And we will only survive
in relation to each other.”

She means us, all of us, and that
includes you. <3

The incredible contributions from artists
are offerings; gifts shared in mutual aid with all the people, you,
contributing money to ensure on the ground warriors have what they need to
protect themselves, the water, the land, the air, the medicines.  

This fight is real and the necessity of us
contributing what we are able in the many ways we can is growing.  Please share what you have and take care of each other out there.

Spread the word to your friends in
all the ways possible.  

https://2spiritwsraffle.tumblr.com/

And extend to them our gratitude.  We likely have not met, and maybe we never
will, but we are connected in this fight for our lives and the lives of those we love.

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https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/dear-wild-ones-thank-you-with-your-help-weve/

Sacheen, top right, and her family returned home to their ancestral land after 4 months with Red Warrior at Standing Rock to find themselves evicted from their home.

Support warrior families.  Sacheen and her family still need to raise $3000 to cover the costs of moving their entire lives off the small island of Ahousaht.

Please share this fundraiser with everyone you know.

<3

https://www.gofundme.com/emergency-moving-support

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/sacheen-top-right-and-her-family-returned-home/

Solidarity with the 2Spirit Warrior Society

Dear ones,

The fires continue to
burn at Standing Rock and all along the body of the Black Snake.  New
fires are being lit each day as Indigenous resistance spreads.  We are
gathering at our own points among the growing constellations to offer support
and fuel the fires of front lines as Queer and 2Spirit artists, organizers and
healers in solidarity. 

We invite you to join
us through directly contributing to this fundraiser and sharing our work with
your own constellations of people until the blaze of our resistance is truly
unquenchable.

Many generous and
wonderful artists, makers and healers have contributed incredible services,
hand crafted gifts and works of art to this raffle in support of the 2Spirit
Warrior Society. 

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Works include limited
edition prints by artists Noel’le Longhaul, beyon wren moor and Annie Banks, a
handcrafted book by Emi Lynn Holler, original stick and poke tattoos by Kiala
and photographic prints by Amber Bracken and Wulfgang Zapf.  Tender hearts
have also contributed hand made clothing, massages, herbal consultations and
more.  The combined monetary value of all raffle items is over $2000 in
so-called canadian dollars.

All proceeds raised
through this raffle will go directly to the purchase of a 4×4 truck, trailer
and yurt for members of the 2Spirit Warrior Society to support their continued
struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

To view the prizes,
purchase tickets and learn more about the 2Spirit Warrior Society and the
ongoing resistance to the Black Snake visit:

2spiritwsraffle.tumblr.com

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Tickets are $5 CAD.
The raffle runs until midnight on February 13th, winners will be drawn on
February 14th.  Only 2500 tickets will be sold across Turtle Island.

No surrender. 
Defend the Water.  Defend the Sacred. 

Love and Rage,

-Voices: Indigenous
Women on the Front Lines Speak, voicesbook.tumblr.com

the UVic Pride
Collective, uvicpride.ca

and the Queers for
Indigenous Territory Defense Crew.

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