Walter "Makoonse" Bresette (Anishinaabe)  was a key founding members of the Wisconsin Green Party, which held its first convention in 1988. During the 1990s, Bresette pushed for the Seventh Generation Amendment, also known as the Common Property Amendment, to the United States Constitution. To promote the amendment, Bresette helped organize several protestors to walk completely around Lake Superior. He was active in promoting environmental, treaty rights and human rights issues until his 1999 death of a heart attack in Duluth.

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Charlene D'Cruz is an immigration attorney, living in Ashland, Wisconsin She's worked for more than thirty five years on the US/Mexican border, helping immigrants gain asylum. She just returned from Tijuana.  She says the whole point of the United States treatment of  brown people on the border is the infliction of cruelty  by a colonial government. Nick Vander Puy from the Superior Broadcast Network talks with attorney Charlene D'Cruz about the horrors on the border line.

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