‘Justice for Haiti! Let revolutionary Cuba live!’
By Maureen Skehan posted on July 26, 2021
Boston
A multinational, multigenerational, pro-socialist crowd, including Indigenous, Black, Latinx, immigrant rights, peace and justice, union, faith-based, youth, veterans, LGBTQ2S+ and disability rights organizers, converged at Park Street Station, Boston, July 24, for a militant and unified “People’s Speak Out and Rally” to demand “No U$ Intervention in Haiti, Reparations Now!” and “Let Revolutionary Cuba Live! End the U.S. Blockade!”
Dorotea Manuela speaking at Boston rally July 24. WW Photo: Maureen Skehan
Chantal Casimir, member, USW Local 8751, spoke at the Boston rally July 24. WW Photo: Stevan Kirschbaum
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The smell of white sage wafted through the air Friday as Lone Wolf, an indigenous man also known as George Thomas, began a ceremony to honor “the spirits”of thousands of murdered and missing women in Indian Country, including within New England. The ceremony outside the North American Indian Center in Jamaica Plain brought together Native and non-Native supporters to focus on an issue that has been cited by the Biden Administration as a priority.
Native Americans gathering to honor victims of violence
May 7, 2021
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BOSTON (AP) Native Americans are gathering in Boston on Friday to remember Indigenous peoples who have been killed, gone missing or subjected to violence.
The afternoon event outside the North American Indian Center in the city s Jamaica Plain neighborhood is part of a national week of action honoring missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Participants are being asked to wear red in a show of support.
Indigenous women are murdered at 10 times the national average in some areas of the country and at least 80% of Native American women have experienced violence, according to Mahtowin Munro, a leader of United American Indians of New England. They also experience disproportionately high rates of sexual assault, organizers said.
COS Indigenous Peoples Day endorsement
Community Organized for Solidarity
The members of Community Organized for Solidarity support the petition addressed to Select Board Chair Roy Epstein to officially change the name from “Columbus Day” to “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” in the town of Belmont.
On Jan. 29, members of COS discussed the following reasons why we adamantly support this change:
• Celebrating Columbus Day contributes to the miseducation of the Belmont community because it ignores the genocide and enslavement of native peoples at the hands of white settlers like Christopher Columbus.
• Celebrating “Indigenous Peoples” encourages the Belmont community to understand and appreciate the cultures and contributions of Native Americans to the history of the U.S. and to our region of Massachusetts.