Albert Bender
LATEST ARTICLES BY Albert Bender
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Really? Not enough people in U.S. prisons?
March 22, 2018In the attorney general’s mind what the U.S. needs is more and more mass incarceration.
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“Hostiles”: A thought-provoking film that should be seen
March 6, 2018A film that definitely should be seen. It puts squarely on the table of national discussion the contemporary plight of Indigenous people.
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Nashville Indigenous community protests Trump’s Farm Bureau convention address
January 16, 2018A press release from the American Indian Coalition, said, “This is Indian land—the land of the Cherokee, the Muscogee Creek, the Choctaw, and others... Trump and his supporters do not belong.”
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Hundreds march in Nashville against climate change
December 14, 2017They were there to demand Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and federal lawmakers commit to the objectives of the Paris treaty, notwithstanding Trump's withdrawal.
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Wisconsin police kill 14-year-old Indigenous boy; investigation ongoing
December 11, 2017Pero was killed on his own reservation, shot by a deputy outside his grandparents’ home.
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Nashville’s Indigenous community honors AIM warrior Dennis Banks
November 17, 2017An assembly of Native people and others honored the great warrior for Indigenous rights, Dennis Banks, with a celebration of his life entitled the “Longest Walk” in Nashville.
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Rogue judge pushes on with destruction of the Standing Rock Sioux
November 10, 2017“This pipeline represents a threat to the livelihoods and health of our Nation every day it is operational."
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Nashville celebrated its first Indigenous People’s Day this year
October 17, 2017The city joins a host of other municipalities across the nation that have passed similar recognitions recently.
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