“Today, we have our first Thanksgiving celebration,” says Kevin Zeese. “We have another one tomorrow on Freedom Plaza, in our kitchen. We have a great kitchen—an incredible kitchen, really—and our chef wants us to try his mango stuffing. We are looking forward to that.”read more

In giving thanks for what we have, we need to commit ourselves to the principle that no child should go hungry in the land of plenty.read more

This Thanksgiving, don’t call on me, as an American Indian, to offer up a prayer of thanks.read more

To Terry Tempest Williams, to Russ Feingold and Alan Grayson, to Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges, to Cindy Sheehan and Ralph Nader, to Andrea Lewis and Howard Zinn.read more

We do not have to remain stuck helplessly in a yearly cycle of guilty silence, hoping that Thanksgiving doesn’t seem – at its crassest — to be “giving thanks” for exterminated Indians.read more

Before you carve into your Thanksgiving turkey, please pause to reflect on the workers who brought the holiday feast to your table.read more

This Thanksgiving, as an Ojibwe woman, I will grieve for what Europeans did to native peoples here. But I will also give thanks for life.read more

Turkey processing relies largely on the hard labor of low-wage workers of color, many of them immigrants or refugees.read more

As an American Indian, I can’t think of anything more depressing than sitting around the dinner table tracing the legacy of a holiday that began with a questionable decision to save a band of starving pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.read more