Anti-Loop 202 Awareness Concert Held In Santan

Anti-Loop 202 Awareness Concert Held In Santan 

 

Requiem

By Gila River Against 202
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SANTAN, Ariz. -- Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) members enjoyed a night of music, information and resistance against the Loop 202 freeway on December 1^st, where a No Build awareness concert was held at the Santan ballfield. Musicians from Gila River, Salt River, Tohono O'odham Nation, Navajo Nation, and Phoenix came together to support GRIC members organizing against the freeway. Speakers at the concert who oppose the freeway advocated for the Pangea Corporation, the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) and the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to respect last February's community-wide No Build victory in a vote about the proposed freeway.

Throughout the concert, the sounds of ska, hip hop and punk were performed to a crowd of over 60 people. The show featured Alex Soto of Shining Soul (Phoenix/Tohono O'odham), MC Optimal (Salt River), Lo Cash Ninjas (Navajo Nation), Criss Cross Salad Toss (Phoenix), Travis James (Phoenix) and finished with the sounds of Gila River's own Requiem.

Speakers from the community spoke about the potential negative environmental, health and cultural impacts the Loop 202 would bring, and encouraged the mostly younger crowd to take action against the freeway in the months and years to come. Councilman Barney Enos Jr., from Santan/District Four, was in attendance and spoke at the event in support of No Build. Enos said of the event, “It is good to see so many gathered and involved with this event. It is our responsibility to do what is right and be diligent in our efforts to preserve our Community and our land. I share your responsibility. It is reassuring to know that what we are all speaking up for is not for our immediate benefit, but for the benefit for our grandchildren and theirs…a project such as this has minimal reward or satisfaction and we can do better. No matter how much you want to look at it or see it for something it isn’t, no means no.”

Despite the event's focus towards the Gila River youth, elders and community members of all ages were in attendance, along with tribal members from nearby Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the Tohono O'odham Nation. No Build shirts were available for a suggested donation throughout the event, with all funds going towards future No Build organizing efforts.

“The main objective of the show was to bring awareness to the community about the freeway. The older generation is more aware of it, but youth in Gila River have little to no idea of what is going on. In a sense, the concert was about getting youth to learn about issues in their community,” said Andrew Pedro from Sacaton. Pedro is the drummer for the band Requiem, and is one of the youth who organized the benefit.

“A multi-genre concert seemed like the best way to bring the younger generation together, to listen to music and hear the speakers talk about why it is important to stop this freeway. They also found ways they can stay updated and how to help out. It also gave non-O'odham, such as some of the bands, a chance to support our fight to protect sacred land and to show O’odham there is resistance to the freeway in the city as well.”

Also in attendance were many non-O'odham supporters who oppose the Loop 202. The No South Mountain Freeway group from Phoenix set up an information booth with pamphlets against the freeway. In addition to the many negative impacts expressed by GRIC members, non-O'odham No Build supporters also oppose the urban sprawl of Phoenix upon GRIC lands, as well as unsustainable regional growth. The Sun Corridor was one example given of that, which is a transportation and trade route centered on a “megacity” covering the area between Phoenix and Tucson, with little or no input from the O’odham people whose land is in that area.

The Sun Corridor is one part of the CANAMEX trade corridor, a massive superhighway spanning from Canada to Mexico. The CANAMEX Corridor is largely backed by transportation officials and politicians, while most of the public has not been informed of the environmental impacts of such a large construction project. These were some of the reasons why non-O’odham No Build supporters are against the the freeway.

No Build organizers and community members expressed their gratitude to the youth who put on the awareness concert, and were happy to see young people take action against the 202.

“In the end I saw youth picking up zines, buying No Build shirts, donating to our efforts, signing up for e-mail alerts, and just having a good time,” Pedro went on to say. “Everyone there seemed to have a positive reaction to the show. I’ve had a lot of great feedback and many people hope that there will be another awareness show soon.”

For more information regarding the Loop 202 opposition, please check the following websites:

www.gilariveragainst202.wordpress and www.nosouthmountainfreeway.wordpress.com

Or email us at: gricagainst202@gmail.com

BOLIVIA: "THIS IS A COP OF CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A COP OF CARBON TRADE"

 

UNBALANCED NEGOTIATIONS AND VERY PARTIAL VISIONS

 

Bolivia continues the fight against carbon markets, and the bias that prevents the voice of developing countries from being heard

 

By Plurinational State of Bolivia
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 DOHA, Qatar -- 4 December 2012 -- During the plenary of Cooperation Actions of Long Term (ACL), or table of financing that summarizes the prospect of this working group, the text of conclusions has been proposed, which supposedly reflect the positions and proposals of countries forming part of the working group.
However the Vice-Chancellor of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Juan Carlos Alurralde said, "The text was imbalanced and did not include the position and proposals of developing countries, since it was not adaptation, transfer of technology, attention to disaster, or financing that were the fundamental agreements in Bali," said Alurralde.
"Ironically in the document are the mechanisms based on the carbon market, and exclude the proposal uploaded for Bolivia, the mechanism of no market within financing, a topic of great concern for those who support this proposal, countries such as China, Cuba, Egypt, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, India, Iraq, Iran, Malaysia, Mali, Sudan, Venezuela and others," said the Vice Chancellor.
 "These had not considered the proposal to not market, by the Facilitator, who is Chilean. This concerned the Vice-Chancellor, since no one wants to think that there is some sort of discrimination or bilateral rematch, to an issue such as the sea that is bilateral."
"However it is very evident that the facilitator of the ACL has overlooked entirely the proposals to not market, that’s why Bolivia with a very strong position going to trace the theme and raise the formation of working groups that raise profound decisions, and does listen to the voices of the world" pointed out Alurralde.
Regarding the actions to be taken by Bolivia, the Vice Chancellor noted that: "Bolivia has a very strong visible voice and together with the countries that worked on the proposals to not market, will hear criticisms to the head of the ACL group and the respective claim to the facilitator, to organize in working groups that make listening to the voice of our countries to the world and this Conference negotiators, urged the Vice-Chancellor.

BOLIVIA: "THIS IS A COP OF CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A COP OF CARBON TRADE"

UNIDAD MADRE TIERRA Y AGUA / MINISTERIO DE RELACIONES EXTERIORES ESTADO PLURINACIONAL DE BOLIVI
DOHA, Qatar -- December 4th


The day of the COP inauguration, a conference about CARBON TRADE took place facilitated by Nicholas Stern. The event had the presence of ministers and other authorities of different countries. Surprisingly the center of the discussion was how to allow developed countries that are not going to be part of the second commitment period of KP to have access to market mechanisms of the same KP that they deny to be applicable to them.
Another central issue was how to solve the crisis of the carbon market. Half of the 100 billion dollars to be provided for climate change by 2020 would come from carbon credits, commented Mr. Stern. The collapse of prices in carbon market is a menace to financial provision for climate change, expressed Stern. A dynamic debate took place in the event in order to bring solutions to the carbon crisis.
This debate is beginning to dominate the agenda of discussion in COP18, pushed by developed countries. Are we going to allow this COP about climate change to become a COP of carbon trade?
That was a question raised by Juan Carlos Alurralde the Vice Chancellor of Bolivia, who was present in the conference. When he took the floor he expressed the following words: "… Carbon markets are not a solution to the climate change crisis… Instead of discussing one of the instruments for supporting mitigation actions, which is carbon markets.; I repeat: ONE of the instruments which effectiveness is still pending of analysis, but from our view is a complete mistake, instead of that, we should discuss the structural elements of a comprehensive response to Climate Change Crisis.
 It's seems that developed countries are more interested in the carbon markets business that in the ultimate goal of this conference which is the structural solutions for this planet and future generations Carbon markets are just business for some but a bad solution for Mother Earth, facilitating developed countries not to make real domestic reductions.
We have to say that at least four realistic predictable risks are linked to the application and generalization of carbon markets: 1. Double counting implying an additional 1,6 Gigatones (GT) to the atmosphere. 2. Non aditionalities with an increase of 0,4 GT Gigatones 3. The use of the carry over which implies 11 GT 4.
The opening of opportunities for creating bilateral trading carbon agreements without accounting for the rules, monitoring and regulation. We came from very far to try to find solutions and alternatives to bring the opportunity to future generations to live with dignity in this planet, and definitely the Carbon market mechanisms are not the solution…"

Navajos' Hot Blues Man Stanlie Kee with Gary Farmer

Navajos' Hot Blues Man Stanlie Kee with Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers



By Brenda Norrell
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TUCSON -- Stanlie Kee, Navajo, who was born and raised in Gallup, N.M., on vocals and guitar with Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers, is one of the hottest blues guitar players on the music scene.
“For as long as I’ve known I’ve always wanted to play music,” Stanlie told Censored News during the Native Eyes Film Showcase at the Loft Cinema on Dec. 1, 2012.
For Stanlie, it began with a dream, and since then he has always wanted to play. With his first paycheck he purchased his first guitar at the age of 16.
“Blues came about from a broken heart in high school," Stanlie says.
Stanlie was inspired when he picked up a CD, Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Carnegie Hall. Although he also plays jazz and rock, he’s primarily a bluesman.
Stanlie met with Gary Farmer earlier this year and Gary told him to bring his guitar next time that Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers were playing. Stanlie played with Gary’s hot blues band the next night in Denver.
“Go out and support some live music wherever you’re at,” Stanlie says to friends back home in Gallup, where he graduated from high school in 1999.
Stanlie performed with Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers at the Loft Cinema between two films that Gary stars in, the new film California Indian, and the film classic Dead Man, which Gary starred in with Johnny Depp. Although never released in the US, Dead Man won the European Best Film Award. Completing a spectacular evening in Tucson, California Indian director/writer Tim Ramos shared his story of the making of California Indian.
Watch the three minute interview with Stanlie and read the series from the showcase, this week at Censored News.

Also from Native Eyes Film Showcase by Censored News
Gary Farmer empowering authentic Native media
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/12/gary-farmer-empowering-authentic-native.html
Gary Farmer the power of blues and theater,
with video clip of Gary Farmer singing blues
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/12/gary-farmer-blues-and-power-of-media.html

Mohawk Nation News 'Palest'Indians, Indigenous Victory'

MNN: THE PALEST’INDIANS, INDIGENOUS VICTORY

 

THE PALEST’INDIANS: INDIGENOUS VICTORY
MNN. DEC. 1, 1012. 
Mohawk Nation News
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French translantion by Christine Prat

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.fr/2012/12/mohawk-nation-news-palestindians.html?spref=fb

On November 22, 2012, 138 countries voted for Palestine to be recognized as a UN state. They can now use UN International Agencies, sign treaties and bring charges against war criminals. They ended the corporate bankers’ imperial war against Indigenous peoples. Colonizers Canada, US and Israel voted against the bid. They warned there will be repercussions. Boycotts, no aid, shunning us, crossing the street when they see us coming and maybe trying to continue to bully us.

Israel was created by the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917. Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary and former Prime Minister, sent a letter to Baron Rothschild, the leader of the Zionist movement and the Rothschild international banking empire. The British promised to help the Zionists create “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. The US entered the war and two weeks later the first boatload of armed Zionist immigrants landed on the shores of Palestine to destroy the people and steal everything.
In 1923 Levi General, the Deskaheh, was sent to Geneva Switzerland by the Haudenosaunee [Iroquois Confederacy], to get membership in the League of Nations. He reminded the Europeans of their obligations under the Guswentha, Two Row Wampum, the only agreement allowing foreigners to live here in peace. The newcomers violated it, making their occupation illegal.
Iran, Estonia, the Netherlands, Panama, Ireland and others supported us. British and American threats against them and Deskaheh forced him to return home. The League then made indigenous peoples worldwide into ‘domestic concerns’. We had no right to seek redress for human rights abuses and theft from anyone other than our oppressors. They tried to permanently victimize and annihilate us.
Deskaheh’s efforts angered Canada. In 1924 the RCMP forcibly removed the traditional Haudenosaunee government, and created the Indian Advancement Act, apartheid and the concentration camps called “reservations”. The Canadian government set up ‘band councils’ to rule us. They designated that “a person is anyone other than an Indian’.
Deskaheh was warned to never return to Canada or he would be killed. He was murdered in Tonawanda New York in 1925.
Bankers are now panicking. They monetized everything and created money to control the world. The shareholders of the corporations of Canada and US profit from war, theft of Indigenous land and resources and enslaving us. These corporations own the Canadian and American masses. Birth certificates, drivers licenses, social insurance numbers, social security, a bank account, running a business, travel or any benefit needs the ‘mark of the beast’, which is the stamp of the bankers.
The bankers send their agents into a country, destroy it and steal their natural resources. Whoever protests gets bombed, starved and economic sanctions, which is war. This time the heavily armed high tech Israeli army could not defeat poor weaponless Palest’Indians. They did not wait for someone to free them. They freed themselves.
They set the precedent. Soon the beast will not be in charge. Canada, US and Israel now have to deal directly with us, the owners of the land and resources.
The UN is another bankers corporation. It will crumble from within. The Indigenous will never be subservient to the bankers again. The imperial corporations will be beggars rather than the brutal lying thugs they’ve always been.
After the women everywhere stop the conflict in their communities, they will begin to implement the Great Law of Peace. Then the men will carry out the law. It’s over for the corporate bankers. They have to stand down or leave. We, the real natural people, are going to assert ourselves.
We insist on justice first, to join the International Court, file complaints against banker/corporatist war criminals and their agents, dismantle illegal settlements and settlers, sue the colonizers, return of our possessions and sovereign control of our air space, land, waters.
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his sidekick John Baird rushed to the UN and showed us who they work for, the same banker who owns Israel and them.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. [Jimi Hendrix].
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to www.mohawknationnews.com More stories at MNN Archives. Address: Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0