And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:01:45 -0800 >From: arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >ADate: 17/02/99 11:51:37 AM >X-Mailer: Acorn Email v1b2 >Subject: We support the new Native Cultural Center > > AN OPEN LETTER AGAINST A NEW RACIST COALITION > >To: The Coalition to Save Discovery Park > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >From: The Anti-Racist Emergency Action Network > > Every time Native People or any other people of color seek to do >anything for the benefit of their people there always seems to be some >group of white people complaining about it. Those white people will >make it seem like they are some how victims of some great wrong. >They ignore the truth that historically and in todays world Native People >are they ones that have been victimized, not the other way around. > The issue this time is the Native Cultural Center that the United Indians >of All Tribes Foundation wants to build to fulfill the needs of the Native >Community of Seattle and surrounding Native Communities. The >Coalition to Save Discovery Park is working to stop this new project. >They claim that Native People will be harming the environment. But what >can be said of the true nature of the concern of these white people when >you look around at what the white world has done to the environment? >These white people claim that they will suffer from the increase of traffic >of Native People and others. Can this compare to the suffering that >Native People have endured in the past and in todays world at the hands >of the white world? > I should point out that the area in which this new center will be built >is what was once Fort Lawton. Native People had to struggle and go to >jail to get a small piece of that land when Fort Lawton closed down. That >struggle continues today with this new cultural center. > The Anti-Racist Emergency Action Network, a project organized by the >Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network, completely supports the >United Indians of All Tribes Foundation and the new cultural center they >seek to build. We also ask that all people, no matter what your race >maybe, that oppose white racism to write messages to this new racist >organization and express your outrage of their campaign to stop this >new Native cultural center. > In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse > Arthur J. Miller > coordinator > Anti-Racist Emergency Action Network > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&