Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Time: 1 PM EDT (Local time)

Location: Harbour Square Park (25 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON)

Attention Tkaronto Allies! Indigenous Climate Action and Free Grassy are hosting a water walk Wednesday, April 10 at 1PM (local time) at Harbour Square Park (25 Queens Quay W, Toronto). We’re calling on allies to join in solidarity with Black and Indigenous community members affected by Royal Bank of Canada funded fossil fuel projects, who will be attending RBC’s AGM. There will be singers, drummers, a round dance, and speeches!

Speakers:
Judy Da Silva (Grassy Narrows Elder), Vanessa Gray (Divestment , Indigenous Climate Action), Chief Na’Moks (Hereditary Chief of Wet’suwet’en), Roishetta Ozane (Executive Director of The Vessel Project and The Gulf Fossil Finance Coordinator for Texas Campaign for The Environment who will speak to RBC’s financing of LNG in the Gulf of Mexico), Beze Gray ( Two-Spirit from Aamjiwnaang First Nation), Kolin Sutherland-Wilson (Gitxsan Nation), Jesse Stoeppler (Skeena Watershed Coalition), Cedar George-Parker (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), Tara Houska (Giniw Collective), Shaylee Holland (Youth delegate, Wet’suwet’en Nation), Anna-Marie Holland (Wet’suwet’en Nation), Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck (Citizen of the Occaneechi, Band of the Saponi Nation. CEO/CoFounder of 7 Directions of Service), Jason Crazy Bear Keck (7 Directions of Service)