Tribal Sovereignty is jeopardized by climate crisis: invokes pathways for honorable community engagement
Michele “Shelly” Vendiola, Communications Facilitator, Swinomish Climate Change Initiative “Mother earth has a fever, she is very sick.” Carrie Dann, Elder, Western Shoshone Defense Project In 1961 President Dwight Eisenhower spoke of the military industrial complex as the trilogy of U.S. government, military and industry. Today the government is seemingly hijacked by corporations: 7 of [...]
Transgender community in New Orleans speaks out against abuse and discrimination by police
April 21, 2010 1 CommentNew Orleans’ Black and transgender community members and advocates complain of rampant and systemic harassment and discrimination from the city’s police force, including sexual violence and arrest without cause. Activists hope that public outrage at recent revelations of widespread police violence and corruption offer an opportunity to make changes in police behavior and practice. On [...]
Continue reading …Colonel Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, provided shocking new testimony from inside the Bush Administration that hundreds of the men jailed at Guantanamo were innocent, the top people in the Bush Administration knew full well they were innocent, and that information was kept from the public. Wilkerson [...]
Continue reading …The riches that have fallen upon those Indian nations blessed to be located next to urban centers with huge populations have bypassed the very poor tribes of the Northern Plains. When one travels around the communities on the reservations that make up the Sioux Nation, it immediately becomes apparent that there is an abundance of [...]
Continue reading …Not just Guantanamo: U.S. torturing Muslim pre-trial detainee in New York City
April 3, 2010 No CommentToday in New York City, the U.S. is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial. For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pre-trial isolation inside in a small cell under 24 hour video and audio surveillance. He is forced [...]
Continue reading …There is a credo lamented daily in the waiting rooms of the Veterans Administration Hospitals scattered across America. It goes, “First you apply, then they deny and hope you will die.” This has a special meaning to Native American veterans. For too many Indian veterans it strikes close to the bone. They are so entangled [...]
Continue reading …Did a White Sheriff and district attorney orchestrate a race-based coup in a Northern Louisiana town?
March 29, 2010 No CommentOriginally published on the Huffington Post. In the small northeast Louisiana town of Waterproof, the African-American mayor and police chief assert that they have been forced from office and arrested as part of an illegal coup carried out by the region’s white political power structure. In a lawsuit filed last week, Police Chief Miles Jenkins [...]
Continue reading …The British statesman, Benjamin Disraeli, purportedly said, “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics.” Native Americans have been the guinea pigs of statistics since the politicians in Washington began to use arithmetic to figure out their landholdings and numbers before embarking on God’s mission of conquest and divestiture in the name [...]
Continue reading …It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people. The 1776 Declaration of Independence stated that when a long train of abuses by [...]
Continue reading …The United Nations reported there are 1.2 million people living in “spontaneous settlements” or homeless camps around Port au Prince. Three people living in the camps spoke with this author this week, before the hard rains hit. Jean Dora, 71 My name is Jean Dora. I was born in 1939. I live in a plaza [...]
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