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VICTORIA, British Columbia, Jan. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Krawczyk Family Foundation has made an extraordinary and transformative donation of $2 million to RAVEN, supporting access to justice for Indigenous nations who find themselves before courts on land, in the air and in the water. for the future. Generations.
Alex Krawczyk, daughter of defeated philanthropists Honey and Dr. Barry Sherman, is honored to assist in Indigenous-led environmental legal challenges. “It is vital that Canadians recognize the inherent rights and sovereignty of Indigenous nations, as well as the long-standing support for self-determination and justice for Indigenous peoples,” Krawczyk said. “Indeed, I am proud and revered of have made this donation, and I wish RAVEN continued good luck in its many vital campaigns across the country.
RAVEN, which stands for Respect for Indigenous Values and Environmental Needs, increases the budget for lawsuits filed through indigenous communities when the government interferes with their day-to-day jobs as stewards of their territories.
“Supporting the inherent and constitutional rights of Indigenous peoples is a difficult path to reconciliation and environmental justice,” said Danielle Wilson, executive director of RAVEN and a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht Nation. “Governments and corporations have the resources to sustain lengthy legal challenges, unlike chronically deficient Indigenous nations. Even though Indigenous nations in Canada have some of the most powerful environmental rights in the world, those rights are only meaningful if they can be defended in court. “
“For 15 years, RAVEN has relied on others hosting bake sales, online crowdfunding, and hosting events in communities across the country, raising millions of dollars to direct the game box to our national partners,” Wilson says.
The motions filed through RAVEN were instrumental in canceling the Northern Gateway pipeline project, protecting loads of thousands of acres of land in the Peel Basin in the Yukon, and taking the Beaver Lake Cree Nation (BLCN) to the Supreme Court to continue its decades-long process. fights to stop the expansion of tar sands on its territory: LBCN has set a precedent by allocating budget to lengthy and costly litigation in cases of national importance.
Through previous donations to Partners in Health, Humber Frontline Support Fund, and Anishnawbe Health Toronto, the Krawczyk Family Foundation is helping to replace the intersection of human and planetary health.
“RAVEN instances are critical to solving key climate justice issues,” says Cliff Atleo Jr. , a member of RAVEN’s board of directors. A member of the Nuu-chah-nulth and Tsimshian Nations, Atleo is an assistant professor of Indigenous Governance at Simon Fraser University. Public fitness studies show that everyone benefits from respect for indigenous rights. “For many indigenous peoples, their territories, themselves and their non-human relatives are all highly interconnected. When indigenous communities on the ground fight for their lands and waters, those efforts are directly related to our individual and collective fitness. “
Leaders in the climate justice movement are the ones most directly affected by climate change. The Krawczyk Family Foundation’s donation will help strategic legal situations that have recently been brought to court, adding a challenge to treaty rights in Ontario’s vast peatlands that aims to protect what Indigenous plaintiffs call the Breathing Lands: a domain as vital to the Earth’s cooling formula as the Amazon rainforest.
RAVEN is also challenging British Columbia’s mining tenure formula to align the mineral allocation procedure with British Columbia’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and with the Heiltsuk Coastal Nation in an unprecedented challenge claiming the aboriginal name of the ocean, to enshrine indigenous values of maritime control in law.
Wilson says, “We are deeply grateful to the Krawczyk Family Foundation for validating years of paintings committed through Indigenous leaders, grassroots netpainting organizers, and the many generous donors who have shared environmental justice for Indigenous communities.
“For the more than 14 years, RAVEN has been contacted by nations that have presented dignified and vital cases. Sometimes we’ve had to say “no. ” From now on, we will have the ability to invite more nations into our circle of supporting, protecting, and expanding the rights of Indigenous nations and leave a more potent legacy of environmental coverage for generations to come.
The Krawczyk Family Foundation’s donation breathes new life into the developing movement for Indigenous rights and the advancement of reconciliation in Canada.
SOURCE The Krawczyk Family Foundation
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