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Caleen Sisk-Franco, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem-Wintu discusses the Balas Chonas or Puberty Ceremony-which honors a girls transition into womanhood, her decision to declare war against the U.S. government, and her tribes work to return indigenous salmon to the McCloud River, for International Women's Day....

"The Cucapa are doing the same thing they have been doing for 9,000 years," said Subcomandante Marcos. "The Cucapa and other Indian people called for this camp in defense of nature so they can fish without detentions or being put in jail." Subcomandante Marcos and Aura Bogado at an Otra Campana meeting in October 2006. On the following day, the Cucapa Tribe and Zapatistas jointly announced plans to set up a Zapatista Peace Camp in the Colorado River Delta to protest an unjust "marine prote...

During this widely-contested process, Reheis-Boyd and other task force members went out of their way to take water pollution, oil spills and drilling, military testing, wave energy projects, corporate aquaculture, habitat destruction and all other human impacts on the ocean other than fishing and gathering off the table in the so-called marine protected areas created under the privately funded initiative. Photo of Santa Barbara oil rig sunset image - some rights reserved by Jim Sneddon....

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"The historical consciousness of mankind is suffering from voluntary distortions of history. One must react against this here and now for a truthful presentation of the cultural evolution of humanity," Cheikh Anta Diop, African Scholar. The belief in the immortality of the human soul was first an Ancient African notion. Together, we join the United Nations International Year for People of African Descent and reflect deeply upon our postitive contributions throughout the State of California...

A Valentine's Day weekend "Lovers + Liberators" benefit was held for the Red Vic Movie House on Haight Street in San Francisco in which three films were screened: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE, BOLD NATIVE, and THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR. Featured speakers included Claude Marks of the Freedom Archives, Jake Conroy of the SHAC7, and Ben Rosenfeld, a civil rights and green scare attorney [full audio of all speakers below in two parts]. Also present were the organizers of the benefit, Bold Native...

On January 16, 2010, Kerry Baxter Junior, a nineteen year old African American male, was killed. He died in front of Saint Anthony Church in East Oakland after being shot through the heart. This is not the first killing in the area, which is near San Antonio Park. The Oakland Police Department seem uninterested in finding the perpetrators of this crime...,...

A lawsuit filed by the Kawaiisu Tribe of Tejon has survived several Motions To Dismiss filed by Defendants Department of Interior, County of Kern, Tejon Mountain Village and Native American Heritage Commission. An Amended Complaint incorporating their NAGPRA, aboriginal title and equal protection claims is due by February 19, 2011. The Kawaiisu 25:640 Indian Tribal Rights Case is No. 1:09-cv-01977-OWW-SMS in Eastern District Court....

This victory by the Kashia Pomo sets a good precedent in allowing for continued gathering and ceremonies by other Indian Tribes in California marine protected areas....

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