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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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This is the incredible print, Dandelion, by
beyon wren moor that we are giving away as a back patch free with any
purchase from our online store.  The $$ from all sales goes directly to
supporting the Voices project or directly to Indigenous Women and
Two-Spirit Land Defenders.  Offer ends December 5th <3

Check out our store here: www.voicesbook.storenvy.com

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/this-is-the-incredible-print-dandelion-by-beyon/

UNBC Livestream | University of Northern British Columbia

UNBC Livestream | University of Northern British Columbia

Watch the live stream of a panel discussion with Freda Huson, Helen Knot and Goot-Ges!  2pm today!

Decoloneyes

Our deer friend Goot-Ges has just launched her first book of stories.  
The e-book is available here and we hope to have hard copies available
on our Voices Store soon!

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Goot-Ges is a Tsimshian, Haida and Nisga’a woman from the house of Txaatk’anlaxhatkw, of the Village of skulls.  Out of a dream she collaborated with five other Indigenous Women to begin the occupation of Lax U’u’la, also called Lelu Island.  A mother of 3 babies Goot-Ges is a powerful force against the Colonial State, defending waters and land along the North West Coast.  In this book you can read stories spun from the fabrics of dreams, from the places where Ancestors speak, from a deep being of the land.

So please, support Indigenous Land Defense and drop some fliff for a good read.

<3 <3 <3

wulfgangzapf:

teachanarchy:

Warrior Communique from #NODAPL
 

Late last night, lit by the fire of burning barricades, a warrior in the frontlines of #NoDAPL issued a call out for local actions in solidarity with their fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Fuck Yes.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/wulfgangzapf-teachanarchy-warrior-communique/

Urgent Legal Defense Funds

Several
 Indigenous Activists from the West were arrested. At this point Crow, Sacheen and Kanahus have been released.  However West Coast warriors are still in need of legal funds.

Please e-transfer to hwalia8@gmail.com [as requested by family
 members and legal counsel]. We need to raise 2000 USD = 3000$ CDN
 immediately.

More
 information and updates below

LEGAL FUNDS NEEDED ASAP! SUPPORT WEST COAST WARRIORS!

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 Read update from Kanahus below *

Today
 eighty water protectors were violently arrested near Dakota Pipeline construction
 sites. As written by Red Warrior Camp “You are trespassing on Native
 Land. You are protecting the destruction of our sacred sites. Put down your
 guns, turn in your badges. Understand the indestructible spirit of indigenous
 people walking with prayers and sacrifice of our ancestors for sacred
 water.”

Four
 of those arrested are well known West Coast land defenders and members of the
 Secwepemc Women’s Warrior Society, Ancestral Pride and West Coast Women
 Warriors Media Cooperative: Kanahus Manuel, Queen Sacheen, James Joe Crow and
 Rose Stiffarm.

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 IMMEDIATE LEGAL FUNDS ARE NEEDED! ***

Please
 e-transfer to hwalia8@gmail.com
 [as requested by family members and legal counsel]. We need to raise 2000 USD
 = 3000$ CDN immediately.

Legal
 is needed ongoing for all water protectors: https://www.generosity.com/…/red-warrior-camp-legal-fund-no… andhttps://fundrazr.com/campaigns/d19fAf

ALSO
 SUPPORT BY CALLING AND DEMANDING RELEASE:
 The Morton County Sheriff’s dep’t: (701)
 667-3330 or (701)667-3405
 Jail: 1-701-667-3318
 or 701-328-9921

WORDS
 FROM KANAHUS:

“Things
 are very disorganized at the jail, because they arrested 80+ people today.
 Earlier in the day they did not even have a list of all the people they had
 in custody. In a cell with 30 women and there are others in other cells. Sacheen Seitcham
 and Joe James Crow are also among those arrested as is cinematographer Rose
 Stiffarm. we were doing a peaceful prayer march through fields. Construction
 has been happening in important areas and some people chained themselves to machinery.
 The riot police put paper/cloth bags over the heads of those defenders. The
 people in the prayer march were away from the construction zone and just in a
 field when the riot police swarmed the field, they pepper sprayed people,
 threw underage girls on the ground and swept and arrested all the people on
 the field. Again, that was not supposed to happen, we were all in a peaceful
 prayer march away from construction. It was local, state and federal police
 that descended on them and arrested.”

The supervisor said they will all be charged with “criminal
 trespass” and “inciting a riot”.”