Any successful resistance should develop the local communities’ talents with the tools necessary for their movement goals. Unfortunately, most nonprofits use this lack of resources as an opportunity to provide their training which is rife with incremental change-based tactics. Providing a grassroots community with a toolbox to draw from rather than relying on a nonprofit…
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The People’s Climate March of 2014 was in New York City. The month prior to this massive convergence was a Training For Trainers event given by some of the top resistance artists in the country to the heads of all the NGOs and organizations that would be in attendance. Our training emphasized the importance of…
Duane “Chili” Yazzie was the Navajo Nation’s Shiprock Chapter President and had a stellar resume with his involvement in human rights, marriage equality and activism against extractive industries. In 2014, at the behest of the grassroots communities on the reservation, he campaigned to be Navajo Nation President. Chili is of former fame as a musician…