In 36 years of living in Latin America I have learned that any time a country changes its conditions so that poverty decreases and the standard of living improves, the United States wages some kind of war on that country. It has waged unconventional warfare on Nicaragua since the Sandinistas returned to the presidency in […]
Djab Wurrung women are in an abusive relationship with Victoria’s government. — Sissy Eileen Austin, The Guardian, September 14, 2019 It was a penultimate day in the Australian state of Victoria. The state government had announced that some of harshest coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the developed world would be easing. Melbourne’s restaurants, bars and cafes […]
In this episode we take a look at the many Indigenous-led struggles currently taking place across Turtle Island. For more information on how you can follow and support these struggles: Indigenous People Day of Rage indigenouspeoplesdayofrage.org/ indigenousaction.org O’odham Anti-Border Collective facebook.com/AntiBorderCollective/ Justice for Joyce #JusticePourJoyce #JusticeForJoyce gofundme.com/f/justice-pour-joycejustice-for-joyce/ Mi’kma’ki #AllEyesOnMikmaki Secwepemc #StopTMX #TinyHouseWarriors #Secwepemc tinyhousewarriors.com/ Wet’suwet’en […]
We call for solidarity actions from coast to coast. Take action where you stand, or come stand with us on the yintah. — Gidimt’en Checkpoint Callout from Gidemt’en Checkpoint Coastal GasLink has called in the RCMP to try and remove Wet’suwet’en community members and Indigenous youth as they hold a ceremony at a proposed drill […]
(Photo Credit: Jenna Pope) This weekend, celebration of Indigenous People’s Day will replace the federal holiday, Columbus Day, in at least eight states and over 130 cities in 34 states. Along with the toppling of Columbus statues and the removal of a racial slur as a name for a major football team, this signals a […]
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Our headwaters are under attack. Our way of life is at risk. Coastal Gaslink is weeks away from test drilling beneath Wedzin Kwa — the river that feeds all of Wet’suwet’en territory and gives life to our nation.
We continue to reoccupy our territories — to prepare our foods, to hold our ceremonies, to teach our children what it means to be Wet’suwet’en.
We have to protect ourselves. We have to protect what we have at all costs.
We need your support now more than ever.
It was a calamity in cultural terms likened to the destruction of the Buddhist statues of Bamyan and the ancient city of Palmyra. The explosive eradication of two Aboriginal sites in West Australia’s Juukan Gorge in May, said to be 46,000 years old, moved Peter Stone, the UNESCO chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace, to call it “a black day for us all”. This was not the dirty handiwork of Taliban zealots or Islamic State fanatics: the blasting had been an
Reportage from Minneapolis — The city of Minneapolis is where it all began. It is where the last drop fell on the surface of a proverbial overflowing lake, causing the dam to burst, consequently starting to destroy the foundations of the empire.
A death of just one single man can, under certain dreadful circumstances, put into motion the entire avalanche of events. It can smash the whole regime into pieces. It can fully rewrite history, and even change the identity of a nation. It can… although it not always does.
A member of Tohono O’odham Nation, a migrant in the Sonoran desert, a Palestinian at an Israeli checkpoint, or a resident of a segregated and over-policed U.S. neighborhood — all are increasingly subject to the same technologies of repression.
— Gabe Schivone, journalist, co-author of Facing Down Settler Colonialism
