Kirsten Barnes

Gitxsan Tsimshian Lawyer, Educator, Researcher, & Advocate. UBC Law Graduate. Opinions shared here are mine. RT do not = Agree

[Kirsten Barnes @Kirs10Barnes]

We spent two days cutting out 215 tiny orange hearts in loving memory of the #215Indigenouschildren 🧡🐻🧡#bearsfor215 #everychildmatters #215CanadaDayOfMourning #WeRemember #IndigenousLivesMatter

[Kirsten Barnes @Kirs10Barnes]

Justin Trudeau: Call for a National Day of Mourning for the Lost Children of Residential School - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/jimH1uwvzi via @CdnChange

[Naheed Dosani @NaheedD]

If Canada cares, we’ll lower our flags. We’ll have a national week of mourning. We’ll stop fighting Residential School Survivors in court. We’ll act on Truth & Reconciliation.

If Canada cares, we’ll accept this genocide isn’t just our past, but our present too.

#215children

[Jagmeet Singh @theJagmeetSingh]

Residential Schools - a legacy so horrific that decades later we continue to uncover its cruelty

The buried remains of 215 children

To Indigenous communities - I offer my solidarity

Words must be paired with action

PM Trudeau must implement the TRC calls to action immediately

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end, through her cancer, with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals. That’s how we remember her. But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored. My statement: https://t.co/Wa6YcT5gDi

[Kirsten Barnes @Kirs10Barnes]

Jim Thorpe won the Olympic gold. It wasn't a tie. Take action to right the record. Sign the petition. #BrightPathStrong #JimThorpe @Olympics https://t.co/LTxfB6gLda

[Kirsten Barnes @Kirs10Barnes]

Don’t lie, y’all are excited for 8/14 and can’t help but sing along when you hear Photograph or Rockstar. Here’s hoping it’s not a children’s book like Guns n’Roses🤘🏽#Nickelback #NewMusic

[Nickelback @Nickelback]

FRIDAY 8/14

[Kirsten Barnes @Kirs10Barnes]

I’m not surprised. A simple search will result in a long list of police involved shootings in this city alone. The overwhelming message is and always has been: “All lives matter unless. . . You’re Indigenous.”

[UBCIC @UBCIC]

Indigenous leaders condemn Police actions in death of Chantel Moore: "Inaction to dismantle the white supremacy foundational to policing has caused this to be one in a pattern rather than an exception" Grand Chief Stewart Phillip READ MORE: https://t.co/F64aNgC43s

[Kirsten Barnes @Kirs10Barnes]

@bcndp is in power b/c of Indigenous Nations like the #Gitxsan & #Wetsuweten Perhaps @jjhorgan should keep this in mind as he works with @JustinTrudeau to trample Indigenous Title & Rights #WetsuwetenSolidarity #WetsuwenStrong #CoastalGasLink #bcpoli #cdnpoli

[Kirsten Barnes @Kirs10Barnes]

Happening Now: Highway of Tears shut down by #GITXSAN standing in solidarity with our closest neighbours #Wetsuweten on the unceded traditional territories of Wilp Spookw✊🏽#WetsuwetenStong #AllEyesOnWetsuweten #WetsuwetenSolidarity #MMIW #CoastalGasLink #bcpoli #decolonize

[Ricochet Media @ricochet_en]

Members of the Gitxsan Nation and supporters have now shut down highway 16, the Highway of Tears. They say they won’t reopen it until the RCMP release those arrested tonight, including two Gitxsan hereditary chiefs. Our story: https://t.co/UQLYKw1T2G #WetsuwetenStrong #bcpoli

[Ryneld Starr 🇺🇦 @RyneldStarr]

Several dozen Gitxsan are at the highway 16 intersection in New Hazelton as RCMP have apparently taken action against those blockading the railway. No traffic getting through. #WetsuwetenSolidarity

[Kirsten Barnes @Kirs10Barnes]

If you live in #Steveston #Richmond get out and Vote for @IaciNicole

[Susan Sarandon @SusanSarandon]

Standing in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en Nation as they bravely put their bodies on the line to protect their unceded territory from the construction of a fracked gas pipeline in B.C. Canada. @JustinTrudeau, do the right thing. Put People before profits! #WetsuwetenStrong

[Unist'ot'en Camp @UnistotenCamp]

ALERT- Chiefs attempt negotiating safe access w/ RCMP, yet helicopters fly overhead. Wet'suwet'en & members the public still being denied access to territory by police. We hear RCMP amassing forces in Houston. This is not over. All eyes on our camp. #unistoten #wetsuwetenstrong

[UBCIC @UBCIC]

Ubcic president, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and Secretary Treasurer Kukpi7 Judy Wilson speaking at Victory Square "taking people off the land is not reconciliation" #wetsuwetenstrong #Wetsuweten

[West Coast Environmental Law @WCELaw]

The pipeline proposed thru #Wetsuweten territory still has unresolved legal/jurisdictional issues, even under Canadian law. Ongoing legal challenge says #CoastalGasLink needs full NEB review https://t.co/bm6g5rTLpd #bcpoli #cdnpoli

[West Coast Environmental Law @WCELaw]

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has instructed the federal govt to suspend operations for #SiteC, citing lack of Indigenous consent and not upholding #UNDRIP. https://t.co/9fQCYzUzsz #cdnpoli #bcpoli

[The Progress Report @ProgressAlberta]

Neat. $15 million of carbon tax money used to put solar power on 60 older schools in Alberta. Please like and RT to spread the news. This is the stuff Jason Kenney doesn't want folks to know about. #ableg #abed https://t.co/iL7hjk51Ha