Protesters in New Mexico decorated an empty pedestal last week with signs demanding an end to the monument for a Spanish conquistador who orchestrated countless atrocities against Indigenous people.
The crowd – mostly made up of Pueblo people – was celebrating a Rio Arriba County decision to postpone the resurrection of a statue of Juan de Oñate removed in 2020 and demand that it never go up again.
That’s when a shot rang out.
A gunman wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat shot Jacob Johns, a Hopi Pueblo activist and muralist who lives in Spokane, Wash. Johns survived and is in stable condition, according to friends. The shooter, who Underscore News is choosing not to name to reduce the likelihood that stories about the incident result in his glorification, was apprehended by Pojoaque Pueblo Police later that day.
The conquistadors invaded New Mexico wearing metal helmets, and last Thursday, a gunman attacked peaceful Pueblo protesters in a red MAGA hat. Both were thwarted by Pueblo people. During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Pueblos successfully chased out European settlers in response to Spanish colonial violence.
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Its significance for Native Americans has more to do with the fact that it's the day the U.S. has celebrated Columbus, explained Cliff Matias, cultural director for the New York-based Redhawk Indigenous Arts Council.
“We celebrate our survival of Columbus and all that he brought,” he said.
Matias, whose Indigenous Nations are Taino and Kichwa, said a more suitable day to honor Native people would be the "summer solstice, which is a powerful day for Indigenous people all over the world. It might be some sort of day that we recognize generally correlating with our connection to the planet.”
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Getting primed for Black Friday and Kill the Planet Daily DAY:
My old stomping grounds, El Paso, West Texass, Chihuahua, New Mexico, the WORLD.
Plymouth Rock, Juan de Onate, Orange Shirt Day -- A No-Thanks Thanksgiving
Thank you for this Cindy & for re-posting it again today.
As a proud born & bred OKIE myself, Dr Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a long-time Native & Oklahoma hero of mine for telling truth, fighting for justice & sharing good works throughout her lifetime. Just like another hero of mine named Cindy Sheehan. <3
Love Roxane's deeply researched "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the US" for its incisive analysis as well as all of her other history/political science books. My personal favorite of hers, though, is Roxanne's memoir "Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie" (1997) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Mike Davis (Foreword by) as her life reminds me so much of my own mother's time period & similar OKLA-part-native-farm life.
And see her profile here > Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz > Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward. She is a highly regarded writer, historian, speaker, and activist in the international Indigenous movement. Dunbar-Ortiz has written extensively on social justice issues, especially in relation to women's liberation and indigenous sovereignty. https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/directory/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/
For some reason her own website www.reddirtsite.com is refusing to open for me today with a danger warning ( ! ) & only returns an error when I click on it. Maybe one of you can get it to open?
p.s. I never use google & use duckduckgo which usually works with alternative or "banned" websites.
Recall, Palestine, Indigeonous people, revisiting John Pilger:
Acclaimed journalist and filmmaker John Pilger on the changes that have come over Palestine since the making of his film ‘Palestine is Still the Issue’, released in 1974 & 2002. We will start by screening the film.
The past two decades have seen an extreme turn to the right in Israeli politics with grave consequences for Palestine and its quest for independence, including four major Israeli attacks against Gaza. Pilger and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, who appeared in the 2002 film, will discuss the worsening situation over the decades for Palestinians and where the future of Palestine and Israeli is headed.
Pappé is the author of many books, including ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’, in which he documents that ethnic cleansing was a long-standing Zionist goal that was planned in detail by Ben-Gurion in the Red House headquarters outside Tel Aviv and included a much greater number of atrocities against Palestinians in the establishment of Israel in the late 1940s.
Pappé says it was the start of a process of ethnic cleansing that continues until today.
"Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing". Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel's founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East."
Drawing on his long association with the first people of his homeland Australia, Utopia is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.
Guest: David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. And is author of several novels and non-fiction books including, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.
Native American civilizations of North, Central and South America have been an obsession of mine since early childhood and still are.
Yes, the Native American plight is little known in the grand scheme of things, even though it is right under our noses. Their situation should be Number One priority among Americans, imho
It’s tragically “foreign entanglements” the #nefariousNewWorldOrder’s #PowersThatBe have us embroiled in AGAIN(!), and not the domestic “internal improvements” #AbrahamLincoln presciently prescribed for #WeThePeople’s GENUINE(!) betterment.
Ours is nothing short of a nonpartisan & strictly nonviolent #RevolutionOfAwareness for #FreeingTruthAndReconciliation (ref. Bollyn.com, John 8:32, & #NelsonMandela, respectively).
It’s a #LongMarch struggle we’re in, not a “fight.” And Allah/Dios/God Knows: #WarIsNotTheAnswer. So, #SameAsItEverWas, “All We are saying is #GivePeaceAChance.”
And here’s a good chant for us: Apathy and Complacency: They’re our Common Enemy (x3).
Ahh, Indigenous People's Day = The death toll from the earthquake that struck Afghanistan on Saturday has risen to 2,445 while more than 9,200 people have been injured, the Xinhua news agency has reported. According to the outlet, 13 villages in the Zanda Jan district of Herat have been completely wiped out and many victims remain trapped under the rubble.
Afghan national and provincial authorities have deployed around a dozen rescue teams to assist the victims, the outlet reported. However, it added that a lack of equipment has forced local residents and rescuers to dig with their bare hands in search of survivors or bodies.
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No Afghan flags raised, no bumper stickers asking USA Navy Aircraft Carrier to head on out with water, medicines, bulldozers, murutal AID.
Good stuff, Cindy!
https://www.underscore.news/reporting/celebrated-spokane-activist-shot-at-new-mexico-protest
Protesters in New Mexico decorated an empty pedestal last week with signs demanding an end to the monument for a Spanish conquistador who orchestrated countless atrocities against Indigenous people.
The crowd – mostly made up of Pueblo people – was celebrating a Rio Arriba County decision to postpone the resurrection of a statue of Juan de Oñate removed in 2020 and demand that it never go up again.
That’s when a shot rang out.
A gunman wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat shot Jacob Johns, a Hopi Pueblo activist and muralist who lives in Spokane, Wash. Johns survived and is in stable condition, according to friends. The shooter, who Underscore News is choosing not to name to reduce the likelihood that stories about the incident result in his glorification, was apprehended by Pojoaque Pueblo Police later that day.
The conquistadors invaded New Mexico wearing metal helmets, and last Thursday, a gunman attacked peaceful Pueblo protesters in a red MAGA hat. Both were thwarted by Pueblo people. During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Pueblos successfully chased out European settlers in response to Spanish colonial violence.
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Its significance for Native Americans has more to do with the fact that it's the day the U.S. has celebrated Columbus, explained Cliff Matias, cultural director for the New York-based Redhawk Indigenous Arts Council.
“We celebrate our survival of Columbus and all that he brought,” he said.
Matias, whose Indigenous Nations are Taino and Kichwa, said a more suitable day to honor Native people would be the "summer solstice, which is a powerful day for Indigenous people all over the world. It might be some sort of day that we recognize generally correlating with our connection to the planet.”
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Getting primed for Black Friday and Kill the Planet Daily DAY:
My old stomping grounds, El Paso, West Texass, Chihuahua, New Mexico, the WORLD.
Plymouth Rock, Juan de Onate, Orange Shirt Day -- A No-Thanks Thanksgiving
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/11/plymouth-rock-juan-de-onate-orange-shirt-day/
Thank you for this Cindy & for re-posting it again today.
As a proud born & bred OKIE myself, Dr Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a long-time Native & Oklahoma hero of mine for telling truth, fighting for justice & sharing good works throughout her lifetime. Just like another hero of mine named Cindy Sheehan. <3
Love Roxane's deeply researched "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the US" for its incisive analysis as well as all of her other history/political science books. My personal favorite of hers, though, is Roxanne's memoir "Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie" (1997) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Mike Davis (Foreword by) as her life reminds me so much of my own mother's time period & similar OKLA-part-native-farm life.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35309.Red_Dirt
See all the books by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz over her long activist/academic career listed at Goodreads > https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/19932.Roxanne_Dunbar_Ortiz
And see her profile here > Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz > Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward. She is a highly regarded writer, historian, speaker, and activist in the international Indigenous movement. Dunbar-Ortiz has written extensively on social justice issues, especially in relation to women's liberation and indigenous sovereignty. https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/directory/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/
For some reason her own website www.reddirtsite.com is refusing to open for me today with a danger warning ( ! ) & only returns an error when I click on it. Maybe one of you can get it to open?
p.s. I never use google & use duckduckgo which usually works with alternative or "banned" websites.
Hi--my dad was an Okie, as well!
Solidarity, you'uns.
xo
The www.reddirtsite.com’s “server...can’t be found” through the DuckDuckGo.com search engine just now.
We’re all much more rationalizing than rational creatures.
Compassion.Humanitarianism.Integration.Light.Love : CHILL unaffordable luxuries leaving independents needy, guttered: CULLING.
LewWelge.com
#CREATORS (Conspiracy Realist Educator Activist Truther Organizer Reader Socializer)
Thank you Cindy
Recall, Palestine, Indigeonous people, revisiting John Pilger:
Acclaimed journalist and filmmaker John Pilger on the changes that have come over Palestine since the making of his film ‘Palestine is Still the Issue’, released in 1974 & 2002. We will start by screening the film.
The past two decades have seen an extreme turn to the right in Israeli politics with grave consequences for Palestine and its quest for independence, including four major Israeli attacks against Gaza. Pilger and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, who appeared in the 2002 film, will discuss the worsening situation over the decades for Palestinians and where the future of Palestine and Israeli is headed.
Pappé is the author of many books, including ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’, in which he documents that ethnic cleansing was a long-standing Zionist goal that was planned in detail by Ben-Gurion in the Red House headquarters outside Tel Aviv and included a much greater number of atrocities against Palestinians in the establishment of Israel in the late 1940s.
Pappé says it was the start of a process of ethnic cleansing that continues until today.
"Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing". Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel's founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable for anyone interested in the current crisis in the Middle East."
https://youtu.be/-ccNkq1Ff1Y?si=e7pc8kwX5JFz84pQ
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My take on this land is not our land:
https://dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Haeder07.htm
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Lest we forget how our BP acts just like Israeli Apartheid Thugs:
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/u-s-border-patrol-systematically-destroyed-water-supplies-left-for-migrants-in-desert-report-says/
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Talk about Indigenous People's Day:
Drawing on his long association with the first people of his homeland Australia, Utopia is both an epic portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and an investigation into a suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.
https://youtu.be/vdxr58LRobI?si=b_mphkiVdaTQF5o3
I love Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's writings. A very recent excellent interview with her was on 'Letters and Politics' on Pacifica Radio and online: https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-september-28-2023/
They are also focusing on indigenous issues today of course: https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-october-9-2023/
Guest: David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. And is author of several novels and non-fiction books including, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.
Native American civilizations of North, Central and South America have been an obsession of mine since early childhood and still are.
Yes, the Native American plight is little known in the grand scheme of things, even though it is right under our noses. Their situation should be Number One priority among Americans, imho
It’s tragically “foreign entanglements” the #nefariousNewWorldOrder’s #PowersThatBe have us embroiled in AGAIN(!), and not the domestic “internal improvements” #AbrahamLincoln presciently prescribed for #WeThePeople’s GENUINE(!) betterment.
Ours is nothing short of a nonpartisan & strictly nonviolent #RevolutionOfAwareness for #FreeingTruthAndReconciliation (ref. Bollyn.com, John 8:32, & #NelsonMandela, respectively).
It’s a #LongMarch struggle we’re in, not a “fight.” And Allah/Dios/God Knows: #WarIsNotTheAnswer. So, #SameAsItEverWas, “All We are saying is #GivePeaceAChance.”
And here’s a good chant for us: Apathy and Complacency: They’re our Common Enemy (x3).
LewWelge.com
#CREATORS (Conspiracy Realist Educator Activist Truther Organizer Reader Socializer)
Compassion.Humanitarianism.Integration.Light.Love : CHILL unaffordable luxuries leaving independence needfully grabby : CULLING.
LewWelge.com
#CREATORS (Conspiracy Realist Educator Activist Truther Organizer Reader Socializer)
Ahh, Indigenous People's Day = The death toll from the earthquake that struck Afghanistan on Saturday has risen to 2,445 while more than 9,200 people have been injured, the Xinhua news agency has reported. According to the outlet, 13 villages in the Zanda Jan district of Herat have been completely wiped out and many victims remain trapped under the rubble.
Afghan national and provincial authorities have deployed around a dozen rescue teams to assist the victims, the outlet reported. However, it added that a lack of equipment has forced local residents and rescuers to dig with their bare hands in search of survivors or bodies.
+--+
No Afghan flags raised, no bumper stickers asking USA Navy Aircraft Carrier to head on out with water, medicines, bulldozers, murutal AID.