CENSORED NEWS: 09/12/08

September 12, 2008

'Salvage,' directed by Sheila Tousey and written by Diane Glancy

Native Voices at the Autry Presents the World Premiere of Salvage by Diane Glancy, directed by Sheila Tousey

October 31 through November 23
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm
Saturdays & Sundays at 2 pm
General Admission $20 / Autry Members $12
LOS ANGELES — Native Voices at the Autry proudly presents the world premiere of Salvage by Diane Glancy (Cherokee), a taut, suspenseful drama about a hard-working family whose lives are turned upside down by a deadly accident. The play was developed and is being produced with funding from the Multi-Arts Production Fund ( MAP ).

Native Voices’ play development for Salvage spans two years and includes Ms. Glancy’s participation in the 2007 & 2008 Playwright Retreats and several play readings (some with the play’s title as Plymouth Dodge DeSoto). Salvage was also selected for the Public Theater’s Native Play Festival last year and had a reading at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2008.

Inside the Checkpoints: The good news and the bad news

Inside the Checkpoints
by Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.

Naco, Arizona border wall/Photo Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr.

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Secretary Michael Chertoff, filed by the US-Mexico Border Plaintiffs, ruling in favor of the Federal Government

When it comes to the border wall there is no end of the bad news.
So, the Bad news first. Because the people who reside in Texas along the Mexico border put up a wall of opposition to the building of a Berlin-like wall through their communities, on April 3, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff waived 36 Congressional Acts passed over 109 years by the people’s Congress. Those very same laws were in place to protect the people and our great land from such flagrant violations of the earth and humanity. Chertoff waived those laws in order to build an “iron curtain” of “apartheid” through a community and a culture of Americans.
That did not stop sincere citizens from expressing their horror over such an assault. From El Paso to Brownsville, the people of Texas, who reside in friendship with their family and neighbors along the Mexico border, have stood their ground in the face of an overt assault on their border community.

DQ University occupation calls emergency meeting Sept. 14, 2008

EMERGENCY MEETING at D-Q University
Sunday, September 14, 2008, 5:00 p.m., in the dining room
This urgent message is being sent out to all individuals and organizations who support the ongoing occupation at D-Q University. Yesterday, the water in the buildings at the school was been shut off. The electricity has already BEEN off, for the last five months. The school's board of trustees shut it off in an attempt to break the back of the student-led occupation. The board's program failed. Now, in the Fall of 2008, the D-Q University'board of trustees is split into two factions. As a leadership circle, the board is in shambles. The board is telling the general public that D-Q University is "open," but the board isn't telling the whole truth; namely that the board has turned the water and the electricity off (AGAIN) in a cold-booded campaign designed to force the American Indian and Mexica people who are living at the school out of "California's Only Tribal College." This deplorable situation cannot be allowed to drag on and on, into next winter and beyond.
THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT
Please come to this very special gathering. Everyone's ideas and energy are very critically neeeded to head off this looming crisis.
-- B R I N G S O M E F O O D, T O S H A R E --
For more information, contact Steve at: thegreatlizardking@yahoo.com

Breaking the chains of centuries of slavery in Bolivia

Breaking the chains of centuries of slavery in Bolivia
By Kenneth T. Tellis
Today in Bolivia there is an on-going struggle between the Indigenous people of South America against their White Masters. The Aymara, the Guarani and the Quechua are all ancient Bolivians who were driven off their lands by the invading Spaniards that made them slaves. The slavery of centuries of White domination in Bolivia came to an end with the election of Evo Morales himself a native Bolivian. The passage of laws by the Bolivian government has returned to native Bolivians their lands, and this has caused the rich land-owners and the business elites, all of who was White or from outside Bolivia fear that they no longer can lay down the law. These enslavers of Bolivia’s natives sought to hold a referendum to separate and create their own country from the richest province of Bolivia, aided by corporate America. But that plan has failed because it was illegal to begin with. Of course the U.S. corporations were against Evo Morales because he was bringing in laws that returned to the native Bolivians their lands from which they were driven off centuries ago. Now the Aymara, the Guarani and the Quechua Indians are building their own villages and beginning to farm on lands that were theirs long before time. It is in this spirit that the Bolivia will progress and take its place among the emerging nations of South America. That under the leadership of Evo Morales the native peoples of Bolivia will once again hold their heads up high and become part of the New and Vitalized South America. Let there be hope for the Aymara, the Guarani and Quechua Indians in a South America that is vibrant and growing stronger each and every day. The examples of Hugo Chaves and Evo Morales should be there to guide them to a prosperous and glorious future. The Bolivian peoples have taken the first step into the 21st century and let there is no turning back for them. My brothers and neighbours in South America, you are on the way up, and let nothing stop you now.
Kenneth T. Tellis