UNA Protesting The Hearst Corporation's Illegal Theft of The Black Hills & The Homestake Gold Mine

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United Native Americans Inc. will host an IDLE NO MORE Round Dance and Rally on Friday, March 29, 2013 at the Hearst Castle to Protest and Demand Reparations and Accountability for the illegal theft of the Black Hills and the Homestake Gold Mine. UNA invites members of the press and community to join us, to both attend and participate in our upcoming rally to demand Justice for the the Lakota Nation. We will meet at the Hearst Castle Entrance, located at 750 Hearst Castle Rd. in San Simeon, CA. The event will begin at 8:00 AM PST and end at 3:00 PM. A press conference is scheduled at noon. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, U.N.A. is demanding the Hearst Corporation contribute to the struggling Lakota Sioux Nation whom they have stolen land and precious Natural resources from. Professor Lehman Brightman states that the Hearst Corporation "has never tried to make amends with the Lakota Sioux Nation." The heir to the Hearst fortune, William Randoph Hearst III, has "not given one red cent to the Sioux Indians. They could easily afford to set up a scholarship program or improve dilapidated housing on Sioux Territory." Nearly 97% of the Sioux Nation's population lives below Federal poverty levels. The United States Government and the Hearst Corporation can be prosecuted for violations of International Law. Art. VI of The United States Constitution states, "All treaties made, or which shall be made ... shall be the Supreme Law of the Land." U.N.A. believes it is time that punitive damages be paid to the Lakota Sioux Nation for direct violation of the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 & 1868. Reparations need to happen to heal the wounds that capitalism has inflicted upon the people the mainstream media indicates are the least important: indigenous communities, people of color, children, people in poverty, disabled people, elders, and mothers. Daily newspapers are the media through which we consume ideas about what to do and who to be, and tell stories to make us understand where we come from. These newspapers, like the Hearst-owned SF Examiner, tell us stories about what sort of ideal human we should all strive to be. The problem is, most media in wide circulation has been taken over by corporate interests, and ignores atrocities against folks who need their land back, like the Lakota people of the Black Hills, because indigenous people, we are told, are not the ideal humans we all want to be. "Very few people know about these facts," says Quanah Brightman, a Lakota/Sioux leader of the UNA . Manipulation of the media is a strategy that individualizes, like the Hearsts have used throughout history, and now indigenous people are turning the tables with their own people-led media at the Hearst Castle this weekend! Help Support Indigenous Resistance. Donations are needed for lodging and transportation to the event. United Native Americans,Inc. 2434 Faria Ave Pinole, CA 94564 Bank of the West Account # 106012446 Please join us, bring your drums and hand-held signs in Solidarity in this protest against the Hearst Corporation to demand accountability and reparations. For more information, contact Quanah Brightman, Executive Director of UNA at 510-672-718 or through UNA's site at http://www.facebook.com/groups/unitednativeamericansinc . Email UNA at unitednativeamericansinc@gmail.com UNA Reclaims Mount Rushmore-1970 http://youtu.be/3Wd1uLgV7mc Dr. Lehman Brightman on The Hearst Corporation's Illegal Theft of The Black Hills http://www.reverbnation.com/unitednativeamericans/song/14284159-dr-lehman-brightman-on-hearst-corporations?utm_campaign=opengraph&utm;_content=song&utm;_medium=link&utm;_source=facebook