O’odham Voice Against the Wall
Press Release
Media Inquiries: Ofelia Rivas, 520-349-5484, alijegos@gmail.com
Dan Todd, 520-982-1835, langgore@hotmail.com
Additional Information: www.solidarity-project.org
www.dryriver.org
Ward Churchill, Professor Fired for 9/11 Remarks, to Speak at Benefit for Traditional O’odham Resistance
By O'odham VOICE Against the Wall
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Activist and scholar Ward Churchill will speak at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, 4831 E. 22nd St., on November 13, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. to benefit O’odham VOICE Against the Wall, which since 2003 has organized and advocated for the traditional O’odham leaders and elders of the O’odham communities in the southern territory of the United States and northern territory of Mexico.
Professor Churchill’s talk is part of the “Apartheid in America: Surviving Occupation in O’odham Lands” gathering, which features a concert by Resistant Culture, a punk rock/metal band from Southern California. The event is dedicated to raising awareness of the connections between repressive border policies at home and abroad.
Ward Churchill is a prolific American Indian writer, a member of the Rainbow Coalition Council of Elders, and on the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. In addition to his numerous works on Indigenous history, he has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and the repression of political dissent. Five of his more than 20 books have received human rights writing awards.
Former Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department, until July 2007 Ward Churchill was a tenured full Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder, where he received numerous awards for his teaching and service. In April 2009 a jury unanimously found that he had been fired by CU in retaliation for his observations on 9/11 and in violation of the First Amendment. Professor Churchill is currently litigating to have that verdict upheld.
Resistant Culture’s music is best described as tribal grind core -- weaving the indigenous flute, rattle, tribal drum, and chant into a backdrop of extreme punk and metal. The show will take place at Dry River, 740 N. Main (University and Main), November 13, at 10:00 p.m.
Both Professor Churchill’s talk and Resistant Culture’s concert will be broadcast live at www.livestream.com/earthcycles by Govinda Dalton and Brenda Norrell, who have each covered Indigenous news for over 25 years.
Other sponsors of the event include the Dry River Radical Resource Center, the Earth First! Journal, and Voices Against the Wall.
The event is open to the public. Donations of $10 to $20 are requested, but no one will be turned away. A delicious vegetarian meal will be served at 6:30 p.m.
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From Ofelia Rivas:
Hello Friends,
The Dry River Collective of Tucson, Arizona is hosting a benefit for O'odham VOICE Against the WALL.
We hope to raise funds to support our work on the impact of the border WALL on O'odham lands.
The WALL has destroyed the sacred resting places of our ancestors and has closed our ceremonial routes.
The O'odham are considered illegal undocumented persons in our own lands.
The policies of the WALL have criminalized O'odham. We are considered suspects in our own lands, interrogated and harassed.
O'odham VOICE is our resistance to continue our way of life, continue to maintain our Him'dag and continue to cross this illegal International Border across our lands.
Support us through donations and support by attending the event or just sending our press release forward.
Send donations to http://www.solidarity-project.org/.
-- Ofelia M.Rivas
Solidarity in Dignified Rage
O'odham VOICE Against the WALL
O'odham Rights Cultural & Environmental Justice Coalition
October 13, 2009
Flagstaff: The True Cost of Coal
Wednesday, October 14th @ 7pm
The True Cost of Coal Presented by the Beehive Design Collective & the Earth First! Journal
Co-Sponsored by the Taala Hooghan Infoshop & NAU Peace & Justice
On tour with giant, portable murals, the Beehive Design Collective
uses art as a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing. The Bees offer a variety of high energy, interactive, graphic-based
picture-lectures that speak to the overwhelming and complex picture of globalization, militarization, and resource extraction, as well as the
small-scale changes and actions we can undertake to build another world.
The Beehive's innovative, arts-based education strategy provokes community discussion, raising difficult questions, and offering a hopeful story in an era of too much bad news.
Over the years, we have spoken to tens of thousands of folks, and done countless presentations in locations of all kinds.
This Wednesday, October 14th, the Beehive Design Collective will be presenting at the Taala Hooghan Infoshop at 7pm.
Bring a friend or two for an evening of entertainment and education! Members of the Earth First! Journal will also be presenting on topics related to Coal Mining & environmental destruction.
Donations always accepted! ALL AGES!
Taala Hooghan Infoshop is located at 1926 N. Fourth St. Flagstaff, AZ.
www.myspace.com/taalahooghan
Please see http://www.beehivecollective.org/ for more information related to
their current project: The True Cost of Coal.
The True Cost of Coal Presented by the Beehive Design Collective & the Earth First! Journal
Co-Sponsored by the Taala Hooghan Infoshop & NAU Peace & Justice
On tour with giant, portable murals, the Beehive Design Collective
uses art as a tool for popular analysis, education and organizing. The Bees offer a variety of high energy, interactive, graphic-based
picture-lectures that speak to the overwhelming and complex picture of globalization, militarization, and resource extraction, as well as the
small-scale changes and actions we can undertake to build another world.
The Beehive's innovative, arts-based education strategy provokes community discussion, raising difficult questions, and offering a hopeful story in an era of too much bad news.
Over the years, we have spoken to tens of thousands of folks, and done countless presentations in locations of all kinds.
This Wednesday, October 14th, the Beehive Design Collective will be presenting at the Taala Hooghan Infoshop at 7pm.
Bring a friend or two for an evening of entertainment and education! Members of the Earth First! Journal will also be presenting on topics related to Coal Mining & environmental destruction.
Donations always accepted! ALL AGES!
Taala Hooghan Infoshop is located at 1926 N. Fourth St. Flagstaff, AZ.
www.myspace.com/taalahooghan
Please see http://www.beehivecollective.org/ for more information related to
their current project: The True Cost of Coal.
Listen: Radio Bird Street
"The Maidu Nation Station!"www.radiobirdstreet.org
4 - 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time
Joining us today:
Tammy Cheshire, Professor, Anthropology & Ethnic Studies at Sacramento City College, California State University, Sacramento and The Center for Human Services, UC Davis Extension. Cheshire also advises the student run Indigenous People's club at Sacramento City College. Cheshire is Lakota and has several publications on American Indian families and her master's thesis from Oregon State University was on Cultural Transmission in Urban American Indian Families. She is currently working on her Doctorate in Education at CSUS and plans to focus her dissertation on recruitment, retention and graduation of American Indian students in higher education.
Rose Beth Middleton, Ph.D., Environmental Science, Policy and Management - Society and Environment.dissertation is entitled: ‘We Were Here, We Are Here, We Will Always Be Here:’ A Political Ecology of Healing in Mountain Maidu Country, and it is about intergenerational trauma/ healing in Maidu natural resource activism. An ongoing project related to the dissertation is an interactive GIS map of Indian allotments in Plumas and Lassen counties that Maidu tribal governments, individuals, and organizations can use in land claims and genealogical research. Currently, Middleton is the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Science and Policy, Native American Studies, at University of California, Davis.
OnNativeGround@live.com
"First you dream it,
plot it out,
ask Creator to bless it,
only then will you achieve it, On Native Ground!"
- ppena, Kickapoo Nation KS
Tammy Cheshire, Professor, Anthropology & Ethnic Studies at Sacramento City College, California State University, Sacramento and The Center for Human Services, UC Davis Extension. Cheshire also advises the student run Indigenous People's club at Sacramento City College. Cheshire is Lakota and has several publications on American Indian families and her master's thesis from Oregon State University was on Cultural Transmission in Urban American Indian Families. She is currently working on her Doctorate in Education at CSUS and plans to focus her dissertation on recruitment, retention and graduation of American Indian students in higher education.
Rose Beth Middleton, Ph.D., Environmental Science, Policy and Management - Society and Environment.dissertation is entitled: ‘We Were Here, We Are Here, We Will Always Be Here:’ A Political Ecology of Healing in Mountain Maidu Country, and it is about intergenerational trauma/ healing in Maidu natural resource activism. An ongoing project related to the dissertation is an interactive GIS map of Indian allotments in Plumas and Lassen counties that Maidu tribal governments, individuals, and organizations can use in land claims and genealogical research. Currently, Middleton is the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Science and Policy, Native American Studies, at University of California, Davis.
OnNativeGround@live.com
"First you dream it,
plot it out,
ask Creator to bless it,
only then will you achieve it, On Native Ground!"
- ppena, Kickapoo Nation KS
UN Rapporteur to visit Pine Ridge to investigate housing conditions
Contact: Bill Means
International Indian Treaty Council
Cell: 612-386-4030 Bill.Means@state.mn.us
UNITED NATIONS OFFICIAL TO VISIT PINE RIDGE TO INVESTIGATE HOUSING CONDITIONS
SAN FRANCISCO – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, will visit the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on November 1st during her official visit to the United States where she will be focusing on the human right to housing. She will investigate conditions in public housing as well as homelessness, the foreclosure crisis and the lingering impacts of Hurricane Katrina. South Dakota is one of six states Ms. Rolnik will visit in addition to Washington, D.C., during her official mission to the U.S. from October 23rd – November 8th, 2009. Pine Ridge is her only scheduled visit to an Indian reservation.
The Rappporteur’s visit will provide an opportunity for her to view housing conditions on Pine Ridge, meet with tribal and community members and examine the Treaty and Trust obligations of the U.S. Government to the Lakota and other Indian Nations which includes housing, education, health and other social services. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted in 2007 by the UN General Assembly, affirms the international character of these Treaty Rights and the obligations of countries to honor and uphold them. Housing remains a significant problem on the Pine Ridge reservation and throughout Indian Country. A preliminary report submitted to the Rapporteur by the IITC in August of this year, included information provided by the Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing authority (OSLH), and stated: “…housing built and indirectly maintained by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (through thoroughly inadequate grants in aid to the Lakota Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation) is in a deplorable state. Holes in the wall are inadequately repaired by the residents with duct tape and cardboard, mold is a constant menace to health, the units are severely overcrowded, and trash is not collected, among many housing problems. The Oglala Pine Ridge Reservation also raises another problem of many Indian Reservations and their relationship to the United States. The Lakota Nation, among other Indian Nations, is a party to treaties with the United States, signed in the mid and late 1800’s. Among the United States Treaty Obligations is the provision of subsistence and housing, guaranteed to them for their stolen lands and the extermination of their primary means of subsistence, the Buffalo”.
The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing was created by the UN Commission on Human Rights in 2000 to examine and report back on the housing situation in various countries in accordance with international human rights obligations. The report on her first–time visit to the U.S. will be presented to the UN Commission on Human Rights in 2010.
American Indian, Alaska, Hawaiian Native and other Indigenous Peoples living in the U.S. are invited to present information to the Rapporteur during her visit to Pine Ridge and in the cities listed below. The National American Indian Housing Council in Washington, D.C., is also hosting a policy briefing for the Rapporteur on November 7th in which various Tribal and community leaders will also participate.
For more information on the November 7th Indigenous Peoples Policy Briefing in Washington, D.C. contact: Wendy Helgamo, National American Indian Housing Council, 202-789-1754, whelgemo@NAIHC.NET
International Indian Treaty Council
Cell: 612-386-4030 Bill.Means@state.mn.us
UNITED NATIONS OFFICIAL TO VISIT PINE RIDGE TO INVESTIGATE HOUSING CONDITIONS
SAN FRANCISCO – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, will visit the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on November 1st during her official visit to the United States where she will be focusing on the human right to housing. She will investigate conditions in public housing as well as homelessness, the foreclosure crisis and the lingering impacts of Hurricane Katrina. South Dakota is one of six states Ms. Rolnik will visit in addition to Washington, D.C., during her official mission to the U.S. from October 23rd – November 8th, 2009. Pine Ridge is her only scheduled visit to an Indian reservation.
The Rappporteur’s visit will provide an opportunity for her to view housing conditions on Pine Ridge, meet with tribal and community members and examine the Treaty and Trust obligations of the U.S. Government to the Lakota and other Indian Nations which includes housing, education, health and other social services. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted in 2007 by the UN General Assembly, affirms the international character of these Treaty Rights and the obligations of countries to honor and uphold them. Housing remains a significant problem on the Pine Ridge reservation and throughout Indian Country. A preliminary report submitted to the Rapporteur by the IITC in August of this year, included information provided by the Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing authority (OSLH), and stated: “…housing built and indirectly maintained by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (through thoroughly inadequate grants in aid to the Lakota Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation) is in a deplorable state. Holes in the wall are inadequately repaired by the residents with duct tape and cardboard, mold is a constant menace to health, the units are severely overcrowded, and trash is not collected, among many housing problems. The Oglala Pine Ridge Reservation also raises another problem of many Indian Reservations and their relationship to the United States. The Lakota Nation, among other Indian Nations, is a party to treaties with the United States, signed in the mid and late 1800’s. Among the United States Treaty Obligations is the provision of subsistence and housing, guaranteed to them for their stolen lands and the extermination of their primary means of subsistence, the Buffalo”.
The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing was created by the UN Commission on Human Rights in 2000 to examine and report back on the housing situation in various countries in accordance with international human rights obligations. The report on her first–time visit to the U.S. will be presented to the UN Commission on Human Rights in 2010.
American Indian, Alaska, Hawaiian Native and other Indigenous Peoples living in the U.S. are invited to present information to the Rapporteur during her visit to Pine Ridge and in the cities listed below. The National American Indian Housing Council in Washington, D.C., is also hosting a policy briefing for the Rapporteur on November 7th in which various Tribal and community leaders will also participate.
For more information on the November 7th Indigenous Peoples Policy Briefing in Washington, D.C. contact: Wendy Helgamo, National American Indian Housing Council, 202-789-1754, whelgemo@NAIHC.NET
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