About Us
We seek to promote a new notion of democracy, one that is structured on the foundations of people power, as we believe that democracy can reach its pinnacle when people are fully able to hold their leaders accountable without fear of oppression. The Tribunal seeks to appropriate this critical meaning of democracy to hold the United States accountable for its actions of land theft and bodily regulations of historically marginalized and minoritized communities. In building a counter-narrative to what has been a euro-centric telling of US imperialism, expansion, and manifest destiny, we want to extend a greater call to our allies to reform the ways in which we organize our liberation movements, placing special emphasis on organizing with discernment and nonviolence.
Our research collective includes undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, artists, performers, and community members.
Tribunal Project Founding Member
Judy Talaugon is a Chumash and Filipina Land Protector from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. She is the daughter of farmworkers and immigrant leaders. Growing up among Mexican and Filipina communities in California, she has been a long-time activist in numerous struggles, ranging from human rights to housing, land rights, and the fight against white supremacy. She participated in the shutting down of the quincentennial celebration of the myth of discovery by Christopher Columbus and the genocidal practices against Indigenous communities in the Western Hemisphere. Talaugon is an Organizer for CICEP: California Indians for Cultural and Environmental Protection and led Genocide, Colonialism, and Resistance workshops to train people to confront white supremacy in the late 1990s. She has been active throughout the state of California and in many parts of the world on projects focusing on housing rights, land back struggles, and the protection of water and land defenders. She consistently uplifts BIPOC women in the movement. Her work is based on clear principles aimed at creating a culture of resistance, standing in solidarity with activists from the entire hemisphere and world, and building up women-led Indigenous landback movements alongside and in solidarity with Black, AAPI, and Latinx communities.
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