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UPDATE: Even though a majority of eligible employees expressed support for the union, High Country News leadership has decided not to voluntarily recognize us and instead has chosen to force an election. This is disappointing, and a waste of HCN's limited resources.
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In just 2 days, over 200 people have signed our union's letter of support --- WOW! 🤩 Plus all the lovely supportive social media comments --- our CWA organizer says this is the biggest outpouring of support she's ever seen for a campaign. I am feeling the love, y'all. 🥰
We're a small newsroom (mighty, but small) so we need all the support we can get! We have until tomorrow to pressure HCN leadership to voluntarily recognize our union. Please sign if you haven't! 💖 ✊
"American museums and universities repatriated more ancestral remains and sacred objects to tribal nations this year than at any point in the past three decades," thanks in large part to the work of Mary Hudetz (Apsaalooke/Crow), whose reporting has made waves in the US senate and the Interior Department. 💥
When a city like #Denver executes expensive feats of infrastructure to provide a greenspace no one asked for in a fragmented community that needs support in other ways, is it restitution or gentrification?
America built its first "concentration camp school," or Indian boarding school, on the Yakama reservation in 1860.
Now, the state of #Washington has appointed five #Indigenous leaders to a Truth and Reconciliation Tribal Advisory Committee, which will investigate the state’s history of Native boarding schools.
“Climate change is a manifestation of the colonial project," said Graeme Reed (Anishinaabe).
"And that colonial project is built on the removal of Indigenous peoples from their lands, waters and territories, and the blatant disrespect of their rights, their knowledge systems and their governance.”
#Indigenous people go to COP28 “because we have solutions,” he said. “But we also recognize that these spaces are also dominated by people who want to uphold the status quo.”
The superintendent of a youth detention center in #Knoxville, #Tennessee illegally puts kids in solitary confinement for laughing during meals, talking during class or getting lice. He leaves them for hours, days, sometimes even over a week.
The Department of Child Services has known about this, and continues to re-license the facility.
Astonishingly, the superintendent gave a WPLN & ProPublica reporter a tour of the facility. And reminisced to her about beating kids.
Of the 574 federally recognized tribal nations, only five have free press protections in tribal law.
But some #Indigenous journalists are fighting tribal council for a free press --- so they can hold tribal government accountable.
And others are making documentaries about it.
Next Sunday in #Portland, watch BAD PRESS, which follows a Mvskoke journalist's crusade for a free tribal press during a Muscogee (Creek) Nation election.
Peaceful #Indigenous protest against colonizer violence ends with colonizer violence.
Would love to hear from any Hispanic ppl (or other non-NDN BIPOC) who denounce this hate and support the NDN call to keep the statues of violent colonizers down.
We need to support each other. NDNs are not "two or three individuals that are not even from this reality.”
Linking this instead of ICT bc it includes lots of anti-Indigenous hate, so you can see what we're up against:
Yesterday Leonard Peltier turned 79. He's been in prison for nearly five decades.
“'If he was tried today, no way he gets convicted,' Kevin Sharp, Leonard’s attorney and former federal judge, told ICT. 'That is not the law today. The violations that law enforcement committed, that the US Attorney's Office committed at that time, the threats, the intimidation is a constitutional violation.'”
Hundreds gathered at the white house calling for his release. 35 were arrested.
@GeePawHill@KristinKim If your child sees a leaf blower and asks what it is, just cover his or her fragile cisgendered little eyes and respond that some people don't follow God's ways.
"Because Greater Idaho is unlikely to become a reality, 'people dismiss it,' said Stephen Piggott, a program director with Western States Center. And that, he believes, is dangerous: 'People are not connecting the dots,' he said. 'The people who want to create a white homeland are backing it.'”
The indomitable Leah Sottile brings a depth of reporting to the Greater Idaho movement found nowhere else.
@Shanmonster Yes, Freedmen issues deserve a whole other thread, and I'm not the best person to go into Afro-Indigenous identity issues but if any of my followers are interested here are some books to read: