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Check out www.RussellMeans.com for inspiration, news, and wise words by the American Indian Leader Lakotah Russell Means who was celebrated by Andy Warhol in his seminal series of American icons.
"Russell Means has lived a life like few others in this century - revered for his selfless accomplishments and remarkable bravery. He was born into a society and guided by way of life that gently denies the self in order to promote the survival and betterment of family and community. His culture is driven by tradition, which at once links the past to the present.
The L.A. Times has called him the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. His indomitable sense of pride and leadership has become embedded in our national character. Today, his path has brought him to Hollywood, thus enabling him to use different means to communicate his vital truths. Through the power of media, his vision is to create peaceful and positive images celebrating the magic and mystery of his American Indian heritage. In contemplating the fundamental issues about the world in which we live, he is committed to educating all people about our most crucial battle - the preservation of the earth..."
Photo by Sage Paisner www.myspace.burningsagepress.com
From your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com.Check out www.RussellMeans.com for inspiration, news, and wise words by the American... more
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The earth, our true mother, is cleansing herself with storms, tornadoes,earthquakes and hurricanes.
Listen to her roar.
Rebuild GREEN, like Greensburg.
from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.comThe earth, our true mother, is cleansing herself with storms, tornadoes,earthquakes... more
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Hello, All -- For your reference, I include the article below. See the web site for links to potentially useful reports and news releases.
Cherokee says, " The preceding statistics are used to illustrate the importance of green, low-GHG real estate development – such as transit-oriented, infill, mixed-use, brownfield, smart growth development and/or green building in meeting US greenhouse gas reduction goals."
-- Bill Brown
from Charleen Touchette at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.comHello, All -- For your reference, I include the article below. See the web site for... more
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Greetings, All -- Researchers at the University of Tel Aviv claim new photovoltaic technology that costs at least one hundred times less than conventional silicon-based devices. The device is based on a genetically engineered dry proteins photosystem called PS I that -- importantly -- emininates the need for an expensive cooling system. PS I is expected to cost about $1 (one dollar) per square meter of panels compared with a cost of about $200 (two hundred dollars) per square meter for panels using silicon.
"The Israeli team is set to challenge others who are using photosynthesis for photovoltaic cells, including universities such as Cambridge in the U.K., and Stanford, M.I.T, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the Universities of Tennessee and Arizona in the U.S, and several others. "
-- Bill Brown
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207403402
William M. Brown
Sage West Consultants & The Climate Project
Energy Science, Law, Architecture
Arroyo Hondo & Taos, New Mexico
Email: nmglobalwarming@yahoo.com
Web: http://nmglobalwarming.org
Web: http://www.theclimateproject.org
Brought to you on this earth day from Charleen Touchette at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
Photo "Cloud Break Over Chimayo" by Charleen Touchette, On the Road with Mixed Blood Radio Archives with Martin Luther King III outside Chimayo, New Mexico in June 2007.Greetings, All -- Researchers at the University of Tel Aviv claim new photovoltaic... more
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Clearly New Mexico
Clearly New Mexico is a project of the Center for Civic Action, a state-based advocacy organization working to advance socially responsible public policies in New Mexico. We believe that a stronger democracy is the best path to addressing the challenges facing our state and our nation. This site provides cutting edge online communications tools in the service of this purpose.
Core Values
People are our greatest asset. Thus, we seek policies that invest in people, expanding opportunity and fostering full participation in the democratic institutions that shape our lives.
We all live under one sky. Thus, we advocate policies that protect the planet for the health and happiness of this generation and those that follow.
Public structures belong to the people and serve to keep our communities safe, secure and healthy. Thus, we seek to strengthen these structures that promote public safety and health, while holding them to the highest standards of public accountability.
CONTACT US
Clearly New Mexico
PO Box 27616
Albuquerque, NM 87125
505.842.5539
Email: info@clearlynewmexico.com
From your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
Have a green day.
P.S. Google Greensburg, tornado, going green for news on positive news from this town hit hard by tornadoes committed to rebuilding greenClearly New Mexico
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After watching this video, my heart was touched.
Think yours may be too.
Watch this documentary about our earth and what we can do.
From TouchArt and One Earth Blog.After watching this video, my heart was touched.
Think yours may be too.
Watch... more
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American Indian leader Lakotah Russell Means from Pine Ridge, South Dakota explains why he and many of us abhor the term "Native American."
Check out Russell Means' informative website at www.russellmeans.com
From Charleen Touchette, Oppressionist Artist recruited by Russell Means in 2006, for TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
HAVE LAND? THANK AN INDIAN
You can get a tee-shirt with the wise words above at www.nativeharvest.comAmerican Indian leader Lakotah Russell Means from Pine Ridge, South Dakota explains... more
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Congressman John Lewis was a major student leader back in the day with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and has served his district that includes Atlanta with dignity, power and inspiration.
Congressman Lewis introduced Martin Luther King III at the Realizing the Dream Poverty in America Initiative report to Congress in October 2007. His rousing call to renew the fight against poverty and injustice, and the shame of 38 million Americans living in poverty was epic.
Congressman John Lewis has the experience and political know-how to be a great vice-president.
I'd love to see a Hillary Clinton/John Lewis ticket. The dems could win, then America will have two hard-working dedicated proven public servants committed to peace and justice at the helm.
Hillary Clinton/John Lewis 2008, 20012
Barack Obama/Barbara Lee 2016, 2020
What a era of peace, prosperity and social justice, we could achieve with a long-term plan.
With leadership like that over a 16 year period at least, we really could achieve the goal of eradicating poverty, diminishing racism and sexism, greening the economy, and stopping global warming and lifting up everyone together.
As Martin Luther King III said in Israel last summer. We must turn his father's "dream into vision, and that vision into action.
Stopping the name-calling and thinking out a disciplined plan that recognizes the need right now for experience and words backed by action, with space to nurture and support the development of younger leaders like Barack Obama and other inspiring leaders, both men and women, from all of our communities of all colors, including white, could be a plan for real change.
From Charleen Touchette, Realizing the Dream New Mexico Coordinator for TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
Congressman John Lewis was a major student leader back in the day with Dr. Martin... more
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Dr. King Jr.'s words and actions continue to inspire us today to work for peace with justice. This is a biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Follow the links for more info and find out about the good works his wife, Coretta Scott King continued as have his four children, Martin III, Yolanda, Dexter and Bernice.
Hope you will then commit yourself to joining us in the work to realize Dr. King Jr.'s vision of the beloved community and spread the good news to your family, friends, and everyone in your communities.
38 million living in poverty is obscene. Answer Martin Luther King III's call to turn his father's "dream into a vision and that vision into action."
From Charleen Touchette, New Mexico Co-ordinator of Martin Luther King III's Realizing the Dream Poverty in America Initiative forTouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
Dr. King Jr.'s words and actions continue to inspire us today to work for peace... more
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Aspartame affects protein synthesis, and DNA.
Stop drinking, eating and taking aspartame by any of its names like phenylalanine.
Also check out this link for more analysis on how aspartame damages health.
"Aspartame is a synthetic chemical composed of the amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid. Each time you drink a diet soft drink or chew sugarless gum, you are feeding unhealthy doses of these amino acids into your system, according to Dr. James Howenstine in A Physicians Guide to Natural Health Products that Work."
http://www.naturalnews.com/008952.html
from TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
in New Mexico where citizens are working for a bill to ban aspartame in the state legislature.
Read how aspartame poisons humans and rats, then think about how it poisons water and the environment when it is manufactured and what it does to the water supply when people flush it down their toilets.Aspartame affects protein synthesis, and DNA.
Stop drinking, eating and taking... more
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is a dedicated public servant.
From TouchArt and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is a dedicated public servant.
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You Tube video of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, another dedicated defender of our Constitution who was also with us at the Realizing the Dream Poverty in American Initiative Report to Congress in October 2007 with Martin Luther King III and the rest of the Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat from Texas is an eloquent supporter of Hillary Clinton for President.
From TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.comYou Tube video of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, another dedicated defender of our... more
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Some of the good Bill Clinton has been up to around the world.
from your friends at TouchArt.net and OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com.Some of the good Bill Clinton has been up to around the world.
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Corporate Hog Farms are with cattle yards and beef production, the greatest producers of greenhouse gas.
Lakotah Indians in South Dakota are arrested at protest of hog farm on Indian lands.
Photo - "Rain Comes to Pine Ridge" by Sage Paisner 2008
From TouchArt.net and One Earth Blog.Corporate Hog Farms are with cattle yards and beef production, the greatest producers... more
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A bit of interesting democratic primary history with Ed Muskie doing the crying at this link above - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuck_Letter
fyi amies,
"Cannucks" - French Canadians, mostly descendants of the French Voyageurs and Northeast Indian women - Metis, Quebecois, and Bois Brulle and/or Acadians, the offspring of communally living French men from Brittany and Normandy in the early 1600s and Mik'mak women, were persecuted from Maine up through Canada on the eastern seaboard for over 200 years. When America was born, the border crossed over them from coast to coast. One contentious border was Maine, with Acadians having family on both sides and longing to be reunited. My Memere Louisia Aucoin Touchette was born in the late 1890s, but she yearned to return to Acadia and talked about the dispersal in 1755 as if it were yesterday.
Our people were major players in the French and Indian Wars, War of 1812 and others when we usually took the side of our Indian relatives, not usually the winning side. The Grand Derangement in September of 1755 of Acadians, when families were separated, their property confiscated and herded on ships and dispersed to the British colonies, is the first modern example of genocide in the West. Seeing Mormon children torn from their mothers reignites that tragic ancestral memory.
What most people don't know is that the Ku Klux Klan had it's biggest activity against "Cannucks" in Maine in the late 1800s and early 1900s with a membership in Maine of over a 150,000. Read this description of the times from "Performing family stories, forming cultural identity: Franco American mémère stories" by Kristin M. Langellier
First published in Communication Studies, 53(1) Spring 2002, 56-73.
"Arguably, the Roman Catholic church both held French Canada together culturally at the same time that it hindered the social progress of its people. In the U.S., the devotion to French language and Catholic faith made Franco Americans the targets of religious hostility and racist attacks. The Anglo imagination attacked the French refusal to assimilate by challenging their whiteness. The French were characterized in an 1880 Massachusetts labor report as "the Chinese of the Eastern States" (les chinois de Pest) (Doty, 1995, p. 87), a comparison not to other white groups but to another race. Using French Canadians to argue against a ten-hour work day, the report concludes, "Now, it is not strange that so sordid and low a people should awaken corresponding feelings in the managers, and that these should feel that, the longer hours for such people, the better, and that to work them to the uttermost is about the only good use they can be put to" (Wright, 1881). Class, linguistic, and religious conflict submitted Franco Americans to two hundred years of discrimination, oppression, and poverty. In the mid and late 1880's and again in the 1920s, French Catholics were the target of cross-burnings by the Ku Klux Klan. In Maine, for example, an active and flourishing Klan in Maine, numbering 150,141, waged campaigns against the Catholic Church and foreign-language schools (Doty, 1995). Anti-French and anti-Catholic attacks suggest how larger historical forces shaped language and religion within the specific cultural formation of Franco American identity. "
Unfortunately, the Muskie "Canuck Letter" didn't increase awareness about the history and unequal status of some of America's first inhabitants.
From TouchArt.net and One Earth Blog.
P.S. Our Mik'maq ancestors arrived on the northeast shores of the Atlantic 20,000 years ago.A bit of interesting democratic primary history with Ed Muskie doing the crying at... more
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http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2008/04/yankton-police-officer-quits-job.html
Illegal South Dakota state police occupation continues on Yankton Indian Land
Incoming messages from Yankton protest:
I am Oitancan Zephier, a former police officer of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, combat veteran of Afghanistan and a father. Last week I quit my job when the protests started over the building of a hog farm by a corporation on private land surrounded by tribal lands. I quit because the Bureau of Indian Affairs will not help us. They stand and watch us get tossed in jail. The filth of the pigs will effect every part of our Indian people here.
There is a headstart school 2 miles away from the hog farm. There is a kindergarten through 12th grade school 4 miles away. There is a day care a couple miles away from the site. It is a prejudice act granted by the state of South Dakota to these pig farm owners. We need your help. If this is completed they will assume jurisdiction of all that surrounds them. The already began taking our tribal road, which we have intensely fought for 2 weeks now.
I have been thrown in jail while on our Indian land by a state officer. That is wrong!
I am begging you for your help. If you can, please publish the cry for help below in any way you can.
Contact me if you can help; or please forward this on to anyone who can help us."
The Zephier family is much respected in Lakotah country. (TouchArt)
Another censored news item from Brenda Norrell.
Brought to you from TouchArt.net and One Earth Blog because it's always been Earth Day every day in indigenous America.
Here are more links about the hog farm protest by Lakotahs.
Great pics of the excavation for hog farm andLakotah protesters at this link - http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/16/18493231.php
More here - http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/17270/Yankton_Lakota_under_armed_siege_for_protesting_hog_farm
And here -
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080415/UPDATES/80415043/1052/OPINION01
Note how this protest relates to global warming and green house gases, since corporate meat production results in the biggest contribution of methane gas to the atmosphere.
Have a great Earth Day every day and consider eating organic farm raised pork if you have to eat meat.
Peace, Pax, Shalom, Salaam, Skenon,
Charleen
Charleen Touchette
www.Touchart.net
www.oneearthblog.blogspot.com
TouchArt@aol.com
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By Brenda Norrell
Indigenous Peoples are under assault throughout the Americas, with represssive police actions of Mohawks in Canada, Lakota in South Dakota and Zapatistas in Chiapas.
Mohawks in Tyendinaga are asking for support, following the arrest of five persons defending their land on Friday. Yankton Sioux are also defending their sovereign land from an assault and occupation by South Dakota State Police. Police arrested more than a dozen people protesting a hog farm on Indian land.
Meanwhile, walkers begin the Citizens Walk for Human Dignity, from Tucson to Phoenix, on May 2, to bring attention to the racism, vigilante patrols and raids in Arizona and along the US/Mexico border.
The Longest Walk, northern and southern routes, continues as a prayer walk across America to bring attention to the defense and protection of sacred places and Mother Earth. American Indian Movement cofounder Dennis Banks and Jimbo Simmons, member of the International Indian Treaty Council, are leading the southern and northern routes. Both will be at the Kansas Capitol in Topeka on Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 10 am.
This Earth Day news comes via your friends at TouchArt.net and One Earth Blog.
Support Indigenous Rights.By Brenda Norrell
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Sturgeon are ancient beings whose presence graced the stories, songs and memories of countless generations of people. Then they were banished by greed. Today, with the dreams and hands of fisheries biologists, and tribal members, the sturgeon are returning to the rivers and lakes of the forest country just west of the Great Lakes, returning in all their glory. They are returning to the White Earth Reservation, and as they return, they teach us a lesson of connectivity and our own relationships with each other. That lesson, we believe, is one we that we can begin undoing some of what we have done to each other and with the realization that we are all ultimately connected.
Working in collaboration with the White Earth Biology Department, the White Earth Land Recovery Project has seen another successful release of sturgeon back into the waters of the reservation. On a sunny day in September, Randy Zortman of the WE Biology Dept. and his staff released 8000 sturgeon into White Earth Lake and 5000 into Round Lake.
This is my one of my favorite of Winona's stories. Winona and the folks at White Earth Land Recovery Project (W.E.L.R.P.) and Native Harvest, now about 35 people are devoted to the earth and sustainability. Up at East Round Lake in White Earth Earth Day has been every day since time immemorial.
From your friends at TouchArt and One Earth Blog.Sturgeon are ancient beings whose presence graced the stories, songs and memories of... more
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