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:
a wonderful opportunity to hear Indigenous People's voices and perspectives
--June 3–9 gather to watch the film, The Eternal Song, ancestral wisdom for collective healing and to hear speakers all week, online.
Step into a field of remembrance, guided by Indigenous knowledge holders, cultural guardians, and one another in a global gathering for healing. Registration. See all offerings: online schedule
Voices from around the Indigenous world and across generations call us to witness the deep, ongoing scars left by colonization on lands and people, and the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom.
The film reveals how modernity has severed our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, while feeding us empty promises of unlimited consumption, economic growth, and individual happiness. Drawn into the intricate web of kinship and honoring the living presence of Mother Earth, we awaken a remembrance to hear the eternal song of Life itself, calling us back to belonging.
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...."
--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.
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
-- June 8 Sunday -June 14 Saturday Longmont Water Week 2025 https://www.coloradowaterstories.org/waterweek2025
2nd Annual Longmont Water Fair! A free, family-centered event blending science, art, and education to celebrate our local water using hands-on science activities, creative art projects, live performances, and conversations with local water leaders.
See details and full schedule here. https://www.coloradowaterstories.org/waterfair2025
--June 14: Saturday, Global Water Dances and Water Celebration: Gratitude & Giving Back ~ 10am-1pm~ Ollin Farms
The day involves a creek-side restoration volunteer hour, five stations operated by partners focused on water and nature education for kids and the Global Water Dances Project. The Global Water Dances Project links us with hundreds of people around the globe dancing for water on the same day. Our Water Dances will feature the children from the day camp performing alongside professional dancers, in and near Left Hand Creek as it passes through Ollin Farms. More info.
--June 23, Mon. to June 28 Sat., The Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) --attend the virtual Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justice: Path to COP30 and Beyond, a free and public event open to all, will be live-streamed globally and have simultaneous interpretation in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Register here
This global public forum will bring together 125+ women policymakers, government officials, and community leaders from over 50 countries, across 25 panels to showcase a diverse array of visions, projects, policy frameworks, campaigns, and movement strategies to accelerate the transition to a healthy and just world. Schedule here.
--June 28 or June 29 Gathering on the edge of Nederland in a small forest for Earth Connecting and Listening time: in the afternoon and dependent on weather. Register Join Bonnie Sundance for 1-2 hrs. in nature.
--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