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WE ARE A DIVERSE GROUP OF WORKERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, ON THE UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE LEKWUNGEN AND W̱SÁNEĆ PEOPLES. WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE AND ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORT THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO LIVE FREE OF OPPRESSION AND VIOLENCE WITH SOVEREIGNTY AND SELF-DETERMINATION ON THEIR ANCESTRAL LANDS

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OUR VALUES:

OUR SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE FACING GENOCIDE IS INEXTRICABLE FROM OUR SOLIDARITY WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THIS LAND: THE SONGHEES, ESQUIMALT AND W̱SÁNEĆ PEOPLES. OUR MOBILIZATION DIRECTLY ALIGNS WITH OUR INSTITUTIONAL AND PERSONAL COMMITMENTS TO DECOLONIZATION AND RIGHTING THE WRONGS OF SETTLER-COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM THAT CONTINUE TO HARM INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ACROSS THE WORLD.

WE SEE THIS MOVEMENT AGAINST GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE AS DEEPLY ENTWINED WITH GLOBAL MOVEMENTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, EQUITY, INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY, AND PEACE. WE COMMIT TO BUILDING SOLIDARITY WITH THE MOVEMENTS THAT ARE RISING EVERYWHERE. 

WE ARE AGAINST RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION, INCLUDING THE ANTI-PALESTINIAN RACISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA, AND ANTI-SEMITISM FUELLING THIS GENOCIDE AND TRAUMATIZING PALESTINIANS AND MUSLIMS IN OUR UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY. 

WE ARE AGAINST THE MILITARIZATION OF OUR UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, AND THE SURVEILLANCE, REPRESSION, AND CRIMINALIZATION OF STUDENTS, STAFF, AND FACULTY DEMANDING AN END TO THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. WE ALSO STAND AGAINST OUR UNIVERSITY’S SUPPORT OF THAT GENOCIDE. WE RECOGNIZE THE DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT SUCH MILITARIZATION, SURVEILLANCE, REPRESSION, AND CRIMINALIZATION HAS ON INDIGENOUS, BLACK, AND RACIALIZED STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF.

AS EDUCATORS, WORKERS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND COLLABORATORS, WE FOLLOW THE LEAD OF OUR STUDENTS IN THEIR DEMANDS FOR A MORE JUST WORLD. THEIR INSISTENCE ON ADDRESSING THE UNIVERSITY’S COMPLICITY IN THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT’S GENOCIDE AND ECOCIDE IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK IS ADMIRABLE, AND WE STAND BEHIND AND ALONGSIDE THEM IN THIS LABOUR.

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