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Kalama O Ka Aina
One of the most dangerous things you can do to the American government is to challenge their claims to the land we walk upon in a substantive way.
Yeah, we can dance and sing.
But when we put into question their right to take from our earth, the punishment is severe.
Every single person being singled out for the most frightening charges at Standing Rock is Indigenous.
Every. Single. One...
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The National Lawyers Guild’s Bruce Ellison, the lead attorney for Red Fawn Fallis, agrees. He says he has only encountered federal civil disorder charges “a few times” before, including during federal prosecutions of American Indian Movement (AIM) activists who reclaimed Wounded Knee as part of an armed stand-off with federal and local police on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973.
Yeah, we can dance and sing.
But when we put into question their right to take from our earth, the punishment is severe.
Every single person being singled out for the most frightening charges at Standing Rock is Indigenous.
Every. Single. One...
See More
The National Lawyers Guild’s Bruce Ellison, the lead attorney for Red Fawn Fallis, agrees. He says he has only encountered federal civil disorder charges “a few times” before, including during federal prosecutions of American Indian Movement (AIM) activists who reclaimed Wounded Knee as part of an armed stand-off with federal and local police on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973.
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