Wounded Knee Remembered

 50 Years On, Legacy of Wounded Knee Uprising Lives in Indigenous Resistance

"We're not the subjugated and disenfranchised people that we were," said one Ponca elder who took part in the 1973 revolt. "Wounded Knee was an important beginning of that."

BRETT WILKINS

Feb 27, 2023

As many Native Americans on Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the militant occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, participants in the 1973 uprising and other activists linked the deadly revolt to modern-day Indigenous resistance, from Standing Rock to the #LandBack movement. 

On February 27, 1973 around 300 Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), seething from centuries of injustices ranging from genocide to leniency for whites who committed crimes against Indians, occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation for more than two months. The uprising occurred during a period of increased Native American militancy and the rise of AIM, which first drew international attention in 1969 with the 19-month occupationof Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.

"The Native people of this land after Wounded Knee, they had like a surge of new pride in being Native people," Dwain Camp, an 85-year-old Ponca elder who took part in the 1973 revolt, told The Associated Press.

 

 

https://www.commondreams.org/news/wounded-knee-occupation

Alone and Exploited. Migrant Children in the U.S.

  

Alone and Exploited.  Migrant Children in U.S.

Migrant children entering the U.S. alone are ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?

How to Seek Asylum Under New Proposed Biden Rules

How To Seek Asylum (Under Biden’s Proposed Asylum Transit Ban), In 12 Not-At-All-Easy Steps

Posted by Dara Lind | Feb 22, 2023 | Asylum, Humanitarian Protection

 

https://immigrationimpact.com/2023/02/22/steps-to-seek-asylum-biden-transit-ban/?

  

Don't Buy Greenwood Mushrooms

Ostrom Mushroom plant sold, but the workers’ fight continues. Help us track how mushrooms move across North America. We wrote to you earlier this month about Ostrom mushrooms in Sunnyside, WA and the David vs. Goliath battle workers were going through to get union representation and justice on the job. The situation has escalated.  The day after we sent out our alert, on February 14th, 2023 - ironically on Valentine’s Day - the workers were called into an all-team meeting and told that, effective at midnight, Ostrom was bought by Greenwood Mushrooms, a company owned by Windmill Farms. As a result, all of the Ostrom employees were immediately fired.  The workers were then given a letter offering "new" employment under the new management -- at lower wages, in less preferable jobs, and all under an arbitration agreement for any labor disputes. Workers were given only hours to sign.  Ostrom Mushrooms is being renamed "Greenwood Mushrooms Sunnyside." The Greenwood Mushrooms label is currently being used at Windmill Farms facilities in Pennsylvania and Canada. Windmill Farms is owned by InStar, a Canadian private equity firm.  We need your help to track how mushrooms are grown and sold across North America.   We need to know which brands of mushrooms are sold in which stores in the United States and Canada – including non-Sunnyside WA mushrooms. The Ostrom label may change to Greenwood Mushrooms, Windmill Mushrooms, store brand packaging or even a new label we haven’t heard of yet. Help us ensure they don't hide their labels or sell mushrooms under a different brand to avoid being accountable to their employees and consumers. Take 2 minutes to help us the next time you go grocery shopping: Check out the labeling on the mushrooms your store carries.   Snap a photo of the mushroom package, and if there is a box of loose mushrooms, snap a photo of that too. Send to ufw@ufw.org along with the store name, the location and the day you saw it. We’ve launched a website at www.ufw.org/ostrom so you can follow this campaign. Find the latest campaign media coverage, photos and videos; sign the pledge; see worker videos explaining their fight and more.  Please help these workers next time you go shopping and please reach out to your friends in other cities. An extra minute or two can help these Sunnyside mushroom workers in their fight to win their UFW contract.  Please share this campaign with friends and family.  Links to social media posts here: Facebook, Twitter & Instagram (TikTok coming soon)

 

Asylum Ban

 ‘Trump’s Asylum Ban Under A Different Name’: Democrats, Immigration Groups Slam Biden Proposal

Article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-administration-asylum-proposal_n_63f658a9e4b0616708df00e5?    

AMLO Argues for Ending "U S" Embargo of Cuba

 Mexican President Vows Global Push to End 'Inhumane' US Embargo of Cuba

One peace group praised AMLO for "once again providing such an important voice against U.S. imperialism and bullying."

KENNY STANCIL

Feb 13, 2023

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador vowed over the weekend to lead a worldwide movement to end the 61-year U.S. embargo of Cuba.

"We are going to continue demanding the removal, the elimination of the blockade against Cuba, which is inhumane," López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, said Saturday in a speech attended by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

https://www.commondreams.org/amlo-vows-global-push-end-us-embargo-cuba

Biden, the Border, and Catholic Teaching on Immigration

 

Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, CLINIC board member and chairman of the migration committee for the U.S. Catholic bishops, was invited to an unexpected car ride with President Biden during his recent trip to El Paso, Texas. During their conversation, Bishop Seitz shared with the president about the realities facing vulnerable migrants at the border. Click here to read more

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2023/01/09/bishop-seitz-president-biden-244489