Help Gitz's Family in Ft. Mac
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Last week our friend Gitz Crazyboy lost everything in the Ft. Mac fires . So did his parents and the families of two of his brothers.
Gitz is way too busy to set up a funding campaign -- and he does not want to collect money for himself. But his family has been devastated. We’ve made this page so that Gitz can get badly needed support to his parents and his young nieces and nephews. Their houses and all their possessions were reduced to ashes. They’ve got nothing. Nothing.
This is incredibly sad for us to witness -- it doubles down on a tragedy that was already unfolding for decades. Gitz is part of a First Nations community that has seen massive changes in the last few decades as the land of the boreal forest has been reshaped by the oil industry. We met Gitz a few years ago when we were making our latest film and he showed us the area –– you can see him in the movie speaking about the adverse effects on the land due to industrial expansion. He was talking about how they’d lost everything that had sustained their way of life for generations. Their forest. Their clean air and clean water. But some of Gitz’s family did get oil industry jobs –– jobs that paid for their houses and their possessions. That supported their families and their children.
Now all that is gone too. A lifetime of work has been reduced to ashes in minutes.
These guys need help to start again.
Whatever we can collect will go directly to them for their rebuilding efforts. Please dig deep! But even if you can only give a little bit, that helps too. And please spread the word.
Sincerely,
Mike and Andy (The Yes Men)
Laura Nix (Director, The Yes Men Are Revolting)
Sadaf Cameron (Kindle Project)
Gitz is way too busy to set up a funding campaign -- and he does not want to collect money for himself. But his family has been devastated. We’ve made this page so that Gitz can get badly needed support to his parents and his young nieces and nephews. Their houses and all their possessions were reduced to ashes. They’ve got nothing. Nothing.
This is incredibly sad for us to witness -- it doubles down on a tragedy that was already unfolding for decades. Gitz is part of a First Nations community that has seen massive changes in the last few decades as the land of the boreal forest has been reshaped by the oil industry. We met Gitz a few years ago when we were making our latest film and he showed us the area –– you can see him in the movie speaking about the adverse effects on the land due to industrial expansion. He was talking about how they’d lost everything that had sustained their way of life for generations. Their forest. Their clean air and clean water. But some of Gitz’s family did get oil industry jobs –– jobs that paid for their houses and their possessions. That supported their families and their children.
Now all that is gone too. A lifetime of work has been reduced to ashes in minutes.
These guys need help to start again.
Whatever we can collect will go directly to them for their rebuilding efforts. Please dig deep! But even if you can only give a little bit, that helps too. And please spread the word.
Sincerely,
Mike and Andy (The Yes Men)
Laura Nix (Director, The Yes Men Are Revolting)
Sadaf Cameron (Kindle Project)
Organiser
Mike Bonanno
Organiser
Fort Mcmurray, AB
