When local #HateCrimes happen to me/my family/my #BIPOC friends - we don't call cops. The cops have abused us too many times for us to expect they'd protect us over bigot perpetrators who attack us. We can't trust cops here who have abused powers of authority & abused/traumatized me/my family/our BIPOC friends & community. We protect ourselves because no one else will.

#AsianMastodon #ACAB #ColonialResistance #Decolonize #POCactivists

With my bro-friend comrade, Bozosapien.

#Environmentalists #Activists #RainbowNation #POCcommunity #POCfriends #ActivismFamily #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #Frontliners #monochrome #BIPOC #POCActivists

#FlashbackFriday
After returning to resistance camps, after being arrested & detained for 2nd time in 2021.
RCMP & government will never kill my hope & passion for nature protection.

#AsianMastodon #EcoJustice #Environmentalist #Activist #SaveOldGrowth #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #FairyCreekBlockade #PNW #Cascadia #VanIsle #Canada #Decolonize #AntiColonialism #POCactivists #NatureGuardian

#Ojibwe sister-friend / #Indigenous comrade, Silena, doing some traditional #JingleDancing as part of remote healing ceremonies at our past landback camp (only Indigenous & #POCactivists at that resistance camp).

Learn more about Indigenous jingle dance & why it's important to native culture:
https://www.powwows.com/jingle-dress-dance/

#JingleDancer #IndigenousCulture #JingleDress #JingleDance #FirstNations #NativeCulture #TurtleIsland #ClimateAction #Activists #NativeWomen #IndigenousWomen #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #Activism #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #IndigenousResistance #NativeDance #Dancing

There is a stark difference, for almost all of us POC activists, between a #WhiteSaviour & a #WhiteComrade.

The former tries to speak for & above us. The latter would never try to speak for & above us.

Recognize the difference in #respect levels.
Recognize that we #POC activists pay attention & know the difference, quite well. We like & are appreciative of white comrades. We don't like or respect white saviours.

#AsianMastodon #POCactivists #KnowTheDifference #ComradesWelcomed

With my nonbinary Korean fellow activist friend, from Vancouver, at VGH. We met over 2 yrs ago on remote frontlines & were one of very few Asian activists with boots on the ground at protest camps in BC. They're an amazing human being. We worked on deescalation training, accessibility solutions & nonviolent defense tactics together.

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Chinese #Korean #POC #Asians #POCactivists #environmentalists #AsianActivists #Unity #friends #StrongerTogether