Solstice Summer Action at Shell Refinery in Martinez

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Signers of the Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty, Idle No More SF Bay and our allies from Diablo Rising Tide invite you to a Summer Solstice Action:

With love in your hearts for all you hold dear, we invite you to join us on the Summer Solstice to protect and defend the sacred system of life on Mother Earth’s belly by joining us at the gates of Shell in Martinez, California.

The Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth (more at www.IndigenousWomenRising.org) calls upon us and all of our relatives on each Solstice & Equinox to:

Nonviolently rise up with others in your communities and around the world to demand immediate changes in the laws that have created the destruction

Commit nonviolent acts of civil disobedience where destruction is occurring until it is stopped

Continue these acts until “business as usual” is halted and life on Mother Earth is safe for generations to come

Our responsibilities as Indigenous women of the Americas and our allies: “demand that we act to ensure healthy air, water, soil, seeds and a safe climate so that life may continue. There are those who have forgotten that we live in a natural system with natural laws that govern that system: the Laws of Mother Earth & Father Sky. These laws have been violated to such an extreme degree that the sacred system of life is now threatened and does not have the capacity for life to continue safely in the way in which it has existed for millions of years.”

More from the Treaty:
“There have never been more unjust laws than the ones that exist now which are allowing the destruction of the environment that we need to exist. For these reasons we invite our sisters and their allies around the world to join us in teach‐ins and nonviolent direct actions at all of the facilities and seats of power that are causing the destruction. We invite you to do this calmly, without malice, and with the love in your hearts for everything you hold dear.

As tribal women, our love is clear, unconditional and strong. Our traditional Indigenous ways of life instruct us that women hold the wisdom necessary to guide the leaders toward understanding the needs of children and the unborn. Through this treaty initiative we are raising our voices to give direction to government leaders and those holding seats of power to adjust the man‐made laws in accordance with the natural laws.”