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Wulfgang and a bunch of our loves are going to be at this 3 day skill share event on Coast Salish Territory.  Click the headers to get the full info.  Maybe see you there!! xo

Voices from the Sacred Fire: Indigenous Land Defenders Speak

~~~ With Freda Huson (Unist’ot’en) ~~~ Ladonna Brave Bull Allard
(Standing Rock Sioux) ~~~ Richard Wright (Madii Lii)  ~~~ Brandon
Gabriel (Kwantlen)~~~Kachina Bige (Lutsel’ke Dené) ~~~~ Sakej Ward
(Mi’kmaw) ~~~ Kanahus Pelkey (Secwepemc)

Stoking the Sacred Fire: Mobilization for Indigenous Land Defense

Saturday March 25 and Sunday March 26, 2017
From 9 am to 5 pm
Location: The Hall at 1739 Venables Street (at Commercial Drive) Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/wulfgang-and-a-bunch-of-our-loves-are-going-to-be/

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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/

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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/

2Spirit Warrior Society

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As many of you know we are part of a crew, with our fierce lovely friends all over Turtle Island, raising funds for our other loves in the Two Spirit Warrior Society.  Here’s a little update we wrote regarding whats going on with the Dakota Access Pipeline and info. about the fundraiser.

xoxoxo

Thank
you tender babes for helping us raise $ 689 for the Two Spirit Warrior
Society! There is still a ways to go to meet our goal, so please give
generously if you are able to and please share.

https://igg.me/at/2jlFL6wrqfk

Some
people have been asking the organizers of this fundraiser “what is
happening at Standing Rock?"  And that is a great question.  One of
the tactics of the oil companies, banks, and State powers who want to
see the pipeline happen is to manipulate support for resistance through
corporate media by providing misinformation and partial truths.  Yes, Water
Protectors have had a hard fought victory, as the main stream media has
reported – however the project is not dead and it is crucial to follow this through to the end, we must
not waver now.

 The focus of corporate media and use of language saying “the pipeline is no longer
being built” is intentional miss information. Through partial truths,
mass media outlets are redirecting attention elsewhere so as to weaken
the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline; resistance that has been growing all over Turtle
Island.  This can leave Water Protectors vulnerable. 

What
more accurately has happened is the U.S. Army Corps did not grant permission to put the
pipeline under the river (the easement). 

Wherever the pipeline is routed to, it will
damage water systems and ecosystems. Dakota Access hasn’t packed up
and left– they still have floodlights on, equipment ready, and private
security. Razor wire and police still stand between water protectors and
the drill site. They aren’t leaving, they’re lying in wait.

Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics, the companies behind the
project, called the ruling a “purely political action”, accused the
Obama administration of abandoning the rule of law “in favor of currying
favor with a narrow and extreme political constituency”, and said the
pipeline project would go ahead.

President-elect Trump has expressed explicit support for the
pipeline, and it is expected that he will over turn the U.S. Army Corp decision after his
inauguration on January 20.

Trump
and his pro-oil, climate-change-denying cabinet pose a serious threat to
the environment and to indigenous sovereignty.

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This fight is far from
over.

Our
two-spirit friends are gathering resources to fight the re-emergence of
the black snake, and to make sure this temporary victory holds.

The
camps have been reduced in numbers, and for the most part supplies are
being organized by internal camps. Many of the original funds have been
disconnected, or are not available to people on the ground. It is
important to continue to support the groups who are sticking it out,
including Pueblo Camp, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Red Medicine Liberation
Camp, and the Two Spirit Warrior Society.  It is important to recognize
that Water Protectors are throwing down now, as we speak all along the
length of the Black Snake, not just at Standing Rock and that this
diversity is crucial to stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Please
support this work if you are able to – every dollar counts! Please tell
your friends about it.  

<3

Here are some links to articles if you would like to read more about what is currently going on.

“Standing Rock Activists Stay in Place Fearing ‘Victory’ was a Trick”

“From Keystone XL Pipeline to #NODAPL: Jaslyn Charger, Water Protector from Cheyenne River Reservation”


Photo credit: Wulfgang Zapf

Solidarity With Two Spirit Warrior Society

Solidarity With Two Spirit Warrior Society

At Standing Rock and across the expansive, multi-state, length of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Water Protectors are risking everything to lay down their medicine, send up their prayers and place their bodies in the way of the Black Snake.  This struggle continues, the Black Snake has not yet been defeated.

Among these Water Protectors are our 2Spirit comrades who have been throwing down since the beginning, who commit to continue the fight on the ground to protect, land, water, air and all the creatures of our Mother Earth.

Recently two very close friends of ours, St’at’imc and Anishinape Water Protectors, have reached out for support and much needed resources.

These 2 Water Protectors have been central to the establishment of a 2Spirit Warrior Society throwing down in the struggle against DAPL.  It was established so that 2Spirit Water Protectors who are not Pacifists nor their apologists, can be true to themselves among people with shared experiences while coordinating for themselves and in collaboration with other camps involved at Standing Rock.  Unsurprisingly the 2Spirit crew does not receive a lot of visibility, which as we know is not always safe and desirable, and thus a lot of the resources do not make it to them.

In response to this call from our loved ones we have committed to coordinate support from afar and so have reached out further to our Queer and 2Spirit network of Land Defender friends in so-called Vancouver, Oakland California, NY, Seattle and Great Falls MA to create a small core of coordinators across turtle island in solidarity.

Our friends have communicated that they need a 4×4 truck with a trailer.  This will help them move materials, get their crew to actions and get their crew to their court dates.

They have also asked for a Yurt so that they have adequate shelter to hold it down.

We are currently coordinating with friends to source, purchase and deliver these needed items.  What we need from you is the funds to make all this possible.

If you have any questions please direct them to: twospirit2016@gmail.com