Solidarity Statements
Statements of Support for Wet’suwet’en
If you are part of an Indigenous nation, organization, labour union, academic department, faith group, or community group, join 100s of others to organize a Solidarity Statement in support of Wet’suwet’en jurisdiction and governance.
Send your Solidarity Statements to solidarity@unistoten.com
(Please note URL web links are much preferred to PDFs)
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List last updated: March 5, 2020.
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Indigenous Nations
The Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations
Confederated Villages of Lisjan: Statement
Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs Statement
Haudenosaunee Confederacy (2019)
Klabona Keepers
Sha’tekarihwate family of the Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan
Métis Statement of Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders (2020)
Six Nations of the Grand River
Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory
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Indigenous Organizations and Networks
Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)
Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition
Indigenous Environmental Network
Indigenous Kinship Collective: Statement
Indigenous Solidarity Ottawa (ISO)
The International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-determination and Liberation (IPMSDL)
The National Aboriginal Council of Midwives
McMaster Indigenous Student Community Alliance (MISCA)
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission: Statement
Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty
The Xinka Parliament and the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network
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Labour
Association of Greek workers of Quebec
CUPE 4600 – The Union for Teaching Assistants and Contract Instructors, Carleton University
CUPE 15 – Metropolitan District Council Vancouver
Canadian Union of Postal Workers (Dec 2018)
Canadian Union of Postal Workers (February 2020)
Game Workers Unite (GWU) Montreal
IWW Edmonton General Membership Branch
Nova Scotia Federation of Labour
NUPGEOntario Federation of Labour
Public Service Alliance Of Canada (PSAC)
Vancouver and District Labour Council
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Faith Groups
Bishops from the Anglican Church of Canada
Bishop Logan, St. Matthias Church in Victoria BC
Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers)
Canadian Muslim Community Members
Christian Peacemaker Teams International
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
Mennonites have a list of resources for understanding here
Muslim Family Services of Ottawa
Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Toronto
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Academics
Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students
Black Canadian Studies Association
Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
Concordia University, First Voices
Dalhousie Student Union and Surrounding Community
Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto
Emily Carr Faculty Association
Federation of Post-Secondary Educators
George Brown College community (Tkaronto)
Gender and Social Justice Department at the University of Alberta
Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies (UBC)
McGill Faculty of Law Students
MER-RSM Revolutionary Student Movement
OCAD University Faculty Association
Ontario College of Art and Design Faculty Association
Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation OSSTF/FEESO
Palestine Solidarity Collective at York University
Prince George Public Interest Research Group (PGPIRG)
Professors and Scholars from across Canada and around the world
Queen’s University Department of Gender Studies (2019)
Ryerson University Documentary Media Studies Program
Ryerson University School of Professional Communication
Ryerson University School of Social Work
Ryerson University Sociology Department
Saint Mary’s University Department of Social Justice and Community Studies
Simon Fraser University Humanities Institute
Syndicat des enseignantes et enseignants du Collège Champlain à Lennoxville (SECCL)
Students for a Free Tibet Canada
University of British Columbia Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
University of British Columbia Geography
University of British Columbia Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies
University of Regina Faculty Association
University of Saskatchewan Indigenous Student’s Council
University of Toronto (Department of Geography and Planning)
University of Winnipeg Students Association
University of Victoria Students Society (2019)
University of Victoria Sociology Students
The Varsity – University of Toronto’s student newspaper
Women and Gender Studies Institute Graduate Students Union at the University of Toronto
York University School of Social Work (2019)
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Lawyers
200 Legal Academics and Lawyers
Gavin Smith (West Coast Environmental Law)
Hannah Askew (Environmental and indigenous law expert, ED of Sierra Club BC)
Law Union of Ontario Solidarity Statement
Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Horgan from legal scholars
Pam Palmater (Associate Professor and the Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University)
University of Windsor Law students and faculty
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Community Groups
Aksyon Ng Ating Kabataan (ANAK)
Anticolonial Asian Alliance Naarm/Birraranga (Melbourne)
Asians in Support of Wet’suwet’en Jurisdiction and Governance
Black kids stand with Wet’suwet’en
The Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet)
Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto
Collectif opposé a la brutalité policière
Committee of Progressive Pakistani Canadians Statement
Common Front for Energy Transition
European Alliance for the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples
Fightback (Canadian branch of Int’l Marxist Tendency)
Grassroots individual campaign
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Collective Society
Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action
Mother Rising Collective Dundan BC Standing with the Wet’suwet’en fundraising
Muslim Family Services of Ottawa
National Association of Japanese Canadians
National Family Farm Coalition
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
Palestinian BDS National Committee
Prince George Public Interest Research Group
Society for the Enhancement of Real Freedom
South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy
The Stop Community Food Centre
Victoria Sexual Assault Centre
Wild Salmon Caravan – Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty
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NGO’s/Large Organizations
Solidarity statement from 160 Canadian Musicians
Amnesty International Canada Open Letter to Trudeau
Breaking the Silence & Xinka Parliament (Guatemala) statement of solidarity
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Canadian Association of Social Workers
Comite pour les droit humain en Amerique Latine
Front Commun pour la Transition Energetique
International League of Peoples’ Struggles
Movimiento Mesoamericano Contra el Model Extractivo Minero (M4) (2019)
National Association of Japanese Canadians
National Lawyers Guild – Vermont chapter (VT NLG)
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Palestinian BDS National Committee
Rainforest Action Network (Jan 2019)
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – Nanaimo Chapter
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Politicians / Political Groups
Democratic Socialists of Canada
DSA Ecosocialists Working Group
Toronto-St. Paul’s Federal and Provincial Riding Association Executives
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Other/Misc
North America-based Classicists
