EXCLUSIVE: At age 83, Noel Paul Stookey still has plenty to say.
The singer/songwriter, known as the Paul in the ‘60s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, recently released Just Causes, a compilation of 15 songs, each highlighting a theme of social concern, including the environment, hunger, and drug trafficking, among others. The star paired each song in with an appropriate non-profit organization to benefit from the album’s net proceeds.
And Stookey is no stranger to singing for a good cause. The group’s version of If I Had a Hammer became an anthem for racial equality. The band famously performed Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind at the August 1963 March on Washington. They also protested the Vietnam war and joined the fight to improve the working conditions of California’s farmworkers – just to name a few.
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I helped sue the Chilean government in my first case after graduating from law school. The lawsuit asserted violations of Indigenous rights perpetrated by the Chilean government and went before the Chilean Supreme Court. I was less than five years out of law school when I stood outside under the sun in the world’s driest desert, listening for hours. I listened as Indigenous leaders from nearby Likan-antai communities described violations to their ancestral land rights by the Chilean government. I listened as they proposed different ideas on how they might respond. I listened as they asked for my analysis and assistance in giving a legal voice to their concerns.
Warriors who change the world
On this weekend edition of Indian Country Today, weâll hear from warriors changing the world in different ways.
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Apr 23, 2021
First Nations Development Institute president and CEO Michael Roberts is on the show discussing investing in Native communities.
Paul DeMain, the retired editor of News from Indian Country joins us to talk Great Lakes treaty rights.
Bull riders are a particular kind of warrior and Dakota Louis, who is on the show today, is at the top of his game.
A slice of our Indigenous world
First lady Jill Biden is wrapping up her trip to the Navajo Nation today.
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A women of color-led organization made up of farmers, healers, activists, and artists, Deep Medicine Circle recently launched its Farming Is Medicine program on a 1-acre rooftop farm in Oakland as well as on a 38-acre Indigenous-run farm on the California coast south of San Francisco. The farmers at both locations will take an agroecological approach to growing organic food that will be distributed for free to institutions such as the American Indian Cultural District and the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation which serve the public to address food insecurity and hunger, socioeconomic conditions the organization links to colonization. Deep Medicine Circle will invest in farmers of color to accomplish clim