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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
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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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
With the present declaration, we denounce the nature of the political stunt of the recent repressive police operation executed by the Investigative Police of Chile (PDI, by its acronym in Spanish) and supported by the Temuco District Attorney of the High-Profile Unit, which has affected the Mapuche communities of Temucuicui,
Por medio de la presente declaración denunciamos el carácter de montaje político del reciente operativo policial represivo a cargo de la Policía de Investigaciones (PDI) y avalado por la Fiscalía de Alta Complejidad de Temuco, el que ha afectado a las comunidades de Temucuicui, Pancho Curamil, Chacaico, Huañaco Millao y
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
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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#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
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
At the moment, Central America is suffering from the acceleration of climate change fueled natural disasters. On the heels of the recent Hurricane Eta and a raging pandemic, Hurricane Iota has hit the region, predominantly impacting Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and black communities. The situation has been made worse by violent and
While the United States shudders in the shambles of another election year, whether from a collective sigh of relief or fear of what’s to come, a different system of governance blooms in a swath of woodlands jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. This shandy shoreline now part of what is
The recent US election highlights the widespread disgust of the type of in-your-face white supremacy exemplified by Donald Trump. The large voter turnout, especially among Black and Indigenous working poor showed that large sections of the population reject his politics. But it also underscores the extensive support for those very