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The 25th Anniversary of Folsom Juneteenth vs. 4th Annual Black Miners Bar Juneteenth highlights the ongoing challenge of our authentic Title 5 Federal Holiday “not yet” recognized throughout the State of California....
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2025 12:42pm PDT
Navajos marched to the Navajo Nation Council to protect their water, and oppose coal mining, uranium mining and radioactive transport in their homeland today, during the second day of the Navajo Council's spring session. Urging respect for the water, and to keep it clean, Dine' spoke of protecting the sacred....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 8:37pm PDT
The U.S. government today announced that it is forging ahead with plans to transfer a Native American sacred site to a multinational mining giant in as few as 60 days, despite a federal lawsuit challenging the action as illegal....
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2025 6:57pm PDT
A coalition of grassroots groups opposes Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren's push for new coal mining and the ongoing dangerous uranium transport in radioactive trucks. The coalition will hold a press conference on Monday, April 21, at the Navajo Nation Council....
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2025 6:45pm PDT
Urge to Boycott El Salvador and End Trump Regime...
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2025 11:01pm PDT
In some 36 strikes about which the U.N. Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children...
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2025 8:11am PDT
The new 'Free Leonard Peltier' film is receiving standing ovations and global awards, and now begins its new Rez Tour in the Dakotas with free screenings. After premiering at Sundance Film Festival, the film received high awards in Greece, and has an upcoming screening in Warsaw, Poland. Co-director Jesse Short Bull, Lakota from the Badlands on Pine Ridge, dug deep and reveals the secrets of a hidden uranium mining deal on Pine Ridge. The archival footage is a rich history of the movement an...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2025 9:49am PDT
On June 19, 2025, our nation will commemorate and celebrate the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth Celebrations on Port Galveston Island, Texas. The journey toward this historic milestone is an opportunity to pause and reflect on our collective journey towards the end the US Civil War. Today, our Title 5 Federal Holiday is not official throughout California. The assignment to go city by city and county by county remains…...
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2025 9:36pm PDT
Standing Rock Chairwoman Janet Alkire responded to the verdict in the case of Energy Transfer v Greenpeace. Chairwoman Alkire said the pipeline's lawsuit is a false, self-serving narrative and insulting. The pro-oil jury in a North Dakota district court awarded the owner of Dakota Access Pipeline $667 million in its case against Greenpeace. Most Lakotas said they didn't even know Greenpeace was at the camps in 2016 and 2017. The pipeline claimed Greenpeace led the movement to protect the wate...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2025 4:41am PDT
Our California State Capitol Juneteenth Celebration builds momentum towards the State of California officially recognizing our Title 5 US Federal Holiday for all California employees....
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2025 8:31am PDT
Earlier this month, recent graduate, activist, soon-to-be father, and legal permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested and detained in direct retaliation for his advocacy for Palestinian rights at Columbia University. Later, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) transferred him to a Louisiana detention facility 1,400 miles away from his home and his family....
Posted: Mon, Mar 24, 2025 9:46am PDT
"We know what happens when an autocratic regime starts taking away our rights and scapegoating and we will not be silent."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 3:41pm PDT
FULL TITLE: National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for “Sanctuary Universities” to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 8:26am PDT
"Khalil's abduction, in its cruelty and unlawfulness, has horrified people around the country. Let us be clear: This is what fascism looks like, and it is part of a much broader campaign," said the director of Palestine Legal....
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 2:55pm PDT
WASHINGTON (03-12) – Emboldened by Donald Trump’s war on words and “woke” phrases, Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-GA) a member of the House - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on March 3 introduced bill H.R. 1744 to eliminate Black Lives Matter Plaza (BLM)......
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 11:29am PDT
In this column, It's Going Down presents a monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:56am PDT
Science matters! And on March 7 a “Nationwide Stand up for Science” rally took place along with 32 other “nerd parties across the country” protesting the Trump administration’s attack on federal science workers, programs and research....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2025 6:38am PST
In the case now before the district court in North Dakota, Energy Transfer versus Greenpeace, Standing Rock Chairwoman Janet Alkire blasts Energy Transfer with the facts and makes it clear that the Standing Rock Nation led the resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline....
Posted: Wed, Mar 5, 2025 12:22am PST
Havasupai Dianna Uqualla said the Havasupai's ancestral land, the Grand Canyon, is already contaminated by Energy Fuels Pinyon Plain uranium mine....
Posted: Sat, Mar 1, 2025 2:38am PST