Tenth Part: Regarding pyramids and their uses and customary regimes.
Conclusions from the critical analysis of MAREZ and JBG. (Fragment of the interview with Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés during the months of August-September 2023, in the mountains of Southeast Mexico)
Who built Thebes of the 7 gates? In the books you will read the names of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock? And Babylon, many times demolished, who raised it up so many times? In what houses of gold-glittering Lima did its builders live? Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go? Great Rome is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them?
Genocide Lawsuit Filed Against Biden by U.S. Attorneys
Stop the Genocide
United States' Complicity and Failure to Prevent the Israeli Government's Unfolding Genocide of Palestinians
The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Palestinian human rights organizations and Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S. Plaintiffs are suing President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Defense Secretary Austin for their failure to prevent and complicity in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide against them, their families, and the 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza.
The lawsuit is accompanied by a preliminary injunction motion, which seeks an emergency order to prohibit any further U.S. military and diplomatic support to the Israeli government while the case is being considered.
The Israeli government is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza with unconditional U.S. support.
Genocide is the gravest of crimes under international law. As defined by the International Genocide Convention (1948), genocide refers to specific actions – such as killing or deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of a group in whole or in part – taken with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, the group targeted, including on ethnic or national grounds.
Numerous Israeli government leaders have expressed clear genocidal intentions and deployed dehumanizing characterizations of Palestinians, including “human animals.” At the same time, the Israeli military has bombed civilian areas and infrastructure, including by using chemical weapons, and deprived Palestinians of everything necessary for human life, including water, food, electricity, fuel, and medicine. Those statements of intent – when combined with mass killing, causing serious bodily and mental harm, and the total siege and closure creating conditions of life to bring about the physical destruction of the group – reveal evidence of an unfolding crime of genocide.
On May 27, 2022, in Rapid City, Connie Uhre, owner of Grand Gateway Hotel, sprayed Sunny Red Bear, director of racial equity at NDN Collective, in the face with a cleaning product, during a boycott protest of the hotel. “This is what we mean when we say that white supremacy is violent,” said Sunny Red Bear, racial equity director at NDN Collective. “No matter how long they lie dormant, peoples’ racist worldviews eventually come out in their actions.
Rapid City Hotel Owner to Step Down, Apologize in Racial Discrimination Consent Decree
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, November 14, 2023
The U.S. Justice Department announced that the owners of the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City, South Dakota, have entered into a consent decree in a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department against the hotel, following discrimination against Native Americans.
Connie Uhre will be barred from serving as an officer or director of the company or from exercising any management duties or being involved in any operations on behalf of the Grand Gateway Hotel for four years.
The hotel defendants will also issue a public apology and send it to tribal organizations in South Dakota and throughout the Great Plains region.
“As alleged in the complaint, the defendants both prevented Native Americans from booking rooms at the hotel and made public statements discouraging Native Americans from setting foot on the business’s property,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland.
“This kind of hateful conduct invokes a long and painful history of negative stereotypes against and exclusion of the Native American community," said Kristen Clarke, asst. attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. "We applaud the Tribal elders, local officials, and advocates who took a stand against this shameful conduct."
Although the business settled one federal suit, it still faces two more lawsuits.
The two other ongoing lawsuits come from the indigenous advocacy network NDN Collective and a Wisconsin family, who both allege the hotel denied Native people service illegally. Both of those suits are pending.
Keloland News reports of racial discrimination at the hotel in August:
A family from Wisconsin claims they attempted to stay at the Grand Gateway in August of 2023.
Court documents say that Jennifer White, who is quote “not of a member of a racially protected class”, entered the lobby alone, and the clerk began the check-in process for the three rooms she’d reserved. But when her husband, Ryan, came into the hotel, the clerk stopped the check-in and told them there were no rooms available.
Ryan White is Native American.
They allege that when they questioned the decision, the clerk called security.
Court papers say the Whites felt threatened and went to a different hotel.
The U.S. Justice Depatment consent decree which requires a halt to racial discrimination at the hotel, training for employees, and a public apology, is at:
Justice Department Secures Agreement with South Dakota Hotel and Sports Lounge to Resolve Allegations of Discrimination Against Native Americans
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota
Settlement Comes as Justice Department Commemorates Native American History Month
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that the owners and operators of the Grand Gateway Hotel and the Cheers Sports Lounge and Casino, a hotel and sports bar located in Rapid City, South Dakota, have entered into a consent decree resolving the Department’s lawsuit alleging that the defendants discriminated against Native American customers in violation of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
