By Benay Blend January 27, 2020, was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the end of a traumatic era that should have turned “Never Again” into a commitment to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) for all people. Quoted above, Navajo artist Remy explains why this is…
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To the racists who tried to destroy the images of Indigenous struggle while occupying stolen Tewa Land: Here’s why you can’t exterminate us, colonizer. We’re not huddled in one place, we span the world. We need no lords or leaders, so you can’t destroy our command. We can live without technology, so we can fight…
By Ellie Duke SANTA FE, New Mexico — About five years ago, a set of posters appeared on an adobe wall on the corner of Old Pecos Trail and Camino Lejo — an intersection that sits at the gateway to Santa Fe’s famed Museum Hill and is situated on one of the city’s main arteries.…
By Robert Nott A Navajo artist who claimed he produced the pro-Palestinian graffiti that appeared Sunday on an east-side wall said his intention was to create a comparison between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the plight of Native Americans during periods of colonialism and conquest. The artist, who identified himself only as “Remy,” said in an…