🚨COMMUNITY ALERT BOYCOTT NOW! Three Sisters Gardens and Indigefest 2026
May 20, 2026
The National Brown Berets, Brown Berets de SacrAztlan, NorCal Resist and NASEIU Local 1000 are calling on our community to boycott "All Nations Indigefest 2026" and refuse support for any event that continues to provide cover, credibility, and profit to Alfred Melbourne, known within the community for patterns of abusive and harmful behavior.
Too often, survivors are pressured into silence while abusers continue to move freely through activist, cultural, and ceremonial spaces without accountability. That cycle ends when the community stops rewarding it.
We refuse to normalize harm in the name of "unity." We refuse to sacrifice the safety of women, youth, and vulnerable community members to protect reputations, egos, or events.
Indigenous and Chicano liberation movements must be rooted in accountability. Anyone who claims to stand for the people while ignoring harm within our own communities is betraying the very principles they speak about publicly.
We are urging community members, organizations, sponsors, vendors, performers, and attendees to withdraw their support from Indigefest and stand with survivors instead of silence.
This is bigger than one event. This is about what kind of community we are willing to build and what we are willing to tolerate.
The days of hiding abuse behind activism, ceremony, culture, or leadership titles are over.
We stand with survivors. We stand for accountability. And we stand with the people demanding safer community spaces.
Silence protects abusers. Community action protects the people.
In Solidarity
National Brown Berets
Brown Berets de SacrAztlan
NorCal Resist
NASEIU Local 1000