According to Parents Defending Education, both workshops began with Native American land acknowledgments by members of the union’s Aspiring Educators Program.
Both speakers accused the United States of “colonialism,” with transgender Student Washington Education Association Board Director Caitlin Ehlers, donned in a keffiyeh, claiming Trump was “threatening to annex Kalaallit Nunaat, AKA, Greenland,” and that “his coalition is directly responsible for land grabs and eco-savage from the Great Plains to the Amazon.”
Ehlers added “Whose land are you on? Where do you stand on settler-colonialism? And what are you gonna do about it?”
