JB The First Lady performs a new piece on reconciliation a fundraiser to help indigenous youth travel to the Unist'ot'en Camp on the route of the Pacific Trail and Enbridge pipelines. JB introduced the piece in relation to her experience in Idle No More events. The Resistance Cabaret: Supporting indigenous resistance to pipelines was held on June 21 2013 and organized by the climate justice group Rising Tide Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories and Streams of Justice, and held at Vancouver's Rhizome Café.
JB the First Lady (Jerilynn Webster) is a Vancouver based hip hop artist, single mother, actor, and member of the Nuxalk and Cayauga Nations. See twitter.com/Jbthefirstlady
Find out more about the Unist'ot'en Summer Action Camp and caravan at forestaction.wikidot.com/caravan
Rising Tide Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories is a grassroots environmental justice group committed to fighting the root causes of climate change and the interconnected destruction of land, water, and air. See RisingTide604.ca
Streams of Justice actively pursues a more just, equitable, inclusive, and compassionate society through analysis, action and reflection that exposes and opposes unjust social structures, and opens up space for imagining and advocating alternative possibilities of human solidarity, communal flourishing and care for the earth that sustains all life. See streamsofjustice.wordpress.com
Rhizome is a friendly, diverse neighbourhood café that supports social and environmental justice struggles. Rhizome is presently looking for new owners. See rhizomecafe.ca
The site for the Vancouver local of The Media Co-op has been archived and will no longer be updated. Please visit the main Media Co-op website to learn more about the organization.
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Very nice video. Coast Salish
Very nice video. Coast Salish Territories is a grassroots environmental justice group which is committed to fighting the root causes of climate change and the interconnected destruction of land, water, and air.