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“California’s Forage Wars - In Mendocino County, these ‘guerilla gatherers’ risk fines and jail time to keep food culture alive”: Here’s an article on abalone, foraging, Indigenous rights, and local foods in the Klamath Mountains region and coastal northern California. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, in 2014, banned abalone gathering before 8:00 AM. Then, due to non-Native poaching and over-harvest, California closed abalone gathering entirely from 2018 until 2021, preventing Indigenous peoples’ access to culturally important foods. Here are some excerpts. This article was written by Debra Utacia Krol, with photos by Rian Dundon, and published in September 2019.

For millennia, Pomo, Coast Yuki, Sinkyone, Yurok and other Northern California tribes have sustainably harvested mollusks, surf fish, seaweed, shells and medicines in the summer, as well as acorns and other inland foods, Renick says. She explains that each summer, after her Pomo band gathered their first harvest, neighboring tribes, and even tribes as far away as Pit River – on the east side of the Sacramento Valley – were invited to harvest. “When they were done, we sent runners [to] Pit River and invited them to gather,” says Renick. […]

Hillary Renick hikes down scree and rocks worn smooth by waves to reach the sandy beach below. The morning fog has receded, but the sky is still gray along the Mendocino County coastline as Renick scrambles up, down, and around Pomo village and nearby sites, where her people harvest traditional foods and collect materials for regalia, such as shells. “The rocky inlets are where the abalone hang out,” says Renick.  

Renick, a citizen of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, and her group of self-described “guerilla gatherers,” are scouting Glass Beach in Fort Bragg for abalone, seaweed and shells they use for food, regalia and ceremonies. “We like to say we’re badass Indian women gathering under cover of darkness, crawling under fences, over rocks, around no trespassing signs, and through the mud to provide for funerals, feasts and celebrations,” Renick says—although men are also part of the group. […]

To Indigenous peoples living in the food deserts of Northern California, sea palm, tono – the Pomo word for some of the more common seaweed along the coast – and other such greens of the ocean don’t just hold cultural significance, they’re an important source of nutrition.

While the food cooks, the conversation turns to more mundane concerns, and even some gossip. “It’s pretty easy now with technology to figure out when the tide is right,” says Shawn Padi, from the nearby Hopland Pomo community, as he looks out over the waves. “A hundred years ago, you’d have to read the moon and leave the valley three days ahead of time to walk over here and hit the big tides.”

Talk soon turns to more serious topics. Gensaw and Renick discuss how the Yuroks can bring abalone back to their own diets, and of course, the law, and why the guerrilla gatherers need to defy it.

Renick says when it comes to prohibitive state regulations, the solution is simple: “Change the laws.”

[Source: Debra Utacia Krol, Roads and Kingdoms, 17 Septmeber 2019.]

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Not enough people know the Mormons believe Native Americans are Jewish people who turned away from God and got cursed by having their skin darkened, or that Mormons literally have Manifest Destiny right there in the text, no extrapolation. I'm not Native at all, but frankly, it's one of the most disgusting things of that faith that caused me to utterly reject it. It is a vile religion that is white supremacist to its very core.

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Also a ton of GWB’s atrocities have been written off as “Come on, guys he wasn’t really in charge. He’s a puppet and it’s the guys behind the scenes doing all the bad stuff.” And I don’t what to tell you but that’s literally every single president and Trump is no better so are y’all just going to excuse him and everything he’s done in about 15 years simply because he’s “wasn’t really in charge.” 

And yeah if it gets to a point where we have something like President Richard Spencer in 2044 y’all are going to be like “Don’t be mean to old Mr. Trump, he wasn’t so bad - remember he just tweeted a lot, it was really all the people behind the scenes doing the awful stuff, blah blah blah.” 

Like I guarantee you there’s an entire fucking region of this planet who doesn’t think GWB is a nice old man who did nothing wrong really.  

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David Stenbeck.

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safe return / avatar the last airbender

another summer comes and goes ☽ ☾

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Uruk, Iraq 

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The communication blackout — with landlines, cellphones and internet all down — means that people within Kashmir can’t call one another or speak to friends and relatives outside the region, relying only on limited cable TV and local radio reports.

In a nationally broadcast address Thursday night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government made the move to free the region of “terrorism and separatism.” He added that the situation will soon “return to normal gradually,” although he gave no specifics.

At the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar, doctors told The Associated Press on Thursday that at least 50 people had come in with wounds from pellet guns and rubber bullets, the ammunition security forces often use to disperse protests.

Razir Mir, 32, described hearing a loud bang on Monday and opening his front door to find his wife, Rabiya, “face down on the street. Blood was pouring from her eyes,” he said.

Rabiya, who was left with blurred vision, said that after hearing the government’s announcement that Kashmir’s special status had been stripped, she thought to buy vegetables, anticipating a long curfew period in Srinagar.

“The moment I came out from my house, the soldiers out there shot at my direction,” she said, as the couple’s 2-year-old cried.

Rubeena Mehraj from central Kashmir was convalescing at the hospital after giving birth.

“When I called for an ambulance, I started traveling to Srinagar because I was expecting, but the ambulance was stopped at so many (checkpoints) along the route that I gave birth inside the vehicle,” Mehraj said.

Outside the busy hospital, people struggled to communicate with family and neighbors.

A woman peering out of a window asked a group of reporters if they could find out about a sick person from a family living nearby. “We’ve no contact,” the middle-aged woman said before she could give her name as soldiers ordered journalists to move on.

No news was coming from elsewhere in the tense region.

Police and paramilitary officials enforcing the restrictions said they were clueless about how long the curfew would continue. “We know only about what’s going on in the street we’re deployed. We don’t know how it is in the next street,” said a police official in Srinagar’s city center who could not be named in accordance with standard practice.

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This has been bothering me like all day but the fact that a white trans ppl can be told that it's weird they don't seem to engage with black or brown people, and they admit to it lowkey then like its business as usual is just so irksome. Like so many use us as talking/sj brownie points, but outside of that don't really talk to or subconsciously avoid interacting with any of us unless it's for social gain

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LMFAO EVEN TRYING TO SPLIT KASHMIR AND MAKE IT A UNION TERRITORY

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So all Kashmiri political leaders have been put under house arrest, around 10000 soldiers deployed + 25000 about to be deployed, Tourists, foreigners, non-Kashmiri students, and Pilgrims to Amarnath are all told to leave Kashmir, while all schools and public institutions are shut down with a curfew enforced and Internet, mobile and landline telephones, and tv services are all shut down. You tell me what the fuck this looks like

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Hey if you’re Romani or you know anyone Romani in Italy, get yourself and whoever you know out as fast as possible. Italy is preparing to commit mass genocide.

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Google maps isn’t even bothering to cushion it.

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Literally deplatformed

July 14 2019 - A woman deplatforms famous Brazilian Catholic priest Marcelo Rossi, who has called homosexuality a disease. [video]

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