EL PASO, TEXAS -- The parents of the 43 students kidnapped in late September in Guerrero, Mexico will visit El Paso on Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17 to speak to about their children’s experiences and about the human rights violations occurring in Mexico. The parents will be available to speak at a press conference on MONDAY, MARCH 16 AT 10am AT THE FARM WORKERS CENTER (OREGON ST & 9TH). The media and the public are invited.
The parent’s visit to El Paso forms part of a national speaking tour of the United States during which they will speak in cities across the country to audiences in churches, universities, community organizations, and labor unions about the events of September 26, 2014 when police and gangsters killed six, wounded 25, and kidnapped 43 students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College. The parents have continued to demand that their children be returned to them “alive as they were when they were taken.”
MNN. 15 Mar. 2015. We pulled back the curtains and saw into the band council’s change room. It’s the same old genocidal business plan to steal our land and get rid of us for good. We can’t be killed outright without them being charged with genocide. So our unsurrendered land will be turned into CROWN land, we’ll be kicked off for a few dollars, then it can be sold to the bankers. Remember, the Seigneury of Sault St. Louis on Kahnawake is unsurrendered Haudenosaunee land, which can’t be legally sold. We are owed rent by our Quebecois tenants which is well past due. Government handlers at the Canadian government MCK Inc. headquarters direct the whole business plan:
Busy, Mike?
1.Blackout the media coverage.
2.Restrict the agenda to only money and relocation.
3.Call small “consultation” meetings with a handful of people. The less the better! Those not attending are considered to have acquiesced.
4.Have meetings with corporate focus groups, not Mohawks.
5.Keep out negative comments in the main report.
6.Set hard and fast time limit so the chief can get his off-shore bank account bonus! Chief Mike wants this 335-year old land issue over by June 2015.
7.*Make up numbers to appear they have 51%.
8.Say that this land grab “is internal to the local community” and does not affect the other Kanion’ke:haka/Mohawks.
9.When the discussion gets hot, stir up the meeting with babble and a fight, over an unrelated issue, then close it down fast.
10.When the going gets rough, the chief taps his fingers on the table for the crisis actor to get up and talk on unrelated personal issues.
11.Don’t provide the names and addresses of the CROWN’s Privy Council handlers so they cannot be questioned by the people.
We are seeing the worst of Canada and its incorporated INDIAN band council puppets. Remember, these INDIANS are our sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, mothers, fathers, cousins, grandmothers and grandfathers who are all preparing the deadly Kool Aid for us to drink.
The song that comes to mind for this scenario is like going to a rodeo. “It’s 40 below. Got a heater in my truck. And I don’t give a fuck. I’m off to the rodeo. All the men left, all the women right. Come on, You fucking dummy. Get your right step right. Get off the stage. You goddamn goof. You know you piss me off, you fucking jerk! You get on my nerves…” [Rodeo Song, Gary Lee & the Showdown].
Indigenous Nations Rallied to Protect Medicine Lake from Industrial Scale Geothermal Desecration
Indigenous Nations’ appeal in Ninth Circuit Court concerned desecration and contamination of California sacred area and water in midst of record drought
Censored News French translation by Christine Prat
SAN FRANCISCO -- March 12, 2015) Today the Pit River Tribe, Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Highlands Defense, Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, Save Medicine Lake Coalition, Medicine Lake Citizens for Quality Environment, with their attorney Deborah A. Sivas of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic and supporters, optimistically exited the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today following oral arguments in Pit River Tribe vs. US Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, & Calpine Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
“Medicine Lake is a sacred place and it needs to be protected at all costs,” said Pit River Tribal Chairman Mickey Gemmill. “We’re trying to preserve our culture and Medicine Lake is part of the beginning of our people. If we allow these corporations to come in and frack, we could lose that chance to bring back that part of our culture. So we’re asking the Calpine Corporation to step back and leave the Medicine Lake Highlands alone.”
Representatives of Native Nations and environmentalist supporters came before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on March 12th in San Francisco, to bring their case that energy leases were renewed illegally by federal agencies in 1998 for industrial development on national forest lands in the Medicine Lake Highlands, a near-pristine area about 30 miles northeast of Mount Shasta that has been designated a Native American Traditional Cultural District. The Native American and environmental plaintiffs assert that industrial energy development would desecrate and pollute the area and pose unacceptable risks to California’s largest fresh water aquifer. Contrary to the National Environmental Policy Act and other laws, the federal agencies never evaluated the threshold question of whether industrial geothermal development is even appropriate for this landscape.
“What was never considered is whether development is even appropriate for the Medicine Lake Highlands in the first place, given the area’s high benefit in holding California’s largest pure underground aquifer," said Michelle Berditschevsky, senior conservation consultant for the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center (her legal commentary can be found here).
“Geothermal development in the surrounding national forest would increase traffic, noise, water and air pollution and would fragment wildlife habitat, turning the remote landscape into an industrial wasteland and threatening a reliable source of pure water,” said Janie Painter, executive director of the Medicine Lake Citizens for Quality Environment, consisting of Medicine Lake cabin owners and recreationalists.
“The struggle to protect the sacred Medicine Lake Highlands has been a long one, but over the years, we have only learned more and more about the importance of the landscape to Native Americans and California more generally,” said Deborah Sivas, Director of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, which represents the Pit River Tribe and environmental organizations in the lawsuit. “I was happy to see that the court understood our arguments that the Tribe has a deep, abiding connection to the area.”
“It was great to see such a big turnout by tribe members at the hearing. We were gratified to represent the tribe and fight for the future of the Medicine Lake Highlands in the 9th Circuit,” said Jason George, a certified Law student in the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic.
COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE : L’AFFAIRE DE MEDICINE LAKE EN APPEL DEVANT LA COUR DU 9ème CIRCUIT, DES NATIONS AUTOCHTONES SE RASSEMBLENT POUR LA PROTECTION DU SITE SACRE
Debra Sivas, Directrice de la Clinique de Droit de l’Environnement de Stanford, est à votre disposition pour discuter des aspects juridiques de l’affaire : (650) 723-0325 ou dsivas@stanford.edu
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