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Marchers in Washington Call for Indigenous Rights Hundreds of people gathered in Washington Friday for the first ever IndigenousPeople’s March.
Marchers came from big cities and small towns across the United States and as far away as Australia. Many of them are indigenous activists. They work in support of native groups around the world.
Among other things, the protesters called attention to four main issues: environmental injustices; voter suppression; police abuse; and an end to traffickingof indigenous women.
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up more than half of the world’s land. But indigenous people own just 10 percent.
Campaigners said native people are fighting for land rights against governments, loggers and mining and agricultural companies.
“We’re in support of the aims of indigenous peoples from across the world – that is for our safety, health, the protection of our families and our water, for the protection of our lives,” Rufus Kelly said. He is a member of the Nottoway Tribe of Virginia.
Thousands of activists are marching on Washington for the first ever #IndigenousPeoplesMarchThey hope to bring attention to injustices endured by indigenous people around the world #PropertyRights #IPMDC19pic.twitter.com/xOyyPFryCr
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The event had several speakers, including elected officials. Attendees also led prayers, sang and performed traditional dances.
One speaker was Deb Haaland, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. As she stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Haaland shouted, “It’s a great day to be indigenous, isn’t it!?” She thanked the crowd for coming and said, “This is Indian land.”
Haaland is from New Mexico and a member of the Laguna pueblo tribe. She was one of the first of two Native American women elected to U.S. Congress.
At the march, Haaland noted that Native Americans had waited 240 years for a seat in Congress “and now we have two,” she said. “So that means we are going to make some issues front and center.”
Ruth Buffalo was another speaker at the march. She was recently elected as the first Native American Democrat in the North Dakota state legislature. Buffalo credited her win to local activists who helped register indigenous North Dakotans to vote.
Latoya, an indigenous activist from Australia, also spoke. She talked about police abuse against the country’s native population.
The Indigenous People’s March opened Friday with a prayer in front of the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
A prayer leader asked attendees to honor the ground beneath them, which was once indigenous land.
“And feel through your feet through this hard surface and reach down underneath – there’s soft earth,” she said.
She asked native forefathers to bless the day’s activities.
“We’re standing here this morning in the footsteps of so many ancestors,” she said.
The Indigenous People’s March was the idea of the Indigenous People’s Movement. The movement seeks to unify native people from North, South and Central America, the Pacific, Canada, and the Caribbean.
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Gun Sales Drop in the US, But Why? Almost 60,000 members of the gun industry are meeting this week in the U.S. city of Las Vegas, Nevada. They are gathering for the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show – or, as it is commonly called, the SHOT show.
The yearly event brings together gun manufactures, dealers, law enforcement and military professionals. They share information on the latest products, technology and tools in the gun industry. Products from more than 1,700 companies are displayed over 20 kilometers.
The show is huge. Yet, the gun industry has recently seen a fall in gun sales and a decrease in the possibility that gun rights will be expanded.
The changes come even after U.S. President Donald Trump took office in 2017. In his first weeks as president, Trump reversed a rule by the former president that had made it difficult for some people with disabilities to buy a gun.
But some of the other policies the gun industry seeks have not advanced under Trump. These policies include easing people’s ability to carry some guns secretly and making the sound of gun fire quieter.
The Trump government also recently banned bump stocks -- devices that permit weapons to fire ammunition quickly. Bump stocks were used in the mass shooting of 58 people at an outdoor music festival in 2017 in Las Vegas, near where the SHOT show is held.
It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Changing politics
Gun industry watchers say the Las Vegas shooting is one reason that gun rights are not expanding. It was soon followed by a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed. These events brought the issue of guns to the nation’s attention again.
Robert J. Spitzer is chairman of political science at the State University of New York at Cortland. He says that after the Parkland shooting, efforts to expand gun rights were frozen.
In addition, voters recently elected a number of lawmakers to the House of Representatives who want to increase restrictions on guns. House Democrats recently introduced legislation to sharply expand background checks. In other words, officials would examine the criminal and financial records of almost anyone who wants to buy a gun.
Why are gun sales down?
These political changes come as gun sales are dropping, too. But those declines are more expected. Gun sales often drop when the president is believed to be gun-friendly. The Associated Press called it a “Trump slump.”
Gary Ramsey is attending this year’s SHOT show. He is the owner of Honor Defense, a gun manufacturing business. He told the Associated Press the show has become quieter than it was when Barack Obama was president. In Obama’s last year in office, background checks reached an all-time high.
“There was no one to beat up. You didn't have President Obama to put up in PowerPoint (presentations) and say …‘look what he's doing to our country,’” he said.
“Numbers are down,” Ramsey added. “You can't deny it.”
John Feinblatt is president of Everytown for Gun Safety, a group that supports limits on the gun industry. He agrees that the decline in gun sales is because Obama is no longer president, and he is not a threat to those who want more freedom around guns.
But Joe Bartozzi, president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, says no single reason explains the changes in gun sales. He told the Associated Press that, during his 30 years in the industry, he has seen sales rise and fall.
He also notes that while many lawmakers in the House of Representatives are seeking more gun restrictions, many lawmakers in the Senate are not. The House and Senate must work together to pass any legislation.
Bartozzi says his group is seeking gun measures that already have some policy support. He would like to increase gun safety programs and places to practice shooting on public lands. The hope is that increasing the number of shooting ranges will make more people want to become hunters.
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Airbus Warns It Could Leave in Event of 'No-Deal' Brexit The chief of Airbus on Thursday warned that the aviation company could move its United Kingdom operations out of Britain. The move might happen if the country leaves the European Union without a deal on trade relations.
Airbus chief Tom Enders said a so-called “Brexit” threatens to destroy a century of development in Britain’s world-leading aviation industry.
Airbus has more than 14,000 employees in Britain. Another 110,000 work in jobs supported by Airbus programs.
Business leaders have expressed growing worry about the lack of progress in securing a Brexit trade deal before March 29, the day of Britain’s planned exit from the EU. They are expecting major problems caused by new taxes, customs checks, and a lack of trade agreements between the U.K. (United Kingdom) and the EU. The EU is the U.K.’s biggest trading partner.
Last week, British lawmakers dismissed the deal Prime Minister Theresa May had reached with the EU. Lawmakers have not yet had success at reaching a different deal.
Enders said Airbus would be “forced to re-direct future investments in the event of a no-deal Brexit.” He added there are “plenty of countries out there who would love to build the wings for Airbus aircraft.”
Enders said in a statement that people supporting Brexit are promising Airbus would never move because it has such a large factory there.
“They are wrong,” he said.
Warnings from businesses have increased in recent days. The warning from Airbus is notable in that it demonstrates a clear willingness to leave the U.K.
The Bank of England has said that, in a worst-case situation, a sudden Brexit with no deal on future relations could lead to a recession. It estimates Britain’s economy could shrink by 8 percent within months.
May has been holding talks with government and opposition politicians, business representatives and trade union leaders. But she has shown little willingness to make changes to her Brexit plan.
Instead, she hopes to win lawmakers’ backing for her deal. She guaranteed changes from the EU to a much-disputed measure designed to ensure an open border between EU member Ireland and the U.K.’s Northern Ireland.
EU leaders say they will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said, “A deal that doesn’t give us a legally binding workable guarantee that there won’t be a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland is a deal in name only.”
He added: “And that’s not something that we could accept.”
Britain’s divided Parliament is set to vote next week on May’s proposal. They also plan to vote on opposing deals, including efforts by groups of legislators to delay Britain’s exit and to prevent a “no-deal” Brexit from even happening.
May’s government has rejected both ideas. But a growing number of lawmakers believe Britain will have to ask the EU to delay Brexit past March 29 to solve the impasse.
Airbus chief Tom Enders said business leaders could not plan for the future and need clear answers. “But we still have no idea what is really going on here,” he said.
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Pelosi: No State of the Union in the House for Trump The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is guaranteed to continue at least a bit longer.
On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, wrote to President Donald Trump that she will not permit “the President’s State of the Union address in the House Chamber until government has opened.”
She added, “Again, I look forward to welcoming you to the House on a mutually agreeable date for this address when government has been opened.”
The State of the Union was to take place January 29.
The letter came just hours after Trump, a Republican, dismissed Pelosi’s earlier suggestion that the speech should be delayed or simply sent in as a written copy. The president called the speech his “Constitutional duty.” He added there were no “security concerns” for the event.
Trump ended his letter by saying, “It would be so very sad for our Country if the State of the Union were not delivered on time, on schedule, and very importantly, on location!”
The U.S. Constitution states that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union.” America’s first president, George Washington, established the tradition with his first yearly speech to Congress on January 8, 1790.
Washington made the speech in person in the Senate Chamber of Federal Hall in New York City. The city was the temporary seat of government at the time. The second U.S. president, John Adams, also gave his yearly speeches in person.
But Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, chose to send his messages to Congress in writing. That began a tradition that lasted over one hundred years.
In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson personally addressed a joint session of Congress. And the tradition would become known as the “State of the Union” under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
By tradition, the House and the Senate must pass a resolution for a joint session of Congress to hear the president’s State of the Union. With her letter, Pelosi officially ended any chance for Trump to deliver the speech next week in the House of Representatives.
When asked for his reaction to Pelosi’s letter, Trump blamed the Democrats for the government shutdown. He added: “This will go on for a while. Ultimately, the American people will have their way, because they want to see no crime.”
The partial U.S. government shutdown began on December 22, 2018. It started because Trump asked for $5.7 billion in the federal spending plan to build a wall on the nation’s southern border with Mexico. The president said he would not sign any spending bills without money for the wall.
The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to consider two spending bills to reopen the government. One bill has the money for the wall and one does not. But both bills are not expected to receive the required 60 votes. The Democratic-controlled House has so far refused to give Trump the money.
Pelosi stated firmly, “We’re not doing a wall” and called the plan immoral.
About 800,000 federal government workers have been forced to stay at home or continue working without pay. Trump is now considering other places where he could deliver the speech.View -
Remembering Their Father, Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 4, 1968, a movement lost its leader when the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee.
But four children also lost their father.
Yolanda was 12 years old. Martin was 10, Dexter was seven and the youngest, Bernice was just five.
Many people in America still mourn the civil rights leader, fifty years later. His three surviving children deal with the loss on their own terms.
‘‘That period, for me, is like yesterday,'' said Dexter King, now 57. ‘‘People say it's been 50 years, but I'm living in step time. Forget what he did in terms of his service and commitment and contribution to humankind ... I miss my dad.''
His children hold on to the few memories they have of him. For years, they have had to publicly mourn a man who was among the most hated in America at the time of his death.
Now King is beloved around the world. And his children are forced to share him with many people. For more than ten years, they have had to do this without the guidance of two important family members: their mother, Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006, and their older sister, Yolanda, who died in 2007.
As adults, the siblings suffered a public image of disputing over family property, including their father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize. But today, the three say they are in a ‘‘good place.'' They have put their differences aside and come together as a family in times of difficulty.
Sharing their father's memory with the world
Their memories help all remember that at the center of this tragedy was a young family, robbed of a loving husband and father, who was just 39. His children are all older than King was when he died. The tributes to their dad, from the buildings and streets named after him, to statues in his home state and in the nation's capital, are points of pride. But, for King children they also represent the pain of loss.
Martin Luther King III smiles as he recalls the happier times: in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, helping his dad welcome new members, throwing a football or baseball together, taking swimming class at a local pool.
When he came home from battling racism, King's serious expression would change to smiles and he would become playful.
King III and his brother traveled with their father. They were alongside him in South Georgia. He was organizing people to attend his upcoming Poor People's Campaign in Washington.
King III is now 60. He says he still gets emotional around his father's death. If he listens too closely to King's ‘‘Drum Major Instinct'' speech, in which the preacherdiscusses wanting to live a long life, he cries.
For years after his father’s murder, King III tensed whenever he saw a news bulletin. He would immediately think of the bulletins that announced his father’s murder, his uncle’s drowning death, and his grandmother’s murder at church. All the losses took place while he was still a child.
‘‘I was afraid, because I was like, ‘Is this going to be something else that happens to our family?''' he said.
‘I wish I knew him more’
Bernice King, the youngest, was once envious of her siblings, who had many more memories of King. Shared stories from her mother, sister and brothers, as well as home movies, helped humanize her father.
Nicknamed ‘‘Bunny,'' Bernice King said she treasures the few moments she remembers sharing with her father, like the ‘‘kissing game'' they would play.
The now 55-year-old Bernice said, ‘‘I'm glad I had that, because everything else, other than a few memories of being at the dinner table, I don't recall. I wish I knew him more.''
She admitted to struggling with having to share her parents with strangers over the years.
‘‘It's hard to have the private moments, “ she said. “It's like everybody else has a part of him, and that's always hard to deal with. But I won't let it get in the way of what they have done and what they mean to the world.''
‘The worst had happened’
King was shot and killed at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. That night and the days that followed remain frozen in Dexter King's memory. He remembers his mother telling them something had happened to their father before she left for the airport. After Coretta Scott King left, their caregiver answered the kitchen telephone, started screaming and fell.
Dexter, then 7, knew the worst had happened.
When King's body returned to Atlanta, Dexter remembered running in the airplane, and seeing his father's coffin on the floor.
‘‘I asked my mom, `What's that?''' he said. ‘‘She explained, ‘Your dad is going to be sleeping when you see him and he won't be able to speak with you. He's gone home to be with God.'''
Dexter King spoke of his father's warmth and playfulness. But Dexter King said he and his siblings knew their father's work was important from watching him as a church and civil rights leader.
‘‘You saw the interaction and the energy, just the way people reacted to him,'' he said.
He was again struck by the people's reaction at his father's funeral. A seemingly endless sea of mourners formed a funeral march through Atlanta.
“‘There's Dad, and there's the leader the world owns.’ Generally, I accept that,” Dexter continued. “But he had a family. As kids, we did not choose this life. And I don't know that my dad chose it. It really chose him.”
He said, “We're human, and in some ways, we're still grieving.''
I’m Caty Weaver. And I’m Ashley Thompson.View