 Good morning, everyone. My name is Hassan, and I organize with no one is illegal Toronto I want to begin by acknowledging that we're in the territories of the Mississaugas of the new credit Lands that have been defended by the Haudenosaunee people in the Wendat Nation. I Want to thank and I'm one of and I'm honored to be standing here with my sister Wanda and my brother Clayton to be followed Soon by my sister Milena Because these indigenous nations these indigenous warriors these indigenous people are walking this path of resilience This path of struggle this path of survival this path of defense of these lands and territories that have been ongoing For centuries and millenias and that the work that we do in our cities in our communities on this March in the days before And the days will follow have to be grounded in the reality of indigenous struggle of indigenous resurgence of indigenous world views and And and a real desire to actually decolonize to actually return to a place Not to return to a place but to move forward into a place of decolonization We're gonna see soon after that Naomi and Jerry speak about what it is the kind of world that we want to move towards What is the kind of transition that is needed to move forward? So I want to take a moment and acknowledge what is the world that we live in today because as we stand here Surrounded by glass towers. We need to name the system of injustice that system of impoverishment That system of destruction that's that's sociology and ideology and politics that says that the many must have all and that the rest of Us must must just be trodden upon right and that system has a name and that name is capitalism It's over here. This March is about a turning away There's not just this March but this movement our movements are about turning away from capitalism And as we sit here here between these glass towers We must remember that the real people of this city are in other parts that they are in Scarborough That they're in Rexdale that we are in Malvern that our communities are in the Philippines in Guatemala in Nepal And in the high-end province of Philippines, but therefore our indigenous nations are struggling against climate change Just as much as in the Athabas, Kachabon, First Nations The the indigenous communities the Kree sisters and brothers are fighting for clean water and clean air And so this march is also about turning away from racism Right, so it's about turning away from from capitalism and racism and then we need to acknowledge another process We need to acknowledge that our communities are forced out of our lands because there is because the Because the earth has been shattered so much that it will not give us food Because the air has been poisoned so much that we cannot breathe and because the water has been destroyed so much That the fish will not come and feed us and so we are forced to move in search for in search for jobs In search for justice in search for dignity and that dignity job that search for economic society forces us to move and become migrants And so this march is about understanding this global Responsibility that we have because we sit here on top of the mountain, right? Because there this this is the top of the mountain Right, this is where the mining corporations make the decisions to impoverish our people This is where the banks make the decision where money changes hands faster than the blink of the eye While we are barely surviving I'm barely surviving and every attempt at survival is met with repression with state violence with policing And so when we talk about capitalism racism and displacement We have to offer another world and the world we're offering is a world of caring Communities of resilient people who have survived a millennial Who's every day who's every day is about surviving climate collapse and posing a new world And so the question is not just on july 5th But every day before and every day after people of color indigenous people are paving the path of justice of just transition And so not only do people will some people be on the streets, but we will continue the fight in our city Thank you