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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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…
Ya’at’eeh shí ke doo shí Diné, Greetings. My name is Remy. I am an Indigenous artist from Black Mesa on the Navajo Reservation. Right before Christmas I will be releasing an installation in Santa Fe that is rooted in shared colonial history with our relatives in Palestine. My previous solidarity work here was taken down…
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