Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 11, 2015

WATCH VIDEO 'Disrobing Serra: Saint or Monster?' on Chumash Nation

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Published on Jun 9, 2015

Disrobing Serra: Saint or Monster? Panel Discussion (Part 1 of 7)
Watch Parts 1 -- 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVPkQRpU0WY&index=1&list=PLda-nXxpMYzaE_c7m5KcHYXI3P8w5Cgee
Recorded by Indigenous Media Insititute IMI
Date: May 30th, 2015
English/Dutch for text

Location: Chumash Nation (Santa Barbara, CA); Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara.

 Earlier in 2015, Pope Francis announced the canonization of Father Junipero Serra, the principal architect of the Spanish California Mission System (1769-1831). Serra is well-known for overseeing the mission system and establishing brutally harsh policies directed at Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations prior to the emergence of Alta California; thus resulting in various forms of genocide. Contrary to the mythology taught in the California Public School System and Missions themselves (as tourist sites), 12 (non) Indigenous people from various segments of societies (community leaders, activist, Christians, etc...) speak on the international ramifications and oppositions of canonizing Father Junipero Serra by Pope Francis. 
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Opening Ceremony

Panel One: International Ramifications of Canonization

Moderator: Marcus Lopez Sr., Co-Chair of the Barbareno Chumash Council "iyalmuwic", Senior Producer of American Indian Airwaves.

Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Band of Constantan/Ohlone Nation

Elias Castillo, author of "A Cross of Thorns: the Enslavement of California Indians by the Spanish Missions".

Deana Dartt-Newton (Chumash Nation), Ph.D. Anthropology

Roberta Cordero, Chumash Nation, Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation

Tia Oros-Peters, Zuni Nation, Executive Director of the 7th Generation Fund for Indigenous Development

Shannon Rivers, Akimel O'odham Nation, former Chair of the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Tongan, PhD Candidate, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Question-and-Answer Session by audience participants.

Closing of Panel One: International Ramifications of Canonization.

Panel Two: Catholic and Christians against Canonization

Moderator: Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Band of Constantan/Ohlone Nation

Sacheen Littlefeather, Apache/Yaqui Nations, Indigenous Elder and Activist

Georgianna Sanchez, Chumash/O'odham Nations, Elder, Activist, Scholar, Essayist, and Storyteller

Mary Valdemar, Co-Founder of CHICCCAA, San Bernardino, CA

Donna Schindler, Cross-Cultural Psychiatry-Historical Trauma Focus
Greg Cotton, Christian Research Scientist & Human Rights Advocate

Question-and-Answer Session by audience members
Closing
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This one-day discussion panel was organized by the Barbareno Chumash Council in conjunction with the American Indian Movement of Southern California.

 Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS Gazette
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Disrobing Serra: Heilige of monster?
Panel discussie 
Opgenomen door Indigenous Media Institute IMI
30 mei 2015
Locatie: Chumash Nation (Santa Barbara, CA); Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara
De discussie -dag werd georganiseerd door de Barbareno Chumash Council in samenwerking met de American Indian Movement (AIM) van Zuid California

Eerder dit jaar heeft paus Franciscus de heiligverklaring aangekondigd van Vader Junipero Serra, de voornaamste architect van het Spaans Californië missiesysteem ( 1769-1831).
Van Serra is het welbekend dat hij toezicht hield op het missiesysteem en een brutaal en hardhandig beleid voerde tegen de inheemse volkeren en hun respectievelijke First Nations; dat resulteerde in verschillende vormen van genocide.
Strijdig met de mythologie die onderwezen wordt in het California Public School systeem en de missies zelf, spreken 12 (niet) inheemsen uit verschillende lagen van de gemeenschappen ( leiders van gemeenschappen, activisten, Christenen, enz.) over de internationale aspecten en oppositie van de heiligverklaring.
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June 10, 2015

Mohawk Nation News 'Crown: Take Your Children Home'

CROWN: TAKE YOUR CHILDREN HOME

Posted on June 10, 2015
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MNN. June 10, 2015. To the CROWN: We understand your people. They are disrespectful to us. They practice murder, kidnapping, rape, manipulation and every form of genocide. Our homeland must be rid of them. Take them home in a peaceful manner.
Queenie: "Now ongwe'hon:weh are kicking them out!"
Queenie: “Now ongwe’hon:weh are sending them home!”
All of our problems started with your colonial settlers who stole all our lands reneging on our original agreement in 1701. They set up dictatorship, imprisonment, corruption, theft of everything, environmental destruction and every form of prejudice.
Racism truthYour bar representative, Judge Murray Sinclair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRC, has set us up for total termination to protect you. His recommendation is for your colonial children to keep control over our stolen lands, resources and sovereignty. Incorporated INDIANS are already oppressing, murdering, assimilating and annihilating us, with para-military backing. Mr. Sinclair is a residential school product, groomed as the front man to relieve pressure on the CROWN, churches, and everyone who benefits from genocide. If we refuse the TRC “white wash”, ordinary services for our basic survival needs will be cut off.
Mum.
Mum.

The TRC actually represents no truth, no reconciliation, no compensation, no justice. Sinclair calls us “Canadians”. The CROWN speaks through is mouth. The residential school paedophila system successfully trained him to help continue the genocide.

According to kaia’nereh:kowa, our land, possessions and all profits must be handed over to us by the thieves. No gold or silver can buy our sovereignty. We are not for sale to any bidder. kaia’nereh:kowa will deal with those who continue to defy the law of the land.
The Two Row Wampum, teiohateh, is hidden in one of your little rooms in the palace. If you personally want to reconcile with us, show up with the original wampum belt from 1701 that was presented to you in Albany, that brought your children to Canada. Only then can we begin to renegotiate the lease. Harpeau C51

As the top troubadour, Mr. Johnny Cash, would sing for the Queen and all of her evil step-children, “Goodbye, little darling. We’re parting. Parting don’t always mean goodbye. Although we had to part, you’re always in my heart. Goodbye, little darling, goodbye!”
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha@mohawknationnews.commore news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go towww.mohawknationnews.com  More stories at MNN Archives.  Address:  Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0Lthahoketoteh@mohawknationnews.com for original Mohawk music visit thahoketoteh.ws

UK full house.
UK full house.

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Groups criticize Calif. Gov. for ignoring Big Ag, Big Oil water use during drought




Photo of protest outside the Metropolitan Water District offices in Los Angeles courtesy of Food & Water Watch.


Groups criticize Brown for ignoring Big Ag, Big Oil water use during drought 

by Dan Bacher 
Censored News
Governor Jerry Brown embarked on a speaking tour in Southern California on Tuesday, June 9, to tout his controversial drought policies and tunnels plan as protesters rallied against his support of expanded fracking operations that pollute aquifers throughout the state. 

Brown attended the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California Board Meeting at noon and later joined Austin Beutner, publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune, for a conversation on the state’s drought as part of a new event series sponsored by the Times called “The California Conversation.” 

As usual for the Brown administration, one of the least transparent administrations in California history, this meeting was not open to the public, but only to "credentialed media." 

Outside the MWD meeting in Los Angeles, a group of anti-fracking activists from Food and Water Watch and Californians Against Fracking held signs proclaiming, "Poison Water! Thanks Big Oil Brown," "Don't Frack the Golden State," "Stop Fracking Our Water," and "No Drill No Spill," as Governor Brown gushed about his drought policies that refuse to deal with the biggest water wasters - Big Ag and Big Oil. 

"If he really wants to do something about this drought, he'd put a moratorium on fracking," according to a Facebook post announcing the protest. 

Brown pushed really hard to gather support for his controversial tunnels plan at the MWD meeting, conjuring up images of portending disaster unless his Delta tunnels are built. 

“If we do nothing ... there will be a collapse, whether it be tomorrow, five years, 10 years, 20 years. It’s going to happen in the lifetime of the people in this room,” Brown said, according to the Los Angeles Times. (http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83743514/) 

“Think of this as an insurance policy. We’ve got to make sure that we can capture this water and convey it in a reliable, secure way," Brown claimed.

Then at approximately 6 pm, Brown also discussed the drought at an event entitled, "The California Conversation: Water in the West," hosted by the Los Angeles Times, at University of Southern California, Town and Gown in Los Angeles. 

More information on “The California Conversation” series and a livestream can be found at latimes.com/TheCaliforniaConversation. KCET, the event’s broadcast media partner, will feature the event in an upcoming episode of “SoCal Connected” airing Wednesday, June 10 at 8 p.m. on KCET and nationally Thursday, June 11 at 8 p.m. ET /PT on Link TV. 

According to the Governor's Office, "In April, Governor Brown announced the first ever 25 percent statewide mandatory water reductions and a series of actions to help save water, increase enforcement to prevent wasteful water use, streamline the state’s drought response and invest in new technologies that will make California more drought resilient."

Public trust advocates weren't impressed by the Brown administration's drought "actions." They slammed Brown for focusing on reducing urban and residential water use - and ignoring the state’s most egregious water wasters and polluters, including corporate agribusiness and Big Oil. 

“Governor Brown continues to allow big agribusiness and the oil and gas industry to abuse our precious ground and surface water resources unabated while demanding individual Californians and communities must cut back their use by twenty-five percent," said Adam Scow, California Campaign Director for Food & Water Watch. "By refusing to rein in Big Ag and Big Oil, Governor Brown is taking the politically easy way out, but it won’t be easy for Californians when reservoirs and taps run dry. It’s beyond time for Governor Jerry Brown to stop doing favors to special interest at the expense of California." 

“The Governor must start by placing immediate sensible limits on groundwater pumping in order to protect our water savings account for generations to come. In the longer term, the Governor must prioritize balancing California’s water budget to ensure responsible and sustainable allocations that work for all Californians. One important step in this process is retiring from production the toxic, arid lands on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley that we do not have the water to support and compensate producers fairly for their losses," he noted. 

“Finally, Governor Brown must limit the oil and gas industry from using and polluting water and prevent the industry from injecting its toxic waste waster into protected aquifers. Governor Brown should place an immediate ban on fracking and extreme oil extraction as a real step towards replacing fossil fuels with clean and renewable energy," said Scow. 

Restore the Delta (RTD) criticized Brown for touting his "leadership" during the drought a month after telling critics of his Bay Delta Conservation Plan to build the twin tunnels under the Delta to ‘shut up." 

"This follows on the heels of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s recent op-ed in the LA Times in which she continues to beat the drum for greater flexibility in managing water exports from the north part of the state to the south,” said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, RTD executive director. “It’s a shame that they both have forgotten the impacts of the drought on the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary, which is on the verge of an ecological collapse, or the impacts of the drought on Delta farmers, who have voluntarily cut water use by 25%." 

"Both Governor Brown and Senator Feinstein continue to push forward a sixty-year-old vision of building big projects to move water from one part of the state to the other, claiming all the while it is for the benefit of Southern California residents. Yet, historically, 70% of the water taken from the Delta has gone, and continues to go, to big agribusiness growers like Stewart Resnick, who has publicly stated that he plans to expand his almond empire holdings by 50% over the next five years," she said. 

"The pumps have yet to be shut off one day during this four-year drought. Los Angeles water districts said they needed about 700,000 acre-feet of water for health and human safety. Yet, we know that 1.5 million acre-feet have been exported thus far this year, and the pumps continue pumping. Who is receiving that water and for what purpose?" asked Barrigan-Parrilla. 

"This is all part of Governor Brown’s shell game for the Delta tunnels. Use fear of disaster to sell people scared by the drought on the need for the Delta tunnels. Get urban ratepayers and property tax payers to pay for the project. Deliver the water to the hedge fund and conglomerate agribusiness growers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley," she concluded. 

To read the entire news release, go to http://restorethedelta.org/blog/our-response-to-gov-browns-socal-speaking-tour-on-california-drought/ 

While Governor Brown has mandated that urban water districts cut back 25 percent on their water use, big growers like Stewart Resnick of Paramount Farms have expanded their water-thirsty almond growing operations. 

Agribusiness has increased its almond tree acreage by 150,000 acres during the current drought. For more information, please read my investivative piece in the East Bay Express: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/05/15/californias-thirsty-almond-acreage-grows-by-150000-acres-during-record-drought 

For a complete review of Governor Brown's abysmal environmental record, go to: http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/30452-the-extinction-governor-rips-the-green-mask-off-his-tunnels-plan
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June 8, 2015

Mohawk Nation News 'TRC using South African 'White Wash' Model'

TRC USING SOUTH AFRICAN 'WHITE WASH' MODEL

Posted on June 8, 2015
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MNN. 8 June 2015. The majority of White South Africans take no responsibility for apartheid, though they are the main beneficiaries. Over 40% think apartheid was a good idea, but badly executed. Canada’s “INDIAN reserve” system was the model for the apartheid system. Today the vast majority of South African Blacks are more impoverished, even more since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRC hearings in 1996. They can now buy clean water and electricity. A few are wealthy. TRC denied trials of the colonial corporate butchers who committed genocide. Instead they got amnesty. Apartheid-signs
TRC did not address the collective loss of dignity, opportunities, systemic violence, stolen land and resources, denial of education, and the role of corporations that collaborated with and made money from the brutal apartheid regime. Forced removals are deemed to be legal.
In 2008 when TRC started in Canada, the conservatives changed their laws to protect their businesses and their accomplices so they can keep stealing our resources, destroying our environment and removing protection for us. They are trying to renege on their debts and keep illegally occupying us. They want to oppress us by no jobs, no education and no money. We demand total control and profits from our lands and resources, as the agreements between free and sovereign parties would mandate.
If nothing else, the CROWN was found to have committed “cultural genocide”. Those who took part and benefitted or who didn’t actively resist will be charged in an international venue. TRC nailed the whites and their INDIAN helpers, who betrayed us, sold us into slavery, helped murder our children, allowed corporations to torture us and kept it all secret. They’re going to jail.
Many White South Africans glorify their apartheid past. 60% feel that victims of gross human rights violations should not be compensated. For stable development and to maintain social order, detention of political prisoners is necessary. Also whites should have economic control. TRC FAILED.
TRC was a sell out to the CROWN! South African Blacks have no economic power and no ownership in major corporations. Illegal land ownership continues. Well-armed policemen attack and imprison protestors who are fighting bread and butter issues. Strikes abound. Social and health services are denied. Mines and banks have not been nationalized, like in Canada. Violence has skyrocketed. ApartheidCanada
Indian Affairs Minister Valcourt remained seated at that final TRC spectacle in Ottawa. In effect he said, “I am the master. When I call you, you will come in front of me and kneel down.” He tried to maintain the fraud of his power by an old Pavlovian tactic. We see through their lies.
We are not wards of the corporation of Canada. TRC appears to be planning to split our money and resources and control our land with a few of their INDIANS, who will illegally speak for us. We will fight you. In the meantime, pay the ongwe’ho:weh for every plot of land you illegally occupy and everything else you’re stealing and have stolen from us.
The Jews had this stolen art returned to them.
The Jews had this stolen art returned to them.
Jews, who, under duress, signed away their property and suffered a holocaust, have had their property returned or were compensated. We want nothing less than our worthy counterparts. We ask them to demand equality of treatment for their ongwe’hon:weh brothers and sisters. Looted art.
Reconciliation without justice is a continuation of subjugation. The justice sought may take time. It can be found. Sixto Rodrigues sings about the apartheid in South Africa: “Sugar man. Wont you hurry, cause i’m tired of these scenes. For a blue coin, won’t ya bring back all those colors to my dreams”. [Sugar Man].
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha@mohawknationnews.com more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go towww.mohawknationnews.com  More stories at MNN Archives.  Address:  Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada]J0L 1B0 thahoketoteh@mohawknationnews.com for original Mohawk music visit thahoketoteh.ws
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