Dear Community,
Please receive this request, with my love ...for All Life:
U R G E N T: Especially see Resistance: Palestine (below) about Gaza's 2 million people starving due to the 55 day blockade
Contents:
Indigenous Matters
Resistance Matters: Palestine
Resistance Matters: US
Climate/Earth Matters
Indigenous Matters:
Pope Francis and a statement from the Oceti Sakowin:
On behalf of the sovereign bodies of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate (the Sioux Nation), we commemorate and, more importantly, seek to breathe life into the paradigm-shifting work of His Holiness, Pope Francis. For Indigenous nations, this includes the existentially constructive gravamen of Laudato si’ — the pope’s encyclical on climate and our human responsibility to Unci Maka, our Grandmother Earth. Read more
Also a Lakota Law email from Chase Iron Eyes:
" As you likely know, the history of the Catholic Church and its influence on Indigenous populations is not good, going back centuries. The Church justified European genocide of Indigenous Peoples and the colonization of our homelands ... through its Doctrine of Discovery, which still underpins U.S. federal Indian law today. Notably, it took until the ascension of Pope Francis and his decision to repudiate the Doctrine — just a few years ago — for the Church to acknowledge...."
--May 1 Thurs 10 am The free two-part virtual webinar series, "Food is Medicine and Eating for Health," will take place Wednesday, April 30, and Thursday, May 1, 2025, both at 10 am Mountain Time. Learn more and register here.
--Please visit The Status of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) Report website:
We have also uploaded a version formatted as single pages which may help with navigating to specific pages with stories and artwork.
—May 4: Sunday 2:30-4:30 pm ET; 12:30-2:30 MDT Free webinar, A Gathering of Elders and Wisdom Keepers
Join this extraordinary gathering of elders from throughout the world who are coming together to talk about what they see happening in the world now and what we must do now. Everyone is welcome to listen. --- Hosted by Ilarion, Kuuyux, Merculieff
--Visit the website American Indian Responses to Environmental Challenges Select one of 5 tribes to discover how these Native communities are making a difference with environmental issues in their homelands today.
--Recorded Webinar | Indigenous Women: Artists and Activists, Session Four -- poet Laura Da' (Eastern Shawnee) uses poetry, writing, thinking exercises, and classroom-ready strategies to explore the intersection of Indigenous women artists and advocacy.
--Fort Chambers planning progress from the City of Boulder
https://bouldercolorado.gov/projects/fort-chambers-poor-farm-management-plan
Resistance Matters: Palestine U R G E N T
--May 1 Thurs. 7:30 pm Municipal Building, 1777 Broadway, Boulder,
Palestine Vigil Bring candles, flowers, prayers, songs and your voice. "We gather in peace, with care, courage, and commitment to collective liberation, in grounded nonviolence, dignity and with solidarity."
--URGENT: The United Nations News states: Gazans face hunger crisis as food is blockaded ....
Please watch this informative 2.5 min. video from "TRTWorld" right to the last sentence, to better understand.
Very unfortunately this Monday I learned that the Blockade of Humanitarian Food and Medicine is resulting in 2 million Palestinians starving and facing death if the blockade isn't lifted soon. There are trucks waiting to deliver this food.
ACTION Needed:
**Email Whitehouse.gov/contact or call President Trump -- send a positive tone message to act and make sure the blockade is lifted immediately and food is allowed in. And email congresspeople.
** Learn and understand what you can. Corroboration via United Nations news
** Prayer or visualizing: The People of Palestine being calm and nourished, and the trucks with food being continually allowed through.
**Please share this with others, organizations you are connected with, your faith community, friends and neighbors, SOCIAL MEDIA, and other news media
--Relevant Personal stories:
"This is Bisan from Gaza and I'm still alive" 26 yr. old Palestinian Journalist.
and this from her video communique this week via a friend in Boulder: Bisan perceives nothing is being done about the starvation.
This video from one year ago reveals the personal realities of people camping near the hospital in Gaza at that time.
Peabody awards-- read message about her and her work.
--Relevant related Information
The UN states that Israel has an obligation to allow aid into Gaza (reuters.com). However, research indicates that Israel has consistently impeded aid operations, blocked relief efforts.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to facilitate aid, and the U.S. has issued a National Security Memorandum (NSM-20) requiring assurances that countries receiving U.S. security assistance will facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into Gaza. (Reuters.com)
The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) is meeting this week to hear about Israel's compliance -- the larger issues and impacts; an Irish Lawyer speaks to the ICJ about Israel's destruction of Gaza --38 min. -- a way to learn more.
However, the Latest News (4/30)
"Day three of International Court of Justice hearings on Israel’s humanitarian obligations to Palestinians saw the United States and Hungary defend Israel and discredit the court and the UN as biased." from AlJazeera
Resistance Matters: of the U.S.
--May 1 Thursday: May Day, National Day of Action: Info
For Denver, and Bo County actions, see this, including:
Rayleigh and Broadway 11 am to 1 pm at NIST: short rally then a "die in" to symbolize the people who may die because NOAA can no longer adequately forecast severe weather events due to cuts by Trump and DOGE .
----"May we all continue to hold on to each other, to sing in the face of silence, to dance in the face of danger, and to remember we are one people, sharing one planet, for a split second of cosmic time." Cordelia Zars of Empathy Theater Project and the production, We Are Still Here.
--Resistance From Today's Edition Newsletter of Robert B. Hubbell of April 23, 2025
The academic community is joining together in mutual defense.
More than 220 leaders of colleges and universities have signed a document entitled, A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U.
See NYTimes, More Than 180 Academic Leaders Condemn Trump’s ‘Overreach’. (Accessible to all.)
and encouragement from him in his April 9 post " Be part of the solution by acting boldly and bravely in the face of understandable fear and anxiety.
... we must stop focusing in fear on what Trump might do and start focusing in confidence on what we will do to resist illegal actions by Trump."
Climate/Earth Matters
--May 8 Thursday 6:00 to 7:15 p.m Webinar: Landfill Emission Impacts on Human and Environmental Health sponsor: Eco-Cycle
To register. Free
--KGNU interviews my friend, Zach Hedstrom
The use of fungi, and the root system of mushrooms called mycelium, are being infused into the ground and tree chip piles here in Boulder County to address wildfire danger.
--From Red Earth Healing
"We are not here to patch the sails of the colonial ship as it sinks.
We are here to remember how to walk the earth barefooted, rooted in kinship and reciprocity. We are here to midwife the wild return.
The return of kinship is not a trend, but a remembering.
A remembering of how to walk in reciprocity.
Of how to pray with our hands in the soil.
Of how to speak across the species, across the veil.
Of how to be human in a web, not a throne.
I hope for a day when I write about the peace that came after. When these words no longer rise from the ashes of collapse, but from the fertile ground of what we have tended together.
Until then, I write with dirt under my fingernails and grief in my chest."
[Read the full post here]
— Shannon M. Willis and Red Earth Healing
—Steps to Consider: See this website: Our Sacred Earth under Menu tabs