[LAAMN] GAP APOLOGIZES- AIM SOCAL doesn't ACCEPT- GAP must meet all demands!
UPDATE: McNairy the wanna be Designer of the MANIFEST DESTINY shirt- removed his offensive tweet and all comments. Not sure if that was because he realized it was wrong or if he was tired of people yelling at him. He has yet to make a statement.--- oh wait, he made a comment found on the Robohontas page: The designer for the GAP Manifest Destiny T-Shirt has responded to criticisms of his Genocide Fashion statement. From his Twitter page: MANIFEST DESTINY. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST! (that is a pretty sick statement people- lets him put through some of the HISTORICAL TRAUMA we have been through as NATIVE PEOPLE- teach the little insensitive freak a lesson) Gap knows about this now. Their response? Delete comments on their FB related to this issue. oh and we know that the Stockholders of GAP are getting wind of the controversy and NOT HAPPY with it this is RACISM and GREED - they should not be HAPPY they should be OUTRAGED AS ALL OF US! KEEP UP THE FIREthey are starting to FEEL BURNED..! after 3 days of slamming these insensitive greedy pigs, SOME WONDERFUL PERSON from WA was the 1000th person to sign your petition: GAP: Discontinue the MANIFEST DESTINY tshirt and issue a formal apology. GAP and the wanna be designer are going down.! HELP US TO KEEP CIRCULATING PETITION! Please sign this Petition and REPOST! HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD! http://www.change.org/petitions/gap-discontinue-the-manifest-destiny-tshirt-and-issue-a-formal-apology?utm_campaign=autopublishutm_medium=facebookutm_source=share_petitionutm_term=185217 TOGETHER WE CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING! What is Manifest Destiny? == Manifest Destiny: a belief that the US has a god given right to expand its territory from coast to coast... == == == == A.K.A. expansion ==Belief that the US should expand from sea to shining sea Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_manifest_destiny#ixzz29LWXtS2O Manifest Destiny had serious consequences for Native Americans, since continental expansion implicitly meant the occupation and annexation of Native American land, sometimes to expand slavery. The United States continued the European practi ce of recognizing only limited land rights of indigenous peoples. In a policy formulated largely by Henry Knox, Secretary of War in the Washington Administration, the U.S. government sought to expand into the west through the nominally legal (by United States law) purchase of Native American land in treaties. Indians were encouraged to sell their vast tribal lands and become civilized, which meant (among other things) for Native American men to abandon hunting and become farmers, and for their society to reorganize around the family unit rather than the clan or tribe. The United States therefore acquired lands by treaty from Indian nations, usually under circumstances which suggest a lack of voluntary and knowing consent by the native signers, and in many cases a lack of authority by the signers to make any such transaction. posted by Laura Lynch __ GAP On your Make a Difference page, you state:Behind the label of any product is a deeper story about its social and environmental implications. Were the workers who made the product treated fairly? Were environmental considerations weighed during its design, manufacture and transport? What is a brand's commitment to creating positive change? Did anyone ask these questions before designing, marketing, and selling the 'Manifest Destiny' shirt? So, what IS your brand's commitment to creating positive change? Because this isn't it. I understand there's a lot of ignorance surrounding our history, and I don't really expect a t-shirt designer to have an education that would've given them a full understanding of what manifest destiny truly entailed. But, it has been brought to your attention now. This promotes the glorification of genocide and conquest that's the essence of manifest destiny. Not very positive. Unless the 'positive change' you're referring to, are the profits you make from such things. -She Be Facebook AIMSoCal Supporter Do your part- Make a difference- do not allow CORPORATE GREED to continue to CAPITALIZE ON the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE! RE-Post this information and SIGN PETITION! CONTACT THE designeri...@markmcnairy.com Contact GAPand/or write a review of this shirt on GAPS merchandise page http://www.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=47214vid=1pid=349697002 Gap x GQ Mark McNairy Manifest T | Gapwww.gap.com or CALL THEM! San Francisco 650-952-4400 www.gapinc.com New York Product Development 55 Thomas St. Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10011212-604-0020 or let them know on their FACEBOOK PAGE
[LAAMN] Malala’s Lessons
Malala able to stand, write, thanks supporters: Doctors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_QQRIgUq9Ifeature=player_embedded Malalas Lessonshttp://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie/2012/10/20/malalas-lesson/ October 20, 2012 at 10:30 am Maryam Namazie The shooting of the wonderfully brave Malala Yousefzai by the Pakistani Taliban has brought to the fore many of the issues that I have been banging on about for a long time. *Not all Muslims (or those labelled as Muslims) support Islamism and the likes of the Taliban.* Many of them are its first victims and at the frontlines of resistance. And because of who Malala is and what she represents, this ever-present resistance and dissent is pushing its way into mainstream consciousness and demanding to be seen and heard. The far-Right keeps asking where the Muslim voices of dissent are (and this question has become the question of the day within many circles). Of course, they ask this not because they care but because it implies that Muslims are one and the same with the vile Islamists so that the far-Right can justify its racist, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim agenda. Well assholes, here they are On another related matter, what I find most ironic in all this is how the Talibans propaganda is so close to the nice, lovely, liberals and post-modernist and relativist Left who keep calling for tolerance and respect of the intolerable (as if the Islamist perspective is that of all Muslims). I personally have lost count of the amount of times I have heard these lovely people tell me that the demand for universal rights is a demand for shall we just put it in the Talibans words as they are one and the same western culture Like the far-Right, this lot sees Islamists and Muslims as one and the same but from another progressive angle. Defending Sharia law, the Islamic regime of Irans right to nuclear technology, the veil, and every other bit of misogyny and barbarity is to them an act of anti-imperialism because they see Islamism as a force of resistance against US-led militarism (when it is in fact the other side of the same coin) and a defence of Muslims from bigotry. I suppose, to justify their inhuman position, they have no choice but to see Islamism as the representative of every single Muslim no matter how many bodies pile up in prisons, in city centres, and alleyways across the Middle East, North Africa and right here in Europe. How shameful. How very sorry I feel for this lot and how angry. Because in this colossal fight against the beast of Islamism, they knowingly or inadvertently have decided to side with the beast and not the likes of Malala. Hopefully, this can be a turning point for them, though I wont be holding my breath. With or without them, the likes of Malala will bring is bringing Islamism to its knees. The fact that the Taliban has to shoot a 14 year old girl who merely wants the right for girls to go to school shows how afraid they are of her and the dissent she represents and how very potent and effective this resistance is. Not bombs, not regime change from above, not economic sanctions but people power and sheer human will and defiance. In the meanwhile, our young hero, Malala, has been able to walk with help, and has managed to converse in writing, even asking for her supporters to be thanked. Islamists and your cowardly apologists be afraid, be very afraid About the Author This is my personal blog. Any comments made by me here are my own and don't reflect the various campaigns I work on (unless of course they are attributed to those campaigns). Some of my activities include being Spokesperson of the One Law for All Campaign against Sharia Law in Britain, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and Equal Rights Now - Organisation against Women's Discrimination in Iran. I work closely with Iran Solidarity, which I founded, and the International Committee against Stoning on the Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani stoning case amongst others. I am very much on the Left and am Central Committee member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com
[LAAMN] FW: Daniel Ellsberg: Progressives: In Swing States, Vote for Obama
_ From: Ed Pearl [mailto:epear...@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 7:13 AM To: Ed Pearl Subject: Daniel Ellsberg: Progressives: In Swing States, Vote for Obama Great event yesterday evening's CSPG award night. Actually, CSPG itself turned out to be awarded in detail by the winners as the largest, most in use achive and provider of poster art in the world, and actually has changed the status of the art it that world. Tom Morello is articulate, on point, and truly a great artist, in these times on the level of Woody Guthrie, in his long heyday. Several people told me they attended after my Saturday notice, and that's nice to hear. -Ed http://rootsaction.org/news-a-views/534-progressives-in-swing-states-vote-fo r-obama Progressives: In Swing States, Vote for Obama My answer was: a Romney/Ryan administration would be no better -- no different -- on any of the serious offenses I just mentioned or anything else, and it would be much worse, even catastrophically worse, on a number of other important issues: attacking Iran, Supreme Court appointments, the economy, women's reproductive rights, health coverage, safety net, climate change, green energy, the environment. by Daniel Ellsberg on October 18, 2012 It is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013. The election is now just weeks away, and I want to urge those whose values are generally in line with mine -- progressives, especially activists -- to make this goal one of your priorities during this period. An activist colleague recently said to me: I hear you're supporting Obama. I was startled, and took offense. Supporting Obama? Me?! I lose no opportunity publicly, I told him angrily, to identify Obama as a tool of Wall Street, a man who's decriminalized torture and is still complicit in it, a drone assassin, someone who's launched an unconstitutional war, supports kidnapping and indefinite detention without trial, and has prosecuted more whistleblowers like myself than all previous presidents put together. Would you call that support? My friend said, But on Democracy Now you urged people in swing states to vote for him! How could you say that? I don't live in a swing state, but I will not and could not vote for Obama under any circumstances. My answer was: a Romney/Ryan administration would be no better -- no different -- on any of the serious offenses I just mentioned or anything else, and it would be much worse, even catastrophically worse, on a number of other important issues: attacking Iran, Supreme Court appointments, the economy, women's reproductive rights, health coverage, safety net, climate change, green energy, the environment. I told him: I don't 'support Obama.' I oppose the current Republican Party. This is not a contest between Barack Obama and a progressive candidate. The voters in a handful or a dozen close-fought swing states are going to determine whether Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are going to wield great political power for four, maybe eight years, or not. As Noam Chomsky said recently, The Republican organization today is extremely dangerous, not just to this country, but to the world. It's worth expending some effort to prevent their rise to power, without sowing illusions about the Democratic alternatives. Following that logic, he's said to an interviewer what my friend heard me say to Amy Goodman: If I were a person in a swing state, I'd vote against Romney/Ryan, which means voting for Obama because there is no other choice. The election is at this moment a toss-up. That means this is one of the uncommon occasions when we progressives -- a small minority of the electorate -- could actually have a significant influence on the outcome of a national election, swinging it one way or the other. The only way for progressives and Democrats to block Romney from office, at this date, is to persuade enough people in swing states to vote for Obama: not stay home, or vote for someone else. And that has to include, in those states, progressives and disillusioned liberals who are at this moment inclined not to vote at all or to vote for a third-party candidate (because like me they've been not just disappointed but disgusted and enraged by much of what Obama has done in the last four years and will probably keep doing). They have to be persuaded to vote, and to vote in a battleground state for Obama not anyone else, despite the terrible flaws of the less-bad candidate, the incumbent. That's not easy. As I see it, that's precisely the effort Noam is referring to as worth expending right now to prevent the Republicans' rise to power. And it will take progressives -- some of you reading this, I hope -- to make that effort of persuasion effectively. It will take someone these disheartened progressives and liberals will listen to. Someone manifestly without illusions about the Democrats, someone who sees what they see when
[LAAMN] Accomplices to Murder
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/ Excellent new piece from Arthur Silber: If you vote for Obama or Romney, do so proudly. I want you to say: I vote for Obama/Romney proudly. I am proud to be a knowing accomplice to their murders, including the murders of innocent human beings. Say that, and those of us who refuse to surrender our souls will know where you stand. This is not a complicated issue. It is stunningly straightforward. Those who seek to complicate and confuse it do so because they will not identify the meaning of their support, either to themselves or to anyone else. When they wish still to be regarded as civilized, murderers and their accomplices will engage in endless irrelevant arguments and invent complexities where none exist. Don't let them get away with it. They are knowing accomplices to murder. Make them say it.Arthur Silber MORE Classical economics is only value-free on its surface. In actual fact it ignores power in the world. In actual fact it ignores that its outcomes ALWAYS hurt the lesser much more than they do the greater. Economics is not just the dismal science, it is the shameful fancy window dressing of the exercise of naked power by the rich and the owners against the poor and the workers. It is the condom which makes safe and obscure the ways we are screwed. Wythe Holt 5/21/09 Solidarity is the path as well as the destination of socialism. Solidarity grieves when a worker loses his job or sees her pension slashed. Solidarity cheers when a union wins middle-class pay. Solidarity rejects the greed of insurers as the distributor of healthcare and demands single payer for all. Solidarity smells the rat who divides white from black, black from gay, native from newcomer, or America from the rest of humanity. By Phillip Bannowsky [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Eyewitness: Venezuelans vote for socialism
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/52516 Eyewitness: Venezuelans vote for socialism Sunday, October 21, 2012 By Pip Hinman http://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/1093 , Caracas http://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/2499 http://www.greenleft.org.au/sites/default/files/imagecache/article-image/ch avez3.jpg About 3 million people march. Nothing quite prepares you for a first visit to Venezuela ¯ especially when the country is polarised between two very different visions for the future. This is how it was just before the October 7 presidential elections, which socialist President Hugo Chavez won with 55% of the vote in the largest turnout, more than 81%, in Venezuelan history. The polarisation was marked by the fact that Chavez, who ran on a platform for a transition to socialism, and the opposition, whose right-wing candidate Henri Capriles ran on a platform that claimed to support Chavez's famous social missions, received their highest votes ever since Chavez was first elected in 1998. The mood was electric. Everyone had an opinion and they were not shy about letting you know it. There was the old man who spat at me at La Bandera bus station mistakenly presuming I was a supporter of Capriles. And there was the woman very moved that Australians were interested in Venezuela's process of change. The atmosphere was like nothing I'd experienced in any election campaign in Australia. The Venezuelan people are engaged in a huge social and economic challenge to the old capitalist order. Call it what you want: it is anti-capitalist, pro-socialist and profoundly democratic. To live among it ¯ even for a few weeks ¯ was exhilarating, challenging and humbling. Venezuela is also very loud. From the campaign anthems booming out from personal PAs in car boots and front yards, to the huge ones stationed at every major intersection of seven major avenues in central Caracas for the final election rally, to the fire crackers that awakened the poll booth workers at 3am to the victory fireworks that ended the day. The lack of any volume control takes some adjusting to. But the assault on my senses was not only limited to sound. I joined one of the biggest international solidarity brigades to Venezuela, organised by Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), to witness the revolution up close and observe the elections. A highlight was taking part in the most memorable election rally ever on October 4 ¯ along with 3 million other people who had traveled, in some cases all night, to be a part of history. The AVSN brigade was co-organised by Coral Wynter, a retired biochemist who first visited Venezuela in the 1970s when Venezuela was ruled by the right-wing Carlos Andres Perez government. She recently became a star after two local TV stations repeatedly screened the documentary Chasing Chavez on election eve. The film follows Wynter's attempt to present a copy of the book she co-wrote, Voices From Venezuela, to Chavez. After these screenings, Wynter couldn't go anywhere without being mobbed as the Australiana who supports Venezuela. Mostly from Australia, the brigadistas included a Dane, a Greek, a Russian and a Mexican ¯ all with different political views, but all interested in the process in Venezuela. Despite different takes, we all came away convinced that a very profound political transformation is taking place, despite difficulties and set-backs. How else can you explain the huge reduction in poverty from 70% to 25% over the past 10 years? Or eradication of illiteracy and the leap from 25% to 75% secondary school attendance? About 60% of the budget now goes to health, education and transport. A network of state-run, heavily subsided food stores ensures people no longer eat dog food, as many were forced to in the past. They no longer have to beg to survive. Today, the poor living in shanty towns, barrios, are steadily being allocated new apartments: hundreds of thousands of which are being built as part of Mision Vivienda. Gilberto Rodriguez, from the housing department, showed us some he had designed in central Caracas. All had been built on what were private car parking lots requisitioned on the basis that housing is a human right. Victims of the devastating floods in December 2010 were given first choice. We met some families who had been rescued and were still living in the department of housing offices. It is estimated Venezuela will need to build at least 300,000 apartments a year to satisfy demand over the next six years. This is part of the Chavez government's plan for its next term. We were invited to visit a new apartment block and met some of the happy first-time home-owners who were unpacking as builders put the finishing touches to the building. A new owner had already struck a problem: her front door key wasn't working and she had now found the closest person to officialdom she could to complain. Rodriquez heard her out and they talked about a communal strata group
[LAAMN] Quotes
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he live! s under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable... - H.L. Mencken I'll tell you what they don't want-they don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That! doesn't help them. That's against their interest. - George Carlin It is the minorities who have made the history of this world. It is the few who have had the courage to take their places at the front; who have been true enough to themselves to speak the truth that was in them; who have dared oppose the established order of things; who have espoused the cause of the suffering, struggling poor; who have upheld without regard to personal consequences the cause of freedom and righteousness. It is they, the heroic, self-sacrificing few who have made the history of the race and who have paved the way from barbarism to civilization. The many prefer to remain upon the popular side. Eugene Debs When you invite people to think, you are inviting revolution - Ivana Gabara When the people liberate their own minds and take a hard clear look at what the 1% is doing and what the 99% should be doing, then serious stuff begins to happen. - Michael Parenti The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth. - Chris Hedges Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. - Joseph Goebbels --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Longtime Indigenous American activist Russell Means dies at 72
[image: Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee]http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/ Incident At Oglala – The Leonard Peltier Story http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/incident-at-oglala/ Leonard, Peltier, rally, Russell, Means, Fargo - YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUl5fifMUf8 https://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/http://www.youtube.com/watch%3fv%3dzul5fifmuf8?pip=falsepremium=trueclient_uid=3207531162client_ver=3.5.0.229client_type=IEPluginsuite=trueaff_id=0locale=en_usui=1os_ver=6.1.1.0 ► 10:08► 10:08https://www.google.com/url?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DzUl5fifMUf8rct=jsa=Xei=Br2FUKG7J6SCyAH5-4HwBwved=0CE4QuAIwBgq=Lenoard+peltier+on+Russell+Meansusg=AFQjCNEw5xucxpht2JPEjMxRNMkFT9JRGw https://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/http://www.youtube.com/watch%253fv%253dzul5fifmuf8%26rct%3dj%26sa%3dx%26ei%3dbr2fukg7j6scyah5-4hwbw%26ved%3d0ce4quaiwbg%26q%3dlenoard%2bpeltier%2bon%2brussell%2bmeans%26usg%3dafqjcnew5xucxpht2jpejmxrnmkft9jrgw?pip=falsepremium=trueclient_uid=3207531162client_ver=3.5.0.229client_type=IEPluginsuite=trueaff_id=0locale=en_usui=1os_ver=6.1.1.0 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUl5fifMUf8Nov 28, 2008 - 10 min - Uploaded by lpdoc08 *Russell Means* speaking at Nov. 28, 2008 rally for *Leonard Peltier* at federal courthouse in Fargo, ND where *...* Longtime Indian activist Russell Means dies at 72 - Article by: DIRK LAMMERS and KRISTI EATON - Associated Press - October 22, 2012 - 3:42 PM SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Russell Means spent a lifetime as a modern American Indian warrior. He railed against broken treaties, fought for the return of stolen land and even took up arms against the federal government. A onetime leader of the American Indian Movement, he called national attention to the plight of impoverished tribes and often lamented the waning of Indian culture. After leaving the movement in the 1980s, the handsome, braided activist was still a cultural presence, appearing in several movies. Means, who died Monday from throat cancer at age 72, helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee — a bloody confrontation that raised America's awareness about the struggles of Indians and gave rise to a wider protest movement that lasted for the rest of the decade. Before AIM, there were few national advocates for American Indians. Means was one of the first to emerge. He sought to restore Indians' pride in their culture and to challenge a government that had paid little attention to tribes in generations. He was also one of the first to urge sports teams to do away with Indian names and mascots. No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry, Means said, recalling the early days of the movement. And there were dozens, if not hundreds, of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That's all changed. AIM was founded in the late 1960s to demand that the government honor its treaties with American Indian tribes. The movement eventually faded away, Means said, as Native Americans became more self-aware and self-determined. There were plenty of American Indian activists before AIM, but it became the radical media gorilla, said Paul DeMain, editor of News from Indian Country, a national newspaper focused on tribal affairs. If someone needed help, you called on the American Indian Movement, and they showed up and caused all kind of ruckus and looked beautiful on a 20-second clip on TV that night, DeMain said. Means and AIM co-founder Dennis Banks were charged in 1974 for their role in the Wounded Knee uprising in which hundreds of protesters occupied the town on the site of the 1890 Indian massacre. Protesters and federal authorities were locked in a standoff for 71 days and frequently exchanged gunfire. Before it was over, two tribal members were killed and a federal agent seriously wounded. After a trial that lasted several months, a judge threw out the charges on grounds of government misconduct. Other protests led by Means included an American Indian prayer vigil on top of Mount Rushmore and the seizure of a replica of the Mayflower on Thanksgiving Day in Plymouth, Mass. But Means' constant quest for the spotlight raised doubts about his motives. Critics who included many fellow tribe members said his main interest was building his own notoriety. Means said his most important accomplishment was the proposal for the Republic of Lakotah, a plan to carve out a sovereign Indian nation inside the United States. He took the idea all the way to the United Nations, even though it was ignored by tribal governments closer to home, including his own Oglala Sioux leaders, with whom he often clashed. For decades, Means was dogged by questions about whether the group promoted violence, especially the 1975 slaying of a woman in the tribe and the gun battles with federal agents at Wounded Knee. Authorities believe three AIM members shot and killed Annie Mae Aquash on the Pine Ridge reservation on the orders of someone
[LAAMN] First race card mud slinging Presidentail campaign]
Though this bloggers refers to the position as electing the Commander in Chief, I still find many of his documented other facts, correct. The electoral system in 1787 removed our individual votes from electing a President. First race card played in 1787, as well as immigration phobia. I also note it runs on the average of every 6 years that race card is played to elect someone, and then the laws are almost universally defunded, leaving the immigration/race issue to be a useable tool in the future (fix nothing that gets your man elected). Federalist = supporter of the most moneyed. Republican/Democrat = supporter of the most moneyed Some people seem to think we lost our representation as citizens in the 1900's instead of the 1700's. Hamilton, the most vocal representative of the moneyed during the American revolution, it was his block of people in the Continental Convention that stopped funding George Washington, leaving him and his men in Valley Forge over the winter without pay or food. Hamilton was our first Treasure. 1796 Hamilton introduced the first nosy sex scandal into an election. Hamilton introduced our first negative campaigning, by pseudonym or proxy, instead of being out in the open about his mythical accusations, circumventing people being able to be confronted by their accusers. Hamilton introduced the first item about accusing a competitor of cowardice, without proof. The first instance of some non Corporate/Big Business Party being blamed for a Corporate party loss. The newspapers were used like they are today, trial in the press without proof of charges, and removal of enough whole facts people could make independent decisions on their own. It is interesting to note that Washington wrote about his disgust of the minority representation for only the most powerful people, while he himself was after land the American Indians had, the whole of the Ohio River Valley, whom he treated as less then living beings. The 12th Amendment of course, continued to move voting away from the white landed people to the even more power factions within the country (which is why Jefferson was accused of being non white, it would have disqualified him). Ever wonder where the phrase, a Burr in your side came from? And here we are today, nothing changes if nothing changes. Anyone fine with the FEAR THE OPPOSITION voting system should read not only this but study how effective it is at removing data, facts, knowledge and good decisions from EVER ELECTING A REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE MAJORITY. For the lazy, just compare 200 years ago here, with today. Scott http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/10/inside-america%E2%80%99s-first-dirty-presidential-campaign-1796-style/ Inside Americas first dirty presidential campaign, 1796 style Posted 10 hours, 43 minutes ago. By Scott Bomboy Subscribe Shocked by the discourse of this years presidential campaign? Wait till your hear what happened in 1796, when the U.S. had its first contested election for commander-in-chief. On October 19, 1796, a mysterious editorial from a writer named Phocion appeared in the Gazette of the United States, a popular Federalist newspaper in Philadelphia. At the time, Vice President John Adams was pitted against another Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, in a race to succeed George Washington as president. Phocions letter was what we would today call an attack ad. The letter in the Gazette written by Phocion said, in terms understood by most readers, that presidential candidate Jefferson was having an affair with one of his female slaves. Bestselling author Ron Chernow chronicled the incident in his biography of Phocionthe person also known as Alexander Hamilton. In a Batman-complex moment, Phocion also accused Jefferson of running away from British troops during the Revolution, unlike his brave friend Alexander Hamilton. Phocion also paid compliment after compliment to Adams and claimed Jefferson would emancipate all slaves if he were elected president. The slave letter was one of several dozens written by Hamilton during the campaign, all attacking Jefferson. The incident was one of the first instances where the race card was played in a presidential election. It was the first presidential race in America with two political parties: the Federalists (led by Adams and Hamilton) and an opposing group, later to be called Republicans, or Democratic-Republicans (led by Jefferson and James Madison). Washington was so popular that he won his two elections without meaningful opposition. But Washington said in September 1796 he wouldnt seek a third term, giving Americans about three months notice to find a replacement. Adams defeated Jefferson by three electoral votes in the short but nasty 1796 election, which shocked contemporaries in its use of dirty tactics and back-door maneuvering. Adams gained an electoral majority by just one vote. The ever-scheming Hamilton, says Chernow, caused more problems for
[LAAMN] Special Half Price Tickets for the Artivist Awards Ceremony on Sunday, November 4th, 6:00 PM at Barnsdall Theatre in Hollywood ~ Honoring S. Brian Willson, Maria Bello, Devon Franklin Chris
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[LAAMN] Palestine:UN cuts Fatah calls for boycott of Qatari emir's visit,PFLP critical, PSF declines invitation
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) When the ruler of Qatar arrives in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, he will hand the Palestinian territory's Hamashttp://www.chron.com/?controllerName=searchaction=searchchannel=news%2Fworldsearch=1inlineLink=1query=%22Hamas%22rulers their biggest diplomatic victory since taking power five years ago. The first head of state to visit Hamas-controlled Gaza, the emir will deliver more than $250 million in aid, a move that will deepen the Islamic militant group's control of Gaza and which reflects the rising influence of the Muslim Brotherhoodhttp://www.chron.com/?controllerName=searchaction=searchchannel=news%2Fworldsearch=1inlineLink=1query=%22Muslim+Brotherhood%22across the region. The Brotherhood now governs Egypt, and Islamic parties have made gains elsewhere in the region since last year's popular revolts that became known as the Arab Spring. Qatar has been a key ally of the movement, which includes the Palestinian offshoot Hamas.. *Fatah calls for boycott of Qatari emir's visit* Published yesterday 22:04 [image: Font-] [image: Font+] GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Fatah on Monday called on Palestinians to boycott a visit of the Qatari emir to the Gaza Strip. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani is expected to visit Gaza on Tuesday to inaugurate reconstruction projects worth $254 million. He will be the first head of state to visit the Hamas-run enclave since Israel imposed a siege on Gaza in 2006. Fatah's office in Gaza said the visit would entrench the division between the West Bank, governed by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Looking for a political power in the region at the expense of the Palestinian people and their rights and unity is unacceptable, Fatah said in a statement, adding that aid to the Palestinian people was not a gift but a national and holy duty. Fatah said all aid to Palestinians should be channeled through the Palestine Liberation Organization and its leader President Mahmoud Abbas. It said those using Palestinian suffering for their own narrow goals should look for ways to support Palestinians to achieve their rights internationally. Earlier Monday, Fatah leader Yahya Rabah told Ma'an that Fatah had not been invited to meet Sheikh al-Thani by Qatar or Hamas. Spokesman of the Hamas-led government Taher al-Nunu insisted that Fatah had declined an invitation to attend the welcoming celebration for the emir. *Popular Struggle Front leader Mohammad al-Ziq said his party had declined an invitation from Hamas to join the welcoming ceremony. Al-Ziq said the emir's visit would further the division and legitimize the national split while the PLO was trying to win state membership of the UN. The Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine also criticized the visit. We are surprised that emir of Qatar will visit Qaza at this time, PFLP's general leadership said in a statement. This visit is serving the Israeli occupation and will enhance the geographic division between Gaza and the West Bank. PFLP said the millions of dollars donated to Gaza by Qatar would not mask the real political reasons behind his visit. * *---* * UNRWA staff to strike over cuts Published yesterday 20:17 [image: Font-] [image: Font+] BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- UNRWA staff employed in schools, clinics and offices in refugee camps across the West Bank will strike on Tuesday in protest over cutbacks in services. UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, is cutting health services and other emergency programs, and firing 130 employees, a spokesman for refugee camps in the West Bank said Monday. Imad Abu Ismail said in a statement that medical operations had been canceled due to a financial crisis in the UN agency. He said a general strike will be held on Tuesday and protests will continue until the austerity measures are reversed. * [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com
