June 21st,2021
Starting this week, Volunteers will be handing out Orange Ribbons to stand in Solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, against the atrocities of the Canadian Colonial System.
We encourage our members to donate when receiving a ribbon, and to wear it during the ongoing process of these unfortunate times.
All proceeds will go to the Indian Residential School Society Survivors, located in North Vancouver. The IRSSS provides essential services to Residential School Survivors, their families, and those dealing with intergenerational trauma. These impacts affect every community across B.C. and Canada.
In Solidarity,
Kevin Biggs, Organizing director
As the Canadian colonial project continues to unfold, horrors like the mass grave found by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation continue to emerge. But to uncover and face the truth is part of the way forward, and we hear and join the call from many Indigenous leaders to find and document the gravesites of the many more children who were stolen from their families, denied their language, denied health supports and respect, abused and then buried without dignity, all by our colonial system. All children deserve love and respect, as do all survivors of the residential school system.