Inaugural international Global Green Indigenous Film Festival to be launched in New Mexico, April 18 - 20, 2008
By Stephine Poston
stephposton@msn.com
The international Global Green Indigenous Film Festival will be held at the El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 18 -20, 2008. Gary Farmer will be a part of the film festival team. Charmaine Jackson-John, film festival manager, is accepting submissions for films and videos that address indigenous environmental concerns and issues from all countries. Read more ...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/global-green-indigenous-film-festival.html
Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights
October 15, 2007
Mohawk Nation News: 'Who's Sorry Now?'
Mohawk Nation News
Mohawk Nation News has published a book on one of our Mohawk communities, Kanehsatake. The following is the preface: Title: “Who’s Sorry Now? The good, the bad and the unapologetic Mohawks of Kanehsatake” by Kahentinetha Horn.
The title of this book, “Who’s Sorry Now” was inspired by the remarks of Judge Nicole Duval Hesler of Quebec Superior Court. She wanted the Mohawks of Kanehsatake to apologize to get more lenient sentences from her. She wanted an admission of guilt andsubmission to the colonizers who are engaged in stealing our community’s assets. She wanted our men to bow down to those heavily armed goons who had invaded our territory on January12, 2004 carrying a “hit list”.
They’ve been convicted as “rioters”. Wouldn’t an apology be dandy? It would save her the embarrassment of her case being appealed. The treatment we have been receiving at the hands of the police, judicial system and colonial government officials is corrupt,deceitful and threatening. We’ve learned that we are in the way of multi-national corporate interests who control colonial governments. We have learned that we Mohawks have been and continue to be targeted for various reasons. Our ancestors always refused to knuckle under. So do we!
That’s why we are still the targets of genocide. Our land,our constitution and our tie to our land has kept us strong. We continue to take energy from our ancestors who made the sacrifices so we could be here today. They made sure that there would be at least seven generations of our people in the future. This book is about how we spoke out and about the way we were persecuted for exercising a right that Canada pretends to defend. We also wanted the Canadian public to know what is being done with their tax dollars. This will give them something to think about as they sit around waiting for medical services which we are told cannot be provided. Where is all the money going? Well, this is about one leak in the bucket.
Read more ...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/mohawk-nation-news-whos-sorry-now.html
Mohawk Nation News has published a book on one of our Mohawk communities, Kanehsatake. The following is the preface: Title: “Who’s Sorry Now? The good, the bad and the unapologetic Mohawks of Kanehsatake” by Kahentinetha Horn.
The title of this book, “Who’s Sorry Now” was inspired by the remarks of Judge Nicole Duval Hesler of Quebec Superior Court. She wanted the Mohawks of Kanehsatake to apologize to get more lenient sentences from her. She wanted an admission of guilt andsubmission to the colonizers who are engaged in stealing our community’s assets. She wanted our men to bow down to those heavily armed goons who had invaded our territory on January12, 2004 carrying a “hit list”.
They’ve been convicted as “rioters”. Wouldn’t an apology be dandy? It would save her the embarrassment of her case being appealed. The treatment we have been receiving at the hands of the police, judicial system and colonial government officials is corrupt,deceitful and threatening. We’ve learned that we are in the way of multi-national corporate interests who control colonial governments. We have learned that we Mohawks have been and continue to be targeted for various reasons. Our ancestors always refused to knuckle under. So do we!
That’s why we are still the targets of genocide. Our land,our constitution and our tie to our land has kept us strong. We continue to take energy from our ancestors who made the sacrifices so we could be here today. They made sure that there would be at least seven generations of our people in the future. This book is about how we spoke out and about the way we were persecuted for exercising a right that Canada pretends to defend. We also wanted the Canadian public to know what is being done with their tax dollars. This will give them something to think about as they sit around waiting for medical services which we are told cannot be provided. Where is all the money going? Well, this is about one leak in the bucket.
Read more ...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/mohawk-nation-news-whos-sorry-now.html
BOLIVIA RISING!
Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia celebrate their resistance and sovereignty over their land and resources, announcing decrees on migration, their right to water and women's rights, while celebrating the emergence of a new world leader: Bolivian President Evo Morales
Bolivia Rising
A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples Chimoré, Cochabamba, Bolivia
From the heart of South America, on this 12th day of October, 2007, the delegates of the indigenous first nations and peoples of the world, meeting in the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World”, to celebrate the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, hereby declare: That, after 515 years of oppression and domination, here we stand; they have been unable to eliminate us. We have confronted and resisted the policies of ethnocide, genocide, colonization, destruction and plunder. Read more ...
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/10/formal-summons-to-world-states-by.htmlRead
Bolivia Rising
A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples Chimoré, Cochabamba, Bolivia
From the heart of South America, on this 12th day of October, 2007, the delegates of the indigenous first nations and peoples of the world, meeting in the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World”, to celebrate the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, hereby declare: That, after 515 years of oppression and domination, here we stand; they have been unable to eliminate us. We have confronted and resisted the policies of ethnocide, genocide, colonization, destruction and plunder. Read more ...
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/10/formal-summons-to-world-states-by.htmlRead
October 14, 2007
Texas migrant prisons, free the children!
Hutto child prison and Raymondville tent internment camp in Texas
Freedom Ambassadors: A Texas Super Weekend…
Raymondville Walk II Oct. 26 - 27, 2007
Hutto Walk III Oct. 28-30, 2007
These prisons are models and manifestations of the elitist supremacy…with callous greed as the driving force that permeates our country and exploits the worlds’ inhabitants.
The Hutto child prison in Taylor and the Raymondville tent internment camps are the most visible yet sinister violation of international human rights on American soil…and they both happen to be here in Texas. Hutto has children and their mothers imprisoned at the tune of about $10,000 per child/per mother/per month. Raymondville is the most flagrant of adult immigrant internment camps in the world, let alone on American soil.
Read more from Jay Johnson-Castro:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/texas-migrant-prison-free-children.html
Photo Raymondville tent internment camp/Courtesy Jay Johnson-Castro
Freedom Ambassadors: A Texas Super Weekend…
Raymondville Walk II Oct. 26 - 27, 2007
Hutto Walk III Oct. 28-30, 2007
These prisons are models and manifestations of the elitist supremacy…with callous greed as the driving force that permeates our country and exploits the worlds’ inhabitants.
The Hutto child prison in Taylor and the Raymondville tent internment camps are the most visible yet sinister violation of international human rights on American soil…and they both happen to be here in Texas. Hutto has children and their mothers imprisoned at the tune of about $10,000 per child/per mother/per month. Raymondville is the most flagrant of adult immigrant internment camps in the world, let alone on American soil.
Read more from Jay Johnson-Castro:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/texas-migrant-prison-free-children.html
Photo Raymondville tent internment camp/Courtesy Jay Johnson-Castro
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