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PRESS RELEASE TOMORROW 1/31/22- International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee: Demands for immediate Hospitalization and COVID release from prison f

International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee  www.WhoIsLeonardPeltier.info  For Immediate Release – Media contact: Carol Gokee, 715-209-4453, Jean Roach, 605-415-3127  Press Conference to Demand Immediate Hospitalization and  COVID Release from Prison for Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier  Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, 1:00 pm  U.S. Federal Courthouse, 801 N. Florida

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Health is Social Justice

Vivian Camacho Cochabamba – Bolivia The COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrates the commodification of health and life on the planet today. Thanks to the widespread hegemony of modern medicine—marked by its academic, monocultural thinking—we suffer from wholesale dehumanization because it unabashedly values profit over human life when the latter conflicts

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Letter of Support From Diné Bikeyah to Wet’suwet’en Relatives

Authored by Diné elder, Chili Yazzie. The Great Creator gave homelands to the four colors of humankind, lands we would belong to, lands that would belong to us, as a mother and child belong to each other. Our natural laws are rooted in an understanding of honor and reciprocity that

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Luis Arce: An Anti-Imperialist Climate Agenda

Luis Arce Catacora: President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia Speech October 11, 2021 Thank you very much brothers and sisters, hugs to the city of La Paz, Bolivia and to everyone that follows us via social media around the world. I want to salute: to the jilata David Choquehuanca,

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A Brief History of Indian Market

by Jennifer Marley Every year in mid-August, my family would wake up before dawn, and help my grandmother pack up her pottery for the Santa Fe Indian Market. All the grandchildren looked forward to spending the weekend at her booth, walking around, eating, socializing with friends, relatives, and strangers. And

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The Prophet of Police

By the AbolishAPD Collective You never had a Christmas like the Prophet had in 2019. Two Albuquerque Police Department (APD) cops responded to a disturbance call at a rundown Albuquerque motel the day after Christmas. A man locked himself in the lobby bathroom and wouldn’t come out. The first

“To Keep a Place of Prayer:” Tasing is Just the Latest Incident in a Long History of Colonial Violence at Petroglyphs

On December 27th, a National Park Service employee tased Darrall House, a Diné/Oneida man, at the base of the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He went there to pray, to keep a place of prayer. He ventured off the trail to avoid a large crowd and was

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The Solutions and Answers we Seek Exist with We, the People

Republished from Green Fire Times (January 2021) Traditionally, indigenous communities did not measure time in a linear way. Everything was cyclic. All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point. What is not resolved will reappear on subsequent rotations around

Hands off Cuba! We Salute the Cuban Revolution and the Battle Against Imperialism

The Trump administration has escalated the attack on Cuba that will have serious implications in the years to come. Yesterday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism.” The United States has dealt several crushing blows to the Cuban economy in recent years, with the

Unsheltered Not Homeless

Indigenous peoples cannot be homeless. Stigma associated with the term “homeless” invalidates the relationship Indigenous peoples’ have to their homelands—the foundation of who we are as people. Shaming unsheltered Native people discourages them from sharing their narratives and experiences of displacement, homelessness, trauma, violence, kinship and relocation. Shame is

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We Condemn Racist National Park Service for Brutalizing Darrell House

#JusticeforDarrell Last Saturday, December 26, a National Park Service (NPS) Ranger tasered our Diné and Oneida relative Darrell House, a Marine veteran, and his dog Geronimo at the Petroglyph National Park in Tiwa Territory (Albuquerque, NM).  Darrell and his sister, who filmed the brutal encounter, were hiking and offering prayers

Desestabilizada por el imperialismo estadounidense, Centroamérica ahora enfrenta catástrofes climáticas

En este momento, Centroamérica está sufriendo la aceleración de los desastres naturales provocados por el cambio climático. Inmediatamente después del reciente huracán Eta y durante una terrible pandemia, el huracán Iota ha azotado la región, afectando predominantemente a comunidades indígenas, afrodescendientes y negras. La situación provocada por cambios climáticos se