An email newsletter by @jennimonet (Kawaika)
Joined August 2016
- Tweets594
- Following365
- Followers1.1K
- Likes821
Indigenously retweeted
The 2024 @UNDP Trends Report highlights the challenges of the green transition as it threatens the livelihoods and rights of Indigenous Peoples among others. Full report at: tinyurl.com/3hsh2w3p #WeAreIndigenous
Indigenously retweeted
Today marks 16 years since the adoption of #UNDRIP! The UN Declaration is a cornerstone for #IndigenousPeoples’ rights & sets universal framework of standards their survival, dignity & wellbeing ✨ #WeAreIndigenous
Check it out here: tinyurl.com/vmdn6zxu
The Biden Administration cancels #ANWR oil leases but speaks nothing to the massive Willow Project still in play in the rapidly melting Arctic - “campaign trail rhetoric"
bit.ly/3Ri8KmB
“She took America from the Termination Era to an unprecedented level of tribal sovereignty.”
Thank you, Ada Deer. #RestInPower
politico.com/news/2023/08/16…
Congratulations to NARF Executive Director John Echohawk, for receiving the prestigious Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association (@ABAesq) ⚖️ narf.org/echohawk-2023-thurg…
The Ainu are waging a #SalmonBack lawsuit against their colonizer, Japan. For more backstory, check out our 2021 Olympic profile, "Ainu and the Games," here: bit.ly/449qDHA
nytimes.com/2023/07/02/world…
Indigenously retweeted
With the end of affirmative action, “the scale of what has been lost is difficult to assess in the moment,” Jelani Cobb writes. “We’re heading in the opposite direction from progress.” nyer.cm/b0w4XpI
#ICWA Survives #SCOTUS, 7-2
But it's unfinished business. The court denied to rule on the thorniest issue: the equal protection clause, AKA, the "race-based" issue. Kavanaugh all but invited a new lawsuit. Thomas, Alito dissented. supremecourt.gov/opinions/22……
Indigenously retweeted
The Biden administration banned new oil and gas leasing on public lands within a 10-mile radius around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, one of the nation’s oldest and most culturally significant Native American sites.
nyti.ms/3oFWS1N
The former Osage Nation Chief @JimGraytweetz was an early critic of Martin Scorcese's latest film, 'Killers of the Flower Moon.' He had no choice but to be. The plot about mass murder on his ancestal lands was deeply personal. Here's a thread worthy more than any movie review 🧵:
"He always had time to speak to everybody."
Joe Garcia (Ohkay Owingeh) had a long list of distinguished titles, but kind-hearted man toplisted.
Indian Country has much to mourn and gain in honoring the memory of this treasured tribal leader. #RestInPower shorturl.at/kDEO7
On this Nat'l Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-Spirit People, please read the @UNHumanRights report that *for the first time* links this crisis to "environmental violence." 🧵
Art: Nikawiy Nitanis Mackenzie Anderson (Cree, Ojibwe) #MMIWG2S
Human Rights Council Fifty-second session 27 February–31 March 2023 // Report of the Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, David R. Boyd #MMIWG2S
oneplanetschool.wwf.it/sites…
Indigenously retweeted
📶'Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom of Expression as a Driver for All Other Human Rights' is this year's theme of World's Press Freedom week; we Indigenous broadcasters call attention to the right of Indigenous Media, Article 16 of the UNDRIP
🔊🎙️🗣️
rights.culturalsurvival.org/…
Indigenously retweeted
A Māori artist has designed a way for the masses to tune out of royal coverage, with a web browser plugin that replaces all monarchy and coronation stories with Indigenous news.
theguardian.com/world/2023/m…
On this #WorldPressFreedomDay read the Global Indigenous Media Caucus' U.N. intervention:
"Indigenous reporters documenting transnational mining encroachment in their communities are threatened and arrested repeatedly." bit.ly/3LTJVdo
Media Rights are Human Rights!✊
Indigenously retweeted
It’s the last day of the #UNPFII –
Thank you to all of you who participated and raised your voices at the UN about #IndigenousPeoples' rights! Watch the closing ceremony here: 📺webtv.un.org
💬 #WeAreIndigenous
Indigenously retweeted
The Global Indigenous Media Caucus calls for ensuring #IndigenousPeoples' access to information and economic support for #IndigenousMedia and to protect Indigenous journalists from criminalization and violence. #UNPFII #DefendTheDefenders #UNPFII22
culturalsurvival.org/news/un…
Indigenously retweeted
Ordinary people. Extraordinary impact. Congratulations to the 2023 #GoldmanPrize winners. 🏆🌍
Indigenously retweeted
"The issue of climate change and biodiversity cannot be resolved without the real and effective participation of #IndigenousPeoples" - Read @jennimonet's ‘Green colonialism’: Indigenous world leaders warn over west’s climate strategy #WeAreIndigenous
theguardian.com/world/2023/a…
