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Gardner, MA All Are Neighbors

This is Minna from our North Central MA chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. I am reaching out to our contacts who live in Gardner to support an urgent action to bolster safety and support for our immigrant friends and neighbors in this incredibly terrifying time. Recent incidents involving anti-immigrant rhetoric and vigilante actions in various parts of the country and even in Gardner…

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Mysterious Taiwan

originally published on Henoko Nonviolent Action please read full article here. excerpts: Taitung is a place where people who are fed up with city life move to or come for a short trip. Also, Taitung is a place where aborigines (not called “natives” because the word “aborigine” does not already have a meaning) come to live. The reason for this is that the word “aborigines” means people who are…

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GREATER GARDNER COMMUNITY STANDS WITH NEW ARRIVALS

As Warsan Shire writes in her poem Home, “no one leaves home, unless home is the mouth ofa shark���. In recent days, displaced people have found refuge here in our greater Gardnercommunity. These families have been through so much before having to make the impossiblechoice to leave their homes in search of safety and peace somewhere else.As children we are taught to share, to care for one another –…

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:: Haiti  x healing

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Aloha Ainā

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Unbarred Rhymes Documentary

http://vimeo.com/89954691

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Abenaki Perspective - Hannah Duston

Abenaki Perspective – Hannah Duston

Brian Chenevert

The Abenaki People, the People of the Dawn Land, refer to ourselves as Alnôbak, Human Beings. We are the original inhabitants of what is now known as the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, parts of Western Maine, parts of Northern Massachusetts and parts of Southern Quebec. This area is known to the Abenaki as N’dakinna, meaning Our Land. We have called this area home since time…

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Remembering the names and faces of the 9 victims in the Charleston, South Carolina shooting on June 17, 2015. Illustrations by AJ+ Creative Producer, Dolly Li. 

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Sioux Fundraiser Sioux San Fundraiser link

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BLACK LIVES MATTER ELECTION UPDATE

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Open Letter to the Killingly CT Board of Education

My Open Letter to the Killingly CT. Board of Education:

Greetings to the Killingly Board of Education.

My Name is Larry Spotted Crow Mann.

I am a writer and Culture Keeper of the Nipmuc Tribe.

Much of my work over the last 20 years has to do with helping Native American youth reclaim their identity. Some of the most successful ways, I find, is connecting youth to their culture, history by…

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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Verse: 1885–1918. 1922.

The Law of the Jungle

NOW this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.

As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back— For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Wash daily…

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Monday Movies

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Today’s documentary is in honor of the living descendants and survivors of great leaders and teachers like Sitting Bull and Big Foot and Crazy Horse.

Their memory and spirit are very much alive.

This weekend the Dakota 38+2 Memorial Riders sagely reaches their destination gaining plenty of news coverage along the way. They ride…

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The Seen and the Unseen

The Seen and the Unseen

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The Seen and the Unseen: Spirituality among the Dagara people

I grew up in southwestern Burkina Faso, where the houses are built with mud and nicely polished with cow dung and ash. The children have their own rooms; the women have their rooms; and the men have their room. It is not to promote gender differences or sexism but is a way for men, women, and children to be able…