DoomsdaysCW<p>Center for Biological Diversity Statement on Shooting of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JacobJohns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JacobJohns</span></a></p><p>For Immediate Release, September 29, 2023</p><p>Contact:<br>Kierán Sucking, (520) 275-5960, ksuckling@biologicaldiversity.org</p><p>Statement from Kierán Suckling, executive director, Center for Biological Diversity:</p><p>“I’m horrified and devastated by the shooting this week in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a> of Jacob Johns, an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> climate and justice <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activist</span></a>, by a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> hat-wearing bigot. The Center for Biological Diversity stands by the brave actions of Johns and with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> of New Mexico and North America resisting the resurrection of a monument to violent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conquistador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conquistador</span></a> Juan de <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/O%C3%B1ate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oñate</span></a>.</p><p>“The Center’s work to end the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> crises is rooted in resistance to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a>. We honor the tireless organizing of Indigenous activists resisting all forms of settler racism, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheRedNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRedNation</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThreeSistersCollective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThreeSistersCollective</span></a>, the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NDNCollective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NDNCollective</span></a>, who led this week’s peaceful gathering in Tewa Territory, Española, New Mexico. We commit to fighting for justice, because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”</p><p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CenterForBiologicalDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CenterForBiologicalDiversity</span></a> is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.</p><p><a href="https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/center-for-biological-diversity-statement-on-shooting-of-jacob-johns-2023-09-29/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">biologicaldiversity.org/w/news</span><span class="invisible">/press-releases/center-for-biological-diversity-statement-on-shooting-of-jacob-johns-2023-09-29/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a></p>