Samaah Jaffer: I Hope and Afternoon Everyone

samaah jaffer: Good afternoon everyone, according to Rabble. My name is Samaah Jaffer and it's my honour to be standing here today, in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington. The transcript of her speech is below. The determination demonstrated by our sisters south of the border, to defend our dignity, rights, and freedoms as women is tremendously inspiring, especially in this moment where we are witnessing the rise of an extraordinarily dangerous political movement. I recognize my great privilege as a settler living on this land, and I hope that the movements we support, such as this one, remain in solidarity with the struggles of the Indigenous peoples for their self-determination. I want to begin by acknowledging that we are on the unceded ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples, in particular, the Musqueam, the Squamish and the Tsleil-Waututh. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.