Who we are

We are a group of citizens who live, work and recreate in Boulder. We are opposed to genocide, apartheid and imperialism — wherever they happen, and whoever is carrying them out.

Genocide is not a word we use loosely. Below is what we mean, and who made the finding in each case. Follow the links and read them yourself.

The United States — starting with Boulder

• We stand on land taken from people who are still here. The City of Boulder's own land acknowledgment names nine Indigenous Nations whose ancestral homelands and unceded territory this is. Among them the Núuchiu — the Ute, who lived in and stewarded the Boulder Valley since time immemorial, alongside the Hinono'eiteen (Arapaho) and Tsétsėhéstȧhese (Cheyenne).
• The same document records what this town did. Company D of the Third Colorado Cavalry — "which included 46 Boulder men and prominent Boulder County residents", among them founders of the Boulder Town Company — took part in the massacre of peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek on 29 November 1864.
• The Department of the Interior's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative documented a federal policy built to erase Native cultures and assimilate Native children — Volume I in May 2022, Volume II in July 2024, recording student deaths and burial sites. A formal presidential apology followed in October 2024.
• The treaties were never honored, and still are not. In United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians (1980) the Supreme Court held that the 1877 taking of the Black Hills — land set aside by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 — required just compensation. The Sioux Nation has never accepted the money. The claim is to the land, and it is still outstanding.

Palestine — Gaza

• In September 2025 the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry found Israel responsible for genocide in Gaza, concluding that four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention had been committed.
• The International Court of Justice has ordered provisional measures three times — 26 January, 28 March and 24 May 2024 — in South Africa v. Israel, which remains before the Court.
• Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have each reached the same conclusion.

Sudan — Darfur

• In January 2025 the United States Department of State determined that the Rapid Support Forces have committed genocide in Sudan, against the Masalit and other communities in Darfur.

Myanmar — the Rohingya

• The Gambia v. Myanmar is before the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention, with eleven states intervening. Hearings on the merits concluded in January 2026 and the Court is deliberating.

These are not the only ones. They are the ones where an international court or a formal inquiry has already made the finding, so there is nothing to take on our word.

What we are asking for

We are asking local, state and federal government to do two things.

1. End all support for the entities responsible for genocide. Every contract, every investment, every shipment, every grant — wherever public money or public authority is currently helping.
2. Act meaningfully on the victims' right of return and on restorative justice. Ending support is the floor, not the remedy. What was taken has to be returned, and what was destroyed has to be repaired.

That applies to every situation named above, including the one at home.

In Boulder, the immediate ask is that the city divest from Microsoft.