Corporate interests hijack the agenda at #COP27 “a breeding ground for false solution.” We have to stop neoliberal schemes like pollution trading at policy arenas like the UNFCCC.
Big Wind is a Two Spirit member of the Northern Arapaho tribe from the Wind River Reservation. They've worked on No DAPL, @ResistLine3, and is the Organizing & Communications Associate for the Indigenous Land Alliance of Wyoming.
Join @AKABigWind at The People's Summit in ☀️ LA.
for those to whom I no longer text back it's probably because of one of these reasons:
1 U don't make me feel in a creative/safe place or that I can be myself
2 U took advantage of me more then three times without trying to fix it
3 U did less than 1 or 2 but we aren’t friends
@GovTimWalz You didn’t value the trans youth who fought diligently against the pipeline you rammed through Northern Minnesota. Instead you victim blamed us asking “how dare we question your humanity”
So, there are 43 locations in Wyoming with the word “sq***” in it. Being a radio reporter who has had this word lobbed at me, I want to do a piece about renaming these places but don’t want to condone saying it. Any Indigenous reporters have advice on doing this story?
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@honeyfrybread Two Spirit is an Ojibwe word that was translated into English and that history needs to be acknowledged as well. The term "Two-Spirit" originated in Winnipeg, Canada in 1990 during the third annual intertribal Native American/First Nations gay and lesbian conference.
@cameron_kasky it’s still the same old boys club, just a little more refined, a little more covert, He’s Trump lite if you will. Trump approach includes garrulous rants, racism, sexism, embedded in their speeches and actions. Biden preaches equality and respect yet his policies show otherwise.
As Steven endures his 5th day detained in a halfway house after 2 yrs of house arrest, remember why this is happening. He helped Indigenous peoples Chevron poisoned win a historic $9.5 billion verdict.
Steven in 2003 with Huaorani women on 1st day of trial.
- #FreeDonziger Team
the same people who are on their soap box on twitter preaching how people who “use tradition to justify killing animals are primitive” are the same ones ignoring the mutual aid and the awareness spreading of water protectors and land defenders fighting to save the environment.
A reminder that with the help of Target and the Minneapolis Police Department, Minneapolis geo-restricts Black people and houseless people from downtown which is supported by the Downtown Improvement District.