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Boston: Indigenous Peoples Day Rally and March, October 6, 2018.

Marchers joined the picket with striking hotel workers of UNITE HERE Local 26. #ShutDownMarriot #SinkingColumbus

Photos by Stevan Kirschbaum

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Boston says: Honor Indigenous Peoples Day – Abolish Columbus Day! October 7, 2017.

For more information and to get involved, visit: http://www.indigenouspeoplesdayma.org/ or email: [email protected]

Photos by Stevan Kirschbaum

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On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, let's honor all the warriors who fought against imperialism and colonial terror since 1492. 

Abolish #ColumbusDay

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Indigenous Peoples Day: ‘Debunking Columbus’

By Johnnie Stevens and Sara Catalinotto

Indigenous Peoples Day in New York City this year featured a two-day cultural festival, a museum tour and a rally of 1,000 people to demand removal of colonial statues, along with other actions and declarations.

Redhawk Native American Arts Council hosted the Indigenous Peoples Celebration on Randall’s Island in the Harlem River on Oct. 8 and 9, with the theme “Rethinking Columbus Day and Honoring Water Protectors.”

Decolonize This Place held its second annual anti-Columbus Day tour at the American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West, where another offensive statue disgraces the front steps: U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt in uniform on a horse, with a half-naked African man and an Indigenous man below and behind on either side of the horse. Roosevelt was instrumental in the military colonization of Puerto Rico, currently continued in U.S. efforts at economic recolonization combined with the aftermath of devastating hurricane damage on the island.

In the afternoon museum action, hundreds went inside, lined up for tickets and then conducted a tour using the “people’s mike” technique. (Video at tinyurl.com/y7yk6edz.) While singing, drumming and explaining how the artifacts were acquired, participants also passed out a brochure to museumgoers titled “Debunking Christopher Columbus: #NotMyHero.”

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New York City: People´s Monday for Loreal Tsingine

Monday, October 9 - 7:00 to 10:00 pm

Gather at American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park W, Manhattan 

This #PeoplesMonday we highlight the continuing tragedy of indigenous genocide in the Americas, whose beginning is marked by the voyages of mass murderer and enslaver Christopher Columbus, by telling the story of Loreal Tsingine. A 27 year old Navajo woman and mother of an 8 year old daughter who was murdered by Winslow Poice Officer Austin Shipley.

Officer Shipley, who was investigating the theft of a six pack of beer, slammed Loreal to the ground and shot her five times, killing her. He then prevented a bystander from performing CPR on Loreal before medics arrived. In his 2 and a half year career, Oficer Shipley had held a suspect at gunpoint 5 times, deployed his taser 4 times including onece at a 15 year old girl, and once on a man restrained in a gurney. He had received 30 violations including tampering with evidence and falsifying reports and was on 6 months probabtion at the time he murdered Loreal.

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery still declined to bring charges against Officer Shipley and to date no Officer has been charged with any crime in the murder of Loreal Tsingen.

Join us as we march in solidarity with our Native sisters and brothers against white supremacy and for justice for Loreal.

We will be starting at the Natural History museum where Decolonize This Place will be hosting their second annual Anti-Columbus Day tour: https://www.facebook.com/events/1302697323192187/

Our march begins after the tour and rally. Native Lives Matter! All lives will matter, when Black Lives Matter!

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Some wonderful leftover images from the #IndigenousPeoplesDay action, #SinkingColumbus, in Boston. The action ended in #ChristopherColumbusPark (also needs renaming) with a beautiful celebration of Indigenous Taíno and African diaspora survival in the form of a dance performance. Drummers and vocalists accompanied dancers performing the #bomba, a dance developed as an act of resistance and a means of communication by the Indigenous and African peoples of #Boriken aka #PuertoRico. Go to @thenewdemocracycoalition to learn more about the efforts to #RenameFaneuilHall. It’s time to do this and far more - like, I don’t know, having at least ONE Black-owned business in Faneuil Hall instead of none? The city can at least rename the place - no sense in keeping a place named after a slaver whose last name no tourist can pronounce. In a perfect world this tourist magnet would be renamed, have diverse and locally-owned businesses that would actually bring money into the area instead of indistinguishable chain stores and franchises. #indigenouspeople #colonialism #genocideisnothingtocelebrate #fuckcolumbus #columbusday #boston #decolonize #fuckcolonialism #whitesupremacy #nojusticenopeace #indigenousrights #indigenouslivesmatter #blacklivesmatter #americanhistory #racisminamerica #racism #racismisavirus https://www.instagram.com/p/CGi9MmpApyu/?igshid=1nsqowqc15mkn

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Taínos on the beheaded Columbus pedestal at Waterfront Park / Sinking Columbus: Boston Marches for Indigenous Peoples Day (10/10/20)

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#SinkingColumbus: A powerful moment at today’s #IndigenousPeoplesDay action, where Taíno activist Chali’lnaru Smilez Dones and some Taíno children were boosted up onto the pedestal that once housed a statue of Christopher Columbus. Columbus engineered the mass enslavement, maiming, rape, and murder of their ancestors, and @smileyslife’s words were a reminder of indigenous resilience and a call to action for the rest of us. Whether you are a #Bostonian on #Massachusett land like I am or if you live on any colonized land, spend this Indigenous People’s Day learning about your local tribe(s) and how you can help support their fights for survival, restorative justice, etc. as for me, I’ll be posting more from today’s action when Instagram isn’t being an asshole and crashing every time I try to post. 🤬 #landback #honorthetreaties #indigenousrights #indigenouswomen #indigenouslivesmatter #fuckwhitesupremacy #colonialism #fuckcolumbus #genocide #boriken #boricua #nojusticenopeace #boston https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLunFIAuZU/?igshid=1idpuyghruscy