thank you so much for coming out tonight i want everyone to take a look around you might notice that the faces look a little bit from the year we've actually been fighting for this planet and for the health of this this region for a couple years now we've been under attack by the coal industries and now friday we heard about supplemental environmental draft statement that was released conveniently out at three thirty on right before the super bowl hoping that we wouldn't notice we didn't notice today tonight there are over three hundred vigils that are happening in cities all across the country right here right now all the work we're connecting right now and  good to see everybody at ts nate on this night it's an honor to be here to do this work that we can come together with our hearts and our minds and our bodies so i'm thankful that we can be here tonight and i just want to say a prayer for this work because the work that we do is not alone it's not just for so many things for the water and we are part of those things there is no separation there so old teaching over people so i'm just go this work on their land  for them strange for all of our people here upon mother earth spirit blessing the work that we're going to do tonight then we will have the strength of our ancestors here rates here beside it's right on our shoulder giving us strength so that this work that we do will travel and it will have no boundaries i think the spirit but what are you concerned about is the people that we got in touch you know not long ago three years ago you asked me any environmental questions tonight sorry i wouldn't be able to give you the answers when i started to find out the tru tons of earth to get one barrel it takes three you know barrels of water to get one barrel the size of earth you want to move is the size of france or the size of florida because the water is polluted they're eating and drinking there they're eating the grass they're cranking out of the water and it's polluted the people there are dying below if there is dying the canadian government give one point what i mean you decision to switch careers because of these facts then fine you know but i have to take some steps forward to make some choices for the future generations of our children  but you're only able to do it for your future generations my family with each and every one if you want to die for you too because you're part of the human race was there nothing for him for your children will stand up and fight for your future generations under friendly over governments that are in control because they consistently look out for that one percent the harper government telling of their stepping forward and they're given tax breaks they're given subsidies you know i look at it  we put money aside for our environment we did it introduction program in our traditional territory and first time in a hundred years we have felt for a familiar territory starting with twenty four no there's two hundred in a short time we can summon rehabilitation programs in every creek and every stream in our traditional territory there's about forty of them another started for right the city of vancouver our partners i've cleaned up some of the waters and some of the our children have a future unless we have we look at seattle here in vancouver your sister city it's simply one of the most beautiful places to live a pitiful place to be a part of because it's clean because we have the moment because we have the waters it's beautiful here and that's why we're standing up that's why we've got to do something i truly believe i truly believe like with the british columbians and canadians and count the washington state and seattle in the united states citizens when they look at the scene of the true facts and don't take my word for it look them up yourself like i did when i seen these horrible things happening i knew i had to do something when we have the technology to go in a different direction are going to have to start making it difficult like a trillion dollar subsidies to your government just to falsify the companies it would be a good start to give it to green energy compan not it's not because green energy jobs you look at brazil you look at germany you look at portugal those countries like greenland they're taken off greenland countries would not invest into greenland they wouldn't i sort of they wouldn't give money to greenland they wouldn't give you two moons to greenland other countries know they took this green energy initiative for their country no other countries want to invest they want to give they want to support because they see the anything every house in the every building in the city of los angeles if they have solar panels that's enough energy right there to service and power the rest of the united states we have the technology we have the know how to make a difference and i tell you when people are dying one people or get sick when the land is getting sick and people children are getting sick we have to stand up like play with two people my people have done socially we stood up for them economically we stood up for them and also for them firemen what i believe as i teach my children i swam in the waters here that are connected i played in the waters a canoe the waters i fished out of the waters i literally have learned how to do ceremony in those waters in the process i grew a loving and spiritual connection to those lands and to those waters is sacred to me it seemed to me like my children are sacred to me everybody here is somebody that they love somebody who they care for that's so if you look at the land and when something's happening to harm beautiful waters and how our spirit gets fed we want to make sure that's going to happen for many generations explicitly when we have answers so what i hope for here what i hope from i know it's going to happen because it is happening all over the world you see what's happening today in thailand ukraine recently in panama nice last year done in brazil and mexico five hundred thousand two million people standing up and wanted to make a difference and each one of those places i can see that happening here i can see that happening here so i believe in the power of the people here in the grassroots movement that we need to show our governments that if they're going to be the voice for the people and do it properly do it like my nations not perfect but they're trying and if there's something a perfect government there that's ruling for the people that's how i'd like to see it help the ones that are sick and help the poor ones that are poor and help our land just being sick and help our land and to be poor because it's so rich mother earth gives us so much sussed sustenance mother earth does that for us we should like i don't want to join but i'm a mom and a house painter and just an ordinary person but i realized that i couldn't just sit around and hope things would change so i decided to join seventy eight thousand people across the country and sign a pledge to stop this keystone pipeline pleased to be here we spend so a lot of time waster and going to our legislators congress people city council people and county council people talking to them about the climate and singing to them and we're not going to stop extreme energy fights here in washington as we're fighting nationally to stop this pipeline and we're not going to let any of them go through or moves towards approving it but there are hundreds of other people that are already taking direct action against projects that are threatening their homes their communities and their climate people like my friend b this sat in the tree for a month thing we have to remember and we have to really steel ourselves for it is that this is going to be a really hard fight and that people are making real important sacrifices to be in this fight and to protect their communities and for going to be in this for the long haul we need to rally around those people and support them so that they know that what they're doing is making a differen facing sentencing they could be doing two to three years in prison right now they're in a jail house in town the city county they're being denied access they're not being allowed to see their families until after sentencing in march whole way to support these folks though over by the table where you got your hearts they are playing index cards that's the only way you are allowed to send messages to them in jail it's really important that we send messages to these women that we let them know that people around the country know that they're in there that we're behind them and that we're supporting them and that we're not being intimidated by this action that we're still coming out we're still taking action and we're still prepared to stop this about to become a grandmother big he's about to become a great grandmother it's a really these folks had really strong and important reasons they knew exactly what they were risking when they locked down in front of this equipment when they refused to take a plea bargain when they and when they read that reason we're all going to support them by chanting stop the tar sands just try that really quickly i'm part of this because i care about my grandchildren