Navajo Council to finalize hardship aid criteria before program opens to Navajos

"With the enactment of the CARES Fund Hardship Assistance Expenditure Plan, the Navajo people will receive additional assistance..."

The 24TH NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL Office of the Speaker

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 2020 Hardship Assistance program approved, Council to finalize  criteria and application before Controller opens program to the public WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Nearly $50 million was added to the Navajo Nation CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stimulus) Act Hardship Assistance Expenditure Plan through Navajo Nation Council Resolution No. CS-74-20. The Navajo Nation Council is planning to consider and then approve an application process this week, thereafter giving the Office of the Controller all necessary approvals to implement the hardship assistance program.

Zapatistas: Part Six: A Mountain on the High Seas

Part Six: A Mountain on the High Seas
Oct. 7, 2020

Communique from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee
General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation

MEXICO
October 5, 2020

Translations in Portuguese, German, Italian, French, Greek, and Spanish original

To the National Indigenous Congress—Indigenous Governing Council:
To the Sixth in Mexico and abroad:
To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion:
To all honest people who resist in every corner of the planet:

Sisters, brothers, hermanoas:
Compañeras, compañeros and compañeroas:

We Zapatista originary peoples of Mayan roots send you greetings and want to share with you our collective thought about what we have seen, heard, and felt.

First: We see and hear a socially sick world, fragmented into millions of people estranged from each other, doubled down in their efforts for individual survival but united under the oppression of a system that will do anything to satisfy its thirst for profit, even when its path is in direct contradiction to the existence of planet Earth.

Tewa Women Lead Occupation and Lockdown of Santa Fe Racist Obelisk in Plaza

By Brenda Norrell 

Censored News

The racist obelisk in Santa Fe Plaza was torn down on Monday, on the third and final day of the occupation and lockdown led by Tewa women. Pueblos demanded that the Mayor of Santa Fe keep his promise to remove the obelisk, a clear symbol of oppression and a glorification of the brutal murderous conquistadors who seized the land of Pueblos for the City of Santa Fe and the State of New Mexico.

'Obelisk Down!' Poem by Simon Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo

By SIMON J. ORTIZ
Censored News

Wow!
Just like that.
With ropes.
Pulled by human hands?
Yeah, I believe it.
I've stood by it. And I can imagine it.
Hand on rope. Pulling. Pulling hard.
Obelisk on a concrete form. Or stone form.
Ropes tough. Hands tough. Numbers of people.
An obelisk of conquest. Spanish first. Americans second.
Power of foreigners. Is not enough. People at present.
Santa Fe residents. A mixture of Americans.
Indigenous. Anglos. Anglos? White people is what's meant.
Indigenous peoples. Locals and from other parts of the Americas.
Pull the ropes harder. Heavy shit. Obelisk and cement and stone.
Pullllll. Yeah, we can do it!
You can do it.
Conquest pulled down.
Take it to the city dump.
Dump it.
Or just leave it and Earth will reclaim it.
You can do it.

Oct 12/20
Indigenous Day 2020
Simon J. Ortiz
Not to be republished/reprinted without permission
Copyright Simon J. Ortiz

The racist obelisk on Santa Fe Plaza was torn down today. Thank you Acoma Pueblo poet and author Simon Ortiz for allowing Censored News to publish your poem.