an opportunity for political action

Politics doesn't exist - it's not a thing - but rather a word that describes the decision making.
Who makes the decisions for whom.

Currently I live in an economically/ecologically unique place where salmon swim upriver every year in the millions to spawn, and the babies hatch and swim downstream in the hundreds of millions heading out to the ocean.

There are people who have lived at this place where the Skeena meets the Pacific ocean for 1000's of years. I have come to understand that there are hereditary names that chiefs carry that have been carried by many many people before them. These chiefs are ordinary people like you and me, who have jobs and families and live their lives, AND who have been born into large responsibilities to their people and the land.

If you feel frustrated by the hyper industrialization of the remaining wild places on the planet, this is a good way to support the people living their traditional responsibilities to the unique place called Lax U'u'la

There is a provincial and federal government driven to industrialize this place in the face of global climate change with the help of a very questionable malaysian company called petronas - It is fair to describe this as a violent politic, that those from away are making decisions that directly affect thousands here who live intimately with this place.

I have a friend taking people and supplies down. Please email transfer money straight to the family at (( lelu_island@hotmail.com )) to pass on. or donate via the online fundraising page Again, these are people who are taking time from their own paid work, using their own money to put gas in their boats and build structures on their traditional territories. Please consider setting a couple hours or a days wage and supporting these great folks. The sentiment again and again I hear is that 'we are doing this for us all, it's time to change the way we relate with the earth and each other'.

This LNG terminal and pipeline and fracking fields is just one symptom of a much larger problem. and this requires we work together to change the systems that put us at odds with the most sacred, the places that we live and that sustain us. We need to think bigger about how we can use less and live more

One of the best ways that you can help place based decisions made in hereditary systems - intact, but under tremendous pressures - is by helping people put gas in their boats and roofs on the cabins.

There is no politic if the salmon aren't swimming to the ocean as smolts and returning to spawn. I think it's all time for us to realize we all need to return to home and find the sacred in the places we live.