HARPER ABUSING AFRICANS LIKE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
CUTS AID TO THE DESPERATE
By Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News
June 9, 2007
Hundreds of millions of Africans are sick and starving because of corporate greed and exploitation. We’ve all heard about those 80 year old grandmothers struggling to feed 8 or 9 children orphaned by AIDS. Sometimes they skip meals for two or three days. Canadians want to help.Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper’s, response? He cut the aid that was already promised. One of the world's biggest rock stars, Bono, lead singer of U2, ripped him up. Numerous people told Bono about this “slime bag’s” antics. He accused Harper of blocking $60 billion in aid to Africa at the current G8 Summit in Heilgendamm, Germany.Harper fake excuse is that “Accountability is very important." Let’s see what Ottawa does with taxpayer’s money. There’s the cut of services and programs to Kanehsatake and the $58 million diverted to a stolen corporation for the benefit of Ottawa and Quebec bureaucrats, lawyers and politicians?Harper looks away from the third world conditions that were created here as part of their policy of genocide - no electricity or clean water, schools without roofs, contaminated homes, mothers without vaccinations for their children, and generally poor health care. We can’t look after ourselves when we have no food, no jobs and not even our health. We are trying to rebuild our families despite dire circumstances.There’s lots of money for other grand schemes though. Take for example CONK, Confederation of Aboriginal People of Canada. Super grand chief Guillaume “Billy Zee Kid” Carle has laid claim to all undeveloped crown land. What authority does he have to do this? He and “Mr. [Cheap Bargain] Aubin” of “International Inc.” claim to have a contract for $50 million USD from oil companies across Canada. Mr. Aubin has offices in Montreal, New York City and Paris France. Their job is get rid of Indian Affairs, to set up a new “private” regime that will take over Indigenous land and us.Guillaume Carle is a non-native posing as a Metis-Mohawk-Nippising-Algonquin-Western “tribe” native. People like him are showing up in our door steps looking for those who are ready to be paid and bought off.“Carpetbagging” is not new on Turtle Island. At the end of the U.S. Civil War carpetbaggers swarmed from the north to take advantage of the south. It was one crook ripping off another! The California “Gold Rush” had opportunists rushing out there to set up bars and whore houses for the speculators. It looks like “Madame” Stephen Harper is more interested in “fish net” stockings than philanthropy. He and his masters are going to be the “pimps” reaping all they can from their “Little Whore House on the Prairie in Calgary”.Canada is trying to get rid of its legal obligations to us. It’s moles behind the scenes are busy removing any protections we may once have had under treaties, agreements and international law.They plan to get rid of the current “broker”, Indian Affairs, where all the resource royalties and lands are registered. The “multi’s” want to go directly to individual “Indians” who are not knowledgable in colonial larcenous ways.Carpetbaggers and scam artists are crawling all over the place. They are looking for suckers and sadists willing to take a few dollars to be fronts for oil, mining and resource companies. As “native” companies, they are exempt from taxes and regulations. Mohawk Internet Technology of Kahnawake is a good example. Non-natives use our tax-free sovereign status to set up businesses and pay a few bucks to the Kahnawake band council. Compensation goes to individuals willing to look the other way. These non-natives rake in billions in profits.Billionaire European bankers and multinational corporations are behind these carpetbaggers who are backed by the U.S. and Canadian oligarchy and their corporate controlled politicians. In the midst of these schemes Harper has been catapulted to prominence. He’s not just a naive Canadian middle class dummy who happen to be elected Prime Minister of a dull powerless branch plant state. He now aspires to be “the Vice President of the United States of America”. He wants to drive the last nail into the coffin and join the rowdies down South. It would be so much more efficient that way. When the U.S. and Canada get married, then the mega-corporations will have only one set of elections to fix.Harper has already announced that he has “plans” for us. It looks like he is already using CONK and AFN [Assembly of First Nations], his “pseudo Indian” organizations, to hand us and our possessions directly over to corporations and multinationals.Surreptitious maneuvers have been underway for a long time. Harper’s job is to ram laws and legislation through Parliament to set up this foreign control. The bureaucrats are already getting ready to move over and start running these new corporations.Could this be why Harper is blocking the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights, Kyoto and others? He is anti-Indian, anti-Canada and anti-human. He is telling the world that our land that he calls “his” Canada is open for business. By this he means he’s giving carte blanche to another set of greedy outsiders to come in and rape, pillage and pollute our land. Forget those Africans! This is what that snake oil salesman calls “diverting business our way”. Trouble is we won’t be robbed and raped if w e can help it.Canada is setting up something similar to a “Guantanamo Bay”. Ottawa is trying to find a way to put blanket charges on all of us for being born Indigenous, along with conditions on how we should act. “If you’re native, you must be guilty of something”, is the way they think. Ottawa criminalizes us for defending ourselves from their armed attacks and white collar crimes which are happening on a grand scale every day.Ottawa’s message to us is, “If you make problems for us, we are going to act on those charges that we’ve created”.These threats are meant to silence us. Then they will delay acting on the charges but keep forcing us into their colonial courts to meet all kinds of wacky conditions they’ve put on us. Eventually the phony charges will be dropped because they have no legal basis.They want to beat us into submission until we confess to some heinous crime, like dropping the bomb on Nagasaki, “You were the co-pilot on that plane, weren’t you?”Why do they keep going after us? Is our resistance getting to them? They’ve tried everything – the holocaust, diseases, sending their pedophiles among us to destroy us. We will never stop our resistance to assimilation and speaking out about their theft and brutality.These carpetbaggers are also swarming around us to grab the $27,000 a head some of us are getting for the residential school abuse. It’s sickening. These poor people are going to be convinced to invest in foreign controlled “pie in the sky” companies.We refuse to be controlled and dominated by anyone. Ottawa thinks, “We have to make those Onkwehonweh grovel. You Indigenous people will lick our feet like everyone else in the world. We will break you and we will show you what we can do to you for resisting us”.We’ve been waiting for their “new” strategy. It’s really old. 500 years have passed since the colonists invaded our land. They found a proud self-sufficient people. We stand up to them and they can’t hack it. They want us to disappear. We will not. They’re trying to pretend we’re not there anyway. They keep coming in with their dump trucks to cart away our possessions and dump their garbage on us. We’ve got you, babe! This land is ours! It’s not for sale. It ain’t yours, so you can’t give it to anyone else. We are one of the last survivors of the totalitarian movement that is trying to take over the world.Harper recently lectured Russian President Vladimir Putin for not allowing dissent and “destroying democracy”. Is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? Harper himself is getting rid of Parliamentary and committee dissent, muzzling the press and arresting Indigenous dissenters for standing up to despotism in Canada. It’s like Mouselini trying to lecture Stalin on democracy!
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June 10, 2007
June 9, 2007
DQ University struggles to survive
Native American Students at DQ University Struggle to Save Student Representation at their College 
Students seek help, meet on June 10:
Deganawidah Quetzalcoatl University in Davis, CA is California's only tribal college. There has been an on-going struggle between DQU students and the DQU Board of Trustees since 2005 when the college lost its accreditation. Incompetence and negligence on the part of the former school administration cost the college its accreditation in January 2005. Following that, a group of DQU students, with community support, vowed to stay on campus and take charge of their own education, turning the campus into a healthy, self-sustaining and self-determined living environment. The students are now facing removal from campus by the Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees denies that DQU has any students. On June 16, the Board will vote to refuse current students housing on campus. The students have been asking for representation on the Board because they are not currently getting input on decisions about the future of the university. The students are now seeking support and witnesses during the possible eviction process. The students have been the sole residents at DQU since January 2005. They are demanding the right to stay on campus with or without the Board's approval. The students are currently facing harrassment and intimidation by the Board's behavior.
Students and supporters are meeting at DQU on Sunday, June 10 at 10:00 AM to discuss and organize for community representation at the upcoming Board meeting on Saturday, June 16 at 10:00 AM. For further information, contact Chris Yazzie at (928) 225-1740.
Photo Brenda Norrell: Protecting the gate at DQ
Indigenous Alliance Without Borders: Indigenous casualties of the domestic wars
Borderzone: Militarization, nationalism and migrant hysteria increasing tragedies for Indigenous Peoples
By Jose Matus
Indigenous Alliance Without Borders
TUCS
ON -- The Southern Border Indigenous Nations continuously face abuse of authority and violation of rights by the current and proposed U.S. anti-immigrant legislation, and border enforcement policies and practice.
The Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras strongly opposes a permanent U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on l-19. This permanent checkpoint is just another manifestation of a policy that has hurt Indigenous peoples.
Since 1990, Indigenous peoples on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have been profoundly and negatively affected by the U.S and Mexican governments’ ongoing domestic "wars:" The War on the Poor, The War on Illegal Immigration, The War on Drugs and now the War on Terrorism.
We are especially concerned about the continuous policy-fueled militarization of the southern border region. This militarization has funneled undocumented migrant traffic into dangerous and environmentally sensitive areas and sacred sites, and brought these domestic wars onto Indigenous borderlands. The safety of Indigenous border residents - including elders, women, and children - is at risk. Our Indigenous human and civil rights are continuously violated by law enforcement’s abuse of authority, as well as by the effects of domestic war policies that deliberately push migrants into specific lethal/tough terrain areas and create desperation, fear, and violence. In addition, the recent Mexican border violence of Caborca, Cananea and other border communities may spill over to Indigenous borderland communities of the Tohono O'odham Nation, Cocopah, Kickapoo, and Kumeyaay, and further compromise Indigenous peoples’ public safety.
For the past 17 years, nationalism, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant hysteria have been on the rise. These attitudes promote and support built-in institutional racism, abuse of authority, and violation of rights. The implementation of anti-immigrant border enforcement policies in our southern borderlands sends a chilling message to both law enforcement officials and civilian “militias”: “If you don't discriminate and violate someone's human/civil rights some of the time, you are not patriotic and/or doing your job.”
This militarized border zone, with its institutional racism and deep disrespect for human and civil rights, has been imposed on the Southern Indigenous peoples and communities. Our Indigenous ways, quality of life, culture, sacred sites and environment have been disrupted. That is what we as Indigenous peoples have been subjected to in the current border war.
For over a decade, the federal government has devoted increasing amounts of money and manpower to fortifying longer stretches of the border in service to its claimed goal of reducing undocumented immigration, drugs and “terrorist threats” from and through Mexico. To date, these efforts have done nothing but create an increase of border violence, border deaths, profitability of people smuggling (particularly from countries other than Mexico) and violations of human rights – all the while redirecting the path of undocumented immigrants and drug/people smugglers through Indigenous borderlands.
Current and proposed enforcement measures will create more violence and division among Indigenous communities. These measures are assaults on our limited sovereignty, self-determination, borderlands and sacred sites. They are not a solution to the challenges we face. To fix our broken immigration system, we must enact legislation that implements protection of Indigenous peoples’ human rights, border rights of mobility and passage, ways of life, cultures, borderlands, and sacred sites. We, Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras, strongly oppose a permanent I-19 checkpoint.
The Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras is an affiliate of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development. Founded in 1997, the Alianza’s goal is to promote Indigenous Human/civil rights and border rights, and bring attention to Southern Indigenous border issues.
Jose R. Matus, Project Director
and Ceremonial Leader & member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe
jrmatus@aol.com
www.indigenasinfronteras.org
By Jose Matus
Indigenous Alliance Without Borders
TUCS
ON -- The Southern Border Indigenous Nations continuously face abuse of authority and violation of rights by the current and proposed U.S. anti-immigrant legislation, and border enforcement policies and practice.The Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras strongly opposes a permanent U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on l-19. This permanent checkpoint is just another manifestation of a policy that has hurt Indigenous peoples.
Since 1990, Indigenous peoples on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have been profoundly and negatively affected by the U.S and Mexican governments’ ongoing domestic "wars:" The War on the Poor, The War on Illegal Immigration, The War on Drugs and now the War on Terrorism.
We are especially concerned about the continuous policy-fueled militarization of the southern border region. This militarization has funneled undocumented migrant traffic into dangerous and environmentally sensitive areas and sacred sites, and brought these domestic wars onto Indigenous borderlands. The safety of Indigenous border residents - including elders, women, and children - is at risk. Our Indigenous human and civil rights are continuously violated by law enforcement’s abuse of authority, as well as by the effects of domestic war policies that deliberately push migrants into specific lethal/tough terrain areas and create desperation, fear, and violence. In addition, the recent Mexican border violence of Caborca, Cananea and other border communities may spill over to Indigenous borderland communities of the Tohono O'odham Nation, Cocopah, Kickapoo, and Kumeyaay, and further compromise Indigenous peoples’ public safety.
For the past 17 years, nationalism, xenophobia, and anti-immigrant hysteria have been on the rise. These attitudes promote and support built-in institutional racism, abuse of authority, and violation of rights. The implementation of anti-immigrant border enforcement policies in our southern borderlands sends a chilling message to both law enforcement officials and civilian “militias”: “If you don't discriminate and violate someone's human/civil rights some of the time, you are not patriotic and/or doing your job.”
This militarized border zone, with its institutional racism and deep disrespect for human and civil rights, has been imposed on the Southern Indigenous peoples and communities. Our Indigenous ways, quality of life, culture, sacred sites and environment have been disrupted. That is what we as Indigenous peoples have been subjected to in the current border war.
For over a decade, the federal government has devoted increasing amounts of money and manpower to fortifying longer stretches of the border in service to its claimed goal of reducing undocumented immigration, drugs and “terrorist threats” from and through Mexico. To date, these efforts have done nothing but create an increase of border violence, border deaths, profitability of people smuggling (particularly from countries other than Mexico) and violations of human rights – all the while redirecting the path of undocumented immigrants and drug/people smugglers through Indigenous borderlands.
Current and proposed enforcement measures will create more violence and division among Indigenous communities. These measures are assaults on our limited sovereignty, self-determination, borderlands and sacred sites. They are not a solution to the challenges we face. To fix our broken immigration system, we must enact legislation that implements protection of Indigenous peoples’ human rights, border rights of mobility and passage, ways of life, cultures, borderlands, and sacred sites. We, Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras, strongly oppose a permanent I-19 checkpoint.
The Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras is an affiliate of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development. Founded in 1997, the Alianza’s goal is to promote Indigenous Human/civil rights and border rights, and bring attention to Southern Indigenous border issues.
Jose R. Matus, Project Director
and Ceremonial Leader & member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe
jrmatus@aol.com
www.indigenasinfronteras.org
Amnesty International: Canada failing Indigenous Peoples
Amnesty urges Canada to withdraw opposition to UN Indigenous DeclarationAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT
8 June 2007
Ref.: TG AMR 20/2007.01
Prime Minister Hon Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street
Ottawa K1A 0A2 Canada
Dear Prime Minister Harper: I am writing to urge the Government of Canada to withdraw its opposition to the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the vitally important and long overdue UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Canada has long enjoyed an international reputation as a leader in the promotion of human rights. Canada's influence was put to good effect in the final years of negotiation of the Declaration when Canadian representatives were able to bring states and Indigenous peoples together around a common vision of human rights protection. Regrettably, Canada's reversal of its position has had a negative impact on the prospects for the adoption of the Declaration. Although the draft Declaration was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on June 29 the UN General Assembly went on to call for further "consultation". Today, it is uncertain whether the Declaration will return to the General Assembly later this year for final adoption or will be consigned to an endless cycle of renegotiation. I am concerned, Prime Minister, that a critical opportunity to advance the cause of international human rights is at risk of being lost. According to Canadian government briefing documents, obtained through an Access to Information request, senior Canadian officials who reviewed the final text of the Declaration recommended that Canada support its immediate adoption. Furthermore, these documents state that at one point both the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs had indicated that they were in favour of its adoption. I note as well that the Declaration has been publicly supported by all three opposition parties in the Canadian Parliament and that the Parliamentary Committee on Aboriginal Affairs has twice called on your government to support the adoption of the Declaration. Given this, it is unclear why your government has persisted in opposing the Declaration. Human rights declarations provide inspiration and guidance to governments, state institutions such as courts, and the public as a whole, but do not directly bind states to specific actions. Drafted to apply to a great diversity of situations around the world, such declarations cannot be interpreted in isolation from other human rights instruments or apart from the context in which they will be applied. The articles in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that the Canadian government has objected to, such as the articles on land rights, do not describe absolute or unconditional rights. In their application, these provisions will necessarily be interpreted in relation to all other existing rights and obligations - a fact that Canadian officials previously emphasized when they were working to build support for the Declaration. Claims that the Declaration is incompatible with existing Canadian human rights protections distort the reality of how the Declaration can be reasonably interpreted. But more than that, the suggestion that this demand for basic recognition of Indigenous peoples' rights is excessive, a threat to public interest, or a potential source of conflict, risks playing on and promoting the very prejudice and discrimination the Declaration is intended to counter. Around the world, Indigenous peoples are among the most impoverished, most marginalized, and most frequently victimized sectors of society. Their rights are routinely ignored in favour of wealthier, more powerful interests. This discrimination is cloaked by the racist denigration of Indigenous cultures and the paternalistic claim that non-Indigenous elites know what is best for Indigenous peoples. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples presents an inspiring alternative vision of collaboration and reconciliation among Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples working together to advance the rights of all. Implementation of this vision will not be easy. It will be an uphill struggle to undo centuries of prejudice and discrimination, around the world. But that, in fact, has been the goal of this whole long process since the drafting of the Declaration first began more than twenty years ago. I hope that after further deliberation your government will feel able to support the Declaration as adopted by the UN Human Rights Council.
Yours sincerely,
Irene Khan Secretary General
Amnesty International: Canada failing Indigenous Peoples
"The Canadian government has told the United Nations that the situation of Indigenous peoples is “the most pressing human rights issue facing Canadians.” Yet the Canadian government has repeatedly failed to implement UN the recommendations of UN human rights bodies concerning the protection of Indigenous peoples’ rights in Canada . Amnesty International’s work in Canada has included the land rights of the Lubicon Cree, the police shooting of Dudley George, and violence against Indigenous women."
http://www.amnesty.ca/themes/indigenous_overview.php
Amnesty: Stolen sisters, help break the silence:
http://www.amnesty.ca/campaigns/sisters_overview.php
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