#landback — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #landback, aggregated by home.social.
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Our government has no right to argue with Indigenous over land. air or water. The feds and provinces need a daily reminder, we stole this country!
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University racism definitions won’t dismantle racism
"While apparently grounded in concern, these definitions turn the attention away from the state as the primary agent of racism, a state founded on the genocide of Indigenous people here and complicit in that of another people in Palestine today. Pointing this out will become harder as defining racism is taken out of the hands of those who experience and study it and into those of the same university managers who have acted to repress their staff and students standing up against a live-streamed genocide." Alana Lentin
https://pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08/university-racism-definitions-wont-dismantle-racism/
#AlanaLentin #auspol #Racism #Palestine #LandBack #Indigenous
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Violent Eviction of Mapuche Communities, the State advances into ancestral territories
The evicted communities lived on lands located in the Coihue-Brazo Huemul area, in the Los Lagos department of Neuquén province. Their presence in the area dates back to the 17th century, long before the founding of Villa La Angostura and the establishment of Nahuel Huapi National Park.
#Mapuche #indigenous #Argentina #HumanRights #eviction #LandBack #colonialism
https://www.cels.org.ar/web/2026/08/desalojo-mapuche-kinxikew-mello/ -
#Activist #TreeSit in #Ancient #Cottonwood Continues Against #BorderWall Construction in #Arizona
August 19, 2026, via @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
"A protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President #Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the protest camp is a 200-year-old cottonwood known as a '#grandmother' tree, with activists sitting in the tree to physically stop its destruction.
" 'People are successfully forcing the government to stop, to slow down, or at least change course on border wall construction,' says journalist John Washington, a staff writer for the queer news outlet Lookout and author of multiple books about immigration. 'They’ve been very clear that this is both an environmental and a political fight.' "
Watch / listen / read:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/19/arizona_activists_protest_border_wall#USPol #TreeSitters #TrumpsBorderWall #RespectTheTreaties #LandBack #NoBorders #IndigenousCulture
#ProtectTheSacred #CulturalGenocide #OldGrowthTrees #Cottonwoods #BorderWall #Resistance #EndangeredSpecies #CottonwoodTrees #TreeSitting #GrandmotherCamp #GrandmotherTree -
#NoBorderWall - #GrandmotherCamp in #LochielAZ Expanded to #TreeSit on the #Mexico Side
“From #Minnesota to Mexico, #ResistanceIsFertile !”
via #CensoredNews, August 18, 2026
"A defender of #GrandmotherTree phoned into the celebration for the 55th anniversary of friendship park to discuss what is happening in Southern #Arizona and how the defenders of Grandmother tree have stopped border wall construction,' Kate Scott said today at the tree sit in Lochiel.
" #FriendshipPark is a #binational site sitting directly on the #USMexico border, split between San Diego, California, and Playas de Tijuana, Baja California.
"Defending Grandmother isn’t just about
protecting an ancient tree, it’s about building a community of land defenders across the whole southern border & beyond. If we can stop construction here, we can do it anywhere!""We hope what is happening down here in Lochiel, AZ inspires you to take action in your community,"
Source [includes photos]:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/no-border-wall-grandmother-camp-in.html#USPol #TreeSitters #TrumpsBorderWall #RespectTheTreaties #LandBack #NoBorders #IndigenousCulture
#ProtectTheSacred #CulturalGenocide #OldGrowthTrees #Cottonwoods #BorderWall #Resistance #EndangeredSpecies #CottonwoodTrees -
it's not #LandBack but it is a promise finally kept
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-ao-maori/1052404/nelson-tenths-bill-passing-finally-settles-180-year-land-dispute -
BREAKING NEWS🚨 - Press release from the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity
#Trump Moves to Kill #RoadlessRule in Biggest Assault on #ForestProtections in U.S. History
For Immediate Release, August 18, 2026
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration today proposed scrapping the country’s most significant tool for protecting national forests, a move that would open nearly 45 million acres of wild, unfragmented forest across 37 states to road construction, logging and other development.
“Trump is pushing for the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history and against what Americans want,” said Randi Spivak, public lands policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “These are some of the last truly wild forests left in the country, places that shelter endangered wildlife and protect our drinking water. Once you start bulldozing roads for commercial logging and industrial development, there’s no getting them back. Americans love their public lands and want them protected. We’re going to fight like hell to safeguard these wild places for future generations.”
Today’s announcement from the U.S. Agriculture Department will be followed by Wednesday’s release of the draft environmental analysis, giving the public until Sept. 21 to comment on the proposed Roadless Rule recission.
Here are statements from the Center’s regional experts on risks to roadless forests and wildlife across the country:
Northern #Rockies
“Roadless forests are lifelines for grizzly bears and Canada lynx across the northern Rockies,” said Kristine Akland, Northern Rockies director. “Grizzlies need these areas to den and raise cubs and lynx populations are already declining as mature forest habitat disappears. Building roads and allowing logging in these wild areas would make an already difficult situation for these species even worse. People across the region know how vital these intact forests are for wildlife, clean water and recreation, and they overwhelmingly oppose dismantling the Roadless Rule.”
“We’ll fight Trump’s monstrous proposal to gut the Roadless Rule, which would be disastrous for the Tongass,” said Cooper Freeman, Alaska program director. “Punching roads through 9 million acres of intact temperate rainforest would destroy world-class salmon streams. It would open the door for corporations to clearcut irreplaceable, centuries-old Sitka spruce for export overseas. Alaska’s wild places deserve better.”
Southwest
“Roadless forests are where wildlife live,” said Taylor McKinnon, Southwest director. “They’re home to jaguars, Mexican spotted owls, and ocelots, some of the most iconic animals on the continent. Plowing roads into their habitat will bring human-caused wildfires and disturbances that they don’t need and can’t afford. We’ve fought for years to protect the forests and animals of the Southwest and there’s no way we’re giving up now.”
"Roadless areas protect the most beloved and endangered species in the Southeast,” said Will Harlan, Southeast program director. “The South Mills River harbors the country’s strongest hellbender population. Snowbird and Tusquitee Bald shelter endangered Carolina northern flying squirrels, gray bats and longsolid mussel. These forests sustain local economies, protect iconic recreation spots like the Appalachian Trail and safeguard drinking water for millions of people in Charlotte, Atlanta and beyond. Handing them over to loggers and construction crews isn’t sound policy, it’s a tragedy."
Why we need the Roadless Rule:
- Forests free of roads and logging provide crucial and connected habitat for animals and plants, protecting them from noise, pollution and other human-caused harms.
- The forests at risk — from Oregon to North Carolina — are home to scores of threatened and endangered species, including American wolverines, Canada lynx, grizzly bears and northern spotted owls. Rescinding the Roadless Rule would not only push these species closer to extinction but threaten countless others, including Alexander Archipelago wolves and Queen Charlotte goshawks.
- More than 370,000 miles of roads already fragment U.S. national forests, with a maintenance backlog in the billions of dollars. Most wildfires are human caused and occur near roads, with a decades-long, nationwide study finding human-caused wildfires are four times more likely in areas with roads than in roadless forests.
- National forests are the headwaters of many of the country’s major rivers and the largest source of municipal water supplies, serving more than 60 million people in 33 states. The Roadless Rule protects rivers and streams from roads, a major source of water pollution because of erosion and sediment.
#USPol #ProtectTheForest #NationalForests #WildlifeCorridors #WildlifeHabitat #EndangeredSpecies #Greed #CorporateColonialism #StolenLand #LandBack #ForestsAreLife #WaterIsLife
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Great conversation by Lara Sheehi and Alana Lentin on Lentin's latest book The New Racial Regime. I have much respect for both their work, it's quality food for thoughts.
"We are going to dive into her book and I am so excited for us to have a real time conversation about how her ideas can help us understand what is happening now with global fascism, why Zionism, just in general lol, and importantly, what I always learn from her, how to remain militantly focused on how we continue to fight back."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gP7rlPmNGwE
@[email protected] @[email protected]
@bookstodon#Palestine #Zionism #LandBack #RacialRegime #SettlerColonialism #AcademicCapture
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"This year’s Report: Violence Against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, covering data from 2025 and published by the Indigenist Missionary Council (Cimi), reveals that this context of uncertainty resulted in attacks against Indigenous Peoples in their struggles for land, in vulnerability of deterritorialized groups, and in the continuity of the invasions in Indigenous Lands throughout the country."
"On the very first days of 2025, four Avá-Guarani were shot during and armed attack against their community in the Indigenous Land Tekoha Guasu Guavirá, an area in process of state recognition under intense conflict in the state of Paraná. One of the victims, shot in the spine, lost the movements of his legs. In March, a Pataxó man named Vitor Braz was murdered in the Indigenous Land Barra Velha do Monte Pascoal, in the state of Bahia, amongst the Pataxós’ struggle for the demarcation of their lands. In November, Vicente Fernandes, a Guarani Kaiowá, was also assassinated in Tekoha Pyelito Kue, in the Indigenous Lands Iguatemipegua I, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, also in a context of territorial conflicts."
#Indigenous #Brazil #HumanRights #LandBack
https://cimi.org.br/2026/08/report-violence-against-indigenous-people-brazil-2025/ -
Two of my favourite thinkers-activists in conversation on Lana Lenin's latest book The New Racial Regime. I have much respect for both their work. Also love Lana's explanation of Robinson's 'racial capitalism' at the end. Great food for thought.
"We are going to dive into her book and I am so excited for us to have a real time conversation about how her ideas can help us understand what is happening now with global fascism, why Zionism, just in general lol, and importantly, what I always learn from her, how to remain militantly focused on how we continue to fight back."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gP7rlPmNGwE
@[email protected] @[email protected]
@bookstodon#Palestine #Zionism #LandBack #TheNewRacialRegime #colonialism #AcademicCapture
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#Argentina: Mapuche Community in Vaca Muerta Demands the Restoration of Their Ancestral Rights
The Mapuche communities of Neuquén denounced the violation of their ancestral rights and the environmental damage caused by fracking in Vaca Muerta, demanding that the provincial government grant them legal status and recognize their lands.
#Indigenous #Mapuche #VacaMuerta #fracking #environment #LandBack #HumanRights
https://www.telesurtv.net/argentina-comunidad-mapuche-vaca-muerta-restitucion-derechos-ancestrales/ -
"Brazil’s Supreme Court is set to weigh a series of cases in the coming days that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and the Indigenous communities
The cases span from Indigenous land rights, recent rollbacks on environmental safeguards and infrastructure projects. Despite their differences, they share a common path to the court.
In recent years, a mostly conservative Congress approved measures that environmentalists say violate constitutional rights. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose administration has pursued a more environmentally focused agenda, vetoed some measures outright and parts of others.
But lawmakers overrode those objections, and the disputes ultimately reached the Supreme Court, which environmental advocates increasingly view as the last line of defense against the weakening of environmental protections in Brazil."
#Indigenous #Brazil #LandBack #agribusiness #Climate #rainforest #environment
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-environmen-indigenous-rights-amazon-rainforest-supreme-court-05dd6598dd86583deac9cb31758c1bb0 -
New banner image! Check out this map that shows Tongva names for neighborhoods and cities in the Los Angeles area.
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This fight for my internal #landback as a displaced Indigenous Latina is beyond painful as I grieve generations of erasure and violence
Our history drenched with whiteness trying to hemogenize everything that makes us, us
My flesh and bones aching and longing for my mother Terra as my Mom is facing twilight
My lover and I fight our internalized racism together knowing we both have blood on our lineage
He deserves care baseline
Can't safely advocate elsewhere #disabilityCrowdfund
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"Today, the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) began hearing the appeals that may determine the future of Indigenous land demarcation in Brazil. Although the Time Frame Thesis has been declared unconstitutional, its effects continue to be used to delay demarcation processes, reopen disputes over already-recognized Indigenous territories, and weaken the constitutional rights of Indigenous Peoples.
In light of this situation, APIB has published a Policy Statement to alert the national and international community to the serious risks posed by the ongoing proceedings at the STF and by legislative initiatives aimed at dismantling Brazil’s Indigenous land demarcation framework.
The Policy Statement provides a legal and political analysis of the current context, its impacts on Indigenous Peoples and biodiversity protection, and calls on the international community to closely monitor this decisive moment for Indigenous rights in Brazil."
#Indigenous #Brazil #landback #framethesis #marcotemporal
https://apiboficial.org/en/2024/08/05/in-brazil-the-time-frame-law-will-be-debated-again-and-puts-indigenous-peoples-at-risk/https://apiboficial.org/en/2024/08/05/in-brazil-the-time-frame-law-will-be-debated-again-and-puts-indigenous-peoples-at-risk/ -
The Coalition of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) and its regional grassroots organizations launched on Wednesday (5) the political vision for Brazil titled “Our Territory, Our Life.”
The proposal outlines a vision for Brazil developed by the indigenous movement and establishes the demarcation and protection of all Indigenous Lands by 2030 as a central commitment.
#Indigenous #APIB #Brazil #LandBack #IndigenousKnowledge
https://apiboficial.org/2026/08/05/movimento-indigena-lanca-projeto-de-pais-e-apresenta-compromissos-urgentes-aos-tres-poderes/ -
#Brazil: Indigenous communities across the country are mobilizing to monitor—both in the nation’s capital and from their own territories—three trials that could reshape the future of indigenous territories.
Between August 7 and 18, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) will rule on land demarcations, environmental licenses, and mining on indigenous lands.
#Indigenous #LandBack #mining #environment #PLdaDevastação #MarcoTemporal
https://cimi.org.br/2026/08/stf-demarcacoes-licenciamento-ambiental-mineracao/ -
HUGE #LandBack win!!! California just approved a $25M zero-interest loan so the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation can reclaim nearly 40,000 acres of ancestral land in the Klamath River Basin. State officials are calling it the second-largest tribal land-back deal in CA history.
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The Death of #AwdahHathaleen: Report Details #Settler Killing of #NoOtherLand Producer in #WestBank
August 03, 2026 via @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
"One year ago, an #IsraeliSettler shot and killed the Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the occupied West Bank. Hathaleen, an English teacher and father of three young children, played a key role in the production of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which follows #Palestinians in the community of #MasaferYatta as they struggle to stay on their land amid violent attacks by Israeli settlers. A new report from the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq looks closely at the circumstances of his death and the culpability of his killer, #YinonLevi, who has yet to face any legal consequences for Hathaleen’s death. Since October 7, 2023, about 1,100 Palestinians have been killed by Israelis in the West Bank, says Al-Haq’s Tahseen Elayyan. 'None of these [deaths have] been held accountable by the Israeli legal system, which tells us a lot. It tells us that the Israeli occupying forces and the Israeli government are involved in these crimes, and this reflects a state policy … that aims at entrenching Israel’s settler-colonial project in the occupied Palestinian territory.' "
Read / watch / listen:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/3/killing_of_awdah_hathaleen#WorldPol #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #SettlerColonialism #IsraeliSettlers #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #LandBack #StolenLand
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Press Release from @CenterForBioDiv
#BorderWall Construction Triggers Tree Sit to Save Ancient #Arizona #Cottonwood
For Immediate Release, July 29, 2026
Contact: Russ McSpadden,LOCHIEL, Ariz.— "Protesters today climbed into an ancient cottonwood tree in Arizona’s #SanRafaelValley to stop the Trump administration from cutting it down for construction of two parallel 30-foot-tall border walls.
"The action comes after Department of Homeland Security contractors cut down three neighboring Fremont cottonwoods estimated to be 200 to 250 years old.
" 'Destroying these ancient cottonwoods is a death sentence for an entire ecosystem,' said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. 'These magnificent cottonwoods survived centuries, nourishing wildlife through floods and drought, only to be bulldozed for the Trump administration’s disastrous border wall. The San Rafael Valley is one of the most biologically rich landscapes in North America. It’s both a refuge and crucial corridor for #jaguars, #ocelots, #BlackBears, #pronghorn and hundreds of bird species.'
Today’s action is believed to be the first tree sit aimed at stopping U.S. border wall construction.
"The three cottonwoods cut down earlier this week stood along a rare stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border where mature trees once formed a #transboundary canopy. The trees provided nesting habitat, shade and shelter within an increasingly scarce riparian #ecosystem that supports hundreds of animal species. One #protester was arrested Monday while trying to protect those trees and nesting #MigratoryBirds .
"Federal officials said preconstruction surveys would be conducted during Arizona’s active #nesting season, but observers at the site reported that no surveys for nesting migratory birds were completed before the trees were destroyed.
"The area also contains prehistoric #ArchaeologicalSites that preserve evidence of thousands of years of #Indigenous presence in the borderlands. Ongoing construction threatens cultural resources that would be permanently lost if disturbed.
"The Department of Homeland Security is constructing the #BorderWall under authorities that waive dozens of the nation’s cornerstone environmental and cultural resource protection laws, allowing construction to proceed without reviews normally required under laws including the National Environmental Policy Act, the #EndangeredSpecies Act and the National #HistoricPreservation Act.
"In a letter sent today to the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Center called for an immediate halt to construction in the #Lochiel area. The letter urged the agencies to conduct comprehensive biological and cultural resource surveys, consult with Tribes with ancestral and cultural connections to the San Rafael Valley, protect the remaining ancient cottonwoods, and assess the ecological and cultural resources at risk."
Source [includes link to materials]:
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/border-wall-construction-triggers-tree-sit-to-save-ancient-arizona-cottonwood-2026-07-29/#OldGrowth #NestingBirds #USPo #TrumpsBorderWall #RespectTheTreaties #LandBack #IndigenousCulture #ProtectTheSacred
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#TreeSitters Saving #OldGrowth #Cottonwoods : #Arizona #BorderWall #Resistance
Border Wall Construction Destroying Cottonwoods, 'Green Ribbon' Running Through the Desert
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, August 4, 2026
#LochielAZ -- "Day 6 at #GrandmotherCamp, there was no border wall construction since the tree sit began last Wednesday in this rich landscape. The cottonwood trees are the nesting place of #MigratoryBirds, including the rare #YellowBilledCuckoo.
" 'We've lost three grandmothers that took 250 years to grow. They were obliterated by the monstrous machinations in four hours,' Kate said on Monday from the tree sit in Lochiel, about 25 miles east of Nogales, southeast of Tucson.
" 'But I just saw a Yellow-billed #Cuckoo, federally threatened crying over this beautiful meadow.'
" 'This remaining Grandmother, that threatened bird -- we remain hopeful that our efforts here on the ground will be met with thoughtful reasonable conversation and a new direction for Lochiel community,' Kate said.
" 'This remaining Grandmother represents hope and resistance.' "
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/tree-sitters-saving-old-growth.html#USPol #BorderWall #TrumpSucks #TrumpsBorderWall #RespectTheTreaties #LandBack #IndigenousCulture #ProtectTheSacred #CulturalGenocide #EndangeredSpecies
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For all the bird lovers, the crows have landbacked my roof and regularly host parties in the morning!
It's funny to hear the pitter-patter of the crows walking around. Reminds me that I'm not just fighting for the two-leggeds, but my winged family too.
#crows #birds #birding #landback #native #indigenous #resist
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...some more community awesome...
#landback #endhomelessness #endwar #endwarondrugs #stoparminggenocide #freepalestine
