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Episode 347 of The Red Nation Podcast

Sardana Nikolaeva (Sakha), Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Ziibiing Lab (@ziibiinglab), returns to the podcast to discuss her new study, “Indigenous Diamonds: Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia”

Read the report here
https://www.ziibiinglab.org/indigenous-diamonds

Check out her prior episode, “Indigenous People and the Soviet Union: a Sakha perspective”

Check out her prior episode, “Indigenous People and the Soviet Union: a Sakha perspective”
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Feb 23, 2020 – Palestine is an Indigenous struggle w/ Elena & Orien

Turtle Island is rising up! #ReconciliationisDead, #WetsuwetenStrong blockades, Tohono O’odham resist the border wall, settler elections, & Palestine! Red Nation comrades Orien LongKnife (@beshnez) & Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) join the conversation.

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Episode 346 of The Red Nation Podcast

TRN Podcast co-host Jen Marley is joined by Mekha Aponte, Levi Harter, Marquel Musgrave to discuss the status of children in our world today, breaking down power imbalances between youth and adults, and the joy of reclaiming revolutionary parenting.

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Episode cover art:  Jen’s great-grandmother and Pueblo potter, Candelaria Gachupin Zia,  with one of her sons.

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Episode 345 of The Red Nation Podcast

On February 10, 2024 at Nuwu Art Gallery on unceded Paiute territory (Las Vegas, NV), a group of Indigenous women organized a call to action to change the Kansas City NFL team’s name. This press conference occurred the night before the Super Bowl and was moderated by Fawn Douglas from Nuwu Art Gallery. The main speakers–Amanda Blackhorse (nomorenativemascots.org), Gaylene Crouser from the Kansas City Indian Center, and Rhonda LeValdo (notinourhonor.com)–are all longtime activists of the movement to change racist teams names across the US, resulting in many victories.

In July 2020, the Washington NFL team changed their name from the anti-Indigenous R-word slur to the Washington Football Team, and then the Washington Commanders in 2022. The success of this change can be attributed to the women on this panel and their movements. It was expected that the Kansas City team would follow suit, but it has yet to change its racist team name.

On February 7, 2024, Amanda Blackhorse posted this call to action:

The Kansas City “Chiefs” once again make it to the Super Bowl with their mockery of a name, logo, and complete misappropriation and disrespect for real and actual Native people, who have protested their franchise for years. Despite psychological research stating Native mascots and stereotypes of Native people (Friberg, Markus, Oyserman, & Stone 2008) harm native youth, the KC team continues to stonewall Native people and stand on the wrong side of history.

We know native cultural appropriation is a billion-dollar industry and the franchise has been living well off of the backs of Native people. With their growing popularity and the “swifting” of the NFL, we want to remind the public that not all franchises last forever. The Washington team and the Cleveland team had their success and downfall. What’s been consistent is Native people standing against the theft of their identities and culture. We call on all Indigenous people, tribes, tribal leaders, Native organizations, Native artists, singers, drummers, and allies to stand with us on February 11, 2024 outside Super Bowl LVIII to protest the KC franchise. We ask these organizations and tribes make public statements standing in solidarity with Native organizers, Not in Our Honor, Kansas City Indian Center, Nuwu Art, and AZ rally. Protest will be held at Allegiant Stadium.

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The Just Transition Alliance is hiring!

We’re looking for a half-time Policy Organizer (remote) and a half-time Administrative Assistant (San Diego)

If you’re interested, please email Nona Chai: nona@jtalliance.org.

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The Just Transition Alliance is hiring!

We’re looking for a half-time Policy Organizer (remote) and a half-time Administrative Assistant (San Diego)

If you’re interested, please email Nona Chai: nona@jtalliance.org.

Please help us spread the word

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A Love Letter to Black America during Black History Month

The Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) humbly acknowledges Black History Month for all of the sacrifice and struggle Black folks in America have endured since our unceremonious rending from our native land.

We further acknowledge the innumerable contributions made by Black people to the America we now call home – gifts born out of creativity, necessity, ingenuity and brilliance. We built America.

CCC admires you for your determination during the Civil Rights movement, which afforded long overdue rights not just to people of African descent, but for all people not participating fully in America.

We're also deeply grateful to our Black-led CCC member organizations, whose visionary work and essential contributions are paving the way towards stronger, more resilient communities. We urge everyone to learn more and support their work:

• Africa House

• Imagine Black 

• KairosPDX

• Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives

• Urban League of Portland

• Self Enhancement, Inc. 

As our own Black-led organization, CCC is dedicated to relentlessly addressing the injustices around Black folks and other people of color, concentrating our focus this year on building power for BIPOC voices through our 2024 legislative agenda and the upcoming elections. 

Again, thank you, Black America, for all that you have given us.

We love you. We appreciate you. We thank you, and we will try to honor and be worthy of all that you have done for us. It is enough.

Sincerely,

Marcus C. Mundy, CCC Executive Director

Salem in Session

Oregon leaders kicked off the 2024 legislative short session earlier this month. Our member-driven process has identified key priorities to support economic opportunity, invest in childcare access, strengthen immigrant protections, and more.

>>> Read which priorities CCC members endorsed here.

ICYMI: Save the Date for May 31st

Join us for the Summer Soirée, CCC’s annual fundraiser. More details to follow. Interested in becoming a Sponsor? Download our Sponsorship Packet here or contact CCC's Development Manager Lucero Valera Brambila at Lucero@coalitioncommunitiescolor.org with any questions.

Upcoming Events

• Wednesday, Feb. 21 │ Unite Oregon’s 2024 Lobby Day. Register here.

• Saturday, Feb. 24 and Sunday, Feb, 25 │ Junction Ave: Black-owned business market with food, shopping and music, hosted by Self Enhancement, Inc. at the Center for Self Enhancement (3920 N Kerby Ave., Portland) from 10:00 AM–5:00 PM.

• Wednesday, March 6 │Urban League of Portland’s Our Voices United Legislative Day of Action. Register here.

Feb 15, 2020 – #WetsuwetenStrong w/ Karla Tait

Dr. Karla Tait is a member of the Gilseyhu Clan of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and a trained psychologist who specializes in decolonizing healing. In this interview, she gives a historical and cultural context to the mass Indigenous uprising #WetsuwetenStrong that is rocking so-called Canada. She was arrested alongside other Indigenous matriarchs protecting Wet’suwet’en territory after police violently raided Unist’ot’en Camp this month.

Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood

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Our ED José Bravo is a force to be reckoned with–from participating in the drafting team for the Principles of Environmental Justice to helping to organize the shut down of dangerous waste incinerators in Tijuana, Kettleman City, and East LA and so much more.

To celebrate his steadfast service to Indigenous, people of color, and low income communities for over 27 years, would you please consider making a donation to the Just Transition Alliance for his birthday?  

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Episode 344 of The Red Nation Podcast

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TRN Podcast host Jen Marley talks with comrades Levi Harter and Maira Olivias-Rios about the colonial origins of “romance”, how “love” has been commodified, and the necessity of reclaiming love as a part of revolutionary praxis.

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Outside of Allegiant Stadium on unceded Paiute land, a coalition of Native-led organizations held a protest hours ahead of Super Bowl 58. The organizers also held a press conference the night before.

Over a dozen Native relatives chanted “Stop the Chop. Change the Name” on the intersection of Hacienda Ave and Polaris Ave in front of thousands of people entering the stadium. We held signs that read “your chop is synchronized racism” “shake it off. Stop the chop” “Kansas City playing Indian since 1963” and “Native-themed mascots cause harm to all children”.

Amanda Blackhorse, a longtime Diné organizer who brought the coalition of Native-led organizations together for this action, linked the connection of the erasure of Native people in the US through racist imagery, to the genocide happening in Gaza. Amanda Blackhorse stated, “This country doesn’t care about Indigenous people. Because if they did, they wouldn’t be committing genocide against Indigenous people in Palestine”

We thank Amanda Blackhorse for inviting The Red Nation to this action and organizing it. Follow the coalition of organizations for updates on changing racist Native imagery in sports: AZ to Rally Against Native Mascots (@aztorally), No More Native Mascots (nomorrnativemascots.org), Kansas City Indian Center (kcindiancenter.org), and Not In Our Honor (notinourhonor.com)

Special gratitude to Nuwu Art + Community Center(@nuwuare) for hosting the space.

To listen to the interviews gathered at Super Bowl 58 from the organizers and supporters of today’s action, listen to The Red Nation podcast and subscribe to our Patreon.

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For the past three years, I’ve been involved in a campaign to stop the Lithium Nevada Corporation from destroying a beautiful mountain pass in northern Nevada – known as Thacker Pass in English, or Peehee mu’huh in the local Numic (Paiute) language – to extract lithium from the land for electric car batteries. Thacker Pass is some of the best remaining greater sage grouse habitat left on Earth. Thacker Pass is home to pronghorn antelope, coyotes, sage brush, meadowlarks, rattlesnakes, pygmy rabbits, kangaroo rats, golden eagles, a rare snail known as the King’s River Pyrg that is threatened with extinction by the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, amongst many other creatures. Thacker Pass was also the site of two massacres of Paiute people including the September 12, 1865 massacre where federal soldiers massacred at least 31 men, women, and children in the Snake War which was fought over…wait for it…mining encroachments on Native land.

We lost the campaign. Mine construction proceeds full speed ahead and hundreds, if not thousands, of acres of Thacker Pass are being carved up right now by Lithium Nevada. Though we lost the campaign and the mine is being constructed, four Native folks and three settler allies (myself included) were sued by Lithium Nevada for “trespassing” on public land to protest the mine. We might end up owing Lithium Nevada – a corporation profiting from the destruction of threatened species’ habitat and the final resting places of massacred Paiutes – hundreds of thousands of dollars for our peaceful protest. The case against us is still in its early stages so we’ll probably be fighting that lawsuit for months, at least. All while the violation of Thacker Pass and all the creatures who live there only gets worse.

Tonight, I will watch the Super Bowl – and the inevitable deluge of electric vehicle commercials that corporations will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure are witnessed by millions if not billions of people worldwide. (Yes, I know the Super Bowl is not the biggest sporting event on Earth. Still, it is widely viewed in North America, Europe, and parts of Africa.) The electric vehicle commercials are infuriating, of course. But, truth be told, most commercials infuriate me because virtually every one of them are wickedly designed to manipulate both the conscious and unconscious parts of our mind to consume evermore stuff. And, what does consuming evermore stuff – whether it’s consuming evermore Coca-Cola, Coors Light, that new dog food brand that you refrigerate, or electric vehicles – do?

It destroys more of what’s left of the natural world. And, at a time when human population has overshot the Earth’s carrying capacity, literally anything you consume destroys the natural world in an unsustainable manner.

But, what will really infuriate me while watching the Super Bowl will be the echo of all the people who criticized those of us working to stop the Thacker Pass mine for owning automobiles (and using them to get to Thacker Pass to confront mining there), for owning computers (and using them to educate the world about what mining does), for owning cell phones (and using them to organize resistance to the mine.) I will be infuriated because these people seem to truly believe that the destruction of the planet can be stopped if the precious few of us who both 1. actually care about the destruction of the planet and 2. are willing to do more than just tell everyone how much we care about the destruction of the planet just give up our cars, computers, and phones. Meanwhile, the corporations who profit from destroying the natural world will gain access to the consciousness of billions of people with their commercials encouraging everyone that if they just spend a smooth $60,000 or $70,000 on a sleek new electric vehicle they can stop the destruction of the planet and appear very virtuous while they’re at it.

Unfortunately, manufacturing electric vehicles includes the same fossil-fuel intensive processes that manufacturing anything (including traditional vehicles) does. When you buy your groovy new Tesla, you need to see the destruction of places like Thacker Pass, the deaths of child laborers in mines in the Congo, the murder of golden eagles reflected in that polished gleam your car salesman is so good at achieving.

But you also need to understand that just like simply buying an electric vehicle isn’t going to save the planet, simply refraining from buying an electric vehicle isn’t going to save the planet, either. Why? Because the global economy is based on the destruction of the natural world. This is true whether we’re talking about destroying the natural world for electric vehicles, whether we’re talking about destroying the natural world for agriculture, or whether we’re talking about destroying the natural world with the pollution nearly 9 billion humans make just from eating, pooping, and sheltering themselves. (Yes, people in the so-called First World use many more resources than others, but per capita consumption by all humans is increasing).

Because nearly every human life today is only possible through the destruction of the natural world, we’re simply not going to convince enough people to ever make the sacrifices necessary to keep the world from ecological collapse. This is especially true when those most responsible for destroying the natural world can put their propaganda in every American living room through things like television commercials more or less constantly. And, please, if you think that a few of us “leading by example” or “being the change” by giving up tools like computers will ever be as persuasive as Super Bowl commercials, then please keep in mind that virtually every traditional culture that thrived with stone age technologies has been massacred, forcibly assimilated, or otherwise destroyed upon contact with the dominant industrial culture. Those 31 Paiutes murdered in Thacker Pass by federal soldiers for standing in the way of mines are just one of countless examples of that.

Am I saying “give up?” Hell, no. I’m saying that we have to think much bigger than personal responsibility, lifestyle changes, or consumption choices. We can’t pat ourselves on our backs for arguing with people who disagree with us online, for buying a “green” product, for writing passionate essays.

Which brings me to Taylor Swift. I played college football. And for the first 22 years of my life, playing the game of football was my favorite thing to do on Earth. So, yes, I have been watching the NFL this year and have followed the Travis Kelce – Taylor Swift story. I’ve watched as some conservatives – believing that God has mandated that they try to put in her place an uppity, successful woman who points out some forms of misogyny – lose their minds about Taylor Swift. I’ve watched as some environmentalists – believing Mother Earth has mandated that they put an individual woman who boards planes which burn fossil fuels – lose their minds about Taylor Swift. I’ve watched as some feminists – believing the Goddess has ordered them to protect a single billionaire because she’s a successful woman that some men have criticized – lose their minds about Taylor Swift. (Full Disclosure: I do not know Taylor Swift, but I have a partner who cheers my activism on like Taylor Swift cheers Travis Kelce on. And that means something to me.)

But, here’s the thing: I see far fewer of anyone losing their minds about the current mass extinction event we’re living through, far fewer of anyone losing their minds about the fact that we’ve lost over 70% of vertebrate species on Earth since 1970, far fewer of anyone losing their minds about the fact that we can’t convince anyone to do hardly anything to actually stop any of this.

We’re not going to convince most people to make the sacrifices necessary to make sure there’s a livable planet to watch the Super Bowl on, to complain about Taylor Swift on, to complain about those who complain about Taylor Swift on, to – you know – live on. The good news is we don’t need to convince most people. We just need to deprive most people of the tools they need to continue to destroy the Earth, our only home. Worried about misogyny and porn culture? You don’t have to convince internet servers to stop serving pornography if you smash them. Worried about climate change? You don’t have to convince oil refineries to stop refining if you break them. Worried about how mass media affects us? You don’t have to convince televisions to stop brainwashing people if you pull enough power lines down.

I know that’s scary to think about. I know it would be scary to do. But, isn’t the collapse of life on Earth scarier? Scarier, at least, than team mascots, football games, or Taylor Swift?

We are pleased to announce a collection of essays titled Power Lines: Building a Labor-Climate Justice Movement, co-edited by our dear friend Jeff Ordower and published just a few days ago by The New Press.

Shantell Bingham of Climate Justice Alliance says, “Power Lines presents critical case studies on advancing all communities towards a just transition. The book provides key insights directly from the frontlines on how we can organize our communities towards collective power, navigate tensions, and truly advance change. This book makes it more apparent the critical role that labor plays, and needs to play, in advancing a just transition.”

It features an interview with José Bravo describing the origins of the just transition movement.

Excerpt:

Just transition is not a cookie-cutter approach. It’s not one thing for everyone. But I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that if a just transition doesn’t have workers and there’s only communities at the table, then it’s not a just transition, and vice versa.  If it only has workers and the community’s not at the table, then it’s not a just transition. A just transition is literally a cradle-to-grave approach that removes the exploitation out of the whole process of production.

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Feb 10, 2020 – Venezuela & anti-imperialism w/ Onyesonwu

Onyesonwu joins us for a report-back from recent African and Indigenous delegations to Venezuela, and why the Bolivarian Revolution is leading at the forefront of the global anti-imperialist movement.

Onyesonwu is an organizer with the All African People’s Revolutionary Party and the All African Women’s Revolutionary Union as well as an editor with Hood Communist.

Read the Final Declaration of the World Conference Against Imperialism: http://hoodcommunist.org/2020/02/06/final-declaration-of-the-world-meeting-against-imperialism/

Read the Declaration of the First International Gathering of Indigenous Peoples: https://therednation.org/2020/01/11/declaration-of-the-first-international-gathering-of-indigenous-peoples-guayana-venezuela-oct-31-2019/ 

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Episode 343 of The Red Nation Podcast

February 6th is International Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier and All Political Prisoners. Today marks the 49th year of Leonard Peltier’s wrongful imprisonment. Free Palestine! Free Leonard Peltier!

01. [00:00] TRN-KREZ Morning Show

Feb 6 , 2024 – Good morning, Turtle Island

02. [01:15] 49

May 3, 2023 – President Biden: Free Leonard Peltier – Amnesty International USA

Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist, has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years in the USA for a crime he maintains he did not commit. There are serious and ongoing concerns about the fairness of his trial and conviction. Tribal Nations, Nobel Peace Laureates, former FBI agents, numerous others, and even the former U.S. Attorney, James Reynolds, whose office handled the prosecution, have called for Leonard Peltier’s release. Watch to learn more.

03. [04:14] Whistleblower

Jan 18, 2023 – Ex-FBI Agent breaks the silence on Leonard Peltier and COINTELPRO w/ Coleen Rowley X

The first FBI agent close to the Leonard Peltier case is calling for his freedom. Coleen Rowley recounts, in this wide-ranging and exclusive interview, her time as an agent in the Minneapolis field office. For nearly 50 years, the FBI has indoctrinated its agents on a specific version of events that led to Leonard Peltier’s arrest, conviction, and imprisonment. The mentality then, Rowley argues, is little different than the mentality today. That’s why she decided to break the silence and is calling on President Joe Biden to grant Leonard Peltier executive clemency.  

Rowley gives us an insider’s view of the FBI and how the dark and violent history of COINTELPRO, which targeted civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and social movements like the Black Panthers and AIM, didn’t end in 1971. It morphed and evolved over the years and continued well into the U.S. war on terror. Despite attempts at reform and accountability, the FBI continues its ongoing persecution of political prisoners like Leonard Peltier and the unarmed Water Protectors at Standing Rock.

04. [17:00] Don’t Believe Lies

Mar 28, 2022 – The importance of Leonard Peltier to Indigenous peoples

Co-hosts of Red Power Hour Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz on the meaning of Leonard Peltier to Indigenous peoples.

05. [32:02] Oglala

Jul 25, 2022 – Remembering the Reign of Terror at Oglala

It’s been 47 years since the shootout at Oglala that left two FBI agents and a young Native man named Joe Stuntz dead. While Leonard Peltier unjustly sits in prison for the events of that day, the shootout and the deadly legacy of the “reign of terror” remain an open wound for community members and the American Indian Movement. Here’s their story.

06. [38:07] Father

Sep 4, 2022 Leonard Peltier’s Walk to Justice

The American Indian Movement has organized “Leonard Peltier’s Walk to Justice” from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C., where organizers plan to meet with government officials to demand the release of Peltier from the U.S. federal prison system. This recording is taken from the kickoff event in Minneapolis held on August 31st.

07. [44:10] Walk to Justice

Nov 20, 2022 – “Your people are coming for you”: the Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice 2022

The Leonard Peltier Walk to Justice kicked off in Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 1st, 2022. Ten weeks and 1103 miles later it reached Washington, D.C., where a rally was held demanding the freedom of Leonard Peltier, unjustly imprisoned for over 47 years.

08. [01:01:58] 79

Sep 12, 2023 – ‘A stain of injustice’: Free Leonard Peltier White House rally

On September 12, hundreds gathered on Piscataway lands in front of the White House to demand executive clemency for Leonard Peltier, who celebrated his 79th birthday that day. A caravan of supporters, family, and loved ones departed after ceremony from Rapid City, South Dakota en route to Washington, D.C.– a 1,600 mile journey that arrived on Monday, September 11.

09. [01:06:38] We Are Victorious 

Nov 23, 2023 – National Day of Mourning 2023

An annual tradition since 1970, National Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly political day. Many of us fast from sundown the day before through the afternoon of that day (and have a social after NDOM so that participants in NDOM can break their fasts). We are mourning our ancestors and the genocide of our peoples and the theft of our lands. NDOM is a day when we mourn, but we also feel our strength in action and solidarity.

10. [01:18:55] Free All Political Prisoners

Feb 7, 2020 – Rise Up For Peltier Demonstration – Tiwa Territory

February 7, 2022, Albuquerque A.I.M. Grassroots, Indigenous Rights Center, and The Red Nation host the demonstration Rise Up For Peltier in downtown Albuquerque in front of the Pete V. Domenici United States Courthouse.

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Episode 342 of The Red Nation Podcast

Maryam Jamshidi (@MsJamshidi), a University of Colorado Boulder Law School professor, explores the meaning and political potential of the International Court of Justice ruling on the genocide in Gaza.

Check out her recent article, “Instruments of Dehuman­ization”

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Jan 31, 2021 – Public Land Is Stolen Land W/ Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Dina Gilio-Whitaker joins hosts Jen Marley and Nick Estes to discuss her book As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (2019) and what she foresees from Biden’s climate policies.

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Yesterday, I attended a Tribal Leaders Summit at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) with the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (RSIC). The event was hosted by UNR’s Office of Indigenous Relations, University Center of Economic Development, and the Nevada Indian Commission. The second half of the event was devoted to UNR faculty trying to sell the Tribes on Joe Biden’s designation of UNR as a “TechHub” with support for Nevada’s new lithium economy. Faculty proudly presented about all the jobs lithium mining and electric car battery manufacturing would bring to the region. Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo made an obligatory appearance and filled a full 10 minutes of the 30 minutes he was scheduled to speak for before peeling out to attend to more important matters.

As UNR faculty presented, I found myself getting angrier and angrier. My friend and colleague RSIC Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Michon Eben was too. I was afraid we were the only ones until Te-Moak Chairman Joseph Holley asked Dr. Mridul Guatam, UNR’s Vice President of Research and Innovation, about just how “clean” or “green” lithium mining really was. Dr. Guatam pretended not to know. And, then several of the Western Shoshone representatives proceeded to inform the UNR faculty about how mining has devastated Western Shoshone homelands. One Western Shoshone leader called her homelands a “hellscape.”

Because Dr. Guatam danced around the question about just how “clean” lithium mining is, I was allowed the microphone to explain how the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, by Lithium Nevada’s own numbers, will produce over 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, will burn over 12,000 gallons of diesel on-site daily, and requires sulfuric acid obtained from oil refineries. Noticing that UNR faculty were advocating for lithium mining while standing next to a prayer staff with eagle feathers, I explained that Lithium Nevada has been granted permits to kill golden eagles for the Thacker Pass mine. I also explained how racist it is that UNR faculty were so proud of the jobs created by lithium mining when the First Nations who have lived in the region from time immemorial, and who were ethnically cleansed from the land lithium mines are now destroying, have no right of consent over these mines, even when those mines destroy the most sacred places in the world to Native communities.

I have no idea whether the UNR faculty who presented yesterday actually believe the ideas they were spewing. I suspect they do. I suspect they’ve convinced themselves that more mining, more steel manufacturing, more plastic production, more pollution for electric vehicles is the only way to stop climate change. I suspect that they’ve further convinced themselves that Native peoples are backwards and selfish for not being willing to sacrifice what’s left of their homelands for another mining boom. I suspect that they resent organizations like Protect Thacker Pass that insist that its wrong to sacrifice greater sage grouse, sage brush steppe, Lahontan cutthroat trout, and golden eagles for products like electric vehicles that simply are not necessary for anyone’s survival.

Regardless, even if UNR faculty are just doing their job or presenting what their bosses tell them they must, this is no excuse for participating in ecocide and the destruction of Native culture. In effect, what UNR communicated to the tribes was: The lithium industry is going to mine. You can’t stop them. You have no right to say no. So, you might as well take a few jobs. You might as well take a little money from the corporations destroying your land and culture.

I want to make this personal: If this is you, if this is your job, if you’re making money helping the lithium industry destroy the Great Basin and destroy Native culture, you should quit. Right now.

I don’t know about y’all, but when someone comes to my home to destroy it, I don’t cooperate with them; I fight back. Let’s fight back together.

We're excited to announce that CCC’s Summer Soirée is returning on Friday, May 31st – you won't want to miss it. Join us this year for a night of community, entertainment, and wonderful surprises. Stay tuned for more details to come!

WHEN: May 31st, 2024

WHERE: Avenue event space

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The Oregon Legislature has just convened for its short session, and we are proud to announce that the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) has endorsed 10 legislative priorities for the year 2024. These priorities have been determined through a member-driven process and include measures to support economic opportunity, strengthen immigrant protections, and more. We invite you to continue reading to learn more about CCC's 2024 legislative agenda or our involvement in past sessions.

• CCC’s 2024 Legislative Agenda

• Learn more about our previous work with our 2023 Legislative Session Recap, and see our member endorsement process

Carryover Priority Legislation from 2023

• Fund the Employment-Related Daycare Program

• Child Care Facilities Fund (HB 4158)

• Fund Oregon Individual Development Account Initiative (HB 4131)

• Fund Universal Legal Representation

• Economic Equity Investment Act (HB 4041)

New Priority Legislation for 2024

• Healthcare Interpreter Reform (SB 1578)

• Expanding Voters' Pamphlet Translation (SB 1533)

• Establishing Immigrant and Refugee Student Success Plan (SB 1532)

• Family Financial Protection Act (SB 1595)

• CHIPS Child Care Bill (HB 4098)

CCC-Endorsed Items for 2024 Child Care

Fund the Employment Related Daycare (ERDC) Program:

Fund the Employment Related Daycare program to address the projected shortfall in program funding and end the waitlist to better help families who are working, in school, or receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families pay their child care costs. Take action with Child Care for Oregon. 

Child Care Facilities Fund (HB 4158):

Develop and improve child care by improving access to financial assistance for licensed home-based and small center child care providers. 

CHIPS Child Care Bill (HB 4098):

The Federal CHIPS Act provides Oregon CHIP manufacturers subsidies to build the infrastructure they need to grow this sector. Leveraging existing state child care systems will ensure CHIPS applicants meet application requirements.

Economic Justice

Fund the Oregon Individual Development Accounts Initiative (HB 4131):

Provides funds to support financial security and work towards a self-determined savings goal through this matched savings program. A total of $13.8 million in matching funds was distributed in the last two years, and nearly half of those funds went to BIPOC participants. 

Economic Equity Investment Act (HB 4041):

Allocates funding to the Economic Equity Investment Program created in 2022 that provides one-time grants to culturally-responsive community-based organizations with programs that build wealth for people experiencing economic risk factors. 

Family Financial Protection Act (SB 1595):

Strengthen protection for consumers who are sued by debt collectors and have wage or bank account garnishments or liens on their home. This bill would also make it easier for consumers to fight back against debt collectors and debt buyers who try to collect from the wrong people.

Health Care

Healthcare Interpreter Reform (SB 1578):

Helps create a path toward fairer compensation for healthcare interpreters and increase access by creating a public online scheduling portal with billing and payment services for Medicaid healthcare interpreters in Oregon.

Democracy

Expanding Voters' Pamphlet Translation (SB 1533):

Increase the number of languages for the Voters’ Pamphlet from top 5 most spoken languages to top 10 statewide and increase the threshold for individual counties to include any language that has 100+ speakers to 300+.

Immigrant and Refugee Support

Establishing Immigrant and Refugee Student Success Plan (SB 1532):

Directs the Oregon Department of Education to develop an advisory committee to inform the development and implementation of a plan to support the success of immigrant and refugee students.

Fund Universal Legal Representation:

Continue funding to provide no-cost immigration legal services to Oregonians through a statewide collaborative of community based organizations, nonprofits and attorneys.