Communications Toolkit | Kalaalitt Nuunaat (Greenland) Solidarity and Education Summit
Objectives of the Summit
- To support Illinniartitsitut Meqqat Atuarfianneersut Kattufiat (IMAK) and Greenland’s education system by sharing strategies, research, and insights from Education International member organizations with regards to teacher policy and collective bargaining with a specific focus on working conditions and mother tongue instruction.
- Express unwavering international solidarity from Education International with the teachers and people of Greenland at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical threats to their future.
Key Messages
- Education International is an organization founded on universal principles of human rights, democracy, peace, and human dignity. Our members are the educators of communities around the world.
- Education International defends our members and students' rights. And we also uphold and defend a multilateral global system where all human beings live free from fear and oppression and with the right to democratic self-determination and respect.
- It is in this spirit that we have come to Nuuk to stand in solidarity with Greenland’s teachers as they defend education rooted in language, culture, and community. They are not for sale. They are not for the taking. They are not alone.
- We are committed to the core values of public education, a public good and a fundamental right, here in Greenland and everywhere.
- Defending Indigenous education means defending the right of communities to shape their own futures. There is no quality education without cultural relevance.
- The knowledge, languages, and traditions of Indigenous peoples are living, essential, and must be protected. Education systems must be built with Indigenous communities—not imposed on them.
Sample social media posts
From across the world, teacher unions stand with IMAK and the people of Greenland. We defend education rooted in language, culture, and community—against pressure, against erasure.
Greenland is not for sale.
From the Sámi to the Inuit, from Hawaii to Nunavut, unions are sharing how to build education systems rooted in people, language, and dignity.
Education International stands with Greenlanders - #KalaallitNunaat
As members of Education International we stand in unwavering solidarity with the teachers and people of Greenland. We uphold a multilateral global system that respects all life, free from fear, oppression, and erasure.
Educators from across the world are in Nuuk.
To stand with IMAK and the people of Greenland.
To defend public education.
To learn from each other.
To build solidarity.
To customize for your organization/community
[ORGANISATION NAME] joins education unions worldwide in saying:
Greenland is not for sale.
We stand in solidarity with IMAK to defend public education, cultural rights, and the dignity of teachers, students, and community. We learn from each other. We rise together.
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Further reference
Laures Park, Chair of the Education International Indigenous Peoples Advisory Body and winner of the Mary Hatwood-Futrell Award at the 2024 World Congress:
Tena koutou nga whanaunga o Greenland.
Kai mau, kia u ki o koutou whenua, o koutou reo me o koutou tikanga.
To our relatives in Greenland.
Hold fast to your land, your language, and your culture.
Invaders have tried for years to remove that which is dear to your survival, but you have always stood up and fought back just as your tipuna (ancestors) did in years past.
The enemy can be close (as our government is) or threatening from afar but be aware that your Indigenous whanau from around the world, always stand beside you in peace and in whawhai (fight).
Ma tou Atua hei manaakitanga hei tiaki ia koutou i tenei wa.
May your Gods care and support you all at this time.
Nga mihi
Laures Park
Messages of support and solidarity
A visit with a message: Solidarity and support to IMAK and the people of Greenland
