Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 5, 2013

Mohawk Nation News 'Indigenous Bank Run'

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MNN: INDIGENOUS BANK RUN


INDIGENOUS BANK RUN
MNN. Jan. 5, 2013. No more bawling for a handout from the corporate thieves. We demand payment forthright of all our money.

We Indigenous are not responsible for the massive failures of the banks that are now going bust. They’ve been bailed out with our Indian Trust Funds, without our knowledge or permission, which is illegal. We never gave permission to Mark Carney and Canada to move our ever-growing Indian Trust Fund to England to continue their debt fraud.
 
Looks like Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney's hands!!!
Look another banker!
The “executive branch” of the European superstate, of which Canada and the US are affiliated, do not rule us or our funds. Look at Iceland. They proved that the bankers did not have a legitimate debt from the people. It was all bogus. The criminal bankers went to jail.
The oligarchs’ debt to us can be verified quickly. it’s real! We do not have to obey their directives. We Indigenous people of Great Turtle Island are sovereign and not members of any corporate “artificial” system. Each Indigenous person who is a legal titleholder of the Indian Trust Fund can demand full payment immediately. We will say where our money goes.
The emperor has no clothes!Along with Al Qaeda, Taliban and Iceland, and anyone who goes against the economic royalists of Europe and their accomplices [banks], we Mohawks have been placed on a terrorist list. This means nothing to the people of the world who know the truth. The law enforcement officers have been tricked to illegally detain us.
We demand full payment asap. It won’t be going to any corporate entity [Canada, etall]. The band and tribal councils won’t be entitled to anything because they willingly stepped out of the canoe and jumped onto their boat. They have forfeited their rights to the money.
The emperor has no clothes!
We will deal directly with the bankers. No corporate entity can have anything to do this Indigenous bank run. This run will bust the bank.
As Pink Floyd sang: ”Money, it’s a crime. Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie. Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today”.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03JdA7lCLTo
Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank.  Give a man a bank, he can rob the world.


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Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, he can rob the world.

The Disappeared Article on First Nation Nuclear Rail Blockade


Sorry, the news coverage of the First Nation Nuclear Rail Blockade has been disappeared, buried along with the nuclear waste


By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Censored News has been in pursuit of the missing link, that's the Toronto Star's coverage of the First Nation Nuclear Rail Blockade on Sunday. Now, when something that important vanishes from Google News, readers want to know why. http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/02/03/protestors_block_cp_rail_tracks_over_lansdowne_ave_uranium_plant.html

When the link never recovered, and the article remained disappeared, Censored News contacted the webmaster at the Toronto Star.
Here's the response. "It was moved here:"
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/02/03/protestors_block_cp_rail_trac
ks_over_lansdowne_ave_uranium_plant.html

The before and after links show that the Toronto Star moved the article from the crime section to the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) of the newspaper.
The original placement of this coverage in the crime section leads one to ask this question: "Who is the criminal, the person standing up for the future of mankind, or the uranium corporation GE Hitachi in Toronto that is endangering all life forms in this region?"
There were no arrests.
Although the Toronto Star's coverage was moved, and a new link created, it did not appear on Google News. Censored News asked the Toronto Star why it was moved, and why the new link and article failed to appear on Google News.
On Tuesday night, the Toronto Star webmaster said,  "The address changed because it either moved to a new section or the headline changed. Google News didn't update it quickly it seems."
Censored News was created because of the collapse of ethics, and censoring of the voices of Indigenous Peoples and others engaged in resistance and the struggle for human rights.
The radioactive tailings from the Cold War remain scattered across Native lands, and mining corporations continue to target Indigenous communities globally with radioactive dumping, and poisonous mining.
Censored New Most Censored 2012 also disappeared from Google
This isn't the first article to disappear from Google News. Censored News Top Ten Most Censored in 2012 also disappeared from Google News, within hours of appearing and never returned. Among the top ten was mining on Indian lands, the collapse of media in Indian country, US spying on Tohono O'odham land, Native Americans support of Palestine, and Salazar's leaked memo.
Among those top ten was the leaked memo revealing that US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar planned to push a so-called "water rights settlement" for the Little Colorado River through a "lame duck" Congress with Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl.
Navajos has already said "No" to the water rights theft aimed at providing water to one of the dirtiest coal fired power plants in the US, the Navajo Generating Station.
The water rights theft scheme -- by the US Interior, Arizona Congressmen, non-Indian attorneys, and corrupt tribal politicians -- would have also provided water for wasteful Arizona residents downstream who are watering the desert in luxury lifestyles, while many Navajos have no running water, and have to haul water long distances.
Salazar announced he would leave the US Interior in January.

Watch videos of First Nation Nuclear Rail Blockade and read more:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/02/video-first-nation-nuclear-rail.html

February 4, 2013

Dine' Arlene Bowman: Indigenous women filmmakers shut out of the industry


Arlene Bowman's 'Graffiti' has shown in international film fests.
Dine' filmmaker Arlene Bowman, originally from Greasewood, Ariz, on the Navajo Nation, describes how Indigenous women filmmakers are shut out of the film industry
By Arlene Bowman
Recently I watched The Turin Horse, 2011 on Cinema Guild DVD directed by Bela Tarr, a Hungarian filmmaker. I have not seen his previous work but want to. Other information posted on the DVD.  Other early work screened.Jonathan Rosenbaum a film critic and writer wrote and interviewed Bela Tarr a few times; also he recorded an audio commentary as the Turin Horse played. What Bela Tarr said meant a lot to me. This Turn Horse is an anti climatic drama. Tarr at some point said Turin Horse was his last film but I do not know if it will be. I liked it a lot. Tarr expressed to Rosenbaum his history:

a. “I have nothing to do with the filmmaking community in Budapest. They don’t like me because I don’t make conventional films. I can’t talk with them about films because I live and think differently than them. They are filmmakers and I am not. I don’t know what I am.”



b. In another interview he expressed to someone else: “When I started to make films, I wanted to change the world and slap people in the face. I wanted to destroy the whole world, whole society. I was full of emotions and energy. I really wanted to change the world. Afterwards I was shocked. The world didn’t change. I just finished my movie.”

He was born in July 21, 1955. I am older than him by six years.

My retort to those 2 lines, a. I have ranted and raved to a few people a few times about this very snubbed, shut out feeling I receive from Indigenous and non Indigenous filmmakers in North America about me, my films and videos I have made. I have always felt like this and it doesn’t change. When I heard that in the audio commentary about Tarr, I felt: I’m not alone in this world in this similar way I feel about my peer group of filmmakers and the kind of things I like in film and video, etc.

Retort to b.: That’s what I thought too after I finished UCLA film school. I thought the world might change towards Indigenous cinema but it did not. What it was: I only finished my graduate degree in filmmaking. That was it. I experienced a lot of politics and fighting the administration to finish my film. Used every energy I had.  Mentally and physically very tired, after I finished it. Long story.

After all these years I still have no one to talk to about the issues related to making films and videos not acceptable to the mainstream film and video, the lack of the Indigenous women in major actor roles and the lack of Indigenous women filmmakers in main stream film and television more in the U.S. than Canada, except to few I dare express this. I still don’t not as much. Tarr’s the only one so far who has expressed those feelings of alienation I feel among Indigenous and non Indigenous filmmakers or the mainstream.

Also: Hey us Indigenous women filmmakers! We’re just getting started! I’m not quitting now and saying this is it. We’ve always been shut out. Always! Always knocking on the doors. We don’t get heard. No way! We’re going all the to the top til it happens: some change at least or big changes!
Sometimes I feel like I’m from another planet but I am an earthling.  
                              

Arlene Bowman's films 'Navajo Talking Picture' filmed on the Navajo Nation, and 'Graffiti' filmed in Vancouver BC, have shown in international film festivals. Bowman's Song Journey, on the powwow trail, showed on PBS. Graffiti screened at the French film festival, Festival International Du Film D'Amiens.

Mohawk Nation News 'Sage Advice'


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MNN. Jan. 3, 2013. During the Caledonia struggle, former Prime Minister Mulroney gave Prime Minister Harper some advice on how to deal with Indians.
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I got that one, Brian.
Mulroney “First, you gotta make those Indians look bad. Hire some top publicity firms. Put out 4 negative stories for every positive one. Say the Indians are breaking the law. Block them from arguing their case publicly. They have too many valid papers and good arguments. Lay criminal charges wherever you can”.
Harper:   
Mulroney: “Lie. Confuse the public. Say they have no real evidence. Suggest they ‘might’ have weapons and criminal records! The public won’t read the “might”. They’ll just read “weapons” and “criminal”. Make negative images so the public sees the Indians as the bad guys. Say you are “defending law and order” [while you are evicting them from their legal property]. Never mind that they might only have 2 by 4s, bats or a bag of stones. Don’t mention the millions of dollars you are spending on ouzies, tasers, pepper spray, ear drum splitters, M-16s, silencers and the latest in ultra high tech weaponry for the cops”. 
Mulroney: “Announce that you want to solve the crisis peacefully. Shut the People out of the negotiations. Deal only with those on your payroll [corporate Indians]. Let the Ministry of Propaganda [corporate media] do their job of putting out 4 bad stories for every good one. Announce that you will tour the reserves to see what the people need. [Still hasn’t done that!] Appoint a known adversary of Indians [such as Mike Harris] as chair of a Commons Committee on Aboriginal Affairs. You know, someone who excuses police brutality. 
Harper:   You are right Brian ! Mike is our man, remember he got away with the Ipperwash thing.
Mulroney: Act surprised that the protesters won’t leave peacefully.  Then surround them, point guns at them and scare them. Stop their supporters from entering or leaving the protest. If the Indigenous keep resisting, some of them and even our cops might get killed or hurt. Remember, there will be men, women and children there. Indian Affairs policy has been to absorb the Indians into Canadian society whether they like it or not. Harper, your job is to “clean it up” so US and foreign companies can get richer extracting their resources without paying them. You and I will load up our pockets, hahahah! The bankster’s economy depends on clear cutting, mining, water diversions and generally despoiling the land.
Harper:  We are working on new laws right now to be rid of those pesky indians
Mulroney:  “The Indians just want to make a stand on a principle, like land and resource rights and their poor living conditions. Tell them, “You’ve made your point.  Now go home”. 
chin Harper: “We know there are no leaders. We want to see who the main resisters are. We need a target, someone to shoot at.
Mulroney:   “Our miltary needs practice so we can send them out to support American interests in the Middle East and elsewhere. We both got elected due to support from American companies. Don’t bite the hands that feed us. Gotta think about our Benjamins, not the people, Stevie.
 Mulroney:  “Keep saying, “No one will get hurt”, if they do as they’re told.  The main resisters should be told that the cops will take them out.
 Harper:  “The cops don’t want to do the killing!
Mulroney:  “Put native cops on the front line. Mention native factionalism all the time. Let the cops beat Indian prisoners so it doesn’t leave bruises on their faces. They die later of their injuries, like Lasagna of the Oka crisis. I was PM then. It’s dirty work that someone has to do. Cops don’t really care if they lose one of their own. Few remember Marcel LeMay who was killed at Oka? If a cop gets shot by “friendly fire”, pretend it was the “injuns that done it. With one of your Senate appointments, put in an Indian face. 
Harper:  ”What happens if some of our cops sympathize with them?” 
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Time to feed the masks.
Mulroney:  ”Say it’s the Stockholm Syndrome. He’s gone crazy. Then run a feature on an old anti-Indian fable. It’s cowboys and Indians time again, Stevie, yee haw! hahahah!
Mulroney:   “The Indians just want to carry out their original legal rights that we promised long ago.  We have to avoid that at all cost, Stevie.  

Our amorphous source that is everywhere told us about this secret conversation on their Indigenous genocide program.  
Listen to Jimi again: “Some people say day dreaming is for the lazy minded fools with nothing else to do.  So let them laugh.  Laugh at me…” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wbZPOUwEDA  
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