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O'odham Human Rights Group Brings Distinguished Speakers to Tucson
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| Ofelia Rivas photo by Brenda Norrell |
O'ODHAM HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP BRINGS
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS TO TUCSON
By O'odham VOICE Against the WALL
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Date: February 27 to March 26, 2016
TUCSON -- O'odham VOICE Against the WALL announces a benefit bringing emerging and established poets, writers and scholars to Tucson at Cat Mountain Lodge, one of TripAdvisor's top ten Tucson bed and breakfasts, from February 27 to March 26.
Simon J. Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo, and Laura Tohe, 2015-2017 Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation, headline the Distinguished Speakers 2016 series. Other speakers include poet Ruben Cu:k Ba'ak and scholars Dr. Julian Kunnie from the University of Arizona and John Zerzan.
Ofelia Rivas, founder of O'odham VOICE Against the WALL, will also be speaking at all events. O'odham VOICE Against the WALL provides solidarity to the O'odham of Southwestern Arizona and Northern Sonora in efforts to maintain traditional culture and ancestral land in areas currently under illegal occupation by the United States and Mexico. Since 2003 it has advocated against a militarized border and for the rights guaranteed by inherent and domestic and international law, and documented abuses against the indigenous peoples on O'odham land.
Simon J. Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo, speaking on March 26, is one of the key figures in the second wave of what has been called the Native American Renaissance. He is one of the most respected and widely read Native American poets. The author and editor of 25 books, Ortiz is currently Regents Professor of English and American Indian Studies at Arizona State University.
The work of Laura Tohe, speaking March 19, has been published in the journals Ploughshares, New Letters, Red Ink, World Literature Today, and many others. She is an English professor at Arizona State University and her most recent publication is Code Talker Stories (2012), an oral history of the Navajo Code Talkers.
Ruben Cu:k Ba'ak, Tohono O'odham, speaking March 12, is a poet and prose writer and a recent ASU graduate in economics pertaining to the Tohono O'odham homeland.
Dr. Julian Kunnie, speaking March 5, is a professor of Religious, Latin American, Middle Eastern and North African studies at the University of Arizona He is the author of numerous articles in various internationally recognized journals and books. His most recent book is The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People (2015.)
John Zerzan, speaking Feb. 27, has been active in the anti-authoritarian movement from the '60s on and has articulated a critique of technology and civilization that illuminates their regressive quality. His most recent book is Why Hope? The Stand Against Civilization (2015.)
The Ramada at Cat Mountain Lodge is at 3030 Donald Avenue, north of Ajo Road and Western Way off the west side of Kinney Road.
A donation of $20 - $40 is requested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All events begin at 6:30 pm, with featured speakers at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
What the Pope Missed: The Land of Tigers, Hydras and Heroin
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Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS here
Editor's note: On his journey to Mexico this week, Pope Francisco visited Chiapas, Mexico City, Mexico state, Morelia and Ciudad Juarez. During his stops the Pope made general references to many burning issues confronting Mexico- drug violence, human trafficking, the breakdown of the social fabric, the marginalization of the nation's original peoples, attacks on migrants, low wage work, and more. He failed, however, to meet with the parents of 43 disappeared students from the the Ayotzinapa rural teachers' college in the state of Guerrero, a case considered by Mexican human rights advocates as emblematic of the widespread crime of forced disappearance in the country. Francisco also did not visit Guerrero, considered Mexico's most violent state as well as one of the two most poverty-stricken.
February 17, 2016
Special Report
What the Pope Missed: The Land of Tigers, Hydras and Heroin
If an allegory were to fit the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, the tale of Ankor the Bengal Tiger might well fit the bill. Escaping from a private tourism resort near Acapulco last October, Ankor apparently spent the next several weeks raiding ranches and killing cattle in the municipality of Coyuca de Benitez.
Leonard Peltier Rally in Reno Photos
Thank you to Buck Sampson, Carl Bad Bear Sampson and all our Western Shoshone friends for sharing photos of the American Indian Movement's Rally for Leonard Peltier in Reno, Nevada.
More photos from Bad Bear of the Rally at:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/02/bad-bears-photos-reno-aim-rally-for.html
Healthy Conferences for Native Americans? Only the rich need apply
country have a lot to hide:
Follow the money
By Brenda Norrell
Healthy Conferences for Native Americans? Only the rich need apply.
The non-profits have a lot to hide. It is puzzling why Native American diabetes and food sovereignty conferences recently have been charging $500 to register. I don't know a single person who can afford this.
And here's another: Why is the Notah Begay Foundation charging the public $200 to register for the 'Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures' Conference in New Mexico?
There are a long list of sponsors posted for this conference. Why isn't it free to attend, with all the sponsors and grant money flowing into the Notah Begay Foundation?
Hopefully the Notah Begay Foundation will respond and let us know why it cost $200 to get in the door of a Healthy Kids Conference in New Mexico.
There are a long list of sponsors posted for this conference. Why isn't it free to attend, with all the sponsors and grant money flowing into the Notah Begay Foundation?
Hopefully the Notah Begay Foundation will respond and let us know why it cost $200 to get in the door of a Healthy Kids Conference in New Mexico.
Of course those working for a tribe or the US government with big expense accounts get the big bucks for the hotels, meals, rental cars and flights for these big spending conferences.
The tab can be anywhere from $1,000 per person, to thousands. Native people back home, struggling to survive, are often unaware of this. The elderly and young mothers are often in need of food and someone to chop wood and haul water for them.
The tab can be anywhere from $1,000 per person, to thousands. Native people back home, struggling to survive, are often unaware of this. The elderly and young mothers are often in need of food and someone to chop wood and haul water for them.
The Clinton Foundation used 'human rights' as front for mining
Meanwhile, one of the Foundations trickling money into Indian country is the Clinton Foundation.
After a bank whistleblower in Europe exposed this trail of money, we now know that Bill Clinton used 'human rights' as a front to help a mining magnate in Canada, Frank Giustra, set up uranium and other mining deals on Indigenous lands around the world.
Further, millions in Saudi Arabia oil money secretly flowed into the Clinton Foundation.
Close to home, the Christensen Fund has donated hundreds of thousands for 'traditional food sovereignty' and pesticide awareness conferences. Look at their website, the money comes from mining.
Ask the executive director of the non-profit who received the hundreds of thousands if she told the grassroots Indigenous about all that money. (Yaqui women in Sonora were told there was no funding for their workshops. They were told to provide the food and sleep on the floor.)
Ask the executive director of the non-profit who received the hundreds of thousands if she told the grassroots Indigenous about all that money. (Yaqui women in Sonora were told there was no funding for their workshops. They were told to provide the food and sleep on the floor.)
Non-profit CEO Salaries
As Censored News recently revealed, many non-profits are paying their CEO's salaries averaging one-half million dollars a year.
Among those, the CEO of the World Wildlife Fund receives $637,000 annually, and the CEO at Wildlife Conservation Society receives $798,000 annually, according to Charity Navigator.
Among those, the CEO of the World Wildlife Fund receives $637,000 annually, and the CEO at Wildlife Conservation Society receives $798,000 annually, according to Charity Navigator.
UNICEF in the United States could purchase a great deal of beans and notebooks for children in other countries with the $520,000 annual salary that it pays its CEO.
But even the small non-profits in Indian country often fail to be transparent about salaries, grant funding, and benefits such as contracts and money flowing to their children and spouses, and even homes for themselves, from grants that are written based on grassroots Indigenous struggles.
Perhaps the most troubling of all the secrecy in the non-profits is the fact that grassroots Indigenous Peoples' struggles are used to write huge grants. Then they are never told about the funding. The most desperate people become the victims of the profiteers and opportunists.
Perhaps the most troubling of all the secrecy in the non-profits is the fact that grassroots Indigenous Peoples' struggles are used to write huge grants. Then they are never told about the funding. The most desperate people become the victims of the profiteers and opportunists.
There are also honest and transparent non-profits, whose volunteers labor without pay for human rights. At Censored News, we hope to promote those.
If you follow the money backwards you will find that mining interests, and even the US government, are actually funding many of the progressive movements.
Don't be fooled by the solar schemes. Dirty coal companies and other profiteers and opportunists are rushing to make money in deceptive schemes.
Don't be fooled by the solar schemes. Dirty coal companies and other profiteers and opportunists are rushing to make money in deceptive schemes.
Arizona Indian Casino Dollars to Non-Indian Charities
In another disturbing development, the casinos in Arizona are flowing money to non-Indian non-profits, while tribal members suffer in need.
An example, the Tohono O'odham's Desert Diamond Casino has kept donations flowing to non-Indian charities while O'odham suffer in need.
Further, instead of meeting the needs of the O'odham, the Desert Diamond Casino donated funds for a fire truck to the wealthy Phoenix area community of Peoria. The Tohono O'odham Nation also spends millions on non-Indian management firms, non-Indian lobbyists and non-Indian attorneys, while the O'odham people live in need. The State of Arizona also receives a large percentage of those casino dollars.
An example, the Tohono O'odham's Desert Diamond Casino has kept donations flowing to non-Indian charities while O'odham suffer in need.
Further, instead of meeting the needs of the O'odham, the Desert Diamond Casino donated funds for a fire truck to the wealthy Phoenix area community of Peoria. The Tohono O'odham Nation also spends millions on non-Indian management firms, non-Indian lobbyists and non-Indian attorneys, while the O'odham people live in need. The State of Arizona also receives a large percentage of those casino dollars.
Since news reporters in Indian country seldom, if ever, remain on the Arizona border long enough to carry out investigative reporting, the public remains unaware of this.
Kahnawake Inc. and the CIA
The CIA is also there in the operations.
Mohawk Nation News has just exposed that Kahnawake Inc. is operated by the CIA.
Gila River 'Waters Connect Us' with Lakota Debra White Plume
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http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=3246
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