Club Resources

How to start a create a SFSS club at your College?

• Find students/friends who are passionate about this work
• Register your club within your College/University
  
  • You may need 5 students to sign on in order to register with your uni 
• Plan a first meeting date, time, and location (reserve spaces if needed)
• Get the word out!
  • @ info fairs, social media, flyers, etc.
• Create an agenda at your meeting 
  • Get to know each other, share ideas and information!
• Establish goals for your local chapter of SFSS 
  • Large goals
    • ex. support Standing Rock non-violent occupation; educate campus about the Snake River Dams Conflict; learn more about (ex. health of Bellingham Bay); support indigenous women in local elections; restore native salmon habitat . . .
  • How are you going to accomplish those goals?
    • ex. host a fundraiser; plan a bake-sale; host a concert; host a film screening; support campaigns or develop some of your own (go phone-bank or canvass);  plan a beach clean up; coordinate an ecological restoration day; do art builds; plan a march; volunteer at other organizations events . . .
• GET CREATIVE and TAKE ACTION 
• Reach out to SFSS non-profit for support

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Meeting Facilitation: 

• ​Space Agreements (What are they? Why are they important?)​ >>> see example on right-side bar>>>
• Non-Violent Compassionate Communication 
• A Guide to Facilitation
• Land Acknowledgements
  • WWU SFSS Example:​ We acknowledge that we are occupying the traditional lands of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples. The people of this land have evolved since time immemorial with the plants, animals, and landscapes that we now share. Please take some time to reflect on how this land has served you and tread forward keeping in mind the loss that has allowed that to happen.

Additional Files and PPTs for Club Leaders:

example_facilitation_requests_spaceagreements_wwu_sfss.pdf
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sfss_protocol_1_17.pdf
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example_land_acknowledgement.pdf
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Salish Sea Education:

• What is the Salish Sea?  
• ​Health of the Salish Sea Ecosystem Report
• Lushootseed and Coast Salish Culture 

Territorial Acknowledgement of Coast Salish Land 
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“First and foremost, we would like to begin by acknowledging the original people of this land on whose ancestral territories we have gathered. 


We acknowledge all tribal nations both federally recognized and unrecognized because the federal government cannot regulate indigeneity and home. 

Particularly, we would like to acknowledge the Lummi Nation (Laq’temish), Nooksack Nation and Coast Salish peoples on whose stolen traditional territory we are gathered upon today. 

For this, we must ensure that we support Indigenous movements, and take an active role in redressing the continuing impact of settler colonialism. 

To this end, we are charged with creating and seeking out opportunities to develop engaged partnerships with Indigenous people within and beyond the academy, the university, and other colonized and reclaimed spaces.”

-- paraphrased edition of ESJ Minor inspired land acknowledgement at WWU

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​Community Resources: 
Organizations in your Area -

• Bellingham, Washington​
  • Re-Sources for Sustainable Communities ​
  • Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association 
  • Salish Sea Marine Sanctuary 
• Seattle, Washington
  • Seattle 350
• Vancouver, BC
• Victoria, BC 
  • RAVEN trust 
• Olympia, Washington 

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