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And I Will Never Forget Those Years of Revolution.

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The coming trip to Big Mountain is part of a more than 25 year history of supporter work parties to help Dine families defending their ancestral lands from further expansion of Peabody coal mining operations as well as attemts to access another aquifer to slurry coal to Page, Arizona's coal fired power plants.

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It would be a step in the right direction if everyone interested in radical politics were to read the essay "I Am Indigenist" by Ward Churchill. At this time the vast majority of non-indigenous activists, social critics, and revolutionary organizations (with a few notable exceptions) still act with little regard to the worlds indigenous populations. This situation MUST change if we hope to build true and lasting justice, anywhere. Even if you are unable to attend an upcoming study group discussion on this important essay, we urge you to find the time to read and consider it.

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The public is invited to attend the Fourth Annual Tribal Storytelling Festival and Symposium being held on Friday and Saturday evenings, November 13-14, 2009 at 7:30 PM. A Tribal Storytellers Symposium will be Sunday, 15 November from 1:30 - 4 PM. All events will be at Lewis and Clark College's Agnes Flanagan Chapel, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR 97219 (for a campus map go to www.lclark.edu/visit/directions).

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* The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario.

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Folks are making a "Circle of Clemency," on/before 11/5, across from the White House and asking all people to call the White House during this week when Obama will be meeting with tribal leaders to ask for clemency for Leonard.

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introduction by Lichen June, information sourced from www.freepeltiernow.org, repost from Cascadia Connections: www.cascadiaconnections.com

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The opposition to coal must be inclusive to the struggle of the Dine and Hopi resisting Peabody over 40 years as well as Mountain Top Removal. Too often the resource extraction resistance movement of privilege excludes the long fight of Indigenous peoples in the US. Silencing does not build unity.

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Interview with Robert J. Miller conducted on the Public Access program, "Native Nations, by co-host David Liberty." This interview discusses the original International law that Europeans used to claim the whole rest of the world. Today we call that principle the Doctrine of Discovery.
Native America: Discovered and Conquered, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny.

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It is critical to unite struggles effectively around coal mining. Indigenous people have been resisting Peabody Coal for over 40 years and the issue is under reported, even by enviros. Globally Indigenous struggle is the most silenced. We must not fail to integrate these vital stands for a livable future.

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Every Thanksgiving week for at least a decade has brought many volunteers to the lands of traditional Dine resisters to coal mining and forced relocation. During this time, people work for the elders chopping wood, repairing fences, roads and corrals, helping these hardy people prepare for winter in their long struggle to hold onto land and life.

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Tonight, 7pm at the Piedmont Deli, 441 North Killingsworth, there will be a free screening of the documentary film KANEHSATAKE: 270 Years of Resistance about the 1990 Oka/Mohawk Crisis.

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Come to a free screening on Monday, Oct. 26th, 7pm, at the Piedmont Deli. Bring food and stick around for discussion afterward if you wish!

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The Federal Railroad Adminstration has released its Preliminary National Rail Plan this month. Attached is a copy of that plan.

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* The editorial collective of El Libertario denounces the criminal attack that took place on October 13, 2009 against the Yukpa people in the Sierra of Perija in Western Venezuela, resulting in two indigenous persons dead and several wounded. The following article -about the tactic and strategy of "Revolutionary Venezuelan" Ethnocide- describes the events.

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Indigenous people, peasants, agri-industrial workers, and radical ecologists all struggle in the boiling pot of the Southern Costarrican region... while the power of Capital and Government weave a complex and often tragic mesh of destruction, people hold on to their Dignity and put on a network of collective efforts that articulate their struggles>>> This was the Popular March for Dignity in the South.

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Film, potluck (if people bring food) and discussion in recognition of Indigenous People's Day on Monday, Oct. 12th

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Migration not infrequently gets a bad press. Negative stereotypes portraying migrants as "stealing our jobs" or "scrounging off the tax payer" abound in all sections of the media and public opinion. For others, the word "migrant" may evoke images of people at their most vulnerable.

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Can anyone explain this? I sure can't from the stand point of being Indigenous and an Elder! I can't even begin to understand why any Indigenous Nation here on Turtle Inland would be party to committing genocide on other nations of color?

 http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2009/09/making-missiles-on-navajo-nations-farm.html

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Resistance is fertile. We will not be inoculated.

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Biked about 70 miles round trip--especially thru one larger community of fellow human beings-- with the intention to send the best of what i am currently manifesting and channelling (not to mention long immersed in exploring) into the heavily colonial-bombarded fellow human beings called indigenous folks (the actual nation kept confidential for privacy purposes). Wore some spontaneous (and not so spontaneous) regali-uh and the seeming fruition of a vision regarding what might be "the best" way to especially art my intent: a neon-red question-mark on my face! Experiences included very untypical natural and critter behavior all the way to exhilerating joy shared with a few key persons --outside of the usual matrixes of imposed reality.

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On a Portland Oregon Public Access program, "A Growing Concern," Native American Spoken Word Artist John Trudell discusses the circumstances and aftermath of a 1975 fire fight on the Pine Ridge Reservation which took the lives of two FBI agents.

Trudell on Leonard Peltier

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If you're concerned about justice for indigenous nations and peoples here in the pacific northwest and around the world, then come help plan several awareness raising events.

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Neat little shops all laid out. Everything for sale by cash or plastic. Price not negotiable but payment is. Who's worth more than the money they spend?

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It has just been announced that Leonard has been denied parole.

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Two Tribal Elders on a Mission to Save the Planet Using Native Ways

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In Oxford, Alabama something awful is happening. A hill, on top of which lies a Native American rock mound, is being destroyed in order to procure fill-dirt for a new Sam's Club a few miles away. Oxford mayor calls the hill, 'the ugliest old hill in the world." Something more than just simple cultural insensitivity is behind the destruction of the sacred site, and a revolution is needed to stop it.

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On July 21, 2009, Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a two year "time out" on new uranium mining claims on federal land near the Grand Canyon, in response, it seemed, to the protest of environmentalists, and, Native Americans, who still suffer cancers and other illnesses at rates many times higher than the general population, consequent to uranium mining on or near tribal lands. But the "time out" is straight out of Orwell's 1984, because new claims are not the issue. Over 10,000 claims have been staked on the edge of the Grand Canyon since 2006, and if 1% of them became mines, thirty million people's water supply would be endangered.

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This is a report from the Daily Kos blog about the parole hearing of Leonard Peltier. It contains information concerning today's parole hearing, including audio of an interview with Peltier Attny Eric A. Seitz.

Daily Kos Story on Peltier Parole Hearing

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Neil deGrasse Tyson speech

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Cascadia Earth First! And Cascadia Rising Tide Descend On The Home Depot To Protest River Destruction.

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Leonard Peltier, Native American leader, Ojibwa-Sioux of Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota, has been unjustly imprisoned for 34 years in U.S. federal prison, a victim of FBI political persecution. His upcoming parole hearing is Monday, July 27.

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Originally pubishled in Left Turn July/Aug 2009 and  http://elenemigocomun.net/2625/x/en

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Women lured into stepping down from being who they truly are in order to be "accepted" have to become like men have been trained in order to be given alleged "equality", said a leading Lakota wisdom keeper (and much attacked), Russell Means, in a recent interview with two ladies running "The Tazz and Paul Show". Lots of deeply interesting insights here for women (and men) who want serious liberatory ideas to think through! (And for those who try to label Russ a "conservative", maybe it's time you looked beyond the systematic attempts to character assasinate this patriot of human beings!

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I can guarantee the U.S. and Canadian armed standoff has not and will not be reported in the mainstream press, as all significant issues involving indigenous people is deliberately censored in the western press. More disturbing, those press ambitious enough to try and report this story, as well as international observers, have been denied access to the area by the U.S. and Canadian governments...In a way, we, all of us on Turtle Island, are all Akwesasne, held hostage by criminal and illegitimate governments serving the greed of the few. The community of Akwesasne needs your support. If you are in the area, and can go there, please do. Bear witness if nothing else. If you can, bring in supplies, by boat at night, and break the blockage.

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Around the world Indigenous peoples are fighting for their lands.

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Despite the rain on Wednesday morning, several intrepid activists picketed outside Halton Cat on Columbia Boulevard in Northeast Portland. The small, but spirited group of protesters held the action in solidarity with the national day of action against Caterpillar, timed to coincide with the company's annual shareholder meeting.

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