Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 22, 2025

Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice June 23 -- 28, 2025


Women and gender-diverse leaders worldwide are organizing at the virtual WECAN Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond! Join me to hear from 125+ frontline leaders & global advocates from 50+ countries who will convene for climate action. All are welcome to this powerful 6-day virtual gathering! Register now!
June 23-28, 2025
1:00 - 6:00 PM Eastern Time (ET)
Virtual – Free & Open to All!
Don’t miss this powerful convening—RSVP now: https://tinyurl.com/CJ-2025
Learn more: https://www.wecaninternational.org/womens-assembly

Watch today's session on YouTube, June 23, 2025


The Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International is organizing the virtual Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond. The global convening will address solutions for the protection and defense of human rights and nature at this critical time. This event is a free, public forum to take place virtually from June 23 - 28, 2025, daily from 1:00 - 6:00pm ET. 

The Global Women’s Assembly will bring together grassroots and frontline women leaders in all of their diversity, global advocates, thought leaders, and policy-makers to showcase a diverse array of visions, projects, policy frameworks, campaigns, and movement strategies with which we can accelerate a bold and transformative path to a healthy and just world. This collective work is paramount as we face a growing polycrisis. The challenges are ever-increasing, but so are our power, hearts, and leadership when we gather together.

The virtual Assembly also serves as a convening to support collective calls to action in the lead-up to COP30 and beyond, and is designed to generate ongoing networks of action regionally and by campaign focus for the years to come. We will tie these networks into existing women's and feminist formations as our collective movement for women’s climate leadership is growing. Everyone is welcome!

WECAN established our first Global Summit in 2013, where we organized a gathering of 100 global women and gender-diverse leaders from the Global South and Global North, including former Heads of State, Indigenous leaders, scientists, grassroots and frontline leaders, renewable energy experts, and policymakers. Since the first WECAN convening, we have conducted seven global assemblies, including in France, Morocco, Brazil, the United States, and Germany.  Please be welcome to learn more about the crucial role of women at the center of climate solutions here


https://www.wecaninternational.org/womens-assembly

June 21, 2025

Mohawk Nation News 'Hat In Hand and Racist Epithets'


New today at Mohawk Nation News
 

Dine' John Redhouse's new book: A rare history of bordertown racism

 

Photo The Red Nation 2016

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 20, 2025

John Redhouse's new book documents the horrific tragedies, and racism in the bordertown of Farmington, and it gives a detailed history of the resistance movement in the 1970s.

During the march against the Gallup Ceremonial, John writes, "NIYC Executive Director Gerald Wilkinson (Cherokee) spoke for all when he said, “We were not meant to be tourist attractions for the master race.”

It is rare history, seldom written or told, as in the days following the murder of Larry Casuse in Gallup. John writes, "On the other side, there were some poorly disguised agent provocateurs—posing as instant Indian revolutionaries—who tried to recruit us to 'avenge' the death of Larry Casuse. Although it had a certain appeal, we had never seen any of them before and we didn’t trust them. It was obviously a COINTELPRO styled setup and we weren’t going to play into their hands." 

And John shares the rich history of the KIVA Club at UNM in Albuquerque. "On a nomination from Zuni Pueblo-Navajo student activist Marley Shebala, I got elected to the Kiva Club Council (also known as Kiva Klub Kouncil or KKK) and began using the Native American Studies Center and its significant resources as a base for continuing my activist work."

Alongside John were so many who have passed to the Spirit World, like the soft-spoken Larry Emerson of Shiprock.

The Red Nation is launching a tour for the book in July.

Red Media is excited to announce our newest publication, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by John Redhouse. The book hits the shelves on July 1, 2025.

Red Media Press and Common Notions announce our second co-publication! Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s is a one-of-a-kind lyrical and fast-paced memoir of the frontlines and trenches of Native liberation in the Four Corners and Southwest during the 1970s.

“With extraordinary detail, precision, and humor, Redhouse testifies to the will and spirit of a movement at a pivotal time when there was no ‘I can’t,’ only ‘we must.’ Bordertown Clashes offers a roadmap for contemporary Red Power activists who must confront the present tense of struggle with the fortitude and versatility of their predecessors.”
– The Red Nation

July 1-5, 2025
Book Launch and Tour with author John Redhouse:

Join Red Media with author John Redhouse in person or online

July 1, 2025 – Pyramid Lake, Nevada
Book talk and livestream at the Pyramid Lake Tribe Museum

July 3, 2025 – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Book talk and livestream at Books on the Bosque bookstore

July 4, 2025 – Farmington, New Mexico
Book talk and livestream at Inspired Moments Event Center

July 5, 2025 – Gallup, New Mexico
Book sale and author meet & greet at the Gallup Flea Market

The Red Nation Podcast is proud to provide live-streaming for the book launch tour.

Find links to the book, livestream, and event pages on the Red Media website:
https://www.redmedia.press/events/


Pre-order, ships in July


June 19, 2025

Apache Stronghold to file a petition with U.S. Supreme Court to protect Oak Flat on June 23, 2025




Breaking: Apache Stronghold will file a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday June 23rd to Protect Oak Flat

Apache Stronghold vows to continue fighting to save sacred site from destruction


By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, June 19, 2025

WASHINGTON -- On June 23, the Apache Stronghold will be filing a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to reconsider its refusal to hear our appeal. As you heard, two Justices voted to hear our case, calling it "vitally important," and criticizing the Ninth Circuit's ruling against us as "highly doubtful as a matter of law." 

In addition, any day now, the Supreme Court will issue its ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which is another case about government-imposed burdens on religious exercise. We think the Supreme Court's decision in Mahmoud will add further support to our case.