Treaty Day Film Festival Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay) Two days of films showcasing the resilience of Indigenous peoples in honor of the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855 between the Lummi Nation and the U.S. government. Two features, a series of short films, and panel discussion with … [Read more...]
Support Lummi Nations Hosting of 2019 Tribal Canoe Journey
CALLING ALL HANDS! Paddle 2 Lummi Community Connections (July 24-28) In the upcoming months we will be raising awareness, fundraising, mobilizing volunteers to help prepare for this event. All hands-on-deck to work together with Lummi Nation to: Raise $300,000 towards the $1.1 million … [Read more...]
Wet’suwet’en Blockade and the Challenge of Reconciliation
CUC (Canadian Unitarian Council) eNews: January 15, 2019 – Issue 73 The Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) recognizes the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and their authority to make decisions about what happens on their land. In the case of the Wet’suwet’en, who are opposing the development of a … [Read more...]
‘Shameful Day for Canada’: First Nations Encampment Violently Raided, Land Protectors Arrested
What you haven’t heard from inside the battle of Gidimt’en checkpoint Toronto Star, Jan. 12, 2019 https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/01/12/what-you-havent-heard-from-inside-the-battle-of-gidimten-checkpoint.html StarMetro reporters spent five days inside and outside the fortified lines … [Read more...]
Support Leonard Peltier’s Transfer Request
For those of you not familiar with Leonard Peltier, he is a “political” prisoner related to events on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975 where two FBI agents were shot and killed. Amnesty International placed his case under the "Unfair Trials" category of its Annual Report: USA 2010 … [Read more...]
Shutdown Leaves Food, Medicine and Pay in Doubt in Indian Countr
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — For one tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the government shutdown comes with a price tag: about $100,000, every day, of federal money that does not arrive to keep health clinics staffed, food pantry shelves full and employees paid. To read more on … [Read more...]
HISTORIC DAY: TWO AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN BECOME MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/historic-day-two-american-indian-women-become-members-of-congress/?fbclid=IwAR18jUoh79TCpO2ng-KOD91vP6oIpV-cWF2hJ_XvdvpzjnNpA2EmQ5NYQQg … [Read more...]
The push to free Tokitae – Interview
The Lummi Tribe is hoping 2019 will be the year an orca named Tokitae is freed from captivity. Named ‘Lolita’ by Miami’s Seaquarium, the animal has lived and performed in a man-made tank since 1970. The tribe and a host of animal rights groups are putting pressure on the Seaquarium to return her to … [Read more...]
Efforts to bring orca Tokitae home chronicled in new book
A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity: The Fight To Bring Lolita Home by Sandra Pollard. http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/life/efforts-to-bring-orca-tokitae-home-chronicled-in-new-book/ … [Read more...]
Treaty Day Film Festival – Bellingham
Jan 19, 2019 at 2:30 PM – Jan 20, 2019 at 5:45 PM Children of the Setting Sun Productions, 1711 Ellis St. Suite 102, Bellingham, Washington Two days of films showcasing the resilience of Indigenous peoples in honor of the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855 between the Lummi Nation and the U.S. … [Read more...]
We are the change – A March for Women 3.0
Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 10 AM – 2 PM Occidental Square, 117 S Washington St, Seattle, Washington 98104 Heading into our 3rd year of the Women's March, We hear you! We hear our local communities and we believe that no one stands alone. It will take all of us to create real change. We ask … [Read more...]
The Scene at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Pictures
Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves over border patrol agents. Photo album of a migrant family trying to enter the U.S. … [Read more...]
Before reconciliation is possible, Canadians must admit the truth
We substitute United States for Canada and the same truth applies . . . Apologies don’t do a lot of good if you aren’t willing to do the hard, inconvenient work to rectify issues and be forgiven, just like land acknowledgments don’t do a lot of good if you’re violating Indigenous rights to … [Read more...]
Xmas Day in Chula Vista and at the wall
From Julia Cochrane, board member of JUUstice Washington and issue lead for the Refugee, Immigrant and Migrant Solidarity issue action reports from the border. "Today is Christmas. Nikki and Jessica are in Tijuana. I am in Chula Vista. I was not needed today. So I slept in, hung out with my … [Read more...]
Voices Vote for Dissolution
As many of you know, Washington UU Voices for Justice and Northwest UU Justice Network are evolving into JUUstice Washington. In order to make this transformation, Voices needs to dissolve the old organization. Voices will send out ballots in early January to vote on the dissolution. According to … [Read more...]
Broken Promises: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans
December 20, 2018. A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finds that funding levels for Native American tribes are woefully inadequate despite the federal government's responsibility to provide for education, public safety, health care and other services under treaties, laws and … [Read more...]
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance – Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day
When: Thursday, February 28, 2019 Where: United Churches of Olympia and Capitol Campus REGISTRATION WILL OPEN IN JANUARY 2019 At Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day, your voice is heard on some of the most pressing issues of our time: housing affordability and an end to homelessness. Be a … [Read more...]
Poverty Action’s 14th Annual MLK Lobby Day
When: Monday, January 21, 2019 • 9 am - 3:30 pm Where: St John's Episcopal Church, 114 20th Ave SE, Olympia, WA 98501 This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, join Poverty Action members from across the state as we demand a more just Washington state. This MLK Day you will: Meet with your … [Read more...]
Lobby Day for a Free Flowing Snake River
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 9 AM – 3 PM Olympia State Capital Building 416 Sid Snyder Ave SW, Olympia, Washington 98501 Join us for the lobby day for a free-flowing Snake River in Olympia on Tuesday, February 5th. We will be meeting with Washington State Legislative representatives and … [Read more...]
Indigenous Action – San Juan Islands National Monument
WhiteSwan Environmental, a local Native group, is requesting our assistance in helping bring more recognition of indigenous perspectives to the care and management of the San Juan Islands Monument. A commenting period, which ends January 3, 2019 is open for public comment and we are being asked to … [Read more...]
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