The Unite the Swifties contest invites you to take part in a series of challenges, starting online and then moving offline, to speak now on RBC’s funding of fossil fuel projects and companies violating Indigenous rights. Acting together is the only way to show RBC that we are more powerful than their dirty money. That’s why we’ve put together this five-part training program for you to learn how social movements build power through art, storytelling, leadership, solidarity, and collective action!
In this training program you’ll hear from Indigenous Land Defenders about what is happening in their community and what you can do to be in solidarity with them. You’ll also learn about the power of social movements, the role that artists like Taylor Swift can play, and the role that you can play, to challenge RBC – Canada’s largest corporation and top financier of climate chaos!
Sign up for the training program today – each completed module will earn you 50 bonus entries to the contest!
MODULE 1: Art in Social Movements
- Wednesday, July 24 @ 5pm PT / 8pm ET
- Sunday, July 28 @ 2pm PT / 5pm ET
MODULE 2: Wet’suwet’en Resistance to Coastal GasLink and RBC, with Eve Saint (Wet’suwet’en Nation)
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- Wednesday, July 31 @ 5pm PT / 8pm ET
- Sunday August 4 @ 2 pm PT/ 5 pm ET
MODULE 3: Land, Body and Spirit: Decolonizing Climate Solidarity, by Vanessa Gray (Aamjiwnaang First Nation)
- Wednesday, August 7 @ 5pm PT / 8pm ET
- Sunday, August 11 @ 2pm PT / 5pm ET
MODULE 4: Organizing and Collective Power
- Wednesday, August 14 @ 5pm PT / 8pm ET
- Sunday, August 18 @ 2pm PT / 5pm ET
MODULE 5: Personal Narrative and Leadership Development
- Wednesday, August 21 @ 5pm PT / 8pm ET
- Sunday, August 25 @ 2pm PT / 5pm ET
NOTE – closed captioning will be available for each of these modules in French. If you would like us to offer closed captioning in another language, please let us know in the form!