I’m an Indigenous woman of Anishinaabe territory, being sued for $4M, facing 1 yr jail for locking to a CAT machine at Mountain Valley Pipeline, which would serve Elbit Systems.

Our peoples will *never* die. We are the land, the land is us. We stand with you, relatives ✊🏽❤️ #IWD

Let's hear from Palestinian academics . . . oh wait

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Tricky - Skilled Mechanics (2016)
Album art by Nyle Johnston, Anishinaabe from Neuaashiingigmiing

So dude is Nanabush and he’s fucking around before he finds out.

Housing: $17,000
Childcare: $5,000
Personal Assistant: $5,000
Restaurants: $14,000

Someone please help me, my orchestra is dying

How many more of our academic colleagues have to be murdered by Israel before institutions and scholars will say something? Scholasticide continues in Gaza. What is the threshold before scholars will speak up & say no more?

American Indian Musicians’ Scholarship application is out now for Spring 2024! Visit heartbeatmusicproject.org/aims-scholarsh… for info on how to apply and also how you can donate! Please share widely!

Rhiannon Giddens, who plays banjo and viola on Beyoncé's 'Texas Hold 'Em,' to Rolling Stone in 2020 on the history of Country music.

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Told my students this morning that I've been a card-carrying member of the Rhiannon Giddens fan club for years, but somehow I missed the memo that she doubles (quintuples?) on viola.

#VIOLAAUNTIE YES YES YES

The images from Gaza of the Rafah massacre by Israel last night look like a horror movie. Children dangling with limbs blown off, or crawling screaming with their dying breaths. Parents picking up the heads of their babies that are barely recognizable. The hundreds stacked like…

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“The government of Canada did not see any evidence backing up Israel's claim that staff employed by the UNRWA colluded with Hamas before suspending funding”: CBC News. Note, the Israeli government itself signs off on every employee hired by UNRWA.  cbc.ca/news/politics/…

Chief Moonias said it took a week to get a response. Mackenzie was a high school student Matawa ᒪᑕᐧᐊ and found deceased in Thunder Bay’s waterfront.

Neskantaga Chief Chris Moonias challenges Ont Dep Solicitor Gen Di Tommasso at Nishnawbe Aski Nation “What are you prepared to do to the Thunder Bay Police to make them accountable?” He is asking because when Mackenzie Moonias, a Neskantaga youth went missing on Dec 13, police did not act.

Canada has a growing record of charging journalists covering the lives of Indigenous Peoples - from Muskrat Dam to Wet’suwet’en to Six Nations and now Edmonton. This must end - eroding press freedom harms everyone. Don’t criminalize Brandi Morin for being a journalist.

cue the Pikachu surprise meme

Would also love to see AFM push on this. Indoor air quality is a workplace hazard for performing musicians, as is COVID.

The fact that so many Americans think that Margot Robbie can stand in for all women but Lily Gladstone cannot also reveals to us why so many Americans also think that Barbie not sweeping all the awards was the worst thing to happen so far in 2024.

'post-Covid' is like 'post-tonal.' no bitch it's still here and thriving