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http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/proposal-universal-declaration-of-the-rights-of-mother-earth/
Preamble
We, the peoples and nations of Earth:
considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny;gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth is the source of life, nourishment and learning and provides everything we need to live well;
recognizing that the capitalist system and all forms of depredation, exploitation, abuse and contamination have caused great destruction, degradation and disruption of Mother Earth, putting life as we know it today at risk through phenomena such as climate change;
convinced that in an interdependent living community it is not possible to recognize the rights of only human beings without causing an imbalance within Mother Earth;
affirming that to guarantee human rights it is necessary to recognize and defend the rights of Mother Earth and all beings in her and that there are existing cultures, practices and laws that do so;
conscious of the urgency of taking decisive, collective action to transform structures and systems that cause climate change and other threats to Mother Earth;
proclaim this Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, and call on the General Assembly of the United Nation to adopt it, as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations of the world, and to the end that every individual and institution takes responsibility for promoting through teaching, education, and consciousness raising, respect for the rights recognized in this Declaration and ensure through prompt and progressive measures and mechanisms, national and international, their universal and effective recognition and observance among all peoples and States in the world.
Article 1. Mother Earth
(1) Mother Earth is a living being.
(2) Mother Earth is a unique, indivisible, self-regulating community of interrelated beings that sustains, contains and reproduces all beings.
(3) Each being is defined by its relationships as an integral part of Mother Earth.
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Earth Friendly Media, building our future for the new way of looking at the changes coming, featuring Native American music videos and news from Indian County. Also the latest film news from New Mexico. New Ideas for Organic food and a way of life that is in balance with our Earth Mother!
http://livestre.am/9FREarth Friendly Media, building our future for the new way of looking at the changes... more
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Four Generations of the Lakota Wisdom Keepers, interviews with Nathan Chasing Horse, David Swallow, and Grandpa Wallace Black Elk.Four Generations of the Lakota Wisdom Keepers, interviews with Nathan Chasing Horse,... more
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A site Dedicated to real stories real news, real music, real art, true life.
www.avisionproject.blogspot.comA site Dedicated to real stories real news, real music, real art, true life.... more
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Speaking at the International Forum on Globalization, Q'Orianka challenges globalization as it is today...and celebrates the recent passage of the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous people.Unedited program is available through Institute for Policy Studies.Sept 14, 2007Speaking at the International Forum on Globalization, Q'Orianka challenges... more
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Music mixed with the voice of a Hopi Elder.
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It goes without saying that water — its depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination — has become the most important issue to face humanity in this century. Water security will soon de ne the boundaries between people and countries. The war for oil is well underway across the globe. However, a struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil, not only over them. Alberta’s oil sands are at the tension center. The province is rushing towards large-scale oil extraction, which will have far reaching impacts on water, health, animals and the environment in the region. H2Oil weaves together a collection of disparate but intersecting characters as they respond, engage, defend and seek solutions to the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamoring to ll the demand for oil globally.ABOUT THE FILM In the vast, pristine forests of Western Canada, the ‘war for water’ has already begun… Thanks to Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands, Canada is now the biggest oil supplier to the United States. A controversial billion-dollar industry is heavily invested in extracting crude from the tarry sands through a process so toxic it has become an international cause for concern. Four barrels of glacier-fed spring water are used to process each barrel of oil, then are dumped, laden with carcinogens, into leaky tailings ponds so huge they can be seen from space. Downstream, the people of Fort Chipewyan are already paying the price for what will be one of the largest industrial projects in history. When a local doctor raises the alarm about clusters of rare cancers, evidence mounts for industry and government cover-ups. In a time when wars are fought over oil and a crisis looms over access to clean fresh water, which resource is more precious? And what price are we willing to pay? — Gisèle Gordon.
http://electricbrave.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/in-canada%E2%80%99s-richest-province-the-war-for-water-has-already-begun/
http://h2oildoc.com/home/It goes without saying that water — its depletion, exploitation, privatization... more
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Living in the United States, everything always feels new. While that can be beautiful and refreshing, it leaves me longing for worn architecture and ancient civilizations.
It’s easy to forget that before all the stuff that precipitated Columbus Day (which was on Monday) there were communities thriving all over America.
Recently featured on Etsy’s Fresh Shops spotlight, Pagan Poetry was created by Diane, a former landscape architect who left her job to “live for what I was truly passionate about: jewelry and my other love, ethnology.”
http://brokeandbeautiful.com/2010/ecig-pagan-poetry/Living in the United States, everything always feels new. While that can be beautiful... more
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A quick look at the struggle between traditional culture and modern education with two Native men from the Tohono O'odham Nation.A quick look at the struggle between traditional culture and modern education with two... more
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We all have felt the challenges of our country and it's history, do we need to change our minds or history?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il5hwpdJMcgWe all have felt the challenges of our country and it's history, do we need to... more
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Russell Means exposes tribal council corruption and announces his upcoming lawsuit against Senator John Thune of South Dakota for breaking his oath of office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnF7Ojyp9lERussell Means exposes tribal council corruption and announces his upcoming lawsuit... more
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A new "gold rush" is under way in the American West, but this time the prospectors are out for another metal: uranium.
The Grand Canyon region in the US state of Arizona holds one of the nation's largest concentrations of high grade uranium, the fuel for nuclear power.
As global demand for nuclear power has increased so has interest in the metal and, across the south-west, companies are seeking permission to restart uranium mining.
In the US, President Barack Obama has called for an increase in nuclear power to help reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil.
The US government is currently weighing the costs and benefits of mining, with Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva proposing a ban on mining near the Grand Canyon.
But with the increase in uranium exploration come concerns about the future of the Grand Canyon, a Unesco World Heritage Site and one of America's foremost natural wonders.
And Native American populations living near uranium mines fear exploration could contaminate their drinking water.
For now, the sole active uranium mine near the Grand Canyon's northern rim is run by Denison Mines Corporation, a Canadian firm.
The Arizona 1 mine employs 30 miners, and the firm says it goes to great lengths to protect them in the hazardous environment.
Among other precautions, large fans pump clean air into the mine and suck out most of the radioactive radon gas, while workers spray water across the site to keep down potentially harmful dust. The firm also says past accidents were swiftly and effectively cleaned up.
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On a recent trip into the mine, none of the miners wore masks, and their hands and face were caked with uranium ore.
"It washes off," miner Cody Behuden, 28, told the BBC while licking his ore-caked lips.
Vice-president of US operations Harold Roberts said the miners were under no danger from ingesting uranium.
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Native American activist Leonard Peltier spent his 66th birthday in prison, marking 34 years since he was convicted of a crime many argue he did not commit. Peltier was a member of the militant group the American Indian Movement and was extradited from Canada back the U.S. on faulty affidavits provided by the FBI where he was convicted of two life terms in prison. High ranking officials from former South African President Nelson Mendala and the late Mother Teresa to movie stars like Robert Redford and Steven Segal have called on the U.S. government to release Peltier. Many also believe the U.S. is holding him as a political prisoner. Peltier has been nominated six times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilmjZteF7a8Native American activist Leonard Peltier spent his 66th birthday in prison, marking 34... more
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Systematic Republican Disenfranchisement Efforts Against Native Americans Underway In South Dakota
Friday, Digby, Amato and I trucked over to a get-together Norman Lear was throwing for a branch of People for the American Way, the Young Elected Officials Network, which supports elected leaders ages 35 and under as they define issues, develop solutions and respond to the needs of their communities.
You may remember that two years ago DWT readers helped South Dakota candidate Kevin Killer raise enough money to compete successfully in his race for a seat in the South Dakota legislature. When I ran into Kevin Friday at the event, he told me it had been an excellent two years and the Republicans aren't even bothering to run someone against him this year. That's great news, and Kevin is spending a lot of time helping elect other progressives. Here's a video he made talking about the challenges facing rural districts like his:
Yesterday I got a note from another South Dakota progressive candidate we've met before, Ben Nesselhuf, who's running for Secretary of State. Remember? Ben mentioned some serious right-wing disenfranchisement efforts against Native Americans going on in his state, and I recognized the area as part of Kevin Killer's district.
> In the latest instance of decades of blatant racially motivated voter
> disenfranchisement in South Dakota, Republican officials at the state and county
> level have begun the process of limiting Native American access to the ballot.
> Shannon County, home of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, faces the prospect of
> no early voting access this fall. Worse still, there remains the very real possibility of
> no Election Day voting at all in Shannon County.
> There is little ambiguity to what has transpired in South Dakota in the last month.
> According to the 2000 Census, Shannon County is 94.2% Native American. Lying
> entirely on reservation land, Shannon County is the second poorest county in the
> United States. In the 2004 and 2008 elections, Shannon County has been the
> highest Democratic performing county in the country. In 2008, Barack Obama
> received 88.6% of the vote in Shannon County. Because of the rural nature of the
> county, it has traditionally seen much higher levels of absentee and early voting than
> the South Dakota averages.
> Because Shannon County is one of two unorganized counties in South Dakota,
> elections have been administered by neighboring Fall River County. This has been
> standard procedure for over thirty years. Frustrated and seeing a political
> opportunity, however, Republican officials at the state and county level decided to
> act. In August, county officials in Fall River County made it clear they would resign if
> asked to administer the same early voting opportunities in Shannon County that
> every other county receives. When they were formally asked to do so on September
> 3, 2010, a number of county officials subsequently resigned, leaving no one to run
> the election in Shannon County.
> The next Thursday, September 9, Republican Secretary of State Chris Nelson met
> with officials from both Shannon and Fall River Counties. As reported by the Rapid
> City Journal, Nelson arbitrarily declared that Shannon County had only until the next
> Monday, September 13, to resolve the situation. In addition to only giving Shannon
> County two business days to respond, Nelson repeatedly suggested that there was
> nothing that the state could do to help. Brazenly, Nelson told those gathered at the
> meeting, “You all have a huge challenge on your hands.” Nelson, the chief elections
> officer in the state and a former Republican candidate for Congress, is prepared to
> sit idly by and watch an entire county be disenfranchised.
> As of now, there is no plan in place for how any elections are to take place in
> Shannon County, South Dakota. Voting rights groups believe the turnout for the
> 2010 cycle in Shannon County could be as high as 5,000 votes, a sizeable
> percentage of the state vote in South Dakota. Because many of those votes will be
> for Democrats, South Dakota Republicans are willing to take on lengthy legal fights
> to protect [the decision], because they know it can’t be resolved before election day.
> None of this is new. For the past several years, South Dakota has openly flouted the
> 1965 Voting Rights Act, considering fair and equal access to the ballot an
> unnecessary hassle that the state need not worry about. This has led to numerous
> lawsuits, all of which have been lost by the state. The problem is that by the time the
> court resolves the issues, the damage has been done.
You can imagine that Ben isn't taking this sitting down-- nor did it come as a surprise to him. He's running on a platform of fair and equal elections in South Dakota in every county. He feels it's the obligation of the state to make sure that every county has the resources and facilities they need to have early voting and smoothly run elections. On September 8, Nesselhuf was quoted in Indian Country Today saying that he considers the way the state has run previous elections as “systematic disenfranchisement.”
His far right Republican opponent has nothing to say about this, although he keeps screaming about voter fraud and sounds like ACORN is sending agents to South Dakota homes to steal elections and children. For Republican officials in South Dakota, every time a Native American votes, it’s “fraud.”
Here's Ben's website, and you can donate to his campaign directly through ActBlue. This video is a little light for the seriousness of the topic. Hopefully it will help Ben get elected so he can take care of it.Systematic Republican Disenfranchisement Efforts Against Native Americans Underway In... more
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LEONA SACKANEY SWEET and her first OFFICIAL MusicboX MiniuturedoX or known as an Music M.d.. Leona shows bitz and bitez of her amazing personality and superb music writing, guitar and singing talents, she can even act!
By the way, Leona is from Timmins Ontario home town of guess who...Shania Twain and new singer Lights and now add to the list, Leona Sackaney Sweet!
In closing, Leona is currently considering which company will represent and develop her to an international sensation.LEONA SACKANEY SWEET and her first OFFICIAL MusicboX MiniuturedoX or known as an Music... more
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In this scene from "Rape on the Reservation," correspondent Mariana van Zeller visits a retreat for Native American women who are coping with sexual violence. In Rapid City, a very different kind of recovery -- for Indian sex offenders who have served time for committing rape or other sex crimes.
According to national statistics, one in three Native American women will be raped in their lifetimes. In "Rape on the Reservation," Vanguard correspondent Mariana Van Zeller travels to Rosebud reservation in South Dakota to investigate the alarmingly high incidence of rape and sexual assaults.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Wednesdays at 10/9c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In this scene from "Rape on the Reservation," correspondent Mariana van... more
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Virgil 'Red Cloud' Goode Ties an Eagle Feather on Wild Mustang, Prairie Lonesome
Produced in association by Institute of Range and the American Mustang
and PK Productions LLC
Filmed/Edited by: Christopher Crosby
Traditional Lakota Spiritualist and Singer, Virgil Red Cloud Goode describes his mission of putting an Eagle Feather on all the Wild Mustangs at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, in South Dakota. Virgil is a Sun Dancer and the Red Cloud family is very active in this annual Sun Dance at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary South Dakota.
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Gov. David A. Paterson renewed his pledge Thursday to start taxing cigarettes sold by Native Americans, acknowledging that “violence and death” could result.
With Bloomberg already besieged by protests and angry letters calling for an apology over his offensive “cowboys and Indians” statement, Governor Paterson says he is worried about possible “violence and death” over the state’s plan to collect taxes on cigarettes sold on Indian reservations.
Under the new law, enough tax-free cigarettes would be provided to retailers on the reservations for the nation’s or tribe’s members. But if you’re not Native American, you’ll be taxed for the cigarettes you buy on the Reservation starting September 1st.
Paterson said, “There will be quite an uprising and protest to this, but I am going to maintain this policy…The state police tell us over and over again that there could be violence and death as a result of some of the measures we’re taking.”
READ MORE: http://morichesdaily.com/2010/08/ny-governor-start-collecting-taxes-cigarettes-sold-native-americans/Gov. David A. Paterson renewed his pledge Thursday to start taxing cigarettes sold by... more
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Cherokee singer | songwriter, Michael Bucher, 2009 Native American Music Award Winner and 2008 Native E Music Award Winner...films his music video, DONT FORGET ABOUT ME at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, Hot Springs, South Dakota.
DONT FORGET ABOUT ME was produced and filmed in association by 2007, 2008 & 2009 Native American Music Awards Nominees and Producers, Karla LaRive of PK Productions, LLC (South Dakota) and Director, Christopher Crosby of musicseenPROductions.
This is the third indigenous music video from PK Productions, LLC. The music video was shot on location at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuarys petrogylph site, along with other regional locations including Wounded Knee Memorial, Pine Ridge Reservation in July 2008 and Annual Chief Bigfoot Ride to Wounded Knee, December 2008.
The music video features Grammy Award and 12 time Nammy Winner, Joanne Shenandoah on vocals and, Re-enactor performances by Paula Tonemah and Krista K. Knapp.
The music video deals with the protection of Native burial grounds, Native grave sites and sacred sites. I try to tell people you wouldnt want your grandmothers grave dug up nor do American Indian people. And, yet, it happens every day in Indian Country says Michael Bucher.
www.michaelbucher.com
www.studiowestmanagement.comCherokee singer | songwriter, Michael Bucher, 2009 Native American Music Award Winner... more
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BUY CD NOW! http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/windspiritdrum
Native American Award Winning Traditional Drum Performance Group, Wind Spirit Drum releases new music video, "Grandfather" from the highly anticipated CD release, ANCIENT WINDS.
"Grandfather", a traditional composition, was written by Chief Fred Lighthorse and orchestrated by Ms.Terry Evans. The music video features Native American solo vocalist, Windwalker and additional vocals by Jono Manson (Blues Traveler)
Grammy & NAMA Advisory Member and Producer, Karla LaRive (PK Productions LLC) and Director / Editor, Christopher Crosby (musicseenPROductions) return again to western South Dakota and the scenic overlooks of the Black Hill Wild Horse Sanctuary to shoot Wind Spirit Drum's new music video production of "Grandfather."
"Working on this project was a culmination of many talented people and once again, we captured the magic of the Black HIlls Wild Horse Sanctuary..." said Christopher Crosby (Video Director).
The music video features on-camera performances by Windwalker, Edoal Spirit Buffalo, Anagqus and Christopher Crosby.
ANCIENT WINDS CD was recorded and engineered by Jono Manson at Kitchen Sink Recording Studios in Chupadero, New Mexico and Martin Meyer, Great Sky Studios, Hot Springs, South Dakota in 2009 / 2010.
The group's new CD features traditional songs performed in Lenape / Mic-Mac and Cherokee languages and features music bonus tracks, "Flute For Mustangs Part 1 - 3" a solo flute performance by Windwalker.
"Flute For Mustangs" is featured in The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary documentary, "Imagine A Place, IRAM Sponsor Mustangs".
On the net:
http://www.windspiritdrum.com/
http://www.wildmustangs.com
"Teach me forgive, teach me let go . ." Windwalker | Wind Spirit Drum
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