Coast Salish Freedom Fighters: From Alberta Tar Sands to the Salish Sea: Live in Seattle Day 2

Coast Salish Freedom Fighters: From Alberta Tar Sands to the Salish Sea, Day 2

Update Dec. 4, 2024: Indigenous Leaders say the community was not notified of Alberta tar sands spill for nine months.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/03/news/contamination-fort-chipewyan-dock-acfn-chief-transport-canada

Alberta tar sands

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 8, 2024

Watch Day 2 video by Govinda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giH3RP2S1Fw

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

SEATTLE -- The dead birds floating in the Alberta tar sands tailing ponds, the man camps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased oil tankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil of the Trans Mountain pipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands, bound for oil tankers in the Salish Sea.

"We are not just activists, we are revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years," said Kanahus Manuel, Secwepemc and Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Diné Demetrius Johnson, The Red Nation, at The National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock

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Diné Demetrius Johnson, The Red Nation, at The National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock

"We have seen how mainstream media is used by the settler states to justify, perpetuate, then make invisible ~yet again~ a genocide in Palestine without consequence. We have seen how the truth is suppressed and how journalists are slaughtered by the dozens. Even they realize that the truth is our greatest weapon. Our power lies in our words. That is why this day is so important- The National Day of Mourning embodies an Indigenous counter narrative that dissolves settler lies. Today, with tongues like sharpened iron we will cut open colonialism and expose its rotten core." -- Demetrius Johnson, Dine', The Red Nation.

The speech is written by the members of The Red Nation and read by Demetrius Johnson. Watch on TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube!

Read the speech at The Red Nation:

https://www.therednation.org/national-day-of-mourning-speech-by-the-red-nation/

Freedom for Leonard Peltier and Palestine: National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock

 

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Freedom for Leonard Peltier and Palestine at the National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News at Indybay

PLYMOUTH ROCK -- Freedom and liberation for Leonard Peltier and Palestine echoed across Plymouth Rock on the National Day of Mourning, as Indigenous Peoples exposed the myth of the pilgrims' thanksgiving and the facts of the United States, a government that is founded on genocide, massacres and slavery.

"Though they have entombed me in concrete and steel, I am a free man," Peltier said in a statement to the 55th gathering of the National Day of Mourning on Plymouth Rock, gathered in the pouring rain, and hosted by the United American Indians of New England on Thursday.

Leonard Peltier's Words for the National Day of Mourning on Plymouth Rock

"Though they have entombed me in concrete and steel, I am a free man."
Leonard Peltier

The grandson of Dr. Herbert Waters, Jr., continued the tradition of his grandfather and read the statement of imprisoned Leonard Peltier sent to Native Americans in New England.

Statement of Leonard Peltier to National Day of Mourning, Plymouth Rock 2024

Censored News, November 28, 2024

Translation into French by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8497

"Greetings my relatives, friends, loved ones and supporters. I am honored that you still hold me in your thoughts, believe in me."

"With stolen lives, and stolen labor, the king and queen of Spain fell in love with our children, and tried to end the slavery of American Indians. The colonizers used every loophole they could find. They did not want to give up the stolen labor of our people."