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Critical Race Theory #CRT lesson one:
Your grandparents identify with one of these two groups, and have handed down their values.
Take all the time you need with this. - JJ Westgate #ncpol
Your grandparents identify with one of these two groups, and have handed down their values.
Take all the time you need with this. - JJ Westgate #ncpol
Critical Race Theory Lesson #2:
These folks birthed the idea of charter schools. - JJ Westgate #ncpol
These folks birthed the idea of charter schools. - JJ Westgate #ncpol
Critical Race Theory Lesson #3:
These are the grandparents of the seditionists who stormed the capitol on January 6th. - JJ Westgate #ncpol
These are the grandparents of the seditionists who stormed the capitol on January 6th. - JJ Westgate #ncpol
1/ If you're an @apsfyi customer you should pay close attention this week. Your elected utility regulators @CorpCommAZ will cast a *MAJOR* vote that determines if your electricity rates go UP. A 🧵👇
2/ One BIG question is what regulators will do about the Four Corners Coal Plant. @apsfyi wants to raise customer rates by ~$400 million to pay for pollution controls installed at the plant. These costs represent ~40% of @apsfyi’s requested rate hike.
3/ For the history buffs, these costs have actually been the subject of at least 3 major proceedings spanning years, but so far @CorpCommAZ has not made a decision on them.
THREAD: About how Native voices are silenced and tribal sovereignty overruled by tonight's federal execution of #LezmondMitchell taking place over the objections of his and his victims' tribe (#Navajo). People from diverse tribal nations are calling on 45 to commute the sentence.
“To carry out Lezmond Mitchell’s execution, despite the profound infringement on tribal sovereignty that his case represents, would be a grave injustice,” by @NavajoCouncil delegate Carl Slater via @nytimes: nytimes.com/2020/08/19/opi…
“The cultural values of Navajo Nation specifically disavow murder as punishment. No one will be made whole by Mr. Mitchell’s execution,” writes Barbara Creel, Director of the Southwest Indian Law Clinic and law professor at the University of New Mexico. medium.com/@creelesq/sche…
All Americans deserve the same opportunities, privileges, and freedoms. On a day where we celebrate #America, I’m equally torn between pride and guilt. And just returning from a @USCG deployment to land-locked #NavajoNation, I’m still grasping to find the right words...
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At the request of Navajo Nation’s government, FEMA mobilized to support the #COVID19 response on the ground. More resources were needed and agencies – including the #CoastGuard – were asked to help. And I will forever be grateful for the opportunity to answer that call. 2/
My eyes are now wide open to the fact that the basic rights and privileges extended to most American citizens are not enjoyed equally by all. And in an era where we’re working to stop an invisible enemy like COVID-19, all Americans deserve an equal chance at survival. 3/
The death toll on #NavajoNation has reached 298 due to #COVID19. That’s 298 Navajo lives including 5 Medicine People gone w/in 2.5 MONTHS. Each night I shed tears for my people as I read my Nation’s daily reports - it’s not easy learning of new deaths that could’ve been prevented
I type updates to keep folks informed hoping they, too, recognize why it’s so concerning for a Native community fighting so hard for the sacred knowledge & teachings that we have left & MUST protect, especially in my Navajo community where we’re doing all we can to combat
this monster but it’s still taking precious lives, precious loved ones. It’s especially hard knowing that over 65% of these deaths due to COVID are our elders 60+ years old - our Cheiis & Másánís who we’re still learning so much from. Másánís are still teaching us how to
C’est l’histoire la plus triste que j’ai eu à couvrir depuis le début de cette épidémie de #COVIDー19. Valentina Blackhorse est morte le 23 avril à l’âge de 28 ans. Très impliquée au sein de la communauté Navajo, elle avait été élue reine de beauté plusieurs fois .../...
Elle est morte un jour après avoir été diagnostiquée, et alors que (depuis plusieurs jours) elle prêtait main forte aux personnes âgées de son village, Kayenta, dans le nord de l’Arizona
Avec 159 morts et presque 5.000 contaminations, la Nation Navajo est la communauté aux 🇺🇸 où le taux d’infection est le plus élevé. Plus que New York. Plus que le New Jersey.
Ya'at'eeh my relatives. Today is Friday, May 15 and I am collecting signatures remotely in an effort to get on the November ballot in the states of Alaska, North Dakota & New Hampshire. I'm also collecting donations to pay the $35K fee to get on the ballot in Oklahoma.
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I am a dual citizen of the US and the #NavajoNation and I am running as an independent candidate for the office of President of the United States. My vision is to build a nation where We the People truly means #AllThePeople.
markcharles2020.com/allthepeople
markcharles2020.com/allthepeople
Due to the #Covid19 pandemic, in person and public signature collection is not currently possible, but there are three states (AK, ND & NH) that allow for remote signature collection. This short 3 min video explains more:
Ya'at'eeh my #Alaska relatives. I am a dual citizen of the USA & the #NavajoNation & am running for POTUS as an independent candidate. My campaign for #AllThePeople has begun the process of collecting signatures remotely to get my name on the ballot in AK.
markcharles2020.com/alaska
markcharles2020.com/alaska
If you follow my campaign but do not live in Alaska, you can still help out. Simply retweet this thread & tag any friends, family or acquaintances who live in Alaska asking if they would be interested in signing my petition.
If anyone is not familiar with my campaign, I invite you to watch this campaign video that I released in May of 2019. It lays out my vision to build a nation where We the People truly means #AllThePeople.
markcharles2020.com/allthepeople
markcharles2020.com/allthepeople
The crisis on the #NavajoNation is hundreds of years in the making, dating back to the ethnic cleansing policies of Abraham Lincoln. But the US thinks these problems can be solved w/ charity rather than dealing justly w/ the Doctrine of Discovery & our country's genocidal history
The #COVID19 pandemic has clearly exposed the systemic inequalities that have existed in the USA since its founding, not only throughout Indian country, but in all other marginalized communities throughout the nation.
I invite you to learn more about my independent campaign for POTUS. My vision is to build as nation where We the People truly means #AllThePeople.
Valentina Blackhorse, Navajo Pageant Winner With Dreams, Dies at 28: “Ms. Blackhorse... was among the #NavajoNation’s youngest and most prominent pandemic victims, and her death stunned many among her people.” #RIP nytimes.com/2020/04/30/obi…
Sandra Santos-Vizcaino, Beloved Brooklyn Teacher, Dies at 54: "For scores of children and parents, being assigned to Sandra Santos-Vizcaino’s third-grade classroom at Public School 9 in Brooklyn felt like winning the lottery..." nytimes.com/2020/04/07/obi…
Idris Bey, an N.Y.C. Emergency Worker, Dies at 60: "He served in the United States Marine Corps and as an E.M.T. responded to the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11." #RIP nytimes.com/2020/04/30/obi…
1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 36
After stats, a grab bag today – stuff that I’m reading, hearing & otherwise thinking about.
@UCSFhospitals stable, w/ 17 cases, 4 intubated. Last 1200 tests (PCR) @ucsf: 1% positive. Still only 1 death since start, 41 recovered & discharged.
After stats, a grab bag today – stuff that I’m reading, hearing & otherwise thinking about.
@UCSFhospitals stable, w/ 17 cases, 4 intubated. Last 1200 tests (PCR) @ucsf: 1% positive. Still only 1 death since start, 41 recovered & discharged.
2/ SF: 1233 cases, up 2(!). Hospitalizd pts flat. 21 deaths in SF, up 1 in last wk. Nice piece @TheAtlantic on SF’s success in Crushing the Curve bit.ly/3apa7Xj Below, reaction when @LondonBreed banned crowds (early March), canceling @warriors hoops. Gutsy & life-saving.
3/ @tomaspueyo’s “Hammer & the Dance” is essential reading re: what comes next bit.ly/34Ryhsk. His new piece @Medium, “Learning How to Dance,” is Part 1 in brilliant primer on lessons from other nations re: controlling Covid in tricky next phase bit.ly/34Uhdls
