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Subject: BIGMTLIST :This is what matters
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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:23:40 -0400
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From: Carol Halberstadt <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A message to the BIGMTLIST
To the Dine' supporters and BIGMTLIST,
This is a struggle that has been going on intensely for 25 years. Its
history and origins go back more than 500 years before that. It is a
struggle about how human beings will care for the Earth and for each
other. The deadline is approaching for expulsion, for the Final Solution.
A delegation of Dine' will soon leave for Geneva, to meet with the UN
Commission on Human Rights, and to meet with other people who care about
the life of the Earth, who want to live in balance. This is what
matters.
This is what matters--
To free the stolen and imprisoned three donkeys and two horses of Anna
and Ella Begay, and let them come home. To stop the threats against all
the animals. To stop the draining of the aquifer and the drying up of the
springs. To save the land and help it return to health and balance. To
let the people living there live in peace. To let those who have been
expelled return.
This coming Wednesday evening, March 31, 1999, the 14th of Nisan 5759,
4.5 billion years or so since the Earth was formed, when I sit down to
celebrate Passover with my family, my heart will be with the people of
Black Mesa. Because 3,500 years ago I was a slave in the land of Egypt
and I was freed. Because 60 years ago I would have been murdered in
Europe for being who I am--the Final Solution was intended for me.
This is the time when the Jewish people celebrate their liberation and
Exodus from slavery, their emergence from degradation. From one
generation to another we tell the story of our wandering in the desert,
and how we became a people who at last came into our homeland. This is
our emergence and migration story. We came to a homeland that we won and
lost and won again and then lost for 2000 years, yet never gave up. When
I was a child, this story taught me that freedom and life is for
everyone--for people, for animals, for all living creatures on the living
Earth. And to never give up.
These holy days are timed with the beginning of spring, the season of
birth and new life. It is life that is holy, every day. The Passover
story is a story that tells that all people want freedom, and that
freedom is possible. However you celebrate the season's turning and
blessings--whether it be Passover, Easter, or one of the ways of the more
than 500 indigenous nations on this continent--please hold in your hearts
that it is the life of the Earth that we are celebrating, of which we are
each a small part. And we are all imperfect.
And it is for the freedom of the Dine' of Black Mesa, and for the freedom
of the Hopi--for their freedom to live in peace in their homelands--that
we have joined our cause and our struggle. Because their freedom is mine,
and if theirs is diminished, mine is also less.
So I send you these words and this song with prayers and blessings for
the Dine' who will soon go to Geneva--
Norris Nez, Medicine Man, Sand Spring Community
Lena Nez, Sand Spring Community
Carlos Begay, Cactus Valley Community
Peggy Francis Scott, Star Mountain Community
Glenna Begay, Cactus Valley Community
Leonard Benally, Big Mountain Community
and
Marsha Monestersky, Consultant to SDN
and for all the Dine' who send them on their journey and await their
return, and for all of us who care--
Be strong and of good courage--
<bold>It Will Happen
</bold>The small bird will be at peace
The pinyon where it feeds will rest
The wind blowing will move them
The air will breathe again
The house made of dawn will be safe
The people will be unafraid
The people who sing the Earth
The rainbow will cover them.
(�3/21/99 Carol Snyder Halberstadt)
Carol
-- Carol S. Halberstadt, Migrations ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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"A generation goes, and a generation comes, and the earth abides
forever."
(Ecclesiastes 1:4)
"...then weave for us a garment of brightness,
that we may walk fittingly where birds sing..."
(from a Tewa prayer)
"Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look on the earth beneath,
for the heavens will vanish like smoke and the earth wear away
like a garment..."
(Isaiah 51:6)
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