Tacoma SDS

The government of Peru has ordered for the National Police to attack the Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Civilians were shot from buildings roofs and helicopters.

More than 38 people have died so far at 2:00 PM U.S. Eastern time, including 28 civilians and 10 police men -who are also Indigenous. Hospitals collapsing, fights ongoing. Update: now 84 dead people at 6:00 PM US Eastern time.

Project Earth, a student-led environmental group at UWT, will be hosting Ecuadorian activist Leonardo Cerda. Leonardo Cerda is running a campaign to raise awareness about food sovereignty, indigenous resistance, and local cooperatives in the areas around the Amazon River. Cerda has been active in the environmental movement since age 14, and his story of activism will be an inspiration for people interested in climate change.

Tacoma SDS presents Radical Film Night each Friday at 7:30 PM at 808 N. Union (across from the University of Puget Sound).

Showing on September 14: Incident at Oglala (1992)

In 1975, armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Gunfire erupted -- a Native American and two FBI agents fell dead. After the largest hunt in FBI history, three men were apprehrended. Only one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. This is his story.