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Earlier last month, The Red Nation published "The Red Deal"—a political framework developed by young Indigenous activists, which pushes the Green New Deal to go further. For Indigenous groups like the autonomous Zapatista resistance movement in Mexico, Adriana Gomez Bonilla explains, the fear of climate change is not just what happens to the climate itself. THE RED DEAL The Red Deal is not a counter program of the GND. It’s that climate action will become another pretext for governments to displace them from their lands in the name of conservation. Driven by an endless hunger for power and control, colonial empires used violence to appropriate Indigenous land for mining and labor—a process that continues up to this day. He was teaching undocumented youth the importance of being rooted as we organize for our immigrant communities. It’s a call for action beyond the scope of the US colonial state. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. There was an old Lakota prophecy (pdf) that “a black snake will slither across the land, destroying sacred sites and poisoning the water before destroying the earth itself.” According to Dallas Goldtooth, Keep it in the Ground Campaign Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), the black snake could represent not only the pipelines constructed across Indigenous lands, but also “the sickness of capitalism” itself, which casts a “shadow upon our heart and spirit of negativity, of dysfunction, of unhealthiness.”. We are all related; us, plants, animals, water, air, and soil. The Red Deal is not a counter program of the GND.
How Wars, Sanctions, and Militarism Made the Coronavirus Crisis Worse, (Click to see more comments or to join the conversation), That Was No Debate, It Was a 90-Minute Insult to America. As geoscientists who study the evolution of Earth’s climate and how it creates conditions for life, we see evolving conditions in the Arctic as an indicator of how climate change could transform the planet. Indigenous movements have always been at the forefront of environmental justice struggles. We do not speak truth to the powerful. Asheninka Mino, a medicine man from the Indigenous community of Asheninka in Peru, repeated these words as we walked through the mountains of Mora, New Mexico. In Brazil, for example, Indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara reports that aggression by predatory agricultural companies against indigenous people there "has been getting much worse under the anti-Indigenous government of Jair Bolsonaro, who normalizes, incites, and empowers violence against the environment and against us.". Asheninka Mino, a medicine man from the Indigenous community of Asheninka in Peru, repeated these words as we walked through the mountains of Mora, New Mexico. Climate Justice. Police release body cam video of officer killing innocent woman at home, A new bill could help protect the sacred seeds of indigenous people, Texas sheriff arrested for tampering with evidence in police custody death, ‘2020 really belongs to us’: The youth climate movement rallies around the election, Former corrections officer sentenced to federal prison for assaulting inmate, Officer in Breonna Taylor shooting indicted for firing into neighbors’ homes, Utah police release body cam video of officer shooting unarmed 13-year-old boy, LAPD releases video of officer shooting protester in groin with projectile, 10 things you need to know to stop a coup, Utah police officer charged with assault after ordering K-9 to bite man on video, Parents and teachers nationwide join together demanding Congress pass $250 billion bill for current and future students, Former Sheriff’s Captain pleads guilty to gun trafficking. Because of people like you, another world is possible. Josue has worked along side immigrant-led grassroots organizations like United We Dream and the New Mexico Dream Team for the past 5 years. Left unchecked, the phantom dream of never-ending development will mean genocide for natural ecosystems and Indigenous nations alike. Common Dreams brings you the news that matters. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. A ‘Red Deal’: Why Indigenous Communities Belong at the Center of Climate Action Policies that aren't rooted in Indigenous communities can cause many of the same oppressive outcomes as extraction. In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire loosen not thy hold." Thus, the GND and the climate justice movement in North America trace their origins to Indigenous frontline struggles. They highlight the sacred relationship we hold with Mother Earth and others. It's that climate action will become another pretext for governments to displace them from their lands in the name of conservation. : Our first community meeting will be on June 19, 2019. Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Box 443Portland, ME 04112-0443USA, Common Dreams is a small nonprofit with a big mission.
Common DreamsP.O. It brings to light that Indigenous liberation is climate justice. It’s a deal with the humble people of the earth; a pact that we shall strive for peace and justice and that movements for justice must come from below and to the left. It's a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land."
Nick Estes, in his book Our History Is The Future, notes that “these Indigenous ways of relating to human and other-than-human life exist in opposition to capitalism.” Instead, capitalism sees humans and the sacred as “labor and commodities to be bought and sold.”. The first day is a listening session and workshop to draft and implement the Red Deal, a movement-oriented document for climate justice and grassroots reform and revolution. With this background in mind, TRN is proposing a Red Deal. One of the most stunning effects of the Bernaysian world of marketing and advertising is the pervasive, ubiquitous, criminal, genocidal jaw flapping claim that the dollar system is GOD, without naming the deity but absolutely all else aligns with the claim,totally slathering its suffocating BS over all sacred traditions that actually DO foster coherence, balance and health. Common Dreams has been providing breaking news & views for the progressive community since 1997. The Red Nation (TRN) invites allied movements, comrades, and relatives to two days of action and planning on June 19 and 20.