Censored News Mailbox Oct. 18, 2014: Films, Music, Protests, Awards and More
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For more than 24 hours, protesters have successfully delayed the Israeli ship Zim Savannah from unloading or loading cargo containers at the Port of Los Angeles at Long Beach. The ship is currently anchored outside the port but will soon attempt to come into the harbor. Please come and urge everyone you know in southern California to participate in the continued success of this effort.
Below is a message from the Block the Boat organizing committee in Los Angeles.
URGENT UPDATE:
Rather than meeting at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) morning, we will gather at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, based on new information we've received. Please share and email to your contact lists!
As usual, meet at Jim's Burgers, 1601 E. Anaheim Street, Wilmington 90744 to be shuttled or walk to protest site.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO BLOCK THE BOAT!
For further updates go to
https://www.facebook.com/
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Native American Music Awards: Joanne Shenandoah
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Democracy Now: James Risen "Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War."
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NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR THE
15TH ANNUAL NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS TO BE HELD FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014 AT THE SENECA ALLEGANY EVENTS CENTER AT SENECA ALLEGANY CASINO Awards Show To Be Streamed Live on WWW.FNX.ORG and televised on FNX-TV Thanksgiving Day
Tickets On-Sale Now At All Ticketmaster Outlets
& At The Seneca Casino Box Office
October 9, 2014– New York, NY. Nominations for the 15th Annual Native American MusicAwards (NAMA) were announced today by The Native American Music Association reflecting the combined votes of the NAMA Advisory Board Membership Nominating Committee.
General Public voting is now open on the Awards website and made possible with the support of The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. To vote, visit the VOTE page of the website or by click on the following link: VOTE NOW Winners will be announced at the 15th Annual Native American Music Awards which will be held on Friday, November 14th at the Seneca Allegany Entertainment Center in the Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel in Salamanca, New York located near Buffalo, New York. Both new and established artists share the list of nominations throughout a diverse array of 30 music categories spanning all genres. Public voting to determine the winner of each category is open to the general public.Music tracks from all nominees are featured on the Awards' website atwww.NAMALIVE.com. The Native American Music Awards & Association is the world's largest professional membership-based organization committed to honoring contemporary and traditionalNative American music initiatives. Tickets are on-sale now through www.Ticketmaster.com, all ticketmaster outlets, and at the Seneca box offices. NAMA Advisory members and nominated artists who plan on attending, should contact the Awards office and RSVP by emailing NAMALIVE@aol.com. The Awards program will be streamed live at www.FNX.org. The FNX television channel which is going nationwide on November 1st, will broadcast the Awards on Thanksgiving Day. FNX Television presents Native American stories and content to create a diverse and entertaining channel across all media platforms 24/7. The unique non-profit channel is the result of a shared vision and values between the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and PBS/KVCR both located in San Bernardino, California. FNX is currently available on Verizon Fios (Channel 471), DirecTV (Channel 24.2), and in greater Los Angeles area with an average of 2 million viewers and over 500 hours of programming. Some of this year's featured nominees include: Billboard Pop charter and Grammy winner, Rita Coolidge, Gold status recording artist and world reknown flutist, R. Carlos Nakai, singer/songwriter Jamie Coon whose song, "Waiting" is featured on the TV series, "Ghost Whisperer", America's Got Talent finalists ,Lil Mike and Funny Bone, American Idol finalist Charly Lowry of Dark Water Rising, and Mato Nanji and his Blues Rock band Indigenous who is currently touring with members of Jimi Hendrix's band and Buddy Guy on the "Experience Hendrix" tour. See below for a complete list of official nominees for the 15th Annual Native AmericanAwards. 15TH ANNUAL NOMINATIONS Artist of the Year Jan Looking Wolf Reibach (Conf. Tribes of Grande Ronde – Kalapuya) - Tamanawas Joanne Shenandoah (Oneida) – Nature Dance Mato Nanji (Lakota/Dakota) – Vanishing Americans R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo/Ute) – Awakening The Fire Ryan Little Eagle Molina (Lakota/Apache) – The Long Journey Home Wade Fernandez (Menominee) – Breathe & Flow Best Blues Recording A Tribute To Little Johnny Taylor – Jimmy Wolf (Mohawk) Back To Clearlake Oaks – Twice As Good (Pomo) Blues Joose Vol 2 - Joel Johnson (Tuscarora) Lakota John and Kin - Lakota John and Kin (Lumbee/Oglala) Red Kroz Bluez Band - Red Kroz Bluez Band (Munsee) Vanishing Americans – Indigenous (Dakota) Best Compilation Recording CTR Country Mix – Various Artists Dawn's Early Light - Various Artists Don’t Let Me Forget – Kelly Montijo Fink Earth Bound Angel – Various Artists Putumayo Presents Native America – Various Artists The Hopson Live Session - Various Artists Best Country Recording 3 of a Kind - John McLeod (Cree) Bring It On – Donny Parenteau (Metis) Senorita Dreams – Wayne Garner (Cherokee/Apache) Tribute - Victoria Blackie (Navajo) Tyra Preston – Tyra Preston (Navajo) Woman Of Red – Tracy Bone (Ojibway) Debut Artist of the Year David Rose – Wind Dance Under The Moon Gabrielle Knife (Lakota Sioux) – Ohiya Ku WInyan Gareth (Mi'kmaq/Cree) – The Journey Leah Shenandoah (Oneida) - Spektra Nitanis "Kit" Largo (Ojibwe)- Serenity Robert Mulinax (Cherokee) – Dream of a Sacred Song Debut Group of the Year A Tribe Called Red (Cayuga/Ojibway) – A Tribe Called Red Fabulous Ripcords (Oneida) - Voo Doo Girl Iskwew Singers (Metis/Cree/Saulteaux) - Kamawinan: Songs of Our People Lightning Creek (Nez Perce) – Long Time Coming Sihasin (Navajo) - Never Surrender Women of Heart (Various) - Winds of Change Best Female Artist Donna Kay - (Metis) - Uncover Me Jamie Coon (Creek/Seminole) – Day After Day Rhonda Head (Cree) - Nikumoon Rita Coolidge (Cherokee) – A Rita Coolidge Christmas Tracy Bone (Ojibway) - Woman Of Red Victoria Blackie (Navajo) - Tribute Best Folk Recording Adageyudi – Clear Water Drum (Cherokee/Yaqui/Metis) Songs to Keep the Earth Alive - Good Shield Aguilar (Lakota) Heart of the Buffalo– Richard Stepp and Rick McKee (Keetoowah) Home Grown - Storm Seymour & Stefanie Snow (Meskwaki) Keeper of the Dreams - Red Feather Woman (Assiniboine/Sioux) Kid Face - Samantha Crain (Choctaw) Flutist of the Year Cal Silverfox Lopez (Apache) – To Touch The Sky Douglas Blue Feather – Dawn of a New Light Jan Looking Wolf Reibach (Conf. Tribes of Grande Ronde – Kalapuya) - Tamanawas Jonathon Maracle Ohwihsha (Mohawk) – The Clearing Rona Yellowrobe (Chippewa Cree) - The Gathering Tony Duncan (Apache/Ankara/Hidatsu/Mandan) – Native Son Best Gospel/Inspirational Recording Don’t Let Me Forget – Kelly Montijo Fink Grace & Grit: Chapter I – Dark Water Rising (Lumbee) Love & Kindness - Golana (Cherokee) & Peter Kater Nikumoon - Rhonda Head (Cree) Season of Joy – Yolanda Martinez (Apache) Speak To The Sky – Storm Seymour (Meskwaki) Group of the Year Dark Water Rising (Lumbee) - Grace & Grit: Chapter I Indigie Femme (Navajo) – Te Hau Waiati Injunuity (Various) – Fight For Survival Plenty Wolf Singers(Oglala Lakota) – Medicine Wolf Rushingwind & Mucklow (Cahuilla) – Bridge Sweethearts of Navajoland (Navajo) – From The Heart of Dine Nation Best Historical/Linguistic Recording Chillin’ Rez-Style - Will and Jesse Lee (Lakota) Heart of the Buffalo – Richard Stepp & Rick McKee (Keetoowah) Intikana (Arawak/Taino) - Native Eyez Mescalero Apache Creation – Fred Kaydahzinne (Apache) 2 Worlds - Nataanii Means (Oglala Lakota, Omaha, Dine') Te Hau Waiati - Indigie Femme (Navajo) Best Instrumental Recording Awakened By The Noon Day Sun - Mwalin (Mashpee Wampanoag) Fight For Survival - Injunuity (Various) Journey To The Sun - Sun Shadows (Choctaw/Navajo) Strong Horse - Rushingwind & Mucklow (Cahuilla) The Long Journey Home - Ryan Little Eagle Molina (Lakota/Apache) The Clearing - Ohwihsha (Mohawk) Best Male Artist Jimmy Wolf (Mohawk) - A Tribute To Little Johnny Taylor Lawrence Harris (Choctaw) – Romanze – Songs of Tosti Randy McGinnis (Cherokee) – Smoky Mountain Dreams TerryLee Whetstone (Cherokee) - One People Tony Duncan (Apache/Ankara/Hidatsu/Mandan) – Native Son Wayne Silas, Jr (Menominee) – Infinite Passion Best Native American Church Recording A Good Day, A Better Tomorrow - Cheevers Toppah (Kiowa) Apache Peyote Songs - Joe Tohonnie Jr (Apache/Navajo) As It Was In The Beginning - Primeaux & Mike (Sioux/Navajo) Charity - Kevin Yazzie (Navajo) Lakota John and Kin - Lakota John and Kin (Lumbee/Oglala) NAC Songs - Aaron Adson (Pawnee/Comanche) Best New Age Recording Awakening The Fire - R. Carlos Nakai & Will Clipman (Navajo/Ute) Bridge - Rushingwind & Mucklow (Cahuilla) Dawn of a New Light - Douglas Blue Feather (Cherokee) Kamama - SilverWolf/Adelaunegv Waya (Cherokee) Love & Kindness - Golana (Cherokee) Smoky Mountain Dreams - Randy McGinnis (Cherokee) Best Pop Recording Colors - Indian City (Ojibway) Day After Day - Jamie Coon (Creek/Seminole) Feathers Rosary - Joey Stylez (Cree) Grace & Grit: Chapter I – Dark Water Rising (Lumbee) Spektra - Leah Shenandoah (Oneida) Touch - Raphael (Mescalero Apache) Best Pow Wow Recording Elder’s Vision: Pow Wow Songs Recorded Live @ Ky1 Yo - Blackfoot Confederacy (Various) In Harmony Again - Big River Cree Loyalty to the Drum - Northern Cree (Cree/Various) Right Now - Bear Creek (Various) Save Me A Lead - Young Spirit (Various) Stoic - Tha Tribe (Various) Best Producer Donald Blackfox – Earth Bound Angel Eddie Webber – Apache Blessing & Crown Dance Songs Kevin Chief (Algonquin/Oneida) – Honoring The Mazinikijik Singers Lyan Coulter, John McDuffie, Rany Landes, John Thomas - A Rita Coolidge Christmas Peter Blackwell – Mescalero Apache Creation Robert Doyle – Awakening The Fire Best Rap Hip Hop Recording Crunk Nativez - Lil Mike & Funny Bone (Chocktaw, Pawnee) Native Eyez - Intikana (Arawak/Taino) One Tribe One Nation – The Council (Sounthern Ute, Jemez Pueblo, Taos Pueblo) Quese Imc & Cempoalli 20 (Pawnee/Seminole) -Osahwuh Rainy Days – Tha Native featuring Stuxx (San Manuel) Warriors Arise - Makardi (Navajo) Record of the Year A Rita Coolidge Christmas - Rita Coolidge (Cherokee) A Tribe Called Red – A Tribe Called Red (Cayuga/Ojibway) Breathe & Flow - Wade Fernandez (Menominee) Native Son - Tony Duncan (Apache/Ankara/Hidatsu/Mandan) Romanze – Songs of Tosti - Lawrence Harris (Choctaw) The Gathering – Rona Yellowrobe (Chippewa Cree) Best Rock Recording Fire and Brimstone: A Tribute To Link Wray - Band of Tribes (Shawnee) Never Going Home – The Gun Runners (Onondaga) Never Surrender - Sihasin (Navajo) Surrender - George Leach (Sta’ atl’ imx) The Journey – Gareth Laffely (Mi'kmaq/Cree) Two Sons - The Ollivanders (Mohawk, Oneida) Song/Single of the Year "Diamond" - Bear Fox (Mohawk) "Love Of My Life" – Spencer Battiest (Seminole) "Runnin’ On Empty" –Shyanne & Shadowyze (Creek, Cherokee, Han Gwich in Athabascan) "Song of the Wolf" – Graywolf Blues Band (Yaqui) "Sublime Gracia" - Yolanda Martinez (Apache) "Witchi Tai-To – Water Spirits" – Shadowyze, Caren Knight Pepper and Jim Pepper Songwriter of the Year Brianna Lea Pruett (Cherokee/Choctaw) - Gypsy Bells Glen Bonham (Choctaw) - Glen Bonham Randy Granger (Choltan/Mayan) – Strong Medicine Robert Hollis aka Bobby Bullet (Lac du Flambeau) - Crooked Tear Samantha Crain (Choctaw)– Kid Face Theresa "Bear" Fox (Mohawk) – Diamond Best Spoken Word Recording Blessings - Fawn Wood & Dallas Waskahat (Cree/Salish) Grandfather Speaks – Ken Quiet Hawk (Abenaki) Lost Angel – Cyrus Emerson (Cherokee) Man From The Sky - Soyota (Apache) Mescalero Apache Creation – Fred Kaydahzinne (Apache) The Little Rocks – Windfeather Navarez Bull (Navajo) Best Traditional Recording Apache Blessing & Crown Dance Songs - Joe Tohonnie Jr (Apache) Blessings - Fawn Wood & Dallas Waskahat (Cree/Salish) From The Heart of Dine’ Nation - Sweethearts of Navajoland (Navajo) Honoring The Mazinikijik Singers - Mazinikijik Singers (Algonquin/Oneida) Moonlit Nights - Todi Neesh Zhee Singers (Navajo) - First Night Spirit of Thunderheart - Rising (Mohawk, Blackfoot, Cree, Cherokee) Best Music Video Love of My Life – Spencer Battiest (Seminole) Native Eyez - Intikana (Arawak/Taino) Prayer Loop Song – Supaman (Apsaalooke) Song of Survival – Red Eagle Women Across The River - Graywolf Blues Band (Yaqui) Sisters ft Northern Voice - A Tribe Called Red (Cayuga, Ojibway) Best Waila Recording 2 Rivers Band– 2 Rivers Band (Tohono O’odham) Back To Basics - Cruz (Tohono O’odham) Embrace The Kaos – Dfaktion Nyne (Tohono O’odham) In Loving Memory of Our Beloved Father & Uncle - Family Pride (Tohono O’odham) Pisinemo & Company – Pisinemo & Company (Tohono O’odham) Tohono O’odham Waila Music, Volume 2 - Valenzuela & Company (Tohono O’odham) Best World Music Recording Dance of the Soul - Jessica Martinez Maxey Kurt Wyaco – Kurt Wyaco I Conscious (Zuni Pueblo) Nagwetch - Wabanag (Metis) Nature Dance - Joanne Shenandoah (Oneida) North Wind - Flying Down Thunder & Rise Ashen (Algonquin) To Touch The Sky - Cal Silverfox Lopez (Apache) Native Heart Big City Indians - May You Walk Cornell Kinderknecht and Martin McCall - Dreamtime Lex Nichols – The Long Road Peter Phippen – Sacred Spaces Emiliano Campobello & Kevin Donoho - Rockapelli Terry Frazier - By The Still Waters The Native American Music Awards & Association extends its sincerest congratulations to this year's NAMA Nominees. |
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School of Americas Watch
Fort Benning Protest: November is 25th Anniversary of Central America Massacre
Dear Brenda,
As you may know, grassroots people power prevailed against the attempts by Fort Benning officials and the Columbus Police Department to shut down the November Vigil. We regained our right to protest in front of the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia!
As you may know, grassroots people power prevailed against the attempts by Fort Benning officials and the Columbus Police Department to shut down the November Vigil. We regained our right to protest in front of the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia!
This November marks the 25th anniversary of the University of Central America massacre as well as the anniversary of the birth of our movement. Join us at SOA Watch's 25th Vigil at the gates of Fort Benning and stand in solidarity with those who continue to be impacted by the SOA and by militarization at home and abroad.We will continue to call out the names of the martyrs killed by SOA graduates, recognize the connections to struggles at the Mexico-US border with the current refugee crisis, the locally opposed Escobal mine in Guatemala, and communities like Ferguson, Missouri, and others all across the Americas facing militarized police forces.You are a vital supporter of the SOA Watch movement, and we are so grateful for your generosity! I am writing today to ask you to help fund the 25th annual Vigil next month. Can you support the Vigil with a donation?
Mass mobilizations have always been an important part of social change movements. We need to strengthen our organizing and build lasting coalitions with others who are resisting across the Americas.To organize the November Vigil we need to raise $50,000 by October 24 to pay for high-quality stage and sound equipment, renting the Columbus Convention Center, printing materials, translation and interpretation, media work and more. The Vigil depends on supporters like you to make it happen!
Together, we will continue to stand up against Militarization and Empire! As a grassroots movement without the backing of big foundations, the activists who are doing the work are also financing the movement. Please help support the 25th annual Vigil with a donation.
To make a donation, you can click here or send a check or a money order, made out to "SOA Watch" to:
SOA Watch
5525 Illinois Ave NW
Washington, DC 20011
Thanks for being a part of the movement to close the SOA and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy. Your dedication and your generosity to the movement are greatly appreciated!
We hope to see you in November!
Katherine Henao
SOA Watch Development Coordinator
202-234-3440
Mass mobilizations have always been an important part of social change movements. We need to strengthen our organizing and build lasting coalitions with others who are resisting across the Americas.To organize the November Vigil we need to raise $50,000 by October 24 to pay for high-quality stage and sound equipment, renting the Columbus Convention Center, printing materials, translation and interpretation, media work and more. The Vigil depends on supporters like you to make it happen!
Together, we will continue to stand up against Militarization and Empire! As a grassroots movement without the backing of big foundations, the activists who are doing the work are also financing the movement. Please help support the 25th annual Vigil with a donation.
To make a donation, you can click here or send a check or a money order, made out to "SOA Watch" to:
SOA Watch
5525 Illinois Ave NW
Washington, DC 20011
Thanks for being a part of the movement to close the SOA and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy. Your dedication and your generosity to the movement are greatly appreciated!
We hope to see you in November!
Katherine Henao
SOA Watch Development Coordinator
202-234-3440
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EL IMPARCIAL TODO SOBRE ARIZONA
LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller honored
Hola:
I am happy to send you attached EL IMPARCIAL TODO SOBRE ARIZONA PAGE published today, Friday, October 17, 2014.
The main feature is about ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM introduction ceremony honoring LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller at the WOMEN’S PLAZA in the University of Arizona. Ms. Harris, Comanche, and Mankiller, Cherokee, are two accomplished women who deserve to be present permanently and publicly to honor their lives. The public is invited to attend the program, said Darlene F. Lizarraga, marketing director for Arizona State Museum.
Short stories are: the special invitation to celebrate Halloween in the Butterfly Wonderland in Scottsdale; also the invitation to David Broza and his poetic guitar featuring Alberto Rios, Arizona’s First Poet Laureate, at the FOX Tucson Theatre, November 414. Another short story is the announcement by Governor Jan Brewer about opening a New Arizona State Trade Office in Mexico City; and at the top right corner of the page you find a CALENDAR of EVENTS in different cities of Arizona.
If you prefer, you can see and read TODO SOBRE ARIZONA PAGE on EL IMPARCIAL.COMonline:
EL IMPARCIAL not only presents the Arizona advertising to its thousand of readers in Sonora (and the world by its website), but also offers them updated and valuable information about Arizona. This ARIZONA PAGE runs every two weeks in the full circulation of EL IMPARCIALESPECTACULOS Section.
Attached also is EL IMPARCIAL ARIZONA Promotions calendar for October, November and December 2014. I hope this is helpful
Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
I hope you have a good week.
Gracias
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HELP TODAY
Keep blocking the Israeli Ship in Los Angeles until it leaves for good
Keep blocking the Israeli Ship in Los Angeles until it leaves for good
For more than 24 hours, protesters have successfully delayed the Israeli ship Zim Savannah from unloading or loading cargo containers at the Port of Los Angeles at Long Beach. The ship is currently anchored outside the port but will soon attempt to come into the harbor. Please come and urge everyone you know in southern California to participate in the continued success of this effort.
Below is a message from the Block the Boat organizing committee in Los Angeles.
URGENT UPDATE:
Rather than meeting at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) morning, we will gather at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, based on new information we've received. Please share and email to your contact lists!
As usual, meet at Jim's Burgers, 1601 E. Anaheim Street, Wilmington 90744 to be shuttled or walk to protest site.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO BLOCK THE BOAT!
For further updates go to
https://www.facebook.com/
Send the ship back to sea until Palestine is free
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Earth At Risk: Speakers Talk Revolution
San Francisco, November 22nd-23rd
Global warming. Racism. Sexual Violence. Inequality. War. Species extinction. What are the links between these issues? And how can we move towards victory? An upcoming conference seeks to bring these issues together and answer these critical questions.
“All of the issues we face come from the same culture of extraction,” says event organizer Saba Malik. “They are driven by an urge to exploit. That is what we need to confront.”
Earth at Risk: The Justice and Sustainability Conference is being organized by a grassroots non-profit called Fertile Ground Environmental Institute. The event will feature presentations from radical activists and thinkers on the frontlines of struggle.
Participating speakers and organizations include: Vandana Shiva, Alice Walker, Chris Hedges, Chief Caleen Sisk, Derrick Jensen, Unist’ot’en Camp, Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry, Thomas Linzey, Sakej Ward, Gail Dines, Dahr Jamail, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Diane Wilson of CODEPINK, and many more.
Most environmental and social justice conferences are driven by corporate agendas and seek appeasement. Earth at Risk is different: it’s a grassroots gathering of people who reject greenwashed solutions and seek revolutionary change.
“Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologize, financialize, privatize and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes,” says keynote speaker Vandana Shiva. “But the growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”
Time is short. Indicators of environmental health and cultural morality are heading in the wrong direction. We need all hands on deck, but it’s hard to know where to start. Earth at Risk is a beginning. Join us at the event, and learn the information and the strategies that we need to turn this struggle around.
Visit www.EarthAtRisk.info for a full list of speakers and event details.
Will you be there?
Fertile Ground Board of Directors
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Beloved Relatives, Friends, and Members of the Nawtsamaat Alliance,
We hope this finds you well and in good spirits!
In reflection of the momentous rise of global action and human consciousness in the past month - from the birth of the Nawtsamaat Alliance and the 4 Days of Action, to the International Rally at Peace Arch Park, the worldwide People’s Climate March, the signing of the International Treaty to Protect the Salish Sea at Tsleil-Waututh Nation, and even the recent Seattle city resolution and celebration of Indigenous People’s Day - one cannot help but look on in wonder at this awe-inspiring expression of love for our Mother Earth, our region, and all living beings.
After such a courageous display of worldwide, unprecedented unified action, the winds of change only grow stronger. The very earth we stand on somehow feels different, giving off the exciting vibration of unity, achievement, and possibility of what can happen from here, together.
Thank you! Thank you for all that you do as a valued being on this planet who stands up for what is right and for what is good. For walking the Beauty Way. The way of courage, and peace, and love. The way of unity.
As we move into Autumn, let this be a time for us to harvest and celebrate all the good that transpired and is transpiring from our committed labor and stewardship of this place, our Mother Earth. We are excited to reveal to you an astonishing array of upcoming opportunities and warm invitations for building community and for co-creative organizing to protect the Salish Sea.
Invitations and Opportunities for Collaboration
1. Leadership Gathering at Tsleil-Waututh Nation on November 6th, 2014
At Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a follow-up gathering to the signing of the International Treaty to Protect the Salish Sea is being held to allow each event attendee to connect and network with one another, as well as the First Nations people and community leaders who will also attend. There will be a Talking and Sharing Circle that offers an opportunity for each attendee to give a 5 minute presentation to highlight what each organization, group or individual is doing, and provide a basis for connection and unified action. The event is from 11 AM to 3 PM. There is no charge and food will be provided by our hosts, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.
RSVP here: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/
News, Updates, and Announcements!
2. Special Announcement: Protect the Salish Sea International Treaty Tour
Early in 2015, a Salish Sea International Treaty Tour will begin. Traveling to major port cities and communities throughout the Salish Sea, the tour will bring together people through town hall meeting, press conferences, treaty signings, ceremony and galas to raise awareness about our region being turned into a “sacrifice zone” for the fossil fuel industry, and to garner critical support for the International Treaty to Protect the Salish Sea and the Nawtsamaat Alliance. During the tour, organizations or groups with 1,000 members or more will be invited to sign a Pledge of Support to the treaty, officiating support of those organizations and giving the treaty more power in its ability to protect our land and waters.
The planning for this tour is still happening. If you would like the tour to stop in your community and/or town hall, stay tuned in the ways we can help you organize these stops for the tour.
Initiatives for Members
3. The Alliance Speaker’s Bureau - Become a Spokesperson for the Nawtsamaat Alliance
We encourage all members to take full ownership of their participation in this Alliance. We are all brought to it in our own ways. It is a living wave of the human family, a representation of us all, unifying us together as one. So let your voice be heard!
We invite you to become an Alliance Speaker, an expert on this movement and enabler of collective action. This would allow you to be a trained spokesperson for the Alliance. This means you would be invited to speak on behalf of the Nawtsamaat Alliance at community events where people are reaching out and requesting for someone to come and speak to their community.
If you feel called to become an Alliance Speaker, or to have a speaker come talk to your community, contact joey@compassiongames.org.
4. Resources for Learning, Sharing, and Change
It is important for all members to know this material whether you want to be an Alliance Speaker or not.To help educate yourself so that you can talk with others about the Alliance and this greater movement, we’ve provided you with some critical resources we find incredibly helpful to learn from and share with others in formal and informal settings.
Share Your Stories!
And finally, we want to hear from you! We would love to know your stories. What moves you at this time? What experiences did you have during the past month of global and collective action? What gives you hope and inspiration? Your stories will be great gifts for every member of the Nawtsamaat Alliance!
Share your stories here!: http://www.protectthesacred.
There is so much to share, and so many opportunities for connection and making positive change as we, the human species, recognize the power of our voices and actions as we work together for a better world. Let us imagine the very real future… the future where our relatives, hundreds of years from now, sing songs and hold ceremony to honor their ancestors - us - for overcoming excruciating hardship, suffering and divisiveness, to ultimately realize the greatest truth of all: the truth of our essential unity as One People on our precious Mother Earth.
Can you feel it? This time is now.
With Hope, Excitement, and Heartfelt Gratitude,
The Nawtsamaat Alliance Organizing Team
Nawtsamaat Alliance Newsletter: Volume 1. October 17th, 2014.
http://www.protectthesacred. |
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Native American Music Awards: Joanne Shenandoah
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For Immediate Release
SAVE LINCOLN CENTER:
Featuring the Honorable Alicia R. Chacon, Rep. Lily Limon,
Rosa Guerrero and Gaspar Enriquez
El Paso, Texas, October 18, 2014- The Lincoln Park Conservation Committee invites everyone to attend a “Report to the Community” for a status of the effort to Save Lincoln Center on Tuesday, October 21, 2014, from 6:30-8:30 at Café Mayapan, 2000 Texas Ave. FREE!
Confirmed speakers include: the Honorable Alicia R. Chacón, City Representative Lily Limón, Rosa Guerrero, Artist Gaspar Enriquez, Artist Gabriel Gaytan, Hector González, among others.
The program is divided into three parts: Part One will feature invited speakers who will speak on the importance of Lincoln Center; Part Two will feature the photography and testimonials of various individuals who experienced and documented events from May 20th and subsequent events when the community countered efforts to construct a fence around Lincoln Center and summarily demolish the building. Part Three will serve as an open forum where the community can add their voices to the effort to reopen Lincoln Center.
Lincoln School (Lincoln Center) and the Lincoln Park community in El Paso, Texas is a place that has tremendous historical significance. The Lincoln Park Subdivision was registered with the El Paso City Clerk’s office in 1909. Among the many students who attended Lincoln School, was the late State Representative Mauro Rosas. Rosas was the first Mexican-American State Representative from El Paso, Texas to serve in Austin during the Twentieth century in 1959 during the Fifty-Sixth and Fifty-Seven Legislative Sessions (1959-1963). Since 2006, the Lincoln Park Conservation Committee (LPCC) has held the annual Lincoln Park Day at Lincoln Park.
In addition, Lincoln Center is also the last standing public building of the Concordia School District, a district which was part of the original Ascarate Land Grant, which dates from prior to the American Revolution. Lincoln Center is a fundamental part of El Paso’s Mexican-American Cultural Heritage.
Present day Lincoln Park represents El Corazón de El Paso (the Heart of El Paso). Since 1981, artists have painted murals on the highway pillars like the murals at Chicano Park in San Diego. There are also several important murals painted inside Lincoln Center by Carlos E. Florés, who studied under Maestro Luis Nishisawa at the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, where many Mexico’s famed muralists studied.
People Power PR
Press Contact:
Lincoln Park Conservation Committee
Hector González, 915-204-1584
Miguel Juárez, 915-202-1649
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CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT TO CELEBRATE 8th ANNUAL
FIESTA FRONTERIZA FEATURING THE
REVEREND JAMES LAWSON
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Press Contact:
Sandra Arzate
(915) 532-3799
El Paso, Texas, October 18, 2014-- Paso del Norte Civil Rights Project is pleased to announce its Eighth Annual Fiesta Fronteriza. The Fiesta Fronteriza will take place on October 31st, 2014 at the Camino Real Hotel from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm and will feature the revered Reverend James Lawson, speaking on “Let the Beautiful Struggle Go On…”
While enrolled as a divinity student at Oberlin College, Lawson met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who urged Lawson to postpone his studies and take an active role in the Civil Rights Movement. An American activist, university professor, and leading theoretician and tactician of non-violence within the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Presently, Lawson trains activists in nonviolence and continues to fight for the oppressed.
Additionally, this year’s Fiesta Fronteriza will celebrate and honor two individuals who have impacted human and civil rights in our community in the following categories:
- Albert Armendariz, Sr., Lifetime Achievement in Human Rights Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Legal Service Award
The winners will be publicly announced soon…
All proceeds from the luncheon will enable the Civil Rights Project to continue providing free legal assistance to low-income West Texas residents and continue our advocacy for racial, social, and economic justice. Live music and lunch is included.
See you there!
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Tickets are $55 before Oct. 31st and $65 the day of the event.
For tickets, tables, or sponsorship opportunities, please contact Sandra Arzate at (915)-532-3799 ext. 15, or
visit the El Paso Fiesta Fronteriza webpage
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Hello,
I am writing to share our extended interview with longtime New York Times investigative reporter James Risen, who joins us to discuss his new book, "Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War."
Watch the interview:
http://www.democracynow.org/
In 2006, Risen won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting about warrantless wiretapping of Americans by the National Security Agency. He has since been pursued by both the Bush and Obama administrations in a six-year leak investigation into that book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration." Risen now faces years in prison if he refuses to testify at the trial of a former CIA officer, Jeffrey Sterling, who is accused of giving him classified information about the agency’s role in disrupting Iran’s nuclear program, which he argues effectively gave Iran a blueprint for designing a bomb. The Obama administration must now decide if it will try to force Risen’s testimony, despite new guidelines issued earlier this year that make it harder to subpoena journalists for their records.
In the last five minutes of the interview, we asked his thoughts about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Hear what he had to say: http://www.democracynow.org/
Here are some featured quotes from James Risen’s interview. Click the links to read the full transcript:
“The war on terror became this enormous search for power and status and cash.”
“You can’t have aggressive and investigative reporting in America without confidential sources. And without aggressive investigative reporting, you can’t really have a democracy.”
“Early in the war on terror, the CIA and all these other agencies had so much money to spend on counterterrorism that they were willing to throw it at everything. They were so afraid of the next terrorist attack that they were willing to believe anybody who came up with some idea.”
“There’s lots of people involved in the war on terror today who are doing it because they’re ambitious, because they want status or power, or money.”
“We had the story ready to go by mid to late December of 2004, and then the [New York Times] editors killed it again for the same reason: national security.”
“I told my editors: ‘It’s going to be in my book, so you should think about running it.’”
“To me her case [Diane Roark] is a perfect example of why Edward Snowden had to do what he did.”
“Anyone who thinks that he [Snowden] could have done what he’s done and stayed in the United States is fooling himself.”
“It is my job. If I just gave in to them, then I would be failing in what I want to do. I want to keep finding out the truth.”
“It’s remarkable what happened to them [whistleblowers] at the NSA. I did not know William Binney, Diane Roark or Thomas Drake. There were not our sources. But what we found out is that the government thought they were our sources for our New York Times story and they were persecuting them as a result.”
Read an excerpt from Risen’s new book on our website: http://www.democracynow.org/
Also, in case you missed them, please watch the Democracy Now! interviews with NSA whistleblowers Thomas Drake and William Binney in our archive: http://www.democracynow.org/
Please take a moment to watch the segments. If interested, you can help us bring this interview to a wider audience today by posting it on your website, email list, blog, and social media networks. I have provided the link and video embed code below. The complete transcript will be posted soon on our website. We have also posted this interview on our YouTube and SoundCloud channels. We encourage you to join the discussion about this topic on our Facebook and Google+ pages.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration. Please let me know if you have any questions.
My Best,
Mohamed Taguine
Social Media and Online Outreach Intern
Democracy Now!
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Thank you for sharing with Censored News!
brendanorrell@gmail.com
I am writing to share our extended interview with longtime New York Times investigative reporter James Risen, who joins us to discuss his new book, "Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War."
Watch the interview:
http://www.democracynow.org/
In 2006, Risen won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting about warrantless wiretapping of Americans by the National Security Agency. He has since been pursued by both the Bush and Obama administrations in a six-year leak investigation into that book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration." Risen now faces years in prison if he refuses to testify at the trial of a former CIA officer, Jeffrey Sterling, who is accused of giving him classified information about the agency’s role in disrupting Iran’s nuclear program, which he argues effectively gave Iran a blueprint for designing a bomb. The Obama administration must now decide if it will try to force Risen’s testimony, despite new guidelines issued earlier this year that make it harder to subpoena journalists for their records.
In the last five minutes of the interview, we asked his thoughts about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Hear what he had to say: http://www.democracynow.org/
Here are some featured quotes from James Risen’s interview. Click the links to read the full transcript:
“The war on terror became this enormous search for power and status and cash.”
“You can’t have aggressive and investigative reporting in America without confidential sources. And without aggressive investigative reporting, you can’t really have a democracy.”
“Early in the war on terror, the CIA and all these other agencies had so much money to spend on counterterrorism that they were willing to throw it at everything. They were so afraid of the next terrorist attack that they were willing to believe anybody who came up with some idea.”
“There’s lots of people involved in the war on terror today who are doing it because they’re ambitious, because they want status or power, or money.”
“We had the story ready to go by mid to late December of 2004, and then the [New York Times] editors killed it again for the same reason: national security.”
“I told my editors: ‘It’s going to be in my book, so you should think about running it.’”
“To me her case [Diane Roark] is a perfect example of why Edward Snowden had to do what he did.”
“Anyone who thinks that he [Snowden] could have done what he’s done and stayed in the United States is fooling himself.”
“It is my job. If I just gave in to them, then I would be failing in what I want to do. I want to keep finding out the truth.”
“It’s remarkable what happened to them [whistleblowers] at the NSA. I did not know William Binney, Diane Roark or Thomas Drake. There were not our sources. But what we found out is that the government thought they were our sources for our New York Times story and they were persecuting them as a result.”
Read an excerpt from Risen’s new book on our website: http://www.democracynow.org/
Also, in case you missed them, please watch the Democracy Now! interviews with NSA whistleblowers Thomas Drake and William Binney in our archive: http://www.democracynow.org/
Please take a moment to watch the segments. If interested, you can help us bring this interview to a wider audience today by posting it on your website, email list, blog, and social media networks. I have provided the link and video embed code below. The complete transcript will be posted soon on our website. We have also posted this interview on our YouTube and SoundCloud channels. We encourage you to join the discussion about this topic on our Facebook and Google+ pages.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration. Please let me know if you have any questions.
My Best,
Mohamed Taguine
Social Media and Online Outreach Intern
Democracy Now!
=====================================================================
Thank you for sharing with Censored News!
brendanorrell@gmail.com
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