Peace & Unity Summit – Summer 2022 - Rebuilding Alliances and Solutions in Support of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

Livestreamed on Wednesday, July 27 and Thursday, July 28.

Full itinerary to come. Register now for access.  details here

The fight to ensure our actions reduce rather than fuel the climate crisis; the fight to end police brutality; the fight to underscore Indigenous sovereignty—these fights belong to all of us. And, amidst this time of great upheaval, there is hope.

This summer’s Peace & Unity Summit is hosted by the Office of the Wet’suwet’en, in support of the land defenders who continue to uphold Wet’suwet’en law in the face of police violence and Coastal Gas Link’s fracked gas pipeline.

We celebrate the solutions and alliances—and hope—that can win these fights. Already we have seen victories against extractive industries that destroy our ecosystems and communities. We have successfully fought against the Enbridge pipeline, and prevented fracked methane in the Sacred Headwaters.

But with two more pipelines now proposed through Wet’suwet’en territory, we need to scale up our efforts. We will uplift past successes and explore how they were achieved—and what we can learn in the continued fight to protect Wet’suwet’en land.

Speakers include representatives from 12 Nations, including Gitanyow, Gitxsan, Gwich’in, Haida, Haisla, Nuxalk, Secwepemc, Tla-o-qui-aht, Tlsiamin, Tsleil-Waututh, Tsimshian, Yupuk Nations.

Panels include conversations about:

Data Sovereignty

Fighting the Criminalization of Land Defenders

Land, Water and Air Stewardship in the Face of the Climate Crisis

Youth Fighting For Their Future

Reoccupying Traditional Territories

Speakers include: Na’Moks, Tara Marsden, Kai Nagata, Judy Wilson, Denzel Sutherland-Wilson, Jesse Stoeppler, Kolin Sutherland-Wilson, Taylor Wale, Cedar George, Rueben George, Kris Statnyk, and Nuskmata.