Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 19, 2013

Terrance Nelson 'White Privilege Conference Seattle'

By Terrance Nelson
First Nation Roseau River Anishinabe
 
Dr. Eddie Moore Jr:
 
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to be keynote speaker at the White Privilege Conference in Seattle Washington on Friday April 12th 2013. To present to over a thousand people in the Assembly was especially meaningful to me because, the people present were activists from all over the United States, people who stand up for human rights.
 
To be truthful, I was wondering if there would be 2,000 people registered in the conference. To see how well organized you were and how much the people who attended were determined to make a difference is indeed unique. I congratulate you Dr. Moore on your impressive achievements.
 

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Mohawk Nation News 'Energy Balance'



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MNN. Apr. 19, 2013. In these dark hours of designed chaos, war and violence will not bring resolution. Mass confusion is being created to erupt into military action. In the Mohawk language, “te ho te ri wa kwen ten” means that “they have pushed matters to a ridiculous extreme putting everything out of balance”. We can solve our problems by bringing our minds together.
US cowboys and Indians mentality.
US “cowboys and Indians” model of colonialism.

The Charter of the United Nations was modeled on the Constitution of the United States. The United States Senate [Con. Res. 76, 2 Dec. 1987] has recognized that its constitution is modeled on our law, the Kaianerekowa, the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace. The United States is a colonial power that never understood true democracy. 
The US President is the Commander in Chief of the military. In our law War Chiefs are not allowed to decide when to go to war. This decision can only be made by the people. In our law every women can recall our representatives if they fail to listen to the people. foreigners 
Great energy has been put towards the destruction of “tribal people” worldwide. The bankers want us to be estranged from our relatives and the earth that we are duty bound to protect. They want us to be assimilated with races with an artificial culture and no connection to the land, so the war will continue. 
Large states have no right to dominate small ones. The bankers put a price on everything. They want everybody to have mortgages, loans and diluted cultures. Bombs are being planted by “foreigners”[?]. The media whips up the public to create fear and anger to promote vigilantism. The US gives itself reasons to invade anyone they want, kill them and steal their resources. tribal warlords
People, groups and nations have to help each other. Destroying human and natural resources, in war and conflict for the benefit of a few, will annihilate us. War wastes human and resource energy that could be used to build houses and schools, to care for the elderly and sick, to nurture the children so they grow into strong, creative, intelligent and fulfilled human beings and to heal the earth. 
True legality is based on the consent of the people. US power is based on military and economic force through “bribery”. It’s human trafficking, fraud, false flags and everything deviant. 
We can share universal peace, prosperity and harmony. We are all interdependent, equal and need each other.  To all our relations, to the natural world, to all spirits in the universe, we must balance the male and female energy within the consensus process to bring peace to the world. We are all one. As Annie Lennox sings: “Hey, hey. I saved the world today. Everybody’s happy now, the bad thing’s gone away. And everybody’s happy now, the good thing’s here to stay. Please let it stay.”
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Howard Uhal: America and the 'Good People'

Please stop trying to punish America
By Howard Uhal
April 19, 2013
By now many of you have read Patton Oswalt’s heartfelt comments following the Boston Marathon bombing.[1] I agree with Mr. Oswalt that good will triumph over evil. I strongly disagree that this is happening in America.
Would good people invade the New World, slaughter the native inhabitants while stealing their resources, and then justify it all in the name of "Manifest Destiny"?
Would good people continue to imprison the remnants of that native population in prisoner of war camps called “Indian reservations” so the stealing of their resources could continue?
Would good people build a nation in part on the institution of slavery and then refuse to pay any reparations to the descendants of those slaves?
Would good people be as racist and/or as sexist as most Americans are?
Would good people be the greatest purveyors of violence in the world today?
Would good people spend more on weapons than on food and medicines for the hungry and the sick?
Would good people have used atomic weapons in Japan, biological weapons in Korea, chemical weapons in Vietnam, and radiological weapons in Iraq?
Would good people torture their prisoners of war and other detainees?
Would good people have cheered when Osama bin Laden was murdered by their government?
Would good people need as many prisons and jail cells as America has?
Would good people be the world’s biggest consumers of illegal drugs such as heroin and meth?
Would good people tolerate and even support an “entertainment” industry that fills their homes and their children’s minds with violence and depravity?
Would good people step over the body of someone who had just been shot or mugged, stopping only to take a picture with their cell phones?
Would good people build and attend mega-churches while doing little or nothing to help the growing crowds of homeless people huddled outside those structures?
No, they would not. From this perspective, Americans are wicked and uncaring down to the very core of their withered souls.
But I have the following advice for all of you who hate America (a plea, actually):
Please stop trying to punish America. These terrorist attacks serve no useful purpose. Their chief outcomes are to reinforce our somewhat delusional belief in America’s fundamental goodness, and to divert resources from potential acts of charity to acts of repression and revenge.
If anyone is going to punish America, it should be God. If He does not punish America, then what right does anyone else have to do so?
And I have a companion plea for those who love America:
Please don’t let your love of America blind you to the horrible things we are doing. Every day, in nations all over the world, human beings are being blown to pieces by bombs paid for by your tax dollars or in conflicts started by your government’s misguided “diplomacy”. You have blood on your hands. Open your eyes and deal with it.
Howard Uhal is a Vietnam era veteran of the US Army and a former nuclear submarine officer. He writes the satirical blog “The Apocalypse of Saint Howard” (http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/).