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	"author_name": "Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/native-organizers-alliance",
	"title": "Remove the Stain Act",
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	"description": "In December of 1890, U.S. soldiers slaughtered hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children -- most of them unarmed -- during the Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Yet, in the years following this unbelievable tragedy, 20 U.S. soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration, for their actions. Wounded Knee is the place symbolizing the genocidal history of brutality and repression we have suffered at the hands of the U.S. government. Native Tribes have long pushed for these shameful medals to be revoked, but while Congress did issue a formal apology to the descendants of the massacre in 1990, the medals were left in place and no reparations offered. Now, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has doubled down, announcing that the medals will never be revoked and declaring the issue settled. Fortunately Secretary Hegseth does NOT get to have the final word. Congress can make revoking these medals a matter of law, protecting their decision from future administrations since it would take another act of Congress to overturn it. That’s exactly why Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley and Congresswoman Jill Tokuda have introduced the Remove the Stain Act. The Remove the Stain Act would revoke the Medal of Honor from the soldiers who perpetrated the Wounded Knee massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. It would be a vital step towards condemning the horrific atrocities committed on that day and it’s critical to advancing healing and reconciliation for all Native communities impacted by the genocidal history of brutality and repression suffered at the hands of the U..S government. We must build support to make it happen. Click ‘START WRITING’ to sign and send a message urging your members of Congress to co-sponsor and pass the Remove the Stain Act now.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/remove-the-stain-act"
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