Land Acknowledgement

What follows is a general acknowledgement that will shift and change as we respect the wills of the nations on this land. Moreover, we encourage members to speak to the specific events and issues at hand which giving a land acknowledgement publicly. These are not static artifacts, but living admissions and reflections.

We acknowledge the peoples and nations on whose land the wider settler city of Guelph and County of Wellington currently occupies. Similarly, our organization, the Two Rivers IWW General Defence Committee is also based in colonial constructs and understandings. In stating this, we acknowledge that we are here as a result of blood that has been shed and continues to be shed due to processes of colonization. We aim to be accountable as complicit in this reality, but know this must extend to all aspects of our work in action.

These stolen lands part of the territory of the Attawandaron or Chononton People and part of the treaty territories of the Mississaugas of the New Credit. However, they have also been home to other nations of both Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples.

We offers respect also to all our First Nations, Métis, and Inuit comrades and to all other indigenous peoples who have to come this place as they have been displaced through colonial violence and dispossession.

We acknowledge that there cannot be a truly revolutionary movement of any kind on this land which does not work with indigenous nations. We aim, therefore, in our own work to dismantle the settler-colonial state. Capitalism and the master class rely entirely upon the system of settler-colonialism on this land to exact their power and we cannot fall short in combatting together forces of capital and the settler-colonial state.