Saturday, March 16, 2013

FYI: Celebrate Cesar Chavez

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Sacramento, California

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UFW Cesar Chavez Marches

The United Farm Workers, Radio Campesina, The UFW Foundation and other community organizations, invite you and your family to march with us. We will join together on:

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 in:

Coachella, CA:
Coachella Plaza Shopping Center, Coachella, CA (in front of Pizza Hut & KFC) @1:30 pm.
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Yakima, WA:
St. Paul Cathedral, 102 S. 12th Ave., @ 11 am; Information: (541) 564-2717 FLYER - English FLYER- Spanish

Sunday, March 24th, 2013 in:

SALINAS, CA:
Cesar Chavez Park, 268 North Madeira Ave., @ 11:00 am; Information: 831-757-6700 FLYER
SANTA ROSA, CA:
665 Sebastopol Rd., @ 1:30 pm Information: 707-528-3039 FLYER

OXNARD, CA:
Cooper Rd. and Roosevelt Ave., @ 10:00 am; Information: 805-486-9674 FLYER

FRESNO, CA:
San Antonio Maria Claret Church, 2494 S. Chestnut Ave.,  @ 2:00 pm; Information: 559-674-4525 FLYER- English FLYER- Spanish

BAKERSFIELD, CA:
Jastro Park, 2900 Truxtun Ave., @10 am; Information: Pedro Ramirez (661) 324-2500 FLYER- English FLYER- Spanish

Don't miss it! There will be music groups & family entertainment

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Celebrate Cesar Chavez!
Cesar Chavez' March 31 birthday is soon approaching and we are receiving requests throughout the country for a list of Cesar Chavez events in your neighborhood.
We have a user-friendly calendar tool that allows our supporters to share your local Chavez events--no event is too small or too big. This interactive tool also allows to the public to search for them by zip code and the events appear on a map.
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Egypt today, like when Nero burnt Rome ~By Abdel Latif e-Menawy

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As far as my understanding goes, nothing similar has happened to Egypt like what it is currently witnessing. No other country has passed through this complicated phase we are living. There is this tampering with the state’s constituents and a crazy surge towards tearing apart the country’s fabric. I do not think it has happened before that rulers let their country’s situation reach this phase while they carelessly observed and are only concerned with being the sole leaders. What is certain is that rulers’ chairs are comfortable. The ruling palaces are wider. Their jets cannot be compared with three-wheeled rickshaws seen on the streets. But what kind of enjoyment is this when the state is collapsing?

Egypt’s ruling party only possesses an image of the state they want, and it is not a problem if the price is the collapse of the state which they are suffocating. This is what Emperor Nero did when he burnt Rome.

In 64 AD Nero had the idea of rebuilding Rome. Fire started at the Circus Maximus and vigorously spread for a week across Rome. The fire destroyed ten of the entire fourteen districts. As the fire spread and people screamed as they burnt, Nero sat in a high tower enjoying the scene of the fire which enchanted him and played his musical instrument as he sang Homer’s poetry which describes Troy’s fire. He killed his allies then his mother then his wife and he burnt Rome imagining that he will rebuild it from ashes.

Initial fears

What I say may seem over-pessimistic. But I see it as a realistic fear that could lead to tragic results.

The first of these initial fears is the complete disregard for any other power in society whether it is religious, political or ethnic. There are also their actions based on the logic that they are the country and their voice is that of the entire people and there is no voice beside it. They began to make statements regarding how they came into power. So they began to market the idea that they rule because voting was in their favor although they are the first of those who know how the results of these elections were and are controlled. They know better about their own means. It is a snatched legitimacy on the truth’s body nurtured by lies and elimination of others. The weakness that struck the opposing parties supports and nurtures this snatched legitimacy. But they are careless about the static force that they mistakenly think is under their control. They are delusional here because no matter what the comments are on this static force’s stances and reactions during the past months, their position will be decisive in this struggle. But we hope this decisiveness will be before the fire and not after it.

Egypt’s ruling party only possesses an image of the state they want, and it is not a problem if the price is the collapse of the state which they are suffocating.
~Abdel Latif el-Menawy
Harming the concept of the state and pushing towards reaching a state of chaos is one of the features of the behavior of today’s rulers. This is displayed in that devilish desire to push for causing a general confrontation between the people and the police. This is by the way is an old scheme or at least part of it is. It aims to destroy and dismantle the state’s basis so they establish their state the way they see it. This crime against the country and the state will only lead to the fall of the basic elements of the society and will have the door wide open for the era of militias to begin. Talk of this era of militias has already begun. They think that the collective mind has become readier to accept the idea of militias for the sake of restoring lost security.

Thuggery and militias

We can clearly sense many of these introductions of what I am talking about. The “chivalry” of some ruling groups that rolled their sleeves and confirmed their militias’ and brigades’ readiness to immediately take to the streets to replace the policy which retreated from some of their positions in protest after they discovered the conspiracy of the clash they are being pushed towards with the people. It is important here to note that serious beginnings of any civil war is the presence of militias. There is also that “genius” idea to quickly issue a law to organize the work of security companies that fill the gap of the absence of security, as one of their leaders said. This legal organization for the presence of private security companies which foundation may be composed of their militia members is one of the means to light the fire.

The most devilish of models is that “satanic” idea made by one of their partisans to grant the authority of judicial regulation to the people. Because people like you and me will not understand the gravity of this measure due to physical and other reasons, those who will practice this right which aims to do wrong are those who formed militias. This announcement comes to grant them a legal cover as a pretext to replace the police being pushed into a fiery confrontation with the people. The police are thus left with either striking or burning in confrontations. It is true that another partisan came out to correct what was meant by the judicial monitoring. He did not deny or withdraw this right but his statements were more of a correction than they were of a confirmation.

What I mentioned is some of these introductions and not all of them. I think we are all capable of seeing other details that confirm heading towards what pushes the country to where we do not desire.

Nero deserved his end after he ruined his mother’s life and burnt a country. After the massacres and the fires he lit in Rome, he went to Greece to practice his hobby in singing, dancing and acting. Meanwhile, a revolution in Gaul erupted. As the revolution escalated and after Nero’s defeat and failure in managing the crisis, his friends and entourage left him. He therefore found it mandatory to flee his castle and go far away to a cottage that belongs to one of his servants who stayed with him. Over there, he cried a lot for what he’s become, and he remembered his mother whom he murdered. He continued to hide until he felt the soldiers’ hoofs roaming around, so he decided to kill himself. After many suicide attempts that failed out of his fear of death, he finally killed himself and the tyrant who exhausted Rome with his insanity and shamelessness died.
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Editorial: Rachel Corrie Bulldozed to Death by Israel’s Tyranny Today in 2003 ~March 16th

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“When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares and constantly feel guilty for not being here…”
This was Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, on hersenior-year college assignment, as an activist with ISM (International Solidarity Movement), in Rafah, Gaza, but she never went back…

Rachel was in Rafah, in Gaza, in 2003, at the time of the ‘second Intifada’, where in Rafah alone, according to B’Tselem, and Israel non-government human rights org., about 1,700 homes were demolished resulting in 17,000 people becoming homeless between 2000 and 2004. Rachel with 7 more ISM activist had been protesting everyday, for these 2 months, in front of Israeli bulldozers that were shattering the home of the helpless Gazans.



As it had happened, within 2 years of Israel’s inception, Israel had occupied 50% more land in Occupied Palestine than mandated to it by the UN. And of all this land that it had occupied it had dragged the civil population out into the squeezed left-over West Bank and Gaza, where most of the population has been living in permanent Refugee Camps for all these year.

But the Greed of Israel never ends, and as a perpetual policy Israel is systematically clearing and adding in more land from West Bank and Gaza, by walls, more settlements and bulldozing whatever feeble houses the Palestinians possess. Every day houses are downed this way and in the process as the residents protest, deaths are a common phenomenon to occur.

Rachel had settled in with a family in one of these houses that had come in close-range of demolition. This was local pharmacist Samir Nasralla’s family, and that day, the last day of Rachel’s life, she knew that their house was going to be demolished, so she stood right in front of the bulldozer.

After Rachel had been crushed to death, as the bulldozer ran twice over her body, the Israeli government out-rightly denied any responsibility for her death, which had been cause, according to autopsy report, ‘by pressure on the chest (mechanicalasphyxiation) with fracturesof the ribs and vertebrae of the dorsal spinal column and scapulas, and tear wounds in the right lung with hemorrhaging of thepleural cavities. IDF said the driver didn’t see Rachel.

But apparently the Israel government has lied, as Rachel and her 7 friends were trained for ‘safety’in protesting. They had been trainedto take precautions like ‘Wear fluorescent jackets’, ‘Don’t run’, ‘Don’t frighten the army’, ‘Try to communicate by megaphone’, ‘Make your presence known’; and Rachel and her team had been doing all this for their last  three-hour confrontation with the IDF bulldozers, before one of them played upon her life and body.



Rachel Corriewas a regular girl from a regular family, who had happen to be in this part of the world where humanity is being crushed by an inhumane, tyrant force, and Rachel couldn’t take it; she couldn’t shun it off from her mind as a status quo to be taken as routine matter. For Rachel the conditions of the people of Gaza, and the atrocities they had to face every day, was unacceptable, inhuman and disgusting; and she just knew that humanity cannot go on like thisIn one of her emails to her mother, she wrote:

‘…One of the core members of our group has to leave tomorrow – and watching her say goodbye to people is making me realize how difficult it will be. People here can’t leave, so that complicates things. They also are pretty matter-of-fact about the fact that they don’t know if they will be alive when we come back here.I really don’t want to live with a lot of guilt about this place – being able to come and go so easily – and not going back.’

Rachel Corrie Memorial Site ~ http://www.rachelcorrie.org/

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Iraq war killed at least 116,000 Iraqi civilians: study

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/14/iraq-war-killed-at-least-116000-iraqi-civilians-study/

By Agence France-Presse
Thursday, March 14, 2013 21:18 EDT
Iraqis fleeing bomb via AFP

At least 116,000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4,800 coalition troops died in Iraq between the outbreak of war in 2003 and the US withdrawal in 2011, researchers estimate.

Its involvement in Iraq has so far cost the United States $810 billion (625 billion euros) and could eventually reach $3 trillion, they added.

The estimates come from two US professors of public health, reporting on Friday in the British peer-reviewed journal The Lancet.

They base the figures on published studies in journals and on reports by government agencies, international organisations and the news media.

“We conclude that at least 116,903 Iraqi non-combatants and more than 4,800 coalition military personnel died over the eight-year course” of the war from 2003 to 2011, they said.

“Many Iraqi civilians were injured or became ill because of damage to the health-supporting infrastructure of the country, and about five million were displaced.

“More than 31,000 US military personnel were injured and a substantial percentage of those deployed suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and other neuropsychological disorders and their concomitant psychosocial problems.”

Citing figures from the website costofwar.com, which looks at funding allocated by Congress, the study said that as of January 15 this year, the Iraq War had cost the United States about $810 billion, “not including interest on debt.”

“The ultimate cost of the war to the USA could be $3 trillion,” it said.

“Clearly, this money could have been spent instead on domestic and global programmes to improve health. The diversion of human resources was also substantial, in Iraq, the USA, and other coalition countries.”

The paper is authored by Barry Levy of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and Victor Sidel of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

It appears in a package of investigations into the health consequences of the Iraq War, published by The Lancet to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the conflict.

In 2006, estimates by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, also published in The Lancet, said 655,000 people had died in the first 40 months of the war. That figure was widely contested.

In 2008, a study by the Iraqi government and World Health Organisation (WHO), published in The New England Journal of Medicine, said between 104,000 and 223,000 Iraqis had died violent deaths between March 2003 and June 2006.
Those figures were based on home visits to around 1,000 neighbourhoods across the country.

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January 2008 WHO | New study estimates 151 000 violent Iraqi deaths since 2003 invasion ~
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January 2008 ~ Study Revises Iraq's Death Toll - ScienceNOW
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The Human Cost of the War in Iraq ~
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

The Militarization of Policing in America | American Civil Liberties Union @ACLU

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No Tanks in Towns
American neighborhoods are increasingly being policed by cops armed with the weapons and tactics of war. Federal funding in the billions of dollars has allowed state and local police departments to gain access to weapons and tactics created for overseas combat theaters – and yet very little is known about exactly how many police departments have military weapons and training, how militarized the police have become, and how extensively federal money is incentivizing this trend. It’s time to understand the true scope of the militarization of policing in America and the impact it is having in our neighborhoods. On March 6th, ACLU affiliates in 23 states filed over 255 public records requests with law enforcement agencies and National Guard offices to determine the extent to which federal funding and support has fueled the militarization of state and local police departments. Stay tuned as this project develops.
Consider these ten chilling stories. If the anecdotal evidence is any indication, use of military machinery such as tanks and grenades, as well as counter-terrorism tactics, encourage overly aggressive policing – too often with devastating consequences:
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Confused after throwing a deafening and blinding “flashbang” into a home, police mistakenly shot and killed a sleeping nine-year-old.
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Police in North Dakota borrowed a $154 million Predator drone from Homeland Security to arrest a family who refused to return six cows that wandered onto their farm.
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A county sheriff’s department in South Carolina has an armored personnel carrier dubbed "The Peacemaker," which can shoot weapons that the U.S. military specifically refrains from using on people.
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Police in Arkansas announced plans to patrol streets wearing full SWAT gear and carrying AR-15 assault rifles.
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New Hampshire police received federal funds for a counter-attack vehicle, asking “what red-blooded American cop isn’t going to be excited about getting a toy like this?”
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Drone manufacturers may offer police remote controlled drones with weapons like rubber bullets, Tasers, and tear gas.
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Two SWAT Teams shut down a neighborhood in Colorado for four hours to search for a man suspected of stealing a bicycle and merchandise from Wal-Mart.
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An Arizona SWAT team defended shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, but had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first.
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A company in Arizona submitted a patent for shock cuffs, which can be used by cops to remotely administer a Taser-like shock to detainees.
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The New York City Police Department disclosed that it deployed “counter-terror” measures against Occupy Movement protesters.
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A Disconnected Humanity: The Age of Pineal Suppression 3/10/13 ~By Michael Roads ~via @joinwakeupworld

http://wakeup-world.com/2013/06/10/pineal-suppression-and-a-disconnected-humanity/

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By Michael Roads

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

We live in an age of pineal suppression. We imbibe and ingest substances that tend to calcify the rice-grain-sized pineal gland, and on a global scale we have become subservient to the various systems of government. We are continually subjected to a number of controls all designed to disempower us. As we become ever more reliant on ‘the system’ we become increasingly less self-reliant.
As we become less self-reliant so also our relationship with the world around us is reduced and diminished. This, in turn, leads toward a gradual atrophy of the pineal. Nor does it end here.
We live in a world where over a hundred million people in the Western World take anti-depressants on a daily basis. Why? What is wrong with us?

The answer is simple: from a metaphysical viewpoint, our pineal is the interface between we humans and the greater world around us; the galaxy around us; and even the multiverse in which we live. We have become disconnected.

We all know that if you disconnect an electrical appliance from electricity, it will not work. What is a human? We are not a mortal body/personality with a soul, as is generally believed. We are an immortal soul with a mortal body/personality. Very different! The immortal soul-self is a purely metaphysical Being . . . this is who you are. As a metaphysical Being you have a deep and vital spiritual connection with the multiverse.
If you find the idea of a multiverse too challenging, then we will call it your connection with the greater reality in which you live. As I stated, the vast metaphysical energy expression of that physically tiny pineal is our interface with a greater reality. So, just as an appliance with no power will not function, those people who have lost their connection to our galactic birthright are seriously malfunctioning. Hence, deep depression based in a terrible and totally unnatural isolation.
And most people have no comprehension of this whatsoever.
This has had a very detrimental affect on our innate and natural ability to live with powerful inner visions, with deep intuitive insight, and our natural ability for mystical cognition. But there is more.

Metaphysical Beings

We are metaphysical Beings imprisoned within physical bodies…. and we accept this as normal. I – and others like me – who are able to easily and regularly leave the physical body at will, are regarded with great suspicion.
multidimensionalLeft-brain logic and reason, with its addiction to needing to comprehend, characteristically denies anything it cannot understand. Left-brain cannot take anything on trust. It is not possible, because the left-brain never experiences real trust. It does experience an intellectual interpretation of trust, but this analysis is not actual trust!
I could continue with this, but my intention is to show why we are currently a humanity without any real vision.
We live physical lives in linear time. In a greater reality, we are also living metaphysical lives in spherical time; meaning, all time occupies the same moment. Because of this greater truth, we have the ability to visualise the future in our memory as easily as we can visualise the past. However, very few people do this because the left-brain does not trust anything it cannot understand…. and it cannot understand because it is trained in linear thinking, not holistic insight. 
As I mentioned, we have the ability of mystical cognition. This means that if you are asked an intelligent – as opposed to purely intellectual – question about life and you do not have an answer, you deliberately engage your whole-brain function which, in turn, will engage pineal activity…. and an answer will emerge within your intuition. This may be instantly, an hour later, a day or even a week, depending on your ability to intellectually withdraw. In fact, it is more than an answer; it is a holistic viewpoint, an engagement with the totality of all the question embraced.
Yet, as I implied, there is a paradox within all this. If you intellectually look for an answer to such a question, you will seldom find it, but if you use the question as a springboard into open-ended inquiry, you will engage the holistic insight containing an answer.
Most people on their spiritual path are aware of, and accept, reincarnation. Even this can be misconstrued. We are not born, journey though life, and then die. This does not happen. We are each the immortal soul-self on its ever continuing journey. The continuing soul incarnates into the developing foetus, the physical body is born, a personality is developed, the physical body ages, and as it ceases to function the soul-self withdraws…. back to a fully metaphysical reality.
Our time in the fully metaphysical reality is greater by far than our time spent in physical bodies. However, all the non-physical ‘stuff’ of a lifetime goes with us when the soul-self withdraws. This means all our emotional and mental garbage, such as our habits of mental and emotional self-attack – which is so common – also, any drug, alcohol, or tobacco abuse habits, and even flavour habits! When we have such addictions, it means that each incarnation continues the reduction and efficacy of the tiny pineal gland, located between the hemispheres in the centre of the brain.

The Many and Not the Few

A small percentage of people have had visions throughout our history. Why the few, and not the many? On a physical level, much of this is due to the way we use our brain. Today, about eighty-five percent of people are left-brain dominant. Notice I said, dominant.
right-brainThis does not mean no whole-brain or right-brain activity, it means the left-brain hemisphere is dominant via the intellect. These people seldom, if ever, have real inner visions. They certainly have the ability to be intuitive, but left-brain dominance also suppresses this natural ability. The left-brain intellectually questions the intuitive moment, investigating it with applied logic and reasoning. Continually repeated, this process slowly but effectively snuffs out any future sparks of creative insight.
My passion is metaphysics. I am right-brain dominant with an abundance of whole-brain activity. While left-brain is compelled by logic, right-brain embraces an open trust. Right-brain trusts the intuitive impulses, embracing them and acting on that inner knowing. In this way, intuition grows, eventually flowering into inner visions and a higher form of creativity stemming from a higher whole-brain activity. This in turn ignites the metaphysical activity of the pineal gland…. of which very little is truly known.
Medical science stays with the physical evidence that it has collected, but it has no idea of the pineal gland’s relationship with higher creativity.
Is there a deliberate attempt to suppress pineal activity? One of the most common chemicals in household cleaning, along with facial and toilet tissues, is chlorine. Guess how this affects the pineal!? Add chlorine and fluoride in your drinking water…. a pineal disaster.
I very seriously suggest you do all you can to detoxify and protect your pineal…. it is essential to your holistic and creative heritage.
Further reading:
Previous articles by Michael:
About the author:
Born in England in 1937, Michael Roads discovered at an early age he was able to communicate with nature and go beyond linear time and space. He immigrated to Australia in 1963 where he was a beef and dairy farmer, and prominent in the early organic movement. He wrote the first book on organic gardening in Australia, which was an immediate best seller. After becoming spiritually awakened in 1986, Michael wrote about his metaphysical experiences and has since published 14 books, translated into 16 languages. 2012 marks his 21st year of traveling around the world giving talks and 5-day Intensives on unconditional Love and emotional balance. www.michaelroads.com

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What’s In A Name? What You Make of It! ~By Rodolfo F. Acuña


What's In A Name? What You Make of It!
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A war on the memories of Mexican Americans and other minorities is occurring raging throughout the country, and I am interested in knowing why the right wing is so obsessed with erasing our historical memory? In places such as Arizona and Texas these zealots have used the power of government to censor books and replace the truth with fairy tales.

A major problem with these assaults is that most people fail to recognize the threat. The erasure is so slow that it goes almost unnoticed. It is similar to aging. The "maturing" process is hidden by cosmetic procedures such as hair coloring. The loss of historical memory goes is also obfuscated by immediate problems such as deportations or a presidential election.

Take the erasure of the term Chicano; it has taken place before our eyes. It is disheartening when you consider how much we have invested in the term, and how much part of our memories it is. It would seem to me that we should at least ask, why?


We cannot solely blame the government or the beer companies. Activists share the blame for the erasure of the term Chicano. We have failed to explain the legacies of the Chicana/o movement often not going beyond the East LA Walkouts or the Chicano Moratorium.


My good friend Jorge Mariscal, a professor of Chicano arts and humanities at UC San Diego, is quoted as saying that the decline in the relevance of the term Chicano and interest in studying the Mexican American community in an academic context is "maybe that term [Chicano]is not what's appropriate for unifying a mobilization of young people in 2013."


I disagree. Perhaps a more self-critical response would be that Chicana/o Studies has failed in its duty to memory. It has failed to document the achievements of the Chicana/o generation in concrete material terms. As a consequence, the present generation of students, faculty members and community have not benefited from an institutional memory.


I consider proposals to change the name of Chicana/o Studies or simply tack on Latino to be inchoate. The presumption is that by dyeing Chicana/o Studies that it will be more attractive and interest more students.


In my opinion, the only reasons that it would make sense to change the name would be 1) if we could broaden our course offerings to include Latin America, and 2) the change would indeed attract more students.


If my memory informs me correctly, we tried several times to initiate an interdisciplinary Latin American Studies major, and we were shot down by the Spanish Department. What makes us think that at this juncture Spanish along with history, political science, art, music etc. will roll over and allow Chicana/o studies to offer these classes in competition with their own offerings?


As for the proposition that it would attract more Latino students: this is a specious argument when you consider the demographics. The overwhelming Latino population in the southwest is of Mexican origin. The change would perhaps make sense in Chicago and points east but not in LA, San Antonio or even Tucson.


When we changed the name of the area of study from Mexican American to Chicano I voted against the proposal. For me the problem was that we were not accepted as Mexicans, and at the time the saying was Mexicans in the West and Puerto Ricans in the East. What has changed since then is the growth and spread of the Mexican-origin population.


But, once I was outvoted I embraced the term Chicano and committed myself to it for life. You cannot continuously change your identity without developing cultural schizophrenia. Pretty soon you have to ask, who am I?


I remember when Save-on drugs changed its name to Osco. Many in the Mexican American community began calling the chain Asco, which translates to revolting, nauseating or sickening – literally that you want to throw up.


The truth be told, the term Chicano is actually much more inclusive than Mexican American or even Latino. Therefore, instead of cosmetic solutions, the answer is education.


At Cal State Northridge, we tried to bridge this dichotomy by calling the alumni group La Raza Alumni -- it hasn't worked. A lot of the older alumni ask, what happened to Chicano?


Looking at it objectively, the Chicana/o brand is a good one. It left a legacy that has improved over the years.

Today Chicana/o students are more open to international issues and way less sexist and homophobic.


The fact is that every Mexican American and Latino student who enters higher education owes the Chicana/o Generation – it opened the doors to the middle-class heaven that many enjoy. It has also produced an impressive body of scholarship.


We are supposed to be custodians of the truth, and it is our duty to keep the memory alive. However, I concede that this is a difficult task in a country where history is rooted in colonialism and in a language and iconography that want us to forget.


On April 27th from 5 to 10 PM on the first floor of Jerome Richfield Hall a group of alumni, students and Chicana/o Studies professors are partially addressing our duty to memory and launching a campaign to take back our history. A disconnect has developed between Chicana/o Studies and the alumni and the community. Like the rest of society, we have forgotten how we got here and where we are going.


For many of us memory is a gift, and it is our duty to preserve it, and pass it on to future generations. In places like Arizona, we are witnessing the forces of reaction attempting to control or wipe out our memory, distorting the epistemological underpinnings of our history. The motive behind this erasure is to constrain us, limit us, and control us. The loss of our historical memory clouds our political vision, direction and resolve.


We want to take back our history and by doing so remember how far we have come, and how far we must go.


At California State University Northridge, we have been fortunate to have had exceptional students that have contributed to building a network of professionals that continue to contribute to the Mexican American and Latino community. Most of us owe our jobs and a treasure trove of life experiences to these memories that are unfortunately being lost or wiped out.


The program for the evening of April 27 is simple: we will be screening alumni Miguel Duran's hour long documentary "Unrest" on the founding of the department. Mechistas Jose Reyes Garcia, Everto Ruiz, Oscar Castillo and Marta Ramirez will exhibit photos ca. 1969-1974. They will be available to answer questions.


Marta Ramirez will deliver the platica on the forming of a Chicana/o identity on campus. There were only about fifty Mexican American students at SFVSC in the fall of 1968. Marta is a renowned artist who studied with the great David Alfaro Siqueiros. She will discuss her Mecha years, the occupation of the free speech area and her journey in Teatro Aztlan and the renowned Mexican teatro, los Mascarones.


We would appreciate your support in collecting photos of deceased alumni, faculty and staff. We want to memorialize them.


This is a beginning, and we then want to take the exhibit to San Fernando, Oxnard and possibly Santa Paula in the 2013-14 calendar year. Hopefully, other alumni will make themselves available for spring 2014 when we will have another exhibit – nurturing our memories and friendships.


NOTE: We would appreciate your distributing this to alumni. Send me their email addresses. racuna@csun.edu.
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Moccasins on the Ground to Protect Sacred Water ~via @KXLBlockade

http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/moccasinsground/

Moccasins on the Ground to Protect Sacred Water ~via @KXLBlockade

March 8, 2013

Update: Saturday, March 8 – Trainings: Direct Action, Medics, Tactical Blockades, and Strategic Media

Lakota drummers opened the day in ceremony and performed traditional songs throughout the day. Song loosely translated as: ”Grandfather look down and watch over us as protectors of Mother Earth.” See more photos and follow live updates on twitter.

Here are some highlights:

  • A young warrior spoke: “This will not be ‘game over’ because we will NOT allow this pipeline to go through Lakota territory.”
  • “Our Red Nations have all opposed KXL pipeline and called upon all Lakota to defend our water. We can’t become complacent. We need to be ready and trained if KXL comes here.” - Debra White Plume
  • Cindy, a Nebraska rancher brought a jug of her pure well water to share. ”Don’t let this be poisoned by KXL.”
  • Participants had fun practicing “hassle lines” to get hands on experience in nonviolent deescalation tractics
Lakota drummers perform traditional songs

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Young warriors stand strong in front of giant "Honor the Treaties" banner
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Young warriors stand strong in front of giant “Honor the Treaties” banner
Kandi Mossett with Indigenous Environmental Network training on Strategic Direct Action
Kandi Mossett with Indigenous Environmental Network training on Strategic Direct Action

Update: Friday, March 8 - Moccasins on the Ground: Frontline Activist Training begins

Moccasins on the Ground training at Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota kicked off today with celebration and ceremony. Debra White Plume, Lakota Grandmother, spoke about the goal for the weekend:

“This training is a message to Obama and TransCanada that if they try to build KXL we’ll be here to meet them with our moccasins on the ground.”
Elder Opening CeremonyLakota elders addressed the crowd with important messages about protecting the Sacred Waters from toxic tar sands. Here are a few highlights from the opening ceremony:
  • Drummers performed a traditional song in Lakota that’s loosely translated as: “Grandfather look down and watch over us as protectors of Mother Earth.”
  • “Water is the first medicine. It doesn’t matter what color you are. You need water to survive. This is about protecting our Sacred Water.” – Vic Camp
  • “This is the key question: When do we claim self defense for Mother Earth?” -Alex White Plume
  • “This is a death pipeline. Cultural death for our people.” Ramsey Sprague, Tar Sands Blockade
Follow more live updates from Moccasins on the Ground on twitter.
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Guest post by Debra White Plume, Lakota Grandmother, Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way). You can follow live updates from Moccasins on the Ground: Frontline Activist Training on twitter.

Lakota know we love Unci Maka. All of Unci Maka. Our ancestors were free, to follow the Star Nation Path (the Good Red Road), to roam, to hunt, to be happy, to have sacred water. Then one day, FAT TAKER came thru camp, and stole the fat that many women prepared to get their lodges through the harsh prairie winters. From then on, it was the beginning of a war our ancestors waged in defense of their children, their babies, their, and our, sacred path of life.The gunfire may have ended at Wounded Knee in 1890 on that day when the 7th Calvary massacred unarmed women, children, old people, and men. But the war continues. America continues to violate international law, which is what a treaty is. Our ancestors made the 1851 and 1868 Ft Laramie Treaty with the United States to retain territory and make peace. America violated the Treaty Law when Fat Taker found gold, and they have been violating it ever since.  America recently admitted their guilt in being a Fat Taker, through the unilateral (because no one bothered to talk with Traditional government about this lawsuit) approval of the Cobell Settlement, which awarded a few billion to the many many Red Nations peoples who America stole money from in the amount of $134 billion dollars worth of what American calls “natural resources”. These were taken off Unci Maka to make a profit for a few Fat Takers, leaving destruction and contamination behind that our Red Nations have to live and die with.

Our Treaty boundaries encompass a large part of the Great Plains. This is our ancestral territory that we retained through Treaty. We, to this day, love this land, and feel that we need to take care of it. At one point in time, America called, after illegal takings of other unceded territory, the remaining portions this land base “the Great Sioux Reservation”. Nonetheless, we are our own sovereign Nation!

Therein lies some of the confusion as to the understanding of the American people when we speak of “reservations”. The place where I live now is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Officially, in the records of the American government’s Interior Department (where the national parks, animals, and plants are managed, is also where the Indians and our lands are “managed”) Pine Ridge Reservation is acknowledged as Prisoner of War Camp 344. In the past days, our people were not under the Interior Department, we were classified under the War Department. American Indians (sic) are the only people in this big land who have ANOTHER  number, beyond the social security number of all Americans. We have our “Indian” number, our Prisoner of War number. Mine begins with 344. So America knows I dwell within Prisoner of War Camp 344. Think about that for awhile.

In our work to protect Treaty Territory, Human Rights, Treaty Rights, we make allies all over the world to educate about our situation in POW Camp #344, our Treaties, and our obligation and priviledge to protect lands and waters for our coming generations. We have many American people allies. Sometimes they make the human error of going by information they find about us, and utilize American records, and America refers to some of our land base as the “Great Sioux Reservation” which was a collective land base for our Nations to live on together, vs the individual ‘reservation’ landbases that remain after American carved out all our Treaty Territory that they wanted for the Fat.  These individual ‘reservations’ are where the distinct Bands (I am of the Oglala Band) reside today.
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Moccasins on the Ground
There is a tarsands oil pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline, planned by TransCanada, Inc. that will pierce through our Treaty Territory, or, if you go by American records, parts of the “Great Sioux Reservation”. It will cross hundreds of rivers, streams, creeks, and it will be over our Ogllala Aquifer, which spans 8 states from South Dakota to Texas, and it will cross our piped-in drinking water as well. This aquifer is also our source of drinking water for portions of the Pine Ridge Reservation, the Cheyenne River Eagle Butte Reservation, and Rosebud Reservation, which by the way, also depend on the piped-in drinking water. We must protect our drinking water.The American process of citizen involvement is designed to make people feel they have a voice. However, as the process applies to “American Indians”, the process is flawed to benefit the United States and any corporations who want to do business on our lands. America claims their process gives us voice to express our concerns and needs and RIGHTS. We know this is to be fallacy, a myth, a disguise for Fat Taker to continue to get their way.TransCanada has a website that displays our Moccasins on the Ground Activist Training poster. TC caims they have utilized this American process to “work with” the tribes, but it is just more of the manipulation of Fat Taker to get what they want. Say our “tribe” meets with the American entities of EPA, BLM, etc. and we voice “NO, dont come through here.” The entities will say, but we have the right to come through there, it does not violate any law. That is not a consultation, it is the federal government TELLING us what they will do. Our Red Nations have all opposed the KXL pipeline and called upon Lakota to defend the water.

Watch this video from a blockade on Pine Ridge a year ago, in which people stopped tar sands mega-load trucks from illegally crossing the reservation.

VIDEO No Tar Sands / No Keystone XL Pipeline / No Tresspassing on Lakota Nation treaty lands ~
http://youtu.be/9OsHPnffvYI #NoKXL





TransCanada is trying to make a big deal out of a mistaken American identification of who our people are and what are Territories consist of. TransCanada is trying to explain away how their tarsands KXL pipeline application process for a permit to enter the big land is all above board and honest and good. Ask the non-Indian American ranchers and farmers from Montana to Texas how above board TC and America have behaved. They lost their lands to eminent domain to TC. They are the new Indians of today, the federal government is helping Fat Taker to take their lands now, against their wishes.

Folks have to take caution, and read between the lines of what these Fat Taker corporations say, as they manipulate the English language and play with words to make themselves look like they are not Fat Taker, that they are honest and good. Do not be deceived by Fat Taker. Stand with us to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and shut down tarsands oil mine. Stand with us now while there is still time to stop them. Take courage! We do have the right to protect our sacred water for our children and grandchildren. It is their water. We must be prepared to protect that which is for our generations.

We are now hosting a three day training session to learn from each other how to protect our sacred water using non violent direct action, which, by the way, is a right of all citizens in this big land. We will make allies, learn new skills, share existing effective skills that will make us stronger in our collective action of putting our Moccasins on the Ground to protect our sacred water. Hecetuwe. (It is so so.)

Debra White Plume
Owe Aku, Bring Back the Way
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