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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By Remy The previous day’s historic 400,000-person People’s Climate March showed widespread support to continue shouting at buildings at the Flood Wall Street sit-in which was happening in conjunction with United Nations Climate Summit. This sit-in was advertised by billion-dollar environmental corporations like 350.org and AVAAZ as the follow-up opportunity to “confront” Wall Street in…
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…
By Jeff Haas The stucco wall on Santa Fe’s Old Pecos Trail is now embedded with papier-mâché images of Israeli soldiers terrorizing Palestinian women and children. This art was created by Navajo artist Remy. For the past six years, Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine (SFJP), of which I am a member, have been creating…