Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 30, 2013

Photos: Occupation of Alcatraz Exhibit opens on the Rock!

'We are still here!'

Photos and video by Tony Gonzales, AIM West
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Photo 1: Eloy Martinez, veteran of the occupation of Alcatraz Island November 1969 until June 1971, speaking  Sunday, April 28, 2013, on the occasion of the National Park Service providing a secure site on the Rock to exhibit artifacts during the occupation and that we are still here! And here to stay!
Video: Honor Songs
Photo 2: Pomo dancers opening the occasion on Alcatraz Island, The Rock, where an exhibit depicting the Indian movement that occupied the ROCK for 19 months.will be among the display.
AIM-WEST

Read more:  The multi-media exhibit titled “We Are Still Here” was put together by native artists and activists, California State University East Bay, San Francisco State University students and faculty, including members of the Student Kouncil of Intertribal Nations, SKINS.
http://wozniakderek.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/3/

San Francisco: Indigenous Arts Coalition Tonantzin Jams

TONANTZIN JAMS
INDIGENOUS ARTS COALITION
SUNDAY MAY 5
11-5pm
Tenderloin National Forest
509 Ellis Street, San Francisco
Traditional and contemporary indigenous art, activists and rockers:
Speakers:
Wichapiluta Candelaria (Ohlone)
Anthony Sul (Ohlone)
Douglas Duncan (Pomo)
Clayton Duncan (Pomo)
L. Frank Manriquez (Tongva-Acjachemen)
POBREs/Po' Poets Project - Poets in Poverty Using the word, to heal,educate and relate
Danza: Calpulli Coalitcue (Danza Mexica)
Artists:
Sarah Rosalena Brady (Laguna Pueblo and Huichol) Rye Purvis (Diné)
Hartman Deetz (Mashpee Wôpanâak) Erlin Geffrard (Haitian)
Oree Originol (Mexica) Margarita Herrera Neri (Mexica)
Mario Ayala
Music: Maidu Independant Theater (Maidu langauge rock band out of Roseville, CA)
Sweatlodge  Daniel Rodriguez (Otomi Hñähñu Rockero)

Native Youth Filmmaking Workshop! Outta Your Backpack Media

Outta Your Backpack Media

Greetings!
Greetings, OYBM will be hosting a Free Filmmaking Workshop at our Media Center located at 1700 N. 2nd St. East Flagstaff, AZ.
Come and join us to learn hands on script writing, camera operating, video editing, and media justice!
The workshop is FREE & open to Indigenous youth ages 12-25. Participants must be able to attend every day. Limited to 30 Participants, so register soon!

Fri., May 3th 4:00PM- 7:00PM
Pre-production
Sat., May 4th 12:00PM-7:00PM
Production
Sun., May 5th 1:00PM- 6:00PM
Post-production
PUBLIC FILM SCREENING! 6:30 p.m. 
(So tell your friends & family!)
REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

If you have any questions email: oybm@oybm.org

Mohawk Nation News 'Shadow Government'

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SHADOW GOVERNMENT





shadow govtMNN. Apr. 29, 2013. The conquest of our resources by a few who impose misery, oppression and indignity is ending. The “Council of Chief Executives” CCCE describes itself as a “not-for-profit, non-partisan organization” of CEOs of Canada’s largest corporations. They are the shadow government devoted to theft and genocide! It controls many trillions in stolen Indigenous assets. Formerly called the “Business Council on National Issues” BCNI, its membership is a Who’s Who of Canadian business and politics. Have a look. They are accountable only to the shareholders that own the Corporation of Canada.
Current CCCE President John Manley was named Time Canada’s “Newsmaker of the Year” in 2001 for crafting cross-border anti-terrorism strategies with the first U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Other members are part of the war machine: Air Canada, Bombardier, CN, Deloitte, Encana, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, KPMG, Royal Bank of Canada, and many other firms at the heart of the Canadian economy on stolen Indigenous land.
Canada is a plutocracy run on bribes and corruption. Paul and Andre Desmarais, co-CEOs of Power Corporation, are called “Canada’s Rockefellers” for their enormous wealth, influence, and political power. They shape, influence and dictate Canadian foreign and domestic policy.
Doctor, lawyer, corporate Indian chief, they all get bribed!
Doctor, lawyer, corporate Indian chief, all politicians get bribed!
BCNI drafted the 1986 Competition Act:
BCNI approached Andre Ouellette, Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, with an offer he didn’t refuse. BCNI CEO Thomas D’Aquino had, “…previously decided that Canada needed a new competition act.” D’Aquino spent $1 million to hire a team of 25 lawyers who by 1985, “…had produced a 236-page master plan. Incredibly, it became Canada’s new Competition Act, virtually word for word.”
There were no provisions for class-action lawsuits. Criminal conspiracy was unprosecutable. Criminals were sent to civil courts to be processed.
From 2003 to 2006 the Council launched the secret “Security and Prosperity Partnership,” [North American Union NAU] between US, Canada and Mexico. The “North American Competitiveness Council”, representing the 50 largest North American corporations and including many of the Canadian Council’s members, shaped SPP talks.
North American Union, one big corporate business deal.
North American Union, one big corporate business deal.The SPP eventually folded. The Council still wants to create a continental security perimeter and free trade zone to enhance their banking and business interests.
The Canadian Council of Chief Executives controls national policy in the interest of the few, and drafts legislation favorable to them.
These secret provisional corporate governments are being revealed for being the shadow government. As we read this now, the shackles are starting to fall. The corporations are going down, as Leonard Cohen sang: “They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom, for trying to change the system from within. I’m coming now, I’m coming to reward them. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”
http://www.corbettreport.com/power-behind-the-throne-the-canadian-council-of-chief-executives/
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