On the Vanguard -- Lisa DeVille 'Zinke Visit to North Dakota'

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US Secretary Visit to North Dakota

By Lisa DeVille, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara
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Members of POWER requested to have a meeting with Secretary Zinke while he was here in ND. We also requested that allotted landowners have an opportunity to voice our concerns because of the federal government has stated that they want to work with tribes on rights of way for development. Will landowners have that right to have a say about what happens to OUR land? 

I am very concerned about the precedent being set by our tribal business council; we have millions of dollars from oil and gas development (even though we've been drastically under paid for our leases.) Because of this the federal government has taken special interest in exploiting our lands and natural resources, is our business council is allowing it to happen? Federal government should acknowledge the government to government relationship to all tribes not smile in our faces while their hands are in our pockets.

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We've forgotten our roots as the people of Nueta, Hidatsa, Sahnish nations, we need to remember that we have other people in these lands that are our relatives; the Lakota, Dakota, Chippewa. We are all northern plains tribes that survived from the river that runs through our ancestral lands. But we have few people making the calls on how the water is being pillaged and ​our families and communities are being left behind as few people prosper at the cost of our health.

Our elected representatives must take into account that the Department of the Interior must protect the trust responsibility of all tribal citizens, not just MHA interest. It is only now, in this new industrialized age for Indian Country that the government is willing to give us a seat at the table because they see that we have lands that is sitting on top of one of the biggest oil reserves in this continent. Our representatives need to remember what history has shown us, we cannot trust takers. They will continue to lie to our people to get what they want. This election season, I ask that the citizens of MHA Nation keep a close eye on who is willing to bend over backwards for the takers and who is actually here to protect our people, land, water, and air.

Freedom Flotilla to Gaza nearing Kiel, Germany

Freedom Flotilla to Gaza nearing Kiel, Germany  Sailing for the Right to a Just Future for Palestine

***Breaking News Just before noon local time, the Freedom Flotilla vessel Al Awda (The Return) was boarded by the German Coast Guard, at the orders of the German Ministry of Interior. They collected all the passports on board, wrote down everyone’s personal data, searched the vessel thoroughly, asked for detailed information about ports of call along the way to Gaza, and inquired about the whereabouts of the Swedish sailing boats traveling with us in parallel. The Scandinavian crew on this ship are all veterans of earlier Freedom Flotillas and attested that they have previously been harassed by other Coast Guards from European countries. Of course, our vessel is in international waters and doing nothing illegal.– and this is by no means standard procedure. The massive German Coast Guard ship had been tailing Al Awda all morning, and finally sent a rubber dinghy with a crew of four to check it out.  We are within an hour-and-a-half of Kiel, having arrived early, and are moving slowly so that the sailboats can catch up with us and we can all arrive in unison at Kiel harbour.  Reporting from the high seas off the coast of northern Germany. Al Awda (The Return) Hurriya (Freedom), Falestine (Palestine) Mairead (for Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire) The boats are scheduled to arrive in Kiel from Copenhagen on Wednesday May 23 and will be in port until Friday morning May 25. A reception is expected at 6PM. The boats will visit European ports on their way to challenge the illegal Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza in late July. The Freedom Flotilla is sailing in 2018 for the Right to a Just Future for Palestine. We challenge the blockade of Gaza and demand an end to our governments’ complicity with the blockade, which has created a humanitarian crisis, with civilians lacking clean water, electricity, and medical care. For more information about our mission and about the blockade of Gaza, see  https://jfp.freedomflotilla.org/about-just-future-palestine Participants on board Al Awda include Zohar Chamberlain Regev, Israeli Spanish resident and Freedom Flotilla Coalition boat leader; Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer from the United States; Mikkel Grüner, Danish national and city councillor in Bergen, Norway; indigenous activist Heather Milton-Lightening from Canada, professor of Business Nazari Ismail and CEO of MyCARE Malaysia Kamarul Zaman, both from Malaysia; sailor and human rights advocateCharlie Andreasson from Sweden. On Thursday afternoon May 24 in Kiel, the boats will be met by Reiner Braun, Co-President of the International Peace Bureau in Berlin. Braun comments: “The blockade of Gaza violates the human rights of Palestinian civilians. If unaddressed the blockade is likely to lead to more war in the future as it has in the past. As peace advocates we must challenge this human rights violation and end it.”

Russell Means and Angela Davis: U.S. Imperialism, Perpetual War and Global Racism

By Brenda Norrell
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The incredible words of two great revolutionaries are in my mailbox today, dated ten years apart.
The first is an interview with Russell Means, at the anti-war march at the Democratic National Convention, speaking out on U.S. perpetual war and imperialism. Thank you Govinda Dalton for preserving and sharing this today.
Christine Prat in Paris sends us the words of Angela Davis, former Black Panther, speaking out on racism, and standing in solidarity with Leonard Peltier and Palestinians.
The power of Russell Means words are a reminder that Martin Luther King, Jr., spent the final year of his life, before he was assassinated, leading anti-war efforts.
Angela Davis' words reveal the reality that racism in the United States, and throughout the world, did not end with McCarthyism, but today is a global reality marked with police brutality, imprisonment, and death.

'Perpetual War -- U.S. is a Sham' -- Russell Means Interview on U.S. Imperialism in 2008

'Perpetual War -- U.S. is a Sham' -- Russell Means 2008 Interview on U.S. Imperialism with Govinda Dalton

Russell Means and Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke out against the United States perpetual war and imperialism during the final years of their lives

Article by Brenda Norrell
Audio by Govinda Dalton, KMEC and Earthcycles
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DENVER -- Russell Means, in this interview in 2008, points out the United States has been in perpetual war -- in war every year -- and the people do not even realize it.
Means said the United States is a sham where Indigenous Peoples have no rights, in an interview with Govinda Dalton at KMEC, Mendocino, Calif., now archived at Earthcycles.
Means, chief facilitator for the Republic of Lakota, describes the events at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in 2008, beginning with the anti-war march he participated in.
The anti-war march was headed up by about 50 servicemen in uniform.
"It was very impressive." 
"They marched all the way to the DNC Convention Center."
The DNC allowed one of the uniformed soldiers to go inside and address their grievances and desires.
"They were willing to be arrested."
They were willing to march through the police line and be arrested, but cooler heads prevailed, he said.
"I'm not a fan of the Democrats or the Republicans."
"It is virtually impossible to guarantee your rights under a two party system."
"You have a one party system, the Republicans, and the weak-kneed Democrats."
"Make no bones about it, America is about the elite who rule."
Means said it is impossible for the Indigenous People to be heard.
Indigenous People have no economic power, regardless of their 
resources beneath the ground.
He said colonialism is the only explanation.
"Colonized tribal governments are demeaning and disorganized."
"They are there expressly so that we never realize our potential."
Means said what people can do is to understand the Constitution,
which is Iroquois law.
"Americans have to understand their Constitutional rights."
"You are free to be responsible."
Americans have become a joke to the world, he said.
"We are a joke."
The U.S. imperialism is based on the U.S. military.
Means pointed out that the United States has been at war every year of its existence.
"The people don't even realize it."
"This country is a sham."
Referring to a slogan, he said, "If voting could change anything, it would be illegal."
Then referring to Einstein's words, he said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
Orwell recognized what was going on in the 1940s, and his later book became a best seller, he said.
Listen to the full interview with Russell Means:
http://www.earthcycles.net/audio/dncmoon/2008-08-28_russelmeans.mp3
Russell Means' words speaking out against the United States and war, are a reminder that Martin Luther King, Jr., led anti-war efforts against the Vietnam War, during the final years of his life, before he was assassinated.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/martin-luther-king-leads-march-against-the-war

Thank you to Govinda Dalton, founder of Earthcycles and Spirit Resistance Radio, for his tireless efforts of interviewing and archiving these great historical records.

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