William Frank Jr., born on this day in 1931, was an indigenous environmental leader and treaty rights activist known for his use of the “fish-in”, a civil disobedience tactic used to win indigenous rights to natural resources.
A Nisqually tribal member, Frank is particularly known for his grassroots campaign for fishing rights on the tribe’s Nisqually River. Frank was arrested more than 50 times in the “Fish Wars” of the 1960s and 1970s because of his intense dedication to the treaty fishing rights cause.
The tribal struggle was taken to the courts in “U.S. v. Washington”, with federal judge George Hugo Boldt issuing a ruling in favor of the native tribes in 1974. The “Boldt Decision” established the 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington as co-managers of the salmon resource with the State of Washington, and re-affirmed tribal rights to half of the harvestable salmon returning to western Washington.
I hope you nerds have a great March. 
Remember no crackers
I still can’t get over the fact that US vets still call themselves “antifa” for being vets. Apparently a war criminal who kills brown children overseas can be hailed as an “antifa hero” by the ignorant and massively privileged, but Palestinians who are literally putting their lives on the line to directly fight back against apartheid and settler colonialism need to constantly validate the feelings of these pricks or else they’ll get called “terrorists”. Fucked up world we live in when mass-murdering monsters are revered as saints and the brave are demonized for fighting for their literal right to live
"I don’t want to sacrifice anymore American lives overseas"
Too many “leftists” fall for this shit. Right now I see some selfproclaimed “socialist” pages amplifying everything Joe Kent is saying about this war without second thought. The guy went off to Iraq and said he didn’t want to keep seeing troops being sent to other countries. That he supported Trump because he’s “antiwar”.
Yet he stuck with him through all of the belligerent actions of his first administration and most recently his continued support of the genocide of Palestinians, the farcical Ukrainian War, the bombardment of Nigeria, the bombardment of fishing boats of the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia, and the kidnapping of Maduro. He only decided to stop supporting Trump when he started this war that is inflicting more pain on the US than he found tolerable. This isn’t someone that is seeing the light of antiimperialism. He’s some white supremacist that is sad that now someone is punching back hard enought to hurt the empire.
So fucking tired of this type of shit that social fascists think helps leftist causes.
“but every revolution had ex military members in it”, because usually they were conscripts,uneducated or barely active militaries. Ibrahim Traoré’s time in the military was spent fighting ISIS, Gamal Abdelnasser wasn’t deployed to kill kids in Somalia, Chavez never volunteered to commit a genocide. imagine if an SS volunteer who was a camp overseer one day said he wasn’t paid enough or that “I used to be with it but Hitler took it too far” would any communist accept him alive let alone elect him as a leader? would the PFLP accept an Abu Shabab member if he ran on “veterans first”?
I think it’s because they heard “WW2 veterans are antifa” and took it to mean any veteran from every other war is also antifa