by Nada Khader | Mar 25, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Friends of Turtle Island, Movement Building
“Our current predicament requires more love, more accountability, and more solidarity for the benefit of our collective futures.” — Kyle T. Mays Perhaps the animals can show us the way… STRENGTH IN NUMBERS In these dire times, the wisdom of...
by Nada Khader | Mar 16, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Friends of Turtle Island, Progressive News Network
Dear WESPAC members, WESPAC’s Friends of Turtle Island Committee is happy to announce the launch of Animal Footnotes—a new web blog about shifting away from a colonial mindset and experiencing what it means to live on Turtle Island together. At its core, Animal...
by Nada Khader | Mar 6, 2025 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Friends of Turtle Island, Movement Building
Join us March 10th at Syracuse Stage & Check out our NEW #Lakeback website! Onondaga Land Rights & Our Common Future: The Quest for Justice Monday, March 10th, 6:30 pm at Syracuse Stage (820 E Genesee St, Syracuse) This event is free and open to the...
by Nada Khader | Feb 17, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Environmental and Food Justice, Friends of Turtle Island, Movement Building, Progressive News Network, Racial Justice
Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for February 2025. Enjoy, and please share widely! This poem was written for the candlelight vigil preceding the Onondaga Nation’s Land Rights hearing in Federal District Court, October 18, 2007. For Onondaga By Robin Wall Kimmerer...
by Nada Khader | Mar 14, 2023 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island
Tracy Basile, co-founder of WESPAC’s Friends of Turtle Island, has published her latest essay that looks at the lives of animals and colonization. Please take a look and share with friends! Animal Nations and the Doctrine of Discovery
by Nada Khader | Mar 14, 2023 | Blogs, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island, Movement Building
Repatriation By Sue Eiholzer from NOON, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation Repatriation is the returning of cultural items — human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony — to lineal descendants. In the United States this...
