Dear Friend,
We don't usually send emails over the weekend, but today is the last day to support our Giving Week campaign!
Thanks to supporters like you, we just met our $10,000 goal! If you haven't already, we encourage you to give now, because the more we raise, the more we are able to donate to Indigenous-led partner organizations!
These organizations, the NDN Collective and The Red Nation, are doing critical work both for their own liberation and in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and other movements. Read more about their work below.
Whether it's $25, $50, or $100, small donations have been adding up very quickly this past week. And if you're able to make a contribution beyond that, it goes a long way towards supporting our work to defend Palestine advocates and support Indigenous liberation on Turtle Island.
Please consider making a generous donation to Palestine Legal today, and see below how you can support these Indigenous-led groups directly.
In solidarity,
Dima Khalidi
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Supporting Indigenous Liberation
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As an organization based in the U.S., Palestine Legal understands that the U.S. is rooted in systems of racist, colonial, and imperial violence that continue to harm Black and Indigenous people, and people of color around the world – including Palestinians.
Understanding the interconnectedness of struggles – that “none of us is free until all of us are free” – we view the work of Black and Indigenous people fighting for their own liberation on this occupied territory as a primary struggle that requires all of our investment as we work towards Palestinian liberation.
From Tuesday, December 1 through Sunday, December 6, we aim to raise $10,000 or more, and invest at least $2,000 of it in two Indigenous-led organizations working towards Indigenous liberation:
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The NDN Collective is is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change. The NDN Collective aims to decolonize and transform systems while providing tools and strategies for Indigenous self-determination and movement-building.
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The Red Nation (TRN) is dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism. They center Native political agendas and struggles through direct action, advocacy, mobilization, and education. TRN formed to address the marginalization and invisibility of Native struggles within mainstream social justice organizing, and to foreground the targeted destruction and violence towards Native life and land.
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Learn about these organizations and their work below:
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Spotlight on the NDN Collective's LANDBACK Campaign
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day 2020, the NDN Collective launched the LANDBACK Campaign centered around four demands:
- Dismantle — white supremacy structures that forcefully removed us from our Lands and continue to keep our Peoples in oppression.
a. Bureau of Land Management, National Parks Service
- Defund — white supremacy and the mechanisms and systems that enforce it and disconnect us from stewardship of the Land.
a. Police, military industrial complex, Border Patrol, ICE
- Return — All public lands back into Indigenous hands.
- Consent — Moving us out of an era of consultation and into a new era of policy around Free and Prior Informed Consent.
According to the NDN Collective, LANDBACK is a movement that has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands. Currently, there are LANDBACK battles being fought all across Turtle Island, to the north and the South.
The campaign came months after NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen and Krystal Two Bulls, a friend to many in the solidarity movement, were arrested during a protest that blocked access to Mt. Rushmore before Trump's scheduled visit in July 3, 2020.
Mt. Rushmore sits on stolen land that is sacred to Lakota Sioux people. The return of this land is central to the LANDBACK Campaign.
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Spotlight on The Red Nation's Media & Political Education Work
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The Red Nation has been inspiring us for years with their bold commitment and clarity regarding justice and liberation for all.
The Red Nation remains a go-to source for analysis and commentary on issues impacting Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island, across the Americas, and beyond.
Their political education series features resources on:
- Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Liberation
- Indigenous Socialism
- Queer Indigenous Feminism
- Black Liberation
- Environmental Justice
- and Abolition
The group adopted a formal position of Palestine solidarity last fall in addition to producing The Red Deal—a call to action that grounds the climate justice movement in principles of indigenous liberation.
Follow The Red Nation's blog, which includes writing on efforts by the Shinnecock Nation to struggle against forced impoverishment in the Hamptons, climate catastrophes in Central America, and anti-Black racism.
Tune into The Red Nation Podcast, which features discussions on Indigenous history, politics, and culture from a left perspective.
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