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On a breezy spring day, Lorraine Eiler, a member of the Hia-Ced O’odham tribe, walked with me around the border of Quitobaquito Springs — a strawberry-shaped oasis in the Sonoran Desert near Pima County, Arizona. Her family has lived in the area for generations.

“If you do research on Quitobaquito, the majority of times you will read about the cattlemen that lived here in the area, about the people that went through Quitobaquito,” she said. “You hear nothing about the fact that it’s an old Indian village. It was abundant. Now, it’s just … well, you see what it looks like.”

The first thing you notice most about Quitobaquito Springs is the trees. It’s the only source of water for miles in the desert and the lush vegetation around it is stark against the dry tan and khaki landscape and occasional organ pipe cactus. The second thing you notice: the border wall, 30 feet tall, just feet from the water’s edge. I asked Eiler how the landscape compares to her early memories of the site.

Read the written version of this story on Grist: https://grist.org/video/quitobaquito-springs-national-park-service-border-indigenous-water-protection/

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tia-adxtNAU

Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd says Western reaction to Israel’s assault on Gaza has once again highlighted the double standard when it comes to how Israeli and Palestinian lives are valued. Israel is bombarding the densely populated coastal territory in retaliation for Saturday’s Hamas attack on southern Israel, as well as tightening the existing siege even further. Israeli officials have vowed to wipe out Hamas despite warnings of massive civilian casualties inside Gaza. “One wonders how much bloodshed, how much Palestinian death is necessary for people to realize that violence begets violence and that the occupation and the colonization of Palestine, the blockade of the Gaza Strip needs to end for all of this violence to end.” El-Kurd also accuses Israeli officials and Western media outlets of using Islamophobic tropes by spreading as-yet-unverified claims of sexual violence and beheadings by Hamas fighters, while downplaying the documented death and devastation being inflicted on Gaza residents.

transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/10/mohammed_el_kurd_palestine_israel_gaza

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94W_GE0drI8

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Over 50 years since the United States forced them out in order to build a military base on the island of Diego Garcia, exiled residents of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean continue to pressure Britain and the U.S. to pay reparations and apologize for expelling residents. We speak with prominent Chagossian activist Olivier Bancoult, who is visiting the United States to meet with lawmakers and State Department officials. The U.S. is "fully responsible for what happened to our people," says Bacoult. "We want the Biden administration to apologize and to make reparation for what they did wrong to our people." Located halfway between Africa and Indonesia and about 1,000 miles south of India, the military base on Diego Garcia played a key role in the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. "This is a crime against humanity," says author of Base Nation David Vine, who adds that there are more than 20 cases of the U.S. displacing local populations for military bases. "The Chagossians are not alone."

Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/3/chagos_islands

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mla3fmQgpUI

In New Mexico, a 23-year-old gunman wearing a red MAGA hat opened fire last week on Jacob Johns and other Indigenous activists opposing plans to reinstall a statue honoring the 16th century conquistador Juan de Oñate, New Mexico's first colonial governor. Johns, the prominent climate activist, was airlifted from Española to an Albuquerque hospital and required emergency surgery. We speak with Malaya Peixinho, who participated in Thursday's gathering, about how the statue of the colonial leader has divided the local community. "It is a really controversial thing to talk about Oñate," says Peixinho, who believes funds for the statue could go to social programs instead. "That feels more important than funding a statue being resurrected." The shooter, Ryan Martinez, was arrested and charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for shooting Johns and aiming the gun at Peixinho, who calls the charges "fair" and blames police for not intervening. "They didn't show up for us," says Peixinho.

Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/3/espanola_protest_shooting

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF5lGtMxivU

The newly released Raza Database Project reveals the number of Brown and Black people killed by police in the United States may be more than double the amount that is widely reported. Statistician and demographer Jesus Garcia explains how the team merged data sets from independent research projects on police violence to more accurately determine the ethnicities of victims. These are "terrible numbers to look at," says Garcia. "The results are stark and bare." Project manager Ivette Xochiyotl Boyzo calls the research "groundbreaking" because of the lack of federal data collection on police violence. "It's so unfortunate that there's not any type of actual collection of information against these types of violences," says Boyzo, who calls for accountability. "What's the most disturbing out of all of this, it's the impunity rate."

transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/10/3/la_raza_database

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng1MHkuDpFw

As part of events marking the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile that ousted democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende and led to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean President Gabriel Boric visited Washington, D.C., Saturday to deliver a historic address. He spoke at the site where former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier was assassinated in 1976 by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship, along with his co-worker Ronni Moffitt. We feature excerpts from the address and speak with Letelier's son, Juan Pablo Letelier, a former member of the Chilean House and Senate with the Socialist Party, about his father's assassination and the Boric administration's work toward redress for the families of victims of Pinochet's regime.

Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/26/chile_coup_anniversary_assassination_letelier

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/NJKWccjeaQY

A political battle is brewing in Washington, D.C., over plans to build a National Museum of the American Latino and the portrayal of American Latino history. Last year, the Smithsonian Institution opened a temporary preview exhibition inside the National Museum of American History that has become the focus of controversy within the Latino community, as Republican lawmakers and others challenge what one conservative writer described in The Hill as an "unabashedly Marxist portrayal of history." We speak to two historians who were hired to develop a now-shelved exhibit on the Latino civil rights movement of the 1960s for the museum. Felipe Hinojosa is a history professor at Baylor University in Texas, and Johanna Fernández is an associate professor of history at the City University of New York's Baruch College. We discuss their vision for the first national museum dedicated to Latino history, which Hinojosa describes as "complex" and "nuanced," and how conservative backlash has sought to stymie and rewrite their work. "These conservatives are using fear to essentially push through their agenda," says Fernández, who warns that the rising wave of censorship throughout the U.S. could be a "repeat of the Red Scare."

Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/26/national_museum_of_the_american_latino

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/M3ahAsTdnSY

This video was taken down in a number of countries including the UK so I've reuploaded it to get around the copyright

It's finally here, the definitive examination of perhaps the most accomplished piece of radical art in history: Chicken Run.

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/embed/0et4Om7QOWQ