Sunday, January 5, 10:30 am
Acting Together – Into the New Year —
Carl Olsen, Homilist —
Lynne Bonner, Worship Associate —
As we enter a new year with its ever increasing challenges, we may wonder what gifts of liberating love our church can offer not only to people, but to our environment. Carl Olsen, guest homilist from the Tsartlip Nation, will explain how expansion of the highway at Goldstream will create added stresses on the trees and salmon in that ecosystem.
Fortunately, Greater Victoria Acting Together (GVAT), of which our church is a member, offers a powerful means of working for the common good and the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
W̱SÁNEĆ Elder Carl Olsen is a knowledge holder and community resource on salmon conservation and clam beds for Coast Salish Nations. Carl is willing to go to court using the Douglas Treaty’s promise to protect the rights of the W̱SÁNEĆ to hunt and fish as formerly. He is a seasoned veteran of the Canadian legal system, having won a 2006 Supreme Court Case with Ivan Morris, another Tsartlip member, that concluded their right to hunt deer at night using lights was protected by the Douglas Treaty.
This service is co-sponsored by our congregation’s GVAT Core Team and THRUU (Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation Unitarian Universalists).