And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:30:09 -0700
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ADate: 6/07/99 5:16:25 PM
Please post widely
DECLARATION AGAINST RACISM
forward by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "S.I.S.I.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is a very important declaration for it takes a stand against the
growing rightwing turn by some environmental groups. It should be
known by all that using racism and attacking Native treaty rights will not
gain these groups any supporters. Please signon to this statement if
you can and please pass it along to others. Thank you
In Solidarity
Arthur J. Miller
NWLPSN
Attached are the signers to the declaration as of July 6, 1999. If you
wish to sign the declaration, please contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
We will be posting this declaration on our website and will send copies
to
the Sea Shepherd Society and other animal rights/environmental groups
who
have participated in using racism in their opposition to the Makah whale
hunt.
Many thanks to all the groups and individuals who have pledged their
support to the native peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
*********
STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST
* Please post widely *
We, the undersigned, wish to express our solidarity with native peoples
of
the Pacific Northwest, who are currently suffering from a racist backlash
to the recent hunting of a whale by Makah people.
The backlash has included bomb threats against native schools, and
threats
to shoot native people as "revenge" for the whale. Native people have
been
refused service by white owners of stores and other businesses in the
Pacific Northwest. One native man was beaten so badly he is now in a
wheelchair.
This declaration is not about whether or not the Makah whale hunt is
"right" or "wrong". It is an assertion that racism is always wrong.
While we, the undersigned, have varying opinions about the hunting of
whales, we agree on the following:
1) Racism in all forms must be opposed. We reject any attempts by
environmentalists, animal rights activists, or any other groups to use
racism to gain support for a cause.
2) We call on all groups and individuals concerned about the whaling to
take a strong stand against the racist backlash that is currently
happening
as a result of racist and inflammatory rhetoric used by environmental
and
animal rights groups such as the Sea Shepherd Society.
3) We recognize and support the sovereignty of all native nations,
including the Makah. We reject attempts to use this whale hunt to
undermine
native nations struggling to assert their sovereignty.
4) We reject the polarization of this issue into "Makah vs. the whales".
We
believe that this oversimplification of the Makah whale hunt plays up
racist stereotypes instead of addressing questions of animal
exploitation.
As the Makah have pointed out, non-native people kill animals
deliberately
every day for food, clothing, entertainment, and experimentation, with no
regard for the suffering of the animals or the devastating effects on the
overall environment; non-native industry is responsible for the deaths of
countless whales every year.
While we, the undersigned, may differ in our opinions of the Makah
whale
hunt itself, we are united in our condemnation of the racist tactics which
are being used to oppose the hunt.
We fully support native peoples of the Pacific Northwest and offer our
assistance to work towards stopping the racist backlash.
To express your support by signing this declaration, contact
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Signed:
Aanta Forsgren, Forst Sami, Smai Nation, Sweden
Aaron Dietz
Achaessa James, Eastern Cherokee/Choctaw/Kwakiutl, Issaquah, WA
Adriene Sere, Said It, Feminist News
Alan Collins - CA, USA
Alexandra Magdalena Garzero, Haywood, CA
Alina Morelli
Alison Benedict
Alison Galemba, Leonard Peltier Support Group--Southwestern
Connectict
Andrew Smith - Champaign, IL, USA
Angela Friesner
Annette Santos - Burnaby, BC, Canada
Anti-Racist Emergency Action Network - Tacoma, WA, USA
Anti-Racist Action (Toronto) - Toronto, ON, Canada
Dr. April Lea Go Forth, Director, Resources for Indian Student
Education, Inc.
Arantza Lacasa - Brazil
Arthur J. Miller, IU 320--IWW, Coordinator NWLPSN
Audna Lang - Las Vegas, NV, USA
Bayou La Rose
Ben Mahony, University of Lethbridge - Canada
Benita Bunjun, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Blackrose Wolfwoman
Blue Spruce - Tiwa Tribe, Taos Pueblo
Bob Monroe, Plattsburgh, NY
Carla Walker - Mashantucket, CT, USA
Carter Camp, Chair, Oklahoma AIM
Cathie Dever
CENACORA--Brasil, Rev. Antonio Sant'Ana, Profa. Creuza Evangelista,
Hernani F. da Silva, Profa. Sandra Martins, Profa. Maria da Fe, Profa.
Lilian Christina P. Machado, Dra. Giselle LaLucce A. Santos,
Cindy Highsmith, New College Students For Animal Rights
Charlotte Durie, For Mother Earth (UK)
Christie Spice
Christina Traub
Cruz Negra Anarquista de Barcelona (ABC of Barcelona - Spanish
State)
Czerny Brasvell, Co-Convenor, Racial Justice Working Group,
NCCC/USA
Dave Coker, IU 640--IWW
David Cristian, Atlanta IWW-GMB
David McLaren - Wiarton, ON, Canada
Dennis Galemba, Oxfort, CT
Denny Henke, IWW, Memphis, TN
Diana Muncy
Dr. Jeri Buckely, Seattle, WA
Dylan Magon Floyd-Miller, Tacoma IWW
e aspinwall, Toronto, Canada
Edna Roland, Fala Preta! Organiza��o de Mulheres Negras - S�o Paulo,
Brasil
Eduardo Almeida, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
E.F. Aranyosi, Seattle, WA
Eileen Conroy, Ontario, Canada
Elaine Quinn
Elena - Spain
Eric Simon Cot�
Estelle Giles, Plattsburgh, NY
Esther "Little Dove" John, M.Ed, Seattle, WA
Forence Fiddler, Pembina Band Ojibway, Turtle Mtn.
Fred Chase, General Secretary-Treasurer--IWW, Ypsilanti, MI
gabrielle welford - Manoa, Hawai'i
Gene Lawhorn, Labor Historian, Radio KBOO Programmer
Greg King, IWW-GMB Edmonton
Helen Gilmore - Olympia, WA, USA
Helen Luu
Herbert Borges Paes de Barros, Brasilia, Brazil
Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon
Industrial Transportation Project--Industrial Workers of the World
Initiative For An Anarchist Federation in Germany --
Hamburg/Grrmoney/Barmbek locals
Ishgooda
International Action Center
Jack Thornburgh, Alberni Social Justice Group
James Lord
James Mattiace, Eugene, OR
Jamie Kneen, Communications Coordinator, Mining Watch Canada
Janet Cavallo
Jason A. Bokelman, member, Anti-Racist Action, Manhattan Kansas
chapter
Jason Adams, IWW/Tenants Union, Seattle, WA
Jason Spaulding, Redbud Web Site
Jawea Mockabee, Portland, OR
Jeannine Gerhart, Stratfort, CT
Jeff Armstrong, Seattle, WA
Jeffrey Brite - Metairie, LA, USA
Joan Elbert, 2000 Kairos/USA
Joan Kuyek, Ottawa, Canada
John D. Berry - Stillwater, OK, USA
John Persak, IWW General Executive Board Member, Seattle, WA
Jon Bekken, Boston Mass. IWW
Joshua Freeze, IWW - Austin, TX, USA
June Standing Deer - Tiwa Tribe, Taos Pueblo
Kathleen Maupin - Spencer, IN, USA
Kathleen Mavournin. Knoxsville, TN
Kathy McDonald, M.D. (Spear Woman), Blackfeet
Kawika M K I Liu - Honolulu, Hawai'i
Kurt Cockrum
Leanne Grossman
Leigh Prahl
Leisette Rodriguez, Project Assistant II, MESA Statewide Office
Leonard Peltier, political prisoner
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee - Lawrence, KS, USA
Leonard Rifas, EduComics
Lisa Brodyaga, Harlingen, TX
Long Standing Bear, Chief
L. Tatanka Wakinyan, Vice-Chairman, Confederated Tribes, Oregon
Lutz Mulert Sousa Ribeiro, Comissao de Justice Paz da Arquidiocese
de Salvador, Brasil
Macdonald Scott - Toronto, ON, Canada
Madonna L. Moss, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of
Oregon
Marcel Hatch, Freedom Socialist Party - Canada
Mark Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer, General Defense Committee-IWW
Mark Noble
Megan Lewis - Victoria, BC, Canada
Merrill Cole - Seattle, WA, USA
Morgan Miller, Portland IWW
Morning Star Gali, American Indian Film Institute, San Francisco, CA
NANI'S Tci-he-nde
Nicole Tenny, CA
Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network - USA
Oscar Huenchunao - Temuco, Chile
Owen Barton - Lancaster, England
Patricia Phillips, Indian Territory
Paul Ford, Shared Parenting Forum - Canada
Paula Walters, Garrett, IN
Peoples Video Network
Pierre George, Aazhoodena Unceded Territory, Stoney Point, Miigwetch
Pio Celestino, Harlingen, TX
Quefren Crillanovick, Group Estruturcao, Brazil
Rachel Iwaasa & Joshua Goldberg - Settlers In Support of Indigenous
Sovereignty - Victoria, BC, Canada
Rafael Uzcategui, La Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas de
Venezuela
Red Cap Press
Refugio Del Rio Grande
reid freeman jenkins - Atlanta, GA, USA
Ria Verjauw
R. Lame Bull McDonald, Blackfeet & Ottawa/Chippewa, National
Association of Native Medical Students, Executive Board member
Rod Coronado
Ron Poirier, Pawtucket, RI
Rossano Lopes Basto, Arqueologo do Instituto do Patrimonio Historicoe
Artistico Nacional, Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil
Russell A. Mitchell & Sandra Mitchell
S. O'Brien - Potawatomi
Sandy Sunderland
Sarah Lindgren - Yurok (Humboldt County)
Sara Newman, Melbourne, Australia
Scott Erker
Se-ven Sioux Kolektibo, Basque Country, Spanish State
Sharon Moles Kirk
Sherry Luna, New Harvest Organics
Sheryle Z-Armstrong
Silvia Flores, Davis, CA
son sun smiling moose
Stacey Osder
Steven D. Stokes, Olympia, WA
Sue C. Ogden, Capecod, Mass
Susan A. Jamerson, Sioux/Paiute/Maidu/Seneca, Standing Rock
Susan Frost
Tanya Lukin - Alutiiq, Kodiak Island
Tanya Seriger, Sydney, Australia
Teressa Harnois - Campbell, CA, USA
Theresa Sents, Renton, WA
Tiokasin Veaux, Producer-Programmer at WBAI/Pacifica Radio
Tovarich - Spain
Travis Allan - BC, Canada
Tom Antush - Tacoma, WA, USA
Uri Strass, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Valerie Van Clieaf
Victoria GMB-IWW
Vonda Welty - Pleasant Hill, OR, USA
William Boemmels, Leonard Peltier Support Group--Southwestern
Connectict
W.L. Hallameyer, Original Nations of the East
Wendy
Women Of Colours In Action, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Workers World Party
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