Ellen Gabriel

[laughs] But to give the best answer that I can, something that I think the solidarity between Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island and Palestinians remind us is that the entire global economic system that we live in today is built on the removal and attempted erasure of Indigenous peoples from their land.

And I think this is something that Ellen Gabriel, in her chapter, highlights quite clearly and tries to remind us, is that Indigenous resistance on Turtle Island has been ongoing for over 500 years, and actually the genocide of the Americas is the longest running genocide in the world.

And this is something that we easily forget, or choose to forget, or however you want, you wanna frame it.

And i- in essence, and therefore this fact is, or the surviving Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island are also overlooked in forgetting this fact because of the acceptance of the legitimacy of the United States and Canada as settler colonial states, essentially.

We did an open letter.

with prominent signatories like David Suzuki, Ellen Gabriel, Clayton Thomas Mueller, Judy Rebich, Tony McQuail, Sid Ryan, all of these, Roger Waters, Cory Doctorow, all of these big names, which again is due to us I hate using this phrase, but punching above our weight because we're a new organization that doesn't have a lot of resources, but we're doing what we can within activist tactics in order to make this as big as possible.

And when we have that leverage of, look, we're getting people at a certain place at a certain time, and we have all of these big names that are behind what we're doing, the NGO world is forced to approach us.

And that's exactly what we saw happen.