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by European immigrant perspective
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003 at 2:30 AM
How do European immigrants with any consciousness address the genocidal acts committed against the Indigenous Peoples of this land called North America?
Boycott Columbus Day. That's a start. Celebrating a genocidal tyrant like Christopher Columbus in America is akin to German people celebrating Adolf Hitler day..
Most important is that we realize the genocidal acts against Indigenous Peoples has not stopped. Many European Americans want to pretend that nothing is happening. This ignorance of blatant disrespect by the US government and corporations towards Indigenous lands is allowing the murder to continue.
Peabody Mining Company in the Dineh (Navaho) lands is tearing up the land with their machinery, depleting and poisoning ground water. Black Mesa is being destroyed by the coal dust and smoke, giving the Dineh People lung cancer from smoke inhalation..
"The current laws deny the Dineh families who remain on their land a fundamental constitutional right enjoyed by other citizens of the U.S. They are not allowed to vote or in any way to participate in the government which controls their lives. They are not allowed to participate in the legal system other than as defendants. They have no right to appeal any police or government action. Mining company security personnel, harass and intimidate elders, threatening them with imprisonment if they try to protect their homes, property and burial sites from Peabody Coal's bulldozers. They can be arbitrarily thrown in jail for resisting actions by the mining company. People and their livestock are given trespass notices. Ceremonial hogans, houses, sacred sites and graveyards are bulldozed. Armed rangers visit elders at their homes and threaten and harass them and confiscate their livestock at the government's discretion. They are denied access to water, their water wells are fenced, capped off and dismantled."
From this site;
http://www.wedo.org/ehealth/dineh.htm
This is happening today, not in history books, though the pattern is the same. Corporations and a racist US government are continuing the same pattern of genocide as the colonialists killing bison by the thousands..
BTW bison are still being shot by Montana cattle ranchers if they migrate over the invisible "property line" of Yellowstone. Ranchers claim "brucellosis" is transmitted to cattle, but this is impossible (bison don't find cattle sexually attractive)..
Medicine Lake in Modoc country is threatened by Calpine corporation's drills. Medicine Lake is sacred to many tribes (Pit River, Shasta, Wintu, Klamath, and others) for healing waters. These waters will be forever ruined by hydrogen sulfide surfacing from the drilling. Calpine claims the lie of "clean" energy (try tons of aerosolized hydrogen sulfide) , even though most will be exported to Reno..
"Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas is normally heavier than air, but when agitated, it can erupt from the confines of the pipe in levels of toxicity which paralyze the lungs.
OSHA warns that levels of 300 ppm cause the olfactory nerve to lose sensitivity. At first a "rotten egg" odor is detected but on the second or third breath, the odor is no longer noticed. At 600 ppm, breathing is inhibited, as the lungs fill with the gas.
At higher levels, paralysis of the lungs occursÑonly very fast action could save the victim by removal from the gas area and immediate application of oxygen."
From this site;
http://www.swopnet.com/engr/Gayman/Gayman_H2S.html
Medicine Lake info;
http://www.sacredland.org/medicine_lake.html
As a European immigrant it is my responsibility to stop my fellow Europeans (in the form of corporations and US government) from continuing this cycle of genocide against the Indigenous People, Iraqis, Palestinians, etc., and the Earth we all share..
STAND UP TO AMERICAN FOURTH REICH GENOCIDE!!
www.transformcolumbusday.org/media/20010919-dp.htm
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by Deborah
Friday, Oct. 17, 2003 at 10:04 PM
www.yuricareport.com
I am of native descent, I am also Irish and Spanish. My grandmother was a Hopi she met my grandfather a Spanish/Jew who was sanctioned in Mexico when Hitler was MURDERING the Jews (similiar to the Zionist and the poor Palestians same story different times).
I remember Paul Revere and the Raiders about Cherokee people, some of the words comes back to me every now and then..."though I wear a suit and tie I am still a redman deep inside (or something like that). I am a woman.
The Peabody family that robs from the native lands are multibillionaires, they can do whatever they want, always has, always will. (the average person is too in awe of money, celebrity status and flash) . People need to get a grip on what's real. Running water, electricity, toliets, washing machines, cd players, cars, air conditioners, hair dryers, the list is enless. How about packaged foods, can you imagine hacking meat out of a complete animal? This life we have in towns and cities are one great big delusion. If just one let's say electricity is haulted then what do we do? Imagine what life would be like. Money, power, diamonds, cars, if something bad happened there will be millions and millions of people S.O.L. and their children also. Welcome to the stone age or the native life.
I know that for now rich the really rich people do not live by toxic land, they do not have dump sites by them you would. They are excluded because your ancestors was convinced to put possessions before EVERYTHING. Before your health, before your children's health. Before the ONLY PLANET THAT WE HAVE and yet millions of you pollute like crazy. You sit in your cars with the engine running and what are you doing, waiting to pickup your kids, waiting for a train to pass, waiting in line at the bank, waiting in a drive-up for things, ALWAYS YOU RUN YOUR ENGINES! WHY? WHY?! TURN OFF YOUR CARS!!!!!!
The euroamericans do not love this country, many of your religions tells you that this is a MEANINGLESS planet, well look around honey, this is it. Quit taking the plastic bags, carry something, bring your own plastic bags! Quit taking the bags!!!!!!
Write your senators, there are many great sites with petitions that forward a form that you can use or MODIFY for FREE!!!!
People For the American Way has petitions
NRDC Activism is for the planet and it's creatures
Greenpeace (of course)
ACLU
Many times in What Really Happened they will have a story with a petition
Find your calling, bug the hell out of your reps, we are still paying for them and they work for you!
READ THE TRAIL OF TEARS!!!!!!!!! ALL EUROAMERICANS SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!
If you the euroamericans do not starting grumbling then when will THEY know your pissed. Call your senator, write your senators, your congress tell them that your pissed!!!! Tell them that you are grumbling. Ask them if they wonder if Marie Antionette heard the grumbling before they cut off her head!! VOTE !!!!!!!!! VOTE WITH YOUR FAMILY, PREPARE THEM TO VOTE, GET THEM INTO THE VOTING RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!!!
GRUMBLE!!!!!! GRUMBLE AS LOUD AS YOU CAN!!!!
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by MRC
Friday, Oct. 17, 2003 at 10:24 PM
Let's see where to begin.
Congratulations on being an injun. Nice casinos you got there. You fuckers still like firewater, don't ya?
Compared to living in dirt I kinda like modern appliances and modern life here in the USA. You need to get a grip on what's real, or grip you're own reality or something, just leave the rest of us the hell alone.
I keep the engine running. I paid for the fucking gas and I'll run my car if I wanna. You don't wanna leave your car running then don't, just keep you damn nose outta my business.
Quit taking the bags? What the fuck you smokin in that peace pipe of yours?
The only ones I'm pissed at the the do nothing that think the world owes them a living. Whatda ya say you keep your nose outta my business and I ain't bugging you anyway so nothing to do on my end.
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by nonanarchist
Friday, Oct. 17, 2003 at 10:42 PM
But I call myself simply "American".
The earliest entry in my Dad's family Bible is a record of a birth -- in America -- around 1750.
I think that pretty well qualifies me for native-born American status, too.
Tell me, Deborah, what's the statute of limitations on removing the hyphenation from "American"?
Or will I and my decendents, in your eyes, remain "European-Americans" as long as we're white?
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by me oh my
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003 at 12:10 AM
once again you astound me with your brilliance:
"and I ain't bugging you anyway so nothing to do on my end" -- made me laugh out loud! also, not trying to be picky, but isn't your racist slur 'injun' and calling deborah a do nothing, etc just kinda maybe "bugging" her a little? ah you old cracker you
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