by Eyder Peralta Volunteers with Mijente, a national “Latinx and Chicanx” organizing group, paint a “wall” ahead of Wednesday’s “Wall Off Trump” protest. Mijente worked with several other organizations to orchestrate the protest, including the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, Ruckus Society and Other98. They were gathered in a warehouse just outside downtown Cleveland.…
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President Obama recently opened 43 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling at a lease sale in New Orleans. As an Indigenous Movement Artist, I was given the opportunity to work with directly impacted People of Color from the Gulf in the lead-up to an oil and gas auction. This particular target…
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By Kelly Hayes Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. While the world watched the Olympics, and reporters echoed Donald Trump’s latest absurdities, Black and Indigenous freedom fighters were holding space in revolutionary ways,…