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intelligentaboriginal Radio-iA-3.24.06:
Thoughts on the passing of Pfc. Lori Piestewa and the misuse of U.S. Army propaganda amongst the Native community.

intelligentaboriginal Radio-iA-3.25.06:
Black Indians and the Cherokee decision. Is Chad Smith speaking for Cherokees as a whole?

*(Indian Standard Time).

USA: Stonewalled - still demanding respect. Police abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the USA - Amnesty International

USA: Stonewalled - still demanding respect. Police abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the USA - Amnesty International: "Stonewalled –
still demanding respect

Police abuses against lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender people in the USA

Preface

Methodology
This report is based on the report Stonewalled: police abuse and misconduct against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the U.S. produced by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) in 2005. It is based on research conducted between 2003 and 2005 which focused primarily on four very different and geographically diverse US cities – Chicago (Illinois), Los Angeles (California), New York (New York), and San Antonio (Texas). All four cities have well-documented histories of police brutality and misconduct and each has taken at least some steps to address these human rights abuses. They, therefore, provide an insight into the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain."

BC IMC: newswire/17132 - WAR MAKING 101 - A USER'S MANUAL

BC IMC: newswire/17132: "I've lived through seven decades and can remember the late 1930s before WW II began. In fact, I began my formal education in kindergarten within days of when Hitler sent his Wehrmacht across the Polish border in an act of illegal aggression and began that near six year horror. I was too young to understand it then, and I can barely remember that fateful 'first Pearl Harbor' on December 7, 1941. Franklin Roosevelt wanted in on that fight and did all he could to goad the Japanese to attack us. He knew with enough prodding they would, and when it came, we knew about when and where it would happen. We were ready to mobilize and join the battle, we did it, and nothing's been the same since. "

American Indian Movement of Colorado

American Indian Movement of Colorado: "More people arriving to assist those enforcing 1784 treaty

More natives from Canada and the United States are arriving to help out their relatives.

Clan mothers lay it on the line

Sheryl Nadler, the Hamilton Spectator

No showdown with police at native rally to stop builders

By Paul Legall
The Hamilton Spectator
CALEDONIA (Mar 23, 2006)
More than a hundred native women including powerful clan mothers locked arms in a human chain to block a police arresting party that never happened.

It was the second mass rally that native protesters have staged since moving onto a residential building construction site south of town on Feb. 28."

TaxProf Blog: Barbara Bush's Hurricane Donation Earmarked for Son's Business

TaxProf Blog: Barbara Bush's Hurricane Donation Earmarked for Son's Business: "Barbara Bush's Hurricane Donation Earmarked for Son's Business

Associated Press: Hurricane Donation Earmarked for Bush Firm:

Former first lady Barbara Bush gave relief money to a hurricane relief fund on the condition that it be spent to buy educational software from her son Neil's company. The chief of staff of former President George H.W. Bush would not disclose the amount earmarked for purchases from Ignite Learning.

Houston Chronicle: Katrina Donation Ignites Debate; HISD Says Focus on Neil Bush's Software Didn't Violate Policy:"

"It's strange that the former first lady would want to do this. If her son's having a rough time of it, couldn't she write him a check?"

Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement - The Boston Globe

Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement - The Boston Globe: "Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement
In addendum to law, he says oversight rules are not binding

By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | March 24, 2006

WASHINGTON -- When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers.

The bill contained several oversight provisions intended to make sure the FBI did not abuse the special terrorism-related powers to search homes and secretly seize papers. The provisions require Justice Department officials to keep closer track of how often the FBI uses the new powers and in what type of situations. Under the law, the administration would have to provide the information to Congress by certain dates."

The Try-Works: Try-Works Exclusive: Jim Paine Still A Hypocritical Sack Of Shit

The Try-Works: Try-Works Exclusive: Jim Paine Still A Hypocritical Sack Of Shit: "An afternoon gift for you, dear reader. According to the Pony Pimp, inveterate liar David Seals has taken a break from exploiting the murder of Anna Mae Aquash and smearing John Trudell to get after Ward Churchill.

The charge: Churchill’s an FBI agent."

And we’re betting Mr. Seals has a signed affidavit to that effect from Vernon Bellecourt.

Ecuador's Indian Movement Halts Protests

Ecuador's Indian Movement Halts Protests: "By JEANNETH VALDIVIESO
The Associated Press
Friday, March 24, 2006; 3:18 AM

QUITO, Ecuador -- Hundreds of Indians started long marches back to their highland villages, halting 11 days of roadblocks and violent demonstrations against Ecuador's free-trade talks with Washington.

Vowing to regroup, the country's powerful Indian movement broke off protests Thursday after police used tear gas against some 300 students and 200 Indians marching on the government palace in the capital, Quito."

Piestewa: A Native that just wanted to be a good mother

Lori Piestewa, Rest in Peace.

"Please send your assistance in freeing our small nation from occupation. This foreign force occupied our lands to steal our rich resources ... As in your own words, 'The occupation and overthrow of one small nation is one too many.' Yours sincerely, An American Indian."
- An open letter to President George Bush Sr, ridiculing his pretext for attacking Iraq during the first Gulf war from Oregon Native Americans.

This morning, Indian Country pulled together to honour PFC Lori Piestewa, (Hopi) a Tuba City, AZ Indigenous woman killed while serving the United States military during the Iraqi invasion. On March 23, 2003 her Army humvee mistakenly ran into an ambush in the city of Nasiriyah and Pfc. Piestewa and her compatriots (except the now infamous Pfc. Jessica Lynch and the all but forgotten Spc. Shoshana Johnson) died as a result of the crash of their vehicle.
Indian Country does right by remembering this Hopi woman who did what she felt she needed to do. But we must start now to be honest about what it was she needed to do that led her die on a foreign soil in support of yet another American imperialist adventure. If we have any respect for this woman, her children, and her people, we must now speak to the way the United States government used her death to propagandize an illegal and immoral war amongst the American Indian community, a move that can possibly lead to more Pfc. Piestewas. We must deal with the reality that Indian Country is being used and that the abusing of the memory of this Indigenous woman is institutional anti-Indian racism in its most classic sense.
Pfc. Piestewa joined the military in an attempt to feed her family. As a single mother of two young children in a district that maintains a 50% unemployment rate in the face of Bush the Younger’s claims to U.S. economic upward mobility, Piestewa took the only opportunity available to her to provide for her family. Was she patriotically driven to serve U.S. imperialism and genocide? Only she knew that for certain. But given the conditions for Indian people in Tuba City, fiscal circumstances were a definitive factor in her choice to volunteer for the U.S. Army. Why else would a self-conscious American Indian willingly decide to add their efforts to helping White America do to others what has been as is done to us here in our own Nations.

Initially, Pfc. Piestewa’s death was reported as “the first woman killed in combat,” “she went down fighting” and the “first Native American casualty of Operation Iraqi Freedom.” While this is undoubtedly true to some extent, (according to Pfc. Lynch Piestewa did all she could to navigate though the assault until they were hit by a rocket launched grenade) initial reports liberally painted a picture of an heroic Native American warrior who emptied two magazines and fought hand to hand with the “enemy” until she was shot point blank. The mainstream Native media did their part to disseminate this image and many other within the Native community cashed in on the chips they perceived Indians gained by Piestewa’s death. We know now that she, Johnson and Lynch were severely injured in the crash and that two of them were taken to a nearby hospital where Piestewa was filmed shortly before she left this world as a result of her injuries. While briefly splashed across the corporate owned media machine, U.S., Pfc. Piestewa was quickly eclipsed by the staged rescue mission to “liberate” Pfc. Jessica Lynch. In truth, the only reason most of know anything at all about Pfc. Piestewa is due to Lynch’s insistence on the deep friendship they shared and that if there was a hero in all this it was Piestewa who tried to extricate her unit from the fray. For this she should be remembered, not the U.S. Army Press Corp talking point on why Indians should line up at induction centres to support another people’s genocide.

I find it peculiar that Indian Country is so willing to allow this woman and her family to be used in this fashion. Pfc. Piestewa is the American Indian Pat Tillman, another young person who heard the call of duty and answered with his life. A victim of "friendly fire," Tillman's relations were not told the truth until after more than a year of U.S. Army propaganda hoisting Tillman as a "hero" who died in a vicious firefight with Taliban forces. We see the very same pattern here. Did we really need this sisters untimely passing to finally get the Arizona bureaucrats to change the name of Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak? Was it White guilt? What does this say about America and what does this really say about Indian people and our integrity? Squaw, a pejorative against Indian women and used commonly across the United States should have long been rescinded in favour of something else as a matter of human decency. The use of this and other anti-Indian symbology is wrong, period. Having said that, the possible utilisation of Piestewa’s memory as a bargaining chip to correct a historically ethnocidal wrong leaves more than a bad taste in my mouth. It's wounds me deeply and leads me to lose hope in the future of our peoples.

I see the United States propaganda apparatus in full swing here. Still playing on the Noble Savage illusion of the born warrior, the war hawks use Pfc. Piestewa is a magnet to convince Indians that the best economic opportunity for themselves and their families is to enlist in the military on the premise that seeing combat is akin to living the "traditional Indian warrior" role in Native society. Native veterans recieve immense respect in Indian Country and the military uses that fact to siphon our young people into imperialist wars, youth who would be better served steered back into their own communities and towards our elders. The idea of the "Fighting Indian" we see emblazoned on sports banners sustains this ugly and racist notion, in direct contradiction to what the mascot supporters claim to "honour." And Pfc. Piestewa is not honoured by this blatant disrespect. No Indian is.

While emotionally we honour this woman for doing what she needed to do in circumstances far beyond her control as a Native, a woman, a mother and friend to her fellow soldiers, we must remember that funerals are for the living. I suggest that we as a people in the wake of the obvious misuse of this Native woman’s memory ask ourselves why she needed to die at all.

And we as a people are allowing our youth to be used as cannon fodder for the American war machine. I cannot ask you to change your mind. But I can ask you to think about what you understand to be true. If for nothing else but to truly honour the memory and family of a fallen Indian sister, Pfc. Lori Piestewa.

Muskogee Phoenix - www.muskogeephoenix.com - Muskogee, OK

Muskogee Phoenix - www.muskogeephoenix.com - Muskogee, OK: "The United Keetoowah Band continued to sell license plates Thursday despite an opinion by the Oklahoma attorney general that says they can’t.

In the opinion issued Wednesday in response to a request by State Rep Ben Sherrer, D-Chouteau, Attorney General Drew Edmondson ruled that only federally recognized Indian tribes with land constituting Indian country may issue motor vehicle license plates to its members.

The ruling could mean that as many as 4,000 to 5,000 tribal members may have to pay the state back taxes.

The opinion also stated that no reported case indicates that the Keetoowahs have such land constituting “Indian country,” but that the presence of land is a “question of fact that cannot be answered in an attorney general’s opinion.”

However, Keetoowah Attorney General Dianne Barker-Harrold said Edmondson’s opinion does not render the tags illegal because of that second finding — that the state attorney general cannot answer “the question of fact.”"

ICT [2006/03/24] South Dakota's abortion ban has sweeping implications

ICT [2006/03/24] South Dakota's abortion ban has sweeping implications: "PIERRE, S.D. - The South Dakota Legislature created a firestorm when it passed a bill that banned abortion with only one exception: to save the life of the mother. It was signed by Gov. Mike Rounds on March 6.

The bill will become law on July 1 unless either a lawsuit or petitioners get the issue on the November ballot. The law will make it a felony for any doctor to perform an abortion unless the procedure is necessary to save the woman's life. It would make no exception for cases of rape or incest.

Currently only one clinic in the state performs abortions: the Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls at the extreme eastern part of the state. Doctors from Minnesota come to the clinic, said Kate Looby, director of South Dakota's Planned Parenthood.

Looby told the Legislature that she would consider filing a lawsuit to stop the law from taking effect. She is now working to gather signatures on the petition. Some legislators, while debating the bill, were aware that a lawsuit would be imminent and that it eventually would end up at the U.S. Supreme Court. Some comments from the floor of each house reflected an interest in overturning Roe v. Wade. "

{Nappy as I want to be} The philosophies of a radical feminist of color...

{Nappy as I want to be} The philosophies of a radical feminist of color...: "Thursday, March 16, 2006
If you understand there's a struggle.."

Another strong post from the female blogosphere.
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If you understand there's a struggle..

If you understand there's a struggle, and you understand there's a patriarchy, and you understand that we all grew up in the patriarchy. Why do you try so hard to distance yourself from it, and ignore completely that it's still there within every one of us.

To my white sisters, you scream about the patriarchy and you talk about how the patriarchy is the problem. I write not to chastise you, but have you question yourself as to why in the framework you seem so unwilling to understand that you're still part of a system. You cannot get rid of this system simply by trying to think it into oblivion while keeping the very foundations of the patriarchy in a safe place that you run to when we discuss racism. If we can agree that racism is part of the patriarchy, then how have you escaped it, when the rest of us haven't?"

Woman of Color Blog- a chicana bitch

Woman of Color Blog: "you ask me, why are you chicanas so quiet? why don't you speak up?"

I thought this piece was right on. Stop Black on Brown hate! Please, I'm asking nice. When standing between two strong-willed women of colour, you have to.

Check out this blog. It's good. And give a look at One Tenacious Baby Mama. If you are concerned with the personal as political, Homegirl can show you a new dangle or two. Banging.
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and because you are a fellow feminist of color, i do not point out to you how racist and ignorant this comment is. i do not get in your face like i would like to. i do not point out the two tiny little words you forgot to say, like me--why don't you speak up, like me?

no, i do not even blink when i smile and say, well, there are a lot of reasons: a lot of chicanas are immigrants and immigrants can have their kids taken from them and immigrants can be thrown in detention camps and immigrants can lose their jobs, and their homes and immigrants can be shipped to mexico while their american kids are left sitting in front of their school, waiting waiting for mama and papi to come get them like they always do. and i smile even wider when i point out that many chicanas have spoken up: gloria, cherrie, emma, chela, shirlene, patricia, carla, doloris, alma and i try not to notice the blank look, the empty space in your face, as i tick off the names that saved my soul from structural and cultural obliteration."

this much i can say is true-http://thismuchicansayistrue.blogspot.com/

this much i can say is true: "I make Seattle nazi's hate list"

I suppose they are targeting everybody these days. Here's someone who made the list.
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Oh no. Nazis hate me. Oh. No. So worried.

This is the website for the nazis in Seattle who call themselves the 'National Socialist Movement.' Click at your own risk. It's pretty hideous stuff. I rank #9 somehow. They are creepy. Glad to hear they don't like me. Good. Stay away then."

The First Perspective - Two-spirit files claim with Human Rights, cucumber offering cited as among offensive actions

The First Perspective - Two-spirit files claim with Human Rights, cucumber offering cited as among offensive actions: "Two-spirit files claim with Human Rights"

Many heartfelt thanks to my compatriot, scfeldman for this. So little of our stuggle ends up in the Native news.

How much longer before the Native community in the United States recognises Two-Spirit people as an integral factor of Indigenous pardigms? This sort of prejudice has to stop. It's nonsensical and hurtful to people for no good reason other than we have absorbed the bigotries of those who tell us our histories as individuals and as Indians are defined by Eurocentric thoelogical sensibilities.

Yes, I'm Two-Spirited as well, read the header. But i'm not taking this personally except as someone who is tired of the hate. And Indian on Indian hate irks me the most. This is not a particularly good example on inter-ethnic bias while it is a excellent incidence of anti-human prejudice. Something Indians have learned from others.

I prefer to remain human. Regardless of the consequences.
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Cucumber offering cited as among offensive actions

by Drum Staff

"A gay Aboriginal employee at Lakehead University has filed a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, claiming discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, and creed played a role in his dismissal.

Spencer Rowe says he had planned to protest inappropriate treatment at Lakehead as soon as he cleared probation, but he ended up being dismissed just before his six-month probation ended in November.

'My career has been utterly and totally destroyed,' Rowe said in a telephone interview in mid-March. Even if he wins his case, he said it might be difficult to get another job because universities tend to shy away from hiring people with reputations for rocking the boat.

In addition to filing a complaint with the Commission, he also plans to lobby the government to see what could be done to make 'creating cultural harm' a crime.

Rowe was with the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at Lakehead University, which is in Thunder Bay in western Ontario. He was a student services councillor and he also handled the native access program. He said he worked hard to revive the nearly dormant access program and had brought in more than 20 students under the program, which was designed for Aboriginal students over the age of 21 whose education progress had been interrupted.

Rowe said he wasn't given any reasons for his dismissal; he was just handed a piece of paper saying that he hadn't cleared probation and he was told to vacate his work area.

However, Rowe said there were a number of unwelcome incidents in the months preceding his termination and that he had intended to take action as soon as he had more job security than he did while on probation."

Say it isn't so!!

The scary thing is...this isn't a joke. These people really want to put Bush's personal brown comfort bed-warmer in the running. Note, I did not say the "White House." Remember top Supreme Court choice Harriet Miers?

Read more at Frontpage, the online organ of the politically misaligned. Need proof? Read this ego-piece from conservative riot-girl Ann Coulter on why America loves her so much??

The news and opinion world is getting increasingly more ill as it goes on.

FrontPage magazine.com :: The Only Good Indian is a Liberal Indian, Pt. II by David Yeagley

FrontPage magazine.com :: The Only Good Indian is a Liberal Indian, Pt. II by David Yeagley: "By David Yeagley
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 23, 2006"

I am only pointing to this article (or non-sequitur stream of conscoiusness, take your pick) as a public service to Indian Country. We need to know the conservative nut-jobs on the Bush payroll within our midsts.

To the Makah People who read this blog, I would hope someone with PC and Internet access does the right thing and comments on this non-piece and Dr. Yeagley in particular. Frankly, he sounds just like Sea Shepard captain Paul Watson when he and a crew of Euro Eco-activists told off a bunch of us Indians at Evergreen College some years back. They were telling us that they were there to help protect the "real" Indians from us "liberals."

Sounds similar to Herman Goering's insistence that the upper-levels of the Nazi party were at heart, "Zionists."
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Do Indians have the right to be naïve? In America, we cherish the freedom to believe what we will, and even to promote it. This is the law of the First Amendment. But, does that include the right to believe things that are self-destructive, or that cause social problems for others? Can anyone believe anything—without consequence?

In 2001, I published an article about the annual whale hunting customs of Makah Indians in Washington. The Makah take only 1-4 grey whales (out of a population of more than 22,000), but that incited the environmentalists to madness. Nevertheless, the custom continues. The Indians believe in preserving their tribal identity and customs, which involves whale hunting. The eco-terrorists beliefs were different, and they were intolerant of the Indian beliefs."

Islamic Activism Sweeps Saudi Arabia...Thanks to Emperor Bush the Younger

Islamic Activism Sweeps Saudi Arabia: "Cartoons of Muhammad Spur Homemakers, Students, Professionals to Organize"

By Faiza Saleh Ambah
Special to The Washington Post
Thursday, March 23, 2006; Page A18

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- More than a dozen women in black cloaks, some with colorful head scarves, others with only their eyes visible through slits in black veils, filed into the dining room after sunset prayers. They sat around a long table set up with paper, pencils and thermoses of Arabic coffee, across from a small group of men, including that evening's guest, Sadeg al-Malki.

The women -- homemakers, physicians and college students -- had sought out Malki, a consultant at the Islamic Education Foundation, because they wanted help on a project they were embarking on: how to talk to non-Muslim co-workers and acquaintances about Islam and the prophet Muhammad."

AP - Navajo president suggests Albuquerque Navajo chapter

Navajo president suggests Albuquerque Navajo chapter: "By ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 22, 2006"

Personally I like this idea. But it still falls far short of actual liberationist freedoms. I have long advocated on this blog and the intelligentaboriginal Radio podcast the emergence of an "urbanised" intellectual vanguard, those with the skills, experience and commitment to use these tools to liberate the whole of Indian Country as our brother and sisters are doing elsewhere on the planet. Perhaps this is a good first step. I'll endevour to stay objective and intelligentaboriginal Media offers our humble resources to the Dine' in this effort.
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - The Navajo Nation's president is urging Navajos living in Albuquerque to form their own chapter to gain a share of funds and services from the tribe.

'Geography doesn't come between us. ... It's your land, too. That's what connects us. It's your resources. Why shouldn't you have a part of it?' President Joe Shirley Jr. told a group of Navajos over the weekend at the Albuquerque Indian Center.

There are 15,000 registered Navajo voters in Albuquerque, but officials estimate up to 27,000 live in New Mexico's largest city, Shirley said. Phoenix could have as many as 19,000, while Los Angeles and Denver have as many as 14,000 each, he said.

Shirley has long advocated that Navajos living in cities to create urban chapters _ government divisions of the tribe.

A chapter would ensure funding for the needs of urban Navajos, Shirley said. Navajo law requires only 1,000 signatures to start the process."

Ecuador Mobilizing to Curb Indian Protests

Ecuador Mobilizing to Curb Indian Protests: "Ecuador Mobilizing to Curb Indian Protests"

By JEANNETH VALDIVIESO
The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 22, 2006; 5:53 PM

QUITO, Ecuador -- Thousands of police and soldiers were deployed to clear blocked highways Wednesday after the government declared a state of emergency in four provinces to curb Indian protests against a proposed free-trade deal with Washington.

The measure announced late Tuesday suspends constitutional rights to public assembly and gives police and the military broad powers to impose curfews and make arrests in the Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, Imbabura and Canar provinces, as well as the towns of Tabacundo and Cayambe."

TheStar.com - Protestors vow to remain on `stolen' Indian land

TheStar.com - Protestors vow to remain on `stolen' Indian land: "CALEDONIA, Ont.—Native protestors occupying a construction site near this town southwest of Hamilton vowed to stand their ground yesterday as a court-imposed deadline to vacate the proposed subdivision passed without police intervention.

Six Nations members from a nearby reserve, claiming the land was stolen from them by the Canadian government some 200 years ago, have been camped out at the site entrance since Feb. 28.

Yesterday afternoon's deadline passed without immediate police action, but protestor Janie Jamieson wasn't declaring victory.

'If you go by history, they (police) come in in the evening, not in broad daylight, but when there's no media, no reporters,' said Jamieson.

'We've been here for 22 days now anyways... So it's just a wait and see kind of thing.'"

Farmington - Report: Native arrests don't match demographic

Farmington Daily Times - Local News: "Editor's note: This is the second installment in a five-part series examining the findings of the United States Commission on Civil Rights report released earlier this year entitled, 'The Farmington Report: Civil Rights for Native Americans 30 Years Later.'

FARMINGTON -- While Native Americans make up 17 percent of Farmington's population, they accounted for 57 percent of arrests made in 2003 by the Farmington Police Department, according to 'The Farmington Report: Civil Rights for Native Americans 30 Years Later.' In 1973, the report notes, Native Americans accounted for 83 percent of all arrests by the Farmington Police Department."

As B.C. ferry strikes rock, sinks, Indians mobilise to save lives

B.C. ferry strikes rock, sinks: "THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARTLEY BAY, B.C. -- In fishing boats and speedboats, the people of this small Indian village headed into the stormy waters off British Columbia's north coast to help rescue at least 99 passengers and crew members from a large B.C. ferry that hit a rock and sank early Wednesday.

David Hahn, the president of B.C. Ferries, called the orderly rescue from the ferry's lifeboats and the fact that no one was seriously hurt miraculous.
David Hahn comforts a crew member
Zoom AP
B.C. Ferries President David Hahn, left, comforts a crew member of the Queen of the North upon arriving Wednesday in Prince Rupert, B.C.

'Any time you have a major incident and you have no one hurt or killed in this type of thing, I think you always think it's a miracle,' Hahn said."

AP Wire - Non-Indian released after "stealing" ancient petroglyphs

kgw.com | News for Oregon and SW Washington | AP Wire: "Oregon man cleared of petroglyph theft says 'my life was trashed'"

Funny, here is a White man (presumably so in any case) who sticks his neck out to protect (he says anyway) Indian cultural respect and the Feds make him out to be a pure thief. If he is telling the truth which should be fairly easy for Indian Country to check out since he claims to have contacted several Indian museums, tradtional Natives owe this man a great deal of support.

On the other hand, if he is fibbing...well, never mind. I keep hoping for something to rally the Indian people to stand on our rights knowing full well that many of us are more willing to kill strangers for Bush and Co. rather than shed a little "love" from teh European establishment.

Wishful thinking I suppose. Read on...
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03/22/2006

By SCOTT SONNER / Associated Press

One of two men whose federal conviction for stealing American Indian artwork was overturned says the pair simply wanted to protect the ancient petroglyphs from encroaching development.

Carroll Mizell, who served 10 months in prison after being found guilty in June 2004 of stealing the rock art, said 'we wanted to save the property.

'My whole intent was to free these things so they wouldn't be destroyed,' Mizell told The Associated Press on Wednesday from Redmond, Ore.

'We didn't do this because we wanted to put them on e-Bay,' he said."

AP - B.C. ferry strikes rock, sinks

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE

22 March 2006
BOTSWANA: MYSTERY DISEASE KILLING EVICTED BUSHMEN

At least fifteen Bushmen have died suddenly of unknown causes this year in New Xade resettlement camp and three remain in a critical condition. The deaths come as British Baroness Jenny Tonge and other peers insist in the House of Lords that the evictions have benefitted the Bushmen.

Gaseitsiwe Gaorapelwe died very suddenly after spots appeared all over his body. After being tortured by wildlife guards in 2000 for hunting, he said to a Survival researcher, 'Who will look after my children? The government is killing me.'

Gaorapelwe was evicted from his ancestral community of Molapo in February 2002. In July that year he told Survival, 'I want to go back to Molapo. I did not ask to relocate�. So I'm going back.' He did return to Molapo despite government harassment, but was evicted once again by armed police in October 2005.

Bushman organisation First People of the Kalahari said in a press release last week, 'Since the middle of January even more people have been dying [in New Xade] than is usual since our evictions from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). They have been dying quickly with vomiting, and difficulties to breathe. The authorities know about this but so far we are not aware that any doctor has been to New Xade to find out what is wrong� This shows that what the government says about New Xade being a place to
develop the Bushmen is not the truth.'

Baroness Tonge called the Bushmen 'stone age' and 'primitive' in a House of Lords debate earlier this month, and claimed the Botswana government had evicted them to provide them with 'education and development'. Lord St John of Bletso added, 'Many of the Bushmen have objected, but I take the view that it has been in the best interests of many of the Bushmen.'

The catastrophic health implications of removing tribal peoples from their land are well documented. Among the Innu of northern Canada, who were moved by the government in the 1960s, the suicide rate is at least twelve times the national average. Over 50% of Innu have diabetes. Both suicide and diabetes were unknown before the Innu lost their land.
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To see video of Gaseitsiwe Gaorapelwe describing his torture visit http://survival-international.org/sights.php?gallery_id=56

To read an article about Baroness Tonge and her description of the Bushmen as 'stone age' visit http://www.survival-international.org/related_material.php?id=403

To read this press release online, visit http://www.survival-international.org/news.php?id=1493
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David Horowitz vs. Ward Churchill

David Horowitz vs. Ward Churchill: "David Horowitz vs. Ward Churchill

Young America’s Foundation Sponsors Academia’s Royal Rumble

HERNDON, VA – Embattled Professor Ward Churchill has agreed to engage bestselling author and sought after speaker David Horowitz in a series of formal debates organized by Young America’s Foundation and Students for Academic Freedom. The series of debates will kick off at George Washington University in Washington D.C. on April 6 in the Continental Ballroom with the other campus locations yet to be announced.

Churchill gained infamy for referring to the victims of September 11th as “little Eichmanns.” Horowitz gained notoriety for his long-standing commitment to protecting the academic rights of students. He recently authored The Professors, an exposé of 101 radical professors representing leftist bias present in higher education today.

“We are glad to facilitate this series of intense and stimulating debates,” says Young America’s Foundation Spokesman Jason Mattera. “The Foundation is dedicated to advancing conservative values in academia, and this program meets that objective with a stinging punch.”

Students interested in bringing this program to their campus should call Patrick Coyle at 800-USA-1776 about scheduling and pricing information.

Interviews are available upon request

For more information contact Jason Mattera at (800) USA-1776 or (917) 754-3425

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The Try-Works- Are Vernon Bellecourt and Marty Hiles going to remove Joseph Red Bear as San Diego AIM President?

The Try-Works: "Are Vernon Bellecourt and Marty Hiles going to remove Joseph Red Bear as San Diego AIM President?
Vernon Bellecourt, spokesman for the Council, told the Colorado Daily Wednesday Churchill has 'fooled' the board of Regents into furthering his career of providing disinformation to the public by 'masquerading as an Indian.'

'Indian people are outraged at this phony who is masquerading as an Indian,' said Bellecourt, executive committee member and director of the Council on Foreign Relations of AIM.

Most right wing radio hosts in Colorado know Vernon Bellecourt as a guest who they can depend on to come on their shows and condemn various actions organized by members of the Denver Indian community. It’s a role he seems to enjoy as he engages in friendly banter with the likes of Dan Caplis, Mike Rosen and Peter Boyles.

Vernon Bellecourt has also proven to be a reliable tool for local newspaper columnists and reporters who use him as the “good indian” who will obliglingly condemn their ideological foes. "

AP-Ecuador mobilizing to curb Indian protests

News From The Associated Press: "By JEANNETH VALDIVIESO
Associated Press Writer

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Thousands of police and soldiers were deployed to clear blocked highways Wednesday after the government declared a state of emergency in four provinces to curb Indian protests against a proposed free-trade deal with Washington.

The measure announced late Tuesday suspends constitutional rights to public assembly and gives police and the military broad powers to impose curfews and make arrests in the Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, Imbabura and Canar provinces, as well as the towns of Tabacundo and Cayambe.

Luis Macas, leader of the left-leaning Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, told reporters Wednesday that his movement would end its protests if President Alfredo Palacio gave in to at least one of several demands."

American arrested in Bolivian bombings

News From The Associated Press: "By FIONA SMITH
Associated Press Writer

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- An American man and his Uruguayan girlfriend were arrested Wednesday after bombs severely damaged two low-budget hotels in Bolivia's capital, killing two people and injuring at least seven.

Police initially said the blasts were 'typical of terrorist crime,' and President Evo Morales lost no time in denouncing them as an attack on Bolivia's democracy.

'This American was putting bombs in hotels,' Morales said. 'The U.S. government fights terrorism, and they send us terrorists.'

But other Bolivian officials discounted terrorism as a motive, saying the American appeared to be mentally ill."

AP-Basque ETA announces permanent cease-fire

News From The Associated Press: "VITORIA, Spain (AP) -- The Basque militant group ETA ended a decades-long campaign of terror, announcing a permanent cease-fire Wednesday that closes the door on one of Western Europe's last armed separatist movements.

In a videotaped statement, three shrouded ETA members said they were laying down their weapons to promote democracy in the northern Spanish region. The news prompted jubilation across Spain, where ordinary citizens say they can hardly believe the end has come for a group blamed for more than 800 deaths and $15.5 billion in damage since the 1960s."

One Tenacious Baby Mama: Origins of the concentration camp...

One Tenacious Baby Mama: Origins of the concentration camp...: "Origins of the concentration camp...
I did a piece a while back making links between various historical landgrabs and attempted landgrabs where first nations people, black people poor or otherwise were the targets. I linked the failure to maintain the dams and the subsequent loss of life and property to these other historic land thefts.

Been visiting G Bitch who lives in New Orleans who writes about her experiences in the aftermath of the hurricane. G has...ahem...set me straight on a few things about what it means to live, laugh and build again with pride and emotion in that city post Katrina. :)"

URGENT CALL TO ACTION TO PREVENT MILITARY AND POLICE INCURSION ON MOHAWK TERRITORIES

lazylafargue: "URGENT CALL TO ACTION TO PREVENT MILITARY AND POLICE INCURSION ON MOHAWK TERRITORIES

March 2006

The Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty - Native Caucus is asking that you take some time to phone, email or fax the authorities below to register your objection to a potential incursion onto Mohawk Territories this spring and at any other time.

This request comes as a result of warnings by community leaders in Akwesasne, Kahnawake, Kanehsatake and Tyendinega who are preparing for a joint Canadian Forces/RCMP raid on April 1, the latest in a series of actions designed to destroy the Mohawk tobacco trade.

Our position on this issue is as follows:

In 1876 the Indian Act imposed the band council system of government on the indigenous people of Turtle Island (North America). Among other things, this law:

1) Deposed already existing leadership to establish band councils and the areas over which they had jurisdiction. The Indian Act was passed without consultation with any indigenous leader, usurped the treaty process (nation to nation agreements) and made First Nations governments null and void, despite the fact that these governments had served our ancestors for millennia before Europeans arrived on Turtle Island. This is akin to the US government passing a law that disbanded the current Canadian government, determined what type of government Canada must have and designated the limitations of its power.

2) Made First Nations Communities economically dependent on Ottawa. The federal government controls the only sources of revenue for social programs, economic development projects or job creation in FN communities. Ottawa determines through a variety of legal and financing mechanisms what band councils can and cannot do for their communities. Even the process of pursuing a land claim is legislated by Ottawa, funded (or not) by Ottawa and decided ultimately in Canadian courts. Land usage on FN territories is determined by Ottawa. There are many examp"

Ecuador Declares Emergency Over Protests

Ecuador Declares Emergency Over Protests: "Ecuador Declares Emergency Over Protests

By GONZALO SOLANO
The Associated Press
Tuesday, March 21, 2006; 9:31 PM

QUITO, Ecuador -- The Ecuadorean government declared a state of emergency in four provinces on Tuesday to curb nine days of Indian protests against a proposed free-trade deal with the United States.

Television images on Tuesday showed riot police trying to clear rocks, tree trunks and burning tires from roadways north and south of Quito _ in the Imbabura and Cotopaxi provinces _ and firing tear gas to repel dozens of Indians, who responded by hurling stones. No serious injuries or arrests were immediately reported."

The Rapid City Journal-Native Students stand up

The Rapid City Journal: "Students protest teachers’ firings
By Jomay Steen, Journal Staff Writer

PINE RIDGE - On Tuesday, American Indian high school students protested the recent firings of two teachers and what they describe as the suppression of their Lakota language and culture at a Catholic school on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

The sophomore class of Red Cloud Indian School led about 25 students in a protest of the school’s recent firings of two Lakota culture teachers, the confiscation of students’ tobacco ties made on a religious retreat, comparisons of Lakota spiritualism to mythology and allegations of mistreatment.

Bob Brave Heart, Red Cloud Indian School superintendent, said that although he is disappointed that the students hadn’t approached him or the school’s principal about their concerns, the school would not punish the students beyond counting them absent from classes.

“They do have the right to protest,” he said."

Farmington Daily Times - Civil Rights for Native Americans 30 Years Later

Farmington Daily Times - Local News: "Editor's note: The United States Commission on Civil Rights released a report earlier this year entitled, 'The Farmington Report: Civil Rights for Native Americans 30 Years Later.' The report gave the city of Farmington accolades for making improvements in race relations with Native Americans, but also cited areas in which the city could improve. This is the first installment in a five-part series examining the report's findings.

FARMINGTON -- Despite a local population nearing 20 percent, a Native American has yet to sit on the Farmington city council, according to a civil rights report released in January."

American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Defends Blogger's Right to Parody "Ex-Gay" Group

American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Defends Blogger's Right to Parody "Ex-Gay" Group:

SAN FRANCISCO -- Citing First Amendment protection for parodies, the American Civil Liberties Union today came to the defense of a California man who received a cease-and-desist letter after posting a parody of a billboard advertisement for so-called "reparative therapy" on his website.

"The billboard, sponsored by 'ex-gay' ministry Exodus International, read, 'Gay? Unhappy? www.exodus.to.' After seeing a photo of the billboards online, Watt posted an altered version reading, 'Straight? Unhappy? www.gay.com' on his website, Justinsomnia.org. Liberty Counsel, an anti-gay legal group representing Exodus, sent Watt a cease-and-desist letter earlier this month claiming the parody violated Exodus's intellectual property rights and threatening legal action if the parodies were not removed. In a response sent today to Liberty Counsel, the ACLU's cooperating attorney, Laurence Pulgram of Fenwick & West, LLP, called upon Exodus to drop its attempts to censor Watt, pointing to case law holding parodies to be Constitutionally protected speech."

Washington Post blogger called Coretta Scott King a "communist" on the day of her funeral

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: "That's nice. Apparently the Washington Post is now going for the all-important racist readership in Washington, DC.

You do have to love the Post. Earlier this year they freak out when a bunch of liberal blog readers post mean comments on their blog, then they turn around and decide to re-enter the blogging fray by hiring a 24 year old kid with no journalism experience who's a far-right, FAR right, Martin-Luther-King-hating Republican writing for a rather far-right Republican blog. And this is going to help because?

I think what the other bloggers, like Jane, are saying is correct - this is gonna be fun to watch. The Washington Post is having its jump-the-shark moment. They're putting their credibility in the hands of a 24 year old kid with a proven record of being, well, a bit kooky."

Native Unity: 'Meth On The Rez'

Native Unity: 'Meth On The Rez': "'In my family, we had 33 family members expire to alcohol,' said Kathleen Kitcheyan, the chairwoman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe of Arizona. 'Now we have something that's even more dangerous in our community. Crystal meth has really hit our reservation very, very hard.'
Kitcheyan tied meth abuse to 120 suicide attempts and 84 suicides on the reservation since 2002. Last year, she said 63 babies were born with meth in their systems.
Darrell Hillaire, the chairman of the Lummi Nation of Washington, reported similar problems. He said 41 percent of the 1,200 children born on the reservation in the last 10 years have been affected by drugs like meth.

'That's unacceptable,' said Hillaire, whose tribe was recently featured in a front-page New York Times story about a tribal member who oversaw a drug ring that smuggled meth into Washington from Canada."

BadEagle.com makes the case for a "Immigrant free" American nation

David Yeagley's BadEagle.com:

Dr. David Yeagley represents more than an Indian-version of George T. Will. Yeagley comes quite close to epitomizing all that is deceitful about the American Indian conservative right. In his latest diatribe, Dr. Yeagley presents his case for a "Immigrant Free" American nation.

In, "An Immigrant Nation? Not." Yeagley presents a concise turn on The Bell Curve aimed at all immigration to the United States after a "specific point in historical time." Dr. Yeagley is vague at this juncture but he powers on quoting Aristotle from The Politics and clarifying what he considers to be a verifiable fact, "America was not designed for Hindus, Muslims, voodooists, or Buddhists." So much for the Constitution.

I really have no idea where Dr. Yeagly is coming from and after a few years of reading him to see what America's "Only voice of conservative American Indian thought," has to say about news of the day, I really don't care. At least not anymore.

As I said in an earlier post, I've had my fill of the utter nihilistic rush to incinerate the planet and everything lives upon it. I love my people(s). But I have no emotional fuel left for Indians who still cling to the outdated and dangerous mentality that we "belong" to White America. And if European America has a problem with my analysis then they should ask themselves if they know anything at all about their own history.

We are not a product of European enlightenment. In all truth, our tolerance and sense of decorum enabled The European to become the powerful entity it is today. Without us teaching them how to live here, Europeans would never have lasted in these lands long enough to gain enough of a foothold to implement the early Euro-lebenstraumpolitik.

Wake up Yeagley, you're Indian. Remember that.

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Dr. David Yeagley...

"The nation of America was created by White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants. More broadly, we can say European Christians. They used ancient Jewish law, the Bible, so that means Jews are never really foreigners (--to say nothing of the Jewish families that have been in America’s southwest since 1579 and in New England since 1658); they used Indian social concepts of group confederacy and Indian land to try them out on, so Indians are hardly foreign (and Indians were finally declared citizens in 1924); finally, the founders threw in a little classical Greek philosophy in their documented political articulations, and English common law was the conscious adhesive."...

"The point is simply that the founding of the American nation was not a natural social evolution. It was a radical decision of the founders, made at a specific point in historical time. No immigrant outside that time has a “right” to be an American. He has only the privilege of applying."...

"A nation of immigrants? Not so. America is an 18th century nation of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants with a horde of white European Christians added on in the next century. America was not designed for Hindus, Muslims, voodooists, or Buddhists. These people have their own countries, where their religion is dominant. Why did they leave their homes? Why have they come to America? Why do they wish to preserve and display their culture here?"...

NewsOK.com | Tribal court ruling may establish standard for membership claims

NewsOK.com | Powered by The Oklahoman and NEWS 9: "By The Associated Press

OKMULGEE - A Muscogee (Creek) Nation tribal court issued a ruling that attorneys say could pave the way for future claims allowing some descendants of freed slaves to become citizens of the 55,000-member tribe.

While the decision does not completely clarify whether all black freedmen descendants will be allowed into the tribe, it could set a precedent for future claims, attorney Damario Solomon Simmons said Monday.

Simmons said the decision was 'a narrow one' that nonetheless gave a basis that other freedmen seeking enrollment in the tribe could use.

'No Creek constitutional or treaty questions that we brought up were addressed,' Simmons said. 'The judge basically said the applications of Mr. Graham and Mr. Johnson should have been processed.'"

Ecuador Quells Indian Trade Protest

Ecuador Quells Indian Trade Protest: "Ecuador Quells Indian Trade Protest

By JEANNETH VALDIVIESO
The Associated Press
Monday, March 20, 2006; 8:41 PM

QUITO, Ecuador -- Police fired tear gas at dozens of Indian demonstrators trying to reach the government palace Monday to protest free-trade talks with Washington this week that are expected to draw thousands of opponents to the capital.

The debate over the talks has already led to the resignation of Ecuador's interior minister, who stepped down after making comments that appeared to support the Indians' demands."

Young sister raises the cackles of the mainstream with revolutinary words of dignity

New York Post Online Edition: news: "March 13, 2006 -- YOUNGSTER'S BLACK-POWER POEM RILES SCHOOL"

Thanks to One Tenacious Baby Mama I caught wind of this story. This is amazing at any age. I've sure they are now puzzled as to who "trained" her to pen that work. I would like to think that she did it all on her own, but no matter, the prose cut to the chase andd spelled out that some among the young are percieving that the genocidal facade we call America is still with us.

More power to her.
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A 7-year-old prodigy unleashed a firestorm when she recited a poem she wrote comparing Christopher Columbus and Charles Darwin to 'pirates' and 'vampires' who robbed blacks of their identities and human rights.

Hundreds of parents of Peekskill middle- and high-school students received a recorded phone message last week apologizing for little Autum Ashante's poem, titled 'White Nationalism Put U in Bondage.'

'Black lands taken from your hands, by vampires with no remorse,' the aspiring actress and poet wrote. 'They took the gold, the wisdom and all the storytellers. They took the black women, with the black man weak. Made to watch as they changed the paradigm of our village."

Written Notice Served to Queen on Matters of Genocide, Sovereignty and Treaty

Written Notice Served to Queen on Matters of Genocide, Sovereignty and Treaty
16th March 2006

Final written warning was today delivered to Queen Elizabeth the Second to
address the fundamental issues of Genocide, Sovereignty and Treaty within 28
days or legal action would be carried out in the International Criminal Court
of Justice.

Robbie Thorpe delivered the notice in person to Government House in Melbourne
where the Queen is currently residing.

"I have exhausted all other legal avenues in this country to get these
fundamental legal issues resolved. Despite victory in the Federal Court of
Australia to force the Australian Government to pass legislation to make
genocide a crime in Australia, these issues are still not being addressed.

"Queen Elizabeth II is the sovereign ruler of this nation and she is ultimately
responsible for the running of this country. Unless she instructs the
initiation of legal redress within the next 28 days, I will be taking this case
further to the International Criminal Court.

"Our people never ceded Sovereignty over these lands; we have never given
consent for what is effectively an undeclared war on our lands and against our
people. We must have custodial rights over our sacred sites and the recognition
of our traditional ceremony and practice entrenched in law.

"Unless The Queen instructs to make progress on these fundamental legal issues,
she will be facing the prospect of an International Criminal Court summons."

ICT [2006/03/17] Mohawk: The death penalty is really problematic

ICT [2006/03/17] Mohawk: The death penalty is really problematic: "When you factor in the possibility that some of those who are condemned are likely innocent, and that society seems curiously unwilling, mostly, to prosecute people who aggressively seek convictions knowing that the rights of the accused have been abused, we have a pattern that leaves me unwilling to support the death penalty. Prosecutors who are dishonest, who do not present evidence they know might support the defense, are not only unethical, they are criminal and they do a great disservice to the justice system. The damage is so great that, like technicians who fudge scientific evidence, prosecutors who do this - a likely minority - should face civil and criminal liabilities.

Society should reconsider its thinking about this issue. Williams probably did enough things to raise his value to society from zero to some value deserving of clemency from death. Treated thusly, he might have spent the rest of his life behind bars (assuming he was guilty) and died a natural death behind prison walls. He, or someone else, might have been proven innocent, which is truly moot if one is dead when the proof arrives.

And Williams or any other who might gain the life skills might have done more things beneficial to society before dying. For the worst, living a sterile existence for decades without hope is indeed a very powerful punishment, even bordering on torture. It is more powerful than wheeling them to a chemical death, the kind that sounds too compassionate to our drug enforcement people of the moment for the benefit of people in the palliative care institutions. I don't get the thinking here."

Read more...

John C. Mohawk, Ph.D., columnist for Indian Country Today, is an associate professor of American studies and director of Indigenous studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Cherokee chief calls for an 'Indian' Nation by blood

Cherokee chief calls for an 'Indian' Nation by blood
Monday, March 20, 2006

An Indian nation should be composed of people who are Indian by blood, the leader of the second largest tribe in the U.S. said last week.

During his State of the Nation address, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chad Smith criticized the tribe's highest court for engaging in what he considers to be judicial activism. He said the Judicial Appeals Tribunal, in a 2-1 decision on March 7, overturned the will of the Cherokee people by opening up the tribal rolls to the Freedmen, the descendants of African slaves who were made citizens of the tribe after the Civil War.

In response to the ruling, the Cherokee Nation began accepting applications from Freedmen whose ancestors appeared on the Dawes Roll, the document used to establish tribal citizenship. Although tens of thousands may be eligible, only 10 applied as of last week, The Oklahoman reported.

But in Smith's view, none of them should qualify because they do not have Cherokee Indian blood. He said Cherokee voters barred Freedmen from citizenship when they approved a new tribal constitution in 1975.

"Many Cherokees, including those who wrote the constitution in 1975, believed that Cherokee voters understood that a vote to approve the 1975 constitution would exclude Freedmen from citizenship," Smith said in his address made to the tribal council on March 13. "Many of those voting to exclude the Freedmen believe that an Indian nation should be composed of Indians." Read More...

Civil Rights Pioneer Delivers Last Sermon

AP Photo: The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth greets people as they enter the Greater New Life Baptist Church...
CINCINNATI - The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the fight against segregation, retired from the ministry Sunday, delivering his final sermon as pastor of the church he founded 40 years ago.

Shuttlesworth, who celebrated his 84th birthday this weekend, survived threats, beatings and attempts on his life during the civil rights movement in Birmingham and Selma, Ala. In his sermon, he recalled the night 50 years ago when someone set off dynamite outside his bedroom window in Birmingham.

"They were going to blow me to heaven that night. It had my name on it," Shuttlesworth said. "But I heard him say, 'Be still! God is here. Wherever you are I will be with you.'"

American Indian Movement of Colorado

American Indian Movement of Colorado: "Exorcising colonial demons

This arrived courtesy of Mohawk Nation News. Their webiste will be up soon and we are posting the article in it's entirety.

EXORCISING COLONIAL DEMONS -- HOW THE U.S. LOST TO THE WESTERN SHOSHONE AT THE U.N.

MNN. March 16, 2006. On March 10, 2006, the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination found that the United States was denying the Western Shoshone people 'their rights to own, develop, control and use their land and resources'. They warned the U.S. to respect their obligations according to the Convention'. The U. S. was urged to 'freeze',
'desist' and 'stop' their actions against the Western Shoshone and abide by the Committee's 'Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure'.

The Western Shoshone land base covers approximately 60 million acres, stretching across the states of Nevada, Idaho, Utah and California. Their land rights were entrenched in the 1868 Treaty of Ruby Valley. The U.S. used a procedure similar to that of the Canadian and Ontario governments when they turned land belonging to the Stoney Point people at Ipperwash into a park. The U.S. declared the Western Shoshone lands had become 'public' or federal lands in violation of the treaty."

American Indian gangs: A circle of self-genocidal angst destroying what is left of traditional lifeways

The Christian Science Monitor | csmonitor.com: "Fighting Back Against Indian Gangs"

In light of the last post, I thought it prudent and cautionary to post this article as well. It is a bit dated in that the problem has become much worse in 2006, but I would hope that all people of good-will will see all of this disharmony and violence as what it is, a diversion from what humans COULD be doing with our existence.

I don't mean to be metaphysical, but really, I am so tired of all the violence and the hate. The highly visible hate we are saturated with on a second to second basis in popular culture and the insidiously invisible hate in the political arena that enables global disorder to occur. It is a confusing and seemingly never-ending cycle of unhumanity to man, Earth and animal. The planet is dying, slowly. Indian people are still living in a world of hurt. People are starving, even those among the Euroamerican settler-class in the U.S. There are several ongoing major military conflicts and more than three dozen "minor" cases of civil unrest occuring as I write this, yet all I can do is write this. I want it to stop. I want it all to stop.

I cannot help but think of the children. The newly born and barely lived thrust blindly into a world of pure chaos. Young lives who may possibly never know a day of world wide peace or universal solidarity on a truly egalitarian level. I want children yet, I dare not curse another child with existence within this maddening and increasingly nihilistic dead end.

Am I pessimistic? Yes. Why? Because I see so few people honestly trying to bring a real halt to the metaphorical Hell I just described. Yes Virginia, I know all about the activism of the 60 and 70's and of the very enlightened liberal and progressive efforts that lead to my current skills in typing and the ability to sit anywhere I like on the bus. Having gotten that bit of ego-stroking out of the way, yes, I've heard this argument before and I emphatically do not agree.

IF, people, European, African, Indigenous, whatever...if people were serious about peace and justice, we would have had it centuries ago with the advent of religion. All religions espouse good works and such, peace and fraternity amongst all men.

I am not knocking religion. I am asking all of you folks out there that say you want peace, to actualise peace. Please, if you say it, mean it.

We need some peace. Especially our children. Please, consider it.

And my Native Brothers and Sisters, please, practise peace. Gangs are not part of our cultures. Respect for human life is.

Wado.
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Kathy Khoury, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
SELLS, ARIZ. - Boyd Osegueda considers himself a modern-day warrior.

He bears the scars and tattoos from 16 years as a gang banger. Now 25, he is fighting the good fight, trying to persuade young gang members to go straight. But Mr. Osegueda is no urban gang reformer. And he labors far from the concrete jungle. He's an American Indian trying to curb the rising influence of gangs on a reservation. In recent years, his Tohono O'odham nation here in southern Arizona has seen a disturbing increase in gang activity with a corresponding increase in violent crimes. Nationally, studies indicate the number of gangs in Indian country has more than doubled since 1994. Researchers say gangs are a problem in more than three-quarters of the nation's Indian communities, and some tribes report homicide rates that exceed those of notoriously violent urban areas. Indian communities are fighting back with a combination of law-enforcement and intervention efforts designed to reconnect tribal youths with traditional cultural values. Officials in some communities say they are beginning to stem the tide. "

Latinos feel harassed in crackdown on gangs | ajc.com

Latinos feel harassed in crackdown on gangs | ajc.com: "When federal agents announced the arrests late last week of 375 foreign-born gang members nationwide — including 15 in metro Atlanta — no one was paying closer attention than Cobb County school officials.

The influx of Hispanics in Cobb schools and the national emergence of such gangs as Latin Kings, Mara Salvatrucha and Sureños has created a quandary: School and police officials feel the need to crack down on suspected gang activity to make schools safe. But Latino parents feel that school officials are discriminating against their kids and branding them as gang members without evidence."

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