‘I Came Here to Disrupt’
Those who walked on Friday were led by a group of Indigenous organizers. Whether fighting against fossil fuel infrastructure or carbon markets that could lead to land grabs, Indigenous protesters have been on the frontlines.
“It’s an illusion constructed to sell capitalist economies, rooted in resource extraction and colonialism,” activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney, who is a member of the Tla A’min Nation in British Columbia, said before the walkout. “I didn’t come here to fix the agenda, I came here to disrupt it.”
