Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field
and in the policy arena to protect America's last wild buffalo.
Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
March 24, 2011
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* Update from the Field
* The Walk Across Turtle Island
* Shout Out for Summer Volunteers!
* Buffalo in the News
* TAKE ACTION! What You Can Do to Help
* By the Numbers
* Last Words
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* Update from the Field
Inside Yellowstone's Stephens Creek buffalo trap. Here, hundreds of America's last wild buffalo are imprisoned and artificially fed in a veritable livestock feedlot. BFC photo by Good Shield. Click photo for larger image.
Last Thursday, BFC was part of an escorted media tour of the Stephens Creek buffalo trap. It was a harrowing experience to witness hundreds of wild American buffalo fenced inside what amounts to a filthy feed lot within Yellowstone National Park. Since January, when Yellowstone started capturing wild buffalo, we had been calling the Park and requesting a media tour. Two months later it was finally granted. There is no question that Yellowstone waited so long to allow us to see inside the buffalo's prison so that we would not see the fresh and horrific wounds and the fear caused by capture operations and the stress of confinement. But we saw many scars and other evidence of the harm done to these gentle giants.
Wounds caused by rough handling and stress of captivity. These must have been quite severe when fresh, and it is no wonder Yellowstone waited so long to allow us to see what they have done to the buffalo. BFC file photo. Click photo for larger image.
We were there at feeding time for a vivid display of how Yellowstone National Park is compromising wild integrity and breaking their own laws by treating wild buffalo like livestock. As Yellowstone District Ranger Eric Morey explained the convenience of using the tractor to feed buffalo, we watched the buffalo grow excited as they chased after the tractor which spun out hay and spread it over the rain- and urine-soaked muck.
Here another buffalo shows visible scars from wounds sustained during confinement. White tags indicate they have been tortured through testing, and are now numbered. Many of the trapped buffalo showed at least a few scars. The natural grass the buffalo seek is everywhere around them, outside of these pens. BFC photo by Good Shield. Click photo for larger image.
Confining buffalo like this, in confinement and filth, can exacerbate the transmission of brucellosis between buffalo, as Yellowstone bison biologist Rick Wallen admits HERE. Yellowstone is adding to the problem they say they are trying to alleviate. These buffalo are self-willed, wild born, and unfit for cages or confinement. The Park's authority and integrity have been trumped by livestock industry politics, as park administrators abandon the very mission and principles upon which the world's first national park was established.
Appearing unable to reach a decision on the fate of the captive buffalo, Park spokespeople now say they might slaughter buffalo. The Park had previously said they would not send buffalo to slaughter. The most recent word is that buffalo that tested positive for exposure to brucellosis, those with immunity to the livestock disease, may be killed. Please take action and urge Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk to set all the buffalo free, respect their wild integrity, and let them access their native habitat!
BFC's hot pink road signs have helped save countless lives, buffalo and human. We do our best to help warn motorists when buffalo are on or near the highway, but more responsibility needs to be taken by the state. BFC file photo. Click photo for larger image.
Buffalo migration in West Yellowstone has been impeded by unseasonably deep snow and busy snowmobile trails that force the buffalo to take the highway's easy paths. BFC patrols have been out around the clock, posting our hot pink "Buffalo on Road" signs, trying to help warn motorists of their presence. But not everyone heeds our warnings. This week, on two separate occasions, two buffalo were hit and consequently killed by vehicles. Signs can only do so much, and it is beyond the point that Montana needs to seriously take on implementing safe passage infrastructure that enables wildlife to cross highways without having to set foot on them.
Earth, sky and buffalo. BFC file photo. Click photo for larger image.
There have been no hunters seen since the Nez Perce finished their hunt, and it appears that the buffalo hunts may be over. Hazing along the buffalo's northern range has also been relatively minimal for the first time this season, though some has occurred. Some of the buffalo hazed this week were some who have already attempted to migrate beyond the most recent line in the sand, near Yankee Jim Canyon. The buffalo are stronger than the fences that bind our minds, and we celebrate their determination to push the boundaries behind which man tries to confine them. Wild is the way.
ROAM FREE!
~Stephany
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* The Walk Across Turtle Island
BFC joins in solidarity as The Longest Walk takes a detour to pray for the buffalo and comes through Gardiner, MT. On the left, Good Shield holds barb's ski pole, which he beautifully decorated after her passing. This ski pole was the walking aid she always used, propping it outside the media cabin door as a sign of her there-ness. You are always with us, barb! BFC file photo. Click photo for larger image.
As the mid-morning Montana sun warmed the half-frozen landscape, the sound of the Yellowstone river rippled along to the sound of cars driving by the Corwin Springs capture facility. The drivers turned to look at a group of Native and non-Native youth and elders gathering by the side of the road to pay respects to their four-legged relatives, who's wounds were still fresh from being tortured by APHIS, DOL and Yellowstone the week before. The group of people, known as The Longest Walkers, had been marching for just over a month from the West Coast and would eventually arrive in Washington, D.C. Their mission and purpose is to bring awareness to the growing epidemic of diabetes, particularly in Native communities, due to the loss of traditional diet and the force-fed commodity GMO and high fructose "foods." They had stopped at many different Native reservations along the way, including some whose people had participated in the Yellowstone buffalo hunt. It became apparent that they had to stop in Gardiner for spiritual reasons.
Upon arriving at Corwin Springs, The Longest Walkers made tobacco offerings and prayers, and along with BFC volunteers, began their spiritual walk to Gardiner. In just about an hour and a half, the walkers arrived at the Park entrance and were greeted by a herd of thirty buffalo.
The Walkers moved past Yellowstone's arch and straight towards a family group of buffalo, waiting there to greet them. BFC file photo. Click photo for larger image.
As songs were sung the buffalo all stood and faced East, with one mother nodding her head along to the drum beat. Many good words were spoken and the buffalo seemed to know why they were there. After a closing prayer circle, the walkers headed to the Gardiner BFC camp, where a feast of wild game and good stories awaited them. The Walkers thanked BFC for what they do and everybody was left inspired and with good hearts. The entire day was truly an impromptu "making of relations" ceremony. This is just the beginning.
~ Good Shield
P.S. Please tune in to this incredible new video, A BFC Volunteer Perspective, Featuring Good Shield
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* Shout Out for Summer Volunteers!
As the days grow longer and more and more bison leave the Park in search of sustenance our presence remains vigilant. We are also planning and preparing for our summer tabling program. The Buffalo Field Campaign is currently looking for personable and enthusiastic participants that are interested in setting up and maintaining information tables in Yellowstone and Teton Parks this summer. We ask for a minimum three week commitment from perspective volunteers so that we can adequately train and prepare you to educate and interface with the public. During summer volunteering with the campaign one can expect to hand out literature, participate in discussions with the public, correct misinformation about wild bison, talk about bison "management" and policies, advocate for habitat and truly wild free roaming bison, and much more. You can also expect to spend your time hiking, camping, and exploring some of the most beautiful park and forest lands our nation has to offer.
If you have time this summer and are interested in being a positive voice for wild bison please contact me at volunteer@buffalofieldcampaign.org and we can plan your volunteer experience. Thank you so much for your support and continued work for the buffalo.
Peet
Volunteer Coordinator
Buffalo Field Campaign
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* WHAT YOU CAN DO
If only the buffalo could set themselves free like this calf did, but they need your voice! Take action to set the buffalo free! There are many things you can do that will make a big difference for our shaggy friends. Photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image.
1. Contact Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk and welcome him to Yellowstone, tell him to set the trapped buffalo free, pull out of the Interagency Bison Management Plan, stop harassing and killing wildlife and work towards habitat-based solutions for America's last wild buffalo! Please also tell him to have the Park set up a web cam at the Stephens Creek buffalo trap so that we can keep an eye on our friends. Take Action Now!
2. NEW! Please contact Gallatin National Forest Supervisor Mary Erickson and ask her exactly what the Forest Service is doing to fulfill their legal mandate to provide year-round habitats maintaining wild buffalo populations. Hundreds of thousands of acres of National Forest habitats exist for wild buffalo contiguous to Yellowstone National Park's north and west boundaries. These critical public lands are a small part of the buffalo's ancient migrations to wintering range and spring calving grounds in the Paradise, Gallatin and Madison river valleys. Please ask Supervisor Mary Erickson and the U.S. Forest Service to manage habitats to support these gentle, nomadic giants. Supervisor Mary Erickson needs to stand up to the state of Montana and no longer allow the state to dictate where and when buffalo are allowed to roam our National Forests. Ask her as Supervisor of the Gallatin National Forest to reallocate habitat permitted for grazing cattle to support the keystone ecological roles migratory populations of wild buffalo fulfill on land that is their birth right. Email: mcerickson@fs.fed.us Phone: 406-587-6758
3. Contact your Members of Congress and urge them to intervene with the Park on your behalf and to support federal funding to protect America's last wild buffalo and their habitat. Ask them to support the re-direction of funds wasted on the Interagency Bison Management Plan towards habitat-based solutions that honor the wild integrity of our national heritage. Write your Representative Write your Senators
4. Contact Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and THANK HIM for the 90-day stay of execution, tell him he did the right thing. Please also remind him that wild buffalo must be allowed to access habitat in Montana. Brucellosis is not the issue, but habitat for wild buffalo is the solution. Remind him that until Montana embraces and respects wild, free-roaming bison, the state will continue to be globally shamed by these actions against America's last wild buffalo! Remind him that tourism sustains Montana. governor@mt.gov 406-444-3111
5. Sign BFC's Petition to National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis urging him to abandon the failed Interagency Bison Management Plan. Sign the petition.
6. Write Letters to the Editor to newspapers in your region to help raise awareness and bring an end to the unjust treatment of America's last wild buffalo. Write on for the buffalo!
7. Vote for wild buffalo and all wildlife with your money by Boycotting beef.
8. Volunteer with BFC by joining us on the front lines! volunteer@buffalofieldcampaign.org 406-646-0070
9. Watch & Share This Video to inspire yourself and others to Protect the Wild Bison
THANK YOU! Please spread the word to save these herds by telling everyone you know what is happening to the country's last wild buffalo and what they can do to . Knowledge is power!
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* By the Numbers
AMERICAN BUFFALO ELIMINATED from the last wild population in the U.S. The last wild population is currently estimated at fewer than 3,700 individual buffalo.
2010-2011 Total: 221
2010-2011 Government Capture: 630
2010-2011 Government Slaughter:
2010-2011 Died In Government Trap: 3
2010-2011 Miscarriage in Government Trap: 1
2010-2011 State & Treaty Hunts: 211
2010-2011 Quarantine: 0
2010-2011 Shot by Agents: 2
2010-2011 Highway Mortality: 5
2009-2010 Total: 7
2008-2009 Total: 22
2007-2008 Total: 1,631
* Total Since 2000: 3,932*
*includes lethal government action, trap-related fatalities, quarantine, hunts, highway mortality
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* Last Words
Hold On To What Is Good
Hold on to what is good
even if it is
a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe
even if it is
a tree which stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do
even if it is
a long way from here.
Hold on to life even when
it is easier letting go.
Hold on to my hand even when
I have gone away from you.
~ Nancy Wood. From the book Many Winters, 1994 Taos Pueblo. Mike came across this poem in barb's office area, a week after she passed awy.
Do you have submissions for Last Words? Send them to bfc-media@wildrockies.org. Thank you for all the poems, songs, quotes, and stories you have been sending; you'll see them here!
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From the Eagle Watch #120
March 24, 2011
[there are some spelling mistakes in this article but the information is correct to our knowledge.]
Does anyone have contact info for the Anishinabe Kweag group???
Anishinabe Women Oppose Nuclear Shipment Through Great Lakes
By Gale Courey Toensing March 23, 2011
(Video at Link. The underlined names in blue are links at the web site)
Reposted Under Fair Use Act
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/03/anishinabe-women-oppose-nuclear-shipment-through-great-lakes/
A group of Anishinabe women with expertise in halting unwanted projects that threaten the environment are determined to stop a proposed shipment of steam generators contaminated with nuclear waste travelling through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.
Anishinabe Kweag: Protecting Our Future Generations is a group of indigenous women and children based on Christian Island, Ontario, whose traditional role is to care for the sacred element of water and ensure its usable continuation for the next Seven Generations. The group formed in May 2009 to oppose the development of a landfill on a pristine aquifer known as Site 41 in Tiny Township, Ontario. They were successful in that endeavor and now have turned their efforts toward the controversial plan by Bruce Power to ship 16 decommissioned steam generators weighing a total of 1,600 tons and containing nuclear waste through the largest body of fresh water in the world—the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. Anishinabe Kweag iis calling on Bruce Power to halt its plans.
“The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River have been the source of life for over 30,000 years for the Anishinabe People, as well as the Algonquin, Mohawk, Cree and other Indigenous Nations. We will, by any and all means, protect the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River from this potential hazard,†said Vicki Monague, spokesperson for Anishinabe Kweag, in a statement. “We have respectfully called upon Bruce Power to stop its plans to transport the decommissioned nuclear steam generators. Their own original plan (when the generators were built) would have allowed the steam generators with radioactive waste to be safely stored on site, of which Bruce Power would assume full responsibility for what they have created without needlessly exposing our waterways to potential hazards.â€
The plan is to ship the contaminated generators to Sweden to be recycled at Studsvik , a private commercial facility that provides advanced technical services to the international nuclear power in industry in such areas as waste treatment, decommissioning, engineering and services, and operating efficiency. Each generator weights 100 tons and contains around four grams of radioactive contaminants, including five different isotopes of plutonium that together make up around 90–95 per cent of the total of the contaminants, accordingg to a report in the Montreal Mirror .
Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR), a Montreal-based organization that opposes the transportation of the generators, said that the acceptable level of plutonium allowed inside the body of an atomic worker is 0.7 micrograms—thaat’s seven millionths of a gram. He said the cargo’s 64 grams of plutonium is enough to reach 0.7 micrograms in 52 million atomic workers.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) announced on February 4, 2011, that it had approved the transportation application from Bruce Power, Canada’s first privately owned nuclear generating company and the source of more than 20 percent of Ontario’s electricity. Studsvik signed a $34 million contract with Bruce Power in 2009 and was to start treating 16 generators last year before the shipment was delayed, according to a report in The Epoch Times. In approving Bruce Power’s plan to ship the generators overseas, the CNSC gave the power company a special dispensation over existing regulations covering the amount of radioactive materials allowed on inland Canadian waterways, according to the commission’s Recording of Proceedings, Including Reasons for Decision.
Mohawks peoples on both sides of the U.S.–Canadda border have joined to fight the plan, as Indian Country Today Media Network reported here and here.
Monague said the commission’s approval of Bruce Power’s transportation application “directly contradicts†Canada’s endorsement last November of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
“(The Declaration) states full and effective participation in all matters that concern our people, lands and waters. No treaty exists in North America where Indigenous people have given up their Rights to Water. Even before this endorsement, Canada has always had the fiduciary obligation to consult and accommodate First Nations people, (but) that clearly has not been exercised in this case,†Monague said.
There is widespread opposition to the transportation plan. The Canadian Environmental Law Association and Sierra Club Canada jointly filed applications March 4 for a judicial review of the nuclear commission’s approval. A binational coalition of more than 70 mayors from Quebec, Ontario and the eight Great Lake States and more than 50 nongovernmental organizations are against the plan. And coalitions of Native nations on both sides of the Canada–U.S. border have jooined forces to stop the project.
Monague commended the solidarity among the plan’s opponents. “It is the role of Indigenous People to unify and solidify with our non-Native brothers and sisters who now share in this great land against the abuses of our great Mother Earth. We must stand together in solidarity to oppose the shipment of nuclear waste by Bruce Power to Sweden, which will set an evil precedent, opening our shared water ways for future transport of nuclear waste from this and other nuclear plants in Ontario,†she said. “We, as Anishinabe Kweag, cannot allow this shipment to occur.â€
(0 Comments, but you must join Halbritter's new ICT Media Network to post, and even then you might not have your comment posted? At least that's been the policy since he bought the Lakota newspaper and dumped the archives from Tim Giago! "No letters to the editor"...ever... was the OIN-Business policy, not Giago's. See articles previously posted on this issue of Halbritter's "shenanigans").
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From the Eagle Watch
March 24, 2011
After Japan, Canada's nuclear industry girds for change
by Anna Mehler Paperny
The Globe and Mail
March 22, 2011
Nuclear energy operators should prepare to face greater scrutiny and
meet higher demands for safety precautions after the crisis in Japan,
according to one of the industry’s major Canadian players.
“I would expect some changes; I just don’t know what those changes
are,” says Alun Richards, a spokesman for Areva Canada, the nuclear
developer whose operations range from mining uranium ore to building
reactors and storing spent fuel.
Areva is preparing a feasibility study into Nunavut’s first uranium
mine, at Baker Lake, even as community consultations this month reveal
mounting opposition to the proposal.
[AREVA’s partners in the Kiggavik project are Japan-Canada Uranium Co. Ltd and Daewoo International Corp.]
In Quebec, the opposition Parti Québécois has suggested shutting down
the plant the province was supposed to spend $2-billion refurbishing.
In Ontario, police arrested four Greenpeace activists Tuesday
attempting to delay hearings on the construction of two new nuclear
plants at Darlington. Meanwhile, Canada’s nuclear regulator has asked
all reactor operators to review their safety procedures.
From Baker Lake, Nunavut, to Gentilly, Que., concern surrounding
Fukushima is raising old fears about nuclear power and threatening to
slow down or halt projects altogether.
Images of white-suited inspectors holding Geiger counters up to
toddlers -- and an expanding radius of irradiated Japanese terrain --
do little to inspire confidence.
“I think people are realizing that technology and human control …
related to nuclear power and radiation are still very limited. It’s a
stark reminder that exposure can happen,” said Sandra Inutiq. The
Nunavut lawyer said people have only recently started to voice
concerns about the Kiggavik project, which would mine an estimated
44,000 tons of uranium ore near Baker Lake.
Players in Canada’s industry say they get the message -- residents,
regulators and governments are less willing than ever to take the
safety of power plants and uranium mines at face value.
“I would expect perhaps regulators looking harder at older plants and
investors looking harder at older plants to see if they should be
refurbished or even replaced,” Mr. Richards said.
The irony is, much of what could reassure the squeamish or skeptical
-- better self-policing and technology, almost failsafe reactors --
can also make nuclear power prohibitively expensive.
That’s a problem for an industry that’s capital-intensive to begin
with, said Tom Adams, a Toronto-based energy analyst. Forty-year-old
plants like Fukushima Daiichi are popular because they’re cheap,
productive and relatively easy to maintain. But as this month proved,
they’re also prone to failure.
But if closer scrutiny and a shorter lifespan for aging reactors are
inevitable results of Japan’s nuclear crisis, Mr. Adams said, that
makes for a much tougher business case.
“They may be able to regain the public’s trust, but they’re already in
trouble with the customer’s trust,” he said. “To have a successful
industry, it’s got to be a package deal. … The ‘nuclear renaissance’
was in trouble before March 11. Now, it’s over.”
George Bothwell, vice-president of external relations for AECL, said
it’s still too early to tell what effect the Fukushima crisis will
have.
“The sales and construction process in the nuclear business runs into
the decades, and frankly six or seven days into this we’re not even in
the position to speculate,” he said. “It’s just too early for us to
tell something like that. We’re just like everybody else in the world,
just watching this unfold.”
The governments of Canada’s nuclear provinces, for their part, have
made clear they aren’t ruling out nuclear power amid concerns over
Japan’s crisis.
“Our responsibility is to ensure that we draw upon all the global
expertise and draw what lessons we can from the Japanese experience,”
Premier Dalton McGuinty told reporters on Tuesday. “We’re not rushing
into this. If we need to take more time, we will do that.”
But he had little sympathy for the Greenpeace protesters arrested
after chaining themselves to a stage in an attempt to delay hearings
on a multibillion-dollar project to build Ontario’s first reactors
since the 1980s.
And Quebec Premier Jean Charest scoffed at the PQ’s suggestion to
shelve a $2-billion refurbishment of Gentilly-2, accusing PQ Leader
Pauline Marois of using Japan’s misfortune for political opportunism.
“If there’s one thing I won’t do,” he said, “it’s make a decision like
that based on a headline in a newspaper or one single event.”
One person who isn’t worried is the man whose tiny Saskatchewan town
has volunteered to store nuclear waste below ground indefinitely.
“It really hasn’t affected our thinking,” said Creighton Mayor Bruce
Fidler. “We think it’s a great opportunity for economic development.”
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Some old historic photos of the Black Hills, Bear Butte and Pine Ridge Rez
Hello everyone,
Here are some old historic photos from the Black Hills, Bear Butte and Pine Ridge Rez. There are some amazing pictures in this album http://www.fark.com/cgi/go.pl?i=6011451&s=1
enjoy.
This is a photo of what Bear Butte SHOULD look like, instead all we see is bars and concert venues!
Photo attached to email
Regards,
Tamra
Between 1887 and 1892, John C.H. Grabill sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Grabill is known as a western photographer, documenting many aspects of frontier life — hunting, mining, western town landscapes and white settlers’ relationships with Native Americans. Most of his work is centered on Deadwood in the late 1880s and 1890s. He is most often cited for his photographs in the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Please spread the word and encourage young Indians you know to submit essays. THIS YEAR'S DEADLINE IS APRIL 1ST.&nbs year, the essay submissions are fewer in number so the odds of winning are greater…More information is available athttp://nativewriters.hklaw.com/index.asp. Please help me spread the word to high school students, their teachers and parents.
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2010 winners and their teachers at Smithsonian Cultural Resource Center
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Rein in oil speculation that drives up gas prices.
Tell the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to take action! Speculation on Wall Street drives up our gas prices.
Clicking here will add your name to this petition to the CFTC:
The CFTC's failure to use its authority to enforce limits on oil speculation hurts Americans. Take immediate action to cut gas prices by reining in oil speculators now.
Dear David,
High gas prices affect all of us, especially the poor. Gas prices affect the cost of everything from food to airline tickets, and the current spike threatens our economic recovery, and could cost as many as 600,000 jobs.1
But you know who's not feeling the pain of high gas prices? Wall Street oil speculators — who are placing huge bets on the price of oil going up, creating a speculative price bubble that we are already seeing at the gas pump.
An agency you've likely never heard of, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has the power to rein in oil speculation, but has failed to take action. That is totally unacceptable.
Tell the CFTC: Cut gas prices by reining in excessive oil speculation now. Click here to automatically add your name. Oil speculators buy oil on a commodities exchange (with no intention of ever using it,) and then sell their oil when the price changes. In recent weeks, hedge funds and other Wall Street investors have rushed to turn a profit on Middle Eastern countries' moves toward democracy. As oil speculation has hit an all time high,2 it appears to have created a speculative bubble causing oil prices to rise further and faster than is justified by actual global supply and user demand.
There is at least a partial solution that already exists. Last year's Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law expanded the power of the CFTC to limit the size of speculative oil bets. But incredibly, the five-member commission has been prevented from implementing these rules by its two Republican commissioners and one conservative Democrat, who are dragging their heels to protect Wall Street's profiteering despite the urgings of the CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler.
Last week, Senate Democrats called on the CFTC to take up their responsibility and help reduce speculative gas price spikes. But Congressional Republicans are doing just the opposite.
Even as they loudly rant and rave about oil prices, the House Republican's continuing budget resolution slashed the CFTC budget by nearly a third, hanging a giant axe over the agency that could make the most immediate difference in gas prices. (It's infuriating behavior, but pretty much what you'd expect from the party that has used this gas crisis as cover to push for expanded offshore drilling that won't reduce gas prices now or in the future, to spread the lie that EPA climate regulations on power plants will effect gas prices,3 and to continue promoting pro-polluter policies that have kept our nation and our economy totally dependent on a dirty, dangerous, unstable oil.)
As long as the CFTC has the power to ease gas prices by reining in oil speculation, we must let the commissioners know that they have our attention, and that their inaction is an astonishing breach of their duties.
Tell the CFTC: Cut gas prices by reining in excessive oil speculation now. Click here to automatically add your name. To be clear, stopping excessive oil speculation is only a short term measure to control gas prices and reduce damage to our economy.
It doesn't do anything to end our nation's reliance on fossil fuels or fight climate change. To do that, we need to start by reducing oil demand with increased fuel efficiency and investments in public transit, and advance longer term measures to promote electric vehicles and clean, renewable energy to power them.
Limiting excessive oil speculation won't end speculation all together, and there are arguments that it shouldn't. But for the moment, this is one politically achievable goal, that can reduce the costs of gas, stabilize our economy, and limit Wall Street's ability to generate profits on our misfortune and victimhood at the hands of decades of failed energy policy.
Tell the CFTC: Cut gas prices by reining in excessive oil speculation now. Click here to automatically add your name. Thank you for taking action.
Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets
1. "Crude Profits," The Progress Report, March 21, 2011.
2. ibid.
3. "False: Fred Upton says pending bill to block EPA curbs of greenhouse gases will 'stop rising gas prices'," PolitiFact, March 8, 2011.
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Posted By: Tjay Henhawk
To: Members in First Nations & Aboriginal Rights
Pope makes water vow to native group
MANITOBA Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief David Harper has taken the need for running water in northern First Nations to the Vatican.
Harper and an MKO delegation, representing northern reserves, met with Pope Benedict XVI after mass at St. Peter's Square Wednesday morning and raised the need for fresh running water in the north.
"I told him that I know this is an international issue and it needs to be addressed, and he said he agreed," Harper said, in a phone interview.
He said the Pope told him there is a need for greater advocacy on the issue to ensure all people have access to clean, running water.
"His response was that he will remember us and that he'll make efforts for an urgent call for advocacy to get it done."
Harper had been in Rome since last week, where he was participating in a marathon as part of a Canadian delegation to promote international awareness of a worldwide diabetes epidemic.
He said he told the Pope he was representing the aboriginal people of northern Manitoba and presented him with several gifts, including a set of moccasins made by his mother and gifts made by the elders of the Sayisi Dene First Nation of Tadoule Lake.
Harper said he invited the Pope to visit Manitoba's northern First Nations when he makes his first visit to Canada.
aldo.santin@freepress.mb.ca
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From the Eagle Watch #122
WATER WOES: Shame, Shame, Shame on Canada!
March 25, 2011
Detailed Report (3100 words)
(With one mind we send greetings and thanks to the water.)
The Great Lakes/St. Lawrence River Watershed of Turtle Island is one of the largest fresh surface water systems in the world. It is a global treasure at the heart of Ongwehonweh/Nishnaabe territory.
Without water we cannot live. No plant or animal can live without water. Why do we state the obvious?
Under the colonial capitalist system of the past five centuries, we have witnessed the severe abuse and contamination of our precious water. Human and animal excrement are being dumped into our waterways along with deadly toxic and radioactive chemicals from industrial, mining and nuclear activities.
The principle that "Dilution is the Solution to Pollution" is being recklessly practised for the sake of profits.
The Great Lakes is being poisoned by all this FILTH while the St. Lawrence River is an algae-infested cesspool that will take decades if not centuries to cleanse and restore. Everyone's drinking water is threatened, urban and rural, municipal system and private well. Some, especially Indigenous communities, have worse water than others. Why??
"Canada" boasts one of the highest standards of living in the world. This northern part of Turtle Island has plentiful water, some say enough to SELL water. The Canadian colonial entitites are pressuring Indigenous people to trade Aboriginal Title for clean drinking water. This is disgraceful! Shame on Canada!!!
We examined the profiles of four communities, Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg, Lanark Village, a nonNative community, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Kitigan Zibi is in "Quebec jurisdiction" while the other three communities are in "Ontario jurisdiction".
In recent years, uprisings in Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence River Watershed, often have water problems as a catalyst to action. Sovereignty and territory remain the fundamental issues.
No change or remedy is in sight. In fact, conditions are only getting worse. At the same time, our communities are growing and need more living space and more social amenities like clean water and decent health care.
From 2003 to 2008, the Canadian government, through INAC Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and HC Health Canada, spent $1.6 billion on a seven-part First Nations Water Management Strategy (FNWMS). It was a plan, just a plan with a lot of data and tables and more plans and requirements for water testing and certification of water plant operators. Part of the money went to HC to show people how to test their water and part of the money got swallowed up by INAC.
Some communities like Barriere Lake and Kesheshuan have incomplete water treatment facilities that have been waiting to be finished for three decades or more. This is common.
Just what has Indian Affairs really done to improve water quality in Indigenous communities which continue to have the worst water in every region??
KITIGAN ZIBI ANISHNABEK
The Kitigan Zibi Anishnabek, 130 kilometres north of Ottawa, have been on boil water alert since 1999. That year, Health Canada found high levels of uranium in the groundwater and imposed a "do not consume drinking water" advisory for well water users. Most of the Kitigan Zibi Anishnabek use well water.
In 2001, INAC did a study to look at drinking water in Indigenous communities across the land.
The report found that most drinking water systems in Indigenous communities posed potential health risks. In 2006, CBC compared that to current data and found that five years later drinking water in two-thirds of communities remained at risk. The INAC report also found that on average, Indigenous communities in Ontario had water even worse than in Quebec.
The Kitigan Zibi community was rated an eight on a scale of 10, with 10 signifying the highest safety risk. Their water is some of the worst in "Canada".
The CBC report found that little had changed in spite of Canadian government promises to take action. Nearly 10 percent of people living in Kitigan Zibi were connected to tap water from Maniwaki. The tap water was unfiltered yellowish water taken from the Gatineau River which flows into the Ottawa River. Though the Maniwaki authorities stated it was safe, most people in Maniwaki also use bottled water. Over $200,000 a year is spent on bottled water for Kitigan Zibi residents.
In March 2009, INAC claimed it had greatly improved water quality in Native communities including Kitigan Zibi. This is simply not true.
THE VILLAGE OF LANARK
Note: In the course of our research for this section, we learned that old houses that still have lead water pipes, pose a serious health threat to those drinking the water in that house. Lead is particularly dangerous for brain development of small children. Know your water!
The Village of Lanark (in Lanark County) is located on the Clyde River near to the Mississippi River, about one hundred kilometres west of Ottawa. It is within the Mississippi watershed and the Mississippi-Rideau Source Protection Region. The village was established by Scottish settlers after the war of 1812.
Lanark village, population about 800, has been plagued with water problems for over 30 years. The residents, many of them underemployed renters rather than homeowners, are blamed for the well contamination while the much needed municipal system has not been built.
The present mayor of Lanark Highlands, Peter McLaren writes in a recent email,
"As always the $64,000 question or in this case the $30,000,000 question is show me the money. Currently we have a complete engineered plan for the water and the sewer up to the site for the treatment plant. We need to do more water testing in the village on an ongoing basis. We have on option to buy the land at the well field, that will need to be acted on before the option expires. The plan for the treatment is to go with a design build option. As for moving forward without major funding it is out of our reach. As for wells outside the village, as in the village, homeowners must keep up on the water testing available from the health unit. The main cause could be defective well casings, poor septic systems, seamy bedrock or some combination."
Is there a boil water alert on in Lanark???
According to a November 2009 letter sent to the residents of Lanark Village from the local Health Unit,
"The only way to make sure your water supply is safe to drink is to test it regularly, at least 4 times per year or more frequently if bacterial problems exist. Free water sample bottles are available at the municipal office in Lanark Village and the Health Unit office at 25 Johnston Street, Smiths Falls..."
What then about paying for the testing? The Health Unit only tests for bacteria. What about all the other potential problems like nitrates, lead and radon?
Many of the renter residents of the village are struggling economically to provide for their families. Ironically, some of these people are descendants of early settlers and Indigenous who have remained landless and marginalized through the generations.
Even when a householder has the means to fix their own well, they have no control over the seepage from a neighbour's septic system.
If you own a property or if you lease a rental unit or house, you are legally required to provide all inhabitants, including visitors, tenants and seasonal renters, with a potable (healthy and safe) water supply.
With the village having very little economic incentive to improve the community water quality, the problem remains with no solution in sight. Outside of the village, wells have about a 50:50 chance of being contaminated.
The water quality in the region is relatively good but the rivers and streams do carry an increasingly heavy load as more people move to the area.
Drilling for uranium by Frontenac Ventures Corporation near the Mississippi River may have released uranium and other radioactive isotopes into the water. However, the authorities do not test for uranium because they say it is naturally occurring. It is up to individuals to find the means to get the full testing done. Yet they have little control over the sources of contamination.
The Mississippi-Rideau watershed covers about 20% of the local land mass when you include the wetlands and the very important tributaries. The tissue of small tributary feeder streams to the Mississippi, Rideau or Ottawa Rivers can easily be 30 times longer than the main rivers themselves! Sadly, research shows us that tributaries are often in the worst condition. Taking care of the "tribs" is the first course of action in taking care of the big rivers.
TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY TMT
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory TMT is located in the Quinte Region watersheds which include three main rivers, the Moira, the Salmon and the Napanee, all of which flow into the Bay of Quinte, part of Lake Ontario. Tyendinaga is near to the mouth of the Napanee River.
The wells in this mostly rural area tend to be shallow, that is less than 30meters deep. This makes them more susceptible to surface water contamination of all kinds.
There are 785 wells in Tyendinaga. Another 265 Tyendinaga households are on the Town of Deseronto municipal water supply.
TMT has been on a boil water advisory since 2008 due to the presence of water borne parasites such as cryptosporidium or giardia which could be deadly if consumed. Mohawks at Tyendinaga have been very concerned about their water for quite some time, long before 2008.
Shawn Brant, outspoken, controversial and much vilified Tyendinaga activist, has often talked about the water quality in his community. In 2008, he said the most frustrating thing about it is it has been talked about for many years.
"We took a delegation to council and brought our kids in. One by one, they showed growths on their heads, sores and rashes on their bodies. Health Canada convened an emergency assessment clinic to examine the children. That was five years ago. Since then we've shut down the train lines three times, the 401, everything has been done. We've appealed to this country, this government and society and said fix this problem."
Instead, the complicit media often prefers to sensationalize protests and belligerence while the government continues its habitual stall tactics.
We looked at Ontario government water documentation for the Quinte region.
Some parameters for contaminants were provided for a number of communities including Tyendinaga. The numbers just jump out from the page right at you. The unacceptable bacteria levels at TMT are rated at 263 while at Tweed, the figure is 3. Levels of chlorine at TMT are 26 and 0 at Tweed. TMT also experiences high levels of naturally occurring uranium, sodium, sulphur, iron, manganese and fluoride. The gravel pits nearby contaminate the water with debris, road runoff and who knows what else. Up to 50% of the wells in the Quinte region are contaminated. Improper well construction is deemed part of the problem. It takes money to fix them.
Currently, the MBQ council recommend regular testing of household water for "bacteriological (total coliforms and E.Coli) and chemical analysis which includes full spectrum samples for fluoride, sodium, nitrites, nitrates, manganese, colour etc." as well as pesticides and metals. Algae is a particular problem for those wells near the lake.
Questions remain. Why are the levels so much higher in Tyendinaga? When will the problem be fixed???
In 2008, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte band council agreed to the construction of a $1.9million modular prison in TMT. The band council would pay half the money with the Canadian government paying the other half. Tyendinaga Mohawks have refused this building more than once but band council remains stubborn.
When asked why the prison was needed, Chief Don Maracle told us in a telephone conversation at that time, that the prison was for "outsiders".
Now it looks to be tied to the construction of a municipal water system. Talk about arm twisting.
THE GRAND RIVER WATERSHED
While an entity known as the Grand River Conservation Authority gets government funding to do something relating to water, they exclude the Ongwehonweh people and do not listen to the original owners of the land.
The Six Nations communities on the Grand River, less than 100km west of Toronto, are downstream from cities like Brantford, Cambridge, Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo and many towns, farms and villages. There are close to one million people living within the watershed.
Kitchener-Waterloo aka The Tech Triangle
With a population of 507,000 people, K-W is Canada's 10th largest and Ontario's 4th largest urban centre. It is the third fastest growing Census Metropolitan Area (Kitchener CMA), behind Oshawa and Toronto. The total population within 50 km is 1.6 million while the total population within 100 km is 6.6 million people. This has put tremendous pressure on area resources such as the water.
John Keating, CEO of COM DEV sees it another way,
"The Waterloo Region is at the core of an unmatched matrix of business and technology success facilitators:
•a pool of top talent from Canada's best constellation of post-secondary schools
•Canada's most direct routes to multiple crossing to US markets
•Canada's largest international airport
•a tremendously contagious community spirit of success
•one of the best networks of businesses and support organizations anywhere
And, all this is neatly wrapped up in an outstanding, safe, economical place to live."
K-W is home to a huge steel foundry, Canada Alloy Castings CAC, owned by Flowserve Corporation. CAC is involved in munitions manufacture for the Canadian military and for sale to militaries all around the world. With less than 100 employees, their 82,000 square foot facility is located on Manitou Drive.
They make products with steel, stainless steel, aluminum, bronze (copper and tin) and nickel. All their mineral and toxic chemically polluted waste water is pumped into the Kitchener sewers and goes into the Grand River.
SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER TERRITORY
According to the Six Nations band council web site,
"The Grand River Watershed is of concern for the Six Nations community. The river is 300 kilometers in length, with a drainage area of 6800 square kilometers. The source of the Grand River is in the area of Dundalk, Ontario and runs to the mouth near Dunnville, Ontario. Currently thirty-eight (38) municipalities are located within the watershed area." The Grand River empties into Lake Erie.
The residents of Six Nations are supplied by either individual domestic wells or the communal water system that obtains its water from the Grand River north of Ohsweken.
The Ohsweken Water Treatment Plant OWTP communal system primarily serves the village of Ohsweken. Users include schools, a shopping and services plaza, businesses, an arena and about 1,500 homes. About 25% of the community gets water from the communal system either in their residences or by virtue of attending work or school in the village.
Those Six Nations residents who live too far from town to be on the communal system rely on wells or cisterns for their water needs.
Neegan Burnside Engineering and Environmental Ltd., Guelph confirmed that there is a widespread problem with coliform bacteria in Six Nations well water. They also confirmed that no significant aquifer is present within the clay overburden.
Many families that do not have safe water to drink, get treated drinking water from the Ohsweken WTP via registered water truck haulers.
As of 2007, a new raw water intake and storage system was under construction with full commissioning anticipated within the next 1-2 years.
Graham Porter Hill, who lives outside Ohsweken, recently described, "a sewer line in the form of creeks interconnected all leading to the Heritage River, the Grand River. Uninterrupted and untreated."
The Cayuga grandfather asks, "Doesn't anyone care that their children and their grandchildren are playing in all the cancer causing toxins known and unknown to man. And this is only a sampling of the pollution route. Many of the chemical plants in Ontario are enjoying unfettered operation to dump at will into these very streams where your children play.
"And worse yet, the water is flowing through some of the most arable land in Ontario. The farm animals are watered from these same streams. Cows, chickens, and any animals that are on farms today. I know there's a small mushroom factory in this same route on highway #2 between Hamilton and Brantford that is watering their cash crop with contaminated water.
"It all comes together at the Family Restaurant, a favourite of many, the RiverBend Restaurant between Brantford and Caledonia on Highway #54 on the Northern bank of the Grand River, the Heritage River. It's the "whiteman's heritage".
"Aboriginals remember it as pristine. At one time not too long ago, in my Grandfather's time, he and his brothers used to start in Brantford on a raft of logs and just ride the current back to Six Nations. Along the way they would spear the fish from the raft. The fish were so plentiful at that time, one generation back, that spearing fish into barrels, they got as much as the 50 gallon barrels could hold.
"The last picture I saw they had eight barrels. So inside of 10 miles of river stream, the Porter brothers could feed an entire community. Or at least until Brantford was established. Then serious steps were taken by the prejudiced white people to starve Six Nations out. Brantford got close a couple of times, from the stories I heard from my Elders.
"Nowadays, I never knew so many were on dialysis until I saw these aboriginal people I went to school with showing up at White Pines Clinic three times a week. They are losing their feet, hands, legs to the hips and arms to the shoulders.
"How much more do our people have to endure before something is done to stop the genocide,? It's happening again, and again it's being ignored. No one has asked for them to deny. Who's supposed to ask and who to ask?"
The continuing reports of colonial agents, ie., Canadian federal ministers, in hot water for corruption, theft, lies and other outrages are becoming almost daily. They are certainly tiresome and intended as a distraction.
It's gone so far as to include the water issue with a former advisor to prime minister Harper, Bruce Carson, on the hot seat over his dealings with an Ottawa water outfit, H2Pro and Native communities' water supply.
The picture we get here is that Indigenous are being pressured to give up our water rights in exchange for decent drinking water. Companies like H2Pro are poised to move in and make some money with kickbacks going to Carson, Harper, Ignatieff and company.
In the context of all the latest colonial tricks in the Canadian legal system to terminate Aboriginal Title, the outrageously bad quality of drinking water in Indigenous communities can only be seen as a deliberate attempt to kill us off. It's assimilate or die, don't you get it? This strategy and intent is commonly known as genocide.
Kittoh
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Notes and Sources
Kitigan Zibi Anishnabek
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/arp/es/0506/fnwms/fnwms-eng.asp
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/boiling_point
www.polarisinstitute.org/files/Boiling%20Point.pdf
Boiling Point_0.pdf
A synopsis prepared by the Polaris Institute
in collaboration with the Assembly of First Nations
and supported by the Canadian Labour Congress
2008
http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/scr/qc/aqc/prof/Kitigan-eng.asp
Lanark Village
Safe Water Information
For more information, contact the
Health Unit at 1-800-660-5853
or 613-345-5685
or visit www.healthunit.org
Private Water Supply Safety
for Residents of Lanark Village
If your results are unsatisfactory:
• Resample as soon as possible.
• Contact a P ublic H ealth Inspector for advice to ensure a safe drinking water supply.
Do not drink the w ater until you receive satisfactory sample results.
Note: Dug wells and surface water supply systems (ie: lake water) require...
Adapted from the original produced by The Waterloo Regional Health Unit and the County of Lambton Community Health Services Department.
Sommer Casgrain-Robertson
Co-Project Manager
Mississippi-Rideau Source Protection Region
Tel 613-692-3571 or 800-267-3504 ext. 1147
www.mrsourcewater.ca
BACKGROUNDER March 7, 2011 THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER
http://www.healthunit.org/water/lanarkwater.htm
Links to important information at this link. It may be worth looking at if you are in another jurisdiction just to see how they compare.
http://www.county.lanark.on.ca/Page13.aspx
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
http://quintesourcewater.ca/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=176&Itemid=149&Itemid=1
Quinte Region Proposed Assessment Report Chapter 5 July 2010 i Version 1.0
Hydrogeological Study of the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory by XCG Consulting, February 2006
http://www.mbq-tmt.org/administration-and-services/community-infrastructure/drinking-water-safety
"Well Water in Tyendinaga
There are currently 785 wells in Tyendinaga, and approximately 265 units are on the Municipal water supply from the neighboring Town of Deseronto. Health Canada recommended Tyendinaga Mohawk Council place a Territory wide Precautionary Boil Water Advisory for those members utilizing ground water wells (in place since 2008). The precautionary BWA came into place due to the possibility of water borne parasites (spore forming bacteria) in the ground water, such as cryptosporidium or giardia which could potentially result in life threatening implications if consumed. The water borne parasites could be present in Tyendinaga's ground water due to the compromised nature of the geology, which has a shallow overburden with fractured limestone bedrock. Approximately half of the households and businesses on the Territory have a private water treatment system including proper filtration, installed for the purposes of providing useable water. Filtration is required should you want to consume your water.
Municipal Water Supply
The municipal water supply shared with the Town of Deseronto, is a surface water treatment facility utilizing modern equipment that is continuously monitored to ensure it meets the Canadian Drinking Water Standards. This supply is considered safe for consumption and does not require additional water treatment in homes/business."
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
http://www.sixnations.ca/
http://www.sixnations.ca/CurrentUpdate.htm
from their web site,
"Six Nations of the Grand River Territory is a unique community. It is the largest populated First Nation community in Canada located in Southern Ontario. Six Nations was granted lands under the Haldimand Proclamation of October 1784 extending from the mouth of the Grand River at Lake Erie to the source, near Dundalk, six miles from
each side of the river, consisting of 950,000 acres. Today, Six Nations people reside on 46,500 acres of the original tract.
SIX NATIONS COMMUNITY-BASED SOURCE WATER PROTECTION PLAN
FIRST DRAFT December, 2007 (no new version is available yet)
Six Nations Council Environment Office 519 445-0853
The Six Nations of the Grand River owns and operates the Ohsweken water system, which consists of one water treatment plant (WTP) and one water distribution system. The WTP has a design capacity of 1,040 m3/day and serves a population of approximately 2,000....Six Nations primarily relies on domestic wells for a community of approximately twelve thousand (12,000) residents. As part of their existing water supply system, Six Nations operates a Type C surface water intake drawing water from the Grand River at Ohsweken just downstream of the Chiefswood Road crossing.
Canada Alloy Castings
529 Manitou Dr.
Kitchener ON, N2C 1S2
Phone #: 519-895-1161
Fax #: 519-895-1169
Website: www.cac.ca
Email: tbutcher@flowserve.com
iso: ISO 9001:2000
Approximately 90 employees work at this location
Sales: $10 - $20 Million
The Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) is the Conservation Authority for the Grand River Watershed.
www.grandriver.ca/index/document.cfm?Sec=12&Sub1=0&sub2=0
Grand River Conservation Authority Cambridge, ON Canada N1R 5W6 (519) 621-2761.
The Grand River watershed includes 32 local municipalities and 7 upper tier regions and counties. In some cases, only a portion of the municipality is within the Grand River watershed.
The 39 municipalities within the Grand River watershed:
County of Dufferin:
Township of Amaranth
Township of East Garafraxa
Township of Melancthon
Township of East Luther Grand Valley
County of Grey:
Township of Southgate
County of Wellington:
Township of Wellington North
Township of Mapleton
Township of Centre Wellington
Town of Erin
Township of Guelph-Eramosa
Township of Puslinch
City of Guelph:
Regional Municipality of Halton:
Town of Halton Hills
Town of Milton
County of Perth:
Town of North Perth
Township of Perth East
Regional Municipality of Waterloo:
Township of Wellesley
Township of Wilmot
Township of Woolwich
City of Waterloo
City of Kitchener
City of Cambridge
Township of North Dumfries
County of Oxford:
Township of Blandford-Blenheim
Township of East Zorra-Tavistock
Township of Norwich
City of Woodstock
City of Hamilton
The County of Brant
City of Brantford
Norfolk County
Haldimand County
MORE SEARCH TERMS:
Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network; Environment Canada prepared a Draft Source Water Handbook for First Nations; First Nations Water Management Strategy, Lake Erie Source Protection Region, Neegan Burnside Engineering and Environmental Ltd Guelph, Six Nations of the Grand River Hydrogeological Study (June 2006); AquaResouce 2009. Integrated Water Budget Report, Grand River Watershed; H2Pro
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Breaking News: Canadian Prime Minister served Summons by International Tribunal as his government falls - Kevin Annett receives endorsement from Mohawk Nation - please post
Canadian Prime Minister served Summons by International Tribunal as his government falls;
Kevin Annett authorized by Mohawk Nation to carry Two Road Wampum Treaty Message to the world
PM Steven Harper served Summons to answer charges of crimes against humanity by Kevin Annett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWAfrth9RmE.
March 26, 2011
Ottawa, Canada: The day before Steven Harper's Conservative government was toppled by a non-confidence vote in Canada's Parliament, the besieged politician was delivered a Public Summons to answer charges of conspiring in Crimes against Humanity before an International Tribunal this September in London, England.
Standing in front of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Kevin Annett of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) read from the Summons that charged Harper with concealing genocide against native children in Canada's Indian residential schools, denying justice to survivors and protecting the churches responsible for the deaths of 50,000 native children. Annett then formally delivered the Summons to the Prime Minister's Office. (see video)
Harper has thirty days to respond to the Summons, after which his silence can be deemed to imply his consent to the charges made against him. A similar Summons was delivered to Pope Benedict at the Vatican last month.
Earlier this week, Kevin Annett and the work of the ITCCS was endorsed by members of the Mohawk nation and the Mohawk Traditional Council in Kahnawake near Montreal.
On their territory, Cheryl Diabo of the Bear Clan at Kahnawake and other elders presented Kevin Annett with the Two Road Wampum Belt, recognized his indigenous name Eagle Strong Voice in their own language as Akweks Rowen:na’shatste, and authorized Kevin in his work as a bearer of the message of the Two Road Wampum.
A copy of the Mohawk statement follows and is attached.
Kevin Annett is completing a six week speaking tour and book launch across Europe and Canada, prior to the commencement of the ITCCS Tribunal in London, England on September 15, 2011. Kevin will return to London on May 7 and can be contacted for interviews there through his media liasion, Anna Bragga, at : consciencecommunications@gmail.com .
Issued by the ITCCS.
genocidetribunal@yahoo.ca
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Kahnawake Territory
Greetings Kevin Annett,
LETTER OF APPRECIATION
IN THE SPIRIT OF THE TWO-ROW WAMPUM PEACE TREATY
As a Kanien’keha:ka Woman of the 5 Nations Confederacy, I recognize that you, Kevin Annett (Akweks Rowen:na’shatste)/”Eagle who has a strong voice” carry the spirit of the mighty eagle whose duty is to warn the people of any impending danger or irregularity.
So long as you shall walk the land with your only allegiance to truth and righteousness on the path to return the original power to the Two-Row Wampum Peace Treaty created to re-establish balance on our Mother Earth as this is the truth that is found in the natural world are welcomed to utilize our official symbolism in your efforts to re-store humanity.
Anyone who works to re-establish the balance between the peoples for the benefit of our Mother Earth/all of our relations in the natural world is welcomed under the protection of the Great Law of Peace and we invest you with the right to display and spread the original message of the Two-Row Wampum Peace Treaty to the peoples of our Mother Earth in the hope to return the balance within creation.
As was explained to you during your visit with us, the Two-Row Wampum Peace Treaty originated from the spiritual realm at the beginning of creation. Representing two equal but opposite powers that shall never touch but work in balance in which the natural world was created. The Two-Row Wampum Peace Treaty Belt only took physical form as the official symbol and record of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca Nations established the official agreement of our relationship with the Dutch in 1616, then the British, French and United States of America.
The white wampum background meaning, purity and peace; and the two purple wampum rows meaning, the two parallel paths signifying the non-Native society’s belief and laws; symbolizing that they shall never interfere with one another's way of life. The 5 Nations Confederacy gave the non-Native society an understanding that this agreement shall last for all time to come. This agreement shall never be forgotten between the two sides. In addition to honoring that balance in our official cycle of ceremonies, from time to time, the 5 Nations Confederacy will read the Two Row Wampum belt to the people so that generations to come will never forget.
With peace, power and righteousness, we honor and stand in solidarity with you and are grateful that you have accepted to carry the original message of the Two-Row Wampum Peace Treaty on your path.
In Peace and Friendship,
(Kahawinon:tie, Wakskarewake)
Cheryl Diabo, Bear Clan
Kahnawake Kanien’keha:ka Territory
cheryldiabo@gmail.com/450.635.3136
cc: Kahnawà:ke Branch of the Mohawk Nation
Mohawk Traditional Council
See the evidence of Genocide in Canada at www.hiddennolonger.com and on the website of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State at www.itccs.org .
Watch Kevin's award-winning documentary film UNREPENTANT on his website www.hiddenfromhistory.org
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."~ Frederick Douglass
"We will bring to light the hidden works of darkness and drive falsity to the bottomless pit. For all doctrines founded in fraud or nursed by fear shall be confounded by Truth."
- Kevin's ancestor Peter Annett, writing in The Free Inquirer, October 17, 1761, just before being imprisoned by the English crown for "blasphemous libel"
"I gave Kevin Annett his Indian name, Eagle Strong Voice, in 2004 when I adopted him into our Anishinabe Nation. He carries that name proudly because he is doing the job he was sent to do, to tell his people of their wrongs. He speaks strongly and with truth. He speaks for our stolen and murdered children. I ask everyone to listen to him and welcome him."
Chief Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind
Elder, Turtle Clan, Anishinabe Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba
--- On Fri, 3/25/11, Cheryl Diabo
From: Cheryl Diabo
Subject: RE: TWO-ROW WAMPUM PEACE TREATY
To: "Eagle Strong Voice"
Received: Friday, March 25, 2011, 8:13 PM
Wa'tkonnonhwera:ton/Greetings Kevin!
Please see attached "Letter of Appreciation and Support" as promised in word format and as an image. I will email you a pdf. version with my signature soon.
I will also mail you the signed original.
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Skennenhkó:wa/In Peace and Friendship,
(Kahawinon:tie, Wakskarewake)
Cheryl Diabo, Bear Clan
Kahnawake Mohawk Territory
Tel.: 450.635.3136
"Without your voice you're next to nothing!" ~A wise young Tyendinegan
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Remembering the genocide
We should always remember to give thanks before we begin our day’s journey and before we speak any other words. Let us gather our minds together as one and send great thanks to our mother earth as she continues following her original instructions and allows all life to live here, on her belly. Let us now turn our thoughts to the waters that clean our earth and nourish all living things, we send great thanks that they continue following their original instructions. Now to the fish whom clean the water and offer themselves as food when need be, we send great thanks that they continue. Now to the trees; they were asked to provide clean air and strong roots and we are thankful. To the food plants and medicine plants we send great thanks that they continue on their original instructions. Now we send our thanks to the winged ones whose beautiful songs remind us of the power of love. We think of the four-legs whom still follow their original instructions and send great thanks. To the winds that come from all 4 directions and clean the air to bring change, we send great thanks. To the thunderers who bring rain and lightning we send our thanks. To our grandmother moon whom connects to the women and the water, we thank you. To our eldest brother the Sun whom radiates warmth and light we are thankful that you continue. To our cousins the Stars, whom light the night sky and help us find our way home, we are thankful. Now let us turn our thoughts to the teachers whom remember and enlighten us. It is never our intention to forget something in creation so all things we have not mentioned, we thank you now. And we save our greatest thanks for Sonkwiatison the Source Energy of creation itself. Now our minds are one.
To all of you whom now have read this, I send my thanks that we are of one mind. Kevin Annett is now in Toronto on a book signing tour and awareness campaign on Truth about genocide in Canada. I will be joining his congregation at some point this weekend. My story is also hidden from history so I wish to shed some light on it.
My grandmother was born in 1917 in what is now “Prince Edward County” at that time it was part of the Mohawk territory now known as Tyendinaga. In 1924 Duncan Campbell Scott penned “the Indian Advancement Act” which created the reservations and established them as Prisoner of War camps. All Indians coming or going were required to pass through the Gate with the Indian Agents. My grandmother was a young girl in 1933 and became pregnant with my father. The Indian agents were very busy taking our children to their “death camps” but were very active in rounding up any stray Mohawks whom were not in the P.O.W. camps (reservations) yet. My grandmother fled our homeland and moved to Toronto where she could have a chance to live. My father grew up with the instructions “don’t ever tell anyone you are an Indian”, “stay out of the sun” , “blend in”. No different than Ann Frank in Holland during the Nazi occupation.
I grew up in Etobicoke and in Grade 3 I was taught that the “Iroquois” were extinct. I knew that was a lie because I was Mohawk and I knew from kindergarten that anything based on a lie, makes everything after it a lie. I remember talking with other Etobicoke teenagers who actually believed that we were extinct and saying “we are still here” http://www.myspace.com/thahoketoteh/music/songs/We-are-still-here-18280097
My father was “eligible” for his “Indian card” in 1988 so I phoned Ottawa and asked for mine. The clerk told me to do “this” and do “that” and said “it depends on how long your willing to wait”, that was 1992. I stopped filing my tax receipt right then, until new legislation virtually eliminated “self employment” in 2000 by forcing everyone to get a GST number and now making the Federal government everybody’s boss. I moved to Kanekota in 2000 because it was a British protectorate and I have been trying to secure my place for my future children, but all of the top people in the corporatocracy of Canada choose to ignore the supreme law of the Empire, at their own peril.
Right now there is a corporate takeover of a British protectorate happening and the shareholders of this corporation will not have the protect ion of Admiralty court rules that protect shareholder anonymity. There will be a tribunal set-up with the proper jurisdiction given to the British military court. This really will be a time of revealing when the true shareholders of this criminal Cabal become known for all to see, what has really been going on in Canada.
The people will have their say on the crime of genocide in Canada and they should first charge the shareholders of the corporatocracy with the crime of genocide, for if they do not, they are also guilty of complicity of the cover-up. Which Harper will answer too shortly.
With unity of mind comes great strength and with this power comes the peace.
thahoketoteh of Kanekota
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From the Eagle Watch #123
March 27, 2011
This one calls for your support and appropriate action. See articles below. There are 3 attachments from the Hunter and Trapper Organization HTO totalling 612 kb which this list function won't allow. So if you want the files, let us know.
The Inuit people must have full access to information and discussion in their own language, Inuktitut. The mining project must be completely stopped until the Inuit people know the facts about this uranium mining in their territory. Many Nunavummiut only speak Inuktitut. As well in the North access to the internet, articles, documents, etc. is very limited. You know what to do!
You can write to Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit at
They are the group who want to see greater scrutiny in the decision process and possibly/probably stop a uranium mine if it looks too destructive which we know it will if the Truth be known. They have an email list with many postings for your interest.
Contact the unreasonable, run by industry, NIRB Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) at:
General Inquiries: info@nirb.ca
Toll Free: 1-866-233-3033
Fax: 1-867-983-2594 or 1-867-983-2574
FTP Site: http://ftp.nirb.ca
Website: www.nirb.ca
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1360, Cambridge Bay, NU, X0B 0C0
Nunavut Impact Review Board
info@nirb.ca
Kittoh
From: Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:26:28 -0400
Subject: 11/03/24 Baker Lake HTO: "NIRB has failed us."
“NIRB has failed us”
Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit
Baker Lake March 24, 2011
The Baker Lake Hunters and Trappers Organization (HTO) appeared before
the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB)’s EIS Guidelines (for the
proposed Kiggavik uranium mine) Development Workshop this afternoon.
“NIRB has failed us,” HTO Board member Eugene Niviatsiak told the
workshop. (All quotes are translations.) “You have failed hunters and
Elders who only speak, read and write Inuktitut.”
Niviatsiak noted that uranium mining was first proposed for the
Kivalliq region in the late 1980s. “Uranium-related words should have
been translated a long time ago… at least since 2007” (when the
Nunavut Planning Commission decided that it had met its obligations
pursuant to terms 3.5 and 3.6 of the Keewatin Regional Land Use Plan,
thereby opening the region to possible uranium mining projects),
Niviatsiak said.
“The environmental review process is now moving forward quite quickly,
while many hunters and Elders do not understand the process of
reviewing the proposal,” Niviatsiak continued. “There are many
companies that want to build mines on our land. We can’t fully grasp
the concepts that the mining companies and the NIRB use if they are
not translated into Inuktitut.
HTO Chair Richard Aksawnee then spoke, reinforcing the message that
Niviatsiak had delivered.
The Inuit Language Authority is now leading a process to develop
terminology about various forms of radiation and related concepts that
are needed to understand the issues being discussed. NIRB began asking
for help in this regard after Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit raised the
question of translation on November 18, 2011 (see background
information below).
When the Baker Lake Hunters and Trappers Organization (HTO) wrote NIRB
on February 27, 2011 requesting “that the Kiggavik review be
immediately put on hold until a vocabulary can be developed that
allows the draft guidelines to be translated into the Baker Lake
dialect of Inuktitut” NIRB faced a choice: do what was in the interest
of big money (continue with the review process as planned) or do what
was in the interest of unilingual Inuktitut-speaking hunters and
Elders in Baker Lake (agree to the HTO request that the Kiggavik
review be immediately put on hold). NIRB decided to continue with the
review process as planned, before the terminology development work had
even been started.
Responding to the report approved by the Baker Lake HTO last night
(attached) and the statements made by HTO Board members today, a NIRB
official said that “A response from NIRB will be forthcoming.”
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BACKGROUND
The following is from section 2 (‘Lack of essential documents
translated into Inuktitut’) of Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit
(Makita)’s ‘Comments on the Revised Draft Guidelines for AREVA
Resources Canada Inc.’s preparation of the Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the proposed ‘Kiggavik’ Project’ (March 2, 2011):
2. Lack of essential documents translated into Inuktitut
As we noted in our comments on the Draft Guidelines, “Proper community
consultation is not possible without essential documents being made
available in Inuktitut. Makita raised this matter with NIRB on
November 18, 2010, and on November 23rd NIRB stated that it “is
currently endeavouring to translate … key provisions of the Draft EIS
Guidelines for the Kiggavik Project, and we will make these documents
available for information purposes as soon as meaningful translations
have been completed.””
In response, NIRB stated: “Submission of a translated EIS Guidelines
has been delayed due to the technical issues regarding translation.”
On February 27, 2011, the Baker Lake Hunters and Trappers Organization
(HTO) wrote NIRB requesting “that the Kiggavik review be immediately
put on hold until a vocabulary can be developed that allows the draft
guidelines to be translated into the Baker Lake dialect of Inuktitut.”
On March 2, 2011, NIRB responded that it had been unable to do so --
but that “suspending the Board’s review of the Kiggavik project
proposal would not appear to be feasible at this time, given that such
a delay could prove to be indefinite.”
Makita notes that:
a) Nunavummiut have known since the suspension of the Federal
Environmental Assessment Review Office (FEARO) review in 1990 that one
day there would be a second attempt to exploit the Kiggavik uranium
ore body, with a resulting review process.
b) In the years since its creation NIRB appears to have given no
thought to the need to develop the terminology required to allow
unilingual Inuktitut speakers to fully participate in the review of a
proposed uranium mine.
c) Similarly, neither AREVA Resources nor the Canadian Nuclear Safety
Commission have sought to develop so much as an English/Inuktitut
glossary of key terminology.
d) The result is that all unilingual English speakers can participate
fully in NIRB’s review of a proposed uranium mine located 80 kms from
the community of Baker Lake, but unilingual Inuktitut speakers in the
community of Baker Lake cannot.
Makita supports the Baker Lake HTO’s request that the Kiggavik review
be immediately put on hold until a vocabulary can be developed that
allows the draft guidelines to be translated into the Baker Lake
dialect of Inuktitut.
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I bet you're wondering what the heck "fracking" is. That's a good question.
Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is a controversial drilling technique used by the oil and gas industry that has injected millions of tons of highly toxic chemical fluids into the ground to break apart shale and release natural gas.
Scientists believe these chemicals are poisoning America's drinking water.
That didn't stop Vice President Dick Cheney from exempting fracking from the Safe Water Drinking Act in the 2005 Energy Bill or the natural gas industry from unleashing a massive 34-state drilling campaign.
Now, six years later, with the facts stacking up showing the damage being caused and the American lives being placed at risk, a few members of Congress are standing up to close the loophole and hold the oil and gas production industry to the same standards as any other industry to ensure the safe protection of America's drinking water.
But they'll need our help to win. Join us in calling on Congress to pass the FRAC Act now.
Representatives Diana DeGette, Jared Polis, and Maurice Hinchey have introduced the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act in the U.S. House while Senators Bob Casey and Chuck Schumer have introduced the companion bill in the U.S. Senate.
In the past, the oil and gas industry has spent millions of dollars fighting against these common-sense regulations and have succeeded in defeating similar bills. This time, we're not going to let Congress fight the industry alone.
That's why Democracy for America is building a coalition of grassroots activists and environmental organizations to work together with leaders in Congress to pass the FRAC Act this year.
We'll educate the public, expose scientific studies that reveal the real risks, hold rallies, meetings, public forums, and organize grassroots action until we win.
Please add your name and join the campaign to protect America's drinking water right now.
It's been reported that since 1999 more than 90 percent of the natural gas wells have used the fracking process. Because of the Safe Water Drinking Act exemption, industry is not required to reveal the exact chemicals used in fracking, but researchers in independent scientific studies suspect 65 percent of the compounds used in fracking are hazardous to human health.
It only takes low concentrations of benzene and diesel fuel, two compounds found in fracking studies, to lead to severe health and environmental consequences and illnesses traced to fracking have been documented in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Alabama.
As if that wasn't enough to demand proper regulation and environmental oversight, a recent New York Times article revealed that the inability to properly process wastewater from fracking, may even be allowing radioactive materials into local rivers, streams, and drinking water.
The oil and gas industry is too big and too powerful for us to let members of Congress take them on alone. It's up to us to stand with them, fight back, and make sure they have the support they'll need to win.
Join the campaign at www.StopFrackingNow.com today.
Thank you for everything you do.
-Jim
Jim Dean, Chair
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From the Eagle Watch #123a
March 28, 2011
This is the file that goes with yesterday's posting, "Baker Lake HTO: "NIRB has failed us."
Preliminary Report on the Inuit Qaujimajatuganit
Regarding Areva's "Road Options"
Prepared for the Baker Lake Hunters and Trappers Organization
by JT Consulting
MARCH 13, 2011
We haven't included the 2 photos that were also included. If you want to get more information about the proposed uranium mining in Nunavut, send an email to Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit
Kittoh
See Attached PDF to email
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Fw: [AIMFLCH] Cleveland Demonstration to Protest Racism
Posted by: "Audrey Beavers" audreybeavers@yahoo.com audreybeavers
Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:24 am (PDT)
--- On Thu, 3/24/11, rabeaul@aol.com
From: rabeaul@aol.com
Subject: [AIMFLCH] Cleveland Demonstration to Protest Racism
To: aimflch@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 8:44 PM
COMMITTEE OF 500 YEARS OF DIGNITY AND RESISTANCE
P O BOX 110815, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44111
The Committee of 500 Years presents:
19th Annual Demonstration to Protest Racism against Indigenous Peoples in Sports and Media
Please support the Indigenous People
Friday, April 1, 2011
Demonstration theme will be the history of racism against the Indigenous People from the beginning to today.
12:00 noon - Meet at W. 25th and Detroit Avenue
12:30 p.m. - March to Progressive Field
1:00-3:00 p.m. - Demonstration Against Racism at Progressive Field –
NW Quadrant on Ontario Street.
4:00-7:00 pm - Pot luck with updates and strategizing among Activists.
Where - Denison Avenue United Church of Christ, 9900 Denison Avenue,
Cleveland, OH. Enter at side door.
Call for available housing for out of town guests. E-mail ferne.clements@yahoo.com or 216-252-1622
End of the season demonstration
September - Tuesday, September 20, 2011 – Demonstration starts
at 5:00 pm until game time.
If by chance the Cleveland Ball team does go into the playoffs, we will demonstrate for two hours before each game.
We ask that our supporters that join us please focus on the issue of racism against the indigenous people. We understand there are other issues that are important, but this demonstration is for focusing on this issue only. We plan a peaceful and respectful demonstration. Those who cannot comply with our guidelines will be asked to leave.
The Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance is a coalition of community organizations and community activists in Northeast Ohio. The Committee is committed to enhancing and protecting the cultural human rights and heritage rights of indigenous people living in Northeast Ohio. The Committee shall promote financial and, technical assistance; advocacy and other supportive activities to the Ohio indigenous community. Through media events, and various public forums the Committee will educate the general public on the unacceptable individual and institutional racism that exists in our communities. The Committee is specifically committed to ending the use of the racist Chief Wahoo and the name Indians and will use all its available resources to accomplish this goal.
For More info please contact: Ferne Clements @ 216-252-1622
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Google It in Cherokee: 3/25/2011 11:58:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
The international technology leader Google has added the Cherokee written language, called Cherokee Syllabary, to its repertoire of searchable languages. Just like the many other languages Google supports, now anyone who can read and write Cherokee can look up virtually anything in the world,or at least the world of the World Wide Web.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3551
Google It in Cherokee: 3/25/2011
(C) Cherokee Nation
The international technology leader Google has added the Cherokee written language, called Cherokee Syllabary, to its repertoire of searchable languages. Just like the many other languages Google supports, now anyone who can read and write Cherokee can look up virtually anything,at least in the universe of the World Wide Web.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3552
Robotic Pharmacy Now Featured at Cherokee Nation Health Center: 3/24/2011 9:16:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
Construction is now complete on the newly remodeled pharmacy at the Cherokee Nation Redbird Smith Health Center in Sallisaw. As part of the new construction, the pharmacy now features a new robotic system to help fill prescriptions more quickly, lessening the patient’s wait time.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3550
Cherokee Nation Celebrates National Arbor Week with Tree Give Away: 3/23/2011 12:34:00 PM
(C) Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation is inviting everyone to help celebrate National Arbor Week by offering its annual tree giveaway on Friday, March 25, at 1 p.m. inside the main entrance to the tribal complex, 17675 S. Muskogee Ave., in Tahlequah.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3549
Cherokee Nation Presents Color Guard with Contribution: 3/23/2011 8:31:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation recently presented the Cherokee Nation Color Guard with a contribution in support of the non-profit group’s activities. The color guard was presented a check for $5,000 by Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chad Smith at a brief ceremony held in the tribe’s Council Chambers.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3548
Cherokee Nation Brings Childcare Expert to Catoosa for Free Workshop: 3/21/2011 12:53:00 PM
(C) Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is bringing childcare expert Angela Fraley to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Catoosa, 777 W. Cherokee St., to conduct a free workshop Saturday, April 9, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Falling in Love With Infants and Toddlers and Maintaining a Connection as They Grow”.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3546
Cherokee Nation Brings Childcare Expert to Catoosa for Free Workshop: 3/21/2011 11:27:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is bringing childcare expert Angela Fraley to the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Catoosa, 777 W. Cherokee St., to conduct a free workshop Saturday, April 9, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Falling in Love With Infants and Toddlers and Maintaining a Connection as They Grow”.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3545
Tulsa Woman Honored With Cherokee Nation Gadugi Award: 3/21/2011 8:26:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation presented Marybelle Chase of Tulsa with the Gadugi Award at March’s Tribal Council meeting in Tahlequah, Okla. Chase was given the award in recognition of her academic contributions to the Nation.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3544
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Dianne MathiowetzMarch 31, 2011 at 1:02pm
Subject: URGENT ACTION - Stop Anti-Immigrant Legislation in Georgia
Folks! Please sign and pass the word!!!! We need 10,000 signatures by next week
Please take 2 minutes to sign http://www.facebook.com/l/70b332mCinraoq1hg5yrRI2cOLw/change.org's petition against anti-immigrant Arizona-style laws, HB 87 and SB 40. It is our first on line petition that we are issuing and we need thousands of people to sign.
http://www.facebook.com/l/70b33j-_cQiLN58uiC2jafkc1hw/www.change.org/petitions/stand-up-for-dignity-and-against-anti-immigrant-laws-in-georgia-2#?opt_new=t&opt_fb=f
And then, please take 5 minutes to PROMOTE AND SPREAD THE WORD to your friends, networks, listserves and all over facebook, twitter, and more.
Finally, if you are in Georgia and can also use printed petitions to gather signatures, email Lisa at ladler@aiusa.org!
THANK YOU!
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Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field
and in the policy arena to protect America's last wild buffalo.
Buffalo Field Campaign
Yellowstone Bison
Update from the Field
March 31, 2011
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* Update from the Field
* Back by Popular Demand: BFC's "Send a Mother's Day Card" Fundraiser
* HELP! Stop APHIS from Harming Bull Buffalo!
* Two New Videos from BFC
* Shout Out for Summer Volunteers!
* Buffalo in the News
* TAKE ACTION! What You Can Do to Help
* By the Numbers
* Last Words ~ barb abramo
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* Update from the Field
A frightened female buffalo inside Yellowstone's Stephens Creek trap sorting pens. BFC file photo by Ken Cole. Click photo for larger image.
On Friday, BFC's Gardiner patrols witnessed Yellowstone National Park and the State of Montana capture another thirty-two of America's last wild buffalo, raising the captive population to six hundred and fifty-nine. Like hundreds of other buffalo captured this year, these new captives are being held in the Stephens Creek bison trap, where they will be separated from family members and undergo rough human handling as agents sort them by sex and age and then put them through the abusive torments of testing for exposure to brucellosis. The Stephens Creek buffalo trap is far over capacity, so the recently captured buffalo that test negative for brucellosis exposure will be transported to the Corwin Springs buffalo prison, a few miles north of Yellowstone National Park, where they will join sixty-seven previously captured inmates, while those testing positive will remain at Stephens Creek. Without significant public pressure, Yellowstone will likely attempt to appease livestock interests and sacrifice American buffalo on the cattle industry altar, sending hundreds of wild buffalo to slaughter later this spring. Please take action now to prevent this unnecessary tragedy!
During a haze on Tuesday, BFC documented as agents ran buffalo through a barbed wire fence. This is an all-too-common occurance, and one of the rare situations that cause buffalo to damage property. BFC file photo by Peter Bogusko. Click photo for larger image.
Yellowstone National Park, the Montana Department of Livestock, and Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks agents have conducted numerous hazing operations this week in the Gardiner Basin, forcing hundreds of wild buffalo from their habitat north of Yellowstone National Park. Though some groups of mature bull buffalo have been victims of hazing operations, the majority of the harassment efforts have been targeted towards family groups of pregnant buffalo, yearlings, young bulls and cows, and elder females. Cow buffalo and their family groups are targeted because of the fear-mongering related to the brucellosis scam, though agents make excuses that they have received complaints about "property damage." Ironically, the groups of massive bull bison have not garnered such attentions. The alleged complaints about property damage are questionable because buffalo are very careful in their movements and rarely cause property damage when they aren't being harassed by agents.
Two beautiful bull buffalo, roaming their native habitat north of Yellowstone's boundaries. Bulls have enjoyed a little bit of tolerance in the past several weeks. BFC file photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image.
For more than a month now, and for the first time in BFC history, bull buffalo are enjoying a temporary respite from constant harassment in the Gardiner Basin. Nearly fifty bull buffalo have been allowed to occupy the exact same grounds that the family groups are being hazed from, with no complaints from residents. In fact, the locals we have spoken with have been relishing the company of the buffalo. Singularly or in bachelor groups, bull buffalo are enriching the landscape, being allowed - for now - to live in peace on lands they have for years been forced off of. They are being given the chance to represent themselves, and they are the best ambassadors of their cause. Living with wild buffalo is easy and extremely rewarding on a variety of levels; these bulls will help demonstrate this, and as more people are introduced to living in their presence, misconceptions will dissolve as the doors of coexistence begin to open.
BFC patrols have been busy along the highways that cut through migration corridors, warning motorists of the presence of buffalo on the road. BFC file photo. Click photo for larger image.
Patrols in West Yellowstone have been keeping busy around the clock as spring migration picks up. As buffalo make their way towards their calving grounds on the Horse Butte Peninsula they must cross Highway 191, a route heavily traveled by 18-wheelers. BFC maintains our vigilance upon the highway as buffalo approach, using our hot pink "Buffalo Crossing" signs to help warn motorists and mitigate buffalo-vehicle collisions. Five years ago we appealed to you for help purchasing these signs. Within days you responded, and we were able to purchase these signs and other flagging equipment. Your generosity has enabled us to save more buffalo and human lives than we could imagine, and we cannot thank you enough.
While bulls in the Gardiner Basin along Yellowstone's north boundary are having a bit of a mellower time, the same is not true for bulls in the Hebgen Basin, west of Yellowstone. The USDA-Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking to continue their "bull semen study" and aims to molest eleven more bull buffalo on the Gallatin National Forest. Please see below and help us help these bulls!
Wild is the Way ~ Roam Free!
~Stephany
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* Back by Popular Demand: BFC's "Send a Mother's Day Card" Fundraiser
Thanks to the dedication and creativity of BFC supporter, volunteer, and former board member Kathleen Stachowski, we will again be offering beautiful, hand-designed Mother's Day cards. For a small contribution that benefits BFC's buffalo-protection work we will send one of these unique cards to the recipient of your choice. The cards will arrive in time for Mother's Day and you and the special people in your life will have the satisfaction of knowing that your love is helping protect America's only continuously wild population of bison.
We will have more detailed information about this year's cards next week so please watch this space.
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* APHIS Seeking to Molest Bull Buffalo Again
APHIS scientists and law enforcement officers molest a bull buffalo on Gallatin National Forest. Why is the Forest Service ranger draped over this tranquilized bull? BFC file photo by Cindee. Click photo for larger image.
The USDA-Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will continue their "Study of Shedding and Venereal Transmission of Brucella abortus by Bison Bulls in the Greater Yellowstone Area." Last spring, APHIS molested thirty-nine wild bull bison on Gallatin National Forest, north and west of Yellowstone National Park. Tranquilized, forced to ejaculate, painted with a blue stripe, roused with a reversal drug, then left to fend for themselves, buffalo bulls are harmed and humiliated by this study, and local residents are threatened. Last spring, two bull bison were shot hours after waking up agitated from the drugs APHIS had given them. County officials also expressed strong concern about the safety of residents after molested bulls were behaving uncharacteristically near homes shortly after APHIS left them. After these incidents, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, the agency who issued APHIS the permit, expressed concern about the study continuing, and we were hopeful they would do the right thing and revoke it. However, they are ignoring past experience and allowing APHIS to proceed, regardless of public opposition, lack of need for the study, and its many consequences. This study is a stark display of abuse, totally unnecessary, puts the lives of bull buffalo and local residence in danger, and the results will not benefit wild bison in any way. Please learn more and take action to help these bulls!
Watch BFC's video
Contact FWP's Wildlife Chief Ken McDonald and urge him to revoke APHIS's permit
Contact Becky Frey, APHIS, and tell her she is not welcome to molest bulls buffalo on our public lands or anywhere else!
Don't let this happen to more bull buffalo! Drugged bull, painted with a blue stripe after APHIS molested him. He will be awakened with a reversal drug that can cause anger, gastro-intestinal problems, and anxiety. BFC file photo by Cindee. Click photo for larger image.
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* Two New Videos from BFC to Watch and Share!
1. BFC Volunteer Perspective, Featuring Good Shield
Good Shield has been helping Buffalo Field Campaign for a number of years, travelling with Mike and playing music with his band 7th Generation Rise (LINK) during BFC's West Coast Road Show. When Good Shield joined us on the front lines for the first time, things were relatively quiet. This year, his return has coincided with a storm of events.
2. When Elk Fly!
Over the next five years, FWP will attempt to test up to 500 elk for exposure to brucellosis. BFC was present - and documenting - during the first round of testing that took place in the Ruby Valley. While elk may be getting off easier than the buffalo in these cattle industry-driven wars against wildlife, it is nonetheless unnecessary, harmful and disrespectful treatment of our nation's native fauna. Cattle are invasive species that have brought disease and destroyed habitat, they are the manageable element, and they must be carefully managed in order to protect our wildlife.
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* Shout Out for Summer Volunteers!
As the days grow longer and more and more bison leave the Park in search of sustenance our presence remains essential. We are also planning and preparing for our summer tabling program. Buffalo Field Campaign is currently looking for personable and enthusiastic volunteers who are interested in setting up and maintaining information tables in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks this summer. We ask for a minimum three week commitment from prospective volunteers so that we can adequately train and prepare you to educate and interface with the public. During summer volunteering with the Campaign one can expect to hand out literature, participate in discussions with members of the public, correct misinformation about wild bison, talk about bison management and policies, advocate for habitat and truly wild free roaming bison, and much more. You can also expect to spend your time hiking, camping, and exploring some of the most beautiful lands our nation has to offer.
If you have time this summer and are interested in being a positive voice for wild bison please contact me at volunteer@buffalofieldcampaign.org and we can plan your volunteer experience. Thank you so much for your support and continued work for the buffalo.
Peet
Volunteer Coordinator
Buffalo Field Campaign
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* WHAT YOU CAN DO
If only the buffalo could set themselves free like this calf did, but they need your voice! Take action to set the buffalo free! There are many things you can do that will make a big difference for our shaggy friends. Photo by Stephany. Click photo for larger image.
1. Contact Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk and welcome him to Yellowstone, tell him to set the trapped buffalo free, pull out of the Interagency Bison Management Plan, stop harassing and killing wildlife and work towards habitat-based solutions for America's last wild buffalo! Please also tell him to have the Park set up a web cam at the Stephens Creek buffalo trap so that we can keep an eye on our friends. Take Action Now!
2. NEW Easy Action Alert! Please contact Gallatin National Forest Supervisor Mary Erickson and ask her exactly what the Forest Service is doing to fulfill their legal mandate to provide year-round habitat for wild buffalo populations. Hundreds of thousands of acres of National Forest habitats exist for wild buffalo contiguous with Yellowstone National Park's north and west boundaries. These critical public lands are a small part of the buffalo's ancient migrations to winter range and spring calving grounds in the Paradise, Gallatin and Madison river valleys. Please ask Supervisor Mary Erickson and the U.S. Forest Service to manage habitats to support these gentle, nomadic giants. Supervisor Mary Erickson needs to stand up to the state of Montana and no longer allow the state to dictate where and when buffalo are allowed to roam our National Forests. Ask her as Supervisor of the Gallatin National Forest to reallocate habitat permitted for grazing cattle to support the keystone ecological roles migratory populations of wild buffalo fulfill on land that is their birth right. Take Action Now!
3. Contact your Members of Congress and urge them to intervene with the Park on your behalf and to support federal funding to protect America's last wild buffalo and their habitat. Ask them to support the re-direction of funds wasted on the Interagency Bison Management Plan towards habitat-based solutions that honor the wild integrity of our national heritage. Write your Representative Write your Senators
4. Contact Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and THANK HIM for the 90-day stay of execution, tell him he did the right thing. Please also remind him that wild buffalo must be allowed to access habitat in Montana. Brucellosis is not the issue, but habitat for wild buffalo is the solution. Remind him that until Montana embraces and respects wild, free-roaming bison, the state will continue to be globally shamed by these actions against America's last wild buffalo! Remind him that tourism sustains Montana. governor@mt.gov 406-444-3111
5. Sign BFC's Petition to National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis urging him to abandon the failed Interagency Bison Management Plan. Sign the petition.
6. Write Letters to the Editor to newspapers in your region to help raise awareness and bring an end to the unjust treatment of America's last wild buffalo. Write on for the buffalo!
7. Vote for wild buffalo and all wildlife with your money by Boycotting beef.
8. Volunteer with BFC by joining us on the front lines! volunteer@buffalofieldcampaign.org 406-646-0070
9. Watch & Share This Video to inspire yourself and others to Protect the Wild Bison
THANK YOU! Please spread the word to save these herds by telling everyone you know what is happening to the country's last wild buffalo and what they can do to . Knowledge is power!
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* By the Numbers
AMERICAN BUFFALO ELIMINATED from the last wild population in the U.S. The last wild population is currently estimated at fewer than 3,700 individual buffalo.
2010-2011 Total: 221
2010-2011 Government Capture: 659
2010-2011 Government Slaughter:
2010-2011 Died In Government Trap: 3
2010-2011 Miscarriage in Government Trap: 1
2010-2011 State & Treaty Hunts: 211
2010-2011 Quarantine: 0
2010-2011 Shot by Agents: 2
2010-2011 Highway Mortality: 5
2009-2010 Total: 7
2008-2009 Total: 22
2007-2008 Total: 1,631
* Total Since 2000: 3,932*
*includes lethal government action, trap-related fatalities, quarantine, hunts, highway mortality
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* Last Words ~ barb abramo
Dr. McClusky,
THIS PLAN IS WRONG.
THIS PLAN IS ANOTHER WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY
THIS PLAN IS ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RESTRICTING BISON ON PUBLIC LANDS
Your agency FAILED to notify the public of this EA
Your agency, as a PARTNER of the IBMP agencies, FAILED to notify them of this plan
Your agency FAILED to acquire permits for closings on Gallatin National Forest lands
Your agency FAILED to notify the businesses of West Yellowstone, including our Chamber of Commerce, about this plan and the impact forest lands closings would have on them
Your agency FAILED to acquire permits from Yellowstone National Park for your proposed upcoming activities against bull bison during the rut [which I'm sure will be a big hit at the highest tourist time in Yellowstone]
This plan is a further FAIL in that there is no agreement from the state of Montana to allow greater tolerance of buffalo on public lands
I guess what i'm respectfully trying to say is your agency is a TOTAL FAILURE. Just leave your hands off our WILD buffalo!
Sincerely,
barb abramo
Sent to APHIS on 3-26-10
barb sent this message to USDA-APHIS when they announced that they would proceed with plans to molest up to fifty bull bison on Gallatin National Forest. Strong and powerful words from a strong and powerful woman. In her honor, and for the buffalo she loved so dearly, please take action for bull buffalo!
Do you have submissions for Last Words? Send them to bfc-media@wildrockies.org. Thank you for all the poems, songs, quotes, and stories you have been sending; you'll see them here!
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EPA: Radioactive Iodine-131 levels in PA & MA rainwater “exceed maximum contaminant level permitted in drinking water”
http://enenews.com/alert-epa-radioactive-iodine-131-levels-in-rainwater-exceed-maximum-contaminant-level-permitted-in-drinking-water
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FUKUSHIMA DISASTER
Radioactive Iodine-131 in Pennsylvania rainwater sample 3300% above federal drinking water standard.
Webmaster's Commentary:
"The EPA has raised that maximum to a new higher standard, so now you are all safe. Aren't they doing a swell job? As a side note, since you can now read at night from the glow of your own bodies, please remember to turn off unnecessary lights to save electricity and reduce human-caused global warming! Next week Michelle will present a demonstration on how California residents can now BBQ their Gulf Coast Shrimp using only the heat generated from their hands!" -- Official White Horse Souse
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While Nuclear Waste Piles up in U.S., Billions in Fund to Handle It Sit Unused
http://www.propublica.org/article/while-nuclear-waste-piles-up-in-u.s.-billions-in-fund-to-handle-it-sits-unu
By: kdtroxel
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FUKUSHIMA DISASTER
HIDDEN HISTORY
POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION
SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE
WHITE HOUSE
There is $24 billion sitting in a "nuclear waste fund" that can't actually be used to pay for a safer way to store the waste at reactors.In 1982, Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, and the federal government effectively struck a deal with the nuclear industry: Reactor operators and their customers would pay a tax on the waste they produced, and the government would use the money to create a safe place to store it for generations. The idea at the time was to build a repository inside volcanic rock on Yucca Mountain, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. That plan proved to be wildly controversial and was eventually abandoned by the Obama administration in 2010. After 29 years, there are billions of dollars in the fund and no plan for the waste.There is about 70,000 tons of spent fuel [5] stored at reactor sites around the country. Three-quarters of the material sits in cooling pools. Reactor operators have been re-racking the rods so they can fit more of them in the pools -- a practice that makes the pools more radioactive and potentially more dangerous in the event of an accident.
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Oil Barons
What's the Worst Thing
the Koch Brothers Have Done?
VOTE NOW!
http://act.bravenewfilms.org/go/534?akid=1505.444970.-qvuq0&t=3
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Boycott these products by Koch:
1. Industry/Georgia-Pacific Products
2. Angel Soft toilet paper
3. Brawny paper towels
4. Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups
5. Mardi Gras napkins and towels
6. Quilted Northern toilet paper
7. Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper
8. Sparkle napkins
9. Vanity fair napkins
10. Zee Napkins
From: columbusnaacp1@juno.com
Subject: FW: Foreclosure Video you must see
You should all watch this video!
These scoundrels should be run out of the country .
WARNING: Please watch the video below only after taking your blood pressure medication.
www.youtube.com/user/fiercefreeleancer
From: Kevin Gainer
Subject: NIA -- 12 Warning Signs of U.S. Hyperinflation
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/12-warning-signs-of-us-hyperinflation-118718254.html
From: Kevin Gainer
Subject: AARP executives get MILLIONS in "compensation"
a real "nonprofit" with over $1 BILLION in revenue. what a riot.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36188
From: Lenore Palladino, MoveOn.org Political Action
Subject: A slap in the face
Dear MoveOn member,
According to The New York Times, last year General Electric (GE) made over $14.2 billion in profit, but paid NO federal tax.1 None.
In fact, thanks to the millions GE spent lobbying Congress, we American taxpayers actually owed GE $3.2 billion in tax credits.2
Now GE is slashing health benefits and retirement benefits for new employees among non-union workers and is expected to push unions to accept similar cutbacks3, while its CEO, Jeff Immelt, gets a 100% pay raise.4
What's worse? Immelt now sits as chair of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (Jobs Council), representing corporate America to the President on matters like job creation and corporate taxation. That's a slap in the face to every hardworking, tax-paying American—especially GE employees.
That's why we're teaming up with Russ Feingold and his new group Progressives United today to call for Immelt to go. Will you join the call?
Sign the petition calling for GE CEO Jeff Immelt to step down as chair of the President's Jobs Council. One of the chief ways GE avoids paying taxes is by shifting a large portion of its profits overseas, and jobs follow.5 Now GE's CEO is the person charged with helping the President create jobs here in America. That's just perverse.
And if the American people got back just the $3.2 billion GE took in tax credits, it would pay for the programs that House Republicans want to gut, like community health centers providing care to over three million low-income people6 and food and health care assistance to pregnant women, new moms, and children.7 We'd even have enough left to save the jobs of over 21,000 teachers across the country.8
The American deficit is being weighed down by hundreds of billions spent on bailing out major corporations. The tea party's plan is to make working families pay through devastating cuts, instead of making corporations with billions in profits pay their fair share.
But if we can hold Immelt accountable for GE's corporate irresponsibility, the nation will turn its attention to the injustice of corporate tax evasion in the face of the Republicans' budget-slashing attack on working families.
Make it all happen by signing the petition calling for Immelt to go. Just click below—and share this email with your friends, family, and social networks today.
http://pol.moveon.org/immelt_must_go/?id=26714-1195276-1oBtSEx&t=2
Thanks for all that you do.
–Lenore, Tim, Marika, Kat, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "G.E.'s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes All Together," The New York Times, March 24, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207259&id=26714-1195276-1oBtSEx&t=3
2. Ibid.
3. "After Paying Zero Income Taxes, GE Plans To Ask Its Union Workers To Make Wage and Benefits Concessions", ThinkProgress, March 28, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207260&id=26714-1195276-1oBtSEx&t=5
4. "UPDATE: GE Doubles CEO Immelt's Compensation, Shrinks Board", Smart Money, March 14, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207261&id=26714-1195276-1oBtSEx&t=6
5. "G.E.'s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes All Together," The New York Times, March 24, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207259&id=26714-1195276-1oBtSEx&t=7
6. "NACHC Statement in Response to the Budget from the House Appropriations Committee," National Association of Community Health Centers website, February 9, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206514&id=26714-1195276-1oBtSEx&t=8
7. "Bye Bye, Big Bird. Hello, E. Coli.," The New Republic, February 12, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=206104&id=26714-1195276-1oBtSEx&t=9
8. Based on an annual teacher's salary of $42,500, as noted in the Payscale website (updated March 19, 2011), accessed March 30, 2011
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=207263&id=26714-1195276-1oBtSEx&t=10
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FYI If you are interested in more information on the proposed uranium mining in Nunavut, write to Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit to get on their list.
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:50:33 -0400
Subject: 11/03/31 NN letter: In defense of emotionalism, Makita responds
From: Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit
To: nunavummiutmakitagunarningit@gmail.com
In defense of emotionalism, Makita responds
letter to the editor
Nunatsiaq News
March 31, 2011
The editorial “On uranium, don’t look for simple answers” (March 28)
asks “What, exactly, does … ‘political oppression’ consist of?”
Oppression consists of residents of Baker Lake who voted to oppose the
proposed Kiggavik uranium mine in a municipal plebiscite in 1990 — the
only free vote ever held on the question in Nunavut.
More than 90 per cent of the voters said no. Between that and Term 3.6
of the Keewatin Land Use Plan (“Any future proposal to mine uranium
must be approved by the people of the region”), many people thought
the question was settled.
But after some backroom manoeuvres, virtually no public discussion,
and no second public vote, somebody somewhere decided that “the
people” of the Kivalliq had somehow approved uranium mining in the
region.
Oppression also consists of unilingual hunters and Elders in Baker
Lake last week, watching the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB)
workshop in the community hall. Twenty-five of the 26 people at the
table were unilingual non-Inuit, the discussion was in English (with
excellent interpreters), and the document being discussed was
available only in English.
The Board of the Baker Lake Hunters and Trappers Organization had
requested that NIRB’s review process be suspended until
uranium-related terminology was developed and the key document was
translated, but NIRB had decided that this would be too much of an
inconvenience to the company wanting to build the mine.
“NIRB has failed us,” HTO Board members told the workshop. (All quotes
are translations.) “You have failed hunters and Elders who only speak,
read and write Inuktitut.”
The HTO noted that uranium mining was first proposed for the Kivalliq
region in the late 1980s. “Uranium-related words should have been
translated a long time ago… The environmental review process is now
moving forward quite quickly, while many hunters and Elders do not
understand the process of reviewing the proposal. There are many
companies that want to build mines on our land. We can’t fully grasp
the concepts that the mining companies and the NIRB use if they are
not translated into Inuktitut.”
Such a clear violation of the hunters and Elders’ rights to
participate made it seem as though we are still living in the
Northwest Territories in the 1970s, and that we haven’t reached
Nunavut yet.
Oppression may soon be continued through approval of the proposed
Kiggavik project -- opening up the region to wider uranium
development, with who knows how many mines and roads, all impacting on
the sustainability of the caribou herds.
The editorial says the debate over uranium mining has been
characterized by “emotionalism,” which suggests that there is no room
for vigorous dialogue in Nunavut.
Serious dialogue is emotional, Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit is
emotional, to oppose the status quo is irrational… this logic
discourages democratic debate, and begs the question “How dare Inuit
speak their minds?” -- which, in an ironic way, is oppressive
behaviour in itself.
The editorial also states that “private [Inuit organization] affairs
are accessible only to insiders,” but then declares that “It’s too
late to do anything about that now.” We disagree. The whole point of
Makita has been to open up the decision-making process to as many
Nunavummiut as possible, and we’ve had some success in doing so.
The GN uranium policy development process includes a public
consultation component, and hopefully NTI’s review of its Uranium
Policy will as well. Both organizations have a duty to consult those
they represent, and not just make decisions behind closed doors.
What we hope would be for NTI to take appropriate action to achieve
certainty on the question of uranium mining after its policy review
process wraps up. This means a democratic vote, as happened over the
question of whether or not to allow the sale of municipal lands.
Nunavut could, if residents chose to do so, take the same approach as
British Columbia. Say a clear NO to uranium mining and YES to other
forms of mining (subject to the usual regulatory processes). Does
anyone view B.C. as a jurisdiction that is opposed to development, or
hostile to the mining industry? Not at all. B.C. is pro-mining, but
anti-nuclear.
We think that land claim beneficiaries should be given the opportunity
to vote for that kind of certainty about their future.
Finally, why does Nunatsiaq News feel that such a vote would pit the
Qikiqtani region against the Kivalliq and Kitikmeot regions? There is
far more opposition to uranium mining in the Kivalliq and Kitikmeot
regions than people in Iqaluit might think.
It’s just that many of the people who feel that way have also been
feeling oppressed, and have been afraid to speak out in public. Not to
mention that there has been no safe forum to discuss these important
matters.
That’s starting to change, but a democratic vote is the only way to
know for sure how people feel -- no corporate spin or backroom deals,
just you, your conscience, and a ballot.
Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit
Iqaluit and Baker Lake
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Posted By: Tjay Henhawk
To: Members in First Nations & Aboriginal Rights
Native-only schools eyed to fight crime
Mary Agnes Welch and Kenyon Wallace, National Post; With Files From Winnipeg Free Press · Dec. 1, 2009 | Last Updated: Dec. 1, 2009 7:02 AM ET
Winnipeg city council is proposing the creation of a separate school division exclusively for First Nations children in an effort to combat the city's growing rate of violent crime.
The idea is part of an anticrime strategy approved yesterday by Winnipeg city council's protection and community services committee prepared in consultation with some of the city's biggest names in business and government.
The strategy proposes the creation of a separate, publicly funded aboriginal school division, much like the one created 16 years ago for Frenchspeaking Manitobans.
"Why should aboriginal people be denied the same thing?" asked Damon Johnston, president of the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg, at yesterday's meeting. "It can only rest in racism."
But the proposal has raised concerns that the result will ghettoize the school system.
Manitoba's Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Minister Eric Robinson said he has already experienced a segregated school system: residential schools.
"It didn't work at that time, and I don't see how it would work this time," Mr. Robinson said.
The province has often been criticized for allowing eight school boards to operate in Winnipeg, carving the city into separate school divisions where most cities just have one. And the idea for an aboriginal school board has percolated before, winning limited support among parents and the provincial government.
But Wayne Helgason, chairman of Winnipeg's Centre for Aboriginal Human Resource Development, said a school board run by First Nations with tailored language and life-skills courses could help shrink sky-high dropout rates, rebuild aboriginal culture and combat crime and poverty.
"I think it's time for the aboriginal community to reveal its capacity to manage its own affairs in a better way," he said. "There's been an educational compromise for too long that the only way to fix it is to move quickly and significantly. I think there is capacity in the aboriginal community to take this on and show success."
Organized crime in Winnipeg is believed to be a lure for young aboriginals in the province's northern reserves. It is thought that the city has the highest number of aboriginal gangs in Canada. Gangs known as the Indian Posse, the Native Syndicate and the Manitoba Warriors have been linked to the city's drug trade and recent violence.
But Ron Evans, Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, said he disagrees with the decision to include the aboriginal school system proposal among suggestions on how to combat crime in Winnipeg.
"I don't think you should connect the two of them. Crime itself stems from other things, from poverty, the dysfunction that has been placed there by the residential school system," said Chief Evans.
Ingrid Johnston, a multicultural education expert at the University of Alberta, echoed Chief Evan's comments.
"I think they've put the cart before the horse," she said. "If they had framed it by saying one of the hopeful outcomes from the creation of this system is that fewer aboriginal students might leave school early, it would have been better."
The concerns parallel those that were raised in the debate surrounding the decision by Toronto's public school board two years ago to create an Afrocentric school, which some called 1950s segregation disguised as cultural sensitivity. Some argued that separating children risks institutionalizing differences instead of bridging cultural and income gaps.
"I don't know if we want to be ghettoized as aboriginal people in our own school division," Mr. Robinson said, noting the province's goal is to boost aboriginal high school and university graduation rates.
Chief Evans disagreed, saying a focus on aboriginal history and culture would give at-risk youth a sense of place and belonging.
"It's always good that people feel like they are part of something, something that's common to them, which would be their history, their own culture, their own traditions, their languages," he said.
Proponents say a First Nations school division could provide better services to students moving to Winnipeg from northern reserves to attend high school (most reserves don't have high schools).
Winnipeg already has two aboriginal schools: Children of the Earth high school and Niji Mahkwa elementary school. It has been suggested that those schools and their funding could be rolled into a new school division, along with the millions the federal government spends every year sending children off-reserve to high school.
Supporters of the plan point to other cultural-based schools operating in the province, such as Winnipeg's Mennonite university and the Division Scolaire Franco-Manitobaine, a separate French school system with 20 schools, 4,500 students and a special funding model that could be a model for a First Nations school division.
According to the 2006 census, there were about 25,000 aboriginal children and teens in Winnipeg.
Council's committee accepted in principle the report proposing an aboriginal school board, but the idea still requires the endorsement of provincial and federal governments.
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This Canadian-produced documentary feature film
directed by Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott is one
of the best to come around in a long time.
At 1 hr 45 minutes, it's long, so I've put in an intermission
Part 1 - 'The Corporation':
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/1258.html
Part 2 - 'The Corporation':
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/page/1259.html
Here is the review of the film by Kenneth Chisholm:
"Since the late 18th century American legal decision
that the business corporation organizational model
is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic,
political and social force around the globe. This film
takes an in-depth psychological examination of the
organization model through various case studies. What
the study illustrates is that in the its behavior,
this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously
destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore,
we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our
world and our future, but also how the people with
courage, intelligence and determination can do to
stop it."
Bust out the popcorn and get ready to learn about this
endlessly important topic.
(And if Brazilian happens to be your first language,
this version comes conveniently supplied with
Brazilian subtitles).
- Alexandra
P.S. Please share Forbidden Knowledge TV e-mails
and videos with your friends and colleagues.
That's how we grow. Thanks.
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TRUTHDIG interviews Dr. Helen Caldicott...anti nuke activist
Posted on Mar 31, 2011
Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey
(Page 5)
Peter Scheer: Welcome back to Truthdig Radio. Next up, we have Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of such books as “Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer” and “War in Heaven,” and the leading voice against nuclear weapons and energy for many, many years.
Josh Scheer: Could you expand on, you were talking about…spell the end of the nuclear industry, the disaster in Japan?
Helen Caldicott: Yeah, I did. Well, obviously, it’s…the disaster is so profound, and is ongoing, and hasn’t ended. I think it’s going to wake the whole world up to the profound dangers of nuclear power, and I think the general feeling throughout the population of the world will be, “We don’t want it anymore.”
Josh Scheer: And I wanted to ask you, being a doctor, what are the effects? Because maybe a lot of people don’t know, how does this affect people?
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Helen Caldicott: Oh. Well, I think first we should note that the New York Academy of Sciences has put out a report called “Chernobyl,” where for the first time they translated 5,000 Russian articles into English. And it seems…that almost 1 million people have died already from the effects of Chernobyl. Now, that’s just one reactor melting down. There are huge numbers of cancers and leukemia, babies being born severely and grossly deformed, such that we pediatricians have never seen anything like this before. Many of the materials coming out of that reactor last for 600 years. For instance, the whole of the European landmass—40 percent of it is contaminated with Caesium-137, but also plutonium and strontium and the like, and will remain so for 600 years, because that’s how long…but plutonium also lasts for half a million years. Now, the material getting…and what happens is that these elements bio-concentrate in the food chain. For instance, they get into algae and concentrate hundreds of times compared to background water levels; then the crustaceans eat the algae, concentrate it further; little fish, big fish, and finally us. And it’s the same with vegetables and fruit, and milk; the cows come along and graze on the grass that’s concentrating strontium…and caesium and the like, and that then is bio-concentrated in their milk, and then when we drink milk it’s concentrated further in us, in our bones and our teeth, and the like. And so, because we stand at the apex of the food chain, we’re most at risk. Now, you can’t taste any of these substances; you can’t see them or smell them. They’re like minerals that we eat in our food all the time—calcium and zinc, and the like—but they’re radioactive. There are six reactors at risk now in Japan; not one, six. Several of them seem to be melting down. Plus, each one of them has a cooling pool on top of the reactor, unprotected by the containment vessel. And the cooling pools, two of them have run dry. If they are not continually cooled, the water runs out; the zirconium cladding of the fuel rods, containing the uranium pellets and the highly radioactive material, burns and ignites; and as that burns then the fuel melts, and then there’s much, much more radiation in the cooling pool than in the reactor itself. There’s as much long-lived radiation in the reactor as that produced by the explosion of a thousand Hiroshima-sized bombs. So you multiply that by, you know, two to 20 times, and that’s what you’ve got in the cooling pool. So you’ve got reactors melting down, plus cooling pools melting down.
Josh Scheer: So, say you’re someone in the U.S. What are the six reactors melting down right now going to mean—I know we just talked about the, into the food chain and everything else…
Helen Caldicott: Well, it depends on the wind direction. Now, when Chernobyl went, the wind changed 360 degrees in 24 hours, but Chernobyl burnt and melted for at least 10 days. And the whole of Europe was contaminated; in fact, the fallout landed also throughout the Northern Hemisphere in America and right around. The two air masses at the equator do not mix, so this will probably stay in the Northern Hemisphere, but it depends where the wind’s blowing. But they blow from West to East, towards America, and I think there’s going to be—already there’s a fair amount going up there now into the stratosphere; planes have been re-routed around the cloud. Two planes landed in America yesterday and radiation was found upon the passengers and their luggage, an airlift from Tokyo. So it’s already landing in Tokyo. What you need to know, though, is that you only need to inhale a microgram, a millionth of a gram of plutonium, and that will irradiate just a tiny volume of itself for many years. And one of the cells, its regulatory gene could be mutated or biochemically changed by the radiation in one day. Instead of the cell dividing in a regulated way by mitosis, it will go crazy and produce trillions of cells. So it takes a single gene and a single cell to be hit by a single alpha particle by some plutonium, and that’s a death sentence. And that is not just the only one. Plutonium… Strontium-90 is like calcium; it can go to the bone, where it can cause bone cancer or leukemia. Caesium goes throughout the body, so it can cause brain cancer, muscle cancers, ovarian cancers. Radioactive iodine, which only lasts six weeks, but is very potent and concentrates in milk and leafy vegetables, and can be inhaled, causes thyroid cancer. And over 20,000 people in Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine have had thyroid cancer; it’s probably many more now.
Josh Scheer: OK. And now, another question, because…with the green movement, and I know you just wrote the book “If You Love This Planet.” A lot of advocates for nuclear power and lobbyists have jumped on that bandwagon, saying this is clean, this is safe, and this is a great way to…
Helen Caldicott: Well, they don’t understand. They don’t understand biology; they don’t understand radiation biology; they don’t understand medicine. And they have no right to be for nuclear power. First, nuclear power is undergirded by huge industrial infrastructure, all of which produces huge quantities of C02. You have to mine millions of tons of uranium, you have to crush it, you have to enrich it using huge coal-fired plants; you have to build the reactor; you have to transport and store the waste. A large amount of global warming gas is induced by nuclear power. So, it doesn’t affect greenhouse warming, not one little bit. No. 2, it leaves…well there are 64, 70,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear power alone in America, let alone much more from the production of nuclear weapons. That waste is leaking; as it leaks and gets into underground water, it will bio-concentrate in food chains and over generations will induce epidemics of leukemia, cancer and genetic disease. This is the most monstrous public-health hazard the world will ever face. Most of us will be dead, however, by the time the ramifications can be clearly seen.
Josh Scheer: And how do we step back from this? How do we stop…
Helen Caldicott: Well, you close down every single reactor in the world. And I predict this is the end of nuclear power, when the tragedy and the awfulness of this sinks in. And I commissioned a study by Dr. Arjun Makhijani a couple of years ago, to show that the current forms of renewable energy are sufficient to supply all the energy America needs by 2040, with no carbon and no nuclear. Why hasn’t it happened? The politicians are sycophants and servants and prostitutes of the oil companies, the coal companies and the nuclear companies. Period.
Josh Scheer: And then, I was going to ask, with China, they’re planning a major expansion into nuclear power, and countries like France…
Helen Caldicott: China is watching us really carefully. The Chinese are not stupid.
Josh Scheer:…but with countries like France, Lithuania, Slovakia, and obviously many more, they get a lot of their power…you know, I think the French get 78 percent of their power from…
Helen Caldicott: I know—well, the French are nuts anyway. I’ve got a son-in-law who’s a French count; they’re very arrogant. The French nuclear company, it’s all being run by the French government, and Le Monde has really been sycophantal to the French government. Even Eric’s sister [the sister of the French count], who’s a very big TV personality and news person, knew nothing about nuclear power till I taught her. The French are ignorant, they love their food and its agrarian economy, and at every corner you turn there’s a huge nuclear power plant. And there’s a very big rising anti-nuclear movement in France, and they all have to be shut down. They’re pouring radioactive waste into the sea continually as we speak.
Josh Scheer: They have to be close to population centers, right? Because if they’re too far away, they lose their effectiveness?
Helen Caldicott: Because the transmission is inefficient, and you lose a lot of electricity through the power lines, they are usually located near population areas. But they have to be next to water bodies, because each reactor needs a million gallons a minute to keep it cool. And that water goes back, relatively radioactive, into the lake, river or ocean, and they continually pour out radioactive materials. A new study done by the German government, looking at children under the age of 5 living within 5K of 16 reactors, found they had a more than double increased incidence of leukemia and a high incidence of cancer.
Josh Scheer: And then—we just talked about the French, but who are the, who are all the other bad players in regards to the…
Helen Caldicott: Oh, the English are nuts too, they’ve got…and let me tell you that it’s a ..uranium fueling these Japanese reactors. The English have had the most ghastly accidents. There’s some sort of deep psychological need by some men to go for the energy that is obtained from splitting the atom. Einstein said, “The splitting of the atom changed everything save man’s mode of thinking; thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe.” The Department of Energy in America called nuclear power “hard energy.” Whereas they call solar and wind “soft energy.” So the psychosexual analysis…no statement stands alone.
Josh Scheer: Thank you very much for joining us, and have a great day.
Helen Caldicott: Thank you.
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Democracy is Corporatism
The democratic process has begun in Canada, again. The people are presented the platforms of the parties and have their vote on whom they want to represent them in parliament. Mr. Harper is often quoted saying you “will have a conservative or liberal government” like it is a two party race. What if the NDP did finally form a government, what about the Senate? It is full of “appointed” liberal and conservative lackeys whom have never answered to the people of this country. It would be interesting to say the least.
The system of 51% majority wins, should be called what it is “corporatism”, it is designed to never attain the one mind, needed to overcome the war problem. The liberals and conservatives both work for the shareholders (the bankers) and their main job is to continue the illusion of freedom to us, the people. After last year’s G20 “nazification” of Toronto the people are seeing through this illusion now. As Mussolini said in 1928 “Fascism is nothing more than corporatism” as he had his goons out knocking the Italian people’s heads, like Harper did last summer. History repeats.
I showed up on April 23, 2006 at Caledonia Ontario and took the first cameraman (Randy Rath CHCH tv) behind the police and Haudenosaunee lines, he filmed an interview with Hazel Hill 68, whom was tasered and beaten in the illegal police raid on our people. This interview has still never been aired. I told a group of reporters when we came back from behind the barricades to cover the real story,” how Canada has became a police state and when they are done with us, it’s all the rest of you next”. It seems my prediction came true last year, only 4 years later.
Now everyone is starting to ask for public debate on what happened in Toronto last year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwPVFGNBFZQ , is this the freedom that they have planned for Canadians? If history teaches us anything, it repeats itself until the people say “Enough” like has started by our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlUsoM4ruQ
In the constitution of the shadow government known as “The Secret Covenant” http://thahoketoteh.ws/2009/12/bloodline/ they say “we shall divide their governments and we shall own both sides” and they have done this through 51% corporatism. The wars are all corporate, for the theft of natural resources and enslavement of the people living on them. We can all just use our own minds to figure that out. The awakening is happening now. When we eliminate the 51% and agree to become of one mind on all issues that affect us all, we will attain the peace. We will attain the greatest power available in the universe and we will evolve.
The people living on Great Turtle Island will now show the rest of the world about true Power of the mind, for peace on earth.
Unity, Strength, Peace,
thahoketoteh of Kanekota
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youtube.com/thahoketoteh
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New Cherokee Nation Doctors Are a Team In and Out of the OR: 4/1/2011 2:02:00 PM
(C) Cherokee Nation
It is quite common to see married couples together in a maternity ward of a hospital, but at the Cherokee Nation’s W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah there are oftentimes two married couples present during a baby’s delivery. One couple, of course, is the proud parents-to-be. The other couple, however, consists of the two doctors in charge of the delivery.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3558
Cherokee Nation summer camps to feature new day camps: 4/1/2011
(C) Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is announcing the schedule for its upcoming Camp Cherokee Day Camps and Residential Camp for the summer of 2011. Camp Cherokee is a partnership among departments across the Nation, combining previous Healthy Nations and Cultural Day Camps.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3557
Cherokee Nation Citizens: Voter Registration Deadline is Thursday, March 31, 2011.: 3/30/2011 12:17:00 PM
(C) Cherokee Nation
Those citizens who have voted in at least one of the last two elections do not need to re-register. Those who wish to change precinct or update an address must complete a new application prior to the deadline.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3556
Homebuyer Training to be Offered by Cherokee Nation: 3/30/2011
(C) Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation is holding free homebuyers classes at several locations in April.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3555
Cherokee Nation Offers Localized Assistance with Tribal Citizenship: 3/28/2011 1:39:00 PM
(C) Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation will offer assistance this spring with applications for Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood cards and citizenship in the Nation at several field sites throughout the tribe’s 14 county jurisdiction.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3554
Sequoyah Schools Inducts 43 Members into Honor Society: 3/28/2011 11:56:00 AM
(C) Cherokee Nation
Sequoyah Schools officially inducted 43 new members into the school’s chapter of the National Honor Society.
http://www.cherokee.org/news.aspx?id=3553
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1861: Chief Ross forced to side with Confederacy after Union troops abandon Indian Territory. Cherokee Nation torn by border warfare throughout war.
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