Kaalts’ida Kah, Laughing Crow Productions is proud to announce the release of their newest Animation, a music video for recording artist Kinnie Star called Save Our Waters. Prime Minister Harper sets out on the maiden voyage of the supertanker Bitumen Valdez and is met by opposition out on the waters in the form of a floatilla of canoes, fishing boats and killerwhales!
Check it out on Youtube:
Haida Gwaii CoASt is now trying out an online store to sell our t-shirt designs. Check out our new site at spreadshirt.ca:
haidagwaiicoast.spreadshirt.ca
As always, our t-shirts raise funds for CoASt anti-tanker activities, like our upcoming anti-tanker design competition.
Our first design is the Hull and Bones design donated by Gwaai Edenshaw.
If you order one, please let us know your feedback. Haaw’a!
Artists and community came together in Skidegate recently to create a colourful sign with a clear message: “Haida Gwaii United Against Enbridge.” An impromptu session, the painting was sparked by a group of individuals disheartened by Harper’s recent approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline. The group got the materials together to get started and artists Corey Bulpitt, Fanny Aishaa, and Rob Geary heard about it and volunteered to help out. With the support of the Skidegate Youth Centre space, the artists led participants in the design and spray painting of the banner. The Haida Gwaii Against Enbridge banner saw it’s first public appearance in the march at Hospital Days in Queen Charlotte.
AP – Masset, BC – The crew of Haida Raid 3 is hard at work on sets and cardboard creation at the Haidawood Studios in Masset, Haida Gwaii. As you can see from the photo here, the characters are starting to get restless. The more they hear about the threat of supertankers posed by the Northern Gateway pipeline, the more they start protesting around.
Thanks to all the volunteers from the community who have been helping make this happen. Looking forward to seeing the whole production up in time to respond to the Harper government’s blessing of another destructive mega-project…
Haida Raid 3 needs your support! This stop motion animation project is a home-grown Haida and non-Haida production — Puppet Activism that takes on Harper and his cronies on the Northern Gateway Pipeline and the expansion of oil tanker traffic on the Northwest Coast. A collaboration between K’alts’idaa K’ah (Laughing Crow) Productions, a storytelling society founded by the Haida carvers Jaalen and Gwaai Edenshaw and Dr. Ken Leslie, an educator and neuroscientist, Haida Raid 3 will feature music from Juno winning musician Alida Kinnie Starr. This year’s theme, “Save Our Waters” is a song from Kinnie that brings into focus what’s at stake in this new round of threats to our ocean from large-scale industrial development.
The collaborators in Haida Raid 3 have launched an Indiegogo campaign to support their work and we invite you to check it out. It has many different levels of rewards for your contributions, including bronze, silver, and gold castings of the characters in the production to Haida prints and stickers. Please help raise funds to make this project a success and send a clear message to the government that we want a healthy coastal economy not an industrial disaster waiting to happen!
Check out the Haida Raid 3 Save Our Waters Indiegogo campaign at:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/haida-raid-3-save-our-waters
Facing the massive, extremely well funded campaign machine of Enbridge Northern Gateway, local Kitimat group Douglas Channel Watch has launched a door-to-door campaign of their own to oppose the Northern Gateway Pipeline in the upcoming Kitimat plebiscite. Incredibly, their district has removed financial caps on campaigning for the plebiscite and allowed temporary workers not from the region to vote in the poll. For more details on this stacked “democratic” process and Enbridge’s invasion of Kitimat, please read the Vancouver Observer’s article “Surreal Enbridge political campaign underway to sway Kitimat to “vote yes” to oil pipeline.”
You can view the Douglas Channel Watch website at dcw.nationbuilder.com. Their new website hosts a petition as well as a means to donate, get in touch and support their work. Congratulations and good luck DCW!
Communities Against Super Tankers 