Local #Atlanta Interfaith Clergy holds a Press Conference to demand Mayor Andre Dickens #StopCopCity. The #ATL police are stating "outside agitators" are against this $90M project but that is a lie. Local residents of #ATL "do not want Cop City."
🧵 We heard the Interfaith Clergy loud and clear: "We don't want more policing and terrorizing of Black, Brown, and Indigenous bodies in our community." #StopCopCity
✊"All of this is a fight over land, which white people have been wagging since the beginning of time." #Landback#StopCopCity#Solidarity
Mekko Chebon (Muscogee Creek Nation, Seminole) states, "It was not our choice to leave here… this is our homeland.” Due to military occupation and forced removal, "illegally, lands were taken from us." #NoCopCity on #StolenLands
#CopCity is a “violence against all creation.” “Increasing of militarized forces out there does not ever create peace” says relative Mekko Chebon (Muscogee Creek Nation, Seminole)
Matthew Johnson, interim Executive Director of @BelovedCommune speaks to the unjust murder of Tortuguita and the arrests of 40+ demonstrators who will be charged with domestic terrorism charges for their involvement in the #StopCopCity movement. #NoCopCity on #StolenLands
Today is Leonard Peltier’s 80th birthday. To honor him, we would like to uplift this poem from his book, “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance.” ⬇️
“An eagle's cry
Listen to me!
Listen!
I am the Indian voice.
Hear me crying out of the wind,
Hear my crying out of the silence.
I am the Indian voice.
Listen to me!
I speak for our ancestors.
They cry out to you from the unstill grave.
I speak for the children yet unborn.
They cry out to you from the unspoken silence.
(1/4) BREAKING: Man wearing MAGA hat opened fire using a concealed weapon, injuring one relative during the No Juan de Oñate statue rally, on Tewa lands in Española, so-called New Mexico. @ArribaRio @GovMLG
(2/4) Here is what we know: 1. The relative injured is stable & receiving medical care 2. This was a hate crime; white right-wing extremists led this attack 3. Unarmed women & children were endangered 4. The shooter is in custody 5. The rally was peaceful and prayerful
(3/4) Relatives at the rally were celebrating the postponement of the planned resurrection of a statue of a brutal colonizer Juan de Oñate on Tewa lands in so-called Española, New Mexico. @ArribaRio @GovMLG
🧵The #DebtCeilingDeal is headed to a vote today. Here’s what Tribes and Native people need to know: 1. It's critical that we reflect on how the GOP has held the global economy hostage to benefit their fossil fuel allies. This alone signals how broken this system is.
2. We are seeing cuts to Native/Indian programs within DOI, HUD and to Indian Education. To be clear, this is a disservice to American Indian People and Tribes as many of our programs have been historically underfunded.
3. A win for Tribes and Indigenous communities: IRA provisions for our communities remain intact as well as the $20B for Tribes in ARPA
Marty from NDN Collective interviews @kamaufranklin, the founder of @CommunityMvt and relative Mekko Chebon, Muscogee Creek Nation, Seminole to discuss the #StopCopCity movement and key demands.
@kamaufranklin at @CommunityMvt addresses both the local and global implications of #CopCity, “We say no to cop city because it’s a militarized police base which is going to harm our communities and harm our movements.”
.#StopWillow Update : As of today, March 7, 2023, the Biden Administration has not officially approved the Willow Project. However, the "Record of Decision" could be announced any moment now. So in the meantime, here are THREE ACTIONS you can take in this critical moment.
1. AMPLIFY these two letters from the Alaskan Native Villages of Nuiqsut & Anaktuvuk Pass! Both Tribes have written to @Interior to state their opposition to Willow & have asked for stronger consultation. Find both letters here: ndnco.cc/CPINLFN & ndnco.cc/WPTTCH
🚨 Call-to-Action 🚨
President and CEO of NDN Collective, @NickTilsen, comes today with an urgent message to take action. He calls upon @POTUS to grant executive clemency to elder movement leader Leonard Peltier who tested positive for COVID-19 last Friday. #RiseUpForPeltier
Leonard Peltier (Anishinaabe & Dakota) has spent over 4 decades of his life behind bars for murder that he did not commit. Now, the prison system has failed to provide him adequate care & protection against #COVID19.
Peltier's story is the epitome of the systemic abuse that continues to target Indigenous people & Movement Leaders. #RiseUpForPeltier