North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival Celebrates the Women of Standing Rock

Opening night of Human Rights Film Festival Celebrates the Women of Standing Rock

November 2 -- 18, 2021



Filmmaker Shannon Kring and rights activist Phyllis Youg will participate in Q&A following the film

FARGO, North Dakota (Friday, October 29, 2021) – The 2021 North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival & Summit opens Tuesday, November 2 with afternoon and evening film screenings at the historic Fargo Theatre in Fargo, North Dakota. The event is free and to the public. Due to the ongoing pandemic, limited seating is provided for in-person events, and masks and vaccination requirements are in place. Tickets can be reserved at www.ndhrff.org.

At 1:30 p.m., 1971 critically acclaimed feature documentary THE MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON will screen. The film is about the short life and death of Fred Hampton, a young African-American civil rights activist in Chicago and leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party. During the film’s production, Hampton was fatally shot on December 4, 1969, in a pre-dawn raid at his apartment by the Chicago Police Department. The raid was revealed to have been organized in cooperation with the FBI. The film is screened in partnership with the North Dakota Film Society.

At 7 p.m., the festival will recognize the 5-year anniversary of the peaceful protest against the installation of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock with the screening of the documentary feature film, END OF THE LINE: THE WOMEN OF STANDING ROCK.

WECAN Delegation COP 26 -- Rising for Communities and Mother Earth

WECAN Indigenous Women's COP 26 Delegation Glasgow

Dear Community,

The past months have brought strong winds of social unrest, spreading among many countries and continents. People are rising demanding systemic change in diverse movements, and WECAN feels the urgency of this moment from social movements to climate actions. In the coming week, the WECAN team is traveling with our outstanding delegation to COP26 in Glasgow to join civil society calls for governments and financial institutions to take meaningful and significant climate action.

Ohlone Leader Corrina Gould Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Sacred Land News - October 2021

Lifetime Award to Corrina Gould

By Sacred Land Film Project

Censored News

Ohlone leader Corrina Gould will receive the Heyday Books Lifetime Achievement Award this evening.  Heyday asked us to produce a short film about Corrina's life—the Shellmound walks she led in the 1990s, the 109-day occupation of the Ohlone village and sacred site at Sogorea Te in 2011, and the ongoing struggle to protect the West Berkeley Shellmound.

The Sacred Land Film Project produced a 13-minute film about Corrina's life work, which will be the heart of tonight's celebration. You can catch it on Heyday's YouTube channel tonight, Thursday, October 28, at 6pm PT.

Congratulations, Corrina!

West Berkeley Shellmound Update

Apache Stronghold 'Native Religious Sacred Sites on Federal Land have no Protections from the U.S. Government'

Wendsler Nosie at San Francisco Civic Center. Photo by Steve Pavey

Native Religious Sacred Sites on Federal Land have no Protections from the U.S. Government 

By Apache Stronghold
Censored News
Oct. 22, 2021

French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=6790

SAN FRANCISCO -- The United States Government position today in Apache Stronghold vs U.S. in the Appeal  hearing in the 9th Circuit Court confirmed that the destruction of Apache Religion is not a  concern of the U.S Government and is not an obligation of the U.S., confirming the fact that  oppression of Native people is not, never was and will not stand in the way of their actions.

"We knew where we stood all along, now the U.S. Government admits that we do not matter and that they own all federal land and the decisions about the land, our connection to it is not  of their concern."