Western Shoshone Spiritual Gathering, Mount Tenabo, Dec. 7, 2008

Western Shoshone Spiritual Gathering, Mount Tenabo, Dec. 7, 2008
On Mount Tenabo at the spiritual gathering December 7, 2008. “This mountain is the landmark for the Western Shoshone Indians. In their native language Tenabo, which is pronounced as (dee-na-bo), means writing on the mountain. This mountain is the home to local Shoshone creation stories, spirit life, medicinal, food and ceremonial plants and items and continues to be used to this day by Shoshone for spiritual and cultural practices. Thank you for your interest in what we Native Americans be,”said a Western Shoshone grandmother. Photos Western Shoshone Defense Project.

Carrie Dann on American Indian Airwaves Wed., Dec. 3, 2008

Carrie Dann on American Indian Airwaves Wed., Dec. 3, 2008

12/03/08, Wednesday, on American Indian Airwaves
“Western Shoshone Under Siege and Indigenous Family “Threatened & Harassed” over Thanksgiving”
Part 1:
Elder Carrie Dann (Western Shoshone Nation), Western Shoshone Defense Project (http://www.wsdp.org ), joins us for the first segment of today’s show to discuss Barrack Gold Company, the worlds largest gold mining company, Cortez Hills Expansion Project. The project, recently approved by the Bureau of Land Management, and one of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mines in the United States, sits on the flank of Mount Tenabo – an area well-known for its spiritual, cultural importance, and sacred site to the Western Shoshone Nation. Carrie provides us an update, plus more .
Part 2:
Dr. Michelle Rehaja (Seneca Nation), Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside, joins us to discuss in length the recent Claremont, CA debacle heavily misreported in the corporate mass media over the past week. After Claremont, CA parents heard on a popular southern California morning talk show that a 40-year old tradition between two local elementary schools, where each schools kindergarten students dressed up as either ‘pilgrims’ and or Indians’, was going to be cancelled or modified, many Claremont, CA parents reacted in protest at the event, made and continued personal threats and harassment against the indigenous mother and her five-year old daughter who refused to dress up as an ‘Indian.” Michelle provides listeners with a comprehensive narrative of what actually transpired, who really protested, the plethora of hate speech directed at her and her family, and what people can do to help remedy the situation.

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Leonard Peltier Day of Justice, Fargo, ND, Nov. 28, 2008

On Friday November 28th, the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee will hold a demonstration called “Day of Justice” at the Fargo Federal Courthouse 110 Quentin N Burdick, 655 First Avenue North, Fargo North Dakota.

The “Day of Justice” will increase awareness about the case of Leonard Peltier and the fact that he has been imprisoned for 33 years. Not only was he convicted based on coerced statements, and false evidence Peltier has spent more time in prison for aiding and abetting than any reasonable person can justify. The “Day of Justice” is a call to action for concerned citizens to question why Peltier is serving two life sentences and has been imprisoned for more than half of his life.

The “Day of Justice” is about how laws designed for everyone are not equally applied. The US Bureau of Prisons is not following the law in regard to releasing Leonard Peltier on parole. Legally Peltier should have been released after serving 20 years; at the most he should have served 30 years, under United States Code Title 18 Sections 4205 and 4206 respectively. If justice is blind then the “Day of Justice” asks why Leonard Peltier is still in prison today. All people should be aware of the ability of this bureaucracy to ignore laws and hold model citizens long after the law states a release is due. Public Law 98-473 further states prison resources are, first and foremost, reserved for those violent and serious criminal offenders who pose the most dangerous threat to society of which Leonard Peltier is neither violent nor dangerous.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) has *extended* the comment period on the RTR land “deal” until November 21, 2008

So, if you haven’t sent in your comments yet, there is still time! Thank you to everyone who has already submitted comments – there’s been a great outpouring and you are helping to make a positive difference for the buffalo – thank you. NOTE: FWP was having some trouble receiving some emails, so those who have already sent their letters may want to resend them. Everyone should request receipt confirmation in your personalized comments, and you may want to follow-up with an email to FWP’s Rebecca Cooper at rcooper@mt.gov.

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Thank you for being a voice for the last wild population of American bison!

Roam Free,

~Stephany

URGENT ACTION NEEDED!

* Comment! RTR Purchase is a Lousy Land Deal for Wild Buffalo

Your public comments are needed by 5:00 pm, Friday, November 21, 2008, on the so-called land deal – a 30-year lease of grazing rights from the Royal Teton Ranch – between state and federal agencies, some conservation groups, and the Church Universal & Triumphant (CUT). If this land lease goes through, CUT will receive more millions for leasing their land for a mere 30 years so that a handful of captured, tested, and tagged bison could temporarily occupy portions of their native range outside Yellowstone’s north boundary. Over the years, thousands of wild bison have been slaughtered for even looking in the direction of these lands. Back in 1998-99, $13 million U.S. tax dollars were spent to allow wild bison and other migratory wildlife safe passage through this critical corridor, but to date, bison have been repeatedly harassed and killed for attempting to access these lands. Now, the agencies involved are touting it as a huge step forward, when, in reality, it is a corridor to nowhere with only 25 buffalo gaining temporary access to it and only after being run through the typical buffalo torture gauntlet of capture, testing, telemetry device implants, and tagging.

Join The Caravan To Support The Struggle For Survival

A caravan of work crews will be converging from across the country to support residents of the Big Mountain regions of Black Mesa who, on behalf of their peoples, their sacred ancestral lands, and future generations, continue to carry out their staunch resistance to the efforts of the US Government, which is acting in the interests of the Peabody Coal Company to devastate whole communities & ecosystems, and greatly de-stabilize our planet’s climate for the profit of an elite few.

By assisting with direct, on-land projects with the Sovereign communities of Big Mountain, Black Mesa you are helping families resist an illegal occupation and to stay on their lands, who serve as the very blockade to coal mining! More than 14,000 Dine’ people have been forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands due to spin created by the U.S government & Peabody Coal, under the guise of the so-called “Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute”. With the guidance of Black Mesa residents, the aim of this caravan is to honor the elders and to bring support to their communities before the approaching cold winter months.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award

The Center for Biological Diversity today awarded Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin the 2008 Rubber Dodo Award. Last year’s award, which inaugurated the prize, went to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne for setting a new record in refusing to add imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list. This year’s award goes to Palin for fighting Kempthorne’s designation of the polar bear as a threatened species.

“Governor Palin has waged a deceptive, dangerous, and costly battle against the polar bear,” said Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “Her position on global warming is so extreme, she makes Dick Cheney look like an Al Gore devotee.”

Palin has waged a deceptive public relations campaign, asserting that the number of polar bears is increasing. But many populations, including those around the southern Beaufort Sea, are in decline. The U.S. Geological Survey projects that by 2050, two-thirds of the bears – and all of Alaska’s polar bears – will disappear.

Palin repeatedly has asserted that Alaska Department of Fish and Game scientists found fatal flaws in the sea ice models used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine the polar bear is threatened. When challenged, Palin refused to release the alleged state review. Independent scientists eventually obtained a summary through the federal Freedom of Information Act, revealing that Palin had lied: The state mammalogists concurred with the Fish and Wildlife Service determination that Arctic sea ice is melting at an extraordinary rate and threatens the polar bear with extinction.

The Perseids: Aug. 9-12, 2008

The Perseids: Aug. 9-12, 2008

Ralph Nader Speech Speech At 2008 Peace & Freedom party prior to nomination

Ralph Nader at Peace & Freedom Party Convention
8/1/2008
Ralph Nader, one of the candidates of the Peace and Freedom Party of California for president spoke on Friday night to the delegates about why he was a candidate for the party.
He also discussed his views of socialism.
www.peaceandfreedom.org

Full text of 2008 Nagasaki Peace Declaration

Full text of 2008 Nagasaki Peace Declaration

Full text of 2008 Hiroshima Peace Declaration

Full text of 2008 Hiroshima Peace Declaration