It was an honor being requested by immigration organizations to help their direct action to Wall Off Trump and his hate, racism and xenophobia during his acceptance of the Republican Presidential Nomination. Many people of color and others demonstrated against Donald Trump in downtown Cleveland during the 2016 convention. Most stayed away from the city…
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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…
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…
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…