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IPMSDL extends its condolences to the family, comrades and friends of Hank Adams (Assiniboine–Sioux, 1943–2020).Hank is known known for his lifelong work to secure Native treaty rights, especially Northwest Coast tribes’ treaty rights to fish their accustomed rivers and grounds.Let us join in mourning the death of Hank but we also celebrate his life committed toContinue reading “In Memory of Hank Adams: Statement by Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation”

“The second evil that I want to deal with is the evil of poverty. Like a monstrous octopus it spreads its nagging prehensile tentacles into cities and hamlets and villages all over our nation. Some forty million of our brothers and sisters are poverty stricken, unable to gain the basic necessities of life. And soContinue reading “Quote from Dr Martin Luther King Jr”

To a leading light of the original Poor People’s Campaign and the American Indian Movement. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2020/12/24/most-important-indian-hank-adams-19432020/

The Day I Always Remember on This Day © Carlos Raúl Dufflar 12/4/2020 Even after six generations of past life, struggling for a new future in the community for housing fit for a human being, food for the people, job training, income, jobs, justice, against police brutality.  The Harlem Rent Strike of 1963, the GreatContinue reading “The Day I Always Remember on This Day”

This is in loving & living memory of all who sacrificed to build the original Poor People’s Campaign (original PPC), in existence from December 4, 1967, to Summer 1969. The organizing culminated in a six-week community called Resurrection City in Washington, DC, from Mother’s Day (May 12) to the early morning of June 24, 1968.Continue reading “Welcome to the Poor People’s Embassy/Bienvenidos a la Embajada de la Gente Pobre”

.Note: Día de los Puertorriqueños was actually held the following week, on June 15. . .