Joye Braun: Proud to be Lakota in the KXL fight at Bridger

Joye Braun: Proud to be Lakota in the KXL fight at Bridger

Joye Braun halting a megaload recently

By Joye Braun, Chyenne River Lakota

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CHEYENNE RIVER, South Dakota -- Had a FANTASTIC visit on the way home last night with Joseph White Eyes. He has some IDEAS peeps! You should listen to him. 

I love it when I get to visit with people like this. I do believe we need to be more economically independent as a NATION of Lakota, so yeah I do believe in gardens, family gardens, community gardens, wind power, solar power, and water power, and all that good stuff. 

We decided that yeah we will put in a garden while we are at Bridger, utilize all that cow dung around the place as fertilizer and the chicken poo from the chicken coop, and compost too to add amendments to the soil down there.

Yes, we are in this for the long haul peeps. You see since President Obama has to wait for Nebraska to make some kind of decision because their governor tried to bypass the Nebraska constitution, Obama and Kerry have to wait until November to make some kind of decision on KXL.

So we will be in Bridger praying and working on sustainability and education. I want to put up that booth alongside the highway and get some signs up inviting tourists to stop in and visit with us and learn. We got so much to do people! I seriously hope you all are considering coming down to help, because we need help!

We NEED YOU!! we need you to come down, even its for a day to help build, things, to man a booth, to help cook, to help in the garden, to gather wood. If its for a couple of days or for a couple months, whatever you can do. We need the people of Cherry Creek and Red Scaffold and Takini to come down and support us.

I know May is a hard month. It’s busy with graduations and all kinds of stuff going on, but consider it. Your communities are on the front lines of this transcanada attack. They made this line in the sand. We didn’t. We are only responding to what transcanada is trying to do to our people.

They are the ones that want to bring the mancamps near us and put our women and children in jeopardy. These men in these mancamps use facebook to look for young girls as young as 12 years old! You young men especially please step up and come out and help! There were two young men from Red Scaffold last night that came out to Afraid of Hawks. I was so impressed with them. These are the kinds of warriors we need to step it up!! SO happy when I get to meet our people like this! just makes me glad to be LAKOTA!!

The Cheyenne River spiritual camp resisting the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline has immediate needs for a chainsaw, axes and wheelbarrow.

Desmond Tutu to speak on treaties and tarsands at Fort McMurray

Desmond Tutu to speak at Fort McMurray oilsands conference
Conference will address treaty relationships in oilsands context
The Canadian Press Posted: May 01, 2014 6:33 PM MT Last Updated: May 01, 2014 6:39 PM MT

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is scheduled to appear at a conference in northern Alberta to discuss aboriginal treaties and theoilsands. 

The Nobel laureate, who has taken strong stands on climate change and against projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline, is to appear with industry and political leaders at a two-day event that begins May 31 in Fort McMurray.

"He has been vocal about his position on the oilsands," said ErielDeranger, spokeswoman for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, which is co-sponsoring the conference. 

"He's really brought forward the moral imperative question about can we really move forward with these projects knowing what we know now? I really hope that he can bring this moral imperative narrative to discussions about Alberta's tar sands."

Read article at CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/desmond-tutu-to-speak-at-fort-mcmurray-oilsands-conference-1.2629079

We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters

By Demond Tutu, published in The Guardian April 10, 2014

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

This is why, no matter where you live, it is appalling that the US is debating whether to approve a massive pipeline transporting 830,000 barrels of the world's dirtiest oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Producing and transporting this quantity of oil, via the Keystone XL pipeline, could increase Canada's carbon emissions by over 30%.

If the negative impacts of the pipeline would affect only Canada and the US, we could say good luck to them. But it will affect the whole world, our shared world, the only world we have. We don't have much time.

This week in Berlin, scientists and public representatives have been weighing up radical options for curbing emissions contained in the third report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The bottom line is that we have 15 years to take the necessary steps. The horse may not have bolted, but it's well on its way through the stable door.

Who can stop it? Well, we can, you and I. And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so. It is a responsibility that begins with God commanding the first human inhabitants of the garden of Eden "to till it and keep it". To keep it; not to abuse it, not to destroy it.

The taste of "success" in our world gone mad is measured in dollars and francs and rupees and yen. Our desire to consume any and everything of perceivable value – to extract every precious stone, every ounce of metal, every drop of oil, every tuna in the ocean, every rhinoceros in the bush – knows no bounds. We live in a world dominated by greed. We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

Throughout my life I have believed that the only just response to injustice is what Mahatma Gandhi termed "passive resistance". During the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, using boycotts, divestment and sanctions, and supported by our friends overseas, we were not only able to apply economic pressure on the unjust state, but also serious moral pressure.

It is clear that those countries and companies primarily responsible for emitting carbon and accelerating climate change are not simply going to give up; they stand to make too much money. They need a whole lot of gentle persuasion from the likes of us. And it need not necessarily involve trading in our cars and buying bicycles!

There are many ways that all of us can fight against climate change: by not wasting energy, for instance. But these individual measures will not make a big enough difference in the available time.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change. We can, for instance, boycott events, sports teams and media programming sponsored by fossil-fuel energy companies. We can demand that the advertisements of energy companies carry health warnings. We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities and cultural institutions to cut their ties to the fossil-fuel industry. We can organise car-free days and build broader societal awareness. We can ask our religious communities to speak out.

We can actively encourage energy companies to spend more of their resources on the development of sustainable energy products, and we can reward those companies that do so by using their products. We can press our governments to invest in renewable energy and stop subsidising fossil fuels. Where possible, we can install our own solar panels and water heaters.

We cannot necessarily bankrupt the fossil fuel industry. But we can take steps to reduce its political clout, and hold those who rake in the profits accountable for cleaning up the mess.

And the good news is that we don't have to start from scratch. Young people across the world have already begun to do something about it. The fossil fuel divestment campaign is the fastest growing corporate campaign of its kind in history.

Last month, the General Synod of the Church of England voted overwhelmingly to review its investment policy in respect of fossil fuel companies, with one bishop referring to climate change as "the great demon of our day". Already some colleges and pension funds have declared they want their investments to be congruent with their beliefs.

It makes no sense to invest in companies that undermine our future. To serve as custodians of creation is not an empty title; it requires that we act, and with all the urgency this dire situation demands.

Mohawk Nation News 'Our Indian Tobacco'

OUR INDIAN TOBACCO

Posted on May 6, 2014

 Our Indian Tobacco

Mohawk Nation News

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MNN. May 6, 2014. We own Indian tobacco! “Organized Crime” is the courts, police and all of the corporations masquerading as sovereigns in our territory. They are cracking down on a business essential to our economy in this matrix they have created. This attack is a declaration of war! They are attacking our only economy to feed our children. They are ripping off the Canadian public to continue the monopoly of corporate “big tobacco” who charge $10 a pack. We only charge $5. So they attack us and call us criminals. The main object is “get rid of the f—king Mohawks!” The bankers have been trying to do this since 1609 when they sent over their agent Champlain.

Ahserakowa: “We told you, Champlain, a time will come when we will have to drop the black wampum!”

“Tobacco raids”.

“PROJECT LYCOSE” had 400 officers from RCMP, CBSA, Akwesasne Indian Council Police, municipal forces and US Homeland Security. Canada spent $91.7 million on radar, sonar, unmanned ground sensors, choppers, other sensors, mobile posts, long range thermal video cameras and all kinds of other high tech weaponry.

Remember, we won the French & Indian Wars.

We have a right to live here on our own land under our own laws. The heavily armed enforcers for the London bankers are trying to illegally stop any economy that helps us take care of ourselves. Tobacco is one of the many stolen items from our people.

This uninvited occupying force has no business here. Their authority is invalid. The ever-growing $900 trillion Indian Trust Fund is the only reason that the Corporation of Canada exists. This consensus process in this pretend democracy is fatally flawed. The white roots are laid out for the people who want to know what true freedom is.

We don’t want handouts. Only what is ours.

Jimi Hendrix reminds the oligarchs: “You got my pride hanging out of my bed. You’re messin’ with my life. So I bought my lead. You’re even messing with my children. And you’re screaming at my wife. Get off my back if you wanna get out of here alive!” “Freedom”.

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See Video: “Oh Canada, our bought-sold land”. It’s about the shareholder of Canada.http://canadiantruths.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/oh-canada-our-bought-and-sold-out-land-2/

Rebeldia Zapatista: The Word of the EZLN

Editorial 2: Rebeldia Zapatista: The Word of the EZLN

By Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

Mexico, April 2014. Twentieth year of the war against oblivion.
Italian:

http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/04/25/editorial-2-rebeldia-zapatista-the-word-of-the-ezln

Compañeras and compañeros of the Sixth and the Zapatista Little School:

Here we continue to recount the words of the compañeras and compañeros, families, guardians, and teachers about how they saw and evaluate their students in the Little School.

As we say here in these rebellious lands, there is no rest, one must continue to work hard.

We mention this because there is another round of work coming up, with the compañeras and compañeros of the National Indigenous Congress. So you see, it’s true, there is no rest.

Even when there is a break from these tasks, it is used to work to sustain one’s family, but also to think, study, and make plans for the struggle.

This is important because of the simple fact that the neoliberal capitalists do not take a break from thinking about how to extend their domination into infinity.

As the compañeras and compañeros say in one of the “sharings” that we have had here: in just 19 years we have thrown off the bad system of 520 years of domination, and we now hold our own freedom and democracy in our hands. And we are just a few thousand women and men who govern our own communities; imagine if we organized with the other millions of people in the countryside and the city.

As the same compañeras and compañeros say, this is thanks to the fact that we have organized ourselves and understood what dignity and resistance really mean. We no longer resign ourselves to the leftovers, handouts, or crumbs thrown to us amid deception after deception by the bad government.

As the Zapatista people say, our great great grandparents, our great grandparents, and our grandparents were never given anything to eat. On the contrary, what they produced was taken away from them and they were given a few crumbs to eat that day so that they could return to work for the boss the next day. That’s how they went through life: exploited by the boss and the bad government. Why would we think that the bad government is different now, that it is good, when it is made up of the grandchildren and great grandchildren of those same exploiters, and who are the worst sell-outs of our time?

That is why the new bosses are foreigners, that is, if we let them be—if we the poor men and women of the countryside and the city resign ourselves to this.

It is time for the poor of the countryside and the city to organize ourselves—time for the peoples of the countryside and the city to take their destiny into their own hands. That is, it is time for the people to govern themselves instead of being governed by a few individuals up there who are just trying to get rich. It is easy to see and easy to confirm in practice that this is the only reason they are there.

That is why the compañeras and compañeros of the Zapatista bases of support organized themselves and dreamed and worked together to determine their own destinies, and this destiny is now visible. Their manner of governing themselves as peoples and communities is totally different; they rule as a people and their representatives obey, that is, their government obeys. This is true change, not just a change of colors or logos.

Who says this can’t be done, compañeras and compañeros of the Little School? It can be done, because it is the people themselves deciding, in organized fashion, what they want in all aspects of their lives.

Why are we afraid to let the people themselves decide how they want a new life to be? How can we not fear the great atrocity committed by the three levels of bad government in deciding our future against the good of our peoples? This is where the compañeras and compañeros of the EZLN say that the people must have the power of decision over their own lives, because they make decisions for the good of the people and not to benefit their own vices. And if they make a mistake, well then they correct it. But the three levels of bad government have no ears to hear or eyes to see, they refuse to acknowledge any error within their world of domination and deceit. Let’s leave that world, leave them alone to see if they can survive, stop allowing ourselves to be exploited, and a whole string of etcetera’s.

The compañeras and compañeros of the Zapatista communities have provided an example.

That is why we are continuing to share here the words of the compañeras and compañeros bases of support of the EZLN.

And this will continue and keep going.

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

Mexico, April 2014. Twentieth year of the war against oblivion.