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Posts by Natalie M Avalos

ICE is not about immigration.

ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets.

Abolish ICE.

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The Classical Ideas Podcast: EP 345: Relational Ethics and Indigenous Plant Medicines w/Dr. Natalie Avalos Natalie Avalos (Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, 2015) is an ethnographer of religion whose r...

In this interview with Greg Soden of Classical Ideas, I discuss Indigenous plant medicines, relational ethics, whiteness, and how decolonization is liberating for all of us ✨

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The Classical Ideas Podcast: EP 345: Relational Ethics and Indigenous Plant Medicines w/Dr. Natalie Avalos Natalie Avalos (Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Colorado Boulder; PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, 2015) is an ethnographer of religion whose r...

In this interview with Greg Soden of Classical Ideas, I discuss Indigenous plant medicines, relational ethics, whiteness, and how decolonization is liberating for all of us ✨

classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com/ep-345-relat...

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Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all.

This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.

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“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”

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Your Individualism Is Not Your Fault. But It Might Be Your Problem. Indigenous studies scholar Natalie Avalos on relational ethics, extraction, and collective liberation

Conversation about my work with Liz Bucar. We discuss the problems of religious borrowing and how it obscures the relational nature of Indigenous religious life and the liberating possibilities of decolonization

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Your Individualism Is Not Your Fault. But It Might Be Your Problem. Indigenous studies scholar Natalie Avalos on relational ethics, extraction, and collective liberation

Conversation about my work with Liz Bucar. We discuss the problems of religious borrowing and how it obscures the relational nature of Indigenous religious life and the liberating possibilities of decolonization

open.substack.com/pub/lizbucar...

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An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

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@jennylsq.bsky.social Palace Music’s New Partner and then Elliot Smith soon after 🥹 whew, these break up songs had me crying in the car AND remembering the bittersweet ennui of youth… thank you 💕

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No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.

www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

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It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

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Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

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'My own government attempted to execute me,' Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol testifies Marimar Martinez said she believes that she survived her encounter with Border Patrol agents so she could share her story.

Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs

1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--"

The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."

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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

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Yep. It's the correct term. That it makes people uncomfortable is more reason to use accurate language.

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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.

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Yesterday, over 30,000 people protested against ICE in below-zero temperatures. Amazing work, everyone. Minnesota strong. Tomorrow, there will be more of us.

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Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

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This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model.

ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

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We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding

We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

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Giant red rock formations in the desert near Page, AZ. Rocks are about 30’ tall.

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Giant red rock formations in the desert near Page, AZ. Rocks are about 30’ tall. ✊🏼

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave - Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

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Minneapolis pastor: ICE 'pointed a gun at me' and 'put me in the back of an SUV'
Minneapolis pastor: ICE 'pointed a gun at me' and 'put me in the back of an SUV' YouTube video by MS NOW

ICE THUGS arrested a pastor & kept asking him "Are you afraid?" numerous occasions. The pastor said NO. Eventually the THUGS let him go stating that "You're WHITE, you're no fun to us!!"
This is how sick & deranged these THUGS are, thanks to this REGIME‼️
youtu.be/lcSOyVrc5HM?...

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Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

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Let’s be honest. He shot her because he was angry that she wasn’t intimidated. He was pissed because she said “it’s ok I’m not mad at you” - that’s why after he shot her, he said “fucking bitch.”

He wasn’t afraid for his life and she wasn’t threatening him. Her calmness was the threat.

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There is no "normal" to go back to.
Only what we do next.

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Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

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No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

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Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world.

This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

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