Nationally respected and local Native American leaders wanted to make it clear the outside visitors were getting a more complete picture of Stockton other than Tubbs’ manufactured “Reinvent Stockton” agenda since they didn’t receive an invitation to this invitation-only event.Īlso of concern is the fact that Stockton Unified trustee and Director of Reinvent Stockton Foundation, Lange Luntao who also attended and helped facilitate the tour for a national philanthropy community, is using his elected position to solicit private funding successfully yet failing to fulfill his promise of educational equity for all students. In addition, they asked philanthropy organization attendee’s such as the Latino Community Foundation to stop giving special thanks to these big banks such as Wells Fargo and instead, divest and cease all financial relationships with institutions that fund the Dakota Access Pipeline, Keystone XL, Line 3, etc. The collective philanthropy community also support Native American leadership, organizations and movements at a rate of less than half of 1% and even less for some philanthropy guests. Their concerns also included Tubbs being portrayed as an innovative leader when the City of Stockton continues to celebrate the rape, murder and genocide of American Indians by observing Columbus Day and Thanksgiving holidays instead of honoring the indigenous people of this stolen land like countless other cities, counties and states across the nation. Their prime concern was his invitation to Wells Fargo, Bank of America and BBVA Compass that are responsible for funding crude oil pipelines (#NoDAPL #StopLine3 #NoKXL etc) harmful to Indigenous communities and sovereign tribal treaty rights that desecrate their sacred stolen land in addition to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The Native American community of Stockton demonstrated Friday in front of the university plaza as water protectors at Mayor Tubbs’ hosted event meant to draw philanthropist to Stockton.
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