And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:01:02 EDT
Subject: support
Dear Florida AIM Supporters:
Your past support has helped make the American Indian Movement of
Florida one of the most effective Indian rights organizations in the
southeastern United States.
Because you have been supportive of Florida AIM or a Florida AIM
project/campaign I want to ask you, one more time, to renew or begin your
membership with the Florida AIM Support Group.
Your Florida AIM Support Group membership may be far more important than you
think--for three reasons.
1) Your membership dues provide financial support for Florida
AIM--doubly important these days when so many funders have gone on to more
celebrated and popular issues.
2) Our strength in numbers gives us clout to the media, dominant
society, and even to the government when key Indigenous rights issues come
up.
3) Your membership and participation lends moral support to Florida AIM
staff and activists throughout the state of Florida.
The support of people such as you over the last fifteen years has enabled us
to build a powerful movement for positive change for Indigenous peoples.
In the past decade Florida AIM has helped protect over one-hundred
thirty-one burial sites, helped enforce the Indian Child Welfare Act in more
than a dozen cases, helped twenty-seven Indian people fight employment
discrimination and helped the traditional Seminole people in Immokalee fight
an effort by Collier County to change their traditional way of life. These
are simply the highlights. Now, we are on the verge of winning shifts in
government policy and building powerful coalitions for the benefit of
Indigenous peoples. What's more we are on the verge of operating community
service programs badly needed by Indian peoples in the state of Florida.
Those opposed to the rights of Indian peoples have been busy too.
They have launched major campaigns to build public support to erode the
rights won in recent years by AIM, National Congress of American Indians and
others. Senator Slade Gordon's crusade to exterminate American Indian
Nations sovereign rights, treaty rights and terminate tribes is no longer
simply being fought in far off Washington. The editorial board of the Saint
Petersburg Times as well as others are championing Gordon's racist
anti-Indian philosophy. The State of Florida has attacked the sovereign
rights of the Seminole Tribe.
Please do not allow those peoples ignorance, racism, and greed to
shatter the hope we all feel.
Indigenous Nations and peoples are still under attack.
Internationally incidents such as the massacre of Indigenous peoples by the
Mexican Army at Acteal or the legislation forcing the sterilization of
Indian women in Brazil continue. Nationally hate murders continue to go
uninvestigated and unreported-Six in White Clay, NE; eight in Rapid City,
SD; and two in Mobridge, SD have occurred in recent weeks without notice.
Forced relocations continue to threaten the Dine, San Carlos Apache and
Western Shoshone Nations. Locally the Seminole Tribe continues to face
attacks on its sovereign status. Reservation residents have reported
harassment and hostility by off-reservation police and sheriff deputies.
Forced flooding impact traditional Seminole and Miccosukee communities.
Developers and grave robbers continue to threaten Indigenous burial sites.
The traditional Seminole Nation continues to face critical issues from the
mercury contamination of the Everglades to a continued assault on their
traditional way of life. Substance abuse, diabetes, teen pregnancy... round
out the assaults.
Only a strong, effective Indigenous rights and community service
organization can stem the tide, and also encourage people of goodwill to
rise in indignation and suppress the legacy of genocide against Indigenous
peoples.
Therefore we are asking you to please renew, retore, or begin your
membership in the Florida AIM Support Group today. You are our strength!.
Sincerely,
Sheridan Murphy
State Executive Director
Please note-Florida AIM Support Group memberships are $12.00 annually those
funds go to the Florida AIM General Operating Budget. Florida AIM currently
for FY 1999-2000 (began July 1, 1999) is already at an operating defecit of
$300. In FY 1998-1999 the organizations State Office had a defecit of nearly
$2,000 every dollar helps.
Please mail check or money order along with name and address information
(for membership records) to
American Indian Movement of Florida, Inc.
David Goyette Memorial State Office
136 4th Street N Suite 308
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 826-6960
FAX (727) 550-2207
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://members.aol.com/AIMFL
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Unenh onhwa' Awayaton
http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/
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