Related: locally, #Okinawa is also protesting Japan's militarization of the region against people's will.
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202304/28/WS644b039ca310b6054fad0430.html
Related: locally, #Okinawa is also protesting Japan's militarization of the region against people's will.
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202304/28/WS644b039ca310b6054fad0430.html
#Japan annexed the #Ryuku Kingdom in 1879, and renamed the Indigenous archipeligo "Okinawa." It arches from Kyūshū, the southwesternmost of Japan's main islands, towards Taiwan.
The small islands' proximity to China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan make them strategically enticing to military powers. Last year, the Asahi Shimbun reported that 70% of US military bases in Japan are in #Okinawa.
Japan does not recognize the Ryuku people as #Indigenous.
"The analysis reveals that the city’s downtown was blanketed with gas at more than 50 times the level federal regulators consider 'immediately dangerous to life or health'."
Incredible visuals in this forensic reconstruction of PPB's indiscriminate use of toxic tear gas.
And before you go making snobby liberal jokes, please consider that McCurtain County is #Choctaw Country, and people like these are the reason some Choctaw people don't feel safe going to or living on our reservation.
More info on the woman who died in the fire. She knew she was in danger, warned the sheriffs, and posted her concerns on Facebook.
After she died trying to rescue her dogs from the fire, state investigators arrested her landlord Allen Shaw on charges of arson and murder.
Gov. Stitt has called for the resignation of McCurtain County officials, including the sheriff.
And the FBI has opened an investigation.
McCurtain Gazette-News reports that in a county meeting, McCurtain County officials lamented that they can't lynch Black people, bantered about killing Gazette-News journalists, and made cannibalistic jokes about a local woman who was burned alive in her home, allegedly by her landlord.
Their conversation was recorded. You can listen to it in the google doc below.
When journalists get dirty cops removed. ?
“'This is a simple case,' attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons said during opening statements on Tuesday. 'The Treaty of 1866 has not been abrogated.'”
#Mvskoke #Creek #Freedmen #Indigenous #Oklahoma
https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2023/04/06/muscogee-judge-to-decide-citizenship-for-black-creeks/
New findings: not only did Crow buy properties from Thomas, he also
-Is apparently Thomas's mother's landlord
-Built upgrades and additions to mom's house immediately upon buying it
-Tore down the party house next door
-"Crow did not respond to questions about whether he has charged her rent."
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
By Zacharias Kunuk (#Inuit), 2001
?The first movie in #Inuktitut.❄️
What a life:
-Brought the first espresso machine to #Portland while running a beatnik cafe in the 50s
-Ran the oldest drag club west of the Mississippi
-Guiness record holder as world's oldest drag queen
-Served Christmas Eve banquets to the homeless for 30 years
-Dedicated a memorial to Oregon's AIDS victims
-Awarded Spirit of Portland Award by the last #PDX mayor anyone still speaks well of
-United a tempestuous city in the spirit of goodwill
❤️RIP Darcelle ?️
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