on the nukes

there was great news coming from the united nations the other day, but like the goldstone report, unless there’s teeth to back it up it will fall by the wayside. it seems that finally the united nations is not going to treat the zionist entity with kid gloves any more when it comes to their [...]

resuscitating language

one way palestinians and indigenous americans are alike is the long history of political imprisonment. it’s yet another means of separating people and destroying resistance recently leonard peltier was denied parole yet again. last week his attorney, eric seitz, wrote about it for the san francisco bay view news while going over some details of [...]

groundhog day in palestine

it has been difficult for me to keep up with news and such since i’ve been in amrika. between taking care of my grandma and packing more stuff of my own to ship and running around getting stuff for friends i have been really wiped out. i love spending time with my grandma, but it [...]

indigenous solidarity

i spent the weekend with most of the students in my indigenous american class from ibdaa cultural center in deheishe refugee camp, which i have been teaching here to give the youth more of a background on american colonialism and occupation of native land before a group of american indians come on a solidarity visit [...]

prisons within prisons within prisons within prisons within prisons

holding an american passport, having the privilege of white skin, and living in palestine means that one needs to be conscious of these privileges and also use them strategically to support palestinians. the summer camp last week was one example of using my white privilege to help palestinian refugees learn about their villages and use [...]

zionist narratives of palestinian land

navigating palestine can be a difficult task given that the land has been so judaized so that villages are covered up with forests and colonies and the names altered so as to cover up the crimes committed by zionists over the years. one of the people who has eased this process is salman abu sitta [...]

destroying the indigenous at home and abroad

there is a new petition to sign for leonard peltier one of the oldest american indian political prisoners in the united states. here is the text of the petition as well as the link to sign it:
Convicted in connection with the deaths on June 26, 1975, of Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, agents of the [...]

on refugees & idps

today is world refugee day. there are 42 million refugees world-wide. there are also 7.6 million palestinian refugees, who are not included in the numbers that the united nations high commission for refugees (unhcr) uses because palestinian refugees fall under the united nations relief and works agency (unrwa) which means something different in terms of [...]

500 years later and the north amrikan land theft continues…(UPDATED)

intercontinental cry published this urgent action the other day about the miwok tribe in california that is being forced off of their land:
We need immediate assistance, this is the outcome from Troy Burdick’s (Superintendent at the Central California Agency/BIA, located in Sacramento Calif.) continued efforts to illegally interfere into our Tribal Governmental Affairs (and the [...]

“the genocide of the fta”

milagros salazar published an important report in ips with eyewitness accounts of the survivors of the massacre against indigenous awajun and wambis indians in peru:
Sobbing, an indigenous woman dressed in black cries out as she sees us arrive: “My son, my son, they have killed my son!” She is Andrea Rocca, the mother of Felipe [...]