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Monthly Archives: November 2017
Standing Rock: Sophia Wilansky suing the FBI to get the shrapnel that used to be in her arm
Sophia Wilansky, the college student who became the most seriously injured person in the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict at Standing Rock, is now speaking publicly. The FBI is still investigating her, and she is suing them to get the shrapnel … Continue reading
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Tagged #DAPL, #noDAPL, #standwithStandingRock, Dakota Access, militarized, pipeline, SRST, Standing Rock, wilansky
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Alcohol, suicide, and resistance at Pine Ridge featured in new videos
Following the struggles of Lakota teenager George Dull Knife for four years, a new documentary examines recent protests of American Indian Movement (AIM) activists to shut down the four bars in Whiteclay, Nebraska. This town of fourteen people existed solely to sell … Continue reading
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Tagged aim, alcohol, america reframed, american indian movement, beer, Dull Knife, indian, lakota, liquid genocide, on a knife edge, pbs, Pine ridge, reservation, suicide, the guardian, whiteclay
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New poll on how Native Americans experience discrimination
No real surprises here– it’s worse around reservations and Native-majority areas. “More than half of Native Americans living on tribal lands or other majority-Native areas say they have experienced racial or ethnic discrimination when interacting with police (55 percent) and … Continue reading
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Tagged discrimination, experiences, native american, npr, poll, survey
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United States interventions in foreign countries, Hiroshima to the present
Since the 1950s, the US has maintained a near-constant presence in many nations’ political affairs, funding conservative parties and working to sabotage progressive movements, workers’ unions, and liberal parties, all in the name of fighting “communism”. This (incomplete) list is … Continue reading
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Tagged afghanistan, angola, assassination, attacks, Bolivia, bombing, cambodia, CIA, coup, cuba, Dominican republic, guatemala, haiti, honduras, indonesia, intervention, iraq, kuwait, laos, military, somalia, us military, vietnam, zaire
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The Electoral College: White lives matter
In the wake of Trump’s election, in which he lost the popular vote by nearly three million, much has been said about the use of the Electoral College. Only four times in US history has the winner of the electoral … Continue reading
Posted in my own thoughts, news
Tagged #electoralcollege, 2016, clinton, compromise, election, electoral college, electors, ethnicity, popular vote, race, slavery, trump
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