Statues vandalized over Thanksgiving in 'LANDBACK' campaign
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While families across the U. S. were celebrating Thanksgiving with scaled-down gatherings or Zoom calls, protesters were toppling historical statues and monuments.
In Washington state, the Spokane Police Department reported that a statue of 16th President Abraham Lincoln was vandalized with red paint, while multiple colonial statues -- including one of George Washington -- were defaced and toppled overnight in Minneapolis.
"No more genocide" and "all colonizers are bastards" were scrawled in red graffiti on the works.
The Pan-Indigenous People’s Liberation (PIPL) network took responsibility for the move and explained in a statement that it was partly in response to a callout for a “national decolonial day of action.“
The American Indian Movement had previously pulled down a statue of explorer Christopher Columbus outside the state capitol.
Portland, Ore., protesters tagged local markets and a monument dedicated to the veterans of the Civil War, Mexican, Spanish and Indian wars with anti-colonialist rhetoric.
The Midwestern hub of Chicago witnessed a similar effort, though protesters ultimately failed to knock down a park statue of President William... (Read more)
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