AIM-West

We Are Still Here! No More Reruns!! On Sunday, May 30, 2021 on San Francisco's BAVC Public Access Channel 29, starting at 4 pm (PST) see "Eagle & Condor" show with your host Tony, is sharing a video "Hanta Po, All Of You Out Of My Way!" An Historical Photographic Essay on the American Indian Movement 1968-2006. Narration by renowned AIM Photographer Dick Bancroft (Eagle Eye) and National AIM leader Vernon Bellecourt. This should be a required course to watch! Consider it a crash course #101 in the AIM struggle for Treaty Rights and Self-Determination!

Fresno Unified School District just now voted 6-1 to change the Fresno High School Mascot Warrior logo image! The issue to change the historic 132 year old HS mascot began with a petition in June and then later the Valley Natives for Change was formed and presented their concern before the FUSD, and the rest is history! Congratulations! Fresno organizers! We are Not Your Indian’ Anymore! Hear more about this on Friday night on KPFA’s La Onda Bajita from 8-10 pm and a segment of Across Indian Land with your host Tony Gonzales!

Tune-in tonite 7-8 pm on radio KPFA 94.1 (Fresno 88.1/Santa Cruz 97.5) in Berkeley "Bay Native Circle" (livestream kpfa.org) with your host Tony Gonzales (Comca 'Ac/Chicano). Elections in the Time of Coronavirus; general analysis with South Dakota State Senator Red Dawn Foster (Lakota/Dine); also Sky Protector Dallas Gold- Tooth (Lakota/Navajo) of Indigenous Environment Network (IEN) & coordinator "Keep it in the Ground" speaks on Climate Change, Paris Agreements & Extracti...ve industry under a Biden Admin; and David Garcia (Tohono O'odham) reports on continued resistence against desecration at The Wall under construction & military presence/surveillance; finally, with Morning Star Gali (Pit River) to summarize the California election scene & a young campaign hopeful in a David & Goliath for state senator! We now have six congressional representatives in Washington DC! All this and more! Tell your friends and share! Be safe! The benefit fund-raiser for Oakland Inter-Tribal Friendship House & AIM-West Film Fest was a success! Thank you to all filmmakers, artist & volunteers and The Roxie Theater in SF for all their support! Ajo! See more

!!Please Share!!! Amazing poster by Dine/Akimel O’odham Artists Grace Rosario Perkins! https://www.roxie.com/a-i-m-west-international-film.../I’m Please Share!! Due to Popular Demand our Film Festival has been extended till Thursday October 22nd.... This is a fundraiser for IFH the Inter-Tribal Friendship House in the Oakland, California. We have a suggested donation for this event at $5-$20 but no one will be turned away for a lack of funds! This event will bring awareness to the history of indigenous peoples, practices and issues happening today. We want to thank The Roxie theater for being a platform for a great cause!! Follow a the top of the post to purchase tickets. Our feature films and shorts are the following - The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking the Domination Code by Sheldon Wolfchild narrated by Buffy Saint Marie, Gather by Sanjay Rawal @gatherfilm @mrsanjayr, otenaw by Conor McNally @conortavismcnally, Renegade by Luis Montoya and Chat-Tah Chucky Gould @dirluismontoya and A Tattoo on my Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 by Charles Abourezk and Brett Lawlor. All Films will be shown on each day October 12th - October 15th. Poster by @gracerosarioo Please go to The Roxie website to get your tickets! Remember this is a by donation event and no one will be turned down due to a lack of funds!

Greetings everyone! AIM-West is happy to announce that our 10th Annual International Film Festival has been extended another week until October 22nd due to popular demand! Please go to Roxie.com for details on how to purchase your tickets! Remember! This is a benefit for Oakland Inter-Tribal Friendship House.... We wish to give thanks to all the filmmakers and Roxie Theater for their generous participation! Enjoy the movies!

The 10th annual Aim-West @aim.west International Film Festival, Starting on Indigenous Peoples Day, October 12th - 15 we will be showing 5 films. This is a fundraiser for IFH the Inter-Tribal Friendship House in Oakland, California. We have a suggested donation for this event at $5-$20 but no one will be turned away for a lack of funds! This event will bring awareness to the history of indigenous peoples, practices and issues happening today. We want to thank The Roxie theate...r for being a platform for a great cause!! Follow the link in the bio to purchase tickets. Our feature films and shorts are the following - The Doctrine of Discovery, Unmasking the Domination Code by Sheldon Wolfchild narrated by Buffy Saint Marie, Gather by Sanjay Rawal @gatherfilm @mrsanjayr, ôténaw by Conor McNally @conortavismcnally, Renegade by Luis Montoya and Cha-Tah Chucky Gould @dirluismontoya and A Tattoo on my Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 by Charles Abourezk and Brett Lawlor. All Films will be shown on each day October 12th - October 15th. Poster by Dine-Akimel O'odham artist Grace Rosario Perkins @gracerosarioo Please go to The Roxie website to get your tickets! Remember this is a by donation event and no one will be turned down due to a lack of funds! https://www.roxie.com/a-i-m-west-international-film.../

SF rally, 11:30-1pm, 2/27 DoJ 450 Golden Gate/Polk st. Wounded Knee 73’ 46 anniversary; Reign ofTerror; clemency for Leonard! Drum, dance, song, blessings! https://www.amnestyusa.org//urgent-action-demand-transfer/

The High Court still out in hallway..meanwhile, could have broad impact unless they keep it to a narrow view (which I doubt)! Awaiting. Aho

https://mailchi.mp//sf-poised-to-be-first-in-nation-to-eli Check out this article everyone!!

"Sacred Art Sacrificed Land" a series of weaving shows (pop-ups) supporting front-line resisters to coal extractive and relocation for over 30 years (P.L.53-531). Traditional Dine (Navajo) weavers from Black Mesa (NE Arizona), depend on sales of their weavings and jewelry for their survival. Here the Weavers and Martha Burke and I before their heading off to Peace Action Center in Santa Rosa. Write to Martha for info at: [email protected] Aho! All my relations!

Refer to our website for more updates, questions, and concerns as the month goes on! Aho

UNPFII press conference

As host on radio "Across Indian Land" Friday night, Feb. 16th, from 8:30-9 pm on Berkeley's KPFA (Pacifica) 94.1 fm I will interview Companero Bobby Wallace (Kumayeh, So. Cal.), Chief National Coordinator for the LW5.3 I dedicate "Across Indian Land" to a very good friend in the SF bay area, Michael Smith, who passed to spirit world just yesterday, 2/14/18. We salute all the Long Walkers starting from 1978 to the present which marks the 40th anniversary of the AIM taking the longest protest for five months across 3, 600 miles toward Washington DC. The LW5.3 leaves from Blaine, Washington on February 16th in the morning! ('Flesh offerings will be taken at the door'DJB) Ayeeeee!

Chief Oren Lyons, Iroquois/Onondaga Nation, in SF Oct.8, to screen "Spirit Game: Pride of a Nation" 7 pm (102 min.) @ Roxie Theater (16th/Valencia) Gen.$12-Senior $8. The Iroquois created Lacrosse & today their team remains one of world's best! Fill the seats! A reception: 518 Valencia St. PRIOR to movie celebrating Chief Lyons in Bay Area from 3-6 pm