Sunday Reading: November 26, 2023
Indigenous Justice on Movement Memos On November 23, thousands of Indigenous people and allies participated in the annual Indigenous Peoples’ Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island organized…

Indigenous Justice on Movement Memos On November 23, thousands of Indigenous people and allies participated in the annual Indigenous Peoples’ Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island organized by the International Indian Treaty Council. These gatherings began in 1975, first to honor the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island by Native activists, and, later, to counter popular narratives of Thanksgiving as a peaceful convening of native people and colonizers. This year’s assembly had another function, too: solidarity with Palestine. In a new episode of Kelly Hayes’ excellent podcast, Movement Memos, she hosted Morning Star Gali and Ashley Crystal Rojas of Indigenous Justice to discuss this action, solidarity between Native people in the US and Palestinians, dam removals to restore salmon’s life cycles, and harm reduction strategies. The thread between these communities is not only symbiotic and life-giving relationships with the land, but also the ways that colonialist superpowers create surveillance… Read More...