November 9, 2010
Photo Tells a Story: US Torture and Leonard Peltier
AIM-West hosts 42nd Anniversary of American Indian Movement
Contact: Antonio Gonzales 415-577-1492
P.O. Box 410534m San Francisco, CA 94141www.aimwest.info
AIM-WEST hosts 42nd Anniversary of American Indian Movement (AIM)
By AIM WEST
By AIM WEST
Photo: AIM-West 2009 San Francisco/Antonio Gonzales, Lenny Foster and Clyde Bellecourt/Photo Brenda NorrellAIM-WEST is host to the American Indian Movement (AIM) International Conference, celebrating its 42nd anniversary in San Francisco, November 22-26, 2010. The conference will be held at San Francisco City College, 1125 Valencia Street, Mission Campus (and 22nd St. near 24th St. BART station). Please check the website http://www.aimwest.info/ for additional locations and activities during the week.
The theme for this year’s annual gathering is “Climate Change Affects All My Relations!”. The conference will focus on Land, Sovereignty and Self-Determination for all Indigenous peoples. At last year’s annual conference Mr. Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of national AIM, addressed the general assembly and proclaimed an international conference be held in an effort to re-energize and establish AIM communities, strengthen chapters and affiliates, and to struggle for unity. Efforts are underway to strategize and coordinate with AIM support groups a national campaign calling on President Obama to grant Executive Clemency and immediately release our brother and Elder, Leonard Peltier, held in prison 34 years today. http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
This year’s annual conference will be an opportunity for friends of AIM to join together in solidarity with other Indigenous speakers, inter-tribalism, representative of the Western Hemisphere and Pacific region, sharing related issues of concern for the protection of Mother Earth. Among the highlights, or focus of the conference is to develop strategic plans, alliances and networking together in the following areas; Climate Change, Green Economy Conversion for Sustainable Futures, Food Sovereignty and Security, Impact due to Mining and Mineral Extraction, Sacred Sites and Religious Freedom, Health and Obesity and Diabetes, Immigration, Institutional Racism, Youth Gang Prevention and Cultural Healing, Political Prisoners and Leonard Peltier, BIA and Federal Tribal Disenrollment, Treaties and Agreements, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Everyone is invited to dinner! AIM-WEST annual Eagle invites the Condor, an “Unthanksgiving” feast will be held Wednesday, November 24th. The program begins at 12 noon until 6pm at the Bahai Center, 170 Valencia St. in San Francisco with a ceremony and blessing, dance performances, special guests, and national AIM speaker Clyde Bellecourt.
Please bring food to share! Mark your calendar now when is best time for you to attend and participate! Drummers, Singers, Youth groups, Students, and NGOs are welcomed. Elders and children, too! J The week’s schedule of activities will be posted on website www.aimwest.info
Volunteers can reach Laura at 415-410-8475. Of special note: AIM-WEST will sponsor a concert performance on the last day of the conference, Friday November 26th in recognition of US Federal Proclamation statement by President Obama, designating the day after Thanksgiving as “Native American Heritage Day”.
The AIM conference is webcast daily on www.earthcycles.net Availability of housing, or if you have space, an extra rm call Benny @ 415-200-6591 or Felipe @ 925-219-2303. Wheel-chair accessible. An alcohol and drug free event.
FREEDOM FOR LEONARD PELTIER!
The theme for this year’s annual gathering is “Climate Change Affects All My Relations!”. The conference will focus on Land, Sovereignty and Self-Determination for all Indigenous peoples. At last year’s annual conference Mr. Clyde Bellecourt, co-founder of national AIM, addressed the general assembly and proclaimed an international conference be held in an effort to re-energize and establish AIM communities, strengthen chapters and affiliates, and to struggle for unity. Efforts are underway to strategize and coordinate with AIM support groups a national campaign calling on President Obama to grant Executive Clemency and immediately release our brother and Elder, Leonard Peltier, held in prison 34 years today. http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
This year’s annual conference will be an opportunity for friends of AIM to join together in solidarity with other Indigenous speakers, inter-tribalism, representative of the Western Hemisphere and Pacific region, sharing related issues of concern for the protection of Mother Earth. Among the highlights, or focus of the conference is to develop strategic plans, alliances and networking together in the following areas; Climate Change, Green Economy Conversion for Sustainable Futures, Food Sovereignty and Security, Impact due to Mining and Mineral Extraction, Sacred Sites and Religious Freedom, Health and Obesity and Diabetes, Immigration, Institutional Racism, Youth Gang Prevention and Cultural Healing, Political Prisoners and Leonard Peltier, BIA and Federal Tribal Disenrollment, Treaties and Agreements, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Everyone is invited to dinner! AIM-WEST annual Eagle invites the Condor, an “Unthanksgiving” feast will be held Wednesday, November 24th. The program begins at 12 noon until 6pm at the Bahai Center, 170 Valencia St. in San Francisco with a ceremony and blessing, dance performances, special guests, and national AIM speaker Clyde Bellecourt.
Please bring food to share! Mark your calendar now when is best time for you to attend and participate! Drummers, Singers, Youth groups, Students, and NGOs are welcomed. Elders and children, too! J The week’s schedule of activities will be posted on website www.aimwest.info
Volunteers can reach Laura at 415-410-8475. Of special note: AIM-WEST will sponsor a concert performance on the last day of the conference, Friday November 26th in recognition of US Federal Proclamation statement by President Obama, designating the day after Thanksgiving as “Native American Heritage Day”.
The AIM conference is webcast daily on www.earthcycles.net Availability of housing, or if you have space, an extra rm call Benny @ 415-200-6591 or Felipe @ 925-219-2303. Wheel-chair accessible. An alcohol and drug free event.
FREEDOM FOR LEONARD PELTIER!
November 8, 2010
The US State Dept Dog and Pony Show
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
When the US State Dept. announced "Listening Conferences" for the first-ever UN Periodic Review on Human Rights, Russell Means called it a "Dog and Pony Show." It was difficult to envision at that time what a Dog and Pony Show it would be.
Now, that it is over, the big question is: Where were President Obama and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton? Why weren't they at the United Nations beingthe held responsible for the ongoing violations of US human rights? Of course, George Bush and Dick Cheney are long gone, basking in publicity and book tours, instead of answering for US torture in violation of Geneva Conventions.
First of all, the US State Dept. wasted the time and money of Native Americans, along with everyone else, by asking them to travel to "Listening Conferences," to offer testimony. Not only did the US ignore the comments of American Indians in the official report, but the US summaries on the State Dept. website is pathetic, lacking names and key issues.
Still, at the United Nations, countries confronted the US with its human rights violations, including torture and the phony war on terrorism. Mexico confronted the US with racial profiling at the US border and its careless use of lethal force on migrants, some of the most desperate people on earth, walking across continents to survive.
Since the mainstream media appears to have been reproduced by seedpods (as foretold in the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers) you will have to dig deep to find what the US was confronted with at the United Nations.
As for the Dog and Pony Show, the next time the US State Dept. asks you to travel on your own dime to report US human rights abuses, better save that dime to rent the video, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Ultimately, there is still a larger question looming: Does it do any good to report anything to the United Nations? You decide.
Perspectives of Native Struggles, Strengths and Survival
Perspectives of Native Struggles, Strengths and Survival
Ofelia Rivas and Ward Churchill
Nov. 12, 2010, 7 pm
GCC Campus, Corner of Olive and 59th Ave., Glendale, Arizona (Phoenix Valley)
Ofelia Rivas and Ward Churchill
Nov. 12, 2010, 7 pm
GCC Campus, Corner of Olive and 59th Ave., Glendale, Arizona (Phoenix Valley)
Sponsored by the GCC Native American Student Association
Ofelia Rivas, O'odham and founder of the O'odham Voice Against the Wall, was cochair of the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples at the Cochabamba, Bolivia, Climate Summit 2010. She was named Borderlinks Border Woman of the Year. Ofelia joins Ward Churchill, author of 20 books, to discuss Native American Struggles, Strengths and Survival.
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