“All of these paintings were supposed to be destroyed by the instructions of that priest,” said Eugene Arcand, a MacKay survivor from Muskeg Lake First Nation.
“But they’ve survived, the same as all of us have survived.”
Story by Crystal Greene
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"First Nations rights are under threat in new ways by this government and, of course, by the provinces. We are not afraid of that, though. We are far from it."—AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak
This story was an absolute delight to edit, about an incredible artist I hope more people learn about (and check out the links to her photography!)
A senior emails a prosecutor‘s public email to express concerns about an #ICE case on the news
Homeland Security subpoenas his Google
Officers arrive with printout of his email
His airline bags get delayed & searched
“We’re all potential targets.”
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This story by @crystalgreene.bsky.social is an important angle on what’s happening south of the border now…and how it links together and impacts so many communities
proud to have edited this talented reporter & s/o to photog Chad Davis (@daviss.org)
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I experienced this pressure constantly in any reporting related to Gaza. Relentless hounding to downplay the medical records as "Hamas-controlled"
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A good start would be to stop gunning down ordinary people you simply disagree with and dehumanize in cold blood. Also... the ... mission itself?
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“The hospital became a mass casualty zone. We did not have enough of anything … The volume of casualties far exceeded the capacity …
“What took place was far beyond anything the public has been told. And most of it happened in the dark”
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A US lawyer reveals the sounds coming out of the regime’s concentration camps, where women and children have been kidnapped to, their health and safety status largely unknown. You can hear them begging for help. #3E #GoodvsEvil
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
I can’t see more than a few ways to stop brownshirt/SS death squad from taking power … and it’s likely not statements about making cities “less safe,” dragging appeals to a corrupt Supreme Court, or hoping Feds don’t destroy the evidence they seized
Does ICE hold a legitimized monopoly on violence?
Could it be that assassinating noncompliant progressive protesters is in ICE’s mission?
Hence sending them to Dem-run cities where they know masses will protest
Seems playbook brownshirts-to-SS transition moment (or Proud Boys>ICE). There’s always some “justification“ that in hindsight was lies
AFL-CIO Mourns Killing of Minneapolis Union Member, Reiterates Calls for ICE to Leave Minnesota: The AFL-CIO mourns the senseless killing of another Minneapolis resident by federal agents. Alex Jeffrey Pretti was a VA intensive care unit nurse and a member of AFGE Local 3669—a brother in our union family. Our thoughts are with Alex’s loved ones, his union siblings, and the people of Minneapolis at this devastating time. As tens of thousands of Minnesotans made clear peacefully and powerfully yesterday, the Trump administration’s horrific operation—and their actions aimed at stoking violence and chaos—must end. America’s unions join the call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed. We demand local authorities conduct a full, transparent investigation that will lead to accountability for this tragic and violent act, and for Congress to use its power to hold ICE accountable.
America’s unions mourn the senseless killing by federal agents of our AFGE Local 3669 union brother and VA nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
We reiterate our call for ICE to immediately leave Minnesota before anyone else is hurt or killed.
https://bit.ly/4pVTpFO
Videos show Pretti filming federal agents, his right hand holding up his phone, his left hand empty. He was wrestled to the ground by several law enforcement officers before being shot several times. He was repeatedly shot point-blank in the back
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On not even INVESTIGATING a mom's on-video murder:
Deputy AG: “We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate. And that is not the case here. It was not the case when it happened and is not the case today"
His dept instead investigating victim's partner
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"we've had to have security guards at birthday parties. it’s been waiting to happen … i would have been walking by thinking, 'isn't it gorgeous, isn’t it great that we fan celebrate safely in public’"
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“We hoped and believed such a thing could never happen here. It can”
So sickened to wake up to antisemitic horror on the 1st day of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights
“Ahmed el Ahmed…fruit shop owner, tackled [a gunman] from behind, pulling the gun” away
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Omg I was kind of being rhetoric it’s really a Nazi motto
SCOOP: Simon Fraser University insists that its new medical school, the first to open in Western Canada in 55 years, is so new and different that its collective agreement with the SFU Faculty Association doesn't apply.
Read more @pressprogress.ca
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B.C. emergency management:
• Access between Lower Mainland and Interior closed
• Nooksack River topped its banks around 2pm, water going across border to Sumas prairie
• Rainfall in Fraser Valley now easing up
• Nooksack flows expected to peak ~10pm, hold til 4-6am, then decline
BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford.
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He got busted and settled instead of being charged. And then just continued his racism. His dad also sounds like a tyrannical POS it obviously rubbed off
Oh yeah even I forgot about the birther bullshit
It never ends. Liked your adding to the list not the sentiment of course
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
