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WESPAC Foundation’s Friends of Turtle of Island is a grassroots movement to increase awareness of Indigenous peoples’ ongoing struggles to protect their human and land rights, environment, sacred sites, dignity, language and traditions. We seek to build relationships, support Native sovereignty, challenge racism, and promote social and environmental healing. We support the reconnection of ancient Indigenous trade routes and the rekindling of those relations. We recognize the importance of freedom of movement for all First Nations peoples as they struggle to retain their ancestral lands, language, culture and identity. The balance of the ecosystem requires this freedom of movement, not only for people but for all creatures living within it. Please contact the office for more information and to get involved at 914.449.6514 or by email at [email protected].

 
 

STREAM wants $1.44 billion for Monster Data Center

Dear Allies,  We are in a critical phase of the campaign to STOP the STAMP Monster Data Center. And the outrages keep piling up. Yesterday, we learned that STREAM US Data Centers and their financial backer Apollo Global Management have submitted a new request for...

Tribute to WESPAC

Hello everyone!   Here is Andrew's fabulous tribute to WESPAC with a couple of graphic tweaks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrEb3fBmniY   Thank you so much, and we look forward to celebrating with you at Red Hat on the River on June 10th!  All details can be...

The Water Act

https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/05/13/water-act-reintroduction-trump/ Thank you again for your support of the WATER Act!  Sen. Sanders and Reps. Watson Coleman and Khanna have just reintroduced the legislation to fully fund our water infrastructure.  Please...

Animal Footnotes: Stories from Turtle Island

"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 wildlife encourages us...

Animal Footnotes: Stories from Turtle Island

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...

Onondaga Land Rights

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...

NOON Newsletter 2025

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...

Animal Nations and the Doctrine of Discovery

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

Repatriation of Cultural Items

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 refers...

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