Category: Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity - Page 2

Indigenous Leaders and Allies Launch the MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda

May 21, 2025 Grace Cowell

by Grace Cowell On Monday, May 12, indigenous leaders, activists, and allies gathered at the State House for a day of action surrounding the Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda (MILA). The 2025-2026 MILA is composed of five bills: Mascot Bill: An Act Prohibiting the Use of […]

The Persistence of Racial Discrimination Through the Prison Industrial Complex

January 15, 2025 Grace Cowell

By Grace Cowell As wildfires rage across Southern California, it’s time to give a closer look into the history and roots of systemic racism surrounding a key group on the front lines fighting what have become the most destructive blazes in Los Angeles history: incarcerated […]

Bah Humbug Begone!

January 7, 2025 Doe West

by Rev Dr Doe West A Rallying Cry for Gratitude from an Indigenous woman in the US of A, 2024 Scrooge! Grinch! Stakes of holly plunging into hearts across the land! The antithesis of visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads! Arrg! The weeping, the […]

Why is University Enrollment Among Indigenous Students Decreasing?

November 27, 2024 Silas Rutherford

By Silas Rutherford Sunny Red Bear, Lakota from the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation and Associate Director of Organizing at NDN Collective, spoke out at a press conference at NDN Collective headquarters, addressing civil rights violations and racism in Rapid City, South Dakota. She argues that […]

Plymouth Sand Mining

August 6, 2024 Silas Rutherford

Southeastern Massachusetts has become the center of vigorous pushback against sand mining, a globally occurring extractive and environmentally degrading process. Despite being major stakeholders in the issue, locals have largely been kept in the dark by sand mining companies. Plymouth’s finite natural resources are being […]

Leonard Peltier Will Remain In Prison

July 3, 2024 Craig Simpson

By Craig Simpson The Federal Parole Commission has denied Leonard Peltier parole. Tuesday July 2 the FPC dismissed the evidence of his declining health- Diabetes, hypertension, partial blindness from a stroke, despite his nonviolent record in the prison, and bouts of COVID, his age- 80; […]

Organizing and Why It Works: The Civil Rights Movement

June 26, 2024 Katrina Tummino

by Katrina Tummino We need not look far to quell any doubts about the efficacy of grassroots organizing, protests, and resistance. In the first of a four-part series on organizing history (globally and domestically), this article will focus on the Civil Rights Movement which stands […]