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Border Patrol and Arizona State Police Violently Attacked Peaceful, Non-Violent Indigenous Land Protection Ceremony With Rubber Bullets and Tear Gas On Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Source: O’odham Anti Border Collective and Defend O’odham Jewed
• GoFundMe: Defend O’odham Land Bail Fund
Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020; Highway 85, Hia Ced O’odham Lands (Arizona) –
This morning (October 12) at about 7am, roughly thirty O’odham sacred land and water protectors and allies held a peaceful action at a border patrol checkpoint on unceded O’odham lands to pray for sacred sites and burial grounds destroyed by the border wall & border militarization.
The prayer ceremony was attended by O’odham families from all O’odham nations (Hia Ced O’odham, Tohono O’odham, and Akimel O’odham) including children. Covid-19 precautions were taken. This prayer ceremony marked Indigenous Peoples’ Day as O’odham continue to face violence from border militarization, including extensive abuses from border patrol against O’odham communities.
During ceremony O’odham sang traditional songs, prayed, and attempted to discuss the Freedom Of Religion Act (1978), that decriminalized Native American religions and opened the path towards the protection of sacred sites, with members of Border Patrol and Arizona State Troopers and Department of Public Safety present to educate them on the context of Indigenous religious protections.
Indigenous Peoples Day – Border Patrol Checkpoint – October 12, 2020
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• Immediate release of all who were arrested today
• Immediate release of all minors abducted by the state today
• Information about and reparations for all who were injured today
• End the checkpoints and remove all Customs and Border Patrol agencies from O’odham lands
• Immediate and indefinite discontinuation of border wall construction at Quitobaquito Springs and throughout O’odham territories
• Immediate removal of the white supremacist border wall and restoration of the land
• Immediate demilitarization of O’odham lands
• Remove the Integrated Fixed Towers
• End racial profiling and harassment of Indigenous peoples
• End incarceration and deportation of O’odham people from O’odham homelands by border patrol
• End sexual and gender violence by border patrol
• End white supremacist attacks, incarceration, and deportation of refugees and migrants on Indigenous lands
• Supporting Indigenous autonomy against colonial borders
• Immediate release of all minors abducted by the state today
• Information about and reparations for all who were injured today
• End the checkpoints and remove all Customs and Border Patrol agencies from O’odham lands
• Immediate and indefinite discontinuation of border wall construction at Quitobaquito Springs and throughout O’odham territories
• Immediate removal of the white supremacist border wall and restoration of the land
• Immediate demilitarization of O’odham lands
• Remove the Integrated Fixed Towers
• End racial profiling and harassment of Indigenous peoples
• End incarceration and deportation of O’odham people from O’odham homelands by border patrol
• End sexual and gender violence by border patrol
• End white supremacist attacks, incarceration, and deportation of refugees and migrants on Indigenous lands
• Supporting Indigenous autonomy against colonial borders
This morning O’odham activists were tear-gassed & shot with rubber bullets while blocking a border patrol checkpoint. Eight people were arrested & two minors taken into custody.
— Maxie Adler (@maxie_adler) October 12, 2020
Cashapp: $DefendOodhamJewed
Venmo: @DefendOodhamJewed
Video from O’odham Anti Border Collective: pic.twitter.com/kZJsiEQkdN
Update from Defend O’odham Jewed: “Holding it down at Pima County Detention Center until all our comrades are released and children who were abducted are back in the care of their parents. Keep calling and keep sharing this story, anything helps!”
— Maxie Adler (@maxie_adler) October 13, 2020
Pima County Jail: 520-351-8111 pic.twitter.com/7zvdcaCz5S
O’odham Anti Border Collective is a grassroots collective of Akimel O’odham, Tohono O’odham, and Hia Ced O’odham tribal members and descendants committed to the unification of all O’odham peoples, regeneration of O’odham himdag (traditions, spirituality, language, and culture), and the protection of O’odham jewed (homelands) through the dismantling of colonial borders. Defend O’odham Jewed is an O’odham u’uwi (women) led grassroots movement and spiritual direct action campaign to protect the sacred O’odham homelands from desecration and violence. Jewed means homelands in the O’odham language.
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