Cumberland Center for Justice and Peace

06/19/2026

With Informatify – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

06/18/2026

In February, we sued the City of Memphis for unlawfully withholding public records about the Memphis Police Department’s use of force policies and practices. The ACLU requested records from seven departments; MPD was the only one to issue a blanket denial. Facing a lawsuit and the prospect of sanctions, the city has begun producing those records.
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This should never have required a lawsuit. The Tennessee Public Records Act exists for your protection. When a city hides harm, it enables aggressive policing. This is an even bigger concern in Memphis, a city that has a documented history of unconstitutional practices and is aggressively policing neighborhoods right now. We're reviewing what Memphis produced. Our work is far from over. More coming soon...

06/18/2026

"One of the effects of neoliberalism is to hamstring activism by weakening community ties, producing actual or near precarity so many struggle to make ends meet and they lack the time and emotional energy to take up a cause, and often by creating employment costs. For instance, an arrest, even if not charges were filed, might be hard to get off a credit report; prospective employers often ask for full access to social media accounts and reject candidates involved in the “wrong” causes. So it is a welcome change to see the march of destructive data centers leading many ordinary Americans to develop once atrophied organizing muscles."

Opposition to data centers and AI is rising, both at the community and the consumer level.

06/18/2026

The Ingalls family illegally moved onto Sovereign Osage lands in what is now Kansas, assuming that the Osage people would simply have to be displaced to make room for them, after they abandoned their Minnesota land claim.

Osage Territory, at the time, was under the protection of U.S Agents who removed Intruders to include the Ingalls family, who managed to eternally present themselves as victims, rather than the law breakers they factually were.

The many Intruders damaged and stole over $81,000 in property in a very short period of time, a very conservative sum consisting of only lumber and items stolen, and not the game and hides which were also the Osages according to Treaty.
In today's numbers that would equal more than $2.2 million dollars which has never been repaid.

The lands sold to Railroads who made the purchases under subsidiary companies which they bankrupted were never paid either. These sums would garner many millions of dollars by now.
The Railroads later "sold" these stolen lands to other Settlers. Because they could get away with it.

No dollar amount could replace the loss of the many Osages lives. Those murdered by the Intruders, out of retaliation. Then there are the many who married Osages so they could obtain deeds and titles to their mineral rights, which resulted in the founding of the FBI in response to the murders of their in-laws.

Manu still these books as a children, in spite of being racist and highly problematic. Heralded as they are by countless Intruders descendants, one can't help but wonder if Laura Ingalls obsession to kidnap an Osage child as she begged her father to do, played out in the genocide still perpetuated against Indigenous people by individuals, States, and adoption agencies to this very day.

The scholarly article included below is excellent and one everyone should read to gain a real introspection into the life and legalities of immigrants and intruders, the 1800's, and it's effects on America's first people then, with an eye towards today.


https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.bing.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1022&context=greatplainsquarterly

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This link still works for us. Additional link in comments

06/18/2026

06/18/2026

CareFest is a community powered fundraiser rooted in punk ethics, mutual aid and collective resistance! We're so thrilled to announce the line-up for the ticketed event.

There will also be music and performances throughout the market hours [11 am - 4 pm]. Each of these artists are donating their time and talents to support families impacted by immigration enforcement in Hamilton County.

🎟️ Ticketed Concert Lineup: 5 - 10 pm 🎟️

⚡ Croctopuss
⚡ Yer Flowers
⚡ Manhole
⚡ Electric Funeral

We're building our own economy, powered by the people, for the people. Investing in each other, creating the future we deserve and proving that another world is possible.

06/18/2026