First Voices Indigenous Radio March 4, 2010

First Voices Indigenous Radio, Thursday, March 4, 2010
Special guest: Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, imprisoned in Mexico for four days on false charges, while supporting the Zapatistas.
Also:
The Mapuche situation and the difference between what American and Chilean media colluding and painting an "earthquake prepared" country. The Mapuche speak about their treatment by the Chilean government which is much different especially in Concepcion, Chile and the region between Temulco and Santiago.
The Native Women's Association of Canada
There are 520 known cases of missing or murderd Aboriginal women and girls entered into the NWAC database. NWAC believes there are many more cases that have not yet been documented, especially for earlier decades. In Canada where the Indigenous population makes up less than 2% of the Canadian population, if compared to the rest of the population their death and disappearance rate would be equivalent to over 18,000 Canadian women and girls missing or murdered in the past thirty years.
FIRST VOICES INDIGENOUS RADIO
Thursdays 1Oam-11am
http://www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/
212.209.2800 switchboard

Broadcast Info
WBAI NY 99.5 FM
120 Wall Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Streaming: http://www.wbai.org/
Pacifica Radio Network

WJFF 90.5 FM Jeffersonville, NY
W233AH 94.5 FM Monticello, NY
Streaming: http://www.wjffradio.org/


WPKN 89. 5 FM Bridgeport - New Haven, Conn.
Streaming http://www.wpkn.org/


WPKM 88.7 FM Montauk, NY
Westerly, Rhode Island
New London, Conn.
Streaming http://www.wpkn.org/


COMING SOON!
KVNF 90.9 FM Paonia, Colorado
http://www.kvnf.org/


99.1 FM Grand Valley, Grand Junction
88.7 FM Lake City
98.3 FM Hotchkiss Crawford
88.9 FM Ridgway
90.1 FM Ouray


KVMT 89.1 FM Uncompahgre Valley
Montrose
Delta


KUNM 89.9 Albuquerque, Santa Fe
KBOM 88.7 Socorro
KRRT 90.9 Arroyo Seco - Taos
KRRE 91.9 Las Vegas
KRAR 91.9 Española
K220EM 91.9 Nageezi
K216CT 90.5 Eagle Nest
K216CU 91.1 Cuba


Please visit: http://www.ghosthorse.biz/
www.myspace.com/ghosthorseksa
SKYPE: Tiokasin

CRAZY HORSE (His Horse Is Enchanted) 1877 said this smoking a pipe with Sitting Bull 4 days before his assassination. "Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one."

Wilma Mankiller: I am prepared for this journey

Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

Charlie Soap regrets to announce his wife Wilma Mankiller has been diagnosed with Stage IV Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer. Mankiller is an author, lecturer and former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Mankiller has served 12 years in elective office at the Cherokee Nation, the first two as Deputy Principal Chief followed by 10 years as Principal Chief. She retired from public office in 1995. Among her many honors, Mankiller has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton. Soap requests that the public respect the family’s privacy during this time.

In a brief statement, Wilma Mankiller said:

“I decided to issue this statement because I want my family and friends to know that I am mentally and spiritually prepared for this journey; a journey that all human beings will take at one time or another. I learned a long time ago that I can’t control the challenges the Creator sends my way but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them. On balance, I have been blessed with an extraordinarily rich and wonderful life, filled with incredible experiences. And I am grateful to have a support team composed of loving family and friends. I will be spending my time with my family and close friends and engaging in activities I enjoy. It’s been my privilege to meet and be touched by thousands of people in my life and I regret not being able to deliver this message personally to so many of you. If anyone wants to send a message to me, it is best to email me at wilmapmankiller@yahoo.com ”

Statement on Wilma Mankiller from Chad Smith, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation:

"Wilma is a mentor and friend. It’s hard to express how much she means to me personally and the Cherokee people as a Nation. I’ve got one story that helps sum up what kind of person she is. The week after she received the Presidential Medal of Honor she was back home on the front porch of her family’s church. It was Memorial Day and there were decorations at the cemetery and it struck me how she could be just as comfortable meeting with the President as she was with her own people, honoring her ancestors. It was an image of someone who was truly humble, and you don’t meet too many people like that.
She is a true patriot of the Cherokee Nation, and it’s my privilege to follow in her footsteps as Chief. Any successes we have had in the past ten years since I took office were built upon the foundation she and Ross Swimmer helped lay. In the coming days, we will do whatever we can to assist her and her family, while allowing them the dignity and privacy they deserve."
.
Cherokee Nation Press Statement, with Mankiller's Biography
http://www.cherokee.org/NewsRoom/FullStory/3160/Page/Default.aspx
.

US: Leaking a trail of toxic racism

Secret and blatant toxic dumping on Native Americans and along the border

Article and photo by Brenda Norrell

Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

EL PASO -- Asarco's copper smelting plant is a monument to environmental racism, a visual proclamation of how corporations poison communities.
By locating in downtown El Paso, on the border of Juarez, Mexico, alongside the Rio Grande, Asarco violated every aspect of human rights and decency. Asarco poisoned families in the US and Mexico, leaving children with diseases and learning disabilities.
The Justice Department announced a settlement involving Asarco in December. In one of the largest environmental bankruptcies in U.S. history, the American Smelting and Refining Company, known as Asarco, will pay a record $1.79 billion to settle claims for hazardous waste pollution at 80 sites in as many as 20 states.
In El Paso, Asarco's pollution was blasted into Juarez.
NPR reports, "As a result, sulfur dioxide and heavy metals fell on the colonias and schools and playgrounds of El Paso's sister city, where federal and state regulators had no jurisdiction.
'It is very clear that a majority of what came out of that flue and was deposited over 100 years landed in Mexico,' says Texas state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, one of those who led the fight to close down Asarco.
Colonia Ladrillera, in Juarez, is located less than a half-mile from the smelter. People here complained of skin rashes, allergies and asthma when Asarco was operating."
While Asarco's complete disregard for health is abrupt and visible, much of the toxic and detrimental waste dumped in and around Indian country has been invisible to the human eye.
Recently, it was exposed that Cyprus Tohono Corporation copper mine, a former Phelps Dodge subsidiary, contaminated the groundwater with uranium on the Tohono O'odham Nation, 32 miles south of Casa Grande. Already, O'odham activists halted a planned toxic dump in their ceremonial community of Quitovac, Sonora, south of the border. The US attempted to create a toxic dump in the ceremonial community of Quitovac, so US factories in Mexico could circumvent the law and dump there. US manufacturers are required to return toxic waste from factories in Mexico to the country of origin of the raw materials.
Cold War uranium mining on the Navajo Nation and Pueblos left behind a legacy of disease and death for Navajos and Pueblos. Native people were sent to their deaths in the uranium mines without protective clothing, even after the US was aware of the risk to life. The radioactive dust was eaten on the food in the communities. On the Navajo Nation, radioactive tailings remain strewn across the land.
Meanwhile, the United States' biological and chemical warfare testing remains secret in most cases. However, the nerve gas testing next to the Goshute Indian Nation in northwest Utah was exposed. The Army's nerve gas testing resulted in dead sheep near Dugway Proving Ground in 1968. Still today the biological and chemical warfare testing base remains in operation as a training ground for troops to Afghanistan.
While researching Dugway a few years ago, I discovered toxic inventories that reveal toxic sites in and around Indian country. One of those sites is in the western portion of the Navajo Nation. It stands apart as a mystery.
The unidentified project was listed on the Dept. of Defense Native American Environmental Tracking System site as “Nauaya Gra Res AX.” It was listed as having "no information," with impacts unknown. The only other reference to "Nauaya Gra Res AX" was in a DOD Arizona toxic cleanup citation stating the Nauaya Gra Res AX site is in Coconino County, Ariz. It states there are "no records," and there was a cleanup cost of $15 million.
What was the toxic substance that the US dumped on the Navajo Nation? There are no records of it.
The Arizona Prisoner of War Camps are also listed as former Department of Defense sites for toxic cleanup. The Prisoner of War camp sites include Eloy I, Eloy II, Florence, Duncan, Maricopa County, Continental, Cortaro, Queen Creek and Safford.
The region of Eloy and Florence in southern Arizona, where the United States imprisoned Japanese during WWII, is now the site of another human rights tragedy.
In keeping with this legacy of racism, imprisonment and oppression, an immigration prison is now operated in Eloy by the private prison profiteer CCA, Corrections Corporation of America. Contracted by ICE, CCA profiteers from misery and racism in the United States.
NPR named its program on Asarco as "A Toxic Century." The name is appropriate and not just in regard to toxic elements.
The trail of environmental racism in the United States is a trail of US toxic racism and genocide.
This remains the most censored issue, combined with the real reasons for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
More:
Also see: 'Dr. Jekyll Obama Goes Nuclear" Obama targets black community in Georgia with the risk of disease and death from new nuclear reactors. Already, the area is home to US warmongers and the "intelligence" community:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/02/dr-jekyl-obama-goes-nuclear.html
Depleted uranium dumping in Socorro, NM, region is home to Navajos and Pueblos:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/01/socorro-county-nm-uranium-dna-damage.html
References:
Former DOD sites in Arizona:
http://www.gao.gov/gao-01-1012sp/AZ.html/
Toxic sites on First Nations Canada
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2008/08/biological-and-chemical-warfare-agents.html
US map of DOD contaminated sites. Click on each state:
http://www.gao.gov/gao-01-1012sp/app1.htm

Read and listen to NPR on Asarco, Feb. 2010: A Toxic Century
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122779177

Splitting the Sky: War Criminal Bush

CANADA PROVIDES SAFE HAVEN FOR SUSPECTED WAR CRIMINAL; CHARGES CITIZEN ENFORCING WAR CRIMES ACT
Press statement from Splitting the Sky, Mohawk

CALGARY -- According to legislation enacted in 2000, the Crimes Against Humanity & War Crimes Act bans all who are credibly suspected to have committed war crimes or crimes against humanity from entering Canada or, if they have managed to get in, to arrest them on the spot. This law is supported by international laws to which Canada is signatory.

Yet on March 17th 2009 George W. Bush was in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for a speaking engagement at the Telus Convention Centre which was sponsored by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.
George Bush stands credibly accused and internationally condemned for war crimes committed, during his reign, in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay as well as in numerous CIA black sites stationed around the world.

As Commander-In-Chief of the United States military, George Bush meets the definition of both 'military commandar' and superior' of the Crimes Against Humanity & War Crimes Act (2000) (sec 7) and thus should have been prevented from entering the country or arrested upon entry.
Splitting the Sky, a Mohawk activist from Six Nations, evoking international law and Canada's own war crimes legislation, requested Calgary police officers to arrest ex-US-president G.W. Bush.
When police refused his demand to uphold the law, Splitting the Sky attempted to carry out a citizen’s arrest of Bush, moving through the police line with his hands over his head yelling, “I am not touching anyone.”

He was then arrested and beaten, sustaining a concussion and painful soft tissue injuries.
Splitting the Sky was charged with obstruction of justice and released on $500 bail after being held in jail for 24 hours. All this, in his words, for his attempt “to do MY civic duty, to arrest the credibly suspected war criminal George W. Bush.” He now faces the possibility of 6 months in jail and a $5000 fine. His trial begins on Monday, March 8, 2010.
There will be a rally to support Splitting the Sky on Monday, March 8, 2010 at 9 am at the Calgary Court House, 601 5 Street S.W.
For more info: Splitting The Sky
Email: splitting_the_sky@yahoo.com
Professor Anthony Hall
Email: raprockprof@gmail.com
Jason Devine
Email: humanguerilla@hotmail.com