Weekend Update – Free to be Responsible

Weekend Update – T.R.E.A.T.Y. School

In this edition of Weekend Update, Russell Means speaks of the T.R.E.A.T.Y. School, and the concepts of genuine education that enrich and teach individuals and communities. He speaks as well of the disfigurement of natural law by Patriarchy and holding respect for that which cannot be understood.

Means spirited: American Indian actor and activist honored at Haskell film festival

By Jon Niccum
March 26, 2010
Russell Means’ Lakota Sioux name (Oyate Wacinyapin) translates to “Works for the People.”
It’s fair to say the American Indian activist and actor has earned that designation.
“I’ve made a difference in everything I’ve participated in,” Means says.
The 70-year-old first came to the public’s attention in the 1970s as a leader of the [...]

Weekend Update – Demopublican Crooked Thinking

In this edition of Weekend Update, Russell Means speaks to matters of consumption and the two separate cornucopias offered to those in the United States. He speaks as well to the Demo-publican way of thinking, which is continuing the devolution of critical thinking. Why is there no revolt of the serfs? Russell Means offers answers [...]

Variety review of Palestine, New Mexico

Palestine, New Mexico

(Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles; 724 seats; $65 top)
By BOB VERINI

A Center Theater Group presentation for Culture Clash of a play in one act by Richard Montoya. Directed by Lisa Peterson. Sets, Rachel Hauck; costumes, Christopher Acebo; lighting and projections, Alexander V. Nichols; original music and sound, Paul James Prendergast; production stage manager, [...]

The First Americans

When Native Americans shared a harvest feast with English colonists in 1621, the event was known as the first Thanksgiving.
Part I

But to some, the US holiday marks the day when Native Americans began to have their lands – and ways of life – stripped from them.
Over the next 200 years, as the US expanded its [...]

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