ALT October 11, 2023 To All Whom Need be Concerned; Freedom and democratic action, Rights and Responsibilities, are Indigenous. Rights are Responsibilities to all Beings, to Land, to Water, and to one another. These are inherent, they belong to no one and can be taken by no one. They are enshrined in Indigenous Lands, Laws, protocols, manners, cultures, and expectations, and are also somewhat understood in what we mean when we say we live in an equitable, free, and just country. Clear evidence, such as eyewitness reports, experience of members of the TSS Union and SFU Security spokespersons, documentation and publication in the Press Progress, all contribute to the principles of Indigenous Witness: SFU administration has hired and retained the services of Lions Gate Risk Management (LGRM) to target, intimidate, photo document (without permission or consent), attempt to manage, surveil, and investigate its own employees, particularly members of the TSSU, across all three campuses.

ALT Lions Gate Risk Management is a private security firm composed of law enforcement, military personnel, and security industry specialists who have been and are complicit in the criminalization and forced removal of Indigenous Peoples across the province in our own Indigenous HomeLands. LGRM earns money by surveilling the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, a project proceeding without the free, prior, and informed consent of Territorial Owners, a project which contributes to environmental injustices, climate change and the creation of millions of global environmental refugees. LGRM acts/ed for clear-cutting Teal-Jones in undermining Indigenous Rights, in advancing ruin in Indigenous communities, and in destruction of democracy. These are this administration’s cronies. LGRM exhibited at Canada Gas and LNG conferences, advertising their services for companies operating specifically against Indigenous Land Defenders, Indigenous Rights and Title. LGRM performs the work of Rights violations

ALT SFU violates the terms of Reconciliation, all the while claiming the opposite. We see you and bear Witness. SFU has and continues to undermine the principles of Reconciliation, in very clear, anti-Indigenous ways: Here by importing the very specific individuals and companies, violence-makers, chaos-provokers, agents a the behest of resource ruin in Indigenous communities into our very Work/Home of SFU, those whose work targets, intimidates, instigate violence, and abrogates the Rights and Title of Indigenous Peoples. We cannot and do not stand by or support this highly visual and confrontational presence hired and imposed upon us by SFU administration as an alternative to providing living wages for TSSU. The significant harm to community via menacing agents of Rights ruin in our ‘safe’ and ‘community-engaged’ campuses further triggers Indigenous faculty, students, and the community-at-large, who suffer from oppressions imposed by such agents upon our families, communities, and lives