We must come to terms to what imperialism has done to native people around the world — from Maryland to Palestine. One of my great mentors is James Abourezk who founded the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee where I work and was the first chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. This led to a number of acts including the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act and the Indian Child Welfare Act, which sought to preserve Native American families. When the American Indian Movement seized and occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973 to protest the federal government’s treatment of Native Americans, he and McGovern traveled to Wounded Knee to negotiate with activists in a standoff with federal law enforcement. Abourezk is in the film “Incident at Oglala - The Leonard Peltier Story” and “One Bright Shining Moment - The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern.” His son Charles Abourezk has served as a tribal judge in the Oglala Sioux Tribal Courts. His other children are Nikki Pipe On Head, Paul Abourezk, and Alya Abourezk.

The good and the bad. Shelly’s flown in from Colorado to help with the campaign 💗 💪 Person or persons unknown are taking down the campaign signs! Help get the word out! More peace, cheaper gas!!!

Someone has been trashing our More Peace, Cheaper Gas campaign signs. This is in College Park. And we put them back up!!!