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∞ Indigenist News Items for: ∞
22.11.08
fPcN interCultural: | friends of Peoples close to Nature

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fPcN interCultural: | friends of Peoples close to Nature: "The West Papuan community and their supporters in Australia are holding grave fears for the safety of Yunus and Anike Wainggai. We have reasonable suspicion that their disappearance is linked to an ongoing and high-level Indonesian intelligence operation involving the disappearance of other refugees. Anike and Yunus, went missing from their public housing flat in Collingwood Melbourne on Saturday 15 November 2008."



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Maureen Lipman admits using LSD - Times Online

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Maureen Lipman admits using LSD - Times Online: "Maureen Lipman, who once played the proud Jewish mother Beattie in the 1980s BT commercials, has admitted she took the hallucinogenic drug LSD, as well as cannabis.

The confession of her acid trip is in a three-part TV documentary series on Five, which begins next Monday, December 1.

“I took it once and rather unpredictably ended up with somebody I shouldn’t have,” says Lipman on the programme, Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll: The 60s Revealed. “Funnily enough, I saw him the other day in a Notting Hill butchers.”"



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Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' - Times Online

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Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' - Times Online: "RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.

According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems.

The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.

It compares the social peformance of relatively secular countries, such as Britain, with the US, where the majority believes in a creator rather than the theory of evolution. Many conservative evangelicals in the US consider Darwinism to be a social evil, believing that it inspires atheism and amorality."



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No more yoga for Malaysia’s Muslims - Israel News, Ynetnews

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No more yoga for Malaysia’s Muslims - Israel News, Ynetnews: "Country’s top Islamic council issues fatwa banning practice because it incorporates ‘blasphemous’ Hindu themes Reuters Published 11.22.08 11:06 Israel News A top Islamic council in mostly Muslim Malaysia told Muslims on Saturday to avoid yoga because it uses Hindu prayers and encourages a union with God that is blasphemous. The latest edict from the National Fatwa Council reflects a growing swing towards a conservative brand of Islam in the multi-ethnic country that has prompted worries among non-Muslims. 'There are other ways to get exercise and a peace of mind ' council chairman Abdul Shukor Husin told reporters in Putrajaya the country s administrative capital on Saturday. 'You can go cycling swimming and eat less fatty food.'"



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Zimbabwe refuses entry to Carter, Annan - Zimbabwe- msnbc.com

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Zimbabwe refuses entry to Carter, Annan - Zimbabwe- msnbc.com: "JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Saturday that he and others planning a humanitarian mission in Zimbabwe had been refused entry to the impoverished African country.

Carter and two other members of The Elders group — former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and rights advocate Graca Machel, who is married to Nelson Mandela — had planned to assess the country's humanitarian needs as Zimbabweans are stalked by disease and hunger while political crisis occupies its politicians."



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Bob Jones Univ. apologizes for racist policies - Race & ethnicity- msnbc.com

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Bob Jones Univ. apologizes for racist policies - Race & ethnicity- msnbc.com: "COLUMBIA, South Carolina - A fundamentalist Christian University has apologized for racist policies including a one-time ban on interracial dating that wasn't lifted until nine years ago and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.

Bob Jones University founded in 1927 in South Carolina said its rules on race were shaped by culture instead of the Bible, according to a statement posted Thursday on its Web site."

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21.11.08
Obama advisers: Bush era war criminals will walk - NewsCloud.com

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Obama advisers: Bush era war criminals will walk - NewsCloud.com

Even as President-elect Obama vowed "to regain America's moral stature in the world" during Sunday's 60 Minutes appearance, two of his senior advisers confessed there is no intent to pursue those in the Bush administration who engaged in torture.

Speaking on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press, the advisers said that the plan is to put a stop to current interrogation methods and to "look forward" as opposed to focusing on prior transgressions.

The Obama transition team did not offer a response before the report was published.

Human Rights Watch, a non-profit watchdog group, is lobbying the President-elect for fast action on the abuses of the Bush era.

"For far too long, the United States has undermined its ability to fight terror by adopting short-sighted policies that allowed torture and indefinite detention without charge," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, in a Sunday release. "The United States urgently needs President-elect Obama to live up to his commitment to right the wrongs of the last seven years, and to regain the moral high ground in the fight against terrorism."



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Media Matters - Savage: "[T]here's gonna be a wholesale firing of competent white men in the United States government"

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Media Matters - Savage: "[T]here's gonna be a wholesale firing of competent white men in the United States government": "During the November 18 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage said, 'You haven't seen any of what's coming in this country. You are going to see the wholesale replacement of competent white men, and I'm targeting exactly the group that's gonna be thrown out of jobs in the government. And I'll say it, and I'll be the first to say it, and I may be not the only -- the last to say it. I am telling you that there's gonna be a wholesale firing of competent white men in the United States government up and down the line, in police departments, in fire departments. Everywhere in America, you're going to see an exchange that you've never seen in history, and it's not gonna be necessarily for the betterment of this country.'"



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Media Matters - Quinn claims Mexicans will use subsidized Viagra to "father the next generation of illegals" in effort to "reconquer the Southwest"

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Media Matters - Quinn claims Mexicans will use subsidized Viagra to "father the next generation of illegals" in effort to "reconquer the Southwest": "n the November 18 broadcast of The War Room, discussing the Mexico City government's reported plan to begin distributing free impotence drugs to men 70 and older, co-host Jim Quinn said: 'Viva Viagra. Well -- after all, who's gonna father the next generation of illegals to come swarming across the border in their effort to reconquer the Southwest?' Quinn added:

QUINN: Oh, I know, I know, I know. I'm such a xenophobe and such a hater. I mean, who would suggest that, you know, La Raza, or MALDEF [the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund], or MEChA [Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztl�n] were really Reconquista groups. I mean, we all know that that's just a myth that's been started by a bunch of right-wingers. And it's not really an invasion. It's not an attempt to populate the Southwest to the point where you eventually can outvote everybody else, and do pretty much whatever you want to do, including secede from the union if you wanted to, 'cause you still do have the constitutional authority to do that."



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Media Matters - MRC's Knight reportedly said efforts to lift ban on gays and lesbians in military will result in a "Pearl Harbor moment"

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Media Matters - MRC's Knight reportedly said efforts to lift ban on gays and lesbians in military will result in a "Pearl Harbor moment": "In a November 21 Washington Times article about President-elect Barack Obama's plan to lift the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military, Robert Knight, director of the Media Research Center's Culture and Media Institute, was quoted as saying that the efforts of activists to lift the ban will lead to 'a Pearl Harbor moment.' Knight is also a columnist for Townhall.com and Human Events.

According to the Times, Knight said: 'Homosexual activists are overconfident because they have not yet seen a counterforce emerge as occurred in 1993. ... But as the threat grows stronger, we will see groups forming and the resistance building.' Knight was then quoted as saying: 'Americans go about their business and are not activists until they have a Pearl Harbor moment. That has yet to happen, but it will.' The Times also reported that Knight said most Americans 'are unaware that gay activists have the military in their gun sights.'"



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MWC News - A Site Without Borders - - America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq

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MWC News - A Site Without Borders - - America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq: "Top Justice Department prosecutors are reportedly reviewing a draft indictment against six Blackwater security guards who opened fire in a crowded Baghdad square more than a year ago killing seventeen Iraqi civilians. The indictments would mark the first time armed private contractors from the United States face justice. We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post correspondent Steve Fainaru about his new book Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq."



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MWC News - A Site Without Borders - - More CIA Killings, Lies, and Cover-Ups

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MWC News - A Site Without Borders - - More CIA Killings, Lies, and Cover-Ups: "In June 2001 I wrote an article entitled “Drug-War Killings in Peru,” which condemned the CIA’s participation in the drug-war killings of a 35-year-old missionary named Veronica Bowers and her 7-month-old baby Charity. They had been flying in a small private plane in Peru when CIA officials advised the Peruvian military that the plane might be smuggling drugs. A Peruvian military plane proceeded to shoot down the plane, only to find that it was all a mistake. More fortunate was Bowers’ husband, who survived the attack."



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UNRWA chief: Gaza on brink of humanitarian catastrophe - Haaretz - Israel News

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UNRWA chief: Gaza on brink of humanitarian catastrophe - Haaretz - Israel News: "Gaza faces a humanitarian 'catastrophe' if Israel continues to prevent aid reaching the territory by blocking crossing points the head of the main UN aid agency for the Palestinians said on Friday. Karen AbuZayd commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA said the human toll of this month s sealing of Gaza s goods crossings was the gravest since the early days of a Palestinian uprising eight years ago."



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20,000 Jewish pilgrims to descend on Hebron amid settler violence - Haaretz - Israel News

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20,000 Jewish pilgrims to descend on Hebron amid settler violence - Haaretz - Israel News: "The security forces are gearing up for trouble this weekend when 20,000 Jews are expected to descend upon Hebron for an annual pilgrimage.

Officials fear the combination of the crowd and tensions over the planned evacuation of the so-called House of Contention could prove to be an explosive mix. On Thursday, angry settlers attacked Israel Defense Forces soldiers, vandalized Palestinian property and scrawled "Mohammed is a pig" on a local mosque after the High Court of Justice ruled earlier this week that the house must be cleared of its Jewish residents until another court decides whether Jews or Palestinians are the legal owners. "



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2025: the end of US dominance | World news | The Guardian

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2025: the end of US dominance | World news | The Guardian: "The United States leading intelligence organisation has warned that the world is entering an increasingly unstable and unpredictable period in which the advance of western-style democracy is no longer assured and some states are in danger of being 'taken over and run by criminal networks'. The global trends review produced by the National Intelligence Council NIC every four years represents sobering reading in Barack Obama s intray as he prepares to take office in January. The country he inherits the report warns will no longer be able to 'call the shots' alone as its power over an increasingly multipolar world begins to wane."



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US in 'Cold War Mode' in Africa

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US in 'Cold War Mode' in Africa: "TADJOURA, Djibouti -- In hundreds of military training programs from the Sahara to the Seychelles, the U.S. is quietly bolstering Africa's ragtag armies to fight extremism so the Pentagon won't have to.

Some experts have taken to calling this strategy -- not always admiringly -- 'America's African Rifles' after an indigenous African unit organized by Britain to fight its bloody colonial wars of the 19th Century.

Over the past five years, 21 African countries have hosted military instructors in the biggest-ever U.S. training effort on the continent."



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CIA Blamed in Downed Missionary Plane

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CIA Blamed in Downed Missionary Plane: "The agency ignores its own rules and regulations kills innocent Americans and then the people in charge of the operation lie to Congress to cover up what happened. This nightmare became reality Nov. 20 when Rep. Pete Hoekstra R-Mich. announced that a report by the CIA inspector general found that agency officers seemingly ignored standing rules and regulations governing when they could shoot at aircraft during counter-drug operations in Latin America. The lapses led to the death of at least 10 innocent civilians Hoekstra said including Americans Veronica 'Roni' Bowers 35 and her daughter Charity in April 2001. They were missionaries in Peru heading home in a single engine Cesna when the CIA provided targeting data to a Peruvian Air Force jet that shot down their plane."



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LATE BREAKING NEWS: Judge removes Guerra as prosecutor for 5 of 9 criminal cases involving Vice President Cheney and Texas State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. | www.raymondvillechroniclenews.com | Raymondville Chronicle

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LATE BREAKING NEWS: Judge removes Guerra as prosecutor for 5 of 9 criminal cases involving Vice President Cheney and Texas State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. | www.raymondvillechroniclenews.com | Raymondville Chronicle: "Texas Rangers to escort Guerra to court Friday morning after having been found in Mexico

ROBERT WILCOX Editor/Reporter

After being AWOL from the job and violating sections of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct - Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel 'Johnny Guerra' has been replaced in five (5) of the nine (9) criminal cases he convinced a grand jury to file against Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former U.S. Attorney Mervyn Mosbacker, state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., District Judges Migdalia Lopez and Janet Leal, former Willacy D.A. Gustavo 'Gus' Garza, and District Clerk Gilbert Lozano, along with GEO Corp., and former warden David Forrest."



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Upside Down World - Mass Indigenous Protest In Defense of Water Caps Week of Mobilizations in Ecuador

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Upside Down World - Mass Indigenous Protest In Defense of Water Caps Week of Mobilizations in Ecuador: "Over 10,000 indigenous people from hundreds of Ecuador’s Northern Sierra (highlands) communities gathered to present the native movement’s proposed Water Law. Protesters chanted, “Water is not for sale, it is to be defended,” as speakers excoriated President Rafael Correa’s draft Water Law, saying that it could lead to privatization and pollution by mining companies."



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First Nations Radio News: First Nations Legacy - "Miracle drug"

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First Nations Radio News: First Nations Legacy - "Miracle drug": "Five hundred years ago, the people of the First Nations grew a crop that was used as a medicine for headaches, digestive problems and ailments of the lungs in children as well as adults.

It could be used in a powder form, or burned and inhaled. It was a well known medicine, and was so powerful and effective that the early settlers quickly adopted it and introduced it to Europe. Its use spread throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and eventually became a recreational drug.

Today it is one of the most highly addictive and widespread drugs in the world. Ironically, this medicine's use now leads to diseases of the mouth, throat and lungs that it once treated and prevented.

Tobacco."



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Ojibway Migisi Bineshii: Ojibway Migisi Bineshii: Poem - Uterus

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Ojibway Migisi Bineshii: Ojibway Migisi Bineshii: Poem - Uterus: "8-1-2008

Uterus

The uterus is a womb,
A sacred space,
Churning,
Moving,
Blood clots,
Blood drips,
Blood creates,
Drips into the Earth,
To fertilize,
To heal,
To birth,
Knowledge,
Wisdom,
Balance,
Harmony."



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Fate of Lakotahs Highlights America's Failed Native American Policies

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Fate of Lakotahs Highlights America's Failed Native American Policies
On November 6, South Dakota's governor Michael Rounds declared a state of emergency as heavy snow blanketed the state and threatened all parts of it - including Native American reservations.

They, however, were excluded from his declaration. They'll get no badly needed help, and it's an all too familiar story for our nation's original inhabitants. They've been abused and slaughtered for over 500 years. At Mabila, Acoma Mesa, Conestoga, the Trail of Tears, Pamunkey, Mystic River, Yellow Creek, Sand Creek, Gnadenhutten, and Wooded Knee. At far too many other places as well at a cost of many millions of lives, now forgotten and erased from memory.

Worst still, our Native people continue to be systematically repressed and mistreated. They live in poverty and despair. They're mocked and demonized in films and society as drunks, beasts, primitives, savages, and people to be Americanized or warehoused on reservations and forgotten.



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The hard part is ending the appalling disadvantage so many Indigenous Australians endure. On that front, much less has changed.

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NIT: "CANBERRA, November 21, 2008: When Labor took office last November, the Aboriginal community was hoping for change.

John Howard's relationship with Indigenous Australians was strained during his 11 years in office.

He stubbornly refused to say sorry to the Stolen Generations and his government's occasional forays into proactive policy making, such as the Northern Territory intervention, were always controversial.

So has the changed that was so longed for eventuated?

When Kevin Rudd, in one of his first official acts as prime minister, finally said the word Aboriginal people nation-wide had been desperate to hear from the nation's leader, it certainly seemed like change had come."



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Wampum: The Joint Experts' Statement on Iran

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Wampum: The Joint Experts' Statement on Iran: "At the Cairo ICANN meeting I sat down to chat with someone from the .sy (Syria) registry, just as I had at a prior ICANN with someone from the .ps (Palestine) regsitry. At the Paris ICANN meeting I spoke at length with someone from the .ir (Iran) registry, which unfortunately was not possible at the Cairo meeting as his getting a visa proved impossible, just as getting visas for 30 Chinese engineers was impossible for IETF-73 in Minneapolis. However, we communicate regularly, just as thousands of other communicating pairs of people located in North America and Iran."



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KLC accuses Govt of leaking documents - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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KLC accuses Govt of leaking documents - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "The Kimberley Land Council (KLC) has accused the Western Australian Government of leaking confidential documents to the media to try to discredit the group's involvement in Kimberley gas negotiations.

Yesterday, it was reported that the KLC had failed to inform traditional owners at Kalumburu of a billion dollar royalty offer made by Japanese firm Inpex."



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Indianz.Com > News > Appeal granted for Cobell historical accounting

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Indianz.Com > News > Appeal granted for Cobell historical accounting: "The D.C. Court of Appeals has granted petitions to review a judge's decision to award $455.6 million in the Cobell Indian trust case.

The plaintiffs and the federal government are both appealing the decision. The plaintiffs say the amount is too low while the government contends no money can be awarded."



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ALERT: Barrick Gold ready to carve up Western Shoshone sacred mountain

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CENSORED NEWS: "November 20, 2008
RENO and CRESCENT VALLEY, Nev. -- Last week, after years of determined opposition from Western Shoshone, the U.S. Department of Interior, through its Bureau of Land Management (BLM), approved one of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in the United States on the flank of Mount Tenabo – an area well-known for its spiritual and cultural importance to the Western Shoshone.

The area is home to local Shoshone creation stories, spirit life, medicinal, food and ceremonial plants and items and continues to be used to this day by Shoshone for spiritual and cultural practices. Over the years, tens of thousands of individuals and organizations from across the United States and around the world have joined with the Shoshone and voiced their opposition to this mine. The mine has been referred to as one of the most opposed mines in the world and indeed the level of public opposition is unprecedented for the BLM."



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CEM: Prospect of Israeli strike in Iran more likely, intelligence sources told the Times

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This comes in from our UK correspondent CEM:

Bush and Olmert to meet over Iran's nuclear ambitions - Times Online: "President Bush is to hold White House talks with the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday after publication of a nuclear watchdog’s report this week showing that Iran may have stockpiled enough enriched uranium to make a nuclear bomb.

The International Atomic Energy Agency believes that Iran has amassed 630kg of low enriched uranium, up from 480kg in late August. Some experts believe this is enough to produce the weapons-grade material needed for a crude nuclear device similar in size to that which America used to destroy the city of Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War."



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Remote Jarawa tribe kill poacher – exclusive interview shows Jarawa denouncing poaching on their land - News from Survival International

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Remote Jarawa tribe kill poacher – exclusive interview shows Jarawa denouncing poaching on their land - News from Survival International: "Two days after members of the remote Jarawa tribe attacked a group of poachers inside their reserve, killing one and wounding three, Survival today released exclusive footage of the Jarawa, taken during a recent investigation in India’s Andaman Islands.

Survival’s Andamans campaigner, Sophie Grig, who was investigating the impact of poaching on the 320-strong hunter-gatherer tribe, managed to obtain the first-ever filmed interview with the Jarawa, despite their isolation within their protected reserve. Grig met the Jarawa as they voluntarily came out of their forest to complain to local administration officials about the poaching."



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Gov. Palin pardons turkey while news video cameras capture fowl slaughter -- chicagotribune.com

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Gov. Palin pardons turkey while news video cameras capture fowl slaughter -- chicagotribune.com: "WASILLA, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one lucky turkey, but the video that shocked some viewers captured what was happening in the background.





As she answered questions Thursday at Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside Wasilla cameras from the Anchorage Daily News and others showed the bloody work of an employee slaughtering birds behind the former Republican vice presidential candidate."



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Bachmann claims TV remarks 'an urban legend' - TwinCities.com

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Bachmann claims TV remarks 'an urban legend' - TwinCities.com: "A month after calling for an investigation of fellow members of Congress to 'find out if they are pro-America or anti-America ' Rep. Michele Bachmann R-Minn. claims the whole episode is 'an urban legend.' Asked about the comment Tuesday night on Fox News 'Hannity & Colmes ' Bachmann said 'That s not what I said at all.' 'You ve said you were concerned during the campaign that Obama had anti-American views. You said the news media should do a penetrating expos�and take a look at the views of the people in Congress and find out if they re pro- or anti-America ' host Alan Colmes said. 'It s an urban legend that was created ' she responded. 'That isn t what I said at all.' Appearing on MSNBC s 'Hardball' weeks before the election Bachmann said she wished 'the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out are they pro-America or anti-America I think people would love to see an expos�like that.' The Minnesota Republican also said on the Oct. 17 show that she was 'very concerned' Barack Obama 'may have anti-American views.'"



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EURweb.com - ALAN KEYES SUING TO PROVE OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP: President-elect's former Illinois rival files suit in Sacramento.

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EURweb.com - ALAN KEYES SUING TO PROVE OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP: President-elect's former Illinois rival files suit in Sacramento.: "Alan Keyes a former presidential candidate has joined members of his American Independent Party in filing a lawsuit in California that calls for President-elect Barack Obama to prove his U.S. citizenship before receiving the state s electoral votes. According to the lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in Sacramento Keys and members of his party are calling on Obama to provide documentary evidence that proves he is a natural born citizen of the United States. The Obama campaign countered similar accusations early in 2008 by posting Obama s certification of live birth and saying 'Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961 a native citizen of the United States of America.' A copy of this document is available on the Obama Web site in the 'Fight the Smears' section."



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WHITE SUPREMACIST RAGE BOILS OVER AFTER OBAMA VICTORY: Racist site crashes after election.

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EURweb.com - WHITE SUPREMACIST RAGE BOILS OVER AFTER OBAMA VICTORY: Racist site crashes after election.
*In the aftermath of the election victory of Barack Obama, white supremacists rushed to online discussion forums to vent anger and disbelief that voters had chosen an African-American candidate as the next president of the United States.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors and exposes extremist activity and rhetoric, said anger among white supremacists and other right-wing extremists in response to Obama's victory resulted in an avalanche of vitriolic postings on racist Web sites.

At one point, the chatter so overloaded the server of the most popular white supremacist Internet forum, Stormfront, that the site was temporarily shut down.

According to ADL, racists are incredulous that Obama was elected primarily by white voters and are seething with anger at the prospect of an America led by an African-American man.

"We always expect a reaction from the bigots when events occur that they believe are contrary to their interests and worldview," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "While it's clear that race didn't matter to the vast majority of the American people in this election, race matters to racists."



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Survey reveals "white flight" to Catholic schools - CathNews

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Survey reveals "white flight" to Catholic schools - CathNews: "A confidential survey has revealed white students are leaving public schools to attend Catholic and private institutions to avoid studying with Aboriginal, Muslim and Asian pupils."



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Whites leaving SA in droves

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Star: "The number of white South Africans who give emigration as the reason for selling their home has shot up in recent months as high crime levels and political and economic uncertainty spur the flight of whites from the Rainbow Nation.

A survey by South Africa's First National Bank (FNB) showed the proportion of homeowners who said they were putting their homes on the market because they were emigrating had doubled between the last quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2008, from 9 percent to 18 percent.

Emigration was one of the most frequent reasons given by homeowners for selling up, next only to downscaling because of financial pressures, according to the FNB residential property barometer.

Foreign embassies in South Africa report a jump in emigration applications from mainly white South Africans in recent months, amid growing disillusionment over high levels of violent crime and the populist slide within the ruling African National Congress (ANC)."



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Vietnam recalls diplomat from South Africa

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Vietnam recalls diplomat from South Africa: "HANOI, Vietnam (AP): Vietnam recalled a diplomat from South Africa after television footage showed her receiving illegal rhino horns, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

A South African TV network aired images Monday that showed a female Vietnamese embassy staffer talking to a known rhino horn smuggler in front of the embassy in Pretoria. He handed her a horn and she then headed into the embassy, smiling."



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PHXnews.com | Pentagon Hit Hard by Cyber Attack & bans external drives as virus spreads in military networks

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PHXnews.com | Pentagon Hit Hard by Cyber Attack & bans external drives as virus spreads in military networks: "The Pentagon has suffered from a cyber attack so alarming that it has taken the unprecedented step of banning the use of external hardware devices, such as flash drives and DVD's, FOX News has learned.

The attack came in the form of a global virus or worm that is spreading rapidly throughout a number of military networks."



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Know4LIFE's Black News Forum: Fear of a Black Planet. Will there be a Race War or Peace on Earth?

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Know4LIFE's Black News Forum: Fear of a Black Planet. Will there be a Race War or Peace on Earth?: "Regardless to what part of the world you live in, if you are Black or of the darker people you find yourself in some kind of conflict with white people."

Racism is by no means an American problem. It is a global, systemic problem. The South Africans face it, Black Americans face it, Palestinians face it, Aboriginals face it, Mexicans face it and Indians face it. Face it, the white man has a serious problem, he exist on a planet that is filled, 11 to 1, with darker people who have the ability to erase the white man off the planet in a few strokes, no pun intended.

This, Blacks and darker peoples have to understand. This is why some whites seek to separate themselves from the darker people. This is also why the white man feels the need to subjugate and oppress the darker peoples of the Earth.

The very real FEAR that some white people have is that they will be overran by the darker peoples of the Earth and so thereafter become extinct. Their culture, norms, folkways, values gone. This subconscious thought was portrayed in the movie: Planet of the Apes.

Power and rule is the only way they see staying on the planet. Whether you want to believe this or not, that on you. Wars with the darker people has been in effect, but it has been in a covert manner; HIV/AIDS, Crack, the assassination of Black leaders and today the brainwashing by the white controlled media to make young Black men believe they are thugs, hustles and pimps and young Black women believe they are B!tche$ and Hole$ or that they don't need a man is devastating the Black community. All this is by design, what social scientist call: Social Engineering, what conscious Blacks call: Genocide.



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Constitutional Amendment 19 draft sent to Mbeki

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Constitutional Amendment 19 draft sent to Mbeki: "ZIMBABWE'S rival parties have drafted a constitutional amendment creating the post of prime minister, which opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is supposed to fill under a power-sharing deal, the government said.

Information Minister Sikanyiso Ndlovu said on Tuesday the amendment was sent to former South African president Thabo Mbeki, who has mediated Zimbabwe's political standoff between veteran President Robert Mugabe and Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)."



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Israel boycotts UN rights conference

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Israel boycotts UN rights conference: "JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday that the government will boycott a United Nations conference on human rights next year.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said the World Conference Against Racism is biased against Israel and is little more than a forum that aims to delegitimize the Jewish state. The gathering is scheduled to
take place next April in Geneva.
She announced the planned boycott Wednesday at a conference of North American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem.

The U.N. conference is a follow up to a meeting held in 2001 in Durban, South Africa. At the time, Jewish participants said they were silenced and threatened by Arab activists."



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After Obama's win, white backlash festers in US - Topix

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After Obama's win, white backlash festers in US - Topix: "In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting 'inappropriate' comments about President-elect Barack Obama on the Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after the election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on the lawn of a biracial couple in Apolacon Township, Pa.

The election of America's first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center - a record in modern presidential elections. Moreover, the white nationalist movement, bemoaning an election that confirmed voters' comfort with a multiracial demography, expects Mr. Obama's election to be a potent recruiting tool - one that watchdog groups warn could give new impetus to a mostly defanged fringe element."



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Fear of a Black Planet. Will there be a Race War or Peace on Earth?

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Know4LIFE's Black News Forum: Fear of a Black Planet. Will there be a Race War or Peace on Earth?
Regardless to what part of the world you live in, if you are Black or of the darker people you find yourself in some kind of conflict with white people.

Racism is by no means an American problem. It is a global, systemic problem. The South Africans face it, Black Americans face it, Palestinians face it, Aboriginals face it, Mexicans face it and Indians face it. Face it, the white man has a serious problem, he exist on a planet that is filled, 11 to 1, with darker people who have the ability to erase the white man off the planet in a few strokes, no pun intended.

This, Blacks and darker peoples have to understand. This is why some whites seek to separate themselves from the darker people. This is also why the white man feels the need to subjugate and oppress the darker peoples of the Earth.

The very real FEAR that some white people have is that they will be overran by the darker peoples of the Earth and so thereafter become extinct. Their culture, norms, folkways, values gone. This subconscious thought was portrayed in the movie: Planet of the Apes.

Power and rule is the only way they see staying on the planet. Whether you want to believe this or not, that on you. Wars with the darker people has been in effect, but it has been in a covert manner; HIV/AIDS, Crack, the assassination of Black leaders and today the brainwashing by the white controlled media to make young Black men believe they are thugs, hustles and pimps and young Black women believe they are B!tche$ and Hole$ or that they don't need a man is devastating the Black community. All this is by design, what social scientist call: Social Engineering, what conscious Blacks call: Genocide.



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∞ Indigenist News Items for: ∞
20.11.08
Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapses during speech

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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed during a speech Thursday night and lost consciousness, a Justice Department official said.

The 67-year-old Mukasey was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, where his condition was not immediately.

Mukasey was delivering a speech to the Federalist Society at a Washington hotel when "he just started shaking and he collapsed," said Associate Attorney General Kevin O'Connor. "They're very concerned."

Mukasey was 15 to 20 minutes into his speech about the Bush administration's successes in combatting terrorism when he began slurring his words. He collapsed and lost consciousness, said O'Conner, the department's No. 3 official. It was unclear whether he regained consciousness.



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IANS 11.20.2008: Barriere Lake Defenders Alert

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Internet Archive: Details: IANS 11.20.2008

This is an Intelligent Aboriginal News Service Alert...

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By Barriere Lake Defenders of the Land

Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - SQ officers and a Riot Squad arrested five Barriere Lake Algonquins, including a targeted arrest of Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway, after forcing community members off highway 117, during their fourth in a series of blockades over a period of seven hours.

"Chief Nottaway sent a letter to Premier Charest on Monday requesting that the government resolve political issues through negotiations rather than police violence," said community spokesperson Norman Matchewan."Blockades are a tactic of last resort. For two decades now all we've asked is that Quebec and Canada honour signed agreements but they prefer to play with our lives."
As the community was pushed off the highway for the last time at 2:30 pm, riot police broke out of formation to chase and arrest Acting Chief Nottaway.

His was the second targeted arrest of the day. Community youth spokesperson Marylynn Poucachiche, mother of five and organizer of the community school, was arrested at one of the morning blockades after being reassured by police that no arrests would be made since protesters had agreed to leave peacefully.

One community member was pushed to the ground and kicked by several SQ officers before being arrested.
"The police dragged him with his head on the ground all the way to the police car," said one community member.
Another woman from the community fell while being pushed back onto the access road leading to the Barriere Lake reserve, and hit her head. She was subsequently arrested.

Media Contacts: Norman Matchewan, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 819 – 435 – 2171, 514 - 831 - 6902
Marylynn Poucachiche, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 514 - 893 - 8283, 819 - 860 - 3860
Norman Young, Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation Secretariat: 819 - 627 - 6869
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SECRET MILITARY EXERCISES NEAR MOHAWK COMMUNITIES?

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MNN. Nov. 19, 2008. If Canada is such a peace loving country, why is it saber rattling and playing war games like "Vigilant Shield 09"? Huge military exercises are taking place on Turtle Island this month. These are being run by "NorthCom" and "NORAD" [North American AeroDefence Command]. NorthCom works with "Canada Command" and coordinates civil incidents through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS. This has nothing to do with Afghanistan. It has to do with "civil" control, not democracy. The Canadian part is called "Determined Dragon, Trillium Response". [What bunch of jerks made this one up? Sounds like some kind of teenage fantasy video? These guys are scary!]

In the U.S. during a "disaster or emergency" JTF-CS operates within a Department of Defense chain of command that begins and ends with the President of the U.S. Canada is on this dog chain. In other words, it gave up its independence. Civilian agencies, including "State, local, territorial, and tribal [band] governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure," would be controlled by the military. They define the "disaster" that will lead to world domination.

What's going on here? Details are scarce, especially on the Trenton Air Force Base aspect which is near the Mohawk community of Tyendinaga. Another exercise is going on in Hamilton, near Six Nations. Another in Thunder Bay. Are there others? Is it a coincidence that these are mostly next to Ongwehonwe communities?

The main focus is "Communications Interoperability" to coordinate various agencies: the military, Joint Task Force JTF, army, navy and air force; all police agencies, RCMP, OPP, CBSA, "Aboriginal" police, municipal police; emergency responders, ambulances, fire trucks, rail security and select government bureaucrats; and the effected private sector such as nuclear reactors. "Interoperability" means coordinating all their goons and thugs to have "Joint War Games".

It looks more like an exercise designed to set up the infra structure needed to impose "martial law". Communications and radio frequencies will come under one command. The new device called the "Incident Commanders" Radio Interface looks like a cigar box, about 5" x 8" x 2". It can be held by one wired-up adolescent to receive and send messages to all these agencies during an emergency, natural or man-made disaster, including a "terrorist attack". But who and where are the terrorists? The only scary guys in the neighborhood is them!

NORAD is the North American AeroDefense Command, a U.S.-Canada control center based in Colorado, that is supposed to warn of an attack by aircraft or missiles. Project HAARP is the Pentagon-run "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program" with plans to heat the earth's ionosphere, using high frequency radio waves. How do we know they haven't already been doing this? The military can send signals to nuclear subs and spy deeply underground [www.haarp.net]. This is based near Anchorage Alaska where military exercises are going on too. E Systems which is owned by Raytheon has the defense contract to run this. [They're the biggest arms makers and dealers in the world.]

It's all scripted. The U.S. has a "Hollywood Style" National Training Center NTC in California and Joint Readiness Training Center JRTC in Louisiana. They're not teaching peace. They're teaching warfare against Iraq and Afghanistan and whoever else gets in their way. Hi fi simulations are created, complete with mock towns and actors portraying natives and insurgents. One actor even dresses like a "tribal sheik". Bombs are exploded and rockets stream in from the countryside. Civilians scream and scatter. The victims wear gory make up to simulate bloody wounds and morbid deaths. Injured civilians are left behind by the soldiers. The soldiers secure the town before going in to meet with the "regional governor", supposedly "to win over the locals" but actually to get information from him in exchange for money. The young natives are taken away to Abu Graib for questioning. [It has already been established that the methods used there include torture and death]. Observers judge and grade each performance. Our question is who are the "traitors" who help them set up these scenarios? [www.worldpoliticsreview.com] Are these same guys writing the script for Bin Laden and Al Qaida too? Meanwhile the Taliban will just have to keep on improvising!

In Canada in the 1990s, after the Mohawk-Oka Crisis, a mockup of the Mohawk community of Kahnawake was created at a New Brunswick army base to help soldiers practice warfare on us. Who played the Mohawks? Who played the cowardly treasonous band council? It gets worse! In Saskatchewan the target at the police shooting range was a stereotypical Indigenous woman.

Doing so many exercises in our communities is meant to desensitize us to the presence of armed soldiers over, around us and in our back yards. We forget the danger. We'll be close targets when the guns are turned on us.

Even more sinister is that these exercises can act as a cover for "real"/pretext events such as 911, the London bombings and the Oklahoma City bombing. It was hard to sort out what was real and what was an exercise. Cities where exercises have taken place such as Seattle are considered as being "prepped" for martial law.

These exercises involve hundreds of people, dozens of vehicles, boats, UAVs, helicopters and planes. Thunder Bay is the furthest inland port where large ships can load and unload and where rail and truck lines meet. Right now nuclear reactors are arriving here on their way to the Alberta oil sands. Rumors abound that these exercises will involve a simulated nuclear attack. At the same time US exercises are taking place in Alaska near the HAARP weather modification installation and in California where wild fires are now raging.

The Thunder Bay exercise will combine a severe weather event and emergency situations to create various scenarios. The first part will be an incident with a container ship along the federal port. Simulated will be collapsed buildings, human casualties, and toxic spills. The second will involve a rail incident. Simulated will be a response to a train fire/explosion and resulting toxic spill. Of course, they're trying to recruit Ongwehonwe for the military because they want "expendable" people to do their dangerous work.

For this, National "Defense" [offense?] will transport the Toronto Heavy Urban Search and Rescue group to Thunder Bay on a Globemaster aircraft: between 400 and 550 military personnel from the Immediate Response Unit (IRU) and 63 Domestic Response Company to arrive on 22 Nov. 2008 and leave by 25 Nov. 2008.

Involved may be the local civilian authorities such as "primary responders", provincial authorities, imbedded media, the Coast Guard (to provide fire fighting and power generation), the RCMP and Navel Reserve divers. Included are "personal development activities"! [Steve Carroll, National Defence, 416-633-6200 ext. 5808, Fax: 613-631-5349 Carroll.SL@forces.gc.ca refer to CEAR 08-01-39685]

Our Haudenosaunee territory includes many "strategic infrastructures" such as nuclear reactors, nuclear waste stockpiles, chemical factories, rail hubs and harbors. The Great-Lakes St. Lawrence is a major industrial area. The military needs the nuclear stockpile. By the way, whatever happened to the 500 tons of yellowcake that was dumped off in Montreal harbor last July 2008? It was in the papers. Then we never heard about it again.

Government agencies and actors roped into this "war movie" include Public Safety, Health Canada and Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Guess what? Indian Affairs is in there like a dirty shirt? Why? This is coming right out of our budget for desperately needed clean water, housing, education and medical care. The "chain of command" starts at the Pentagon. Peter "Flat-Foot" Fisher of the Aboriginal Policing Directorate at Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada is the link to the "aboriginal police" involved in the exercise [613- 990-2666 fax: 613-991-0691].

The recent horrific crash that killed three non-natives at the Cornwall Ontario border checkpoint in Akwesasne last week was a similar multi-"service" operation, by the Canada Border Services Agency CBSA, the Ontario Provincial Police OPP, the RCMP and the Akwesasne Mohawk Police. The guys on steroids with guns and fast cars are obviously trying to take control.

The Mohawk Police were chasing and ramming the van driven by the 21 year old non-native youth that ended in a dramatic fiery fatal crash. The cops created the kind of catastrophe they say they are protecting the public from. Two days later, while military exercises were going on in Hamilton, there was another strangely similar high speed chase of a non-native into the 6 Nations community which ended up in a crash and shoot out. Is this coincidence or was it planned?

We're still waiting for answers at Akwesasne. Why didn't ambulances and nearby fire trucks take action immediately? Why did the Mohawk cops go straight for the load of cigarettes and not help the victims? Why were witnesses told to stop talking to the media about anything they saw? Was this staged to make an excuse to bring in the outside colonial agencies that don't have jurisdiction but we can't seem to get rid of? Watch out! They might be installing surveillance devices everywhere, like they did in Kanehsatake, or planting weapons to come in and raid us.

What's going on? Are these lunatics trying to bring martial law into our communities because the colonists are saying we can't handle the bedlam they're creating? The fascist method is to isolate and eliminate the source of greatest resistance to their plans. Let's face it, folks, right now one of the main resisters is the freedom loving Ongwehoneh. The military interest in us could have something to do with the fact that all the land and resources of Turtle Island belong to us. In the US militant groups are getting more scared and more armed. Frightened people with guns is a dangerous scenario! Nobody wants that.

Iako'ha:kowa & MNN Staff - Mohawk Nation News www.mohawknationnews.com



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Native American Rights Fund -- News: NARF Director Named to President-Elect Obama's Transition Team

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Native American Rights Fund -- News: NARF Director Named to President-Elect Obama's Transition Team: "NARF Executive Director John E. Echohawk is one of six American Indians named to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team."



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World leaders refuse to shake Bush's hand | Crooks and Liars

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World leaders refuse to shake Bush's hand | Crooks and Liars: "Not only do the world s most powerful leaders refuse to shake the POTUS hand they also seem to refuse to even make eye contact. Heckuva job Bush. Heckuva job. CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez Bush looks like 'the most unpopular kid in high school that nobody liked.' I think I speak for the entire world well everyone other than the 20 dead-enders when I say January 20th can t come soon enough."



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MAMA Radio: Amnesty and HRW ask Uribe to stop falsely accuse human rights groups

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MAMA Radio: Amnesty and HRW ask Uribe to stop falsely accuse human rights groups: "Human rights organizations Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch want Colombian President �lvaro Uribe to 'stop making false and dangerous accusations against human rights groups that criticize his government.'

The two organizations are bitter about Uribe's reaction after the publication of their reports about Colombia. Uribe had accused Amnesty International of 'blindness' and 'fanaticism' and accused HRW Americas director Jos�Miguel Vivanco of being a supporter of the FARC."



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HIV/AIDS set to soar in West Papua - News from Survival International

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HIV/AIDS set to soar in West Papua - News from Survival International: "A recent investigation by the Al Jazeera programme ‘101 East’ has shown the devastating impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis amongst the tribal people of West Papua, Indonesia.

West Papua has the highest HIV/AIDS infection rate outside Africa: 3% of the population are now infected with the virus, and experts fear that by 2025 that figure will rise to 7%. Of every four people who are infected, three are indigenous, even though almost half of those now living in the region are outsiders."



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POLITICS: U.S. Task Force Found Few Iranian Arms in Iraq

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POLITICS: U.S. Task Force Found Few Iranian Arms in Iraq: "WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (IPS) - Last April, top George W. Bush administration officials, desperate to exploit any possible crack in the close relationship between the Nouri al-Maliki government and Iran, launched a new round of charges that Iran had stepped up covert arms assistance to Shi'a militias.

Secretary of Defence Robert M. Gates suggested that there was 'some sense of an increased level of [Iranian] supply of weapons and support to these groups.' And Washington Post reporter Karen DeYoung was told by military officials that the 'plentiful, high quality weaponry' the militia was then using in Basra was 'recently manufactured in Iran'."



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POLITICS-CHINA: Tibetan Movement May Dump 'Middle Way'

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POLITICS-CHINA: Tibetan Movement May Dump 'Middle Way': "BEIJING, Nov 19 (IPS) - Eight months after Tibet’s capital of Lhasa was rocked by violent anti-Chinese protests positions have hardened, casting gloom on prospects for progress on the Tibetan stalemate.

More than 500 Tibetan exile leaders have gathered in Dharamsala, India, for emergency talks over their future strategy on China.

The Dalai Lama’s admission of failure in his 'middle way' approach -- a policy of compromise and peaceful dialogue that he has pursued for years with Beijing -- has led to calls by some radical followers to push for outright independence for Tibet."



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PERU: My Mining Deposits Are Under Your House

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PERU: My Mining Deposits Are Under Your House: "LIMA Nov 19 IPS - 'Just imagine you’re told you have to leave your house your livestock the graves of your loved ones and then they take you to an unfamiliar place without even asking you what you think about it. How would you feel ' asks Eduardo Sueldo the local environment delegate in a highlands village in southern Peru. He was describing the plight of mainly indigenous peasant farmers facing relocation because of the expansion of the mining industry."



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Aotearoa IMC: Fascist leaks spread member's details in UK and Aotearoa

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Aotearoa IMC: Fascist leaks spread member's details in UK and Aotearoa: "Recent leaks have revealed membership details of neo-fascist groups on both sides of the world - the British National Party (BNP) and the New Zealand National Front (NZNF).
In the UK, a huge list of details of BNP members has been made available. The list contains names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of over 10,000 people who are or were BNP members and donors. The list also includes other information about many of them.

Several websites have sprung up that make healthy use of this information. One, BNP Near Me, merges the information with Google Maps to show the strength (or weakness) of the BNP across the UK. The BNP member proximity search allows British users to enter their post code and then returns all BNP members in their area, with links to find their house on Google Maps."



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Police Racism & African Youth in Melbourne

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Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua: Police Racism & African Youth in Melbourne
Shortly after Liep Gony was killed in Noble Park last year, a group of African people, including people from the Sudanese community, approached the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commision, asking them to do conduct an inquiry into racism experienced by African Young People in the City of Greater Dandenong.

In response, the VEOHRC is currently undertaking the 'African Young People Research Project' in the City of Greater Dandenong. The report will be handed down sometime in the next couple of months.

The Southern Ethnic Advisory and Advocacy Council (SEAAC) prepared a submssion to VEOHRC regarding Police discrimination against African Young People in the City of Greater Dandenong.

Young people commonly report a general feeling

that the police treat them unfairly because of their race. The most commonly reported
specific complaints are:

• Young people being regularly stopped and questioned by Police in public,
sometimes up to several times in a single day.

• Police asking young people to ‘move on’ without citing a legitimate reason.

• Racist comments being made by Police.

• Young people being searched in public.

• Police refusing to submit their details if young people request them. This request
often acts as a trigger for police aggression.

• Police refusing to respect young people’s right to silence — beyond submitting
name and address. Again young people asserting this right to silence often acts
as a trigger for Police aggression.


Full Report follows:



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Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: Big Mtn. Elder Matriarch Continues to Face 'Federal' Threats

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Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: Big Mtn. Elder Matriarch Continues to Face 'Federal' Threats: "Big Mountain, Black Mesa (Arizona), November 18, 2008 – A nice peaceful morning in the Dineh resistance stronghold known as Sweet Water was again disrupted by a uniformed officer from the Office of Hopi Lands. This officer who had a badge that indicated he was with the Hopi tribal police claimed he was not serving a “noticed” on behalf of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, nor the U.S. government. The small 82 year old matriarch, Pauline Whitesinger, was trying to speak in the Dineh language to the thick and tall Indian officer that cannot understand Dineh and who was ‘assigned’ to meet with (grandma) Pauline about her “unauthorized” reconstruction of a traditional earth lodge."



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Support the Struggle for Survival at Big Mountain

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Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: Support the Struggle for Survival at Big Mountain
A caravan of work crews will be converging from across the country to support residents of the Big Mountain regions of Black Mesa who, on behalf of their peoples, their sacred ancestral lands, and future generations, continue to carry out their staunch resistance to the efforts of the US Government, which is acting in the interests of the Peabody Coal Company to devastate whole communities & ecosystems, and greatly de-stabilize our planet’s climate for the profit of an elite few.

By assisting with direct, on-land projects with the Sovereign communities of Big Mountain, Black Mesa you are helping families resist an illegal occupation and to stay on their lands, who serve as the very blockade to coal mining! More than 14,000 Dine’ people have been forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands due to spin created by the U.S government & Peabody Coal, under the guise of the so-called “Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute”. With the guidance of Black Mesa residents, the aim of this caravan is to honor the elders and to bring support to their communities before the approaching cold winter months.



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Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: Anderson urges Obama to free Peltier

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Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: Anderson urges Obama to free Peltier: "Earlier this week, Canadian-born actress Pamela Anderson has written a letter to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama that carries some advices on marijuana legalisation, vegetarianism, freedom and many more.Anderson’s letter is quite frank and straightforward.

In the first paragraph, she urged Obama to free Leonard Peltier.

'Dear Mr. Obama:My thoughts/hopeful ideas-:- Free Leonard Peltier - This injustice is just breeding hate and discrimination. It would be very meaningful to the Native American people and all of us who have watched and been saddened by a broken system. There are too many people in jail that don't need to be there. It IS a broken system, that enrages more people than it helps. [...] '

Pamela Anderson is one of the 560 VIPs who have signed the International Peltier Forum petition. See: http://users.skynet.be/kola/vip188.htm"



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Blogspot: Friends of Peltier: National Day of Mourning - Thursday, November 27, 2008

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National Day of Mourning - Thursday, November 27, 2008

United American Indians of New England
284 Amory St.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 522-6626
E-mail: info@uaine.org
Website: www.uaine.org

ORIENTATION FOR 2008 NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING


WHAT IS NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING?
An annual tradition since 1970, Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly political day. Many of us fast from sundown the day before through the afternoon of that day (and have a social after Day of Mourning so that participants in DOM can break their fasts). We are mourning our ancestors and the genocide of our peoples and the theft of our lands. NDOM is a day when we mourn, but we also feel our strength in political action. Over the years, participants in Day of Mourning have buried Plymouth Rock a number of times, boarded the Mayflower replica, and placed ku klux klan sheets on the statue of William Bradford, etc.

WHEN AND WHERE IS DAY OF MOURNING?
Thursday, November 27, 2008 (U.S. "thanksgiving" day) at Cole's Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 12 noon SHARP. Cole's Hill is the hill above Plymouth Rock in the Plymouth historic waterfront area.

WILL THERE BE A MARCH?
There will be a march through the historic district of Plymouth. Plymouth has agreed, as part of the settlement of 10/19/98, that UAINE may march on Day of Mourning without the need for a permit as long as we give the town advance notice.

PROGRAM
Although we very much welcome our non-Native supporters to stand with us, it is a day when only Native people speak about our history and the struggles that are taking place throughout the Americas. Speakers will be by invitation only. This year's NDOM is once again dedicated to our brother Leonard Peltier.




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granma.cu - Raul describes Chinese president’s visit as highly satisfactory

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granma.cu - Raul describes Chinese president’s visit as highly satisfactory: "PRESIDENT Raul Castro bade farewell yesterday morning to Hu Jintao, president of the People's Republic of China, after a state visit that has made the sincere friendship between the two countries even stronger and indestructible.

'My friends, it has been a positive journey, with optimum results,' Ra�l commented to the press, minutes after the Chinese dignitary boarded the plane that brought him to Cuba."



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Venezuelan Elections Will Put Ch�vez to the Test | venezuelanalysis.com

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Venezuelan Elections Will Put Ch�vez to the Test | venezuelanalysis.com: "CARACAS, Nov 14 (IPS) - As if his post were at stake, Venezuela's left-wing President Hugo Ch�vez is showing up all over the country at election rallies, caravans, public works inaugurations, nationally televised public events and highly publicised midnight calls to his party's local offices in remote towns."



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Abiding in Bolivia: Racists picket OAS

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Abiding in Bolivia: Racists picket OAS

The Washington Post´s coverage of Evo´s US tour featured interviews with a hand full of "activists" protesting Evo at the OAS.
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"We are here to denounce what Evo is doing to our democracy, to our freedom of the press, to our constitution, to our human rights,"
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But WaPo reporter Pamela Constable didn´t tell you that the quoted "activist" Elena Abolnik is a fascist. She also forgot to tell you that these protesters engaged in racist verbal assualts of indigenous Bolivian dancers attending the OAS meeting.
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Note to the US press: stop protecting these fascist coup plotters. They´ve lost. Game over, give it up.



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Barriere Lake Solidarity: SQ riot squad arrest 5 Algonquins, including Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway

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Barriere Lake Solidarity: "Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - SQ officers and a Riot Squad arrested five Barriere Lake Algonquins, including a targeted arrest of Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway, after forcing community members off highway 117, during their fourth in a series of blockades over a period of seven hours.

'Chief Nottaway sent a letter to Premier Charest on Monday requesting that the government resolve political issues through negotiations rather than police violence,' said community spokesperson Norman Matchewan.'Blockades are a tactic of last resort. For two decades now all we've asked is that Quebec and Canada honour signed agreements but they prefer to play with our lives.'"



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Sampson kept voice of Alaska Inupiat alive: Native Culture | adn.com

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Sampson kept voice of Alaska Inupiat alive: Native Culture | adn.com: "Hers was one of the first voices they'd ever heard speaking Inupiaq on the radio.
That's what Eskimos in Northern Alaska still tell Mildred Sampson about her mother, Ruthie, who began translating Bible verses while still in her teens and spent the rest of her life spreading and teaching the endangered language.

When it came to Inupiaq, Ruthie Tatqavin Sampson was the final word for many. She spent years teaching the teachers. Stumped scholars called her with questions.

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Fading American economic and military dominance: Lesser US role foreseen in 2025

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Fading American economic and military dominance: Lesser US role foreseen in 2025: "LAHORE: The top US intelligence panel is expected to issue a snapshot of the world in 2025, in a report that predicts fading American economic and military dominance and warns of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East – with the region likely to remain an ‘arc of instability’ over the next two decades.

The predictions come from a National Intelligence Council (NIC) report – a draft copy of which is titled ‘Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World’ – slated for release as early as Thursday. “The US will remain the single most powerful country, although less dominant,” according to a ‘working draft’ of the document."



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A Mere Atmospheric Change in Obama’s Foreign Policy: U.S. London-Based Pundits See Rather Continuity Than Change

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Obama’s "Coalition of the Willing" Against Iran?
LONDON – After Barack Obama’s victory in the U.S. presidential elections last week, discussions about what direction an Obama/Biden Administration is likely to follow are gaining momentum.

Invited by the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) on 11 November to speak about the foreign policy of the next U.S. administration, the London-based American analyst Jonathan Paris anticipated an Obama foreign policy much in line with the one of the current Bush administration.

The main areas of concern, he asserted, would be Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran. Focusing extensively on the latter, Paris said that sanctions will be kept up with even the aim of aggravating those. Meanwhile, one should not "beg" Russia to join the efforts by the P5+1 – i.e. the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany – to increase pressure on Iran. Rather would it suffice to wait for Russia to join an anti-Iran "coalition of the willing." Moscow has so far been reluctant to Washington’s insistence to impose further sanctions on Tehran. According to Paris, who like Norman Podhoretz is an adjunct fellow at the neoconservative U.S. think-tank Hudson Institute, Washington’s overall goal would be to "win over" Russia so to avoid any opposition to its preferred policies.



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The Indypendent � Propaganda War: Magic Laptops hit FARC, Chavez

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The Indypendent � Propaganda War: Magic Laptops hit FARC, Chavez: "Since the Colombian government bombed a guerrilla camp on Ecuadoran soil March 1, it has orchestrated a highly effective media campaign backed by material allegedly found on laptops and hard drives belonging to a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the largest rebel group in Latin America. The laptops were used almost immediately after the raid to implicate both the Ecuadoran and Venezuelan governments in drug-trafficking and “terrorist” connections to the FARC. Colombia’s media campaign has been based on dubious evidence at best, and many charge that the “magic laptops” are being used to deflect criticism of Colombia’s violation of Ecuadoran sovereignty, distract the public from a domestic political scandal and justify the government’s policy of total war against the FARC."



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US Releases $90 million in Plan Mexico Military Hardware | | the narcosphere

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US Releases $90 million in Plan Mexico Military Hardware | | the narcosphere: "Sources within the US Congress have confirmed to Narco News that the US government has released approximately USD$90 million of the $116.5 million in foreign military financing (FMF) under Plan Mexico, also known as the Merida Initiative or Plan Merida. The $90 million comprises approximately 77% of Mexico's total FMF allotment under Plan Mexico in 2008.

The US Congress authorized the release of up to 85%, or $99 million, of 2008 FMF funds pending a report from the Secretary of State on Mexico's compliance with the human rights conditions laid out in Plan Mexico. However, congressional sources state that Mexico has not yet met the human rights conditions, so the State Department has not submitted the report."



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Pigs Food, Change, and Oprah's President-Elect

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Fatima and Ahmed's Son Ridwan Laher: Pigs Food, Change, and Oprah's President-Elect
President-Elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has moved swiftly to contain the damage stemming from comments his father made about Arabs, Israel, and the Obama White House.

Rahm's father, Benjamin Emanuel, is reported to have said the following about his son's role in the Obama White House:

"Obviously, he will influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn't he? ... What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House."

Nice ... what a f*cking racist and classist asshole.

Rahm is distancing himself from his father's statment saying that this is not the kind of value he was raised on.

I guess his Irgun terrorist father had nothing to do with raising his pro-Zionist ass.

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Riot squad arrest 5 Algonquins, including Chief

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Riot squad arrest 5 Algonquins, including Chief | Intercontinental Cry
Quebec’s provincial police and riot squad have arrested five Barriere Lake Algonquins, including Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway, during a series of roadblocks that were set up yesterday on highway 117.

The initial roadblock was set up in the early morning by at least 70 Algonquins and 30 non-native supporters, with the hope of maintaining it until the Canadian and Quebec governments committed to a set of agreements they’ve signed with the community. The group also demanded that Canada respect the Algonquin’s system of governance and let the customary leadership selection process move forward.

In march of this year the government placed the community under third party management and deposed the legally-elected Chief Benjamin Nottaway. The community has steadily protested since then, despite repeated confrontations with the government–the most noted confrontation being the assault of October 6, which entailed the use of pepper spray and pain compliance techniques on the community.



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CENSORED NEWS: Police arrest five Algonquins defending land, including chief

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CENSORED NEWS: Police arrest five Algonquins defending land, including chief: "By Barriere Lake Defenders of the Land
Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - SQ officers and a Riot Squad arrested five Barriere Lake Algonquins, including a targeted arrest of Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway, after forcing community members off highway 117, during their fourth in a series of blockades over a period of seven hours.
'Chief Nottaway sent a letter to Premier Charest on Monday requesting that the government resolve political issues through negotiations rather than police violence,' said community spokesperson Norman Matchewan.'Blockades are a tactic of last resort. For two decades now all we've asked is that Quebec and Canada honour signed agreements but they prefer to play with our lives.'





As the community was pushed off the highway for the last time at 2:30 pm, riot police broke out of formation to chase and arrest Acting Chief Nottaway. His was the second targeted arrest of the day. Community youth spokesperson Marylynn Poucachiche, mother of five and organizer of the community school, was arrested at one of the morning blockades after being reassured by police that no arrests would be made since protesters had agreed to leave peacefully."Related articles by Zemanta
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Labels: Algonquin Territory /, Barriere British Columbia, Marylynn Poucachiche




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CENSORED NEWS: Algonquins arrested at barricade

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CENSORED NEWS: Algonquins arrested at barricade: "Published: 7 hours ago
'One (arrested protester) was bleeding very bad ... another was slapped to the ground and her face hit the concrete,' Matchewan said. 'We were being pushed into our community, people were being pushed off the highway.'
Matchewan said Chief Benjamin Nottaway, author of a letter to Premier Jean Charest on Monday condemning the action of the police during a previous barricade protest, was among six people arrested."



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CENSORED NEWS: Mohawk Nation News: Secret Military Exercises Report

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CENSORED NEWS: Mohawk Nation News: Secret Military Exercises Report: "Nov. 19, 2008. If Canada is such a peace loving country, why is it saber rattling and playing war games like 'Vigilant Shield 09'? Huge military exercises are taking place on Turtle Island this month. These are being run by 'NorthCom' and 'NORAD' [North American AeroDefence Command]. NorthCom works with 'Canada Command' and coordinates civil incidents through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS. This has nothing to do with Afghanistan. It has to do with 'civil' control, not democracy. The Canadian part is called 'Determined Dragon, Trillium Response'. [What bunch of jerks made this one up? Sounds like some kind of teenage fantasy video? These guys are scary!]"



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Parents group says NT Govt has failed to consult on bilingual education - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Parents group says NT Govt has failed to consult on bilingual education - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "A parents group is disputing the Northern Territory Government's assurance it consulted widely on its plan to make Aboriginal language schools teach more English classes.

The Government says it is fed up with Aboriginal children leaving school unable to read properly, and will require the first four hours of school to be taught in English."



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Govt accused of putting mining before Indigenous needs - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Govt accused of putting mining before Indigenous needs - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "A Goldfields' Aboriginal leader says the Western Australian Government should have addressed serious issues affecting Indigenous people before trying to speed up and expand WA's mining industry.

Geoffrey Stokes opposes the decision to lift the ban on uranium mining and says the Government should be focusing on looking after the region's people, not what is in the ground.

He says the Government has got its priorities wrong."



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Nation's oldest land rights laws under review - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Nation's oldest land rights laws under review - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Australia s oldest land rights legislation will be reviewed to ensure Aboriginal people are benefiting from changes to the way their land is managed. The Land Rights Trust Act was established in South Australia 42 years ago the first legislation of its kind in Australia. SA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Jay Weatherill says the Act covers 500 000 hectares of land but has not been keeping pace with the aspirations of people who live in the region. 'There s a lot of economic activity that s occurring on the land already but not a lot of it is finding its way back into the hands of Aboriginal people ' he said."



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Indianz.Com > News > Menominee Nation most unhealthy in Wisconsin

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Indianz.Com > News > Menominee Nation most unhealthy in Wisconsin: "The county that is home to the Menominee Nation was once again rated the most least healthiest place in Wisconsin.. Chairwoman Lisa Waukau wasn t surprised by the results of the annual University of Wisconsin-Madison study. She said most people on the reservation lack health insurance and many engage in high risk behaviors. 'We are not a wealthy tribe. We are a poor tribe ' Waukau told the Associated Press. 'Poor people don t have the luxury of having that diet that middle class people do. We just don t have the dollars that we can pour into prevention programs.'"



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Indianz.Com > News > 9th Circuit backs immunity for tribal businesses

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Indianz.Com > News > 9th Circuit backs immunity for tribal businesses: "Tribal-owned businesses enjoy the same sovereign immunity as tribal governments the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on November 14. Christopher Cook sued AVI Casino Enterprises a corporation owned by the Fort Mojave Tribe. He said the company was responsible for a drunk-driving accident involving a tribal employee. The 9th Circuit disagreed and said tribes and their entities enjoy sovereign immunity absent an explicit waiver. But Judge Ronald Gould wrote separately to express his displeasure with the 'unjust result' of the decision."



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Native_American_Issues_Causes : Message: Outsiders Target Indian Land for Risky Business

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Native_American_Issues_Causes : Message: Outsiders Target Indian Land for Risky Business: "In 2007, the band began leasing nearly 70 percent of its land to be used for a landfill by a joint project between a Canadian venture capital company and a California waste hauler. The company plans to truck in 1,500 tons of municipal waste a day and bury it deep in Cortina’s canyons.

The Cortina landfill is one among dozens of projects across the country for which developers and Native Americans are using Indian sovereignty to bypass state and local regulations and build projects that other communities shun – projects ranging from landfills, big box stores and a massive power plant to casinos, motorcycle tracks and billboards. Neighbors are paying the price.

In California, the Cortina tribal leadership calls its landfill deal a financial savior, but like the people who live near other controversial Indian land projects, the farmers and ranchers who live below the Cortina land, and some tribal members, fear the landfill will leak and ruin the local environment.

“It has the potential to be a major disaster,” said Tom Griffith, a rancher who pastures his cattle 1.5 miles below the Indian land. “If you or I wanted to do this, it wouldn’t get past first base.”"



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Native_American_Issues_Causes : Message: Outsiders Target Indian Land for Risky Business

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Native_American_Issues_Causes : Message: Outsiders Target Indian Land for Risky Business: "In 2007, the band began leasing nearly 70 percent of its land to be used for a landfill by a joint project between a Canadian venture capital company and a California waste hauler. The company plans to truck in 1,500 tons of municipal waste a day and bury it deep in Cortina’s canyons.

The Cortina landfill is one among dozens of projects across the country for which developers and Native Americans are using Indian sovereignty to bypass state and local regulations and build projects that other communities shun – projects ranging from landfills, big box stores and a massive power plant to casinos, motorcycle tracks and billboards. Neighbors are paying the price.

In California, the Cortina tribal leadership calls its landfill deal a financial savior, but like the people who live near other controversial Indian land projects, the farmers and ranchers who live below the Cortina land, and some tribal members, fear the landfill will leak and ruin the local environment.

“It has the potential to be a major disaster,” said Tom Griffith, a rancher who pastures his cattle 1.5 miles below the Indian land. “If you or I wanted to do this, it wouldn’t get past first base.”"



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Double Consciousness: Reflections on the 2008 Presidential Election and the African American National Question

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Double Consciousness: Reflections on the 2008 Presidential Election and the African American National Question: "The rise of monopoly capitalism and the betrayal of Reconstruction locked the African American nation into a state of national oppression and set the conditions by which the national liberation struggle of African Americans and other oppressed nationalities are inextricably linked to the question of proletarian-socialist revolution. This theory was pioneered by the Comintern, particularly by the great African American communist leader, Harry Haywood. This was further developed by the New Communist Movement.

From this understanding, the recent election of the first Black president of the United States is particularly interesting. Because of the uneven development cemented into place by imperialism, the African American national question in the United States has a dual character with a democratic aspect embodied in the demand for full equality, and a revolutionary socialist aspect embodied in the demand for national self-determination..."



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LegacyofColonialism : Message: Western Sahara-Morocco: EU status becomes new battleground

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LegacyofColonialism : Message: Western Sahara-Morocco: EU status becomes new battleground: "(ANSAmed) - ALGIERS, OCTOBER 20 - The 'advanced status' granted a few days ago by the European Union to Morocco could represent 'a real danger for the evolution of the question of the Western Sahara and for the future, stability and peace in the Maghreb region'. The president of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Rasd), Mohamed Abdelaziz, addressed EU on-duty president Nicolas Sarkozy, saying that 'a prestigious institute as the European Union cannot, risking to lose credibility, become the accomplice, in the 20th century, of the politics of colonisation and repression Morocco has been responsible for in the Western Sahara for decades'."



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Miriam Makeba - R.I.P.

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Miriam Makeba, Known Widely as 'Mama Africa' Joined the Ancestors on November 9, 2008 in Italy








YouTube - Miriam Makeba - Khawuleza 1966: "South African singer and political activist Miriam Makeba. Rest in Peace."



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New York Police Fight With U.S. on Surveillance

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Pan-African News Wire: New York Police Fight With U.S. on Surveillance
New York Police Fight With U.S. on Surveillance

By DAVID JOHNSTON and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
New York Times

WASHINGTON — An effort by the New York Police Department to get broader latitude to eavesdrop on terrorism suspects has run into sharp resistance from the Justice Department in a bitter struggle that has left the police commissioner and the attorney general accusing each other of putting the public at risk.

The Police Department, with the largest municipal counterterrorism operation in the country, wants the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to loosen their approach to the federal law that governs electronic surveillance. But federal officials have refused to relax the standards, and have said requests submitted by the department could actually jeopardize surveillance efforts by casting doubt on their legality.

Under the law, the government must in most cases obtain a warrant from the special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court before it can begin electronic monitoring of people suspected of spying or terrorism. The requests are subjected to sharp scrutiny, first by lawyers at the F.B.I., then by lawyers at the Justice Department, and finally by the court itself.



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Lynched By Racist Vigilantes: Thousands Mourn Ecuadorian Immigrant in New York

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Pan-African News Wire: Lynched By Racist Vigilantes: Thousands Mourn Ecuadorian Immigrant in New York
Lynched by racist vigilantes

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demonstration was held in Patchogue, N.Y. to protest the lynching of an
Ecuadorian youth who was killed by whites on November 8, 2008. (Photo:
Martha Rojas).
Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos
Immigrant mourned by thousands

By Heather Cottin
Patchogue, N.Y.
Published Nov 19, 2008 6:43 PM

Seven suburban youths from Patchogue-Medford High School on Long Island decided to go out in their SUV on Saturday night, Nov. 8, and “f _ _ _ up a Mexican.” When they came across Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero on his way to a friend’s house, they jumped him and beat him. Jeffrey Conroy, a local high school athlete, has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of Lucero.

On a rainy Friday night following the murder, more than 2,000 people gathered at the site of Lucero’s killing for a memorial vigil. Religious and government officials counseled peacefulness and reconciliation, but many people held signs asking for a reckoning.

Lucero was the eldest son of a poor Ecuadorian family. He left his home 16 years ago at the age of 22 to take the long and dangerous trip to the United States to find work. He traveled to Patchogue in Suffolk County, New York, a magnet for Ecuadorian families.



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Richard Held (file under "not cool")

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Adrienne Carey Hurley: Richard Held (file under "not cool")
photo by Chizuko Naitô
18 November, 2008

Rad School was great again tonight. You should totally go if you are reading this and live in Montréal. Next week's event will be posted here soon.

So, I got the new PM Press dvd about the Angola 3. Thanks, PM. It is really worth watching. Folks who know me well know that I read stuff by and about the Black Panthers all the time and sometimes wish I could do it all the time. There's always more to learn. Well, Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio is one of the folks interviewed for the new movie. She talks about an FBI agent named Richard Held Jr. (whose father was FBI too). He was the one who framed Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt for a murder Pratt couldn't have committed (he was in Oakland when the teacher was killed in Santa Monica). Pratt was eventually released after spending nearly 30 years in prison. Held knew Pratt couldn't have done it. Kamal Hassan writes:

... a special "Get Geronimo Pratt" task force was developed led by infamous FBI official, Richard Held Jr. From this nerve center, Held seems to have directed a coordinated effort between his agency, the LAPD’s Criminal Conspiracy Section, and the LA District Attorney’s Special Investigations Unit to "neutralize" Geronimo.

Hanrahan says Held was also on the Pine Ridge Reservation after Leonard Peltier's arrest to "coordinate informants." He was in Puerto Rico for 8 years to fight the Puerto Rican Independence movement, and he was working in the SF field office when Judy Bari's car was bombed. And he was the one who wrote the nasty letter about Jean Seberg that said it was not her husband (French director and novelist Romain Gary), but a Black Panther with whom she'd conceived the baby she was carrying. This false story was "leaked" to the media to "neutralize" her too. Apparently, Held retired from the FBI and became the head of VISA International's "security."



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WAYNE MADSEN REPORT - Wayne Madsen Report

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WAYNE MADSEN REPORT - Wayne Madsen Report


Texas judge sets arraignment for Cheney and Gonzales in Texas prison abuse scandal. National media ignores the indictment and charges against the Vice President of the United States and the former Attorney General. Spiro Agnew and John Mitchell would have relished similar treatment from the media. The U.S. media is under control of the elites and will not report the news.

Obama administration changing -- to other Washington insiders. Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, one relative outsider, tipped for Homeland Security Secretary.

Coleman lead over Franken shrinks to 174. Two sides spar over challenged votes.

Billionaire Hyatt Hotel chairwoman Penny Pritzker slated to become Commerce Secretary. Pritzker involved in subprime mortgage loan scandal. Obama has not named one progressive liberal to his Cabinet to date. All are Democratic Leadership Council, pro-business, war hawks. Change? Not.

Bush Homeland Security adviser Fran Townsend offers to join Obama administration. Townsend defends Eric Holder's decision in Marc Rich pardon.

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MI-6 recruiting more ethnic minorities. MI-6 chief recruiter says death of British WMD expert David Kelly was a "significant moment" for MI-6.

Pakistan summons U.S. ambassador to protest drone missile attacks. Attack took place outside northwest tribal areas and deeper into Pakistan.




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Blackwater gunboats will protect ships - Africa, World - The Independent

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Blackwater gunboats will protect ships - Africa, World - The Independent: "The American security company Blackwater is planning to cash in on the rising threat of piracy on the high seas by launching a flotilla of gunboats for hire by the shipping companies.

The firm, which gained international notoriety when its staff killed civilians in Iraq, has already equipped one vessel, called The McArthur, which will carry up to 40 armed guards and have a landing pad for an attack helicopter."



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Press TV - Mystery surrounds CIA Somalia trip

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Press TV - Mystery surrounds CIA Somalia trip: "Operatives from the Central Intelligence Agency CIA have entered the Somali breakaway region of Puntland under a cloud of suspicion. The CIA agents arrived in the town of Bossaso on Wednesday and are holding meetings with Puntland s high-ranking officials a Press TV correspondent reported. This comes as US policy regarding Somalia has been hit with criticism. An international advocacy group blasted Washington in its recent report saying US air strikes in the Horn of Africa country had caused devastation for aid workers on the ground. 'To stabilize the situation ... US policy requires a complete overhaul ' reported Refugees International adding that the US approach to terrorism is hypocritical and defines terror in a narrow manner."



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Obama's victory spurs race crimes nationwide

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Forwarded to IIN by the Afro-Netizen:

Jesse Washington
AP National Writer

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the post-election glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.

There have been "hundreds" of incidents since the election, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.

One was in Snellville, Ga., where Denene Millner said a boy on the school bus told her 9-year-old daughter the day after the election: "I hope Obama gets assassinated." That night, someone trashed her sister-in-law's front lawn, mangled the Obama lawn signs, and left two pizza boxes filled with human feces outside the front door, Millner said.

She described her emotions as a combination of anger and fear.

"I can't say that every white person in Snellville is evil and anti-Obama and willing to desecrate my property because one or two idiots did it," said Millner, who is black. "But it definitely makes you look a little different at the people who you live with, and makes you wonder what they're capable of and what they're really thinking."

Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them."

Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar sentiments: "I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change.

"If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama's) church being deported," he said.
Change in whatever form does not come easy, and a black president is "the most profound change in the field of race this country has experienced since the Civil War," said William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. "It's shaking the foundations on which the country has existed for centuries."

"Someone once said racism is like cancer," Ferris said. "It's never totally wiped out, it's in remission."
If so, America's remission lasted until the morning of Nov. 5.

The day after the vote hailed as a sign of a nation changed, black high school student Barbara Tyler of Marietta, Ga., said she heard hateful Obama comments from white students, and that teachers cut off discussion about Obama's victory.

Tyler spoke at a press conference by the Georgia chapter of the NAACP calling for a town hall meeting to address complaints from across the state about hostility and resentment. Another student, from a Covington middle school, said he was suspended for wearing an Obama shirt to school Nov. 5 after the principal told students not to wear political paraphernalia.

The student's mother, Eshe Riviears, said the principal told her: "Whether you like it or not, we're in the South, and there are a lot of people who are not happy with this decision."
Other incidents include:

Four North Carolina State University students admitted writing anti-Obama comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, including one that said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head." Obama has received more threats than any other president-elect, authorities say.

At Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store read: "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when Obama would be killed. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was written "Let's hope someone wins."

Racist graffiti was found in places including New York's Long Island, where two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local high school and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where swastikas, racial slurs and "Go Back To Africa" were spray painted on sidewalks, houses and cars.

Second- and third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted "assassinate Obama," a district official said.

University of Alabama professor Marsha L. Houston said a poster of the Obama family was ripped off her office door. A replacement poster was defaced with a death threat and a racial slur. "It seems the election brought the racist rats out of the woodwork," Houston said.

Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. The president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently an abandoned swing and not a noose.

Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick, N.J., and Apolacan Township, Pa.

A black teenager in New York City said he was attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted 'Obama.'

In the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying "now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house."
Emotions are often raw after a hard-fought political campaign, but now those on the losing side have an easy target for their anger.

"The principle is very simple," said BJ Gallagher, a sociologist and co-author of the diversity book, "A Peacock in the Land of Penguins." "If I can't hurt the person I'm angry at, then I'll vent my anger on a substitute, i.e., someone of the same race."

"We saw the same thing happen after the 9-11 attacks, as a wave of anti-Muslim violence swept the country. We saw it happen after the Rodney King verdict, when Los Angeles blacks erupted in rage at the injustice perpetrated by 'the white man.'"

"It's as stupid and ineffectual as kicking your dog when you've had a bad day at the office," Gallagher said. "But it happens a lot."

Associated Press writers Errin Haines, Jerry Harkavy, Jay Reeves, Johnny Clark and researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report.

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Obama's victory spurs race crimes nationwide

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Jesse Washington
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Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.





Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the post-election glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.

From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.

There have been "hundreds" of incidents since the election, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.

One was in Snellville, Ga., where Denene Millner said a boy on the school bus told her 9-year-old daughter the day after the election: "I hope Obama gets assassinated." That night, someone trashed her sister-in-law's front lawn, mangled the Obama lawn signs, and left two pizza boxes filled with human feces outside the front door, Millner said.

She described her emotions as a combination of anger and fear.

"I can't say that every white person in Snellville is evil and anti-Obama and willing to desecrate my property because one or two idiots did it," said Millner, who is black. "But it definitely makes you look a little different at the people who you live with, and makes you wonder what they're capable of and what they're really thinking."

Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them."

Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar sentiments: "I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change.

"If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama's) church being deported," he said.
Change in whatever form does not come easy, and a black president is "the most profound change in the field of race this country has experienced since the Civil War," said William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. "It's shaking the foundations on which the country has existed for centuries."

"Someone once said racism is like cancer," Ferris said. "It's never totally wiped out, it's in remission."
If so, America's remission lasted until the morning of Nov. 5.

The day after the vote hailed as a sign of a nation changed, black high school student Barbara Tyler of Marietta, Ga., said she heard hateful Obama comments from white students, and that teachers cut off discussion about Obama's victory.

Tyler spoke at a press conference by the Georgia chapter of the NAACP calling for a town hall meeting to address complaints from across the state about hostility and resentment. Another student, from a Covington middle school, said he was suspended for wearing an Obama shirt to school Nov. 5 after the principal told students not to wear political paraphernalia.

The student's mother, Eshe Riviears, said the principal told her: "Whether you like it or not, we're in the South, and there are a lot of people who are not happy with this decision."
Other incidents include:

Four North Carolina State University students admitted writing anti-Obama comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, including one that said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head." Obama has received more threats than any other president-elect, authorities say.

At Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store read: "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when Obama would be killed. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was written "Let's hope someone wins."

Racist graffiti was found in places including New York's Long Island, where two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local high school and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where swastikas, racial slurs and "Go Back To Africa" were spray painted on sidewalks, houses and cars.

Second- and third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted "assassinate Obama," a district official said.

University of Alabama professor Marsha L. Houston said a poster of the Obama family was ripped off her office door. A replacement poster was defaced with a death threat and a racial slur. "It seems the election brought the racist rats out of the woodwork," Houston said.

Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. The president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently an abandoned swing and not a noose.

Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick, N.J., and Apolacan Township, Pa.

A black teenager in New York City said he was attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted 'Obama.'

In the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying "now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house."
Emotions are often raw after a hard-fought political campaign, but now those on the losing side have an easy target for their anger.

"The principle is very simple," said BJ Gallagher, a sociologist and co-author of the diversity book, "A Peacock in the Land of Penguins." "If I can't hurt the person I'm angry at, then I'll vent my anger on a substitute, i.e., someone of the same race."

"We saw the same thing happen after the 9-11 attacks, as a wave of anti-Muslim violence swept the country. We saw it happen after the Rodney King verdict, when Los Angeles blacks erupted in rage at the injustice perpetrated by 'the white man.'"

"It's as stupid and ineffectual as kicking your dog when you've had a bad day at the office," Gallagher said. "But it happens a lot."

Associated Press writers Errin Haines, Jerry Harkavy, Jay Reeves, Johnny Clark and researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report.

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Diversity: Obama Taps First-Ever Blogger for Cabinet

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Peter Orszag, the man who President-elect Obama has tapped to be his director of the Office of Management and Budget, (as first reported by National Journal and confirmed by ABC News) is currently director of the Congressional Budget Office, where he has maintained a blog since December 2007, ABC News' Brian Hartman points out.

The "Director's Blog" is fairly dry stuff -- policy papers and references to testimonies and speeches he's given. The point is that the director of OMB has Cabinet rank. Which means that, for the first time ever, there will be a blogger in the Cabinet.

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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Podcast: Purported al Qaeda message insults Obama � - Blogs from CNN.com

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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Podcast: Purported al Qaeda message insults Obama � - Blogs from CNN.com: "(CNN) – A top enemy of the United States has weighed in on the next president.

In the latest episode of CNN=Politics Daily, Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr reports on a message that surfaced Wednesday that is purportedly from Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second-in-command. The message insults President-elect Barack Obama using a derogatory term for African-Americans.

White House Correspondent Ed Henry reports from Chicago with the latest on the reaction from the Obama camp."



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Iranian blogger arrested 'as Israeli spy' | World news | guardian.co.uk

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Iranian blogger arrested 'as Israeli spy' | World news | guardian.co.uk: "A prominent Iranian blogger has been arrested in Tehran and accused of spying for Israel after visiting the country with the aim of being 'a bridge between Iranian and Israeli people'. Hossein Derakhshan 33 was reported by the Iranian website Jahan News to have confessed during initial interrogations to being involved in espionage. The Jahan News site which is widely believed to be linked to the Iranian intelligence services also said he had been described in Jewish newspaper articles as a 'friend of Israel'."



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‘Real risk of genocide’ for uncontacted tribe - News from Survival International

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‘Real risk of genocide’ for uncontacted tribe - News from Survival International: "A Brazilian government official has warned that the last known survivors of an uncontacted Amazon tribe will face genocide unless illegal logging and ranching on their land are stopped.

An official from Brazil's Indian affairs department, FUNAI, said today, ‘There is a real risk of genocide if FUNAI is not able to protect the Piripkura’s land.’

The last two known members of the Piripkura tribe live in the Amazon forest in the state of Mato Grosso. Their territory is in the Colniza district, which is estimated to be the most violent area in Brazil, and one of the worst in the Brazilian Amazon for deforestation."



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In Ecuador, Mass Mobilizations Against Mining Confront President Correa

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Upside Down World - In Ecuador, Mass Mobilizations Against Mining Confront President Correa

In Ecuador, thousands of indigenous, campesinos, Afro-descendants and environmentalists took to the streets on Monday, protesting the pending mining law and government failure to fully apply a mining mandate passed by the National Constituent Assembly in April.

With strong turnout in five different parts of the country, the day of action was an important demonstration of growing social movement unity and independence from the government of President Rafael Correa. Activists call Monday's mobilization the beginning of a broader movement to confront Correa's environmental policies. The Ecuadorian Left has increasingly distanced itself from the government after broadly supporting the approval of a new constitution in September.

In Quito, hundreds of people from rural communities threatened by mining throughout Ecuador's Northern highlands, especially from the northwestern area of Intag, participated. Intag has blocked the entrance of mining companies since the early 1990s and is currently fighting the Canadian-financed transnational Ascendant Copper.



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19.11.08
Uhuru TV: Obama and White Power in America

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Human Rights Contradictions Evident With Obama’s Attorney General Pick

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As the Washington Post reported back in 2007, Federal prosecutors had said in court papers that Justice Department officials made clear in April 2003 that Chiquita was clearly violating the law and that "the payments . . . could not continue."1 The Post reported “lawyers at Justice headquarters and the U.S. attorney's office in Washington were incensed by what they considered the flagrant continuation of these payoffs, despite the warnings.” At the time, Holder said he was concerned that company leaders who disclosed the corporation's illegal activity to prosecutors were facing the possibility of prosecution.

"If what you want to encourage is voluntary self-disclosure, what message does this send to other companies?" asked Holder, deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration. "Here's a company that voluntarily self-discloses in a national security context, where the company gets treated pretty harshly, [and] then on top of that, you go after individuals who made a really painful decision."2

So in Holder’s view, we should feel sympathy for these poor corporate executives, whose identities were kept confidential, and who were forced to make “very painful decisions” about opening up to their own criminality. Never mind that this company was complicit in the above-mentioned human tragedy waged by the AUC. The many victims of this paramilitary terror did not even cross the mind of the well-connected defense attorney now being considered for the Attorney General job.



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IRIN Africa | West Africa | Liberia | LIBERIA: No relief as most Monrovians go without toilets | Environment Health & Nutrition Urban Risk Water & Sanitation | News Item

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IRIN Africa | West Africa | Liberia | LIBERIA: No relief as most Monrovians go without toilets | Environment Health & Nutrition Urban Risk Water & Sanitation | News Item: "MONROVIA 19 November 2008 IRIN - With just one in 25 Liberians having access to a toilet most use the nearest bush or beach unwittingly committing what the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF calls “the riskiest sanitation practice”. Liberia’s 3.5 million people share just 19 690 toilets according to a government water and sanitation sector assessment from October 2008 and fewer than one in three Liberians have access to safe drinking water according to the head of Liberia’s Water and Sewer Corporation Hun-Bu Tulay. “Open defecation is one of the riskiest sanitation practices ' Chris Cormency UNICEF s regional water and sanitation adviser told IRIN. 'Disease-carrying materials are basically shared with neighbours and the community as a whole allowing numerous vectors for contamination as the faeces is not isolated.”"



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allAfrica.com: Africa: Obama's Economic Advisors - Will Well-Tested Enemies of Africa Prevail? (Page 1 of 3)

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allAfrica.com: Africa: Obama's Economic Advisors - Will Well-Tested Enemies of Africa Prevail? (Page 1 of 3): "Drawing on examples such as Thabo Mbeki's role in damaging HIV/AIDS policies in the early 2000s and a current case in a San Franciso court against Chevron for 1998 murders in the Niger Delta, Patrick Bond argues that a similar process of critical treatment is appropriate for Barack Obama's new leading economic advisor, Paul Volcker.

Citing the opinions of a number of prominent political commentators, Bond reviews Volcker's disastrous economic policy at the end of the 1970s, highlighting the deleterious effect of high US interest rates on developing countries' debt repayments and economic development. But with Obama set to 'accelerate Africa's integration into the global economy' under Volcker's influence, the author argues that it is crucial the new president-elect seek alternative economic viewpoints to dominant neoliberal policy less rooted in brutal US national self-interest."



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Sierra Leone: Barack Obama is Not the First "Black President"

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allAfrica.com: Sierra Leone: Barack Obama is Not the First "Black President" (Page 1 of 1)
Another rendering is the one using C. Stone Brown's article titled "Who were the 5 Black Presidents" that appeared in a February 2004 edition of Diversity Inc magazine, ophthalmologist Leroy Brown's book titled Black People and Their Place in History, J.A. Roger's book titled Five Black Presidents and William Herndon's book titled The Hidden Lincoln. These sources together yield six American Presidents believed to have had "Black blood": Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Dwight David Eisenhower. These sources, however, do not offer compelling empirical evidence to support their claims. A more empirically grounded source is the article titled "Harding was first 'black president'" that appeared in the Baltimore Sun on October 7, 1998 (p.2A) written by Theo Lippman. The following is a retelling of Lippman's findings.

President Harding's Black origins are traced to the President's great-great grandfather, Amos Harding, "a West Indian Negro" who pioneered and settled in Blooming Grove, Ohio. Each generation of the Hardings after Amos, as they grew up in Ohio in the 19th Century, was teased and presented by schoolmasters as "part black" and other racist descriptors. Race consciousness was widespread and cruel even in the non-slave states in the North and West. To ease his grandchildren's anxiety, Amos Harding late in his life told them that the story about his Black lineage was the lie of an enemy. Nonetheless, Warren Harding told one of his friends that the story was true.



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allAfrica.com: Burundi: Unicef Sounds Alarm After Brutal Murder of Albino Girl (Page 1 of 1)

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allAfrica.com: Burundi: Unicef Sounds Alarm After Brutal Murder of Albino Girl (Page 1 of 1): "The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is working with authorities in Burundi to better protect the country's albino children in the wake of a brutal crime in which a six-year-old girl was shot and dismembered, apparently in the mistaken belief of some locals that the body parts have magical qualities.

Media reports say the girl was shot dead at the weekend in Burundi's eastern province of Ruyigi, close to the border with Tanzania, and then her head and limbs were removed by her attackers. It is the latest in a series of killings of albinos in the region and follows the murder of a 14-year-girl in early September."



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Pan-African News Wire: US Missiles Hit Pakistani Town

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Pan-African News Wire: US Missiles Hit Pakistani Town: "'US missiles' hit Pakistani town

The missile attack targeted a house in the town of Jani Khel in North West Frontier province

At least five people have been killed in a suspected US missile attack in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan, near the Afghan border, security officials said.

A senior security official told the AFP news agency on Wednesday that 'the strike overnight destroyed the house of a tribesman Sakhi Mohammad in the Bannu district'.

'At least two foreigners were among five killed,' the official said.

Pakistani security forces often use the term 'foreigners' to refer to suspected al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters."



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African American Political Pundit:: LGBT and the Black Folks Fighting, While Religious Right Laughs

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African American Political Pundit:: LGBT and the Black Folks Fighting, While Religious Right Laughs


Or, here is another one, Wanda Sykes is gay!

and...?

AAPP: I'm not into gay bashing, and I'm not into LGBT community leaders who are now bashing Black Folks, and connecting Obama to that vote. Candidly, I feel many in the LGBT community need to stop blaming California's Black Voters for Prop 8. Those who are blaming Black Voters for California Prop 8 Loss are wrong. Stop Scapegoating Black Folk on Proposition 8

This national effort by many in the LGBT communities, to take to the streets to protest the Nov 4 decisions that some say, blindsided the LGBT communities in California, Florida, Arizona, Arkansas and beyond is noteworthy. I must say the national LGBT rights organizations need to do more in the African American LGBT communities.

But, it seems to me that everyone and their mama in the LGBT communities are attacking and lashing out at African Americans. And are now using Wanda Sykes as the poster child for the black against black beat down.

I'm tired of the Proposition 8 blame game, even with black folks. This silly talk by some, is just that, silly talk, the Facts Belie the Scapegoating of Black People for Proposition 8. At the same time, we cannot deny that Black homophobia is big in our communities.





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2008 Election Asian American Linky-loos

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Thought you were done with the election? Well, the election's not done with you!

* The Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDEF) put out a press release following November 4, listing many of the problems Asian American voters faced last Tuesday.

* A study conducted by Filipino American orgs showed a last-minute shift in the Fil-Am vote in favor of Obama by two to one. The primary factor was the economy. Race was not a significant factor.

* An informal opinion poll predicted that 81 percent of "Indo-Americans" would vote for Obama. It also predicted the biggest Indian American voter turnout ever.

* A survey of Minnesotan Hmong voters saw 57 percent identifying as Democrats and 65 percent supporting Obama.

* Obama's election makes multiracials feel accepted for the first time! And you get to read about it! However ...

* ... Some people are smarting from Obama's "mutt" joke during his first press conference. (I ain't saying nothin'.)

* Some of Obama's top transition team members are Asian American, including one of the three co-chairs, and the executive director. However ...

* ... Indian American groups have objected to Obama's appointment to his transition team of an Indian American woman they said was a member of a group that supported the persecution of Christians and Muslims in India. Yikes!

* A Korean American group that formed to support Obama has just registered as a PAC to support Korean American candidates.

* We missed our chance to have an Asian American Jew in Congress.

* Two out of six Iranian American candidates running this year won their seats.

* The Indonesian vice president says that for Obama "Indonesia is a burden," and Indonesians shouldn't expect a visit from him. Damn, I wonder what that guy's mother is like.

* And ... uh ... Obama's half-brother lives in China ... is that relevant to the election? Or Asian America? I dunno ...



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“The Movement” in France | Black Women in Europe Blog

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“The Movement” in France | Black Women in Europe Blog: "The first of a string of committees formed in France to support Obama’s presidential bid has decided it will not disband after the election victory, but instead work for change at home.

Called “The Movement”, the 2,000-strong group in the eastern city of Lyon plans to set up a blog to track progress in getting visible minorities into positions of power and speak out against discrimination."



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single feature archives : Houston Indymedia

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single feature archives : Houston Indymedia: "from the open publishing newswire: In early October, six activists from Texas were subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in Minneapolis in relation to the protests during the Republican National Convention in September. The subpoenas were part of a much larger campaign of repression and intimidation against people organizing against the RNC that included raids, vehicle seizures, arbitrary detentions at gun point, infiltrators, and more. The last couple months have been an emotional roller coaster for us, as we dealt with the uncertainty of our situation and the constant level of stress we all felt. But today we can declare victory: in the past week, all six of us have had our grand jury subpoenas canceled, without ever saying a word to the Feds!"



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Adrienne Carey Hurley: Dan Tsang interviews Dylan Rodriguez on "Subversity"

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Adrienne Carey Hurley: Dan Tsang interviews Dylan Rodriguez on "Subversity": "Dan Tsang's radio show, Subversity, is really good -- it has been really good for years. Dan (in the green t-shirt) interviewed Dylan Rodriguez (in the button-down) about the presidential election. Click here to listen to it. After the minor tech glitch, it gets really good!! Prof. Rodriguez discusses the non-profit industrial complex in terms of Obama's background, as well as the need for radical critiques of the administration he's assembling (or that's being assembled). Among the statements Rodriguez makes is the following:

'I've been accused of being cyincal, but that is the height of cynicism when people are so willing to concede a political ethics which is invested in people's liberation, freedom, and protection from state violence, from racist state violence. That is the thing I feel we can't excuse.'

Also, a great discussion of Ayers! Check it out!"



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Turkey's PM Erdogan: Those who warn Iran should not possess nuclear weapons in the first place | Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

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This comes in from our UK correspondent CEM:

Turkey's PM Erdogan: Those who warn Iran should not possess nuclear weapons in the first place | Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran: "Editor s note The excerpt below is from a speech delivered by Turkey s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. on November 14 2008. 'Nuclear energy to be used for humanitarian purposes vs nuclear energy being used for mass destruction. We in Turkey support the former. It would not be proper for us to support the latter. When we discuss this matter with Iran they tell us that they are interested only in the former. The International Atomic Energy Institute IAEA is not doing anything tangible. There s nothing conclusive. Whilst we are of this view it is also paramount that if Iran is actually building nuclear weapons of mass destruction those who are telling Iran not to should not possess these nuclear weapons in the first place. You have them and you are telling the other party not to have them. It is only natural that the other party will react defensively every country would do the same. I see this as a dilemma. We should all get together and review this approach first. '"



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Dhoruba Bin-Wahad On Obama’s ascendency to the U.S. presidency

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Dhoruba Bin-Wahad On Obama’s ascendency to the U.S. presidency - FTP MOVEMENT
PITTFALLS OF RACE CONSCIOUSNESS: SUBSTITUTING POLITICAL REFORMATION OF WHITE FINANCE CAPITALISM FOR BUILDING AN INDEPENDENT POLITICAL MOVEMENT

Obama’s ascendency to the U.S. presidency has been consistently portrayed as the culmination of the African-Americans protracted struggle for “equality” in America. In a sense it is, because all advancements secured by Africans in America have enhanced the rights of all people, but those advancements have seldom moved the majority Africans in America out of the economic and political doldrums.

The brutal truth is this portrayal is both facetious and inaccurate.
While it is true that for the first time white Americans in significant numbers have voted for a “Black” man as President, it is of course inaccurate to say that Barack Obama represents or even reflect the historical or contemporary experience (legacy) of African-Americans who are connected at the Hip to White America. After all, with the exception of Tiger Woods (who has tried to invent a Race to match his background) how many Africans in America were raised in Hawaii by white Grandparents and went to Harvard Law School? Clearly those whites who voted for Obama voted for him based on the “American Story” version of “Dreams of My Father” rather than Nightmares of my Ancestors. Hence, it is facetious to claim the majority of white voters consciously voted for an “African-American” descendant of the slaves their forebears terrorized and exploited for centuries– they voted for an African-American without that baggage, perhaps trusting that he couldn’t experience a DNA induced flashback to the bull-whip days on the plantation and go buck-wild as commander-and-Chief because he had no cultural-social connection to that past.

I think this was at the basis of the claim by many whites (especially from among “undecided” and neo-liberal Whites) that they “didn’t really know Obama or who he really was”. I am sure many will consider such distinctions “playa hating”, or another knock on a Black mans achievements. Quite the contrary. Such distinctions are often the strand of thread upon which history hangs in the balance. I know for a fact white lefties, Blacks of all classes are disconcerted by the above view. But those same lefties and Blacks wouldn’t express such disconcertion with a similar analysis of Roosevelt (whose disability was an important subjective factor in his political career) or perceive a critique of John F. Kennedy’s relationship to his Quasi-Gangster Dad and Clan Patriarch as inappropriate in ascertaining what influenced the character of JFK.

Clearly Obama is an extraordinary individual and is to be commended for his success. His success has opened up plenty African minds to their own self-value. But just feeling good about ones self won’t stop others who don’t feel so good about you from pursuing their nefarious ambitions.

That the Obama campaign was able to effectively avoid entirely the influence of a Race based power paradigm in formulation of U.S. Foreign policy in no small part was due to the McCain camp’s absolute lack of racist subtlety. The racist and reactionary Rightwing supporting McCain attacked Obama with excerpts from the sermons of his family Pastor Jeremiah Wright, an activist and Liberation Theologian, in an attempt to associate the ideology of Black Nationalism, the noble legacy of Black militancy with Obama and thereby frighten white voters into knee jerk racist apoplexy. Not a difficult task for a nation that has never confronted the true legacy of its history. As if “thinking Black, thinking African, or viewing history from the experiences of one’s own peoples was a form of subversive moral blasphemy. Perhaps it is. Michelle Obama (who does have the Bullwhip days in her family DNA memory) was attacked as “un-American” for saying “for the first time” she felt proud of America” – a sentiment shared by 90 % of African-Americans - when Obama received the Democratic nomination. To reassure White folks that African history in America was not his legacy, his basis of analysis and frame of reference, Obama renounced all association with Rev. Wright and defined Wright’s views as “divisive” rather than worthy of challenge by American historians.

Moreover, Obama didn’t take the Wright imbroglio as an opportunity to educate America about Race; instead he merely distanced himself from the issue and moved on to win the ultimate political prize in the land, the Presidency of the United States. To many of course this was “strategy” after all, you can’t scare “white people” who believe they have an innate right to piss on the rest of the world while whistling the battle hymn of the republic and expect to win a national election. Only a monumental crisis that threatened everyone’s livelihood could shake up white folks more than the prospect of a Black President, and lo and behold, finance capitalism’s October surprise – economic meltdown. America woke up to the reality of debt-based prosperity as the American empire tumbled into financial distress. Fannie and Freddie were on Viagra and the pharmacy wasn’t taking any more credit. Of course this opportunistic view in itself is deprecating because it also presumes that White Americans are a bunch of historically challenged and ignorant Hoogies and can’t be trusted to think beyond their narrow self-interests. So the economy Gave Obama boost – but he probably would have won anyway.



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Fire Witch Rising: White Power Gang Re-Captures Lance Hering

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Lance Hering made a valiant effort to escape the white power gangbanger life that is the United States Marine Corps and its race war in Iraq, but the thugs in that fascist cult have re-captured him.

Fire Witch Rising: White Power Gang Re-Captures Lance Hering: "PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Lance Hering spent his final days of freedom among rolling woods and smothering fog that swoops in without warning to obscure hillside homes in the extreme northwest corner of the United States.

Hering, 23, was a long way from Eldorado Canyon State Park near Boulder, where he was reported missing Aug. 30, 2006, after a rock-climbing fall — a story that authorities later concluded was an elaborate ruse.

He was even farther from Camp Pendleton, Calif., and his former life in the U.S. Marine Corps, which had included multiple tours of duty in Iraq.

His wavy blond hair hung past his shoulders, his high, tight Marine buzz-cut long since grown out. A scraggly beard covered his face."Related articles by Zemanta
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Lawyer for Chiquita in Colombia Death Squad Case May be Next U.S. Attorney General

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Dan Kovalik: Lawyer for Chiquita in Colombia Death Squad Case May be Next U.S. Attorney General
In its recent report entitled, "Breaking the Grip? Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia," Human Rights Watch (HRW) had specific recommendations for the U.S. Department of Justice. Specifically, HRW recommended that, in order to assist with the process of ending the ties between the Colombian government and paramilitary death squads, the U.S. Department of Justice should, among other things, "[c]reate meaningful legal incentives for paramilitary leaders [a number of whom have already been extradited to the U.S.] to fully disclose information about atrocities and name all Colombian or foreign officials, business or individuals who may have facilitated their criminal activities," and "[c]ollaborate actively with the efforts of Colombian justice officials who are investigating paramilitary networks in Colombia by sharing relevant information possible and granting them access to paramilitary leaders in U.S. custody."

Do not expect these recommendations to be carried forward if Eric Holder decides to forgo his lucrative corporate law practice at Covington & Burling and accept the U.S. Attorney General position for which many believe he is the top contendor. Eric Holder would have a troubling conflict of interest in carrying out this work in light of his current work as defense lawyer for Chiquita Brands international in a case in which Colombian plaintiffs seek damages for the murders carried out by the AUC paramilitaries - a designated terrorist organization. Chiquita has already admitted in a criminal case that it paid the AUC around $1.7 million in a 7-year period and that it further provided the AUC with a cache of machine guns as well.



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Eric Holder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Eric Holder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Private practice
Since 2001, Holder has worked as an attorney at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.,[7] representing clients such as Merck and the National Football League.[19]

In 2004, Holder helped negotiate an agreement with the Justice Department for Chiquita Brands International in a case that involved Chiquita's payment of "protection money" to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a group on the U.S. government's list of terrorist organizations.[20][21] In the agreement, Chiquita's officials pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $25 million.[21] Holder represents Chiquita in the civil action that grew out of this criminal case.[21]

While D.C. v. Heller was being heard by the Supreme Court in 2008, Holder joined the Reno-led amicus brief, which urged the Supreme Court to uphold Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban and said the Department of Justice from Franklin Roosevelt through Bill Clinton had always believed that the Second Amendment does not protect the rights of individuals to own guns for personal use.[22] Holder said that overturning the 1976 law "opens the door to more people having more access to guns and putting guns on the streets."[23]

In April 2004 Holder was invited to CNN as a legal analyst. He voiced his opposition to the Bush Administration's implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act, saying it is "bad ultimately for law enforcement and will cost us the support of the American people."[24] In a speech to the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy in June 2008 he critisized the US torture policy and the NSA warrantless surveillance program, calling the Bush administration's "disrespect for the rule of law [...] not only wrong, it is destructive in our struggle against terrorism."[25]






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FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Website

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FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Website: "UPDATE For additional context about the survey and an exclusive interview with John Ziegler please see here. The conservative website HowObamaGotElected.com reports that it has commissioned Zogby International to conduct a poll of 512 Barack Obama voters as part of what can best be described as a viral marketing effort to discredit the intelligence of Obama supporters. The website created by former radio talk show host John Ziegler to promote a forthcoming documentary features a YouTube clip of interviews with 12 Obama voters who 'were chosen for their apparent intelligence verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience'. The clip portrays the Obama supporters as giving 'incorrect' answers to political questions such as 'which candidate said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket'. Of the 12 Obama supporters interviewed for the clip 7 58 are black; nationwide about 23 of Obama supporters were black according to the national exit poll."



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Press Release: Barriere Lake Algonquins need our Solidarity!!

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008


Barriere Lake Algonquins peacefully blockade highway 117 in Northern Quebec a second time: despite fears of more police violence, community wants Quebec and Canada to respect agreements and Canada to end interference in leadership selection

Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - This morning at 7:30am, Barriere Lake community members of all ages and their supporters once again peacefully blockaded highway 117 outside their reserve, demanding that Quebec and Canada send in negotiators rather than resort to police violence. During the Algonquin's first blockade on October 6th, 2008, Quebec police used tear gas and "pain compliance" techniques against a peaceful crowd that included Elders, youth, and children, arrested nine people, and hospitalized a Customary Councillor after hitting him in the chest with a tear-gas canister, drawing criticism from international human rights groups, the Chiefs of Ontario, and the Christian Peacemakers Team. [ http://blip.tv/file/1391794 ]


The Algonquins promise to maintain the blockade until Canada and Quebec commit in writing to honour their agreements and Canada appoints an observer to witness and respect the outcome of a new leadership selection in Barriere Lake in accordance with their Customary Governance Code.

"Instead of doing the dirty work of the federal government, Quebec should implement its agreements and immediately lobby the federal government to deal fairly with our community," said Norman Matchewan, a community spokesperson on-site at the blockade. "Charest's brutal treatment of our community shows his government has absolutely no respect for the rights of Indigenous peoples, which should be an urgent matter of debate during the provincial election."


Barriere Lake wants Canada and Quebec to uphold signed agreements, dating back to the 1991 Trilateral Agreement, a landmark sustainable development and resource co-management agreement praised by the United Nations and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Canada has been in breach of the agreement since 2001. Quebec signed a complementary Bilateral agreement in 1998, but has stalled since two former Quebec Cabinet Ministers, Quebec special representative John Ciaccia and Barriere Lake special representative Clifford Lincoln, made recommendations for the agreement's implementation in 2006.

"To avoid their obligations, the federal government has deliberately violated our leadership customs by ousting our Customary Chief and Council," said Matchewan. "In what amounts to a coup d'etat, they are recognizing a Chief and Council rejected by a community majority. The Quebec government is cooperating with the federal government because they are using the leadership issue as an excuse to bury the 1991 and 1998 Agreements they signed with our First Nation."

In November 2007 the legitimate leadership of Barriere Lake had issued a ban on new forestry operations in the Trilateral Territory until Quebec implemented their agreements, but the province and forestry companies have used the leadership change as an opportunity to cut new logging roads [in preparation for logging operations] without permission from the legitimate Barriere Lake representatives.

On March 10th, 2008, for the third time in 12 years, the Government of Canada interfered in Barriere Lake's internal customary governance. They rescinded recognition of the Customary Chief and Council and recognized individuals whom the Barriere Lake Elder's Council says were not selected in accordance with their Customary Governance Code.

"The federal government pretends this is simply an internal issue," says Marylynn Poucachiche, another Barriere Lake spokesperson on-site. "But we can only resolve the situation if the federal government appoints an observer to witness a new leadership selection that is truly in accordance with our Customary Governance Code, promises to respect the outcome, and then stops interfering in our internal affairs."

In 2007, Quebec Superior Court Judge Rejean Paul issued a report that concluded that the current faction recognized by the federal government was a "small minority" that "didn't respect the Customary Governance Code" in an alleged leadership selection in 2006 [2]. The federal government recognized this minority faction after they conducted another alleged leadership selection in January 2008, even though an observer's report the government relied on stated there was no "guarantee" that the Customary Governance Code was respected [3].

The Algonquin Nation Secretariat, the Tribal Council representing three Algonquin communities including Barriere Lake, continues to recognize and work with Customary Chief Benjamin Nottaway and his Council.

In Montreal at noon, supporters of Barriere Lake will rally in front of the office of Premier Jean Charest at the southeast corner of McGill College and Sherbrooke.


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Media Contacts:



Norman Matchewan, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 819 – 435 – 2171, 514 - 831 - 6902

Marylynn Poucachiche, Barriere Lake spokesperson:514 - 893 - 8283, 819 - 860 - 3860


Norman Young, Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation Secretariat: 819 - 627 - 6869




Attached: Briefing Package and letter from Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway to Premier Charest



Notes:
[1] Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31135244@N07/sets/72157607795831835/



[2] http://web.resist.ca/~barrierelakesolidarity/resources/Rapport_du_Juge_Paul-versionANGLAISEcomplete.doc, pg 26-27


[3] http://web.resist.ca/~barrierelakesolidarity/resources/Riel_Translation_Letter_2.doc , pg 2


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Barriere Lake Algonquins peacefully blockade highway

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Image via WikipediaStarting at 7am this morning, families from the Algonquin community of Barriere Lake have blockaded highway 117 in northern Quebec, for the second time in just over a month. They continue to demand that the Federal and Quebec governments uphold the agreements they signed with the community, and stop imposing illegitimate leadership on the community in order to shirk their responsibilities.

On October 6th, the blockade - a tactic of last resort, after months of being ignored by the Canadian and Quebec government - was met with violent repression, including teargassing children and elders and pain compliance. Despite decades of struggle and the government's use of riot cops in place of negotiators, the community refuses to back down.

As of 12:30pm on Monday, the police are saying that the Montreal police have been called in to clear the highway, and arrest those who resist. There are currently x community members and 30 non-native supporters, including the Christian Peacemaker Team who present to bear witness to any human rights violations, peacefully blockading the highway. The community needs members of the broader public to make it clear right now that this is unacceptable, that they have suffered enough division at the hands of the government, and that the signed agreements need to be honoured.

** What you can do right now to help: **

We need people to let the government know that they support the demands Barriere Lake has been fighting for for decades.

Please take 15 minutes to phone or fax a letter to some of the following:

* Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada ( fax: 613-941-6900 )
* Lawrence Cannon, Transportation Minister and MP for Pontiac ( 613 992-2940 Fax: 613 944-9376 )
* Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs ( 819 997-0002 Fax: 819 953-4941 )

Use some of the following points (along with your own):

* The government should immediately cease its intimidation tactics and threats of violence

* The Federal government should honor the trilateral agreement it signed with Barriere Lake

* Express support for the Barriere Lake community's struggle for the right to choose its own leadership

* The federal government should immediately stop interfering in Barriere Lake's internal affairs

** More information: **

Demands, and a list of groups that have endorsed them:
http://barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com/2008/03/mission.html

Photos of the current blockade:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31135244@N07/sets/72157607795831835/

A quick visual introduction to the community:
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/1947

More information on how to support the Barriere Lake Algonquins:
http://barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com/2008/03/donations.html

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'All Options Are on the Table'

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SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - Israeli Military Official on Iran: 'All Options Are on the Table' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
In order to stop Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb, the Israeli army is preparing itself for a possible military strike on Iran. "We are ready to do whatever is demanded of us," Israeli Air Force Major General Ido Nehushtan tells SPIEGEL in an exclusive interview.

SPIEGEL: What does the Iranian nuclear program mean for the Israeli Air Force?

Nehushtan: The Iranian regime ist not only a problem for the Air Force or the State of Israel. It is a problem for the entire free world. It is shameful that 70 years after the Reichskristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) there are still heads of state who call for the destruction of our people. History teaches us that we have to take those announcements seriously. And we take them very seriously.



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Omali Yeshitela speaks on the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president

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Omali Yeshitela speaks on the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president
By Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African Socialist International

African workers and peoples of the world:

On Tuesday, November 4 Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States to the obvious joy of millions of African people in the U.S. and around the world, especially in Africa, our national homeland. Other peoples of the world also welcomed the election of Obama.

The jubilation over the election was the result of relief at the end of the hated Bush regime, but mostly it was the result of an assumption that Obama’s election represents a drastic change for the better in the conditions of African people in the U.S. and an end to the United States’ predatory relationship with most of the world.

Sisters and brothers, friends and comrades: none of this is true. The fact is that the election of Obama to the U.S. presidency represents the highest stage of neocolonialism, white power in black face.

As we have seen in Africa and some other places, when our political consciousness develops to the extent that it becomes impossible for imperialist white power to rule us directly, indirect rule or neocolonialism has been employed as a method of undermining our struggle to win our freedom.

Instead of imperialism with the white face that had become so hated by our people because of its history of brutality and humiliation, imperialism donned a black face giving the appearance of freedom and progress while our resources remained in the hands of the same imperialist white power as before.

Sisters, brothers and comrades: some of us are old enough to remember the joy and hope that we experienced with our independence and the emergence of African heads of state in Africa during the 1960s. Others experienced the same elation that accompanied the election of Nelson Mandela as president in South Africa in 1994. Today that joy has been dulled by the reality of our continued exploitation by the same imperialist countries and corporations that have exploited us historically.

Sisters and brothers; friends and comrades: Today our people are swimming in a sea of misery throughout Africa under the indirect rule of neocolonialism. This is true even after Mandela in South Africa where nearly 50 percent of African people are unemployed and thousands are required to live in shanties unfit for human habitation. This South Africa that we are told has overcome its racial past and now constitutes a “Rainbow Nation,” is one where the white ten percent of the population still own 87 percent of the land that they stole with their initial brutal occupation that lasts to this day.



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South America: Recession Can Be Avoided | venezuelanalysis.com

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South America: Recession Can Be Avoided | venezuelanalysis.com: "Can South America escape the wrath of the economic and financial storms that have their epicenter in the United States Since the financial meltdown began in mid-September the bond markets of most of the region Brazil Argentina Colombia Venezuela have been hit as well as most of their stock markets and a number of currencies. The steep drop in commodity prices in recent months has also reduced export and government revenue to a number of countries Argentina Brazil Ecuador Venezuela Peru Chile where previously high prices of agricultural crops minerals and hydrocarbons has contributed to a growth spurt over the last few years. The old adage that 'When America gets a cold Latin America catches pneumonia' has been widely cited."



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Venezuela Ready for First Completely Automated Election

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Venezuela Ready for First Completely Automated Election | venezuelanalysis.com
Mérida, November 17, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Tibisay Lucena, the president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), confirmed Sunday that voting equipment has been audited and delivered to all of the 34,662 voting centers across the country in preparation for this Sunday’s regional and local elections, which are the first elections in Venezuelan to be 100% automated.



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Socialist Aotearoa: John Minto- Key faces cabinet isolation

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Socialist Aotearoa: John Minto- Key faces cabinet isolation: "Waking up on Sunday morning was different to most post-election days after a change in government. Usually the euphoria of the winners is greater and the depths of despair of the losers is deeper. Not so this time when an eerie feeling of sameness seems to hang in the air.

In part this is because while National and Act will form a government their win has not been the landslide it would have been under first past the post. In fact had New Zealand first gained just an extra 0.7% of the party vote then the Maori Party would be the kingmakers and we would probably be looking at a coalition government run again by Helen Clark."



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Bolivia Rising: The United States: Orchestrating a Civic Coup in Bolivia.

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Bolivia Rising: The United States: Orchestrating a Civic Coup in Bolivia.: "Evo Morales is the latest democratically-elected Latin American president to be the target of a US plot to destabilize and overthrow his government. On September 10, 2008 Morales expelled US Ambassador Philip Goldberg because “he is conspiring against democracy and seeking the division of Bolivia.”

Observers of US-Latin American policy tend to view the crisis in US-Bolivian relations as due to a policy of neglect and ineptness towards Latin America because of US involvement in the wars in the Middle East and Central Asia. In fact, the Bolivia coup attempt was a conscious policy rooted in US hostility towards Morales, his political party the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and the social movements that are aligned with him."



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Liberated Yet?: Building Solidarity

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Liberated Yet?: Building Solidarity: "South Asians first arrived in Canada at the end of the nineteenth century, and by 1908, approximately 5,000 were reported to be resident in British Columbia. That year, the Canadian government introduced the Continuous Journey requirement seeking to prohibit further South Asian migration into the country. In 1914, Gurdit Singh, a Punjabi, chartered the Komagata Maru and a group of 376 South Asians passengers sailed to Canada to challenge this racist law. Although they were forced to return to India, they dealt a serious blow to the ‘Keep Canada White’ policies of the white settler society.

A group of South Asian academics, activists and community groups have come together to organize a week-long series of events in November (17- 23), 2008, to mark over one hundred years of South Asian presence in Canada, and to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of the Continuous Journey requirement. These events will pay homage to the struggles waged by South Asian communities in the past, celebrate our achievements, and build alliances as we face the challenges of the 21st century."



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desert-rock-blog.com : Associated Press: "EPA asked to consider evidence in Desert Rock case" Nov 18 2008

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desert-rock-blog.com : Associated Press: "EPA asked to consider evidence in Desert Rock case" Nov 18 2008: "ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - An appeals panel with the Environmental Protection Agency is being asked by New Mexico's top prosecutor to consider new evidence in the case of a proposed $3 billion coal-fired power plant.

Attorney General Gary King said the new evidence shows the permitting process for the Desert Rock Energy Project did not take into account ozone pollution levels that are already above federal air quality standards.

King said October ozone levels have pushed northwestern New Mexico - where the plant would be built - into non-attainment status.

King filed a motion with the appeals panel Tuesday, saying EPA's determination that Desert Rock would not cause or contribute to ozone non-attainment is erroneous."



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FREE HAWAI`I STICKERS MAKES COLUMNIST HATE HAWAI`I

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Free Hawai`i: "'First of all, the Hawaiians' contempt for tourists was so obvious it was annoying.

I couldn't escape the irony that the tourist industry workers were among the most contemptuous people toward tourists.

It sure would have been nice if more than a couple of them had smiled as they took all my money.

I just couldn't escape the feeling that I was an unwelcome guest, and the Free Hawai`i bumper stickers on many of the cars certainly didn't help.'"
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pudgyindian2: Bash Back

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Image by bobster1985 via Flickrpudgyindian2: Bash Back: "'Bash Back' has proudly proclaimed their vandalism of a mormon church in Olympia, Washington and their declaration has appeared on Indy Media.

Because I am not allowed to post on Indy Media (for calling racist anti-Makah whaling vegans on their racism, if I remember the occurence correctly), I will articulate the comments I made on the Indy Media forum that were not posted because of my current status of not being allowed to post there.

The mormon church dumped a bunch of money into anti-gay marriage campaigns. They claim it is immoral. Let's take a look at the definition I found on an online dictionary before we move ahead:

of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes."
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Vice president, former AG, state senator indicted

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Vice president, former AG, state senator indicted | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
McALLEN, Texas — A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on state charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers.

The indictment, which had not yet been signed by the presiding judge, was one of seven released Tuesday in a county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles in recent years. Another of the indictments named a state senator on charges of profiting from his position.

Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra himself had been under indictment for more than a year and half before a judge dismissed the indictments last month. This flurry of charges came in the twilight of Guerra's tenure, which ends this year after nearly two decades in office. He lost convincingly in a Democratic primary in March.

Cheney's indictment on a charge of engaging in an organized criminal activity criticizes the vice president's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.

Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cheney, declined to comment on Tuesday, saying that the vice president had not yet received a copy of the indictment.

The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons.

Gonzalez's attorney, George Terwilliger III, said in a written statement, "This is obviously a bogus charge on its face, as any good prosecutor can recognize. Hopefully, competent Texas authorities will take steps to reign in this abuse of the criminal justice system."



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Media Matters - Baker: Media have "blood on their hands" for murder of transgender woman because they created "false sense of reality"

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Media Matters - Baker: Media have "blood on their hands" for murder of transgender woman because they created "false sense of reality": "Summary: Discussing the murder of Moses Cannon, a transgender woman, Minneapolis radio host Chris Baker suggested that 'some of the blame lie[s] with the American media who enables this fraud' and who 'push this false reality.' He also stated: 'I believe the media and the rest of the enablers out there, they have this guy's blood on their hands because they create this false sense of reality and they enable people who need serious psychological counseling.'"



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Media Matters - Newsweek publishes article on purported debate over whether "Obama [is] the Antichrist"

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Media Matters - Newsweek publishes article on purported debate over whether "Obama [is] the Antichrist": "Summary: In a Newsweek article headlined 'Is Obama the Antichrist?' senior editor Lisa Miller treated as newsworthy purported debate among some 'conservative Christians' over whether President-elect Barack Obama is 'the Antichrist.' In doing so, she gave credibility to the views of RaptureReady.com editor and founder Todd Strandberg, who has, among other things, smeared gays and lesbians, Islam, progressives, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."



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Gingrich: "[T]here is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us"

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Media Matters - Gingrich: "[T]here is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us"
On the November 14 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, in reference to actions by individual protesters of Proposition 8, the recently passed California ballot initiative amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich stated: "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion." Gingrich also stated: "[W]hen the radicals lost the vote in California, they are determined to impose their will on this country no matter what the popular opinion, no matter what the law of the land."






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Nia Glassie case: 'We've got to learn to nark' - 19 Nov 2008 - Maori news - NZ Herald

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Nia Glassie case: 'We've got to learn to nark' - 19 Nov 2008 - Maori news - NZ Herald: "A Maori community leader and child advocate wants New Zealanders to stop turning a blind eye to child abuse and dob in their neighbours. His call comes after yesterday s guilty verdicts in the trial of those accused of killing Rotorua three-year-old Nia Glassie. Hone Kaa head of the child advocacy group Te Kahui Mana Ririki said New Zealand s child abuse rate was unacceptably high and more children like Nia would die if people continued to turn a blind eye. 'We can be sure she isn t going to be the last. We might pray that she is but in the end it s the behaviour of adults that secures the safety of children.'"



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Lightning Strikes Twice, The Arctic and Apaches in the BRONX!

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NAICA favorite Georgina Lightning was recently in town to show a trailer of her forthcoming feature Older Than America.
Rooftop Films and IFC made this screening possible. The event, contrary
to the title, was held at a park on 12 Street, between Avenue A and 1st
Ave–for those of you who give a shit—in East Village. Some of you may
claim that I am biased but I assure you the highlight of the event was
Georgina’s trailer.

The rest of the trailers emphasized “white
neurosis” under the guise of art. Please don’t make me explain this.
Either you get it or you don’t. Or better yet take a class at the New
School. I’m sure they offer a course on this subject! Please see my
interview in the 2007 summer edition with Georgina for more details on
her feature: http://www.thenaica.org/edition_six/ppt/georgina/intro.htm



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Johnny Depp to redefine Tonto?

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Newspaper Rock -- Where Native America Meets Pop Culture
Think about it—arguably Hollywood's most versatile actor who claims a smackrel of Cherokee and Navajo lineage assuming the part of Native America’s most controversial film character. The buzz in the mainstream media is ecstatic; the buzz in the Native press has been a mix of muted enthusiasm and derisiveness. Tonto, many implore, that’s bad enough…but having a white dude play him? That’s even worse.

Then again, maybe not. Maybe, just maybe the powerhouse duo of Bruckheimer and Depp will redefine Tonto in the public psyche the same way Jack Sparrow redefined pirates—witty and drop-dead sexy, a bona fide STAR. If they do, the image of Native America’s Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and Stepin Fetchit will never be the same.



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MyFox Kansas City | Kansas Preacher Pushes Obama Muslim Message

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MyFox Kansas City | Kansas Preacher Pushes Obama Muslim Message: "WICHITA KAN. -- A Wichita Kansas preacher says he will not remove a message on his church sign that says President-Elect Barack Obama is a Muslim. The sign is staying up despite the fact that Obama is a Christian. The sign at Spirit One Christian Center reads 'America we have a Muslim president. This is sin against the Lord.'"

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BIG F--K UP AT AKWESASNE. GANG WAR BY CBSA, RCMP, OPP & MOHAWK POLICE ENDANGER LIVES AND VIOLATES HAUDENOSAUNEE JURISDICTION

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BIG F--K UP AT AKWESASNE. GANG WAR BY CBSA, RCMP, OPP & MOHAWK POLICE ENDANGER LIVES AND VIOLATES HAUDENOSAUNEE JURISDICTION

MNN. Nov. 17, 2008. On Friday night November 15, 2008 around 8 p.m., an elderly couple, both 77, was returning from a trip to Montreal. They had to go through the Akwesasne Cornwall Island border checkpoint, a few minutes away from their home in Massena, New York. After crossing the bridge from Cornwall, they approached the intersection of International and Island roads just before the Canada Customs building, before heading to the U.S. Customs. Meanwhile the Akwesasne Mohawk Police were chasing a 21 year old non-native youth in a minivan on the Island. The youth from St. Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec, sped through the stop sign at the intersection and smashed into the car of the elders. All three were killed in the crash and resulting fire.

Island Road passes through a residential part of Akwesasne known as "Kawehnoke". It has no lights, no sidewalks, and the posted speed limit is 40 km/h.

The cops set up this lethal event with their usual disregard for the right of Indigenous peoples to live in peace and quiet. Their internal investigations will probably show that the cops and border guards were following "standard procedure" when they created this deadly catastrophe.

The youth was flagged as a "cigarette smuggler" by the Canada Border Services Agency CBSA and undercover intelligence that were in the community in unmarked cars and just standing around. He crossed the bridge over to Cornwall. There, RCMP and OPP were waiting for him. The youth saw them, turned around and headed back over the bridge to Kawehnoke, chased by the OPP and the RCMP. They called off their chase and told the Akwesasne Mohawk Police to take over, according to Ron Moran, President of the Customs & Excise Union.

The Mohawk police claimed they had called off the chase. Witnesses said the cop car lights were still flashing when they came down the hill in pursuit; after the mortal impact, the police ran to the van going after cigarettes; and they made no attempt to rescue the elders. A witness tried to open their car door. It was jammed. The car was already on fire and then became engulfed in flames.

The border agents and cops at this checkpoint are well-known for their lack of judgment, their brutality and their cavalier approach to the law. They have been violently attacking the Mohawks who have to go through this checkpoint on a daily basis. They use the "Akwesasne Residents' Lane" that is supposed to make movement easier for residents as target practice. On June 14 2008 CBSA attempted to murder two grandmothers they had pulled over. One suffered a trauma induced heart attack. The two women tried to get the RCMP and OPP to investigate the attempted murders. Both agencies said they had no jurisdiction. It was the responsibility of the Akwesasne Mohawk Police, who have done nothing.

All these agents, CBSA, OPP, RCMP and Akwesasne Mohawk police, "without jurisdiction", are fighting their gang wars in Akwesasne! We have documentary proof that all of these agencies claim they have no jurisdiction here. In fact, Madam Mireille Tabib of the Federal Court of Canada has recognized that Akwesasne is not part of Canada [Kahentinetha & Katenies v. The Queen, T-1309-08, October 23, 2008].

Guess who's investigating this one? The OPP and the RCMP! Though they have no jurisdiction, they think they can perpetrate crimes! It looks like the families of these three victims could launch a big lawsuit against this IBET posse [Integrated Border Enforcement TaskForce]. Maybe Homeland Security should get involved as the elders are U.S. citizens. Sgt. Kristine Rae told the Ottawa citizen that the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service asked the OPP to investigate the collision.

The Special Investigations Unit SIU, an Ontario civilian law enforcement agency, usually investigates any incident involving police that results in serious injury or death. The Akwesasne Mohawk Territory is out of the SIU's jurisdiction. The almost death and serious injury of the two women caused by the CBSA doesn't count! They only investigate the death and injury of non-Ongwehonwe by their agents!!! It's called racism!

Policing is supposed to be a service requested by the people to take care of issues within the community. These four colonial mob agencies have brought their violent conflicts to our community without our consent because they think it's a "no man's land" for the colonizers and they can get away with it. The truth is that it's the Haudenosaunee peoples' jurisdiction. These mobs serve "outside racketeers" and extortionists who try to impose non-Ongwehonwe mayhem. They are "tax" extortionists with guns who rob on behalf of the colonial state. Some surmise that they may have been trying to rob the youth, grab his load and sell it themselves. Then they put these kids through their court system.

Everyone knows that cigarettes are legal. We are free to trade as we always have been since time immemorial. Neither the youth or the 77-year old couple deserved to die. What did the "border squatters" who have set up their illegal shop in the middle of our community want? To extort a share of our legitimate commerce! The colonial society has deliberately debilitated us so that we have no economy. It's no coincidence that Canada created a situation that killed old people. It's a culture that disrespects elders. It claims us as citizens but it has taken the Old Age pensions from our elders here.

We Mohawks feel deeply saddened by the tragedy that took place in our midst. We are outraged by the remorseless gangsterism of the colonial thugs that caused it. These hoods knew this poor young guy was not a native. They set him up because he was alone and unprotected. He died because of a failed economy and having no prospects in his own society. Poor people buy the cigarettes because they can't afford the state taxes used to support their parasitic government officials. There is hardly anything left over for proper education or health care for their people.

These thugs should leave Akwesasne. They are now using twisted logic to try to blame us for their gangland style "hit". They claim it all happened because we didn't support them! What a bunch of sickos! The only involvement of our people were the witnesses who tried to save the lives of the victims. People were out and about. The Mohawk Police officers showed no common sense when they conducted this lethal high speed chase through the middle of our community.

Anger and frustration about the accident and the chase is simmering across Akwesasne and beyond. If Canada wants to call trade in our cigarettes contraband, that's their business. It doesn't make it so. We think their gang wars are to get a piece of the action, as they see it. We don't want any part of them. We want them to get their fake border, goons and dangerous behavior out of our community. If they want to do s--t like this, let them do it in their own bedroom community. We've had enough.

All these people were killed over a load of cigarettes. Their creed is commercial greed before human life! The blame for this tragedy can only be laid at the feet of all these criminal entities, CBSA, OPP, RCMP and the Akwesasne Mohawk Police. http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/new ... 92d2f37511

Karakwine & MNN Staff - Mohawk Nation News www.mohawknationnews.com
Katenies20@yahoo.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com

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Some of the 'borderline' culprits involved: Prothonotary Mireille Tabib, 284 Wellington TSA-6032, Ottawa ON Canada K1A 0H8 613-992-4238 Fax 613-952-3653; Phil Fontaine of the AFN is a partner in CBSA's Sustainable Development Strategy 2007-9; Chris Kealey, Canada Customs Excise, Immigration Taxation Board, CBSA Media Relations 613-991-5197; President CBSA 613-952-3200, 613-957-0612, CBSA-ASFC@Canada.gc.ca; National Aboriginal Initiative CHRC 204-983-2189 1-866-772-4880 info.com@chrc-ccdp.ca; Canada Customs Port of Entry at Cornwall Island Ontario; Gaetan Cousineau, Quebec Human Rights presidence@cdpdj.gc.ca; Akwesasne Mohawk Police 613-575-2250 ex 2400; Mohawk Security at the border 613-932-5183, 613-575-2340; Lance Markel, District Director CBSA 613-930-3234, 613-991-1214; Brent Lafave, Investigator CBSA; Susan St. Clair, Canadian Human Rights Commission, 344 Slater, Ottawa 613-995-1151, 1-888-214-1090, 613-943-5188; CBSA National Spokesperson 613-957-6500; Quebec Media Relations CBSA 514-350-6130; Chief Mohawk Council Akwesasne 613-575-2250 nbenedict@akwesasne.ca; Minister Stockwell Day, Ottawa 613-995-4432; Melissa Leclair Communications Pub. Safety 613-991-2863.

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Morung Express | Homepage | Breaking news, latest news and world news - NPF Swings to Peace Tune

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Morung Express | Homepage | Breaking news, latest news and world news - NPF Swings to Peace Tune: "Kohima | November 18 : Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu has been re-elected president of the Nagaland People’s Front while Apong Pongener and Kewezu G Kenye are instated as working president and secretary general respectively.
The new team of office bearers, also comprising of general secretaries, vice presidents, secretaries and others was also announced during today’s NPF general convention held here at the India Gandhi Stadium.

In his acceptance speech, Dr. Liezietsu said the new team will retrospect ‘with seriousness’ to ‘correct the failures’ and to adopt newer approaches ‘to move forward’. “Towards solution to the political problem, we have committed to strive for its solution by playing the role of a mediator”, said Dr. Liezietsu in his presidential address. He said the party has committed itself to supporting all disseminative moves towards peace."



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Abiding in Bolivia: Evo in New York

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Abiding in Bolivia: Evo in New York: "Evo for the hour on Democracy Now! Listen up."






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Lily Pad: Gloria's Karma

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Lily Pad: Gloria's Karma: "Three times she phoned President-elect Barack Obama to ask for a meeting. Ay, inglorious Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, de facto president of the much-imposed upon alleged Republic of the Philippines, she who countenanced the killing of a thousand community organizers, including 93 women, must now beg for an audience with the community-organizer-in-chief.

Sweet karma."



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NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO: Hafa i Chalan-ta Mo'na?

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NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO: Hafa i Chalan-ta Mo'na?: "I've realized this week that I could run a blog full-time, just by posting regularly what happens in my classes or what I'm doing in my classes.

I'm teaching four Guam History classes at UOG for the month of November, taking over for a professor who is sick and off-island. He's given me space to do whatever I want, and so there were a number of different projects I wanted my students to do, but I'll really only have time for one, and so the description for it I'm pasting below. Its called 'Estao Pulitik�t: I Chal�n-ta Mo’na,' and in it, classes will be divided into three groups, each representing a different political status for Guam, statehood, independence and free association, and they will have to answer 'tough' questions from me about what Guam will look like under their political status and why given the island's historical and contemporary problems, is their particular status the best way to go."



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Montana Native Killing not a Hate Crime

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AG: Cut Bank case not a hate crime | greatfallstribune.com | Great Falls Tribune
The Montana Attorney General's Office has reviewed a Cut Bank case and agreed with Glacier County Attorney Larry Epstein that the alleged beating was not racially motivated.
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However, the Attorney General's Office raised the possibility Monday that the original misdemeanor assault charges could be refiled as felonies under a different section of state law.

The case involves three brothers — Todd, Brian and Aaron Molenda — who were charged with misdemeanors in September after brawling with four people outside of a bar. Two of the alleged victims were Glacier County Commissioner Ron Rides at the Door and his wife, Michelle, who were trying to break up the fighting.

In a letter released Monday, Chief Criminal Counsel John P. Connor Jr. wrote: "We have all concluded that the actions of the Molenda brothers, while disgusting, totally unacceptable and allegedly criminal, did not occur because of the victims' race. In our judgment, they occurred because Mr. Rides at the Door attempted to assist another victim who was being beaten by the Molenda brothers."

Connor noted there was ample evidence to charge the brothers with misdemeanor assault and that the Molendas uttered racial slurs as they knocked Rides at the Door to the ground and kicked him.

"As the letter from the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council notes, the yelling of racial slurs occurred 'while' the defendants were assaulting Mr. Rides at the Door," Connor wrote. "The statute does not address that particular issue. Instead it requires that the criminal actions occurred 'because' of the victim's race."



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EDITORIAL OPINION: Willing to pay the price for his people

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NIT
ISSUE 166, November 13, 2008: The Queensland Police Service is still a fetid and foul force, but for the Wotton family at least, some faith in the judicial system has been restored.

Which speaks volumes about how bad they expected things might get.

Last week, their son, father, brother, Uncle Lex Wotton was sentenced to six years in prison for his part in leading the 2004 Palm Island uprising. With good behaviour, and taking into account time served, Lex could be released as early as July 18, 2010.

Lex's family would have preferred he came home last Friday, but given what he was facing - life in prison, with a Crown prosecutor seeking a minimum of 10 years - two was a good outcome. The family expressed relief at the verdict, and praised Judge Michael Shanahan for the way he conducted the trial, and for his obvious compassion.

The sentence should not, must not, be appealed. It would be a foolish Director of Public Prosecutions who sought to pick at this scab once more. The fact is, Lex Wotton and the Palm Islander community were justified in their response. A Queensland police officer killed a man in custody, and his friends and colleagues sought to cover it up. The evidence of that is overwhelming.

I understand why society maintains that no matter what, nothing justifies the torching of a police station. But I also understand that society at large does not know what it means to be ignored, reviled, attacked, nor to be at war with a government and its police force.

Aboriginal Australians, particularly those in Queensland, do understand, although it's worth noting it was not a war of their making.

There has been some criticism of the jury that convicted Lex Wotton. Many have noted it included no black faces. I join that criticism - in that sense, Lex Wotton was not tried by his peers.

But I also believe it's important to acknowledge that the jury in the Wotton trial took its job very seriously. It was clearly not a gathering of white Queensland rednecks, as some have suggested.

Throughout a lengthy trial that stretched over three weeks, jury members took copious notes. They endured countless interruptions for legal arguments, and they deliberated on their verdict for two days.

They worked hard, and on the evidence presented in court, any jury in the land was justified in returning a guilty verdict. At law, at least, Lex Wotton did the wrong thing.

The facts are he did lead an uprising. He did confront police. He did demand they leave the island. He did smash windows at the courthouse.

The confronting part of this tragedy is that in the process, Lex Wotton also did more for his community than any man or woman has ever done.

Mike Reynolds, the local Member for Townsville (and a man who deserves high praise for his support of Palm Islanders), noted in a reference to the court that more has happened to advance Palm Island since the uprising than has occurred in the many decades preceding it.

That fact is irrefutable.

While today there still remains a general malaise by government towards Aboriginal communities, without question Palm Island's future looks brighter.

That is wholly and solely because Lex Wotton and a group of Palm Islanders found the courage to stand up and resist the oppression of a police force that believes in its right to act as judge and jury, and accidentally or otherwise, occasionally executioner.

The uprising on Palm was borne of an understanding that nothing would change without dramatic intervention.

Lex Wotton is paying a high price for that realisation, and that leadership. But it is a price he is more than willing to pay for a community he loves.

Chris Graham, editor



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Aisha Ali: Dismantling Thanksgiving myths: a Native American story

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D.C. Youth Issues Examiner: Dismantling Thanksgiving myths: a Native American story
In my eyes, Thanksgiving has never been about the Pilgrims-- and to many Americans, I question if this is their sole source of celebration, as many people blindly celebrate holidays and have no clue of their history. Although I am sure many people celebrate Thanksgiving as a way to express “thanks,” for me, Thanksgiving serves as another remembrance of how my Native American ancestors were maltreated; annihilated; ousted from their land; and consigned to reservations, eradicating every trace of their pre-existing life.

Thanksgiving rehashes memories of how the hospital staff, in its refusal to treat my great-great grandfather, sent him home to die from pneumonia because he was Native American. Thanksgiving reminds me of how my grandmother had “to pass” as a light-skinned black person to avoid being forced on a reservation. When thinking of Thanksgiving, I recall how my Nation, the Cherokees, was forced from its land in Georgia, leaving a “Trail of Tears.” As I sit around with my family and share thoughts while eating on Thanksgiving, I think of how the very ingredients with which my food was prepared, had been once picked by the hands of my Native American ancestors who served as slaves in North Carolina and the Caribbean. Needless to say, I also think of my African ancestors who toiled away in the fields to pick the very foods with which my food was prepared. America, to me, is not the “Land of Pilgrim’s pride," but should be and is to me, the "Land of Native American pride".

The national holiday, “Thanksgiving,” was not initially created in the way most Americans have come to know it.



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Fourth World Eye � Blog Archive � Illustrating Subsidiarity

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Fourth World Eye � Blog Archive � Illustrating Subsidiarity: "Illustrating the principle of subsidiarity, Sinn Fein and the DUP have reached a deal on the devolution of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Belfast. The creation of a Department of Justice in, by and for the people of Northern Ireland is a key element of continued stability and cooperation between the indigenous Irish and British settlers. The Irish and British governments both support the deal."



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Mass Tribal Uprising in West Bengal | Intercontinental Cry

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Mass Tribal Uprising in West Bengal | Intercontinental Cry: "What we are witnessing in the tribal belt of West Bengal is [an] historical moment. A long oppressed people have risen up and are daring to confront their oppressors and question the logic of “development” that destroys their lives and livelihoods.”

In what started out as a protest against police brutality, on November 7 more than ten thousand Santhal men and women converged in the Indian state of West Bengal to demand the end to state oppression and the constant dispossession of their lands.

It is an historic moment for the tribal peoples in the region — and one so unprecedented that authorities are not even sure what to do about it."



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Alberta Chiefs Unanimously Support The Lubicon | Intercontinental Cry

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Alberta Chiefs Unanimously Support The Lubicon | Intercontinental Cry: "The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs, which represents Chiefs from Treaty 6, Treaty 7 and Treaty 8 territories in Canada, have issued a unanimous resolution of support for the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation in their ongoing land rights struggle with TransCanada, the Alberta Utilities Commission, and the Provincial and Federal governments.

“Notably, Treaty 8 covers the lands surrounding Lubicon Territory through which the North Central Crossing Pipeline is also intended to pass — meaning that Chiefs all along the pipeline route have declared their support for the Lubicon position”, points out the solidarity group, Friends of the Lubicon."



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American Indian reservations see record voter turnout - TwinCities.com

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American Indian reservations see record voter turnout - TwinCities.com: "BEMIDJI Minn. — Stepped-up voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts on area American Indian reservations saw record voter turnout on Election Day. 'This year we did exceptionally well because of the fact we had for the first time funds to do the work ' Sally Fineday executive director of Native Vote Alliance of Minnesota said last week. Staff was available to help with voter registration drives and get-out-the-vote efforts — much of it supported by the tribes she said."



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The name of the US drone, 'Predator,' reflects what the United States has become

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All Notebook Entries | the narcosphere: "By Brenda Norrell

TUCSON -- The bad news is that the US Border Patrol has four drones flying out of Fort Huachuca over the US/Mexico border for surveillance. One drone has already crashed near Nogales and these unmanned aerial planes, provided first by Israel's Apartheid spy technology maker, Elbit Systems, are a risk to the lives of those on the ground in Arizona.

The good news is that Airforce pilots are not flying over in their planes. Airforce pilots in Tucson were so eager to smuggle cocaine in uniform, that the FBI halted Operation Lively Green. More than 50 Army, Navy, Marine and National Guard soldiers have been sentenced for smuggling cocaine for cash, from Nogales to Phoenix."



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Italian Auschwitz Survivor Warns Against Roma Discrimination

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UNObserver & International Report

On the 70th anniversary of anti-Jewish decrees in Italy, an Italian Auschwitz survivor has said the Roma population faces discrimination similar to Jews in Nazi Germany.

"History is repeating itself" in Italy, Piero Terracina said Friday, Nov. 14, at a conference marking the 70th anniversary of the notorious racial laws targeting Jews, which were approved by the Italian cabinet on Nov. 15, 1938.

"Everything started with the census of the Jews and the terrible consequences to which this led us", said Terracina, reported AFP news agency.



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Censored News welcomes readers from around the world

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CENSORED NEWS: Censored News welcomes readers from around the world
By Brenda Norrell
SAN FRANCISCO -- A warm welcome to our readers from around the world. Our latest readers are from Malta, Korea and Thailand. Special thanks to all the contributors! A very special thanks to the U.N. OBSERVER & International Report at the Hague, for publishing Censored News articles, and to Paul Rafferty for his longtime support.

Thanks also to Victor Rocha at Pechanga Net and Narco News, Counterpunch and Indymedia for publishing the truth. Mohawk Nation News is peerless in the industry, published by resolute women warriors.

The Mohawk Nation News publisher, editors and writers, all Mohawk women, have been beaten by border guards, arrested, followed and harassed by police. Publisher Kahentinetha Horn continues to recover from a heart attack induced by the stresshold of Canadian border agents.
Since Saturday, Nov. 15, Censored News was visited by thousands of readers from 59 countries, from all regions of the earth, from Bolivia, Vietnam, Croatia, Italy and Turkey to Yemen, Russia and China. Welcome to our readers from Norway, Singapore, Philippines and Kazakhstan. Click on the country counter for more details.



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Economic stimulus could spark violence: Barnett - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Economic stimulus could spark violence: Barnett - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "The West Australia Premier Colin Barnett has attacked the Federal Government s economic stimulus package saying it will cause problems in the state s indigenous communities. One off payments of $1 000 payments for almost four million children will be rolled out from December the 8. Single Pensioners also receive one off payments of $1 400 and couples $2 100. Mr Barnett says one off cash payments are bad policy. 'There are going to be problems of alcohol there are going to be problems of gambling ' he said."



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Traditional land owners appeal against nuclear storage - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Traditional land owners appeal against nuclear storage - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Traditional owners from sites earmarked for a potential nuclear waste facility in the Northern Territory have begged a Senate Inquiry not to store nuclear material on their land.

A Senate committee is investigating whether a Howard Government law forcing a waste dump on the Northern Territory should be repealed and sat in Alice Springs today.

People from communities near the Mount Everard, Harts Range and Muckaty sites protested outside the inquiry before traditional owners appeared."



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Govt petitioned to preserve Indigenous languages - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Govt petitioned to preserve Indigenous languages - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "A peak national Indigenous language group is petitioning the Government to step up measures to preserve native languages.

Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages manager Paul Herbert says he is concerned about the rapid loss of Indigenous languages.

The federation is also seeking a national inquiry into Indigenous languages, which Mr Herbert hopes will happen early next year."



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The Raw Story | Abramoff said he had agreement with White House aide just a month after Bush took office

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The Raw Story | Abramoff said he had agreement with White House aide just a month after Bush took office: "Email noting relationship with White House came just a month after Bush took office
Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff told his colleagues at his former law firm that he had an “agreement” regarding communications with a former assistant to then-Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, perhaps the most substantial documented tie between Abramoff and the White House to date.

In the email, dated Feb. 27, 2001, Abramoff reprimands a colleague who asked him to use Susan Ralston – Special Assistant to the President George W. Bush and then-Bush senior adviser Karl Rove – to arrange a meeting with the President for one of his clients."



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La Minga de Resistencia Social y Comunitaria sesionará en la Plaza de Bolívar

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MAMA Radio: La Minga de Resistencia Social y Comunitaria sesionará en la Plaza de Bolívar
Hoy que la Minga anuncia su entrada a la capital del país, los voceros de las organizaciones sociales, que realizan gestiones de acercamiento con las instituciones, alertan frente a los obstáculos que la rectoría de la Universidad Nacional presenta para no albergar a los caminantes de la Palabra en los predios de la misma, expresando que dicha actitud resulta intransigente y no responde a los objetivos de la universidad pública, los cuales deben estar dirigidos a promover el debate y la formulación de salidas inteligentes y civilistas para todo el país.

El pasado 2 de noviembre, en La María, Piendamó, ante el presidente Uribe, quedó abierto el Debate Nacional con La Minga de Resistencia Social y Comunitaria, por lo cual se informó ante el país que continuaríamos en Marcha hacia la capital del país.

Desde entonces, los caminantes de la Palabra, hemos llegado a Cali, Palmira, Armenia, Cajamarca, Ibagué, Chicoral y Fusa, sitios donde los ciudadanos han manifestado su complacencia y solidaridad con la Minga, así como su descontento con la política social y económica que afecta a las mayorías del país.
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Today that the Minga announces its entrance to the capital of
the country, the spokesmen of the social organizations, which they
realise managements of approach with the institutions, alert in front
of the obstacles that rectoría of the National University
presents/displays not to lodge to the travellers of the Word in the
estates of the same, expressing that this attitude is intransigente and
it does not respond to the objectives of the public university, which
must be directed to promote the debate and the formulation of
intelligent and civilist exits for all the country.

The past
2 of November, in the Maria, Piendamó, before president Uribe, was open
National Debate with the Minga de Social Resistencia and Communitarian,
thus it inquired before the country that we would continue in March
towards the capital of the country.

Since then, the travellers
of the Word, we have arrived at Cali, Palmira, Armenia, Cajamarca,
Ibagué, Chicoral and Fusa, sites where the citizens have showed their
complacencia and solidarity with the Minga, as well as its displeasure
with the social and economic policy that affects the majorities of the
country.




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Hillary Clinton to accept Barack Obama's offer of secretary of state job | World news | guardian.co.uk

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Hillary Clinton to accept Barack Obama's offer of secretary of state job | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.

Obama's advisers have begun looking into Bill Clinton's foundation, which distributes millions of dollars to Africa to help with development, to ensure that there is no conflict of interest. But Democrats do not believe that the vetting is likely to be a problem."



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Jon Gaunt sacked over 'Nazi' jibe - TV & Radio, Media - The Independent

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Jon Gaunt sacked over 'Nazi' jibe - TV & Radio, Media - The Independent: "The radio presenter who called a Conservative councillor a 'Nazi' and an 'ignorant pig' live on air has been sacked. An investigation was launched after the remarks made by Jon Gaunt on his Talksport radio show generated 'a number' of complaints from listeners. During a show earlier this month Gaunt was interviewing councillor Michael Stark about Redbridge Council s ban on smokers becoming foster parents which will come into force in January 2010."



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The Hindu : National : Mubarak conferred Nehru award

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The Hindu : National : Mubarak conferred Nehru award: "NEW DELHI: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was on Tuesday conferred the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for his “unique role in providing stability and progress to his country, in upholding the Arab cause, in promoting peace and understanding in the region.”

Mr. Mubarak was given the 1995 award only now as attempts to arrange for his bilateral visit could not materialise on three occasions."



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Holder accepts Obama Justice offer: senior Democrat | U.S. | Reuters

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Holder accepts Obama Justice offer: senior Democrat | U.S. | Reuters: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder has accepted U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's conditional offer to head the Justice Department, a senior Democrat said on Tuesday.

Before the offer is made official, Obama's team wants to determine if Holder could win Senate confirmation with broad bipartisan support, the Democrat said.

While Obama will be the first black president, Holder would be the first African American to head the Justice Department, which is in charge of enforcing the U.S. civil rights laws."

Holder, 57, served as deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton. In the top spot, he would be the nation's senior law enforcement officer and deal with issues from crime to terrorism.



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Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Lieberman To Keep Homeland Security Post

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Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Lieberman To Keep Homeland Security Post: "After weeks of deliberation about former Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, Congressional leaders from his former party came to some conclusions Tuesday about his political future. Lieberman will retain his position as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee but won’t be keeping his subcommittee post in the Environment and Public Works Committee."



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New US visa deal depends on handing over personal data - The Irish Times - Tue, Nov 18, 2008

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New US visa deal depends on handing over personal data - The Irish Times - Tue, Nov 18, 2008: "THE GOVERNMENT will have to agree to a sweeping new agreement on sharing criminal data with the United States if Ireland is to remain part of the visa waiver programme, US homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday.

The deal would mean exchanging data, including DNA and fingerprint records, and in some cases details of individuals' political and religious beliefs and sexual orientation - even on people not planning to travel to the US."



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Majority of voters back pay cut for public servants - The Irish Times - Tue, Nov 18, 2008

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Majority of voters back pay cut for public servants - The Irish Times - Tue, Nov 18, 2008: "A MAJORITY of voters believe that public servants should be asked to take a pay cut in response to the crisis in the public finances, according to the Irish Times/TNS mrbi poll.

The poll also showed that spending cuts rather than tax increases are favoured by a majority to deal with the crisis, but they also believe that the cuts announced in the Budget were too tough."



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Barack Obama is warned to beware of a ‘huge threat’ from al-Qaeda - Times Online

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Barack Obama is warned to beware of a ‘huge threat’ from al-Qaeda - Times Online: "Barack Obama is being given ominous advice from leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to brace himself for an early assault from terrorists.

General Michael Hayden, director of the CIA, this week acknowledged that there were dangers during a presidential transition when new officials were coming in and getting accustomed to the challenges. But he added that no “real or artificial spike” in intercepted transmissions from terror suspects had been detected.

President Bush has repeatedly described the acute vulnerability of the US during a transition. The Bush Administration has been defined largely by the 9/11 attacks, which came within a year of his taking office."Related articles by Zemanta
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CEM: RAF exercise over Iceland is cancelled

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This comes in from our UK correspondent CEM:

RAF exercise over Iceland is cancelled - Times Online
Nato has decided to cancel RAF air patrols over Iceland that had been due to take place next month.

The Icelandic Prime Minister, Geir Haarde, and the Foreign Minister, Ingibjörg Sólrún GÍsladóttir, insist that the decision has nothing to do with the political and monetary conflict with London.

There can be little doubt, however, that the cancellation of a routine military exercise is related to the current public mood in Iceland and the country’s dire financial situation, as Iceland bears some of the cost of those Nato exercises.
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RAF exercise over Iceland is cancelled - Times Online

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RAF exercise over Iceland is cancelled - Times Online: "Nato has decided to cancel RAF air patrols over Iceland that had been due to take place next month.

The Icelandic Prime Minister, Geir Haarde, and the Foreign Minister, Ingibj�rg S�lr�n G�slad�ttir, insist that the decision has nothing to do with the political and monetary conflict with London.

There can be little doubt, however, that the cancellation of a routine military exercise is related to the current public mood in Iceland and the country’s dire financial situation, as Iceland bears some of the cost of those Nato exercises."

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Communal Banks Of Venezuela Receive Big Boost

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Communal Banks Of Venezuela Receive Big Boost | venezuelanalysis.com
Mérida, November 14, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez handed over credits to over a thousand communal banks, he highlighted the need for social networks of distribution and for the private banks to also contribute.

"We're preparing for a large expansion of the communal banks," Chavez said during a ceremony to hand over funds to communities in Caracas on Wednesday.

Communal banks are social organizations that administer the financial and non-financial resources of the communal councils, the organizing mechanism of communities. Through the communal banks, organized communities can finance social projects, assist members in cases of emergency, and make social investments.



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Express Nagaland | Homepage Breaking news,Latest news, world news - “Hindu terrorism:” India’s Pandora Box?

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Express Nagaland | Homepage Breaking news,Latest news, world news - “Hindu terrorism:” India’s Pandora Box?: "NEW DELHI, November 17 (Reuters): Reports that Hindu militants may be involved in bomb attacks first blamed on Islamists may open a Pandora’s Box for India’s beleaguered security services and become a key voter issue before general elections next year. At least 10 people, including a serving army officer and a Hindu monk and nun, have been arrested over alleged involvement in blasts in the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in Maharashtra that killed four people."



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Socialism, Solidarity, and Indigenous Liberation

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New Socialist: Socialism, Solidarity, and Indigenous Liberation. By Deborah Simmons NS 61
In Canada, a new radical movement of indigenous people is emerging that refuses to be co-opted by the “aboriginalist” policies of the state. This movement aims to resist the destructive, corrupting and oppressive aspects of the system that has been imposed on indigenous peoples since the arrival of the Europeans. At the same time, the new radical indigenism reaffirms and renews the positive aspects of the sovereign societies that existed on this continent before colonization. Inherent in this strategy is a strong sense of autonomy. Indigenous people are responsible for making their own revolution, in their own way.

Given the undeniable fact of radical indigenous autonomy, and given the often shameful record of top-down versions of socialism that claim to have a monopoly on solutions to the “Indian problem,” it would seem that socialism has nothing to contribute to the project of indigenous liberation beyond unconditional solidarity. This is the perspective promoted by Queen’s University scholar Richard JF Day, whose book Gramsci is Dead draws on a certain anarchist tradition and on post-structuralist philosopher Michel Foucault in arguing that there is a kind of totalitarian impulse in all global strategies for social transformation. The book’s title refers to the death of the concepts of dominance or “hegemony” and revolutionary “counter-hegemony” developed by Italian Antonio Gramsci in the 1920s and 1930s.



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Teens await grand jury edict in immigrant killing

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Teens await grand jury edict in immigrant killing: "GARDEN CITY N.Y. — A grand jury neared a decision Friday on whether to upgrade charges in the fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant whose killing has prompted widespread outrage and forced the chief executive of Suffolk County to apologize for calling it a 'one-day story.' Marcelo Lucero a 37-year old immigrant who came to the United States 16 years ago was fatally stabbed shortly before midnight Nov. 8 during a confrontation with seven teenagers who police said were on a hunt 'to beat up some Mexicans.' All seven teens have pleaded not guilty to a preliminary charge of gang assault. Jeffrey Conroy the 17-year-old high school senior suspected of inflicting the fatal blow has also been charged with manslaughter as a hate crime. A spokesman for Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy who called the attackers 'white supremacists ' said that Conroy has a swastika tattoo on his leg."



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Did the CIA Poison Paul Robeson?

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Did the CIA Poison Paul Robeson? - FTP MOVEMENT
Paul Robeson, the black actor, singer, and political radical, may have been a victim of CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb's MK-ULTRA program. We have previously noted Gottlieb's death and outlined his career of infamy. In the spring of 1961, Robeson planned to visit Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The trip never came off because Robeson fell ill in Moscow, where he had gone to give several lectures and concerts. At the time, it was reported that Robeson had suffered a heart attack. But in fact Robeson had slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt after suffering hallucinations and severe depression. The symptoms came on following a surprise party thrown for him at his Moscow hotel.

Robeson's son, Paul Robeson, Jr., has investigated his father's illness for more than 30 years. He believes that his father was slipped a synthetic hallucinogen called BZ by U.S. intelligence operatives at the party in Moscow. The party was hosted by anti-Soviet dissidents funded by the CIA.

Robeson Jr. visited his father in the hospital the day after the suicide attempt. Robeson told his son that he felt extreme paranoia and thought that the walls of the room were moving. He said he had locked himself in his bedroom and was overcome by a powerful sense of emptiness and depression before he tried to take his own life.

Robeson left Moscow for London, where he was admitted to Priory Hospital. There he was turned over to psychiatrists who forced him to endure 54 electro-shock treatments. At the time, electro-shock, in combination with psycho-active drugs, was a favored technique of CIA behavior modification. It turned out that the doctors treating Robeson in London and, later, in New York were CIA contractors. The timing of Robeson's trip to Cuba was certainly a crucial factor. Three weeks after the Moscow party, the CIA launched its disastrous invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. It's impossible to underestimate Robeson's threat, as he was perceived by the U.S. government as the most famous black radical in the world. Through the 1950s Robeson commanded worldwide attention and esteem. He was the Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali of his time. He spoke more than twenty languages, including Russian, Chinese, and several African languages. Robeson was also on close terms with Nehru, Jomo Kenyatta, and other Third World leaders. His embrace of Castro in Havana would have seriously undermined U.S. efforts to overthrow the new Cuban government.



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Best Countries for Women? - Shameless Magazine - for girls who get it

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Best Countries for Women? - Shameless Magazine - for girls who get it: "“Norway, Finland and Sweden are ranked the best countries for gender equality, according to a recent study from the World Economic Forum, the nonprofit organization known for its annual economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, for global leaders. Those Nordic countries and their Western European neighbors account for 16 of the top 30 countries with the greatest gender parity in the world.

Meanwhile, the U.S. ranked surprisingly low at No. 27, behind Lesotho (No. 16), Mozambique (No. 18) and Moldova (No. 20). Not surprisingly, the worst-ranked countries were sprinkled throughout the Middle East and Asia. Garden spots like Chad (129th), Saudi Arabia (128th) and Pakistan (127th) populated the bottom of the list.”

It’s a pretty standard article - though I have to say I didn’t share the writer’s CAN YOU BELIEVE THE US IS NOT FIRST??? sentiment. (Annnd I also didn’t care for the flippant way the Middle East and Asia were called out. Not that I’m doubting the numbers, I just don’t like your tone, young man.)"



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Meta Watershed: NO RACISM: AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE NOT WHO FUNDED AND PASSED PROPOSITION (H)8

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Meta Watershed: NO RACISM: AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE NOT WHO FUNDED AND PASSED PROPOSITION (H)8: "In follow-up to the excellent post by Minstrel Boy this week concerning the blow to lesbian/gay rights in California, as well as my addendum and especially all the excellent comments and discussion which ensued, I'm copying in here a letter I just received from Kathryn Kolbert at People For The American Way. She urges all of us to not resort to racism in our efforts to understand this defeat and strategize about what to do next.

Let me be clear: Lesbian and gay people in this country are not any whiter than the general population. African Americans who are not gay are no more likely to vote against lesbian/gay rights than white non-gays. Yes, it was definitely people who voted for Obama who also voted against lesbian/gay rights in California, in Florida, and elsewhere -- but to assume those voters were primarily African American is racist, folks. And, it is falling prey to the deeply pathological lie that we are somehow not all in this together, that we must fight over who gets a piece of the pie."



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Ojibway Migisi Bineshii: Stories and News from Women Bloggers

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Ojibway Migisi Bineshii: Stories and News from Women Bloggers

Renee at Womanist Musings wrote Chief Illiniwek Needs To Stay Gone and I agree!

Read I'm Angry at Uppity Brown Woman.

Dirty Rotten Feminist wrote White Privilege is Turning a Blind Eye.

At Shameless Magazine read about the Best Countries For Women. The US ranked #27 on this list! Norway, Finland and Sweden are ranked the best countries for gender equality. Okay, so lets move to one of those countries, although doing the work here is just as important!

Check out the Most Offensive Thing You Will Read All Day at The Feminist Underground.

Words From An Ironwoman posted at Hijas Americanas.

Read the Price Woman Leaders Pay at Muslimah Media Watch.

Meta Watershed blogger Maggie JoChild wrote No Racism: African Americans Are Not Who Funded and Passed Proposition (H)8.

3 Ways Obama Will Protect Women's Health at Appetite for Equal Rights.

Woman of an (other) Color writes about Post-election thoughts: Three things we shouldn’t forget.

Fetch Me My Axe has posted about Duanna Johnson's Family needs donations for funeral, so please help if you can! Also, forward this to as many people as possible!

Shell Mound Kickoff Dinner with Winona LaDuke posted by Censored News.

I just found about about this website Awakened Woman, so check it out!



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MONTREAL–All is not quiet on the western front.

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GrannyRantsON:

For the Western Shoshone, an indigenous nation with an unceded Treaty covering a large swath of 60 million acres of ancestral territory stretching across Nevada, California, Idaho and Utah, their traditional homeland is better described as a war zone.

Not only has the US government used Shoshone lands to test hundreds of nuclear weapons, dispose of thousands of metric tonnes of radioactive waste, and proposed Yucca Mountain as a national dumpsite for (even more) deadly nuclear waste; modern corporate gold mining, including many Canadian operations, now threatens to gouge the heart right out of Western Shoshone territory."



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NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO: I am Splattered with the Blood of your Origin

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NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO: I am Splattered with the Blood of your Origin: "The chapter involves too many different things, directions from looking at and critiquing sovereignty, and rather than taking the easy way out and simply using what other people say, I've done my best to develop my own route for looking Guam's ghostly place in relation to the concept of sovereignty. Mind you, what I'm saying isn't ginnen taya' or from scratch, its informed by different things, mainly my experiences and my interactions, anecdotal evidence of Guam's colonial status. But I resisted simply putting my dissertation on other peoples' shoulders, for me, that would have shown a weakness in my arguments, and furthermore it probably given the lack of this sort of scholarship on Guam, it would have reinforced the idea there really isn't much there when speaking about Guam anyways. That it is a site, because of its smallness or because of its not that violent colonial history, has to rely on other sites for its visibility or for it to make any sense."



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WORLD: Maori Party co-leaders given ministries; Sharples gets Maori affairs

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NIT: "By Ian Llewellyn

WELLINGTON, November 17, 2008: A historic political deal between the National Party and the Maori Party was signed on Sunday giving incoming prime minister John Key a commanding majority on crucial votes in Parliament.

In a deal that was virtually unimaginable just three years ago, the two parties agreed that Maori Party co-leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia would get ministerial posts outside Cabinet.

There were also reviews of two controversial areas and National's agreement that it would not scrap the Maori electorate seats without the consent of Maori.

Dr Sharples will become Maori Affairs Minister.

He will also be Associate Education Minister and Associate Corrections Minister."



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Aboriginal group plans to sue Vic govt over racist mountain rename

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NIT: "MELBOURNE, November 17, 2007: An Aboriginal group plans to sue the Victorian government for ignoring its heritage in the renaming of Mt Niggerhead, a mountain in the Alpine National Park.

For decades, the 1,846-metre Mount Niggerhead in the state's north-east has been at the centre of a heated debate about its name.

State Environment Minister Gavin Jennings pledged last week to rename the rocky outcrop Jaithmathangs, after one of the traditional languages of the Bogong High Plains."



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Democracy Now! | Civil Rights Leader Abraham Woods, 80, Dies

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Democracy Now! | Headlines for November 17, 2008: "And the Rev. Abraham Woods has died at the age of eighty. The civil rights activist led the first lunch counter sit-ins in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama and helped to mobilize the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic March on Washington."



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Human rights center warns of humanitarian disaster in Gaza - International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC

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Human rights center warns of humanitarian disaster in Gaza - International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC: "The “Center for the Message of Rights” warned on Sunday that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of a further humanitarian disaster due to the strict Israeli siege, which has recently become significantly more pronounced after Israel barred fifteen trucks filled with food and medicine from entering the besieged coastal region."



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Democracy Now! | As Obama Vows to Close Guantanamo, His Advisers Are Reportedly Crafting a Plan to Create A New System of Preventive Detention and National Security Courts

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Democracy Now! | As Obama Vows to Close Guantanamo, His Advisers Are Reportedly Crafting a Plan to Create A New System of Preventive Detention and National Security Courts: "During an interview on 60 Minutes last night President-elect Barack Obama said he plans to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay and rebuild the nation’s moral stature. Last week, the Associated Press reported Obama advisers are crafting a plan that would put some Guantanamo Bay prisoners in front of a new court system designed to handle so-called “national security” cases."



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my district representative is palestinian! � no snow here

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my district representative is palestinian! � no snow here: "DETROIT – Lawyer and community activist Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants who never attended high school, becomes the first Muslim woman ever to serve in the Michigan Legislature.

She said she wouldn’t have run but for the repeated urging of her Jewish boss and predecessor, outgoing Democratic state Rep. Steve Tobocman.

“In my heart, I was more of a social worker than anything,” said Tlaib, 32. She said her top priorities will be immigrant rights and pollution, a major issue to her constituents who are surrounded by oil refineries and factories."



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LGBTQ arab women’s group in ferndale (detroit)

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LGBTQ arab women’s group in ferndale (detroit) « no snow here
queer arab women’s group, 2nd meeting. via al gamea:

We have decided to have another meeting to accommodate those who missed our 1st meeting.

Please join us to create a social group where we can feel free to open our minds & hearts in a safe environment. This will include fun events (movies, dinners, tea parties, etc.) where we can meet each other and create a network of Middle Eastern LGBT women in Michigan.

Please join us on the following date and give us your input on our goals and future activities and help us reach other women throughout the Midwest. Bring your friends!!
We are looking forward to this meeting.

See you then!

When: Saturday Nov 29th at 7PM
Where: AJ’s Café in Ferndale (on 9 mile just west of Woodward)

http://www.ajsmusiccafe.com/map


Please RSVP to make sure we have enough tables reserved to: women@algamea.org or to ghesoonk@algamea.org



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Politics of Humanity: ICE’s and Border Patrol’s Child Abuse Policy

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» Politics of Humanity: ICE’s and Border Patrol’s Child Abuse Policy - By ¡Para Justicia y Libertad!
A study released by the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) found that more than 43,000 undocumented, unaccompanied children have been mistreated while in custody and denied access to representation by Customs and Border Protection (Border Patrol) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and then transported home unsafely.

According to the study, A Child Alone and Without Papers, inadequate policies lead to the maltreatment, including children going without water at US Border Patrol stations, being handcuffed, having their requests for medical attention ignored, and getting struck and knocked down by agents.

The report found the following:

In clear violation of international and U.S. child welfare standards, our interviews with the Mexican and Honduran children uncovered troubling claims of child abuse and maltreatment by U.S. Border Patrol officers, including:
• Inattention to repeated requests for medical attention;
• No access to water while in the border patrol station;
• Having to sleep on the floor without a blanket in a heavily air conditioned cell;
• Not being given any or enough food;
• Not being allowed to contact family;
• Being struck and knocked down by agents;
• Being handcuffed; and
• Being transported “like dogs,” in kennel like compartments.

This is very interesting. These findings by CPPP are similar to the findings I found after I had the opportunity to meet with the families who were affected by the Houston ICE raid.

While it is important to criticize the consequences of the immigration raids, what has flown under the radar is the mistreatment undocumented, unaccompanied children. The hard question we must seriously ask ourselves is, “What drives a person from one society to hate another person from another society to the degree that they want to segregate them, even demoralize them?”



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The Mapuche Reject Oil Company in Patagonia | Intercontinental Cry

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The Mapuche Reject Oil Company in Patagonia | Intercontinental Cry: "A Mapuche community organization in the Patagonia region of Argentina, has rejected a decision by the government to grant the state-owned company YPF-Pluspetrol rights to the Nirihuau hydrocarbon basin.

The community, which gathers under the name Inkaial Wal Mapu Mew (We must defend the territory) “…issued a communique to reject the measure because it undermines their rights and goes against their ‘ancestral thinking and worldview,’” explains Real World Radio."



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CENSORED NEWS: Russell Means: Lives still at risk from blizzard

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CENSORED NEWS: Russell Means: Lives still at risk from blizzard: "PINE RIDGE, S.D. -- Russell Means at the Republic of Lakotah said the blizzard is threatening Lakota lives on Pine Ridge. Amanda Milk, in her eighties, has no legs and is a dialysis patient. She has been snowed in and presummed dead.
'Many hundreds of American Indians are still snowbound and without electrical power or water on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,' Means said today, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Sofia Romero, age 98, is also snowed in, with no power, no water and her food situation is unknown. Emme Zimiga, age 96, is snowed in, with no power, no water, and the food situation is unknown.
In Hisle, there are 38 households, with an average of 17 persons per household, still snowed in with out power or water. In the Lost Dog Community, there are five families snowed in, with no power, no water, and their food situation is unknown."



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Democracy Now! | Ex-CIA Officials Tied to Rendition Program and Faulty Iraq Intel Tapped to Head Obama's Intelligence Transition Team

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Democracy Now! | Ex-CIA Officials Tied to Rendition Program and Faulty Iraq Intel Tapped to Head Obama's Intelligence Transition Team: "John Brennan and Jami Miscik, both former intelligence officials under George Tenet, are leading Barack Obama’s review of intelligence agencies and helping make recommendations to the new administration. Brennan has supported warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition, and Miscik was involved with the politicized intelligence alleging weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the war on Iraq. We speak with former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights."



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Democracy Now! | 500 Mourn Ecuadorean Immigrant Stabbed to Death in NY

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Democracy Now! | Headlines for November 17, 2008: "In Long Island, New York, more than 500 people gathered on Saturday for the funeral of an Ecuadorean immigrant who was taunted and stabbed to death in Patchogue, New York. Marcelo Lucero died last week after being attacked and stabbed to death. He was thirty-seven years old. Police say Lucero was targeted because he was Latino. Police have arrested seven young white men on gang assault charges. One of them, Jeffrey Conroy, has also been charged with first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime. Police say Conroy fatally wounded Lucero by plunging a knife into his chest. On Friday night, hundreds gathered for an outside memorial for Marcelo Lucero. Speakers included immigrant rights activist Carlos Rodas."



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CENSORED NEWS: Honoring Australia's Patrick Dodson: Renewal and Justice

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CENSORED NEWS: Honoring Australia's Patrick Dodson: Renewal and Justice: "It was not the honour of the Sydney Peace Prize that conferred the status of 'national leader' on Patrick Dodson, the platform simply gave him the opportunity to demonstrate his mantle. Like the vibration of the yidaki around the islands of the Arafura sea - his speech rang out. 'Our nation, Australia, now has the chance to construct a new society built on equality and justice and in harmony with the land and its people. It is not an impossible task provided that we have the love and enthusiasm to begin the journey – the rest will follow.' Patrick Dodson"

As America elected its first African American President, Australia’s national Aboriginal leader spoke for the first time at the Opera House last night. The packed concert hall witnessed something special. It is ironical but not surprising that today’s Australian media, transfixed by Obama, let the event go by without acknowledgement. Perhaps it will be Obama himself and other world leaders who will now recognize that Australia has a co-leader.
Read news article with acceptance speech:
http://www.westender.com.au/news/231



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Miner to pay into Indigenous fund - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Miner to pay into Indigenous fund - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Mining company Rio Tinto is injecting $500,000 a year into a development fund for Indigenous people in Clermont in central Queensland.

The Aboriginal Community Development Fund will finance education, training and business development in the region.

Fiona Nicholls from Rio Tinto says the fund is part of its agreement to mine on traditional land."



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Jeremiah Wright in the Propaganda System - Monthly Review

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Jeremiah Wright in the Propaganda System - Monthly Review: "Beginning in March 2008 and extending through the last Democratic primaries of early June, the United States witnessed the most brazen demonization in its history of a person based on his race, his creed, and his ties to a presidential candidate. One major purpose behind these attacks was to use the demonized figure to discredit the politician. But participation in the attacks also fed the voracious, twenty-four-hour-a-day media appetite, and quickly took on a life of its own. When we look back at the ugly spectacle then taking place, the evidence suggests that, despite much optimism about narrowing racial divides and an emerging “post-racial” consciousness, something much closer to the opposite had gripped America.

Of course, we are referring to the U.S. political class and establishment media’s treatment of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his relationship with Barack Obama. Contrasted with their handling of the Reverends John Hagee, Rod Parsley, and Pat Robertson and their links to John McCain, this episode provides an outstanding illustration of this country’s racism, chauvinism, and political biases."



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Traditional land owners appeal against nuclear storage - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Traditional land owners appeal against nuclear storage - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Traditional owners from sites earmarked for a potential nuclear waste facility in the Northern Territory have begged a Senate Inquiry not to store nuclear material on their land.

A Senate committee is investigating whether a Howard Government law forcing a waste dump on the Northern Territory should be repealed and sat in Alice Springs today.

People from communities near the Mount Everard, Harts Range and Muckaty sites protested outside the inquiry before traditional owners appeared."



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Davao Villagers Battle World’s Largest Mining Company – PinoyPress — Philippines news, opinion, blogs.

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Davao Villagers Battle World’s Largest Mining Company – PinoyPress — Philippines news, opinion, blogs.: "MATI CITY, Davao Oriental – Waves lap up the shallow shores of Sitio Wagon in Barangay (village) Macambol as fishermen and their families work and live off the bountiful waters of Pujada Bay.

The noise of the waves mixes with that of an electric plainer being used to shape the belly of a new banca – a simple fishing boat — under the shade of some coconut trees. A much bigger boat which can carry more than a ton of fish approaches the shore after having spent days, possibly even weeks at sea."

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La fuerza pública nos asesinan y exigen disculpas

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La fuerza pública nos asesinan y exigen disculpas
Muestra de como se de dieron las Agresiones de la Fuerza Pública a Comunidad Movilizada en la María Piendamó Cauca octubre de 2008





TODOS SOMOS CORTEROS. TODOS SOMOS INDÍGENAS. Todos somos culpables de luchar por la dignidad y la vida contra un régimen al que se le agotaron los argumentos y solamente tiene uno: fabricar el enemigo que le conviene para eliminar el contradictor que lo supera en dignidad y en derecho.



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A new global order: Bretton Woods II...and San Francisco II

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A new global order: Bretton Woods II...and San Francisco II | open Democracy News Analysis
lobal leaders are preparing to meet in Washington on 15 November 2008 for a summit of the G20 group of states and representatives of leading international financial institutions. The gathering is being ambitiously named "Bretton Woods II" - echoing the conference on 1-22 July 1944 which established the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). With George W Bush presiding, and Barak Obama waiting in the wings, the delegates' task will be to fix a global financial system which has failed with spectacular and highly damaging results. They need to succeed. However, they also need to realise that financial failure is symptomatic of more fundamental failures and fissures in the global order. Fixing the plumbing will be of little help if the house is falling down.



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MAMA Radio: Paramilitaries Threatening Peace Community in Northwest Colombia

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MAMA Radio: Paramilitaries Threatening Peace Community in Northwest Colombia: "Paramilitary forces are making increasingly violent threats against members of the Peace Community of San Jos�de Apartad�and other peasant families in the area, with no apparent action by the Colombian government.


Immediate action is needed by US Ambassador William Brownfield to leverage Washington's enormous influence and prevent further violence against the community and area's civilian population."



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Two Words Obama Didn't Say: Native Americans | Reznet News

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Two Words Obama Didn't Say: Native Americans | Reznet News: "GREEN BAY, Wis.—Indian Country was conspicuously absent from Barack Obama's speech at a campaign stop here, much to the consternation of many Native Americans who attended the rally.

Obama appeared at the Kress Events Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus Friday and spoke to more than 4,500 attendees eager to see and hear the Democratic candidate for president. The campaign appearance took place ahead of the Wisconsin primary election Tuesday."



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Finding New Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving | Reznet News

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Finding New Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving | Reznet News: "They'll learn about the Pilgrims and Indians, about starvation and generosity, about a moment caught in time when two societies as foreign to each other as birds to fish embraced one another and shared a feast.

For many children, this lesson will culminate with a mock feast in which half the children will wear black and white Pilgrim clothes and hats, while the other half wear faux buckskin vests and headdresses.

They'll eat turkey and perpetuate stereotypes as old as America itself. All in the spirit of celebration.

How do I know this?

First of all, because I've been the one dressed up as an Indian (and as a Pilgrim one year by a teacher who thought that would be more politically correct)."



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Fatima and Ahmed's Son Ridwan Laher: Growing Old in South Africa

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Fatima and Ahmed's Son Ridwan Laher: Growing Old in South Africa: "Ten years ago the average life span for a South African man was 55.5 years according to the US Census Bureau’s international database.

Today, most South Africans will not live to be 50 according to a news report in The Times!

A report from the UN Population Fund says that a South African man is expected to live 48.8 years.

South African women will live slightly longer to the 'ripe old age' 49.6 years.

These estimated life expectancies are worse than those for men and women living in war-devastated Iraq or Brazil which has the highest murder rate in the world."



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Bolivia's Proposed Constitution

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Ukhampacha Bolivia: "Download the proposed constitution that will be put to a vote on January 25, 2009. (Spanish language only)"



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Missoulian: Column: American Indian Heritage Month seems to have been put out of mind - Friday, November 14, 2008

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Missoulian: Column: American Indian Heritage Month seems to have been put out of mind - Friday, November 14, 2008: "As north winds whip across the prairies and mountains, we should expect to hear more conversational gusts about Native people as we reach the midway peak of American Indian Heritage Month.

Or will we?

It reminds me of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People that ended in 2004, a 10-year time frame to recognize the rights of the world's 370 million indigenous people.
Few people knew the decade existed.

In order to give it the attention it deserved, the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples adopted a second decade for indigenous peoples in 2005. Before the second decade ended, forum members set a goal of having the U.N. General Assembly adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."



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Sri Lankan military seizes key Tamil stronghold

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Sri Lankan military seizes key Tamil stronghold: "The Tamil Tigers who have been fighting to create an independent state in Sri Lanka for nearly 25 years have lost their last stronghold on the island’s west coast to Sri Lankan troops.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that the victory now allows them access to the previously isolated, government-controlled Jaffna peninsula by land, instead of depending on boats and aircraft."



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Obama’s Intelligence Agenda: More of the Same from the “Change Administration”

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portland imc - 2008.11.16 - Obama’s Intelligence Agenda: More of the Same from the “Change Administration”
According to The Wall Street Journal, "President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party."

With hyperbolic "change" rhetoric in the air, Obama is relying on a gaggle of former intelligence insiders, warmed-over Clinton administration officials and "moderate" Republicans, many of whom helped Bush craft his administration's illegal policies.

With U.S. street cred at an all-time low, due in no small measure to Washington's hubristic fantasies that it really is an empire and not a rapidly decaying failed state, ruling elites have literally banked on Obama to deliver the goods.

During his run for the White House, the Illinois senator may have mildly criticized some of the administration's so-called "counterterrorism" policies including the Bushist penchant for secrecy, the disappearance of "terrorist" suspects, driftnet surveillance of American citizens and legal residents, CIA "black site" gulags and the crushing of domestic dissent.

But in the few scant days since the November 4 general election, the contours of what Democratic party corporatist grifters will roll-out come January 20 are taking shape. Citing Obama's carefully-crafted public relations blitz on the campaign trail opposing illegal spying, the Journal reports:

Yet he ... voted for a White House-backed law to expand eavesdropping powers for the National Security Agency. Mr. Obama said he opposed providing legal immunity to telecommunications companies that aided warrantless surveillance, but ultimately voted for the bill, which included an immunity provision.

The new president could take a similar approach to revising the rules for CIA interrogations, said one current government official familiar with the transition. Upon review, Mr. Obama may decide he wants to keep the road open in certain cases for the CIA to use techniques not approved by the military, but with much greater oversight. (Siobhan Gorman, "Intelligence Policy to Stay Largely Intact," The Wall Street Journal, November 11, 2008)



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Protest Foreign Nuclear Waste To Hanford

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Global Nuclear Energy Partnership = More Waste to Hanford

In the dying throes of the Bush administration, one last environmental disaster is being foisted on the public. With GNEP, Hanford Nuclear Reservation would get a lot more nuclear waste (both from within and outside the country) and a dirty nuclear waste 'reprocessing' plant.

Condemned by health and environmental groups across the country, GNEP means foreign nuclear waste imported and "reprocessed" to USA for more plants. The only public meeting in Oregon by DOE about its Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, is in Hood River at 7 PM Tuesday, November 18 at the Hood River Inn, exit 64 from Portland. CARPOOL or take FREE BUS (see below). This is a national issue. We need a big Oregon outcry. 20 years behind on clean-up, Hanford cannot accept more waste!!!

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

* Attend the meeting at 7 PM Tuesday November 18 at Hood River Inn, Hood River and let DOE know a lot of people do not want GNEP.
* CARPOOL TO HOOD RIVER INN: Going East on I 84, take Exit 64, then take a left at the bottom of the ramp and take the first right (after the westbound off-ramp) into the Inn's entry drive. Best Western Hood River Inn, 1108 East Marina Way, Hood River, OR 97031, TOLL FREE: 800-828-7873, PHONE: 541-386-2200 to locate
* FREE BUS: Leaves at 5 PM Tuesday, November 18, SE 41st and Hawthorne in Portland (site of the old Daily Grind) returns @ 10 PM, pizza + drinks on bus
COMMENT BY MAIL: letters due before December 16. Mail letters to: Francis Schwartz, GNEP PEIS Document Manager, Office of Nuclear Energy, NE-5, DOE, 1000 Independence Ave. S.W., Washington, DC 20585.



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Thousands stage pro-Polisario protest in Madrid

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Thousands stage pro-Polisario protest in Madrid: "Thousands of people marched across central Madrid Saturday to back demands by the Polisario Front for self-determination for the people of the Western Sahara.

The protesters, more than 8,000 according to organisers, marched behind a banner reading “For a free and independent Sahara. No to the sale of arms to Morocco. Let’s avoid another war.”

A statement signed by several Spanish artists and read out at the gathering called on the Madrid government “not to look the other way” and “assume its historical responsibility” toward the people of the Western Sahara."



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Massive 'Homeland Defense' Joint Exercise Underway

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Massive 'Homeland Defense' Joint Exercise Underway: "As if on cue, to strike abject fear into the hearts of those waiting for the clampdown to come, another massive, and surely more centralized than the last, joint crisis training exercise is underway.

The particularly huge Golden Guardian component in California, taking place from 13-18 Nov, will be the largest emergency exercise in the history of the state of California, and the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history. It will involve an estimated 5 million Californians, or roughly a seventh of the state population.

This, of course, has some people predicting Bush’s False Flag Finale. Imagine 5 million Californians asleep at the wheel when taken hostage by a vast conspiracy. Let’s hope it doesn’t pan out that way."



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Obama and the crisis of expectation

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With Obama elected President but not yet inaugurated, the question on everyone’s mind is, “what’s going to happen next?” Millions of people around the world are hoping that a Obama presidency will radically change the course of US politics, and with it, world politics. This is especially true for the huge numbers of mostly young volunteers working for Obama’s campaign, most of whom had never been involved in politics before.

And while it is impossible to predict the future precisely, one can make an educated guess as to Obama’s future actions, based on answering two fundamental questions: which social class is Obama and the Democratic Party going to represent while in office, and what are the current interests of that class. For example, if Obama were to act in the interests of the working class, a number of measures would be immediately taken, such as increasing wages, improving healthcare, funding schools, ending war, etc. If, on the other hand, Obama is going to represent the ruling class, we can expect policies similar to the Bush Presidency, who long ago proved himself to be a puppet for the banks and corporations.



At this point, there is more than ample proof that Obama will be representing the interests of corporate-elite. How do we know this?

1. Obama’s electoral campaign raised hundreds of millions more than John McCain’s, most of it coming from the rich.
2. Obama’s “dream team” of economic advisers are all top CEO’s and Wall Street insiders (including the richest man in America, Warren Buffet); his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel is a hardened member of the Washington political establishment.
3. Since winning the democratic nomination, Obama has been furiously backpedaling his progressive rhetoric, while preaching a continuous sermon from the book of big business.
4. He joined hands with the Republicans to ensure that the Wall Street bailout was passed!
5. He advocates a “surge” of troops into Afghanistan, while committing nothing concrete in permanently removing troops from Iraq.

Many other examples could be cited.

There are those that already recognize Obama as a representative of the ruling class, but imagine his policies may resemble that of FDR and the New Deal. This perspective seems unlikely, based on the second above-named question: what are the current interests of the ruling class? The ruling class of today is far different than it was in FDR’s day, and not by accident.



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Indigenist Intelligence Review: Women feel left out

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Indigenist Intelligence Review: Women feel left out:

"THE Cakaudrove Provincial Council has been accused of neglecting the interests of indigenous women in the province.

Cakaudrove Soqosoqo Vakamarama president Unaisi Mitimiti made the comment as the Cakaudrove Provincial Council met in Yaroi, Savusavu, on Thursday.

'There are quite a few provinces where the women are doing pretty well. They've got their building and things like that, but I think Cakaudrove must now acknowledge its women,' she said.

'Without us the population wouldn't grow and the (council) meeting wouldn't be eating. And we are the colourful ones around.'

Council chairman Emitai Boladuadua said becuase of his short tenure at the council, he would not be able to comment fully on the women's concerns.

'But their wishes have been brought up to the council,' Mr Boladuadua said."



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CENSORED NEWS: Dakota: Minnesota racism didn't vanish on election day

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CENSORED NEWS: Dakota: Minnesota racism didn't vanish on election day: "From Chris Mato Nunpa
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Hi All,
I thought some of you might be interested in Nick Coleman's article on the Dakota Commemorative March and Waziyata Win, my younger daughter, and the 71 plus comments which clearly indicate there's a long way to go. White America may be ready to elect a black man as president of the U.S., but are they ready to acknowledge the truth about what really happened in this state of Minnesota and in the United States?
Is white America ready to admit the massive land theft, the broken treaties, the genocide of the Dakota People in Minnesota and of the Indigenous Peoples of the U.S.; the suppression of languages, the suppression of religions, etc. etc. etc.?"



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Winona LaDuke joins Shellmound Walkers in California

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Indigenist Intelligence Review: Winona LaDuke joins Shellmound Walkers in California
By Shell Mound Walkers
Photo by Morning Star Gali/Winona LaDuke, whose home burned to the ground last week, joined the Shellmound Walkers in California to kick off their walk Friday night.
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Winona LaDuke joined participants of the Sacred Sites/Shell mound Peace Walk on Friday night, Nov. 14, 2008, for a kickoff dinner to start their two-week, 250-mile walk around the San Francisco Bay.
Traditional Native American leaders and the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhists will lead the walk. We will walk and pray with our ancestors in areas where shell mounds and sacred sites have been desecrated by development.
LaDuke, Native American leader, activist, and director of Honor the Earth, prayers, joined the walkers for Native American drumming and prayers. The walkers gathered at Sogorea-te'-Glen Cove in Vallejo at 8am on November 15 to start walking.
Local native people have been fighting for years to protect this burial ground and sacred site from development. Walkers will then travel on to Pt Pinole, El Cerrito, Alameda, Oakland, Hayward, Fremont, San Jose, and up to San Francisco to end with an educational picket at the Huichiun Shell mound in Emeryville on November 28 where a shopping mall complex was built on top of a series of shell mounds and burial sites.



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A Critique Of the Indian Residential Schools' Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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Somena Media: A Critique Of the Indian Residential Schools' Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission is a hoax contrived by the legal establishment to evade culpability for its ongoing culling of that part of the indigenous race which relies upon constitutional and international law to protect its human rights. Another part embraced the federal legislation and recently-invented judge-made law under the auspices of which the Indian territories genocidally were invaded, beginning with the 1876 Indian Act. The modus operandi of the legal establishment and its collaborating Indian accomplices is the suppression of the constitutional and international law that the establishment intentionally is breaking.1

“A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government, in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past.”2 The crucial phrase is “wrongdoing by a government.” A “wrongdoing” consists in “wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus.”3 “Actus reus” is “the Latin term for the ‘guilty act’ which, when proved beyond a reasonable doubt in combination with the mens rea, ‘guilty mind,’ produces criminal liability…”4 It is specifically crimes or lesser wrongdoings “by a government” that such commissions, if genuine, exist to expose as the precondition to reconciliation based upon truth.

Article 2 of the contract creating the Residential Schools Commission stipulates, “Pursuant to the Court-approved final settlement agreement and the class action judgment, the Commissioners:… (f) shall perform their duties…without making any finding or expressing any conclusion or recommendation, regarding the misconduct of any person, unless such finding or recommendation has already been established through legal proceedings…Further, the Commission shall not make any reference in any of its activities or in its report or recommendations to the possible civil or criminal liability of any person or organization, unless such findings or information about the individual or institution has already been established through legal proceedings.”5



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Chicago Indymedia: Local war-mongering anti-immigrant NAFTA-pusher named White House Chief of Staff

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Chicago Indymedia: Local war-mongering anti-immigrant NAFTA-pusher named White House Chief of Staff: "Rahm Emanuel, who since 2003 has been the Illinois' 5th district representative in Congress (on Chicago's north side), and has been the focus of repeated activist efforts and protests for many years, has been named White House Chief of Staff for the forthcoming Obama administration.

Emanuel has been stridently pro-war, and as chair of the Democratic Caucus in the U.S. House for two years has advocated for pro-war House Democrats for election (including the Illinois 6th district primary battle between Tammy Duckworth and Christine Cegelis). Emanuel also played a key role in the passage of NAFTA in the U.S. Congress, has sided with xenophobic Republicans on immigrant rights issues, and has been stridently pro-market, having been the top recipient of donations from hedge funds and private equity firms."



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Manu Chao en Atenco

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Visita de Manu Chao a Atenco. Lunes 6 de Octubre de 2008. Evento VIP...jejejeje.






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Charges Dismissed against Medical Marijuana User in Inland Stop By Border Patrol

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seattle.indymedia.org: "Stephen Dixon, a disabled veteran, and retired employee of the Department of Defense, began what he thought was a routine trip from his home in Brinnon to the Kingston ferry, riding a s a passenger in a friend’s car, when he was stopped August 22nd. The stop was made by agents of the U.S. Border Patrol at a checkpoint. A new phenomenon, these checkpoints have raised the concerns of many residents for their intrusions into what are Constitutionally protected rights. Notably, local law enforcement including the Port Townsend Police and Jefferson County Sheriff have adopted a policy that they will not assist in these stops. Mr. Dixon is a properly licensed user of Medical Marijuana, something he takes to deal with chronic pain. Despite having an artificial leg and having had multiple surgeries including to his spine, Agents of the U.S. Border Patrol made Mr. Dixon sit in an uncomfortable position for the better part of an hour in cold wet weather. When tried to speak to the agents about his pain, he was verbally abused. Added to these indignities was that Mr. Dixon was then charged with a federal crime, despite having been in perfect compliance with Washington State Law."



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Barack Obama, new mouthpiece of ruling class

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seattle.indymedia.org: "The workers of America and the world should not expect changes in their favor from the government the capitalist crisis which commenced last year will get worse and last much longer with serious consequences for workers. Perhaps slowly but inexorably it increases and continues to increase the intensity of exploitation the number of unemployed to lower real wages.The crises of overproduction - not overproduction in relation to the needs of the population but to the market - are a congenital phenomenon of capitalism. The bourgeoisie cannot respond by improving conditions for workers but only by maintaining or increasing the profits which it extracts ie by worsening these conditions to decrease the “cost' of labor and wages in general by the closure of insufficiently profitable enterprises layoffs etc.. Already the number of unemployed increases in the United States as in most countries these are not only employees of various financial institutions but workers of all productive sectors automotive to aviation Construction to computers ... More than a million jobs have been lost during the first ten months of the year bringing the number of unemployed to nearly 10 million 6.5 of the working population according to official statistics less than a third of whom are receiving unemployment benefits 1 . '"

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Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism - Devon Abbott Mihesuah
On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Consequences of American Conquest and Carnage - Ward Churchill
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present - Ward Churchill
Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America - Ward Churchill/Mike Ryan/Derrick Jensen
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement - Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States - Ward Churchill/Jim Vander Wall
From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995 - Ward Churchill/Howard Zinn
Since Predator Came: Notes from the Struggle for American Indian Liberation - Ward Churchill/Haunani-Kay Trask
Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of American Indians - Ward Churchill
Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader - Ward Churchill
Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization - Ward Churchill
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii (Latitude 20 Books) - Haunani-Kay Trask/Hauani-Kay Trask
Interview with Haunani-Kay Trask on her campaigning for indigenous language and human rights in Hawai'i.(Making Waves)(Interview): An article from: New Internationalist - Gale Reference Team
Haunani-Kay Trask: We Are Not Happy Natives - Jon Kikuo Shishido
Kue: Thirty Years of Land Struggle in Hawaii - Haunani-Kay Trask/Ed Greevy
Fighting the battle of double colonization: The view of a Hawaiian feminist (Working paper) - Haunani-Kay Trask
Hawaiians, self-determination and ethno development - Haunani-Kay Trask
Stolen Continents: The “New World” Through Indian Eyes - Ronald Wright
Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation (Latin America Otherwise) - Arturo J. Aldama/Arturo J. Aldama
Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa - Anthony W. Marx
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya - Caroline Elkins
Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt - Wunyabari O. Maloba
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Adam Hochschild
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, 30th Anniversary Edition - Vine Deloria Jr.
Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact - Vine Deloria
Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing - MariJo Moore
Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California - Tomás Almaguer
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto - Vine Deloria
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World - David E. Stannard
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann
When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 - Louise Levathes
1421: The Year China Discovered America - Larry Belling
America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus - Alvin M. Jr Josephy
Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 - Edward L. Dreyer
From Niggas to Gods, Vol. II: Escaping “Niggativity” & Becoming God - Akil
New Dimensions in African History - John Henrik Clarke
The Betrayal Of The Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes To Woodrow Wilson - Rayford W. Logan
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
Women, Race, & Class - Angela Y. Davis
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro - J. A. Rogers
The Mis-Education of the Negro - Carter Godwin Woodson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley - Attallah Shabazz
Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny - Hill Harper
Native Son - Richard A. Wright
From Superman to Man - J. A. Rogers
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton - Bobby Seale
The Africans Who Wrote the Bible - Nana Banchie Darkwah
Biblical History of Black Mankind - C. McGhee Livers
Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology - Cheikh Anta Diop
Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs - Richard J. Gillings
Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D. - Chancellor Williams
The Mis-Education of the Negro - Carter G. Woodson
Egypt and Negro Africa: A Study in Divine Kingship - Charles G. Seligman
A Companion to African-American Philosophy - Tommy L. Lott/John P. Pittman
Black Man's Religion: Can Christianity Be Afrocentric? - Glenn Usry/Craig S. Keener
500 Questions and Answers on the Black Presence in the Bible - John L. Johnson
Enoch the Ethiopian: The Lost Prophet of the Bible : Greater Than Abraham, Holier Than Moses - Indus Khamit Cush
The Myth of Exodus and Genesis and the Exclusion of Their African Origins - Yosef Ben-Jochannan
The African Called Rameses and the Origin of Western Civilization - Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum - A. A. Yosef
The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave - Kashif Malik Hassan-el
Kill Them Before They Grow: The Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in America's Classrooms - Michael Porter
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys - Jawanza Kunjufu
The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois
Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch: The Science Of Slave Psychology - Alvin Morrow
Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State - Cheikh Anta Diop
Willie Lynch: Why African Americans Have So Many Issues - Marc Sims
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery - Na'im Akbar
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America - Ivan Van Sertima
Precolonial Black Africa: A Comparative Study of the Political and Social Systems of Europe and Black Africa - Cheikh Anta Diop
Know Thy Self - Na'im Akbar
Stolen Legacy - George G. M. James
The Africans Who Wrote the Bible - Nana Banchie Darkwah
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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition - Cedric J. Robinson
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Israeli rampage leaves hundreds dead in Gaza
Dec 29, 2008
RAMALLAH, Dec 28 (IPS) - At least 300 Palestinians have been killed and more than 900 wounded as Israel continues to carry out its severest military attack on Gaza since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak rejected calls by the UN and the EU for a ceasefire, and told the international media that Israel would not rule out widening the offensive to include a ground operation.

New Inquiry urged into CIA ?extraordinary renditions?
Dec 27, 2008
LISBON, Portugal (IPS/GIN) - A European Parliament member will ask EU legislators to restart the debate on stopovers in EU territory by secret IA flights carrying prisoners captured in Afghanistan.

Cuba open to normal relations with Obama-led U.S.
Dec 27, 2008
HAVANA - Cuba?s foreign minister urged U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to keep his promise to ease restrictions on family travel and remittances to the island, saying it would be a positive step toward normalizing diplomatic relations.

Muslim majority nations want stronger UN, poll finds
Dec 27, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (IPS/GIN) - People in seven majority Muslim countries favor a more active United Nations with broader powers, according to a new poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a global network of research centers.

Iraq security pact with U.S. has Kurds nervous
Dec 22, 2008
(IPS/GIN) - Kurds are divided over a security pact between Iraq and the United States that appears to be a potential heavy blow to their major gains since the U.S.-led invasion of the country in 2003.




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