Mohawk Nation News: From Freedom to Sarcasm

FROM FREEDOM TO SARCASM

MNN Jan. 22,2012.
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Freedom requires responsibility [Kaianerehkowa].

The unsurrendered land, water, air and resources above, beneath and on Great Turtle Island is the birthright of the Indigenous people. The bankers and their agents want to steal it all. Our resistance to genocide is causing panic. Here’s their plan. Lie about economic prosperity and ending mass unemployment. Increase military spending. Build more prisons. Set up secret police outside of civil authority.

Rescind habeas corpus and civil liberties. [US Defense Authorization Act; Canada Omnibus Crime Bill.] Bribe, destroy, kill, imprison opponents. Remove citizenship rights [US Enemy Expatriation Act]. Wear non-person ID in public. Send resisters back to country of origin! [Bye!] Special courts for death sentences. Execute soldiers for cowardice! [Or give them more meds.] Centralize power under one leader. Assassinations to restore order. Swear oath to leader like Canada to the Queen.

Control courts and civic organizations. Disband state and local governments. Appoint governors, premiers, mayors. Divide and rule. Rich fight the poor. Racial conflicts intensified. Religious-based parties control education and youth groups. Promote Pan Americanism based on white culture, to defend western civilization from ‘brown sub-humans’. Criminalize the truth. Ban questioners. Indigenous continue to be hated and feared [for existing]. Book burnings [Stop Arizona brown market in Indian books]. Teach race superiority dogma. [Guess which is at the top of the totem pole?]. Fire teachers who oppose.

Control mainstream media [A done deal]. Kill the internet [SOPA]. Produce entertainment, films, mass rallies and rhetoric to push corporatist ideology down our throats. Create economic depression. Then make up fantasies to restore fake national pride. Unreasonable foreign policy. Demand surrender or threaten war. No compromise. No reparation to peoples or countries attacked. Create enemies. Get another country to invade. Send ultimatums demanding all their power or face invasion. Step in. Bomb. Call for elections. Put in puppets. Set up quislings. Form alliances with dictators or replace them. Set up spies and informers. Install tribal/band council-like entities to control masses and report on them. Infiltrate and suppress labor unions and strikes. [If we’re lucky] The US might threaten to pull out of or destroy the UN if they can’t own it.

Form secret and illegal alliances like the North American Union NAU. Annex Canada and Mexico. Suppress revolts. Businesses owned by western interests. Native land and resource owners do menial work. Sign pacts to divide up world dominated by a small group of rulers. Create fear of travel, such as airport TSA groping of passengers and mysterious shipwreck in Italy. Heavy fines or long prison terms for crimes like parking tickets, spitting on the sidewalk or free speech. US and Canada are conservative authoritarian corporations. Their citizens are property of the corporations, squatting on a land they don’t own. The youth want their corporations to give them a piece of the Indigenous pie.

Over 100 million Indigenous were murdered in the attempt. They need to decolonize and respect the legal ownership of Great Turtle Island. The white house or congress or parliament could be graffitied to signal a civil unrest over something that doesn’t belong to them. Look for more false flags such as the World Trade Center and laws without parliamentary or congressional debate. Open attack on uncooperative Indigenous communities. Human rights violated. Deprivation of necessities of life. Canada’s Prime Minister Harper wants to revive the old ghetto policy to keep us in deplorable conditions to carry out the final solution. [Mother Earth segregated all of Great Turtle Island for us].

Death by warfare, genocide, reprisals, forced labor and starvation to carry out the Pan Americanisation of the western hemisphere. Dictators studied these US strategies [Wasichu] of atrocities, mass murders, concentration camps, ethnic cleansing and theft on a grand scale. The great natural power preserved us and continues to do so. We don’t have a standing army. We have the dreaded truth. As Oscar Wilde said: When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood, [and a forked tongue] it’s hard to shake hands with her.

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Rodriguez: The 'Undocumented' Mexican American Studies Books

THE "UNDOCUMENTED" MAS BOOKS

by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
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TUCSON -- The following list is what Tucson Unified School District claims are the Mexican American Studies books that "have not been banned." The list is taken from the 2010 Cambium report that gave MAS-TUSD two thumbs up and recommended expanding the program.

Regarding the list below, the context is that the list is not the biggest story; the story is that this discipline has been viciously attacked by state officials and MAS-TUSD has now been dismantled. It's is not an overnight story. The attack on the culture, history, identity, language and education -- of the people of Tucson, primarily the Mexican American community, has been ongoing since 2006. This act violates every international human rights treaty and convention.

When I asked my colleague Norma Gonzales, one of the MAS teachers at TUSD, what had been banned, she replied: "It's not just the books. It's everything we've ever created." This includes slide shows, art, posters, etc.

In fat, to clarify, she noted today that she was told that she cannot teach the Aztec Calendar to her students. "Nothing related to Mexican history or culture."

.The list can be found at: http://drcintli.blogspot.com/

Rodriguez can be reached at: XColumn@gmail.com

Cintli don't tweet, text, facebook and is not linked... neither do I own a TV... but you can still email or call me.

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Anonymous: Keep telling your story

Anonymous

An open letter to the citizens of the World
Posted online Jan. 21, 2012


We stand at a unique time in our history, the rise of the internet and computer technology have contributed to an unparallelled rate of prosperity for the First World. We have created for ourselves and empire unlike any other, a global network of constant trade and communication, a new age of technological advancement. We have come a long way from our humble roots in the Industrial Revolution and the days of Manifest Destiny. We are now pioneers on new digital frontiers expanding our domain from the quantum world to the far reaches of space.

And yet, the empire faces a crisis, a global recession, growing poverty, rampant violence, corruption in politics, and threats to personal freedom. As it was before in other times of crisis, the old stories have begun to repeat themselves. The half truths, this time repeated nightly on cable news and echoed through a series of tubes onto the internet: the empire is strong, change is unwise, business as usual is the answer. In times of uncertainty there are those who seek to add to the confusion, to prey on our insecurities and fears. Those who would seek to keep us divided for their own gain. The pervasive strategy takes many very convincing forms: Liberals and Conservatives, Christians and Muslims, Black and White, Saved and sinner.

But something unexpected is happening. We have begun telling each other our own stories. Sharing our lives, our hopes, our dreams, our demons. Every second, day in day out, into all hours of the night the gritty details of life on this earth are streaming around the world. As we see the lives of others played out in our living rooms we are beginning to understand the consequences of our actions and the error of the old ways. We are questioning the old assumptions that we are made to consume not to create, that the world was made for our taking, that wars are inevitable, that poverty is unavoidable. As we learn more about our global community a fundamental truth has been rediscovered: We are not so different as we may seem. Every human has strengths, weaknesses, and deep emotions. We crave love, love laughter, fear being alone and dream for a better life.

You must create a better life.

You cannot sit on the couch watching television or playing video games, waiting for a revolution. You are the revolution. Every time you decide not to exercise your rights, every time you refuse to hear another view point, every time you ignore the world around you, every time you spend a dollar at a business that doesn't pay a fair wage you are contributing to the oppression of the human body and the repression of the human mind. You have a choice, a choice to take the easy path, the familiar path, to walk willingly into your own submission. Or a choice get up, to go outside and talk to your neighbor, to come together in new forums to create lasting, meaningful change for the human race.

This is our challenge:

A peaceful revolution, a revolution of ideas, a revolution of creation. The twenty-first century enlightenment. A global movement to create a new age of tolerance and understanding, empathy and respect. An age of unfettered technological development. An age of sharing ideas and cooperation. An age of artistic and personal expression. We can choose to use new technology for radical positive change or let it be used against us. We can choose to keep the internet free, keep channels of communication open and dig new tunnels into those places where information is still guarded. Or we can let it all close in around us. As we move in to new digital worlds, we must acknowledge the need for honest information and free expression. We must fight to keep the internet open as a marketplace of ideas where all are seated as equals. We must defend our freedoms from those who would seek to control us. We must fight for those who do not yet have a voice. Keep telling your story. All must be heard.

-V