Remembering Wounded Knee '73

Remembering Wounded Knee '73
by Carter Camp
Ponca Nation AIM
Ah-ho My Relations,
Each year with the changing of the season I post this remembrance of Wounded Knee 73. I wrote it a few years ago when some of our brave people had walked to Yellowstone to stop the slaughter of our Buffalo relations. When I did I was surprised at the response from people who were too young to remember WK'73 and I was pleased that some old WK vets wrote to me afterwards. So each year on this date I post the short story again and invite you-all to send it around or use as you will. As you do I ask you to remember that our reasons for going to Wounded Knee still exist and that means the need for struggle and resistance also still exist. Our land and sacred sites are threatened as never before even our sacred Mother herself is faced with unnatural warming caused by extreme greed.

In some areas of conflict between our people and those we signed treaties with, it is best to negotiate or "work within the system" but, because our struggle is one of survival, there are also times when a warrior must stand fast even at the risk of one's life. I believed that in 1973 when I was thirty and I believe it today in my sixties. But to me Wounded Knee 73 was really not about the fight, it was about the strong statement that our traditional way of living in this world is not about to disappear and our people are not a "vanishing race" as wasicu education would have you believe. As time has passed and I see so many of our young people taking part in a traditional way of living and believing I know our fight was worth it and those we lost for our movement died worthy deaths. Carter Camp 2010

"Remembering Wounded Knee 1973"by Carter Camp
Ah-ho My Relations,
Today is heavy with prayer and reminisces for me. Not only are those who walk for the Yellowstone Buffalo reaching their destination, today is the anniversary of the night when, at the direction of the Oglala Chiefs, I went with a special squad of warriors to liberate Wounded Knee in advance of the main AIM caravan.

For security reasons the people had been told everyone was going to a meeting/wacipi in Porcupine, the road goes through Wounded Knee. When the People arrived at the Trading Post we had already set up a perimeter, taken eleven hostages, run the B.I.A. cops out of town, cut most phone lines, and began 73 days of the best, most free time of my life. The honor of being chosen to go first still lives strong in my heart.

That night we had no idea what fate awaited us. It was a cold night with not much moonlight and I clearly remember the nervous anticipation I felt as we drove the back-way from Oglala into Wounded Knee. The Chiefs had tasked me with a mission and we were sworn to succeed, of that I was sure, but I couldn't help wondering if we were prepared. The FBI, BIA and Marshalls had fortified Pine Ridge with machine gun bunkers and A.P.C.s with M-60's. They had unleashed the goon squad on the people and a reign of terror had begun, we knew we had to fight but we could not fight on wasicu terms. We were lightly armed and dependent on the weapons and ammo inside the Wounded Knee trading post, I worried that we would not get to them before the shooting started.

As we stared silently into the darkness driving into the hamlet I tried to foresee what opposition we would encounter and how to neutralize it... We were approaching a sacred place and each of us knew it. We could feel it deep inside. As a warrior leading warriors I humbly prayed to Wakonda for the lives of all and the wisdom to do things right. Never before or since have I offered my tobacco with such a plea nor put on my feathers with such purpose. It was the birth of the Independent Oglala Nation.

Things went well for us that night, we accomplished our task without loss of life. Then, in the cold darkness as we waited for Dennis and Russ to bring in the caravan (or for the fight to start), I stood on the bank of the shallow ravine where our people had been murdered by Custers' 7th Cavalry. There I prayed for the defenseless ones, torn apart by Hotchkiss cannon and trampled under hooves of steel by drunken wasicu. I could feel the touch of their spirits as I eased quietly into the gully and stood silently... waiting for my future, touching my past.

Finally, I bent over and picked a sprig of sage - whose ancestors in 1890 had been nourished by the blood of Red babies, ripped from their mothers dying grasp and bayoneted by the evil ones. As I washed myself with that sacred herb I became cold in my determination and cleansed of fear. I looked for Big Foot and YellowBird in the darkness and I said aloud ---

"We are back my relations, we are home." Hoka-Hey

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Indigenous Fight Logging, Nuclear Industry, Colonization and Oppression

Underreported Struggles #35, February 2010
Full story w/ links:
http://intercontinentalcry.org/underreported-struggles-35-february-2010

In this month's Underreported Struggles: Indigenous People in Ecuador Call for a "Permanent Mobilzation”; 5,000 Dongria Kondh protest against Vedanta Resources; Bangladesh army opens fire on Indigenous Jumma; Okanagan Band launches protective blockade against logging.

Feb 28 - Indigenous People in Ecuador Call for "Permanent Mobilization” - Indigenous representatives and leaders have issued a call for a "permanent mobilization” to protest the Ecuadorian government's development policies and press demands for a pluri-national state. Lasting for more than eight weeks, a similar mobilization occurred last year in Peru.

Feb 26 - Colombia: indigenous communities targeted in war, again - Indigenous peoples are again caught in the middle as the Colombian army launches a major offensive against the FARC guerillas in the southern Andean department of Cauca.

Feb 26 - Day of Action for Rivers, March 14, 2010 - With the "day of action for rivers” set to begin on March 14, international Rivers provides an update on what will be happening. So far, they say, twenty-three actions have been scheduled in fourteen countries. Several more actions are expected.

Feb 26 - Alaska Natives restoring culture outlawed by missionaries - After years of stigma brought on by Quaker missionaries who banned traditional dancing, the remote Alaskan village of Noorvik is resurrecting the old dances and songs---re-awakening what was shamefully oppressed by religious bigotry.

Feb 26 - Yanomami fear for their lives as miners invade their land - Yanomami shaman and spokesman Davi Kopenawa has made an urgent appeal for support as the Yanomami territory in northern Brazil is being invaded by gold-miners. Davi said, 'The arrival of miners is increasing, and the Yanomami are very worried… Soon there will be conflicts between the miners and the Yanomami…'

Feb 26 - Peru: indigenous organizations demand protection for "isolated peoples” - Representatives of Peru's Amazonian indigenous alliance AIDESEP and affiliated groups are calling for the "protection of indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact.” On Feb. 4, President Alan García introduced a bill that would allow the forcible removal of local populations from lands slated for development projects found to be in the "public interest.”

Feb 24 - Olympics can't mask country's human rights record on indigenous peoples - Ever sensitive about their reputation as a land of the fair minded, Canada's Olympic planners have gone to lengths to showcase the nation's respect for aboriginals. However, it is little more than a blanket to cover up the true state of indigenous peoples in Canada.

Feb 23 - Urge Kenya to Withdrawal Police from Samburu Land - Cultural Survival is appealing to Kenyan government authorities to halt police operations in Northern Kenya, where Indigenous Samburu villages have suffered brutal police attacks over the last year. In the most recent attack, the police invaded two Samburu villages, raped eight women, burned a house to the ground, and beat women, children and men with sticks..

Feb 23 - 5,000 indigenous Dongria Kondh protest against Vedanta - When 5,000 indigenous Dongria Kondhs trekked Sunday to Niyam Dongar hill, the abode of their presiding deity Niyam Raja, and designated it as inviolate, it meant they were stepping up their resistance to a controversial alumina refinery and bauxite mine project here.

Feb 23 - Okanagan Nation launches blockade against logging - The Okanagan Indian Band (OIB) launched a "protective blockade” this morning, February 23, at the Okanagan campsite near Bouleau Lake in southern British Colombia. A member of the greater Okanagan Nation, the OIB say they have been left with no choice but to stop the logging company Tolko Industries from endangering their water supply.

Feb 23 - Uranium Mining Begins Near Grand Canyon - In defiance of legal challenges and a U.S. Government moratorium, Canadian company Denison Mines has started mining uranium on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. According to the Arizona Daily Sun the mine has been operating since December 2009.

Feb 22 - Indigenous Jumma massacred in Bangladesh - Eight people are dead and more than two dozen have been injured after the Bangladesh military, on Feb. 20, 2010, opened fire on a group of Indigenous Jumma villagers in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Four villages sponsored by the United Nations were also burned to the ground.

Feb 20 - Company activities suspended in Ajwun and Wampis sacred territory - Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines announced this week that it is "indefinitely suspending” Minera Afrodita's exploration activities in the Cordillera del Condor region of Peru. As reported by Servindi, the announcement follows a recommendation by OSINERGIN, which recently that found that Afrodita, a subsidiary of the Vancouver-based company Dorato , has no concession rights in the Cordillera del Condor region.

Feb 19 - Honduras: authorized projects threaten wetlands and communities - Only 24 hours after Lobo took office, his administration was already granting new environmental permits for projects on wetlands which are part of the environmental richness of Honduras, threatening species and communities.

Feb 18 - Ongoing Violation of Naso and Ngobe Peoples Rights - A shadow report has been submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) detailing Panama's ongoing breach of obligations to the Indigenous Naso and Ngobe Peoples.

Feb 18 - International letter-writing campaign for "uncontacted Indians” - A global letter-writing campaign is underway to help protect the lives of isolated Indigenous Peoples in Paraguay. A Brazilian ranching company, Yaguarete Porá, has announced plans to clear a large part of their 78,000 hectare estate. Sign the letter here.

Feb 15 - Join the Campaign in Defense of the Xingu River - A letter-writing campaign has been launched to demand President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and other Brazilian authorities put an end to the controversial Belo Monte hydro-electric dam. Once completed, the Belo Monte dam would devastate a massive portion of the Amazon rainforest, divert the flow of the Xingu River and destroy the livelihoods of more than 12,000 Indigenous people.

Feb 14 - Lusi volcano eruption blamed on mining firm - British scientists have revealed evidence that a mining company drilling for gas was responsible for unleashing a mud volcano in Indonesia which has killed 14 people and left tens of thousands homeless.

Feb 11 - Landmark Decision for Indigenous Land Rights in Africa - In a landmark decision this month, the African Union endorsed a 2009 ruling by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights which ordered the Kenyan government to restore the traditional land base of the Endorois People.

Feb 4 - Court rules in favor of indigenous Papuans - The Constitutional Court in Papua has issued an important ruling to provide better representation of Indigenous Peoples in the local government. The Papuan Legislative Council must now appoint 11 new members, all indigenous.

Feb 4 - Extinct: Andaman tribe's extermination complete as last member dies - The last member of a unique tribe has died on India's Andaman Islands. Boa Sr, who died last week aged around 85, was the last speaker of 'Bo', one of the ten Great Andamanese languages. The Bo are thought to have lived in the Andaman Islands for as much as 65,000 years.

Feb 2 - People of Alice win first round against Schwabe Pharmaceuticals - The small South African community of Alice has won the first leg of their court case against German homeopathic giant Schwabe Pharmaceuticals. The company is trying to patent a remedy made from the roots of local indigenous plants.

Feb 2 - Bitter Sweet or Toxic? Indigenous people, diabetes and the burden of pollution - Diabetes is now widely regarded as the 21st century epidemic. With some 284 million people currently diagnosed with the disease, it's certainly no exaggeration---least of all for Indigenous people.

Videos

Don't mine us out of existence! - UK-based mining company Vedanta Resources threatens the human rights of indigenous communities in the Indian state of Orissa.

Nuclear Attack on the Yakama Culture - Yakama Nation cultural leader Russell Jim talks about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south-central Washington and the social, cultural, economic, and political issues that surround it.


Yakama Nation cultural leader Russell Jim talks about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south-central Washington and the social, cultural, economic, and political issues that surround it.

The talk was delivered at the University of Washington Husky Union Building in Seattle, WA, on February 23, 2001.

A board member of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) and Director of the Nuclear Waste and Restoration Management programme for the Yakama Nation, Russell Jim has spent more than 20 years raising the Yakama Nation’s voice and demanding the US government clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation (HNR), one of the most contaminated places on Earth.

Built in the Yakama Nation’s “front yard,” HNR was the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor. It manufactured the plutonium used in thousands of nuclear bombs; including the very first one ever detonated on July 16, 1945, and in “Fat Man“, the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945.

During its years of operation (1943 to 1987) HNR also produced millions of gallons of highly radioactive waste, all of which is now stored on site in 177 underground tanks. Roughly 67 of these tanks have leaked more than a million gallons of waste into the local soil.

HNR further released more than 200 different radionuclides into the air and local waters. While most of the releases are considered to be accidental or a “natural” part of operations, on December 2-3, 1949, the U.S. Air Force intentionally released between 7,000 and 12,000 curies of iodine-131 into the air as part of a secret experiment known as project “Green Run“.

As Russell Jim reveals, there also appears to have been a “human radiation experiment on the Yakama Nation” involving the radioactive isotope “phosphorus-32″.

According to documents he reviewed, Jim explains, “in 1941, prior the Hanford Reservation ever becoming a reality, phosphorus-32 was introduced into the Yakama and Colombia river.”

“We found that it goes directly through the eyes of the Salmon and to the soft bone inside the Salmon head, which is revered by the Indigenous People. We think it’s some of the greatest food.”

“But there is a consistent denial by federal agencies and by science” he continues, “that there is no proven effects of radioactivity”. The isotope itself, is often used today in scientific research and medical treatment.

Nevertheless, Jim expresses concern about the possible impacts on the Yakama in the next couple generations. Perhaps one day, he fears, Women will no longer be able to give birth.

According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), phosphorus-32 is a known cause of cancer in humans and animals when it is taken internally.

Further, says the IARC, “exposure of animals to phosphorus-32 in utero led to prenatal death, reduced growth, malformations and gonadal and pituitary lesions.” It was also shown to produce “chromosomal aberrations” in humans.

Watch this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTLCSFN2fH4

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Man without a jaw finds his voice

If you're like me, you may be at once repulsed by and drawn to the photograph here.

It's Roger Ebert, half of the famed film critic duo, Siskel & Ebert.

Eight years ago, he underwent surgery for thyroid cancer. A year later, his salivary glands were partially removed. In 2006, the cancer came back in his jaw and he had a section of his lower jaw removed. After he had recuperated and was in his hospital room packing up to leave, his carotid artery burst. He would have bled to death had it happened anywhere else, but doctors worked frantically to patch him up. He underwent a tracheotomy and was left with much of his lower face hanging slack.

So, for more than three years, he has lived with a hole in his throat, unable to eat, drink or speak. Pretty bleak, you would think, for one with so much to say. This is a guy, after all, who along with the late Gene Siskel brought movie reviews -- with their signature "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" ratings -- into our living rooms with humor, insight and passion.

Think again.

In one of the most inspiring profiles I've ever read -- "The Last Words of Roger Ebert" in the March issue of Esquire -- Ebert says (er, writes) that no one should feel sorry for him. Communicating through handwritten notes on blue Post-its and his laptop computer, Ebert, at age 67, has become even more prolific as a writer and blogger. And that's saying something for someone who won the Pulitzer Prize way back in 1975, becoming the first film critic to win journalism's most conveted honor, and has written several books and thousands upon thousands of reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times.

His blog, rogerebert.com, has had 92 million visits and a quick stroll through the site reveals why. He's got more than a dozen categories, ranging from reviews and commentary to the Oscars, festivals and his personal journal, Roger Ebert's Journal. He answers readers questions directly and often responds to the thousands of comments left on his blog.

In a recent entry, he acknowledges that the Esquire profile was both intimate and personal and says it was "inexplicable instinct" that led him to agree to the interview with writer Chris Jones.

"When I turned to it in the magazine, I got a jolt from the full-page photograph of my jaw drooping," Ebert writes. "Not a lovely sight. But then I am not a lovely sight, and in a moment I thought, well, what the hell. It's just as well it's out there. That's how I look, after all."

It's that kind of clear-eyed acknowledgment of the truth, coupled with remarkable wisdom packed throughout, that makes the piece so memorable. Jones writes:

"We have a habit of turning sentimental about celebrities who are struck down -- Muhammad Ali, Christopher Reeve -- transforming them into mystics; still, it's almost impossible to sit beside Roger Ebert, lifting blue Post-it notes from his silk fingertips, and not feel as though he's becoming something more than he was. He has those hands. And his wide and expressive eyes, despite everything, are almost always smiling.

"There is no need to pity me, he writes on a scrap of paper one afternoon after someone parting looks at him a little sadly. Look how happy I am.' "

Later in the piece, there is this:

"I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problem, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."

I'm tempted to call Roger Ebert a hero. But I know we often and too quickly delude ourselves into thinking we know celebrities, or at least those who are in the public eye. Still, I think a good profile reveals something of a person's essential character. Along with a wonderful piece that Tom Junod wrote years ago on Fred Rogers (he of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"), Chris Jones' profile of Roger Ebert ranks up there as the best I've read.

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Remembering the Migrants: Tucson Peace Fair 2010

By Brenda Norrell

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TUCSON -- In the half moon circle of booths before the stage, children's faces were painted and Guatemalan tapestries were on display. There was the call for peace, and the paintings of torture in China. Veterans for Peace, Amnesty, the ACLU, Derechos Humanos, Borderlinks, No More Deaths, KXCI Radio and so many others were there at the Tucson Peace Fair today. The Tucson Refuge Sewing and Crafts Circle offered handmade bags made by African women who are now refugees here. Others called for the protection of the Santa Rita Mountains from copper mining.

On one table, there were tiny mementos, precious items left behind by migrants in the Sonoran Desert. There were fragments of a child's clothing, bits of toys and beads, now made into art, so they will not be forgotten. On quilt patches there are the memories and the names of those who died in the desert.

"The Migrant Quilt Project contains the names and the unknowns (desconocidos) who have died while crossing the US/Mexico border. By driving migrants into remote regions where there is no water, food or medical care, many succumb to extreme heat or cold exposure, dehydration and heat stroke. We honor all those who died trying to find a job." --International Migrant Quilt Project. http://www.losdesconocidos.org/

Andy Warhol's Tucson

Article and photos by Brenda Norrell
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It was unexpected, but there it was. Andy Warhol photographs, even his cowboy boots, three rooms of them, with Go-Go Sixties dancers. And out back, Sonoran hot dogs and a mechanical bull. All you had to do was lean back on a hay bale and drink it all in, beneath the stars, with one of the ropers. Out back, the hot dogs had grilled onions, raw onions, jalapenos, bacon and some other stuff that I've forgotten. Inside, the world of art was unglued, all unhinged, Andy Warhol was there, jumping in between the chasms of time, leaping back and forth, enjoying it all one more time.
Bob Broder, who once shot for Arizona Republic and other ole news rags (like the ones that I sometimes wrote for) was standing there, in front of the photos of Andy Warhol. There was a surreal quality to it all, Broder standing there in front of a wall of photos that he shot of Warhol in Tucson, with a Navajo blanket and cowboy hats and all. And as the Go Go dancers were doing their thing, Broder was giving me a few pointers on using my cheap point and shoot camera ($100 at boring stores everywhere.) So, he remembered shooting Andy Warhol here in Tucson, as the video of Warhol in Tucson was showing.

There were a lot of great people there, but I don't know any of them. The thing is, people in Tucson don't have to try and dress or act like Andy Warhol, they just are.

Naturals.

Warhol: Dylan to Duchamp

Eric Firestone Gallery, 403 N 6th Ave., Tucson downtown.

More about the photographers:
http://tucsoncitizen.com/art/tag/andy-warhol/

Eric Kroll, a TASCHEN photo book editor, and gallery owner Eric Firestone, curated the exhibition. The show combines 28 of the greatest photographers of our time – – Dennis Hopper, Helmut Newton, Nat Finkelstein, Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Billy Name, Bob Broder, Bob Adelman, Gerard Malanga, Anton Perich, Michael Tighe, Patrick McMullan and others. This inside look into the wonderful Age of Warhol showcases a rare assemblage of color, and black-and-white original prints, including a prestigious body of work on loan from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection.

The dreaded layoffs

It was pure coincidence that I wore black on Wednesday. So, too, did a couple of co-workers.

That's the day we all hoped would never come finally arrived -- the day that 37 employees were laid off from The Oregonian, including 27 people from the newsroom.

Even three days after the layoffs occurred (sorry, I can't bring myself to say things like "when the ax fell"), it's still hard to find the words to describe the mood and the effect on those of us who remain -- the so-called "survivors."

You can read the basics here, in this short post: "The Oregonian announces layoffs of 37 employees."

What you won't read -- and what's hard to convey -- is the mix of emotions that we felt on Wednesday. Everything ranging from shock ("They laid her off?") to concern ("Will these cuts be the only ones?") to relief ("There but for the grace of God go I.").

-- Your brain tells you that the cuts are part of a cost-cutting strategy to bring expenditures into line with revenues that have been greatly reduced by the recession and the migration of advertising dollars to the Internet. If the company can't make a profit, it can't sustain itself. That's obvious.

-- Your heart tells you what you already know, that each one of these layoffs comes with a human cost. Aside from the loss of salary and benefits comes the realization that, no matter what criteria were used, your name wound up on the list of people to be let go. That's got to be disconcerting, to say the least. If the layoff came as a surprise, if your pay made up the bulk of your household's income, if you had sustained a loss of some other kind (say, a parent who passed away), the pain and shock are multiple times greater.

-- Your gut tells you that you're damn lucky to have a job. A different calculation, a different set of people making the decisions ... and it might have been you signing the separation papers and picking up your last paycheck.

At the news meeting Thursday morning, it was a somber group of editors who gathered in a conference room to press forward with the next cycle of news gathering and planning for Friday's editions. It fell to our editor, Peter Bhatia, to express what was on everyone's mind.

Yesterday, he said, was about the worst day he's had in 30-plus years of being a journalist. We all knew it was coming, no one wanted it to come and now we're all glad that it's done. The list of people being laid off changed constantly over the past few weeks as skill sets and areas of duplication were assessed against current and future needs. And, now, with a slimmer staff we can get on with the task of reorganizing the newsroom.

When you say goodbye to co-workers in these circumstances, you're saying goodbye to family, for these are the people that you've worked with every day for years. Despite everything, Peter said, those who were losing were amazingly gracious. Though some reacted with shock or anger, the vast majority thanked him for the opportunity to work there and a few even asked how he was holding up. They understand the need to cut costs and even after all of this, hope The Oregonian will recover and once again thrive.

I was profoundly sad this week for my peers and for our industry. And without sounding overly selfish, I'm extremely grateful knowing I'm among those still there at the newspaper and continuing in my job as Sunday Opinion editor.

A final note: I can't end this post without acknowledging the emails that came from a handful of industry friends -- each of them a generation younger than me -- expressing sadness about the layoffs and asking if I'd been spared. That showed a lot of class.

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Black Mesa Indigenous Support: Regional Coordinators

BMIS Regional Coordinator Proposal
By Black Mesa Indigenous Support
Photo: Black Mesa Support Caravan

Black Mesa Indigenous Support (BMIS) is seeking year-round regional coordinators! We are looking for excited, committed people to join us in support of the traditional resistance communities at Big Mountain/Black Mesa. We are seeking individuals and groups from all over the country and encourage people who are new to organizing projects to join us, as well as supporters who have long-term involvement in the struggle. Please pass along this email to people in your community who might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions at:
blackmesais@gmail.com
BMIS strives to have our organizing grounded in the needs and input from people on the land at Big Mountain Black Mesa, which necessitates lots of communication, translation, and trips to the land. In addition, we serve as a bridge between outside supporters and the resistance community. We envision a regional coordinator structure that will help us strengthen our ties to outside supporter communities, and build capacity and connection to the land and elders. We are a small, all-volunteer collective and are unfortunately unable to accomplish all that we would like to see in support for traditional resistance communities on the land. Regional coordinators will help us in regards to capacity, as well as aid BMIS in staying accountable by providing input and suggestions from supporter communities nationwide. Most importantly, we hope that regional coordinators will help us build a national network that can support Big Mountain/Black Mesa, as well as regional indigenous resistance struggles, and social movements for the liberation of all peoples and the planet.
We envision regional coordinators as a bridge between national BMIS work and local supporter communities. Regional coordinators will be responsible for facilitating trips out to the land for supporters from their area. This will involve talking to new supporters ahead of time to review the Cultural Sensitivity Guide and preparedness information, as well as communicating with BMIS about any problems or issues that arise. In addition to helping ease the capacity issues of BMIS nationally, these direct meetings between regional coordinators and supporters will help build solidarity networks and encourage accountable relationship building. Regional coordinators will also assist in organizing the annual Fall Wood Run caravan and building a local network of supporters for indigenous sovereignty struggles. We hope to develop a stronger national network of people that can respond to Elders calls for support, and envision the regional coordinators as a key part of this goal. In addition, regional coordinators will be asked to do fundraising in their area for BMIS and direct on-the-land support. If you've never done fundraising before, dont worry! We have lots of information about grassroots fundraising to share with you and see this as a part of our education and organizing campaign.
In addition to organizing directly around Big Mountain Black Mesa support efforts, we also hope that a regional coordinating structure can become a vehicle for BMIS to help promote a national network of indigenous solidarity organizing and movement building. To this end, we are excited about the role regional coordinators can play in building political analysis among supporters. We want to contribute to sustainable movements that prioritize the leadership of those most impacted by oppression, relocation, and environmental degradation. We hope regional coordinators and local supporters will be able to build connections to and support for local indigenous struggles in their area, and make connections to the anti-colonial resistance at Big Mountain Black Mesa.
This proposal and call-out for regional coordinators is a work in progress. The work we do together will be defined by the energy, creativity, and commitment that we share, and we are looking for input from people who would like to get involved in our work. Please let us know if you have suggestions for BMIS in regards to regional organizing, caravans, and our support work generally. Below we've listed some of the ideas that we have brainstormed as projects that regional coordinators could contribute to. Let us know what you think!
-year round outreach and initial conversations with folks interested in doing on land support
-connect to local climate justice, anti-racism, and decolonization projects
-organize the local caravan well in advance- outreach to participants, donations, ride coordinating, etc. to avoid last-minute craziness
-set up sheepherder send-off parties which can double as political education and fundraising events
-put on screenings of Broken Rainbow, as well as speaking engagements, report backs and other educational events to spread word about the struggle
-set up discussions around the Cultural Sensitivity Guide and other related readings to facilitate political development of supporters
-organize joint fundraisers in support of local indigenous struggles
-organize local responses to calls to action from the land
-looking into and spreading information about local corporate and political connections to Peabody Coal
-tabling and information distribution at local events to build networks and share information
-build local capacity to fight racism and participate in multiracial movements for justice
We are inspired by what it could mean for people to be able to commit in sustainable long-term ways to supporting the struggle at Big Mountain Black Mesa as well as the other struggles that must be won to make justice a reality for all people and on all lands. We are looking for people to join us in this project! If you are interested in becoming a regional coordinator, please send us an email telling us where you are located, why you are interested in the work, and any ideas you might have for solidarity work in your region. Thank you sincerely and we look forward to hearing from and working with you!
~BMIS

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Facing the KKK: Migrant Youth Walkers

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Brave students are walking from Miami to Washington, D.C. to demand our nation’s leaders fix our failed immigration system. They have just entered the Deep South and have encountered extreme anti-immigrant sentiment — including the Ku Klux Klan. Now more than ever they need our support so they know they’re not alone.
http://trail2010.org/action/?ref_by=2517-1401
Along the "Trail of Dreams,” their 1,500 mile walk, they will call on our nation’s leaders to ensure that young people like themselves, and all immigrants, have the chance to realize their potential and fully participate in society.
These students are taking a courageous stand on behalf of millions of others who suffer under our failed immigration system. Please stand with them as they walk through hostile territory and take their message to Washington.
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Cerimônia Protestante

Os protestantes normalmente prezam pela discrição.

As cerimônias são despojadas de pompa, ainda que repletas de música, pois geralmente essas igrejas possuem corais próprios e gostam muito hinos de gratidão a Deus.
Durante a celebração do casamento, entre os hinos do coral, o pastor lê trechos da Bíblia que falam sobre casamento e das bênçãos divinas aos lares que usam como base o conhecimento de versículos e sabedoria bíblicos.
Alguns casais preferem a cerimônia realizada no gabinete pastoral, evitando assim o ambiente de igreja, mas atualmente isso é pouco usado, neste caso, a noiva geralmente se veste com simplicidade.
Mas quando a cerimõnia é feita na igreja, o ritual ganha mais vida, colorido e uma maior participação dos convidados.
Algumas cerimônias mantém os ritos tradicionais de casamento, onde são declarados votos de amor eterno e fidelidade pelos noivos.
Em alguns matrimônios protestantes, prevê-se apenas uma madrinha e um padrinho de honra, que têm funções específicas. A ela cabe segurar o buquê da noiva e a ele, passar as alianças na hora da benção. As famílias dos noivos não ficam no altar na hora da benção, devendo sentar nos primeiros bancos, lado a lado, logo atrás da noiva e do noivo. O pai da noiva, depois de entregar a filha no altar, se junta a eles.
Atualmente os casamentos protestantes tem se adaptado as novidades e já mantém a presença de padrinhos e pais dos noivos no altar.
Em alguns casamentos, os pais dos noivos são convidados para impor as mãos sobre o casal, enquanto o pastor empetra uma oração de bênção ao novo lar que se inicia.
Em alguns casos a noiva protestante surpreende o noivo ao cantar para ele uma linda música cristã, que fale de seu amor para seu companheiro, pedindo a presença de Deus abençoando, seu amor!
Pode haver a participação dos pais do noivos que também podem orar pelos filhos.
Enfim é uma cerimônia cheia de amor e pedido de bênçãos a Deus pelo casal que se une


Artigo enviado por colaboradora/consultora e publicado pelo C&Cia, para melhorar seu namoro, noivado, casamento, casamentos e ajudar as noivas e casais.

Fonte: http://www.casamentoecia.com.br/index.php?option=com_cerimonias_religiao&content=outras&id=276

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O'odham Ofelia Rivas Imprisoned in Mexico

O'odham Ofelia Rivas imprisoned for four days in southern Chiapas while supporting Zapatistas

By Brenda Norrell

Human Rights Editor
UN OBSERVER & International Report

http://www.unobserver.com/

Photo: Tapachula prison in Chiapas near Guatemalan border.

TUCSON -- O'odham human rights activist Ofelia Rivas was imprisoned in southern Chiapas for four days and crossed safely onto O'odham lands Wednesday night.
"There are inhumane border policies all across the world. My personal experience at home dealing with the Border Patrol helped me deal with confinement in the prison cell," Rivas said after crossing the border to her home.
Rivas was imprisoned in the Tapachula Immigration Prison in southern Chiapas near the Guatemalan border on false charges of crossing the border of Guatemala without documents. Rivas, however, had not crossed into Guatemala.
"Throughout our travel, by plane and bus, federal authorities reviewed my documents and allowed me to pass without problems. The federal police in Tapachula saw that an American was traveling with an Indigenous woman and arrested us.
"They wouldn't talk to me directly because I don't speak Spanish," said Rivas, who speaks O'odham and English.
Rivas was not provided with a translator when charged or during the four days she was imprisoned. "I signed papers without a translator when I was released. I still don't know what I was charged with."
"I was not read any rights," Rivas said. "When they were doing the paperwork, they said we were not being arrested. When we got to the detention center, they said 'You're not being arrested, you're not in handcuffs.'"
However, she had been arrested. She was taken to her cell, which she shared with a family from Colombia, which included a four-month-old baby and nine-month-old baby. They had been there for two months.
"What struck me was the powerful Somalian women that had walked across Central America and were in prison for two months in Panama. They have been waiting in Chiapas for two months for refugee status to be released to the United States. One Somalian woman said, 'I lost all my family, my mother, my father, my brothers, my sisters, all killed in front of me. I only know of one uncle who survived.'"
"The strength of those women, everyday they sat together and sang their songs and told their stories, and it kept us all together. We were a community. We all took care of the babies and watched out for the rest of the children to make sure they ate when it was time to eat."
Rivas became ill from the chemicals used for cleaning the prison, which was done at night when she was locked in her cell. One morning, she felt too ill to get out of bed.
"I couldn't get up, but the women insisted that I get up and go eat."
The women's and men's cells were separated only by partitions and the noise was loud throughout the night.
At night, she could hear a man screaming in English and rattling his cell gate, "Get me out of here! Get me out of here!" he would scream, yelling for a bathroom.
"It was the jungle by the sea, so it was hot and sticky and there were mosquitoes."
"Everyone is sitting there waiting for papers. Someone somewhere is delaying those everyday."
After four days of imprisonment, and the intervention of the American Embassy in Mexico City and family members in the United States, Rivas and her traveling companion were released.
"We cancelled the rest of our trip and came directly home, since we don't know what we signed." "This severe enforcement of borders is because of the militarization of the Zapatista communities which continue to face threats."
"My entire trip was to build solidarity with the Zapatistas and to tell the story of the O'odham on the border. We were received with great respect and were honored to be invited to the communities to share our story. They made a statement to acknowledge our story and that our struggles are the same. They said they were honored to hear from the traditional O'odham people."
Ofelia Rivas is founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall. She lives on Tohono O'odham land on the US/Mexico border and exposes the human rights abuses of the US Border Patrol and ongoing militarization of the border and O'odham land. She exposed the digging up of O'odham ancestors' graves by Boeing during construction of the border wall in Arizona. She has been held at gunpoint, harassed, threatened and detained by the US Border Patrol on O'odham land in Arizona.

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Cerimônia Evangélica Igreja Batista - 3

A cerimônia de casamento da Igreja Batista segue os preceitos da Bíblia que constam no livro dos atos dos Apóstolos.Normalmente os pastores não celebram casamentos mistos, ou seja, entre casais que não comungam da mesma fé e ordem.
A PreparaçãoAntes do casamento, o pastor faz um acompanhamento ao casal, para saber suas intenções e da maturidade com que iniciarão a vida matrimonial. São feitas reuniões de acompanhamento e aconselhamento, sendo que estas serão os subsídios para o pastor elaborar o sermão, ou pregação, no dia do casamento.
A Organização
Quanto ao procedimento e organização, o casamento da Igreja Batista, é semelhante aos da demais comunidades Cristãs, sejam elas, Católicas ou Evangélicas.Os padrinhos entram, depois o noivo que é acompanhado pela mãe, e finalmente a entrada da noiva, geralmente de branco, que é levada pelo pai.Todas as entradas são com músicas clássicas ou solenes, a noiva normalmente entra ao som da marcha nupcial, ou outra que escolher para a ocasião. Não é permitido o uso de músicas populares como fundo, para a celebração, já que o foco é a apresentação e a bênção de Deus para os noivos.
A Celebração
Durante a celebração, o pastor procura sempre aconselhar os noivos, para que se lembrem desse dia, e que sirva de guia da boa convivência para o casal cristão. O cerimonial de casamento na Igreja Batista é sempre acompanhado de muita música. Em muitas celebrações pode-se apreciar um momento ímpar, onde a noiva e ou o noivo, cantam um para o outro. Há também possibilidades dos amigos do casal prepararem uma música especial e surpreendê-los, deixando a emoção e alegria contagiar ainda mais esse dia tão lindo e especial.
A troca de Alianças
Na troca de alianças, o momento é marcado pela confissão pública de compromisso, assumido pelo casal, perante Deus e os Homens, compromisso de amor, cuidado e fidelidade. Nesse momento o pastor esclarece que a aliança é um círculo fechado, sem emendas, que representa um acordo do qual não deverá haver fim.
A Benção
Na benção final, a Igreja, através do pastor, oferece uma Bíblia com uma dedicatória ao recente casal.
Obs:Quanto ao casamento entre divorciados, é possível desde que passe por uma avaliação e acompanhamento, para saber as intenções e compromissos cristãos com Deus e a Igreja.
Artigo enviado por colaboradora do C&Cia, baseado em pesquisa junto aos pastores da igreja Batista.

Fonte: http://www.casamentoecia.com.br/index.php?option=com_cerimonias_religiao&content=outras&id=676

Cerimônia Católica - 2

Católicos sendo ou não praticantes podem se casar na Igreja de acordo com o ritual Católico.
Porém, o padre tem o poder de recusar a celebração de um casamento caso tenha razões para acreditar que os noivos não acreditem nos ideiais católicos.
A cerimônia católica é, atualmente, dominante no Brasil.
No catolicismo considera-se o casamento um verdadeiro sacramento, reconhecido como uma graça de Deus.
Embora seja previsto que ele se realize somente em igrejas, é possível obter permissão da Cúria para que o casamento ocorra em qualquer outro local de acordo com a escolha dos noivos.
A cerimônia pode incluir uma missa completa ou ser uma breve celebração. Ela geralmente é formal e tem diversos rituais, como, por exemplo, a ordem de entrada na igreja ou local onde será realizada a celebração.
Durante a cerimônia, o padre solicita bastante a participação do casal, criando vários momentos para fotos.
O ritual católico começa com um cortejo dirigindo-se lentamente para o altar, onde os participantes dividem-se em dois grupos: o da família da noiva e o do noivo.
A cerimônia católica têm, mesmo quando acompanhada de uma missa completa com comunhão ou não dos noivos e convidados, o seu ponto alto na colocação das alianças por cada noivo em seu par, momento que significa a troca de todas as promessas da vida nova em comum, na saúde e na riqueza ou em todos os momentos futuros do casal.
As alianças são trazidas em geral por uma daminha ou por um padrinho ou madrinha.
Realizado o casamento, o padre irá enviar um comunicado do casamento à Conservatória do Registo Civil, que fica junto à certidão de nascimento dos noivos.

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As cerimônias sempre estiveram presentes na história da humanidade, servindo na preparação de caminhos para uma nova fase ou para celebrar algum fato importante na vida em casal, família e sociedade em especial o casamento. Nessa seção, reunimos matérias sobre as mais diversas cerimônias. Tudo enfim que possa ajudar o relacionamento do casal e principalmente da noiva, nessa fase de preparação do anúncio à sociedade e aos amigos de sua união e novo status social.

A religião é um fator importante na maioria das cerimônias que acontecem no âmbito familiar. Aqui você poderá conhecer como são celebrados casamentos em diversas religiões e decidir como será o cerimonial da sua união, entre outros assuntos.

Fonte: http://www.casamentoecia.com.br/index.php?option=com_cerimonias_religiao&task=view

Coal Plant Fails in Penn., Navajos Hope Desert Rock is Next

COAL PLANT FAILS IN PENNSYLVANIA COAL COUNTRY
Health Risks and Controversy Remain At Sites on Navajo Nation And Nevada

Press statement
KARTHAUS, Penn. – An international energy developer financed by Wall Street equity firm The Blackstone Group has abandoned plans for a proposed 300-megawatt waste-coal power plant in rural Pennsylvania.

Sithe Global, which is also behind the proposed Toquop coal plant in Nevada and the Desert Rock plant on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, announced Tuesday it was canceling its proposed $600 million River Hill plant near Karthaus, Penn. due to financing difficulties.

Progress on Sithe’s other two coal projects has also stalled as a result of permitting and financing difficulties and intense opposition from local communities who say the potential harm to their air, water and health far outweighs any economic benefits from the plants.

“We have suspected for a long time that the River Hill project was very tenuous at best,” said Randy Francisco, of the Sierra Club in Pennsylvania. “It says a lot about the viability of these dirty coal plant proposals when they can’t get taxpayer bailouts and they can’t make them pencil out even with the backing of a company with pockets as deep as Blackstone’s.”

Anna Frazier, coordinator of the Navajo group Diné CARE, said that Sithe’s proposed Desert Rock plant is also on equally shaky ground after suffering one setback after another over the past year. Desert Rock’s pollution permit was withdrawn by the EPA in Septermber, a permit for the transmission right-of-way needed to get the power to Southwest markets was overturned earlier in 2009, and the Department of Energy denied Sithe a request for $450 million in federal stimulus dollars late last year.

“The Navajo communities of Northwest New Mexico have always been opposed to Desert Rock, so we are encouraged by the cancellation of the River Hill project,” said Frazier. “In an area that is already under siege by pollution from fossil-fuel development, Desert Rock has been a six-year black hole that has wasted millions of dollars that could have been used to bring clean-energy projects to the Four Corners region.”

Sithe’s proposed Toquop plant near Mesquite, Nev., originally proposed as a natural gas-fired plant, also has been on the drawing board for years but still does not have a pollution permit or an approved BLM environmental impact analysis, and last year the project lost rights to water it needs for to operate.

“We’ve been trying to persuade Sithe for years to focus on developing Nevada’s vast solar and wind resources instead of outdated and dirty coal,” said Mesquite Mayor Susan Holecheck. “Hopefully, Sithe’s decision to abandon the Pennsylvania plant is a signal that we can soon put the nail in Toquop’s coffin, too, and get it out of the way for clean-energy jobs and economic development in Nevada.”
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Indigenous Peoples: Pollution and Diabetes

Bitter Sweet or Toxic?
Indigenous people, diabetes and the burden of pollution

Contamination of First Nations, Mohawk and O'odham lands linked to diabetes
By John Schertow
The Dominion
Excerpts:
WINNIPEG—Diabetes is now widely regarded as the 21st century epidemic. With some 284 million people currently diagnosed with the disease, it’s certainly no exaggeration—least of all for Indigenous people.
... There is growing evidence that diabetes is closely linked with our environment. More than a dozen studies have been published that show a connection between Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); carcinogenic hydrocarbons known as Dioxins; and the “violently deadly” synthetic pesticide, DDT and higher rates of the disease.
O'odham and Diabetes
The Tohono O’odham Nation’s experience bears a close resemblance to Grassy Narrows: the world’s highest rate of diabetes can be found in the southwest Arizona nation. According to Tribal health officials, nearly 70 per cent of the population of 28,000 has been diagnosed with the illness. The O’odham People make up the second largest Indigenous Nation in the United States.
Lori Riddle is a member of Aquimel O’odham Community and founder of the Gila River Alliance for a Clean Environment (GRACE).
GRACE was instrumental in the 10 year struggle against a hazardous waste recycling plant that operated without full permits on O’odham land for decades. Owned by Romic Environmental Technologies Corporation, the plant continuously spewed effluents into the air until it was finally shut down in 2007.
The Romic plant was not the first contributor to the O’odham’s toxic burden, explained Riddle. Looking back to her childhood, she recalled: “For nearly a year, [when] a plane would go over our heads, you could see the mist. We never thought to cover our water. The chemicals just took over and they became a part of us.”
From the early 1950s until the late 60s, cotton farmers in the Gila River watershed routinely sprayed DDT onto their crops to protect them from bollworms. According to the Agency of Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), each and every year, the farmers used roughly Twenty-three pounds of DDT per acre.
In 1969, the State of Arizona banned the use of DDT; by this time the river was gravely contaminated. According to the ATSDR, farmers then switched to Toxaphene, a substitute for DDT—until it was banned by the US government in 1990.
Because of these chemicals, Riddle explains, the O’odham were forced to abandon their traditional foods and adopt a western diet. Farms also went into a recession, forcing many families to leave their communities. Companies, such as Romic, began moving on to their territory, exasperating the situation. “It’s taken a toll on our quality of life,” she says. “I’ve cried myself to sleep.”
The O’odham are dealing with what Riddle terms “cluster symptoms” including miscarriages, arthritis in the spine, breathing problems, unexplainable skin rashes, and problems regenerating blood cells. This in addition to diabetes, which frequently leads to renal failure, blindness, heart disease, and amputations.
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Call Congress Thursday: No Loans for Nuclear Reactors

NATIONAL CALL-CONGRESS DAY IS TOMORROW
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
TELL CONGRESS: NO MORE LOANS FOR NUCLEAR REACTORS
February 24, 2010
Dear Friends:
A quick reminder that tomorrow, Thursday, February 25, is the National Call-Congress Day to stop the Obama Administration's proposed $54 Billion loan program for new nuclear reactor construction--otherwise known as a giant taxpayer giveaway to wealthy nuclear corporations.
You can reach every member of Congress through the Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
We ask that your call your House Representative and both of your Senators, if at all possible.
Our asks are these:
*we want them to publicly oppose the President's request for a tripling of the Department of Energy loan "guarantee" program to $54 Billion.
*we want them to vote against this program in committee if possible and on the floor if it comes to the floor.
We are supplementing the Call-Congress Day with your letters.
*If you haven't written to your Representative yet this week, please do so here. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1821
*If you haven't written to your Senators yet this week, please do so here. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1986
Please drop us a quick e-mail (to nirsnet@nirs.org) and let us know that you called, and any response you receive.
This is a National Call-Congress Day, being sponsored by several groups, including NIRS, Public Citizen, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Beyond Nuclear, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and others.
Let's keep those phones ringing all day long! Help us spread the word! Make sure everyone has the opportunity to participate. Your actions matter!
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Mariotte Nuclear Information and Resource Service nirsnet@nirs.org http://www.nirs.org

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St. Regis Mohawks Receiving CITGO Heating Fuel

Citgo will once again donate heating fuel to tribal residents
By LORI SHULL
TIMES STAFF FEBRUARY 24, 2010
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20100224/NEWS05/302249986

HOGANSBURG — Though spring fever is setting in, heating help is still on the way to the St. Regis Mohawk tribe. For the third year in a row, the tribe will receive funds from Venezuelan government-owned Citgo. Qualified applicants will receive approximately 100 gallons of free home heating fuel to help get them through the winter, according to the tribe.Other than the five boroughs of New York City, the tribe is the only community in the state to receive help, according to Citgo officials."It's for tribes in the north for whom heating becomes a survival issue," said David T. Staddon, director of public information for the tribe. "We are the northernmost tribe in the state."