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by BabyEagle4U on 13 May 2009 - 16:05
We are better than them people.
Awe Hail to the 2nd Revolution !!!!!


by Two Moons on 13 May 2009 - 17:05
Our children are being taught what we want them to know only.
Revolution? It will never happen, and if it does it will not go far.
Haven't you learned anything from the events of the past.
by Uglydog on 13 May 2009 - 17:05
Brenda Norrell: Mohawks show us Love is the root of Resistance
2009-05-12 | My choice for Mothers of the Year are the Mohawk grandmothers who publish Mohawk Nation News. While the Mohawks demonstrate courage, they also show us all that it is love, a deep love for humanity, that is at the root of resistance to Oppression.
When the Mohawk warriors came to the southern border, at the Indigenous Border Summit of the Americas in 2007, they spoke out against the border wall and the holding facility, "the cage", that looks like a dog's cage on O'odham land. The Mohawks rushed to rescue migrants, Mayan women and children, being arrested by Border Patrol agents, as the van sped away with them. The Mohawks spoke out in disbelief against the US spy tower on Indian land.
The border summits in 2006 and 2007 were in the San Xavier District on Tohono O'odham land, an hour's drive from Sells, Arizona, and the border. Now, in that same district, San Xavier, some tribal politicians have been planning a migrant prison for years, with their cozy US co-conspirators.
Tohono O'odham, speaking out for the Him'dag and the sacred way of life, will be releasing statements and speaking out in the weeks to come, urging a halt to this migrant prison on O'odham land. Like all migrant prisons, it will feed on racism and xenophobia at the border, and serve to profit politicians and the prison industry.
It is part of the system to profit border hustlers, like Boeing with their million dollar dysfunctional spy towers, Wackenhut with its migrant transport buses and the Israeli's Elbit Systems with its Apartheid border spy technology and drones. Migrant prisons became a cash cow for GEO and others, cashing in on the US hysteria fueled by television news.
The border will remain the line which determines which Indigenous Peoples live, and which die, or go to prison. As for this planned prison, as one Mohawk said, "It is a prison within a prison."
Sometimes it is difficult to determine who the imprisoned one is, and who the free one is.
On one August day, when the temperature was over 115 degrees, I wrapped myself in wet towels and went to the border. I could not imagine how people like Mike Wilson, Tohono O'odham, were walking all day in this relentless sun searching for the bodies of dead Mayan women.
Those mother's children walked to safety, but the women died in the scorching sun, no doubt giving the last of their water to their children, hoping for their better lives. Other children were not so fortunate. Tiny graves are marked with the crosses and the beads of children. The bodies of other women are thrown from cliffs and hung from trees in this desert. They are women from Oaxaca, Guatemala, Chiapas and all the places where corporations have seized the lands of Indian corn farms, and the US sends in dollars for corrupt militaries to kill Indian people. Their lives never make the Six O'clock News.
This is a tribute to the Mohawk women for their courage, and to all those women who walk, especially for those women who are walking across the desert with hopes of a better life. It is my hope that all people will celebrate the sacred way of life.
Brenda Norrell
Associate Editor
U.N. OBSERVER & International Report
Please also see:
MNN Mohawk Nation News http://www.mohawknationnews.com

by Two Moons on 13 May 2009 - 19:05
Who's got the next OT to post....:)
by Uglydog on 13 May 2009 - 20:05
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a Quarter of the Entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
"You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again."
"Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night.
'Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. "
"The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul."
-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Author The GULAG ARCHIPELAGO, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize recipient and Gulag inmate.

by RatPackKing on 13 May 2009 - 21:05
If Black Americans weren't convinced that the GOP was racist, they'd probably break 70/30 or even 60/40 for the Democrats instead of 90/10 and that would be devestaing to the left. That is why the Democrats are desperate to shout "racism" at every opportunity. It doesn't matter if it is true or false because the political stakes are so high for the left.
carry on,
RPK

by rainforestscouts on 13 May 2009 - 22:05
what ever happened to DR?
RFS

by BabyEagle4U on 13 May 2009 - 23:05
HaHa
Or do they ?
Mötley Cüe in Moscow .. ohhhhh I wanna go again, darn it !!!!!! >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJRkdYreV1w

by CrysBuck25 on 13 May 2009 - 23:05
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almight God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!"
Regardless of your political standings, unless you are a dyed in the wool liberal, you can see how we are losing our freedoms every day right here at home. Gerald Ford, and others, said in the past:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have."
Mark Twain, famous writer that he was, said this: "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
Lastly, this gem from Winston Churchill: "I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket trying to lift himself up by the handle."
Slaves? We are slaves, all of us.
Crys
by SitasMom on 13 May 2009 - 23:05
most of them didn't even know what his platform was.
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