Christopher who? Today is Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day
By Alaska Inter-Tribal Council
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Since 1934, October 12th has been recognized as Columbus Day. Some states, including South Dakota and Hawaii have ceased honoring Columbus Day and have created holidays celebrating the First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples. For example, our Indigenous Brothers in Venezuela have changed from celebrating Columbus Day to celebrating Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day. The Alaska Inter-Tribal Council is calling on the State of Alaska to begin celebrating Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day each year on October 12th as an official state holiday. The State of Alaska should recognize this day as Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day, to show respect for Indigenous Peoples. Lets Urge Governor Sean Parnell by e-mail, fax, phone call or mail to change this holiday to recognize and respect, our Elders, Alaska's First Nations, and Our Indigenous Ancestors. Tell Governor Parnell to respect the first people and first nations. Our Tribes have existed long before Columbus, have remained long after, and will remain forever.
Governor Sean Parnell, Phone (907) 269-7450Fax (907) 269-7461
http://gov.state.ak.us/govmail.php 550 West 7th Avenue, Suite 1700
Anchorage, AK 99501
Webcast interview of fishing incident at Kasaan
AI-TC Volunteers have been working with Tribal Leaders to expose the racially motivated actions of Alaska State Employees on Traditional Tribal Hunting & Fishing Grounds. Tribal Members should not be harassed for exercising legally protected hunting and fishing rights.
AI-TC has produced a video interview of Jeff Sheakley Jr. describing the recent incident as it occurred in Kasaan. Please download and distribute this video where appropriate. The video is viewable at the following web address:
http://www.aitc.org/node/210
October 12, 2009
Corrupt prison hustlers linked to Tohono O'odham prison plan
For-profit Prisons and Indian Country
By Frank Smith, Private Corrections Institute
Censored News Exclusive
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Hardin, Montana has made national news twice this year, thanks to its poorly designed, long empty jail. The city’s industrial development authority, groaning under $27.4 million in defaulted jail bonds, solicited Guantanamo detainees to fill its speculative prison’s windowless, 24-bed dormitory cells. The proposal was laughable thanks to the lack of workforce and infrastructure, and its awful design, but the town’s elected and appointed officials hadn’t the faintest idea what they were requesting.
The jail was touted as supposed “economic development” five years ago yet a feasibility study showed it wasn’t viable. Still, the Texas promoters, led by James Parkey’s CorPlan Corrections, with Innovative Government Strategies (IGS) and Municipal Capital Markets Group (MCM), forged ahead taking millions in fees and commissions. Completed as a “temporary holding facility” in July 2007, it has never held a prisoner.
CiviGenics, the proposed Hardin operator was only paying Texas guards $7.00/hour last year, hardly a wage that would retain workers. In Texas, where CiviGenics operates many prisons, a recent state study found the for-profit prison industry had 90% annual employee turnover. Benefits are equally marginal.
Hoped-for Indian prisoners failed to materialize. The Crow Nation offered a possibility to take over the prison and rescue the default. The city’s industrial development authority brusquely rebuffed the Crow Tribal Chairman.
In 2008, Hardin begged Montana to place sex offenders in the jail but couldn’t demonstrate that it could attract treatment professionals to such a remote location.
Hardin is a majority Anglo (37% Native American), small town 47 miles from Billings. It abuts the Crow reservation that contains, along with the Northern Cheyenne rez, the bulk of Big Horn County’s population. The Sheriff is Cheyenne. Hardin feels it receives inadequate police services from that department.
A California confidence man solicited Hardin in August, promising to operate and expand the jail and to build a mercenary training center, and homeless and animal shelters, and provide a police force. The plan was announced on September 10th but PCI quickly exposed his company as a fraud. http://www.privateci.org/
However, state officials are anxious to determine how the jail was originally financed and constructed and then offered to an operator the Governor called a “huckster.”
“APF Withdraws Effort to Run Hardin Jail” Billings Gazette September 9, 2009
http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_4cd7d5c0-b50f-11de-9dbe-001cc4c002e0.html
Hardin’s failures never slowed the same promoters who in 2007 tried a similar scheme presented to Lindsay city officials in Oklahoma. Lindsay is another impoverished city with many Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee residents. Their $40 million plans went nowhere, thanks to dedicated resistance by local residents.
In May, these promoters’ attempt to place a prison in the San Xavier District of the Tohono Reservation near Tucson failed thanks to adjacent community resistance. Despite a wealth of evidence that for-profit prisons retard economic development, officials were determined to keep the proposal alive by moving the prison site to the far northwest side of the rez.
“When asked about a 2004 report from Washington State University that says prisons hurt local economies, Parkey said he was unfamiliar with it.”
“Small Town Resisting Prison Built on Tribal Land” Arizona Republic May 21, 2009.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/05/21/20090521prison0521.html
“The business group spearheading plans for a private prison near Tucson succeeded with a similar project in Texas years ago but only after a tangle of political intrigue and criminal indictments.”
“In 1999, IGS proposed a private detention center for federal inmates in Willacy County, Texas. Parkey, now heading the prison plan near Sahuarita on the Tohono O'odham Reservation, led the development team. Financing was handled by MCM, the same company now backing the Arizona venture.”
“The Texas prison was approved and built without competitive bidding.”
“In 2005, two Willacy County commissioners pleaded guilty to taking bribes for their votes on the project. A commissioner from another county, who worked as a consultant for Corplan, was convicted of passing the money to his co-defendants.”
“Parkey acknowledged that the commissioner convicted of paying bribes had worked for his company.” “Group’s Past Project Investigated by Feds” Arizona Republic May 21, 2009.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/05/21/20090521prison0521side.html
Mohawk Nation News: COINTELPRO Nuances
COINTELPRO NUANCES
Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com/
MNN. Oct. 9, 2009. The Counter Intelligence Program COINTELPRO of the 70s has been adjusted to modern times. In Lakota country in 1974 the US started a political terror, surveillance and control operation to steal uranium for their politically connected corporations. Today intense fear is being produced on Haudenosaunee Territory to steal all of our water, oil, minerals, timber and so on. Colonial tribal and band councils and bogus Indian groups work alongside them.
AGENTS are law enforcement officers disguised as activists, friends and supporters. They have no obvious income or can have too much money. INFORMERS provide information and are recruited from within or sent in. They discredit, provoke tensions and sabotage unity. Fear of the possible presence of infiltrators creates paranoia.
INFILTRATORS work under the direction of cops or intelligence agencies. They can surface to make arrests and become government witnesses. [Douglas Durham].
Cops supply funds and arms to VIGILANTES to organize shootings, beatings and unrest. Assassinations and attempts are search and destroy missions.
BAD JACKET is a true activist that is falsely fingered by forged documents, or released from those arrested to create suspicion or putting out their names in phony police scanner messages and other means. To divide, certain groups are treated better than others.
PROVOCATEURS disrupt and lead targets into illegal activities or violence; arrive just before events; volunteer to work on finances, membership, minutes and confidential files; get in the middle of political differences; seek public attention on behalf of targets, give provocative statements and create controversies.
BLACK BAG JOBS are burglary, copying keys, planting false evidence, placing bugs, cameras and computer hacking.
SELF PROTECTION: Publicly discuss security and spying. Control keys, files and hide duplicates. Safeguard address books, membership lists and phone numbers. Record break-ins, theft, threats, raids, arrests, strange phone calls and harassment. Take photos of agents.
We have no leaders, just spokespeople.
Don’t let paranoia paralyze you. Look for visitors who come to collect information, plainclothes who take pictures before and during demonstrations; those who seem out of place and are interested in members rather than issues. The four informants surrounding me mostly came around at the same time. They all suddenly disappeared then put out false stories about the demise of my mental health.
DIRECT ACTION: Have a sign-in policy for office and meetings; get Freedom of Information files; citizens arrests, mock trials, pickets, civil disobedience; educate the public; lobby politicians; support and learn from victims of covert actions; use trials for public education; class action suits; court settlements are meant to create disputes and splits [NYS wants to give thousands of dollars to a few and $100 each to the rest];
INVESTIGATE INFORMERS: Check background, high school or college, employment records, parents, friends, references and list of police academy grads. Usually an informant will speak against the cops. Check those assuming identities of dead people; those using phony names on internet to issue death threats to scare us.
PRIVACY. Keep conversation private by leaving office. Watch for cars following, nosy neighbors or long time acquaintances suddenly becoming friendly. Watch for bogus discrediting about drug use or false relationships or activities. [Jean Seberg]. Watch timing of activities or pressures coincidental to industrial development or exploitation timelines. Government may be panicking to get us out of the way. Sweep for electronics; don’t say anything on phone that you wouldn’t say in court.
Check out non-native groups that divert issues by giving lip service to various issues, such as residential school abuse, missing women, land claims or everybody has a right to all our resources.
Notice outside insurgents, like the Camel Toe Treaty. They were parachuted into Akwesasne promoting whacko [Egyptian influenced cult] ideas to confuse, control and disorient. Webmaster, Alice-in-Blunderland, conducts the two principle Mohawk recruiters we will call Karnak and Fawzi Amir to get us to join them.
TRUE SUPPORTERS. Don’t scare or ostracize them or push them to take risks and become vulnerable.
DEBRIEF. Write down information and impressions. Always look for patterns. Check your vulnerabilities, strengths and weaknesses. Assess your allies and adversaries. Don’t let agents inside your home to glean information about your prospects, lifestyle or floor plan.
COUNTER TACTICS. Laws are broken by governments to control through cutting information to the public, punishing whistle blowers and various covert actions. They threaten democracy, civil liberties and social justice. Complain about covert intervention of human rights. Start bail fund. Train members to know legal system.
Cointelpro was done before. Canada is now using it. Agents appear peaceful and friendly but are there to cause damage. What do we do when we find them? We make them all do the camel toe [purp] walk, of course!
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on MNN website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN AKWESASNE category for more stories; New MNN Books Available now!
www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCH/POLITICS/COINTELPRO
Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com/
MNN. Oct. 9, 2009. The Counter Intelligence Program COINTELPRO of the 70s has been adjusted to modern times. In Lakota country in 1974 the US started a political terror, surveillance and control operation to steal uranium for their politically connected corporations. Today intense fear is being produced on Haudenosaunee Territory to steal all of our water, oil, minerals, timber and so on. Colonial tribal and band councils and bogus Indian groups work alongside them.
AGENTS are law enforcement officers disguised as activists, friends and supporters. They have no obvious income or can have too much money. INFORMERS provide information and are recruited from within or sent in. They discredit, provoke tensions and sabotage unity. Fear of the possible presence of infiltrators creates paranoia.
INFILTRATORS work under the direction of cops or intelligence agencies. They can surface to make arrests and become government witnesses. [Douglas Durham].
Cops supply funds and arms to VIGILANTES to organize shootings, beatings and unrest. Assassinations and attempts are search and destroy missions.
BAD JACKET is a true activist that is falsely fingered by forged documents, or released from those arrested to create suspicion or putting out their names in phony police scanner messages and other means. To divide, certain groups are treated better than others.
PROVOCATEURS disrupt and lead targets into illegal activities or violence; arrive just before events; volunteer to work on finances, membership, minutes and confidential files; get in the middle of political differences; seek public attention on behalf of targets, give provocative statements and create controversies.
BLACK BAG JOBS are burglary, copying keys, planting false evidence, placing bugs, cameras and computer hacking.
SELF PROTECTION: Publicly discuss security and spying. Control keys, files and hide duplicates. Safeguard address books, membership lists and phone numbers. Record break-ins, theft, threats, raids, arrests, strange phone calls and harassment. Take photos of agents.
We have no leaders, just spokespeople.
Don’t let paranoia paralyze you. Look for visitors who come to collect information, plainclothes who take pictures before and during demonstrations; those who seem out of place and are interested in members rather than issues. The four informants surrounding me mostly came around at the same time. They all suddenly disappeared then put out false stories about the demise of my mental health.
DIRECT ACTION: Have a sign-in policy for office and meetings; get Freedom of Information files; citizens arrests, mock trials, pickets, civil disobedience; educate the public; lobby politicians; support and learn from victims of covert actions; use trials for public education; class action suits; court settlements are meant to create disputes and splits [NYS wants to give thousands of dollars to a few and $100 each to the rest];
INVESTIGATE INFORMERS: Check background, high school or college, employment records, parents, friends, references and list of police academy grads. Usually an informant will speak against the cops. Check those assuming identities of dead people; those using phony names on internet to issue death threats to scare us.
PRIVACY. Keep conversation private by leaving office. Watch for cars following, nosy neighbors or long time acquaintances suddenly becoming friendly. Watch for bogus discrediting about drug use or false relationships or activities. [Jean Seberg]. Watch timing of activities or pressures coincidental to industrial development or exploitation timelines. Government may be panicking to get us out of the way. Sweep for electronics; don’t say anything on phone that you wouldn’t say in court.
Check out non-native groups that divert issues by giving lip service to various issues, such as residential school abuse, missing women, land claims or everybody has a right to all our resources.
Notice outside insurgents, like the Camel Toe Treaty. They were parachuted into Akwesasne promoting whacko [Egyptian influenced cult] ideas to confuse, control and disorient. Webmaster, Alice-in-Blunderland, conducts the two principle Mohawk recruiters we will call Karnak and Fawzi Amir to get us to join them.
TRUE SUPPORTERS. Don’t scare or ostracize them or push them to take risks and become vulnerable.
DEBRIEF. Write down information and impressions. Always look for patterns. Check your vulnerabilities, strengths and weaknesses. Assess your allies and adversaries. Don’t let agents inside your home to glean information about your prospects, lifestyle or floor plan.
COUNTER TACTICS. Laws are broken by governments to control through cutting information to the public, punishing whistle blowers and various covert actions. They threaten democracy, civil liberties and social justice. Complain about covert intervention of human rights. Start bail fund. Train members to know legal system.
Cointelpro was done before. Canada is now using it. Agents appear peaceful and friendly but are there to cause damage. What do we do when we find them? We make them all do the camel toe [purp] walk, of course!
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on MNN website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN AKWESASNE category for more stories; New MNN Books Available now!
www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCH/POLITICS/COINTELPRO
Larry Emerson: NASA's defilement of the moon
By Larry Emerson
Dine' Nation
Censored News
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I am a bit confused that Native people and organizations don't seem to be speaking to the violent nature of NASA missiles that struck the moon in their alleged search for water.
Maybe Native people are presently gearing up to speak out against NASA's action, I don't know. But so far the silence - Native or not - is somewhat puzzling. Yet, I know we can't often recognize our colonialized mentalities and don't question totalitarian scientists and their politicians.
Isn't moon a sacred being to us all? Isn't it an outrage that the next stage of the moon's colonization has begun? Or that the moon being, sacredly named in each of our Indigenous languages, now has a missile projectile in her body?
NASA scientists are despotic and arrogant, presuming they can bomb the moon without the consent of world governments and Indigenous nations.
Perhaps you all are writing and speaking out about this already. I just want you to know the anger, pain, outrage, and nausea I feel about this whole thing. Neocolonial violence never seems to cease.
A few websites who disagree with NASA's action:
http://dontbombthemoon.com/
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=240329620&blogId=507966798
http://humboldt.craigslist.org/grp/1367583207.html
http://nlnl.facebook.com/note.phpnote_id=123162269577&id=128554723896&ref=mf
Larry Emerson
Diné Nation
Comment from Robert Tohe, Dine'
This desecration will have ramifications as the moon is intimately tied to all female life and cycles. This is tantamount to assaulting a female.
NASA over the years has continuously violated the moon.
NASA need to get a message loud and clear.
No more desecration of the moon.
Dine' Nation
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
I am a bit confused that Native people and organizations don't seem to be speaking to the violent nature of NASA missiles that struck the moon in their alleged search for water.
Maybe Native people are presently gearing up to speak out against NASA's action, I don't know. But so far the silence - Native or not - is somewhat puzzling. Yet, I know we can't often recognize our colonialized mentalities and don't question totalitarian scientists and their politicians.
Isn't moon a sacred being to us all? Isn't it an outrage that the next stage of the moon's colonization has begun? Or that the moon being, sacredly named in each of our Indigenous languages, now has a missile projectile in her body?
NASA scientists are despotic and arrogant, presuming they can bomb the moon without the consent of world governments and Indigenous nations.
Perhaps you all are writing and speaking out about this already. I just want you to know the anger, pain, outrage, and nausea I feel about this whole thing. Neocolonial violence never seems to cease.
A few websites who disagree with NASA's action:
http://dontbombthemoon.com/
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=240329620&blogId=507966798
http://humboldt.craigslist.org/grp/1367583207.html
http://nlnl.facebook.com/note.phpnote_id=123162269577&id=128554723896&ref=mf
Larry Emerson
Diné Nation
Comment from Robert Tohe, Dine'
This desecration will have ramifications as the moon is intimately tied to all female life and cycles. This is tantamount to assaulting a female.
NASA over the years has continuously violated the moon.
NASA need to get a message loud and clear.
No more desecration of the moon.
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