Mastodawn

Many #birds and #animals can be found in #AlcatrazIsland from the #Cormorant, #Pigeonguillemot, #Westerngull, #Heermanngull, #Blackcrownednightheron and #Harborseal. #photography #americana #wa #california #californication #canon80d #colorphotography #bwphotography #travel #photos #nature

WA.tv Jun 2

The #FormerMilitaryChapel on #AlcatrazIsland was built in the 20s to accommodate the officers of the military prison. After #Alcatraz became a Federal Prison, the building was used for unmarried officers. #photography #americana #wa #california #architecture #californication #canon80d #colorphotography #bwphotography #travel #photos #history

DoomsdaysCW May 28

‘The cavalry’s coming!’: Indigenous activism from 1492 to Standing Rock

Famed Indigenous activists like Leonard Peltier and Madonna Thunder Hawk and younger activists shared their thoughts with ICT about the evolution of Indigenous activism from the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s to Standing Rock and beyond.

by Kevin Abourezk, May 11, 2026

#CannonballND – "The field is serene. The blades of brown grass, not yet awakened by spring rains, sway gently. In the distance, the #MissouriRiver cuts a blue streak across the unbroken plains. The silence is punctuated only by the sound of passing cars and the low hum of rushing water in nearby #CannonballRiver.

"But if you listen carefully, you can hear defiant voices shouting and then screaming.

"Ten years ago, this land exploded.

"For nearly a year, from April 2016 to February 2017, thousands of people stood strong against #MilitarizedPolice, #FederalTroops and #PrivateSecurityForces [#Blackwater] hired to protect the 1,176-mile #DakotaAccessPipeline. They gathered to resist a private corporation’s efforts to build a pipeline less than a mile from the #StandingRockSioux Reservation near the #NorthDakota-#SouthDakota border.

"In the end, they were forced to evacuate their camps as authorities quieted, but never fully extinguished, the uprising. Some would say the fire that ignited at #StandingRock was lit decades earlier by #NativeActivists who fought oppression and violence in the 1960s and 1970s.

"While Native people have resisted #colonization and its impacts since 1492, the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s marked a turning point in the efforts of Native people to join together and speak in one voice. That torch of resistance was carried all the way from places like #AlcatrazIsland and #WoundedKnee to a field near the Missouri River in 2016.

"The #NoDAPL movement reached its height on Nov. 20, 2016, when hundreds of water protectors gathered on a bridge to clear two burned-out trucks that impeded a public roadway that provided access to the pipeline drill site and to the camp. The confrontation was the most violent clash between water protectors and authorities during the protest and led to nearly 200 people being injured, some seriously."

#USPol #NativeAmericanActivism #StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHistory #Resistance #IndigenousResistance #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism

‘The cavalry’s coming!’: Indigenous activism from 1492 to Standing Rock

ICT

C Z Doval Santos May 5

Wow 😵‼️👉🏻”
BY JANIE HAR
Updated May 05, 2026 12:08 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by swift, choppy waters notorious for thwarting prisoners' escapes.

Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected “

https://apnews.com/article/swimming-coyote-alcatraz-san-francisco-4f7f03270ce9d10b27ef60dbb90f1ef0 #AlcatrazIsland #california #wildlife

Male coyote swims from Angel Island to Alcatraz, surprising experts

A lone coyote stunned biologists and others by swimming to Alcatraz Island earlier this year. Initially, biologists thought it swam from San Francisco, about a mile away. But DNA analysis revealed it came from Angel Island, twice the distance. The coyote's journey impressed experts, highlighting its resilience. Camilla Fox from Project Coyote says the animal likely left its home in search of a mate or territory. Video of the coyote in the San Francisco Bay surfaced in January. Park officials planned to relocate it because of Alcatraz's seabird habitat, but the coyote hasn't been seen since.

AP News

香港01 Apr 5

美國白宮公布2027財政年度聯邦政府預算草案，當中包括一項1.52億美元（約1.15億英鎊）撥款以重開位於加州三藩市灣的阿爾卡特拉斯島（Alcatraz）監
https://www.hk01.com/即時國際/60337521/白宮擬斥巨資重開三藩市監獄島-特朗普-用作收押最凶惡重犯

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Jan 1

#AlcatrazIsland opened up as a US federal #prison on #ThisDayInHistory in 1934. In #SanFranciscoBay, it was notoriously difficult to escape. #Alcatraz closed as a prison in 1963 and has been a museum since 1973. Our idiot president #Trump wants it converted back into a prison...

DoomsdaysCW Nov 25, 2025

The Case for Returning U.S. #PublicLands to #IndigenousPeople

by Joe Whittle, Mar 6, 2025

"Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public lands agencies, including the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The effects of this are vast: It’s going to have a profoundly negative impact on the environment and the way millions of Americans enjoy public lands, cause immeasurable harm to America’s wildest places, and devastate the economies built around them.

"After serving 12 years as a backcountry wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, I'm convinced there is an alternative: the U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them. If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?

"This isn’t a new idea. #NativeAmericans argued that treaty law required
'abandoned' federal land to be returned to tribes during the occupation of #Alcatraz Island by the #AmericanIndianMovement in the 1960s. In more recent years, the #LandbackMovement has given rise to increased calls for the return of territorial land to #IndigenousNations, and the return of land management based in #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge—expertise gathered from thousands of years of having deep relationships with specific environments. There’s a strong legal argument that land return is constitutionally required as damages due for hundreds of treaty violations. However, there’s also a lot of data showing Indigenous land management is more ecologically sound than government or industrially managed land. For instance, #ProjectDrawdown, a global leader in science-based #ClimateChange solutions, estimates that returning 1,000 million hectares of land to Indigenous tenureship by 2050 would sequester over 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide."