Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for POTUSSoon-to-be Governor of Texas, Beto O’Rourke for VEEP
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Fuck You (Glastonbury 2022) —
Lily Allen & Olivia Rodrigo (2022) Olivia Rodrigo performs Fuck You (feat. Lily Allen) at Glastonbury 2022. As American musicians took the stage at Glastonbury 2022, many used their stage time to criticize the United States supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Olivia Rodrigo surprised her audience by bringing out artist Lily Allen […]…
City of Nome to Pay $750K + Apologize for Failure to Investigate Sexual Assault against Native Woman — Turtle Talk
Remember the case about all of the people being sexually assaulted in Nome, Alaska and the police weren’t doing anything about it in a great number of cases? Well, there has been some movement in the case. Major movement. One case got settled. I cannot help but wonder, since our country is based on case…
D.C. Federal Court Awards $15M+ to Navajo Nation for Judicial Costs under PL638 — Turtle Talk
I’d like to see what would happen if the U.S. courtrooms across the nation were denied their funding. What a victory for Navajo Nation to have their courts funded and able to effect due process as part of self-determination. Here are the materials in Navajo Nation v. United States (D.D.C.): 17 Navajo MSJ 19-1 US…
“Takeover”: Young Lords’ Juan González on Hospital Protest Doc. Shortlisted for Academy Award — Rise Up Times
In a profound bit of synchronicity, a blogmate (you know who you are) and I were dialoguing today about The Bronx *and* about individuals with Puerto Rican cultural roots. The documentary “Takeover,” which chronicles the radical actions of the Young Lords, was recently shortlisted for an Academy Award. In 1970, the Puerto Rican collective took…
Ninth Circuit Briefs in Challenge to Arizona School District Ban on Beaded Graduation Cap — Turtle Talk
Excerpt from the legal challenge: The District’s refusal to allow Larissa to wear her NativeAmerican religious regalia at the graduation, while permitting otherstudents to wear comparable expressive secular messages, was aviolation of Larissa’s rights to free exercise of religion and free speechunder the U.S. Constitution and under Arizona law. First word that comes to mind:…
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