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Become part of the (victory) equation

Andrea Palframan|December 21, 2017|News, Victories

2017 was a breakthrough year for RAVEN, and for Indigenous rights. Have a look at what we accomplished together in 2017!!

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We’re fast approaching the shortest day of the y

We’re fast approaching the shortest day of the year and the ground may be freezing or already frozen across the country, but here at RAVEN, we’re always thinking about the seeds we can plant as we look towards celebrating the return of the sun. Today, we’re planting seeds for Indigenous justice — now and for generations to come. Consider a donation to RAVEN as a part of your year end giving and join us in seeing the blooms as we look ahead to 2024.

We caught up with Dr. John Borrows, who has been supporting RAVEN from our very beginnings. Borrows is one of theIndigenous legal thinkers that make up RAVEN’s Advisory Panel. He’s part of examining the legal landscape and assessing which cases are most likely to hasten the transition from a colonial era to a reconciliation era.

At a time when projects — like tar sands, pipeline & tankers projects, and the Ring of Fire — are clashing with constitutional and Treaty rights, Borrows is a formidable leader in setting powerful precedents to right injustices and create a better future for all who inhabit these lands. His work is part of a lineage of land protectors who, since time immemorial, have cared for so-called ‘wild lands’. In reality, what settlers have imagined to be wilderness have been, under Indigenous stewardship, huge garden ecosystems maintained to ensure healthy inter-relationships between all living things.

Co-founder of Canada’s first joint Indigenous-Common law degree program, Borrows is nourished by his Anishinaabe teachings in his work to bring about a new era in law in this country. With victories in court and protection for sacred lands across the country, the seeds Borrows has been planting at RAVEN — from our first challenge, taking on the tar sands, to our most recent, aimed at protecting northern Ontario’s vast Breathing Lands — have begun to blossom.

Donate to soak RAVEN’s roots — and bear witness to the flowering of our collective success. raventrust.com/donate

Incredible!! We raised $23k for Indigenous justice

Incredible!! We raised $23k for Indigenous justice in a single day! Thank you to all our supporters and donors who gifted, shared, and amplified on behalf of RAVEN on #GivingTuesday earlier this week. Here’s a message of thanks from RAVEN’s Executive Director:

“Having started working with RAVEN only a handful of months ago, this was my first Giving Tuesday. I am still in awe of our team and the hours, days, and weeks of work they put into preparing for this day. The RAVEN team spent the day answering phone calls from our incredible donors and if you follow us on Instagram, you’ll know in response to a technical glitch a little friendly workplace competition emerged amongst RAVEN staff to see who could fundraise the most from their peers. I was absolutely elated to see the comradery, the friendly challenge, and the teamwork surface in response to a hiccup in our fundraising plan.

So who won the little PayPal Giving competition?
Well, RAVEN did!

Between our social media fundraisers and our more traditional email campaign, RAVEN was able to raise 🌟$23,000 🌟for Indigenous justice in a single day!

While it was exciting for our staff to transform into peer-to-peer fundraisers in a sticky situation yesterday, we could never reach this level of fundraising without you. So, THANK YOU! Because of you, RAVEN wins every day.”

We’ve officially launched the start of our year-end campaign; sign up for our newsletter to hear a suite of stories over the coming month. You’ll hear from incredible Indigenous leaders like Marilyn Slett (Heiltsuk) and Crystal Lameman (Beaver Lake Cree Nation). You’ll get updates about our campaigns from legal experts like John Borrows and Cliff Atleo. And, you’ll hear from others in the RAVEN community who — like you — care so much about supporting Indigenous communities in asserting their rights over territories they have stewarded since time immemorial.

Sign up for our newsletter at https://raventrust.com/stay-connected-newsletter or LINK IN BIO!

It’s #GivingTuesday 💖! A day that offers us a

It’s #GivingTuesday 💖! A day that offers us all a much needed detox from the rampant email campaigns, advertisements, and sales that characterize the lead up to Black Friday. Extractive capitalism pushes us every year to rush to spend, to race to the bottom, to buy the cheapest, newest products. And — each year, corporations rake in major profits on the stolen lands of Indigenous Nations who are, with RAVEN’s support, pushing back and defending the land, air, and water for generations to come.

RAVEN has always been a bit brazen about our fundraising needs: legal challenges are expensive, and it takes sustained, years-long effort to back Nations who are defending the environment for all of us — and we can’t support these complex and expensive cases without a stronghold.

✨✨We were hoping that today would be the first day where you could give to RAVEN right here on this post, BUT, for some reason our fundraising post will not post! So, we need your help! If you can share the above graphics to your personal account and add a fundraiser to the post — allocating the funds to @raven_trust we just might be able to reach our goal today! ✨✨

💝💝If 10 of our followers post a fundraiser with a goal of $100 we will still be able to reach out goal of $1000 through paypal giving to support Indigenous access to justice! If you have thought about giving, but don’t have the means, this is a really solid way to support us this #GivingTuesday! Can you help us out today?💝💝

Link in bio for other ways to support!

Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday! A day that offers us a

Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday! A day that offers us all a much needed detox from the rampant email campaigns, advertisements, and sales that characterize the lead up to Black Friday.

Extractive capitalism pushes us every year to rush to spend, to race to the bottom, to buy the cheapest, newest products. And — each year, corporations receive huge profits on the stolen lands of Indigenous Nations who are, with RAVEN’s support, pushing back and defending the land, air, and water for generations to come.

We know we’re not the only ones in your feed with a donation appeal this #GivingTuesday, and we can’t claim any special status among the many great organizations who are working to build a better world. But, unabashedly, here’s a bit about what makes RAVEN so special:

✨️ No one else does what we do: RAVEN is the only charitable nonprofit in Canada that funds Indigenous Nations who take on legal challenges to reassert their rights to their lands, waters, cultures, and ways of being through the courts.

✨️Our multi-pronged approach weaves in accessible and strategic impact via our Intervenor Fund. While RAVEN primarily supports Indigenous Nations with their own legal challenges, we also support access to justice by funding intervenors in Indigenous legal challenges across Canada.

✨️We can’t do it without you. Transformative change through the (colonial) court system is not easy. To see real change, for Canadian law to begin to become unbound from its rigidity, and for Indigenous laws to be upheld in court, we need to build momentum and strengthen the movement.

RAVEN is honoured to support and amplify this integral work being done by Indigenous Nations — and this is only possible because of RAVEN's supporters.

Set a reminder for #GivingTuesday to add to our collective efforts to do good. Link in bio for ways to give!

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