American Indian Heritage Month 2025

Haida double thunderbird 1880

The Thunderbird is a powerful, mythical bird in many American Indian cultures, symbolizing power, protection and natural forces like thunder and lightning.


November is

American Indian Heritage Month

Heritage and History Month Events
© Smithsonian Institution

National Native American Heritage Month – November 2025
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Thunderbird (mythology) - Wikipedia

2025 Festival Events Calendar - Red Nation Film Festival

2025 Festival Events Calendar - Red Nation Film Festival

Native Indigenous Documentary Films: November 10-15
Native Indigenous Cinematic Excellence (Feature Films): November 10-15
Awards Show: November 16

Los Angeles, CA

Red Nation Film Festival

Katayoun Shamsi Executed in Vakilabad Prison, Mashhad

Katayoun Shamsi Executed in Vakilabad Prison, Mashhad

© NCRI Women Committee

Write 4 Rights 2025 - AI

Write for Rights - Amnesty International

Join the campaign and change a life today !

Sharifeh Mohammadi’s Death Sentence Commuted to 30 Years

Sharifeh Mohammadi’s Death Sentence Commuted to 30 Years

© Iran Human Rights  

Knesset to vote next week on death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners

Knesset to vote next week on death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners 

An Israeli Knesset committee advanced a bill on Sunday to allow the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners.

© Middle East Monitor

Mahboubeh Jalali, 38, Executed in Lakan Prison, Rasht

Mahboubeh Jalali, 38, Executed in Lakan Prison, Rasht

© NCRI Women Committee

Narges Ahmadi Executed in Qom Central Prison

Narges Ahmadi Executed in Qom Central Prison

© NCRI Women Committee

Group Hanging of 4 Including Woman for Drug Offences in Rasht

© Iran Human Rights

Iran: 280 Executions in One Month, Unprecedented Record in 36 Years - NCRI

Iran: 280 Executions in One Month, Unprecedented Record in 36 Years 

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

Anthony Boyd Tortured to Death in Alabama

Tortured to Death in Alabama

Anthony Boyd took more than 30 minutes to die, making his execution the most protracted nitrogen suffocation in history.

© The Atlantic

Lengthy Execution by Nitrogen Gas in Alabama Renews Concerns Over Method

© The New York Times

‘Cruellest violation’: Saudi Arabia executes second child offender in two months | Middle East Eye

‘Cruellest violation’: Saudi Arabia executes second child offender in two months

Abdullah al-Derazi was executed for taking part in protests against the treatment of Shias when he was 17

© Middle East Eye

Lindsay Sandiford, British grandmother on death row to return to UK

British grandmother on death row to return to UK

A British grandmother who has spent more than a decade on death row in Indonesia after being convicted of drug smuggling can return to the UK, the Indonesian government has said.

© BBC 

Kafieh Qobadzadeh Executed in Shiraz; 2 Women Hanged on Wednesday

Kafieh Qobadzadeh Executed in Shiraz; 2 Women Hanged on Wednesday

© NCRI Women Committee

Nahid Hemmati Executed in Nahavand Prison in Iran

Nahid Hemmati Executed in Nahavand Prison in Iran

© NCRI Women Committee

Zeynab Khodabandeh Hanged in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison

Zeynab Khodabandeh Hanged in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison

© NCRI Women Committee

‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel

‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

© Aljazeera

deported to ... Egypt !!!!

Free Them All !!!! 

“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History

to mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day (US), 

“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History

© Democracy Now!

We're Still Here: Why It's Still a Good Day to Be Indigenous 
by Levi Rickert

© Native News Online

Executions in Iran: A Deadly Record in 2025 - Iran HRM

Executions in Iran: A Deadly Record in 2025 

On the Occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty

© Iran Human Rights Monitor

Wave of Executions in Iran on the Eve of the World Day Against the Death Penalty

© Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) 

World Day Against the Death Penalty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oct. 10 is

World Day against Death Penalty
The death penalty protects no one.

Take Action & check the Events !!!!!

All Days !!!!!

World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

♥ sunny Frida ♥

 

at first it was not easy ...
i was in panic & it was a new world for me ...

but now, well, 
i love to eat, play with my little balls take sun at the balcony make promenades on the building stairs & sleep with my human mom ...

i feel safe and i’m ... free !!!!

♥ love uuuuuuuuuuuu ♥
miuuuuuu Frida


 

it makes 6 months today
Frida found her forever home & Love ♥♥

the human mom,

lu 

On Louis Aragon ♥ Birthday

Louis Aragon

♥♥♥

La vie est un voyageur qui laisse traîner son manteau derrière lui, pour effacer ses traces.

Life is a traveler who leaves his coat trailing behind him, to erase his traces.

- Louis Aragon - 

October 3, 1897 - December 24, 1982

from Les Voyageurs de l'Impériale - Imperial Travelers

Louis Aragon with Elsa Triolet & their dog
by Pablo Volta, years 1950


Louis Aragon | The Poetry Foundation

ELSA ET LOUIS | Maison Triolet-Aragon

Louis Aragon - Wikipedia

Elsa Triolet - Wikipedia

image source: Chantiers de culture

Iranian Regime Hits 200 Executions in September 2025, Highest in 36 Years - NCRI

Iranian Regime Hits 200 Executions in September 2025, Highest in 36 Years 

© Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

Jayran Zaheri Hanged in Isfahan Prison; 14 Women Executed in Two Months

Jayran Zaheri Hanged in Isfahan Prison; 14 Women Executed in Two Months

© NCRI Women Committee

USA » July/Sept. 2025 - Scheduled executions

July - September 2025

September

5 -  Ralph Menzies - Utah - firing squad - called off

Utah Supreme Court blocks execution of prisoner with dementia who chose to die by firing squad
© CNN » pub. August 30 

17 - David Pittman - murdered by Florida 

Florida executes David Pittman for 1990 triple murder, marking record 12th execution in state this year
© CBS Miami 

Double execution: Texas, Alabama to execute men at same time this week
© USA Today » pub. Sept. 23 
     
25 - Blaine Milam - murdered by Texas  

Texas man executed for the ‘exorcism’ killing of his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter
© AP News 

25 - Geoffrey Todd West - murdered with gas by Alabama 

Alabama executes man with nitrogen gas for 1997 shooting death of store clerk
© AP News

 

30 - Victor Tony Jones - murdered by Florida 

Florida extends its record with 13th execution of 2025 as man put to death for 1990 double murder
© CBS Miami

Florida prepares to carry out a 13th execution and a warrant has been signed for a 15th 
© WUSF » pub. Sept. 29 

as of September 30

* serious dates    

for scheduled executions, check ►
Rick Halperin page, thanks !!!!!

Take Action for All at ► Catholic Mobilizing Network
& 
Execution Petitions – Death Penalty Action

 
Recent State Killings & stays ►

August

5 - Byron Lewis Black - murdered by Tennessee 

Tennessee executes Byron Black despite concerns about heart device: 'It's hurting so bad'
© Nashville Tennessean  

19 - Kayle Bates - murdered by Florida 

Florida carries out record 10th execution this year, putting to death a man for a 1982 killing
© AP News

21 - David Lee Roberts - Alabama - stay

Alabama Circuit Court Judge Stays Execution Because of Concerns with Prisoner’s Mental Competency
© Death Penalty Information Center » pub. July 31

28 - Curtis Windom - murdered by Florida 

Man convicted of killing 3 receives lethal injection in Florida amid record pace of executions
© AP News 

July

15 - Michael Bell - murdered by Florida 

Florida puts a man to death for killing 2 outside a bar, the 26th US execution this year
© AP News

31 - Edward Zakrzewski - murdered by Florida   

Florida carries out record 9th execution of year on man convicted of killing wife and 2 children
© AP News 

April - June 2025 

Kill Death Penalty NOW !!!!!