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.

https://billyfrankjr.org/

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  • Rojo27 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    "I don’t want to sacrifice anymore American lives overseas"joker-amerikkklap

    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.