SHARE WIDELY: Palestinian collective call for Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en

In response to a call for international support from the Wet’suwet’en Nation, a Palestinian collective for Indigenous sovereignty are asking fellow Palestinians everywhere to voice their solidarity and commitment to Indigenous sovereignty and resistance:

Like much of the territory that Canada today claims sovereignty over, Wet’suwet’en land was never ceded or surrendered. The current invasion of their land by the RCMP (Canada’s federal police) and Coastal GasLink Pipeline amounts to an illegal occupation by Canada. 

We call on fellow Palestinians living across Palestine and the diaspora to post selfies with a declaration of your solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en and all struggles for Indigenous sovereignty.

Tag with #palestiniansforwetsuweten and #wetsuwetenstrong

Wet’suwet’en land defenders have set up camps and checkpoints to reclaim their territories and stop the multibillion-dollar CGL pipeline project from moving ahead. They have also demanded that the RCMP and CGL leave the area and halt all construction. Learn more here. 

Hundreds of rallies, railway and highway blockades, and direct actions have emerged across the world in solidarity. As the Wet’suwet’en and their supporters face mounting arrests, state violence, and repression, it becomes ever more important that we form a transnational voice of opposition.

Post your selfie and a personalized message, or copy one of our sample messages:

As a Palestinian, I want to voice my solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation in their struggle against Canadian colonialism and illegal occupation #PalestiniansforWetsuweten #WetsuwetenStrong

I stand with the Wet’suwet’en. From Palestine to Turtle Island, we stand together against colonialism #PalestiniansforWetsuweten #WetsuwetenStrong

Land theft, invasion, and illegal occupation? Wrong in Wet’suwet’en and wrong in Palestine. Decolonize from Palestine to Turtle Island  #PalestiniansforWetsuweten #WetsuwetenStrong

As Palestinians, we know intimately the violence of apartheid and settler-colonialism. For over 500 years, the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island (North America) have resisted erasure, and their diverse struggles demand our active solidarity.

Canada, like Israel, was founded on the theft of lands, and the genocide and displacement of Indigenous peoples. Restriction of movement, dispossession and theft of land and water, and the creation of open-air prisons and bantustans have been strategies central to both Canadian and Israeli colonialism. Read more about these links here.