Florida: In a stunning turn during the 2025 legislative session on Friday, not a single one of the proposed anti-LGBTQ+ bills made it into law

https://gomag.com/article/against-all-odds-florida-queer-advocates-just-made-history/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Months of planning and it’s finally official! We’re doing a #zine fest in Baton Rouge!! All details coming soon, but if you’re in the area, sign up to learn more: https://louisianazinefest.com/

Voters to decide if the Texas home of Elon Musk's SpaceX should become an official city: Starbase
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-starbase-texas-city-7863bf3bac65e9718eef19b27978933b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business and Finance @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress

Mvto, ykk, hiwew to everyone who helped with, performed at, and attended our benefit last night!

We are still settling up with our silent auction winners, but so far, we have calculated $2231.71 in donations from the event!!! WOW! Thank you so much!!!

We are at about 40% of our $6K goal, & humbly ask our beloved community to continue to engage with this campaign.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-indigenous-radio-in-bvlbancha-and-beyond

Not only do we do live weekly broadcasts, & 24/7 curated content over at https://bvlbancharadio.net, we are also involved in #MutualAid coordination and communications for disasters and beyond.

Read this latest article from Open Rivers to learn more about Swamp Net!

https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/networking-a-network/

We deeply appreciate your continued support of autonomous Indigenous-led projects here in Bulbancha & the Gulf South!

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Great news for students, Palestinian solidarity + free speech!

https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-mohsen-mahdawi-released

"Mankiller’s election in 1983 will, and should, be remembered as the first in which a woman was elected deputy chief. It was also the first election since 1866 — when the Cherokee Nation, in a treaty with the United States, acknowledged its former slaves as citizens — in which Black Cherokees were not allowed to vote. Two watershed events, one of them an uplifting sign of progress and a return to Cherokee ideals of matrilineal power, and the other, a reversal of century-old tribal policy that left a lingering “shadow” on the nation, as Mankiller herself later put it in her autobiography."

— Alaina E. Roberts, "Reconsidering Wilma Mankiller."
https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-people-places-reconsidering-wilma-mankiller/

"Of the Five Tribes, the Cherokees were the largest holder of Africans as chattel slaves. By 1860 the Cherokees had 4,600 slaves. Many Cherokees depended on them as a bridge to white society. Full-blood Indian slave owners relied on the blacks as English interpreters and translators. Mainly, however, enslaved persons worked on farms as laborers or in homes as maids or servants. The Cherokees feared the aspect of a slave revolt, and that is just what happened in 1842 at Webbers Falls."

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=SL002

"(2021) — A longstanding dispute over who can be considered a citizen of the Cherokee Nation finally came to a conclusion this week.

The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the tribal nation remove the phrase “by blood” from its constitution and other tribal laws. That change formally acknowledges that the descendants of Black people once enslaved by the tribe – known as the Cherokee Freedmen – have the right to tribal citizenship, which means they are eligible to run for tribal office and access resources such as tribal health care.

The recent decision by the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court is a response to a 2017 ruling by a US district court, which determined that the descendants of the Cherokee Freedmen are entitled to full tribal citizenship rights under a treaty the Cherokee Nation made with the US in 1866."

— "The Cherokee Nation acknowledges that descendants of people once enslaved by the tribe should also qualify as Cherokee."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/us/cherokee-nation-ruling-freedmen-citizenship-trnd/index.html

Mvto, ykk, hiwew to everyone who helped with, performed at, and attended our benefit last night!

We are still settling up with our silent auction winners, but so far, we have calculated $2231.71 in donations from the event!!! WOW! Thank you so much!!!

We are at about 40% of our $6K goal, & humbly ask our beloved community to continue to engage with this campaign.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-indigenous-radio-in-bvlbancha-and-beyond

Not only do we do live weekly broadcasts, & 24/7 curated content over at https://bvlbancharadio.net, we are also involved in #MutualAid coordination and communications for disasters and beyond.

Read this latest article from Open Rivers to learn more about Swamp Net!

https://openrivers.lib.umn.edu/article/networking-a-network/

We deeply appreciate your continued support of autonomous Indigenous-led projects here in Bulbancha & the Gulf South!

(@noladon) #Louisiana #IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #AlternativeMedia #IndigenousCreatives #Radio #NOLA #GoFundMeCampaign #FundsNeeded #DonateNow

Opening on Saturday, April 12, and running through June 1, 2025, Bvlbancha Public Access is part of the Louisiana Group Show on the second floor of the Antenna Gallery (https://antenna.works). Free exhibit, no charge to view.

FROM WHERE WE STAND

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Join us Tuesday, April 22 for an Earth Day Bvlbancha Liberation Radio Benefit show!
6 to 11pm at CANOA, 4210 St Claude #NOLA #Bulbancha
With a silent auction with some amazing options, along with performers: Tef, A.J. Haynes, John DePriest, NOLA Musicians for Palestine, and DJs Takiy and Koni Achafa!
Share, donate, and join us if you're able!

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May Day Means Resistance: A Call to Take Action on May First 🏴

https://crimethinc.com/MayDay2025

This May Day, gather in defiance of tyranny and oppression. Gather to create communities based in solidarity and mutual aid. Gather with everyone who wants a better life. Gather to honor those who fought before us. Gather to show that another world is possible.

We’ve prepared a poster design to support you in organizing and promoting events in your community, along with a list of suggestions about what you could organize.

@juliana We love Yama (Mobilian Trade Jargon)!!

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Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
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The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/national-institutes-health-nih-canceled-grants-research

#NIH #Trump #Research #Science #Medicine #Health

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

"Kidnapped": 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk

http://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/rumeysa_ozturk_tufts_ice_abduction

"Grants are getting killed “without any scientific input anywhere. It is purely political,” said a member of a senior leadership team at a large NIH institute. “The science in this country is going to be destroyed if you can change what the priorities are going to be every four years. You can’t do science that way.”"

https://wapo.st/3QSgPNg

Thousands protest after Tufts grad student arrested by ICE, transferred out of state https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/03/26/thousands-protest-after-tufts-grad-student-arrested-by-ice-transferred-out-of-state/

Call for content is open for the 2025 Bvlbancha Public Access Indigenous Gulf Stream! Please share. We are first looking for commission interviews.
https://www.bvlbanchapublicaccess.com/projects/2025-indigenous-gulf-stream

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