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December 1, 2024

U.S. Justice Department Complaint Filed in Homicide of Raymond Mattia by O'odham Voice Against the Wall

Raymond Mattia, Sr., Tohono O'odham, Photo courtesy Ophelia Rivas

U.S. Justice Department Complaint Filed for the Murder of Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, by U.S. Border Patrol and Tribal Police

Civil Rights Complaint filed by Ophelia Rivas, O'odham Voice Against the Wall, and Signees

Ophelia Rivas

4oodhamrights@gmail.com
November 28,2024
Press Release

In honor of all fallen Earth Warriors, Defenders of the Land, Water, Sky and Sacred Fire, from the original O'odham lands.

O'odham VOICE Against the WALL Honors, Raymond Mattia Sr.

A complaint has been filed on November 7, 2024 with the Civil Rights Section of the United States Department of Justice seeking justice for violation of Mr. Raymond Mattia Sr. civil and constitutional rights.

Ofelia Rivas: Food Delivery for O'odham and Reflections on Solidarity with Palestine

The Long Road Home

Ofelia Rivas: Food Delivery for O'odham and Reflections on Solidarity with Palestine

By Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham
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It was a wonderful day, visiting with people. We share old stories and everyday life stories. People on subsidy programs, fixed incomes and working families just working to pay bills every month. Nutritional food -- peaches, grapefruit, raisins, carrots, onions, potatoes, corn tortillas, and cheese was today’s pantry support.

Cultural desecration of burial places and holy places is Elbit Systems in O’odham lands. We live under surveillance and military presence along the US/MX border, United States homeland security.

Recent action by the Arizona prosecutor to call the killing of Raymond Mattia a justified ‘clean shot’ without justice for his children and family and community. All the innocent lives killed, raped, molested and imprisoned by the heavily armed military called the border patrol continues without justice.

The genocide of a culture in the Gaza Strip was promoted by war criminals; the United States government and international bodies, created and enacted to protect all life, must be held accountable by the people.

Solidarity for Palestine and all Life.

Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, is the longtime founder of O'odham Voice against the Wall, and has spent her life battling the US Border Patrol, and battling for human rights, on her homeland, the Tohono O'odham Nation. Ofelia's website is O'odham Rights https://www.oodhamrights.org/

April 30, 2018

Thank you for your support for food delivery by O'odham VOICE Against the Wall

Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, purchasing emergency food for O'odham on the border. Photo copyright Jeff Hendricks

O'odham Emergency Food Delivered on Border by O'odham VOICE Against the Wall

Photos and article by Ofelia Rivas
O'odham VOICE against the Wall
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French translation by Christine Prat

O'odham on the south side of the US/ Mexico international boundary are impacted by recent US Border Patrol restrictions at the San Miguel Gate, a traditional O'odham route.
Community members from Kom Wahia, Wo' osan and Kuwit Wahia are in need of immediate assistance.
O'odham VOICE Against the WALL made an immediate appeal for assistance to purchase food and delivered it to the families. Thank you for the $200. that was raised. The food was delivered on April 19, 2018.
This effort will continue until a sustainable solution is made. The three communities do not have electricity, Two communities have wells with available water, one community does not have a well and needs to haul water. The water hauling truck has broken down recently. The communities need supplies such as lamp oil and kerosene and propane. Also household supplies such as soap, bathroom tissue, other hygiene supplies, and matches and batteries are needed.

Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas.

Photo copyright Ofelia Rivas.

August 28, 2016

Solidarity Statement from O'odham Elders and Ceremony Leaders in Support of Standing Rock Water Defenders

Ofelia Rivas

To view statement, click on the pop-out in the top right corner, or use the bar scroll on right, and then scroll down.

No portion of this statement may be used without permission.

March 24, 2016

O'odham Human Rights Group Brings Distinguished Speakers to Tucson

Acoma Pueblo Poet, Professor and Author Simon Ortiz

is the speaker on March 26, 2016

Ofelia Rivas photo by Brenda Norrell

O'ODHAM HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP BRINGS

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS TO TUCSON

By O'odham VOICE Against the WALL

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French translation by Christine Prat at:
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=3254

Cat Mountain Lodge, 520-578-6085, contact@catmountainlodge.com
www.catmountainlodge.com

Ofelia Rivas www://solidarity-project.org/
Dan Todd langgore.dt@gmail.com

Date: February 27 to March 26, 2016

TUCSON -- O'odham VOICE Against the WALL announces a benefit bringing emerging and established poets, writers and scholars to Tucson at Cat Mountain Lodge, one of TripAdvisor's top ten Tucson bed and breakfasts, from February 27 to March 26.

Simon J. Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo, and Laura Tohe, 2015-2017 Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation, headline the Distinguished Speakers 2016 series. Other speakers include poet Ruben Cu:k Ba'ak and scholars Dr. Julian Kunnie from the University of Arizona and John Zerzan.

Ofelia Rivas, founder of O'odham VOICE Against the WALL, will also be speaking at all events. O'odham VOICE Against the WALL provides solidarity to the O'odham of Southwestern Arizona and Northern Sonora in efforts to maintain traditional culture and ancestral land in areas currently under illegal occupation by the United States and Mexico. Since 2003 it has advocated against a militarized border and for the rights guaranteed by inherent and domestic and international law, and documented abuses against the indigenous peoples on O'odham land.

Simon J. Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo, speaking on March 26, is one of the key figures in the second wave of what has been called the Native American Renaissance. He is one of the most respected and widely read Native American poets. The author and editor of 25 books, Ortiz is currently Regents Professor of English and American Indian Studies at Arizona State University.

The work of Laura Tohe, speaking March 19, has been published in the journals Ploughshares, New Letters, Red Ink, World Literature Today, and many others. She is an English professor at Arizona State University and her most recent publication is Code Talker Stories (2012), an oral history of the Navajo Code Talkers.

Ruben Cu:k Ba'ak, Tohono O'odham, speaking March 12, is a poet and prose writer and a recent ASU graduate in economics pertaining to the Tohono O'odham homeland.

Dr. Julian Kunnie, speaking March 5, is a professor of Religious, Latin American, Middle Eastern and North African studies at the University of Arizona He is the author of numerous articles in various internationally recognized journals and books. His most recent book is The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People (2015.)

John Zerzan, speaking Feb. 27, has been active in the anti-authoritarian movement from the '60s on and has articulated a critique of technology and civilization that illuminates their regressive quality. His most recent book is Why Hope? The Stand Against Civilization (2015.)

The Ramada at Cat Mountain Lodge is at 3030 Donald Avenue, north of Ajo Road and Western Way off the west side of Kinney Road.

A donation of $20 - $40 is requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All events begin at 6:30 pm, with featured speakers at 8 p.m.

January 27, 2016

O'odham Voice against the Wall Distinguished Speaker Series Feb/March 2016

O'odham Voice against the Wall features activist John Zerzan, professor and author Dr. Julian Kunnie, O'odham poet Ruben Cu:k Ba'ak, Navajo poet Laura Tohe, Acoma Pueblo poet, professor and author Simon Ortiz and O'odham human rights activist Ofelia Rivas

Feb. 27 -- March 26, 2016

Cat Mountain Lodge, Tucson, Arizona

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