Ketchikan, AK – In a powerful statement of resistance, President Gloria Ilsxileé Stáng Burns of the Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) condemned ongoing efforts to lift protections from the Tongass National Forest, warning that the future of Indigenous communities and ecosystems alike hang in the balance. “We, the people of Kichxáan, are the Tongass,” Burns declared. […]
The far-right Republican president, warned the human rights group, “is continuing to send a clear and chilling message: dissent will be punished.” The human rights advocacy group Amnesty International USA has issued a strong rebuke and warning in response to President Donald Trump’s public threat to aim “very heavy force” at law-abiding protesters voicing their constitutionally-protected free […]
President of the American Postal Workers Union says any effort by the Trump administration to seize control of the USPS Board of Governors “is unlawful and only makes clear their goal of breaking up and selling off the Postal Service to private corporations.” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy officially left office on Monday, but defenders of the U.S. […]
The U.S. president-elect’s remarks came a day after the 35th anniversary of the country’s invasion of Panama, which grassroots groups say killed thousands of civilians and displaced tens of thousands. President-elect Donald Trump threatened over the weekend that the U.S. would retake control of the Panama Canal if Panama did not lower the fees it charges U.S. […]