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The White House’s policy towards American Indians is better than it in past administrations, but still not consistently good enoughThe White House’s policy towards American Indians is better than it in past... more
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John talks about, peace, peaceful revolution, the black panthers and the Native American situation.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it. -John Lennon
“Laurel and Hardy, that’s John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot.” — John Lennon
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http://inspiregrowchange.blog.com/2011/10/12/john-lennon-on-revolution/John talks about, peace, peaceful revolution, the black panthers and the Native... more
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On this month, 498 years ago:
Vasco discovered that the village of Quarequa was stained by the foulest vice. The king’s brother and a number of other courtiers were dressed as women, and according to the accounts of the neighbours shared the same passion. Vasco ordered forty of them to be torn to pieces by dogs. The Spaniards commonly used their dogs in fighting against these naked people, and the dogs threw themselves upon them as though they were wild boars or timid deer. The Spaniards found these animals as ready to share their dangers as did the people of Colophon or Castabara, who trained cohorts of dogs for war; for the dogs were always in the lead and never shirked a fight.
This from Pietro Martire D’Anghiera’s account of Vasco Nunez de Balboa massacre of Native American trans folk which took place October 1513.On this month, 498 years ago:
Vasco discovered that the village of Quarequa was... more
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A "Suck You" Halloween Message from the Vampires at Rio Tinto/Kennecott Minerals: Suck the Anishinaabe and the Environment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8DZPyUFiB8
Happy Halloween from your friends at Rio Tinto - Kennecott.
We’re celebrating the holiday by blowing up a frickin rock
The Eagle is sacred you say – we think not.
When money’s at play – the Anishinaabe can rot
To the Indians we say – just go away - suck the tribe
To the elected we say - money’s at play – offer the bribe
Mass murder and what not – that’s how we roll.
The fun of raping Eagle Rock – right in the hole.
We’ve told our kids it’s no fun to camp
It’s more fun as a blood sucking vamp
To us the Upper Peninsula is a place to trash.
At Rio Tinto Kennecott – we’re monsters that mash.
Suck you………
This is ArchAngel: The Environmental Hitman
Evil is as Evil Does
This is ArchAngel: The Environmental Hitman does not encourage or promote violence against the evildoers – but we will expose them….A "Suck You" Halloween Message from the Vampires at Rio Tinto/Kennecott... more
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It's heartfelt, it's honest, and it took only a minute to make.
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I have been railing over the past few years about the wars that we have mired ourselves in. I kept asking, “Where is Country Joe and the Fish?”, “Where is Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?”, “Where were the college protests?”, “Where was the Weather Underground?”.I have been railing over the past few years about the wars that we have mired... more
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Modern medicine’s fractured approach conflicts with traditional holistic healing practices of Native Americans, who have the worst health problems in the nation, said a doctor addressing a conference of Native American physicians in Portland through Sunday.Modern medicine’s fractured approach conflicts with traditional holistic healing... more
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– Let’s put aside the safety issues exposed by Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiichi. I would like to walk you through two of the least talked about issues with nuclear, the mining of materials, and the disposal of spent fuel. Hopefully, by the end of this treatise, you will become more aware that nuclear is not only NOT a clean energy, but may be one of the most toxic of all.– Let’s put aside the safety issues exposed by Three Mile Island,... more
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Let’s put aside the safety issues exposed by Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiichi. I would like to walk you through two of the least talked about issues with nuclear, the mining of materials, and the disposal of spent fuel. Hopefully, by the end of this treatise, you will become more aware that nuclear is not only NOT a clean energy, but may be one of the most toxic of all.Let’s put aside the safety issues exposed by Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and... more
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Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Anthony J. Hall is our special guest in this installment. Professor Hall has just completed the second book in his 'Bowl With One Spoon' duology called, "Earth Into Property: Colonization, Decolonization and Capitalism". In this interview, Jack and Tony attempt to cover as much topical ground as possible starting from the 1763 Royal Proclamation to the present. It is a tale of repression, colonization, greed and Empire. It is the story of the usurpation, commodification and transmogrification of the free and natural world into exorbitant profits for an elite few -- and indentured servitude for the rest of us.
Mostly, it is the ineffable, muted and catastrophic story of the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the entire world.
(click on the link to access the video)Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Anthony J. Hall is... more
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Native Americans who attended Jesuit schools in the Northwest and Alaska just learned they will share in a $166.1 million settlement for offenses including childhood sexual abuse. But plaintiffs in South Dakota--nearly half of whom are women--face a legal barrier.
"When the nuns wanted you at night, they'd come get you from the dorm," recalled Mary Jane Wanna Drum, 64, who as a young child lived at one of South Dakota's several Catholic-run boarding schools for Native American children.
"My older sister would tell them I had an earache. 'Take me,' she'd say. It wasn't until this year, when my siblings and I began talking about all this, that I realized she protected me whenever she could. How do I thank her for that?" asked Drum.
The sexual abuse suffered by Drum and her seven brothers and sisters as grade-school students was both continual and depraved. In a phone interview, she recalled nuns, priests and lay employees subjecting both boys and girls to a barrage of violent assaults and bizarre molestations. Among many examples, the mother superior forced girls to simulate sex acts with a large doll before abusing them herself. Priests raped boys and girls, and the priest in charge also placed girls as "foster children" with single men.
Drum and her siblings have now filed childhood-sexual-abuse lawsuits against the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls and other Catholic Church entities that provided the orphanage's staff and supervision. (During the 1970s, most of the institutions were transferred to the tribes or closed down.)
Rhoades' law firm is part of a team that recently completed negotiations for a settlement with the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, on behalf of clients who were abused at the order's schools in the Northwest and Alaska. The result: about 400 Native people and 100 others will receive $166.1 million. In South Dakota, 77 plaintiffs have complaints in various stages concerning abuse at a half-dozen boarding schools. Some, like Drum's, are in an early phase while others have already been before judges, said Rhoades. On March 18, Drum was dismayed to learn that a South Dakota court had dismissed 18 plaintiffs' suits.
Nearly half the South Dakota plaintiffs are women, a much higher proportion of abused females than the Catholic Church claims is typical for its institutions as a whole. In 2002, dioceses nationwide self-reported that just 19 percent of molested children were girls. However, the church requested information only on priests and deacons, not on nuns, lay employees and others, which may have skewed the data.
"The church also takes sexual abuse of girls less seriously, so may not record it," said David G. Clohessy, director of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. "There isn't any good, independent data. From our experience as a support group, though, I'd say the South Dakota proportion is
More info at http://womensenews.org/story/in-the-courts/110408/catholic-church-evades-sex-charges-in-south-dakotaNative Americans who attended Jesuit schools in the Northwest and Alaska just learned... more
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The land they would live on according to the reservation system in lieu of their old haunts was chosen for them by the United States Government, and from what follows, it does not seem as though the government negotiators looked at anything to do with the proposed reserve other than maps, ignoring what we would today call “the facts on the ground.”[1]
http://www.politicususa.com/en/the-reservation-system-paternalism-and-exploitation#commentsThe land they would live on according to the reservation system in lieu of their old... more
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For nearly 150 years, the voices of Dakota men imprisoned after the Dakota Conflict of 1862 went unheard. But the details of their imprisonment are starting to emerge, in letters written by those prisoners after six weeks of fighting along the Minnesota River Valley that left hundreds of Indians, settlers and soldiers dead.
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Concentration Camps, Genocide, In the U.S? 150-year-old Letters Give Voice to Dakota Prisoners
by Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio
January 19, 2011
Go read the article - you'll be glad you did.
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"We're very cold, and they took the stove away from us," one prisoner wrote. "It's way below zero and we're freezing. A lot of people have died."
The letters add important first-person perspective to a troubling time in history, said professor Bruce Maylath, one of Canku's colleagues in the NDSU English Department. They plan to publish 50 of the letters.
"There's a lot to be bothered by," Maylath said. "This has been a one-sided story to this point. And for the first time this tells the other side -- directly from the Dakota side. And it tells it in the language they were most comfortable in."
The letters also raise uncomfortable questions for historians.
"What happened? Did they have concentration camps in Minnesota? Even today, people don't believe that," Canku said. "People died. They were in prison. They experienced genocide. And when you talk about these things you are going to get opposition saying, no, these things didn't happen. But they did happen."
For Canku, the project is about truth telling. He said it's time for these long silent voices to be heard.
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#### --READ-- this moving Article HERE (and listen to the audio) ####
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/01/19/dakota-tribe-lettersFor nearly 150 years, the voices of Dakota men imprisoned after the Dakota Conflict of... more
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Former House majority leader Tom Delay leaves the Travis County Jail after being sentenced to three years in prison with probation and posting $20,000 bail bond on January 10, 2011 in Austin, Texas. Delay was convicted of charges money laundering and conspiracy. By Ben Sklar/Getty Images.
I wonder who the former"Dancing with the Stars"celebrity, next dancing partner will be?
I'm sure Mr. Delay's dance moves will be a real plus-!... in Prison!Former House majority leader Tom Delay leaves the Travis County Jail after being... more
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A Native American elder speaks of the path we are on and the upcoming point of no return we are collectively approaching- and accelerating towards. We need a moral compass because "everyday we don't do what's right we lose options..."A Native American elder speaks of the path we are on and the upcoming point of no... more
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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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