by Nada Khader | Dec 17, 2013 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Friends of Turtle Island, Movement Building
Wespac’s long and sadly neglected committee, Friends of Turtle Island, is being rekindled. Join us if you are interested in our mission of finding ways to stand in solidarity with (and learn from) Indigenous peoples locally and worldwide. Friends of Turtle Island...
by Nada Khader | Nov 24, 2013 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Friends of Turtle Island, Movement Building
Statement of Support Submitted to the EPA on November 9, 2013 in support of a total cleanup of Ringwood, NJ Superfund Site, home of the Ramapough Nation. We come before you tonight on behalf of WESPAC, a 500-member strong Westchester-based non-profit organization...
by wespac-admin | Jun 5, 2012 | Friends of Turtle Island
The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, a partnership between the Onondaga Nation and Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation (NOON), is developing a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and their allies in New York and throughout the world. Our statewide advocacy and...
by wespac-admin | May 11, 2012 | Friends of Turtle Island
Subject: Stop Navajo, Hopi genocide: Oppose the Kyl bill The bill would give water rights that currently fall under native control to the power industry, and leave huge portions of both Navajo and Hopi peoples without any water access. They will have no way to water...
by wespac-admin | May 7, 2012 | Friends of Turtle Island
Greetings: Peter Clark, LPDOC, Lenny Foster, Navajo Nation, and Paulette D'Auteuil, Jericho Movement, went to Tucson last week to present before the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya. He has since been to Portland Ore., Pine...
by wespac-admin | Sep 5, 2011 | Friends of Turtle Island
Please find attached Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way) written release on White House resistance and arrests on the 2nd of September. OWE AKU BRING BACK THE WAY PARTICIPATES IN RESISTANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE (September 3,...