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Hi, my name is Tracy Molina (Cozcacuauhtli)  I am a disabled desert storm veteran, single Mom/Grandma and retired social worker.  We are looking to buy a home and need help. It is a small 3 bedroom 1 bathroom house with enough room to make a sweatlodge for our healing.
We will have more resources in a couple years and we will be able to pay it forward then until then we are asking for assistance getting this home.
My daughter, Citlalli is a junior at a school in the Portland school district. She wants to be a fire fighter.  Every since Standing Rock we have been on the frontlines on the anti-pipeline and antifascist trail in the U.S. and Canada. Before that we lived on the Yakama Reservation for 15 years, we are not Yakama tribal members our close relatives are.  We are Mestiza from the Nahua people of the southern part of North America.  We are members of the Native American Church, a ceremony from Mexico, I've attended these ceremonies for the most important times of my life in the last 2.5 decades. 
I was raised in Siletz, Oregon and that is where my son, nieces, daughter in law and grandchildren are all enrolled tribal members with the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians. When I pass away the house will go to my son.
 
I have been an Indignous activist in Portland since 2019. It might be a coincidence but ever since Trump tweeted "lock these animals up" referring to Indigenous activists in Portland, my full legal name was included in that tweet. I got arrested by feds 6 times after that tweet. I did not have any federal arrests until after that tweet by the POTUS. Could be hard core MAGA in DHS focusing on me? It is very likely I was one of the playing cards passed around to law enforcement to learn our names and faces. 

For over a year I was frequently violently arrested protesting ICE in Portland. I hung a piñata up to call attention to the 1000 kids who have not seen their parents since I took them in 2018. I hung up red dresses for MMIW (missing and murdered indigenous women) I went on a couple marches for Rosenda Strong who went missing near my home when I lived in Toppenish, WA.  At ICE I did an "Aztec" Mexica Danza called Tletl. I danced Tletl because the federal officers purposely destroyed an altar that was made by Warm Springs tribal members. I danced it to make things right with the altar and for that I was shot with LTL's and arrested. I still have medical bills and ambulance bills coming in directly from police brutality. I protest at ICE because they did surgeries on women with out their consent. I protest at ICE because children were sexually assaulted inside ICE contract facilities in a "systematic manner." I protested at ICE because they deport veterans for a traffic violation.  When I could no longer protest at ICE my daughter Citlalli started organizing in her high school with other Indigenous students and they held a rally at ICE to protest the atrocities ICE has committed throughout the years. 2002 her father was locked up in ICE for months until finally they let him out because he was a U.S. citizen the entire time.
The trial for protesting ICE is stressful. The last time I protested there I was injured the worse out of all of the police brutality I ended up in an ambulance. I was too afraid to protest at ICE but my daughter started to plan protests at ICE. We are looking for support for the upcoming trial February 8, 2022.
It is going to take a lot to heal from the last arrest because it wasn't just the arrest it was the extreme hatred for protesters at the jail. It is almost a guaranteed the guards are going to abuse us in some manner. I was abused several times in "use of force" bs situations.  It made knowing I was in there just on a cops bs word. We are hoping to move for a safer place to live I have been doxxed for a long time. I haven't received very many threats recently but in the past it got to a stressful point with my address and my parents address floating around the internet. 
Not only did I get targeted once by Trump, I was targeted by Andy Ngo and then Ted Wheeler picked up Andy Ngo's talking points about me with out any verification reported me to the media as some sort of rioter when the truth is I have been filming protests and making wrap up video of each one and then posting them on social media. The bigger the account got I think the more attention is summoned from law enforcement. Like I can't express myself through video or try to process the trauma through framing the video. Some of my videos were played in congress and played a part in expelling BORTAC. Some of my videos went viral making the cops not look so hot that also caused me to become targeted more by all sides. These last few years have been the most difficult of my lifetime. 
 
 
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