PCM supports Indigenous Day of Action, October 10th

PCM members joined the Oct. 10th demonstration in Toronto:
DEEDS NOT WORDS ROUNDY AT THE SQUARE – A Round Dance at Yonge-Dundas Square with speakers addressing Trudeau’s record on Indigenous rights as Prime Minister, and reporting back from Indigenous solidarity visits to Standing Rock Sioux territory in support of their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

PCM Statement of Support
(posted Sept. 16, 2016)

The People’s Climate Movement of Toronto stands in solidarity with, and in support of the land and water defenders at Standing Rock.

We are saddened, shocked and outraged at the attack on September 3rd carried out against the protectors as they sought to assert their rights as Indigenous people and to halt the destruction of their sacred sites.

We call on the state of North Dakota and the government of the United States

• to immediately hold those accountable who unleashed dogs and pepper-spray on the people encamped at Standing Rock – both those who actually carried out the attack and those who employed them to do so, and
• to hold Dakota Access responsible for the destruction of burial grounds and sacred sites.

Moreover, we call on Dakota Access, its parent corporations, and all levels of government to respect the wishes of the Standing Rock Sioux and other Indigenous nations that the Dakota Access pipeline not be run through their lands.