And I'm going to Hi, this is Nick Estes. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. I just want to give a quick historical

update about why this day is important and why we're talking about the

resistance in Palestine.

In 1977, the International Indian Treaty Council, upon achieving

non-governmental organizational status at the United Nations called for the end of

celebration of Columbus Day and declared instead the International Day of

Solidarity and mourning with indigenous peoples. The UN Committee on Racism, racial discrimination, apartheid, and colonialism pass a resolution with

the support of many organizations such as the African National Congress and the Palestine

Liberation Organization who recognize that the devastating legacies of

European colonialism and African slavery had to be addressed in the Americas.

In 1982, Spain and the Vanneken proposed a 500-year commemoration of Columbus's voyage at the UN

General Assembly, the entire African delegation in solidarity with

indigenous peoples of the Americas walked out of the meeting and protest of

celebrating colonialism. The very system the UN was supposed to end. The

commemoration was crushed and the UN declared a celebration of World's

Indigenous People's Day and the decade for the World's Indigenous Peoples which began in 1994.

The second decade was declared in 2005.

So without this lateral solidarity,

indigenous peoples would not have made such historic gains like the drafting of the 2007 UN Declaration of the rights of indigenous people commonly known as undrip And it should come as no surprise

that Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States,

all white supremacist, a settler colonial regimes,

initially voted against Undrip, maintaining their decades-long

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