![]() ![]() As we note throughout the Red Deal, caretaking is at the center of contemporary Indigenous movements for decolonization and liberation. Healing the planet is ultimately about creating infrastructures of caretaking that will replace infrastructures of capitalism. We have chosen life, therefore we've been marked for death. This is why Indigenous water protectors and land defenders throughout the world are criminalized and assassinated on a daily basis. There is no turning back these bonds are sacred and will never be broken. ![]() We have unapologetically renewed our bonds with the earth by implementing our intellectual traditions in our movements for decolonization. Indigenous people understand the choice that confronts us: decolonization or extinction. This isn't an exaggeration it's simply the truth. There is no hope for restoring the planet's fragile and dying ecosystems without Indigenous liberation. They are also taking direct action to stop fossil fuel projects and building a new global vision based on caregiving rather than limitless extraction of resources for short-term profit for a few (see below).Įxcerpted from The Red Deal: Heal Our Planet (PDF available for download) That's why Indigenous activists are not only protesting, petitioning, and fighting in the courts. ![]()
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