Awana Digital will be present at Skoll World Forum 2025 this week! Our CoDirector Emily Jacobi, is joining this yearly event to continue weaving connections with partners and funders who share paths towards #SocioenvironmentalJustice and #IndigenousPeople's rights. Let us know if you are around!
Colonial carceral legacies
Incarceration and "military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures" for some
"A victim of crime advocacy group has quickly risen to prominence in Queensland and has been consulted on sweeping changes to youth justice laws."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/voices-for-victims-rise-to-prominence-queensland-government/105007040
"First Nations human rights experts lodge UN complaint over 'racist' tough-on-crime laws"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/un-urged-to-rule-on-australias-youth-crime-laws/105116196
"First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world."
https://theconversation.com/first-nations-imprisonment-is-already-at-a-record-high-unless-government-policy-changes-it-will-only-get-worse-226612
"NT government-funded security patrol caught on camera kicking man in the head"
"Military-style patrols, surveillance and move-on measures."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/nt-government-funded-security-guard-caught-on-camera-kicking-man/105060870
‘We play for Indian Country’: how Bilingual Basketball league is preserving Indigenous languages https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/bilingual-basketball-league-indigenous-languages #Trumpadministration #Indigenouspeoples #NativeAmericans #Washingtonstate #Basketball #USpolitics #USnews #Sport #Race
In a collaborative museology initiative, the #InDigit project team, coordinated by Rodrigo Lacerda and Elisabete Pereira, organised a workshop at the National Museum of Ethnology with Kanawayuri Marcello Kamaiurá and Auakamu Kamayurá, from the #Kamayurá indigenous people (Alto Xingu, Brazil).
The full story is here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/indigit-receives-kamayura/
More than 250 members of Indigenous and local communities gathered in Indonesia’s Merauke district to demand an end to government-backed projects of strategic national importance, or PSN, which they say have displaced them, fueled violence, and stripped them of their rights.
By Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/indigenous-communities-in-indonesia-demand-halt-to-land-grabbing-government-projects/
On the Frontline of Land Defense in the Amazon in Brazil
"Defending Land Rights in the Amazon in #Brazil. The land defenders say they will remain mobilized until their rights are guaranteed. “We will not leave. We left our homes, we have children, young people and the elderly here. This is to resist."
Read more:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-frontline-of-land-defense-in-amazon.html
#IndigenousNews #IndigenousPeoples #LandDefenders #TheAmazon #IndigenousActivists #Resistance #ReaderSupportedNews #CensoredNews
‘Protect our future’: Alaskan Indigenous town fights ‘destructive’ uranium mine project https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/uranium-mine-elim-alaska-trump #Trumpadministration #Indigenouspeoples #NativeAmericans #DonaldTrump #Environment #USpolitics #Alaska #Mining #Mining #USnews
‘A slap in the face’: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-missing-murdered-indigenous-peoples-report-removed #Trumpadministration #Indigenouspeoples #NativeAmericans #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USnews #Women
#CensoredNews is on #Mastodon! Well, at least an automated parrot.
"I'm an automated parrot! I relay a website's RSS feed to the Fediverse. Every time a new post appears in the feed, I toot about it. Follow me to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline! Brought to you by the RSS Parrot.
"Censored News is a service to grassroots #IndigenousPeoples engaged in resistance and upholding #HumanRights."
Here’s a #surffeeds honoring indigenous communities from around the world. https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jjd9d4h0szts14hgp8ryqjs3 to access use click on the link, fill in the form and use code Surf+JanetteSpeyer #indigenous #education #IndigenousPeoples
NT parliament passes CLP government's territory coordinator bill
The Northern Territory government has passed the territory coordinator bill through parliament, giving it the power to override dozens of regulatory laws relevant to projects of "economic significance".
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/nt-territory-coordinator-bill-clp-government-pass-parliament/105067814
The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages
"42% of NT residents speak a non-English language at home. Only half of eligible Aboriginal residents in the NT are enrolled to vote, and voter participation is even lower. Recognition – Rejecting someone’s language means rejecting their identity. Reconciliation is not just something parliamentarians should direct others to do, it’s something that needs to happen within parliament itself."
"The NT is a rich, multilingual society. How can the Legislative Assembly claim to fully represent the breadth of NT society when it chooses to be monolingual?"
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https://theconversation.com/the-english-only-nt-parliament-is-undermining-healthy-democracy-by-excluding-aboriginal-languages-105048
#governance #EconomicSignificance #laws #regulation #conservation #language #IndigenousPeoples #participation #NT #monolingualism #language #mining #extractivism #zeitgeist
Articles about Native American code talkers removed from military websites https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/native-american-code-talkers-dei-military #Trumpadministration #Indigenouspeoples #NativeAmericans #USmilitary #USpolitics #USnews
Second body identified in Canada landfill amid search for serial killer’s victims https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/canada-landfill-victims-search-serial-killer-indigenous-women #Indigenouspeoples #JustinTrudeau #Worldnews #Americas #Canada
In the rainforests of West Kalimantan, in Indonesian Borneo, the Indigenous Dayak Iban listen to what they call “omen birds,” or birds they say sing messages from spirits, Mongabay’s Sonam Lama Hyolmo reported in November 2024.
writing another #introduction after moving to a different instance.
i'm a copy editor and a professional auntie. i love taking my nephews for a walk. my interests are #thesims4 #eurovision #films #manga #manhwa #webtoons #urbanlandscape #environment #indigenouspeoples #climatejustice
other things about me:
got tattoos? yes
got piercings? yes
underwent surgery? yes
shot a gun? yes
quit a job? yes
broke a bone? no
rode an ambulance? yes
went to court? yes
donated blood? no
joined a strike? yes
If this doesn't scare you, it should!
NYTimes: These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
University of Colorado Boulder: ‘You don’t just throw them in a box.’ Archaeologists, Indigenous scholars call on museums to better care for animal remains. “[Chance Ward is] leading a team of archaeologists and Indigenous scholars urging museums around the country to take a more respectful approach to caring for animal remains. It’s an example of what the researchers call ‘cultural […]
Canadian police identify remains of murdered Indigenous woman at landfill https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/10/murdered-indigenous-woman-identified-morgan-harris #Indigenouspeoples #Worldnews #Americas #Society #Canada #Women
