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I don’t remember the first time I heard the phrase, “Black Lives Matter”. I remember instead two memories seared into my consciousness that left me feeling like I had to act. The first was in the weeks following the killing of Mike Brown or “Big Mike” as he was affectionately known by his community. I was sitting at my kitchen table waiting for my husband to get home from work and scrolling on…

This is Minna from our North Central MA chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. I am reaching out to our contacts who live in Gardner to support an urgent action to bolster safety and support for our immigrant friends and neighbors in this incredibly terrifying time. Recent incidents involving anti-immigrant rhetoric and vigilante actions in various parts of the country and even in Gardner…

originally published on Henoko Nonviolent Action please read full article here. excerpts: Taitung is a place where people who are fed up with city life move to or come for a short trip. Also, Taitung is a place where aborigines (not called “natives” because the word “aborigine” does not already have a meaning) come to live. The reason for this is that the word “aborigines” means people who are…

As Warsan Shire writes in her poem Home, “no one leaves home, unless home is the mouth ofa shark”. In recent days, displaced people have found refuge here in our greater Gardnercommunity. These families have been through so much before having to make the impossiblechoice to leave their homes in search of safety and peace somewhere else.As children we are taught to share, to care for one another –…

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Abenaki Perspective – Hannah Duston

Brian Chenevert

The Abenaki People, the People of the Dawn Land, refer to ourselves as Alnôbak, Human Beings. We are the original inhabitants of what is now known as the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, parts of Western Maine, parts of Northern Massachusetts and parts of Southern Quebec. This area is known to the Abenaki as N’dakinna, meaning Our Land. We have called this area home since time…

My Open Letter to the Killingly CT. Board of Education:

Greetings to the Killingly Board of Education.

My Name is Larry Spotted Crow Mann.

I am a writer and Culture Keeper of the Nipmuc Tribe.

Much of my work over the last 20 years has to do with helping Native American youth reclaim their identity. Some of the most successful ways, I find, is connecting youth to their culture, history by…