Austin SDS motion in protection of Indian Baby Welfare Act.
(Struggle Again! Information/workers)
Austin, TX – On Wednesday, March 22, members of Austin College students for a Democratic Society (SDS) gathered on a busy avenue, Speedway, on the College of Texas-Austin campus to talk out in opposition to the judicial assault on the Indian Baby Welfare Act (ICWA).
SDS members chanted, “When indigenous rights are beneath assault. What can we do? Arise, struggle again!” and “Defend indigenous sovereignty! Defend ICWA!” SDS additionally handed out fliers and gave speeches about how repealing ICWA would harm 1000’s and additional erode indigenous sovereignty.
College students additionally related this to an ongoing battle at UT to return stolen ancestral stays presently being held by the college in a warehouse. SDS member Jake Holtzman stated in his speech, “These assaults on indigenous rights and sovereignty are usually not solely occurring on the federal stage. They’re additionally occurring domestically, proper right here at UT. The college has been holding stolen ancestral stays and is refusing to offer them again to the folks of the Miakan Garza Band, who requested that UT return the stays over 4 years in the past. College students and group members are persevering with to prepare round this to demand that the stays be returned!”
In one other speech, SDS member Jules Lattimore stated, “This blatant assault on indigenous sovereignty is just not an remoted incident, nevertheless. In 2022, the unelected Supreme Court docket dominated in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta that the state of Oklahoma can prosecute non-indigenous criminals who dedicated crimes in opposition to indigenous folks on indigenous land.”
Rents nationwide have cooled from historic highs, according to the latest inflation figures. Austin, Texas, is one of the places where rents are showing a downward trend, but lower-income families say their rents are often staying the same or even increasing. Blair Waltman-Alexin of Austin PBS reports.
Elon Musk’s tunneling company, The Boring company is destroying Texas’ natural beauty and has worsened the life quality of rural Texans, according to Bastrop residents, where the company is located.
“It is beyond heartbreaking, I could start crying just talking about it,” Flynn, 62, a Bastrop resident, told The London Times. “We had these incredible vistas of outstanding natural beauty. It was breathtaking — you’d pull over and cry because it’s so pretty. And now, it’s gravel mines.”
Boring moved to Bastrop in 2021, the town has about 12,000 people and is located east of Austin.
According to Flynn and her husband, since Boring arrived, the landscape has worsened, with trucks operating everywhere, earth mounds scattered in the fields, heavy machines, and new gravel and sand mines erected to support the company’s operations.
Also, there have been numerous environmental concerns about the company’s operation, the company has applied for a permit to dump 145,500 gallons of treated wastewater per day into the Colorado River. The company has also received complaints regarding its handling of wastewater in the area.
Other residents have expressed concern over the rising cost of living produced by the arrival of more Austin newcomers.
“[T]he Austin people are now having to move to Bastrop, the people in Bastrop are having to move out in the country somewhere,” Kenneth Kesselus, the town’s former mayor, told the Times. “We’ve got some houses that in a giant hurry went from half a million dollars to a million.”
However, Flynn hopes that there still will be people who fight to preserve the environment.
“I have three children and don’t want them to think it’s all over,” Flynn said. “I’m a big believer in the pendulum swinging back, and right now we’re in an extreme time of bullying and bad behavior and bad decisions and greed. But it’s going to swing back.”
Flynn owns a farm in Bastrop and an organic site in Austin.
Anybody with information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the APD Homicide tip line at 512-974-8477. This marks Austin’s 27th homicide of 2024.
Originally published on mytexasdaily.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.
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