Canadian Tar Sands and Indigenous Resistance: Reckoning and Renewal

We welcome Michelle Robinson (Sahtu Dene), host of the Native Calgarian Podcast and Book Club and former geomatic drafter for an oil and gas company, who discusses some crucial topics for settler climate activists such as:
• How does Canadian fossil fuel extraction connect to the United States and the rest of the world, and what can settler climate activists do to support Indigenous resistance?
• Why do some Indigenous people participate in fossil fuel extraction, and how can settlers help expand their career options?
• How do extractive projects both result from and cause the ongoing crisis of MMI2SWGR (Missing and Murdered Indigenous 2 Spirits, Women, Girls, and Relatives)?
• Does transitioning to renewable energy involve settler colonizer pitfalls (eco-colonialism), and if yes, how can settlers avoid them?
If you liked the video, would you consider some ACTION ITEMS?
DONATE:
Keepers of the Water
Raven Trust (legal partners of Beaver Lake Cree Nation)
LISTEN and TALK:
at Michelle's monthly Indigenous Book Club, where Michelle and attendees (Indigenous and settler) discuss Indigenous-authored writings about land, colonization, and everything that follows from that in so-called Canada
LEARN:
Suggested "Reading" List from the Indigenous Voices Reading and Listening Circle, Climate Reality Bay Area chapter. Includes links to how to move your money from complicit banks and insurance companies.
Organized by S. Louie (settler) and moderated by Alma Soongi Beck (settler), Co-Chairs of the Climate Justice Team.
Views of the speakers do not necessarily represent those of Climate Reality or of Climate Reality Bay Area chapter.