TCC: October 2025

Friday, October 10, 2025

Invitation to Indigenous Peoples Day in DC; Peltier Blogpost by Paroots; & Assata Statement by A-APRP (GC)

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 12, 2020

Dear Sisters & Brothers,

October 12 is celebrated in Washington, DC and many other cities, states / provinces, and countries around the World as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In the past, many of us have observed October 12 with protests against honoring Christopher Columbus who initiated the genocide of the Indigenous People of the Western Hemisphere and People of African Descent in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora.

In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day and to celebrate the unbreakable bonds of friendship and solidarity between Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere, Palestinian People, African People (including all People of African Descent), and Oppressed Peoples world-wide, the Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory, the American Indian Movement (Mid-Atlantic Region), the American Indian Support Committee, the National Council of Arab Americans, the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area, the All African People’s Revolutionary Party ^(GC), and Pan African Roots invite the entire community to join us in an Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration on Monday, October 12, 2020 from 12 (noon) to 3 pm at the lower end of Malcom X Park (also known as Meridian Hill Park).

Parking for the event can be found along 15^th St, 16^th St, and Florida Ave, NW. Because of the Covid-19 Pandemic we are asking all participants to practice 6’ self-distancing, wear a mask and bring hand sanitizer.

The Celebration will feature solidarity messages from elected officials, church groups, labor unions, community, national and international organizations, cultural presentations by Native American, other Oppressed Peoples, and others in solidarity. Program will be announced

The Arts Development Center will provide sound, staging and live streaming. The DC Humanities Truck will provide access to its web-based exhibit projects and digital repository.

We need your endorsement and support! To add your organization’s endorsement or to volunteer, please contact John Steinbach at johnsteinbach1@verizon.net

Please help circulate this outreach letter widely. See you at Malcolm X Park or on the Internet.

Yours in Struggle,

Chief Billy Tayac, Piscataway Indian Nation and Tayac Territory

Pete Landeros, American Indian Movement (Mid-Atlantic Region)

Penny Williams, American Indian Support Group

Jafar Jafari, National Council of Arab Americans

John Steinbach, Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee of the National Capital Area

Kamau Benjamin, All African People’s Revolutionary Party ^(GC)

Bob Brown, Pan African Roots

For more information, check out www.a-aprp-gc.org

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Pan-African Roots
6139 Oxon Hill Rd Unit 1095 Oxon Hill, MD 20745

Invitation to Indigenous Peoples Day on 10/13/2025

Another Note from the Barricades!
A Pan-African Roots Blogpost

October 6, 2025

Peltier is “Home,” but He is Still Not “Free!”

By Bob Brown, Organizer

All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC)

Leonard Peltier celebrated his 81^st birthday with his family and supporters on Friday, September 12, 2025, in his “home” on the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa Nation in Bell Court, North Dakota. As he made clear this is an independent Nation, an Indigenous Nation, not a “reservation;” and he is Indigenous, not Indian. He also made clear that his supporters paid for his modest “home,” not the

U.S. government, nor the Chippewa Nation, which cannot afford to give him one, while others go homeless.

The next day, on Saturday, September 13, 2025, Leonard participated in an exclusive, history- making, one-hour interview with Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! This interview is titled: I'm Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half Century in Prison & More

As Peltier made clear, Biden “took” Peltier out of a prison cell in Coleman, Florida, at the last “constitutional” minute, and “resentenced” him to a different type of prison cell: “home confinement, for life and for free” in Bell Court, North Dakota. His liberty is still restricted. His human rights are still abridged. He must call “his handler” in Washington D.C. to request permission to do the simplest, most human of things. He must request permission to go to his doctor to reclaim the 80% of his vision that was stolen. He must also request permission to go to New York to exhibit his paintings, the product of 49 years and two months of his unjust imprisonment.

Peltier is a political prisoner: an Indigenous activist, a Movement artist. He spent 49 years and two months of his life in a U.S. prison cell; perhaps the longest time spent in history. Mandela, one of Peltier’s supporters, only spent 27 years in prison, 18 of them on Robben Island. Azanian (South African) People are still not free. Why is Elon Musk the richest person in the world, in the new apartheid, in the new Jim Crow?

I was very happy to see and hear Peltier at “home,” without bars, a prison uniform, or chains. I was even happier to hear him say that he will never give up, never sell out for a mansion, for chump change or tribute pennies. Peltier has earned and deserves our continued support! All our political prisoners world-wide deserve to be released immediately.

The American Indian Society of Washington, DC; the United Tribes of the Shenandoah; Saving the Circle; and the Circle Legacy Center of Lancaster Pennsylvania invite you to attend the 33^rd Indigenous People’s Day 2025, at Malcolm X Park in Washington, DC, on October 13, 2025.