Archives for Stories of the People - Page 2
Free Efrén: 15-year old honor student, wrongly charged 3 life sentences, spends 27th year changing the world from inside a cell
Efrén Paredes, Jr. was a 15-year-old honor student in St. Joseph, Michigan who was who was wrongly convicted by a majority White jury in Berrien County, Michigan, a community with a history of…
Texas Water Protectors Shut Down Trans-Pecos Pipeline (Video)
As originally posted on Deceleration By Greg Harman Dozens of self-described water protectors flooded a construction site in Far West Texas this morning, shutting down construction on a high-pressure natural…
Walking the Red Road on Chicanismo: A platica with Ysidro Macias
Recently we had the honor of interviewing Ysidro Macias, Chicano scholar, attorney, and author, about his latest release, Walking the Red Road on Chicanismo: including Chicano identity teatro plays. What…
Major document dump reveals agrochem industry’s MeXicanx roots
Last week the MTX Files, a sister site of Xica Nation, released hundreds of previously confidential/unpublished multimedia to the site, revealing a chronicle of the events surrounding the chemical contamination in…
Solidarity with Standing Rock: Front line video of police attack on Sat 10/22/16
Attack by police at Standing Rock, Saturday, Oct 22, 2016. The following videos are from the front lines at Standing Rock, North Dakota where people in prayer were surrounded and attacked by police…
#AyoyotesOnTheGround evokes sacred drum beats across the U.S. and Mexico against the Dakota Access Pipeline
Images from the Segunda Llamada of #AyoyotesOnTheGround at the Sacred Stone Camp. Image by E'Sha Hoferer. The call to defend Mother Earth and her waters at the spiritual resistance camps near the…
NOW ONLINE: La Nueva Raza barrio resistance news archive shares Texas Mexicanx/Xicanx history (2004-2009)
Announcing the release of the La Nueva Raza news archive, a multimedia platform that engaged barrio resistance movements from Texas and the Southwest from 2004-2009. La Nueva Raza was a multimedia project born…
Danza Mexica arrives at the Sacred Stone Camp
By Don Grey Day There is currently a gathering of nations of historic proportions occurring at the Camp of the Sacred Stones in Cannonball, North Dakota near the Standing Rock Reservation.…
Community survey results: What it means to be Xicanx today
A few weeks ago Xica Nation placed a nationwide call for Xicanx art, photos and poetry that addresses the theme of what it means to be Xicanx today. Here are the…
Reclaiming our names: The Tribal Nations Maps project
Visit the website at: The Tribal Nations Maps are a unique collection of maps of pre-contact and at-contact native nations across the hemisphere that are considered the most comprehensive to…