Women Say No To War
October 11, 2009 by Russell Means Freedom
Filed under Featured, Genocide
CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans recently returned from an eye-opening trip to Afghanistan. Their experiences convinced them even further that sending 40,000 more US troops would be disastrous for Afghan women and children. On October 3, their last day in the country, a US bomb hit a farmer’s house, killing two innocent women [...]
Blood on the Maple Leaf – Recent killings linked to Canadian Nickel Mine in Guatemala
RECENT KILLINGS LINKED TO CANADIAN-OWNED NICKEL MINE IN GUATEMALA
Written by Dawn Paley
Thursday, 01 October 2009
Source: The Dominion
Two Qeqchi leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded this week near the site of a shuttered nickel mine in Guatemala.
The first shooting took place on Sunday, September 27 on land claimed by the [...]
Violence in the Amazon – 1 dead, dozens injured in Indigenous Protests
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Oct. 2, 2009
Ecuadorian police have attacked peaceful Shuar Indigenous protesters near the town of Macas in the southern Ecuadorian Amazon, leaving at least one Shuar teacher dead.
Please join Cultural Survival in condemning this state violence and urge Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa to refrain from further violence, investigate the Macas violence, and [...]
The Mask Slips, for Those with Eyes to See: Preparing for the Real Pandemic
by Kevin D. Annett, M.A., M.Div.
Hear Kevin Annett Read this Piece:
Last week, many of the aboriginal people in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were innoculated with the tamiflu vaccine. Today, over a hundred of them are sick, and the sickness is spreading.
In the same week, body bags were sent to similarly remote native [...]
Fascism, Genocide, and Extinction: An Indictment Against Civilization
Fascism, Genocide, and Extinction: An Indictment Against Civilization
by Sean Swain
“…It is iron and wheat which have Civilized men and ruined the human Race.”
–Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Discourses on the Origin of Inequality” (Rousseau 24)
“It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences.”
–The Unabomber (Kaczynski #179, Unabomber 140)
Just as human [...]
Colonialism and Self-Sufficiency – Russell Means Speaks Out
This is a short history of colonization of the Lakotah to explain why our people do not make efforts at self-sufficiency.
1. The United States outlawed our religion, our spirituality. Outlawed it. Out people were sent to prison if they caught practicing our ways.
2. They rounded up our children, all of our children, for over 80 [...]
