2. Disappeared News - 3 new articles
3. poem - Henry Vaughan
4. Fox Guards The Henhouse On "Voices Of Truth -
One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future"
5. Disappeared News - 2 new articles
6. Governor Says Ceded Land Stance Unchanged
7. TaKeTiNa Night - Dec 10 + Workshop Dec 13-14 - Oahu
8. Holiday Shopping Party
9. Cloud Over All Land Titles in Hawaii
10. Indigenous People Rising
11. Lingle: Native Hawaiians Have No Stake in Ceded
Lands
12. University of [UNKNOWN] Hawaii-Mânoa Research Grant Competition
13. Short Video on "Stuff"
14. Makua Valley reflections
15. The Puppet Masters
16. State of Hawaii Fully Owns Land Given at Statehood, KUE Jan. 17, 2009
17. Picket at Lingle's Hale Dec. 26th [and did anyone else hear talk of a
general strike on the 19th?]
18. Urgent: BLM Sale Puts Parks at Risk.
19. Disappeared News - 5 new articles
20. Voices Health/Environment News
21. WKCD's Barbara Cervone Wins 2008 Purpose Prize
22. Ka Leo survey
23. Enhancing Your Creativity this Sat., Dec. 13, 2-5:30,
Kaimuki; Reduced rate if you bring a friend
24. "Native American/First Nations Literature" call for papers
25. Arts and Sciences Planning Update
26. Lingle Stopped on Kaua'i !!! --Dwight
27. mindfulness workshop for stress reduction
28. Hawaii Superferry's Interisland Serivce Depends On Court Ruling
29. Sunday Open House at Revolution Books!
30. Amish and Other Farmers Raided by SWAT Teams
31. Video: Stronger Than Cement & Six Times Lighter
32. Free Hawai`I TV - "Stop Thief!"
33. Disappeared News - 2 new articles
34. North Shore Oneness Deeksha Blessing
35. Check out Paul Harvey - The overthrow of a friendly monarch (fwd)
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Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:38:26 -1000
From: Lc <lcruz@hawaii.edu>
Photos: Makua field trip 12.6.08
If you can't see the pictures in this email, click here to see it in a
web browser:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=bhucg3l.3b5wrrbt&x=0&y=-rx82s9&localeid=en_US
Lynette has shared photos with you.
You're invited to view my online photos at the Gallery.
Enjoy!
- Lynette
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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:29:37 -0500
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
Disappeared News - 3 new articles
"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 3 NEW ARTICLES
1. Lingle administration cuts to mental health services protested
2. Hawaiiâ^À^Ùs most vulnerable forced into Medicaid HMOs run by
mainland for-profits-Legislature to investigate why
3. Company applies to place Chinese-made wind turbines offshore in
Hawaii
4. More Recent Articles
5. Search Disappeared News
Lingle administration cuts to mental health services protested
by Larry Geller Itâ^À^Ùs not just Medicaid (see previous article). The
Maui News reported yesterday on protests there to cuts to mental health
services. The Hawaii Department of Health has drastically curtailed
services to those who need them most. And many of them are shocked at the
depth of the cuts, as youâ^À^Ùll read in the article. The Lingle
administration will no doubt say that cuts must be made....
Hawaiiâ^À^Ùs most vulnerable forced into Medicaid HMOs run by mainland
for-profits-Legislature to investigate why
by Larry Geller (cartoon copyright Hawaii Coalition for Health, used with
permission. Other cartoons by John Pritchett can be found here.)
HMOâ^À^Ùs donâ^À^Ùt provide health care. Doctors, nurses, hospitals and
even your acupuncturist provide health care. But not HMOs. They make
money in various ways, including some that donâ^À^Ùt contribute to health
care at all. For example, by denying claims. Or if....
Company applies to place Chinese-made wind turbines offshore in Hawaii
by Larry Geller Hawaii-made wave generators? Chinese-made wind turbines?
Which would be employed in an offshore energy project reported in the
press today? AP reported today that Grays Harbor Ocean Energy Company has
asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for permits to harness
energy from waves off the coastline of six states.One of those states is
Hawaii: The Hawaii proposal calls....
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* GM, Wal-Mart, disappearing pensions and health care
* Latest abuse case raises questions about the Department of Human
Services
* The auto crisis as symptom of failed corporate-government alliance
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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:56:53 -0800
From: Tia Ballantine
poem - Henry Vaughan
THE MORNING WATCH
O joys! Infinite sweetness! with what flowers
And shoots of glory, my soul breaks and buds!
All the long hours
Of night and rest,
Through the still shrouds
Of sleep, and clouds,
This dew fell on my breast;
O how it bloods,
And spirits all my earth! hark! in what rings,
And hymning circulations the quick world
Awakes, and sings!
The rising winds,
And falling springs,
Birds, beasts, all things
Adore Him in their kinds.
Thus all is hurl'd
In sacred hymns and order; the great chime
And symphony of Nature. Prayer is
The world in tune,
A spirit-voice,
And vocal joys,
Whose echo is heaven's bliss.
O let me climb
When I lie down! The pious soul by night
Is like a clouded star, whose beams, though said
To shed their light
Under some cloud,
Yet are above,
And shine and move
Beyond that misty shroud.
So in my bed,
That curtain'd grave, though sleep, like ashes, hide
My lamp and life, both shall in Thee abide.
-- Henry Vaughan
-- from: Henry Vaughan: The Complete Poems
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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:47:48 -0800
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@koanifoundation.org>
Fox Guards The Henhouse On "Voices Of Truth -
One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future"
Aloha `aina,
Just when everyone thought it couldnÕt get worse, Hawai`i Governor Linda
Lingle now claims Hawaiians have no claims to their ceded lands at all.
Find out whatÕs going on and what you can do to help on our Free Hawai`i
blog.
HereÕs this weekÕs schedule for Voices Of Truth - One-On-One With
Hawai`iÕs Future.
MONDAY, December 8th At 6:30 PM - Maui - Akaku, Channel 53
ÒHe Is Caregiver - A Visit With Junior Kanuha
Junior Kanuha makes a personal commitment to cleaning up and caring for
wahi pana kahiko, ancient sacred sites. He tells us heÕs just following
spiritual direction - he says heÕs only the gardener, the caretaker, ka
hapai opala, the guy who hauls off the trash from this extraordinary
place of beauty and ancient history.
MONDAY, December 8th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, December 12th At 5:30 PM -
Hawai`i Island - Na Leo, Channel 53
THURSDAY, December 11th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, December 12th At 8:30 AM -
Kaua`i - Ho`ike, Channel 52
ÒKawainui Magic - A Visit With Chuck ÒDocÓ BurrowsÓ
What is it about Kawainui marsh thatÕs so irresistible? Certainly the
unparalleled beauty and ecological importance, but thereÕs something
else. Join us as we visit with long time Kawainui caretaker Chuck ÒDocÓ
Burrows as he explains the marshÕs deep cultural history and reveals why
itÕs a special place like no other. Watch It Here.
SATURDAY, December 13th At 8:00 PM - O`ahu, `Olelo, Channel 53
ÒWhere Has The Water Gone? - A Visit With Johanna KamaunuÓ
With less and less water available for her familyÕs taro patch, Johanna
knew something was up. Little did she realize that like drops of the
missing water, what she discovered was all connected - rights to land her
family was unaware they owned, previously unknown relatives, and of
course where the water was going. Find out why what Johanna found opened
her eyes to a new reality and changed her life forever. Watch It Here.
Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to
discover what made them go from armchair observers to active
participants. We hope youÕll be inspired to do the same.
If you support our issues on the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network,
please email this to a friend to help us continue. A donation today helps
further our work. Every single penny counts.
Donating is easy on our Voices Of Truth website via PayPal.
You may view Voices Of Truth on the web anytime.
And for news and issues that affect you, watch Free Hawai`i TV, both a
part of the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network.
Ho`oku`oko`a,
`Ehu Kekahu Cardwell
The Koani Foundation
Visit FreeHawaii.Info
Watch Free Hawai`i TV
Voices Of Truth online
The Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:33:29 -0500
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
Disappeared News - 2 new articles
"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 2 NEW ARTICLES
1. Support labor-call Bank of America and tell them what you think of
cutting off workerâ^À^Ùs pay
2. Of course, proposed wave/wind generators are in precisely the wrong
place (if youâ^À^Ùre a whale)
3. More Recent Articles
4. Search Disappeared News
Support labor-call Bank of America and tell them what you think of
cutting off workerâ^À^Ùs pay
by Larry Geller You have probably seen the story: Republic Windows
employees, fired without notice, are occupying the plant and demanding
severance and vacation pay. President-elect Obama even said that workers
should get their pay. It appears that whether they receive their pay or
not depends on Bank of America, which refused to give payroll money to
the company. You can help pressure BOA to do....
Of course, proposed wave/wind generators are in precisely the wrong
place (if youâ^À^Ùre a whale)
by Larry Geller More on yesterdayâ^À^Ùs article, Company applies to place
Chinese-made wind turbines offshore in Hawaii: Thanks to Brad Parsons for
the Whale Density map. On that map, Red is the highest whale density. I
took the â^À^ÜProject Siteâ^À^Ý map from the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission public filing by Grays Harbor Ocean Energy Company, the
company that proposes this wave and/or wind....
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* Hawaiiâ^À^Ùs most vulnerable forced into Medicaid HMOs run by
mainland for-profits-Legislature to investigate why
* Company applies to place Chinese-made wind turbines offshore in
Hawaii
* Advertiser shrinks, but no discount on subscriptions
* Newspapers vs. the immediacy of the Internet
________________________________________________________________________________
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:43:53 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com
Governor Says Ceded Land Stance Unchanged
Sunday, December 7, 2008 Honolulu Advertiser
Governor Says Ceded Land Stance Unchanged
HAWAIIANS HAVE MORAL CLAIM ON THEM BUT NOT A LEGAL ONE, SHE SAYS.
By Gordon Y.K. Pang, Advertiser Staff Writer
The Lingle administration said yesterday that it has been consistent in
its position on ceded lands and their relationship to Native Hawaiians,
and has not changed course as a result of a legal battle with the Office
of Hawaiian Affairs now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
"We have never argued, and do not now argue, that there are not strong
moral claims that can be asserted," the governor's office said in a
release late yesterday. "But we have argued since the inception of this
lawsuit that the only forum that can consider such claims is one that
encompasses legislative actions."
In yesterday's Advertiser, OHA and an attorney for four other plaintiffs
in the case against the state said the administration and Attorney
General Mark Bennett will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that Native
Hawaiians do not have an ownership claim to ceded lands, those lands that
belonged to the Hawaiian government before the 1893 overthrow.
The administration's statement did not dispute the strategy, but insisted
it has not changed its position on ceded lands in over a decade.
At the center of the dispute is a lawsuit brought in 1994 by four Native
Hawaiians seeking to stop the state from selling homes in two housing
projects being developed on ceded lands. A Hawai'i Supreme Court ruling
in January barred the state from selling or transferring ceded lands
until Native Hawaiian claims to the lands are resolved. The U.S. Supreme
Court agreed to hear the state's appeal.
Bill Meheula, the attorney for the four original plaintiffs, reiterated
his view that a brief filed by Bennett last week introduces a whole new
element by bringing up the Newlands Resolution, the 1898 congressional
act that led to Hawai'i's annexation, because it gives "absolute and
unreviewable title" to the U.S. and extinguishes Native Hawaiian claims
to ceded lands.
The state has "never taken this position before that Hawaiians don't have
a claim to the ceded land," Meheula said. "They've never said the only
claim Hawaiians have is a moral claim."
Reach Gordon Y.K. Pang at gpang@honoluluadvertiser.com.
ALOHA Kakou,
The Newlands Resolution transferred the Hawaiian Islands to the
United States as a "Special Trust." A "Special Trust" where the United
States held only a "Naked Tittle" to those lands of Hawaii. A "Special
Trust" where Congress had to past laws in the administration of the lands
of that "Special Trust."
Thru the years Congress have passed many laws relating to the
administration of the "Special Trust" lands of Hawaii. The Hawaiian
Homes Commission Act, the State of Hawaii Admission Act being just a few
of these actions of Congress.
Then in 1993 Congress passed Public Law 103-150 relating to the
administration of the "Special Trust" lands of Hawaii. The findings in
P.L. 103 as well in the Native Hawaiian Education Act passed by Congress
in 2002 clearly recognizes that Native Hawaiians have an Inherent
Sovereign claims to the "Special Trust" lands of Hawaii.
Governor Lingle have Betrayed the trust of the Hawaiian people who
supported her as Governor of Hawaii. A Betrayal that should not be
taken lightly by the Hawaiian people.
KU I KA PONO 2009, o Pomaikaiokalani
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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:44:26 -1000
From: Global Media Productions <info@globalmediaproductions.com>
TaKeTiNa Night - Dec 10 + Workshop Dec 13-14 - Oahu
INTRO TO TAKETINA NIGHTS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 . 7-10PM STUDIO MAUI IN HAIKU, MAUI
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 . 7-10PM STUDIO BE IN HONOLULU
TAKETINA WEEKEND WORKSHOP
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13-14 . ALL DAY MANOA DANCE STUDIO IN HONOLULU
TaKeTiNa -
Is a musical, meditative group process for people who want to develop
their awareness of rhythm.
You don't need to play an instrument.
In a TakeTiNa circle, people step, clap, and vocalize while they are led
deeper and deeper into the complex world of polyrhythms. As we
alternately find and lose rhythm orientation -then find our way back
again- we explore the fluctuation between chaos and order, confusion and
clarity, the known and the unknown. We begin to sense, from the inside,
our relationship to time and space.
Immerse yourself in rhythm for three full hours. In the TaKeTiNa circle,
we invite you learn with the whole body. As you relax into learning at
your own pace, the group creates space for deeper rhythmic understanding,
self-discovery, and quiet calm.
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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:07:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Dhira DiBiase <dhiradi@yahoo.com>
Holiday Shopping Party
Saturday, Dec. 6 & 13
Sunday, Dec. 7 & 14
Holiday Shopping Party
for
Casual Movements
(Exotic Imports)
We've put together a holiday showroom of all our exciting items
We have
Many Buddha, Ganesha statues made of handcarved teak wood and of cast
bronze
Leather animal statues from India
Many cloths and fabrics from Indonesia, Africa and India to play with.
Original African Mud Cloth
Incense and Incense burners
Dream Catchers
Lots of gift items
India Sequined Shoes
Leggings,Tights.
So many varieties of shawls, wraps to keep you warm and to keep you
feminine. some are lace, some are so soft and some like throw blankets
Yoga mats
Tantra statues made of stone
Comfortable, colorful creative clothing
skirts of all types
pants of all kinds of fabrics
tops for $5 - $10
Clothes for kids too
Hats of all sorts
Reggaewear
Hacky sacks
From sexy to conservative, petite to plus sizes, we have so much for you
to see and enjoy.
Hope you can join us for great music, refreshments and an inspiring
atmosphere for you to shop and socialize in.
Please come.
SATURDAY, Dec. 13
SUNDAY Dec. 14
FROM 3pm UNTIL 6pm.
also open by appointment from now until.......
Call Debra : 373-3177 at 143 West Halemaumau St. in Niu Valley, off of
Kalanianiole Hwy between the Mcdonalds and the KFC.
Just turn onto West Halemaumau St and at the first right hand corner look
for a huge bamboo fence, this is the house , park and go up driveway.
See you soon, Come join the fun....
Debra
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:20:43 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com
Cloud Over All Land Titles in Hawaii
Pomaikaiokalani Permalink Reply by Pomaikaiokalani 1 minute ago Since the
overthrow of the lawful government of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, there
is a Cloud over All the Land Tittles in Hawaii. Not only on the Crown and
Government Land Tittles but all sales of lands, including all private and
trust lands. We need to look at the BIg Picture, not only at the Crown
and government lands. All sales and transfer of lands in Hawaii since the
overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom do not have any lawful jurisdiction of
law. United States and its governmental entities have had over 115 years
to correct the wrongs that it committed in 1893. Justice Delayed is
Justice Denied...................... KUE, January 17, 2009 . .
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:12:33 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com
Indigenous People Rising
CounterPunch Weekend Edition
November 28-30, 2008
Historic Changes Across Latin America
Indigenous People Rising
By JAMES COCKCROFT
Indigenous peoples in Indo-Afro-Latin America, especially Bolivia and
Ecuador, are rising up to take control of their own lives and act in
solidarity with others to save the planet. They are calling for new, yet
ancient, practices of plurinational, participatory, and intercultural
democracy. They champion ecologically sustainable development;
community-based autonomies; and solidarity with other peoples locally,
regionally, and internationally â^À^Ó what they describe as â^À^Üunity in
diversity.â^À^Ý Their values are often different than those of the United
States or Europe. One indigenous leader has stated: â^À^ÜWe give what
money we have not to banks to collect interest but to others â^À^Ó and
their gratitude is the interest we receive.â^À^Ý
Fifty-five million indigenous persons, or 400 indigenous peoples, inhabit
Indo-Afro-Latin America. Most reside in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru,
and Bolivia. They reject the Europe-imposed term â^À^ÜIndians.â^À^Ý They
call themselves â^À^Üthe native peoplesâ^À^Ý (â^À^ÜIos pueblos
originariosâ^À^Ý in Spanish). They constitute 67 percent of Boliviaâ^À^Ùs
population. In Ecuador they are 40 percent, mainly in the cold highland
Sierra and sweltering Amazonian tropics. They often ally with
Afro-Ecuadorians along the Pacific coast, who account for 10 percent of
the populace.
Spokespersons for the native peoples realize that the differences between
their cosmic visions and those of Europe and the United States are part
of an ongoing set of class and ideological conflicts that must be
resolved if world peace and ecological balance are to be achieved. They
recognize too that they must overcome divisions in their own ranks and
that their struggles necessitate solidarity with other oppressed peoples
around the globe. They link up internationally, as in the case of the
worldwide 87-nation â^À^ÜVia Campesinaâ^À^Ý so important in the World
Social Forums of this century. Sensitive to the world ecological crisis,
the native peoplesâ^À^Ù movements conducted the 2008 First Interregional
Summit of the Amazon, the region known as â^À^Üthe lungs of the
planet.â^À^Ý
In Bolivia and Ecuador, the native peoples and their supporters are
re-founding the State, â^À^Üdemocratizing democracy,â^À^Ý and introducing
juridical pluralism. They are playing a prominent role in popular
campaigns against neo-liberal capitalist globalization and US-European
interventionism. Recognized and honored in UN and ILO declarations on
indigenous rights, they emphasize human and planetary rights, including
the rights of Nature (â^À^ÜPachamama,â^À^Ý or â^À^ÜMother Nature,â^À^Ý
literally â^À^ÜMother Universeâ^À^Ý).
The CIA has often characterized the social movements of the native
peoples as a major challenge to US hegemony. Territories they occupy
contain 80 percent of Latin Americaâ^À^Ùs biodiversity, several important
watersheds, and such valuable resources as petroleum.
Bolivia and Ecuador, historically wracked by poverty, military coups, and
massacres of native peoples, peasants, students, and workers, exemplify
many challenges. Both countries remain two of the poorest in the world
and have experienced recent cholera epidemics. The average income of a
Bolivian peasant is $50 a year. That is one reason why peasants, whenever
possible, base their lives on the indigenous legacy of terraced
irrigation works and the â^À^Üayllu,â^À^Ý or commune. Many try to
emigrate. One of every four Bolivians works outside the nation. Their
remittances account for 10 percent of Boliviaâ^À^Ùs GDP (Gross Domestic
Product).
Brazilian economic interests account for 20 percent of Boliviaâ^À^Ùs GDP.
Boliviaâ^À^Ùs profitable energy and mining sectors sell gas to fuel 70
percent of the industry of São Paulo, Brazil, South Americaâ^À^Ùs
largest city. Control of Boliviaâ^À^Ùs principal agricultural export,
soybeans, is 35 percent Brazilian. Some of Brazilâ^À^Ùs farmers, together
with a hundred Bolivian families, control five-sixths of Boliviaâ^À^Ùs
farmlands.
Ecuador remains the largest banana producer in the world but now gets
more money from oil, forestry products, and the remittances of its
emigrants (more than 3 million persons, out of a population of 14
million). Ecuador is a significant source of petroleum. It has abundant
cedar, ceibo, and mahogany, and several 250-year-old trees. It is the
worldâ^À^Ùs largest producer of Balsa wood. In 2003, forestry interests
from Colombia provoked genocide against the already reduced, small,
nomadic Tagaeri and Taromenari native peoples.
Boliviaâ^À^Ùs President Evo Morales, an Aymara elected in 2005 with a
majority of votes in the initial round, an unprecedented event for
Boliviaâ^À^Ùs multi-party system, has often pointed out that â^À^ÜThe
fight of our people is an historic struggle against empire.â^À^Ý Native
peoples throughout the Americas tend to see empire as an uninterrupted
process of 516 years of genocidal subjection in the face of their proud
resistance. They understand well the continuity of
colonialism/imperialism: the routine use of kidnappings, disappearances,
torture, and male violence against women; ecological destruction; and the
creation and perpetuation of an un-payable external debt for economic
blackmail.
Bolivian filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés once called Boliviaâ^À^Ùs indigenous
peasants and miners â^À^Üthe clandestine nation.â^À^Ý Now they and other
peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean are changing history.
Ecuadorâ^À^Ùs President Rafael Correa, a US-trained economist elected in
a runoff in 2006, has declared: â^À^ÜWe are living not in an epoch of
changes, but in a change of epochs.â^À^Ý
Recently, Bolivia and Ecuador, like Venezuela, have experienced
democratic elections, even popular referenda and, in the cases of Bolivia
and Venezuela, recall votes. Their presidents have won these elections by
impressive majorities. On behalf of the oppressed they have been
implementing policies against neo-liberal capitalismâ^À^Ùs practices of
â^À^Üfree trade,â^À^Ý deregulation, and privatization. In various ways,
they have advocated â^À^Üa new socialism for the 21st century.â^À^Ý Evo
Morales evokes an Aymara-type â^À^Ücommunitarian socialism based on
reciprocity and solidarity.â^À^Ý
In an address at the United Nations in September 2008, Evo, as he is
popularly known, proposed â^À^ÜTen Commandmentsâ^À^Ý to save the planet,
life and humanity:
Put an end to the capitalist system
Renounce wars (Evo says â^À^ÜI donâ^À^Ùt believe there can be peace
under capitalismâ^À^Ý)
Create a world without imperialism or colonialism
Honor the right to water
Develop clean energies
Respect Nature (Pachamama)
Recognize basic services as human rights
Combat inequalities
Promote diversity of cultures and economies
Seek â^À^ÜVivir bienâ^À^Ý -- living well (what is known in Ecuador
as â^À^Üsumak kawsay,â^À^Ý living fully), instead of living better at
the expense of others
Evo pointed out that Boliviaâ^À^Ùs recently drafted constitution â^À^Üis
to support a new pact with all humanity and Pachamama, from the heart of
the Andes, from the South, for all the world.â^À^Ý
Revolutionary Processes Rooted in Indigenous and Social Movements
Revolutionary processes in Bolivia and Ecuador are rooted in the social
movements of native peoples and others. In Bolivia, mass mobilizations
against the privatization of water in 2000 and 2004 succeeded against the
powerful US-based transnational corporation Bechtel. Similar
mobilizations for nationalizing gas in 2003 toppled the government of
President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, known as â^À^Üel gringoâ^À^Ý
because of his speaking English better than Spanish. Sánchez de
Lozadaâ^À^Ùs regime was responsible for the massacre of more than 60
citizens in El Alto, a new Andean city of more than a million poor people
above La Paz, the worldâ^À^Ùs highest capital.
One of President Evo Moralesâ^À^Ù first acts after taking office in 2006
was to nationalize oil and the production of gas. With proceeds from the
nationalizations, he created a â^À^Üdignity pensionâ^À^Ý for people over
60 years of age and a â^À^Üfamily income supplementâ^À^Ý to help keep
children in school. He extended credit with zero percent interest to
farmers of corn, wheat, rice and other basics. Under Morales, Bolivia has
eliminated its fiscal debt, repaid half its foreign debt, and quadrupled
employment in the mining and metallurgical sectors. Its GDP has almost
doubled in three years, while its foreign reserves have almost quintupled
to over $8 billion. Cuban teams of teachers and medical personnel have
helped reduce illiteracy by 80 percent and extend free health care to
half the populace. Cubaâ^À^Ùs â^À^ÜMiracle Missionâ^À^Ý has conducted
free eye operations to restore the full vision of nearly 300,000
Bolivians.
Bolivian Vice President Ã^Álvaro GarcÃa Linares often reassures foreign
capitalists and says Boliviaâ^À^Ùs economy will be â^À^ÜAndean/Amazonian
capitalism,â^À^Ý featuring strong support for small and medium
enterprises, including cooperatives and handicrafts. Despite these
reassurances, the US Government has sought to undermine Bolivian
democracy the way it so often has done in the past. It has lifted its
restrictions on the CIAâ^À^Ùs use of assassination against foreign
leaders. Both Evo Morales and Ecuadorâ^À^Ùs Correa have denounced
assassination plots on their lives.
Upon assuming the presidency, Evo ordered the CIA desk in the
presidential palace removed. Later, in the face of US pressures on behalf
of Bechtel and other transnational corporations, he pulled Bolivia out of
the World Bankâ^À^Ùs Disputes Resolution Court. During 2008,
department-level Bolivian officials expelled various personnel of the US
Agency for International Development (USAID), which had established an
â^À^ÜOffice of Transition Initiativesâ^À^Ý to fund the rightist
opposition. Evo discovered that US Ambassador Philip Goldberg was
promoting and financing extreme rightist leaders in the gas-rich eastern
breakaway departments who, in the name of departmental autonomy, in
effect separatism, were ordering massacres of native peoples and
occupying federal offices. This was a thinly veiled attempt at a
â^À^Ücivilâ^À^Ý coup dâ^À^Ùétat, a coup in quest of military support.
Ambassador Golberg had served earlier in countries undergoing violent
breakups, such as the former Yugoslavia. He served as ambassador to
Kosovo, where the United States tolerated or supported paramilitary
massacres of Serbs and other ethnic minorities. His superior is John
Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State and chief State Department official
for Latin America. Negroponte is the former 1980sâ^À^Ùambassador to
Honduras who oversaw the â^À^Ücontraâ^À^Ý war against the democratically
elected Sandinista government. He and the State Departmentâ^À^Ùs embassy
staffs help coordinate US efforts to undermine or topple todayâ^À^Ùs
socialist oriented governments and social movements, like those in
Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
Goldbergâ^À^Ùs Embassy began enlisting Peace Corps volunteers and
Fulbright Scholars to â^À^Üspyâ^À^Ý on Cubans and Venezuelans in Bolivia.
It also worked with a special intelligence unit of the Bolivian police.
Goldberg was photographed meeting with coup-plotting leaders and a known
Colombian paramilitary figure. In September 2008, at the height of the
unsuccessful â^À^Ücivilâ^À^Ý coup attempt, Evo expelled Goldberg. The
United States responded by sending home the Bolivian ambassador.
Meeting in Chile in September, the newly created Union of South American
Nations (UNASUR) unanimously condemned the ongoing attempted coup and its
massacres. UNASUR unconditionally supported Evoâ^À^Ùs democratic
government and sent observers to government-proposed negotiations in
which the opposition finally agreed to participate. When the negotiations
later failed because of right-wing intransigence despite major
concessions by Evo, the UNASUR observers again condemned the right for
its anti-democratic and criminal conduct.
Meanwhile, a UNASUR investigating team of experts confirmed details of a
September 11, 2008 massacre of peaceful protesters, mostly native
peoples, in Pando Department, when 18 people were gunned down, 60 were
wounded, and more than 100 persons â^À^Üdisappeared.â^À^Ý The rightist
governor said to be responsible for the massacre, Leopoldo Fernández, an
ally of the 1970sâ^À^Ù dictator Hugo Banzer, fled toward Brazil but was
captured by the military and jailed.
On November 1, 2008, Boliviaâ^À^Ùs government suspended indefinitely the
operations of the US Drug Enforcement Agency because of the DEAâ^À^Ùs
financing fascistic opposition forces behind the coup attempt and
â^À^Ücriminal groupsâ^À^Ý plotting to kill government authorities.
President Evo Morales offered evidence of this and other DEA crimes, such
as its involvement in narco-trafficking and its investigations ordered in
2003 of leftist leaders, including Evo himself. He said that Bolivia
would continue to protect small-scale growers of coca to maintain the
cultural use of the product by native peoples and would play a key role
in a new unified South American effort against narco-trafficking to be
backed by regional funding. Washington countered by suspending long-term
trade preferences with Bolivia.
In Ecuador, occupations of government buildings and general strikes
became an annual affair in the 1990s. Mass movements of the underclasses,
students, workers, and native peoples began to link up. The native
peoples launched five uprisings. From 1995 to 2005 the popular movements
toppled seven presidents. In January 2000, the native peoples took over
Ecuadorâ^À^Ùs parliament and actually â^À^Ügovernedâ^À^Ý the nation for
24 hours! The old State -- led by a comprador bourgeoisie in the coastal
region of Guayaquil, landed oligarchs there and in the Sierra, military
officers and paramilitaries, and an ultra-reactionary Catholic Church --
began to totter.
President Rafael Correa of Ecuador initially tried to reassure
Washington. He maintained the US dollar as the nationâ^À^Ùs currency. He
simultaneously challenged the US Government by declaring he might not
recognize the legality of Ecuadorâ^À^Ùs foreign debt. He expelled the
World Bankâ^À^Ùs permanent representative and said that in 2009 he would
not renew the lease for the US military base in Manta.
Then, on March 1, 2008, the United States and Colombia mounted a military
bombardment and invasion of Ecuador that used the Manta base and killed
at least 24 people, including Raúl Reyes, a guerrilla commander of the
FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), who at the time was
meeting with Mexican university students in the northern Ecuadorian
jungle. Afterwards, Correa denounced US control of high officials of
Ecuadorâ^À^Ùs security and intelligence forces and dismissed leaders in
the Armed Forces, Police, and his own Minister of Defense. The
Organization of American States (OAS) showed its independence from
traditional US control when it voted to denounce the military attack on
Ecuador.
In November 2008, President Correa, contrary to economic integration
plans already underway in South America, went along with the European
Unionâ^À^Ùs call for bilateral trade negotiations. Colombia and Peru, but
not Bolivia, already had agreed to accept bilateral negotiations. The
Ecuadorian government also announced a partial privatization of the Nappo
River. It planned to allow state development of mining in Yasuni Park,
declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1989. But at the same time,
Correa accepted the report of an independent international commission of
inquiry into Ecuadorâ^À^Ùs foreign debt from 1976 to 2006. The report
found that many loan agreements involved corruption, illegalities, and
â^À^Ülootingâ^À^Ý; violated national sovereignty; contributed to greater
poverty and inequality; and were â^À^Üodiousâ^À^Ý because of their often
being contracted in years of military dictatorships. Correa announced
that the â^À^Üillegitimate, corrupt, and illegal debtâ^À^Ý would likely
not be paid.
Meanwhile, Latin Americaâ^À^Ùs indigenous and social movements called for
â^À^Üthe recognition of the historical, social and environmental
debtâ^À^Ý that most of the â^À^Ücreditorâ^À^Ý nations had incurred
â^À^Üduring five centuries of the colonization of Abya Yala.â^À^Ý
(â^À^ÜAbya Yalaâ^À^Ý means â^À^ÜContinent of Lifeâ^À^Ý in the language of
the Kuna peoples of Panama and Colombia.)
Re-founding the State, New Constitutions
Throughout Indo-Afro-Latin America vigorous movements to â^À^Üdemocratize
democracyâ^À^Ý have taken root. The social movements that put an end to
the worse period of US-supported â^À^Üdirty warsâ^À^Ý and toppled the
military dictatorships of the 1964-1984 period did not settle for the
limited democracies that replaced them. People had fought and died for
human rights and not the amnesties that were granted the dictators and
their henchmen as a condition for allowing the new â^À^Üdemocracies.â^À^Ý
To walk down the street and suddenly see oneâ^À^Ùs torturer coming out of
the corner store was one more form of torture. Moreover, the newly
introduced â^À^Ürepresentative democraciesâ^À^Ý typically served the
interests of big money and economic neo-liberalism rather than those of
the general populace.
As poverty spread, movements sparked by native peoples and other groups,
especially women and youth, mobilized against the IMF and its defenders
in the newly elected parliaments and presidencies. For many, to
â^À^Üdemocratize democracyâ^À^Ý meant to introduce economic democracy and
not just limited political democracy. People began demanding constituent
assemblies. The elections of Morales and Correa paved the way for a
re-founding of the State and an official rejection of neo-liberalism.
In elections for Boliviaâ^À^Ùs constituent assembly the only requirement
was that 30 percent of the delegates had to be women. Candidates from Evo
Moralesâ^À^Ù MAS (Movement to Socialism) won 137 of the 255 seats; 64 of
the MAS delegates were women. Delegates finalized the new constitution of
411 articles in December 2007, only after being forced to move the
location of the assemblyâ^À^Ùs meetings because of right-wing violence
and sabotage of the process. This violence was part of the
â^À^Ücivilâ^À^Ý coup attempt that actually commenced the day Evo was
elected president.
Ecuadorâ^À^Ùs voters elected their constituent assembly in September
2007. It included 80 members of Congress from Correaâ^À^Ùs heterogeneous
political coalition â^À^ÜAlianza PaÃs,â^À^Ý 40 from the conservative
opposition, 10 from small leftist parties, and 5 from theCONAIE
(Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, founded in 1986).
Other organizations, such as the CONFENIAE (Confederation of Indigenous
Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon) and the FENOCIN (National
Federation of Peasants, Native Peoples, and Blacks), pressured the
assembly to make constitutional changes in defense of their interests. On
September 28, 2008, voters approved the 444-article Constitution by a 65
percent â^À^ÜYesâ^À^Ý vote. Concluded President Correa:
â^À^ÜNeo-liberalism has been crushed and put in the dustbin of
history.â^À^Ý
Both nationsâ^À^Ù new constitutions distinguish between the old
representative democracy and a new participatory and communitarian one.
They call for plural nationhood; genuine interculturalism (instead of
cosmetic multiculturalism); recognition of differences among cultures;
and â^À^Üunity in diversity.â^À^Ý As a result, the native peoplesâ^À^Ù
communities have constitutional rights to local self-governance and their
own juridical procedures based on indigenous customs and traditions.
Boliviaâ^À^Ùs Constitution calls for juridical pluralism within a
proposed â^À^ÜPlurinational Constitutional Court of Justice.â^À^Ý
Only when there is plural nationhood can there be real interculturalism.
Plural nationhood entails re-founding the State. In the eyes of the
native peoples, the old State was a colonial one, formed of select
individuals. It championed individual freedoms solely for the elites. In
no way did it represent collective societies like those of the Quechua,
Aymara, GuaranÃ, Shuar, Siona and other native peoples. The new State is
to be an independent, unitary, plurinational one that celebrates human
diversity and true democracy. In indigenous terms, exit colonialism and
enter all humanity.
Boliviaâ^À^Ùs proposed new constitution contains the following
provisions, presented here in a synthesized form and in no particular
order:
A unitary, plurinational, communitarian and democratic State.
All 36 peoples to have equal rights and regional autonomies, that is,
a democratic decentralization of power.
Nationalization of natural resources and State control over forests
and biodiversity.
Three forms of economic ownership: public, private, and communitarian
-- in effect, a mixed economy compatible with the Vice
Presidentâ^À^Ùs vision of an Andean/Amazonian capitalism.
State involvement in strategic sectors of the economy, and foreign
private investment to be subordinated to national development plans.
Agrarian reform with expropriation of huge landed estates
(latifundia).
Re-election and removal of any elected official by popular mandate --
already implemented on August 10, 2008, when the oppositionâ^À^Ùs
demand for a referendum was granted and 67 percent of the votes
favored keeping Evo Morales as president; Evoâ^À^Ùs supporters also
won several governorships while increasing their vote percentage in
the few departments they lost to the rightist opposition.
Election of the judiciary; recognition of communitarian and ancestral
forms of conflict resolution.
A plurinational Parliament with only one chamber (in effect, the
elimination of the structurally elitist Senate).
Free and equal health care and education; end of illiteracy.
Sucre to replace La Paz as the capital (a concession to the rightist
opposition).
A ban on discrimination based on sex, color, age, sexual
orientation, gender identity, culture, nationality, religion,
ideology, disability, pregnancy.
Prohibition of foreign military bases.
Potable drinking water as a human right.
Most observers expect that Bolivian voters will approve the constitution
in the referendum scheduled for January 25, 2009. The articles on land
ownership will be submitted separately at the same time.
Ecuadorâ^À^Ùs Constitution contains the following provisions, also
presented in a synthesized form and in no particular order:
State to tighten control of strategic industries, such as oil,
mining, and telecommunications, and to protect biodiversity.
State to reduce monopolies.
Some of foreign debt to be declared illegitimate.
Agrarian reform; end of latifundia; prohibition of genetically
modified seeds.
Free health care; free education for all through college;
State-assisted housing programs.
A lay State; civil marriage for gay partners (measures opposed by one
of the continentâ^À^Ùs most reactionary Catholic Churches)
Womenâ^À^Ùs rights, including valuation for work in the home.
Free responsibility over oneâ^À^Ùs own sexuality and life;
recognition of diverse types of family; yet, the right to life from
the moment of conception (feminist activists generally welcomed their
gains and said the clause on life at conception could be eliminated
through future popular mobilizations).
Equal rights for the disabled.
Universal social security; pensions for stay-at-home mothers and
informal sector workers.
Presidential control over Central Bank; less autonomy for the Armed
Forces.
Consecration of Natureâ^À^Ùs collective rights.
Potable drinking water as a human right; prohibition of
privatization of water.
Food sovereignty and the right to have secure food sources.
Right to have access to the mass media and to establish community
media.
Prohibition of foreign military bases.
A solidarity-based and sustainable economic system; a â^À^Üprivate,
social and solidarityâ^À^Ý economy, in effect a mixed economy.
Integration into the rest of Latin America, especially via UNASUR
Prohibition of State taking over private debts, in effect no bank
bailouts
Balanced living (sumak kawsay)
There are, to be sure, ambiguities and contradictions in both
nationsâ^À^Ù new constitutions. Ecuadorâ^À^Ùs, for example, includes
loopholes for big capital and latifundistas, such as Article 323, a
prohibition against all forms of confiscation. In Bolivia, some have
criticized an overemphasis on local indigenous autonomies with inadequate
attention given to the 70 percent of the population that is urban or to
the important role women play in the creation and defense of
â^À^Üinformalâ^À^Ý economies key to human survival and advancement.
Also, one area of great concern to native peoples in Ecuador is the
clause calling for their â^À^Üprevious informed consultationâ^À^Ý on
mining, oil, or other economic rights granted outsiders in territories
where they reside. Consultation with native peoples does not mean their
â^À^Üconsent.â^À^Ý There have already occurred killings and repression of
protests against foreign petroleum firms. President Correa has gone so
far as to characterize some of the protesters as â^À^Üterrorists.â^À^Ý
The UN and ILO declarations on indigenous peoplesâ^À^Ù rights are
generally interpreted as calling for â^À^Üprevious consent.â^À^Ý
â^À^ÜPetroleum is the blood of the Earth,â^À^Ý goes a saying of the
Uâ^À^Ùwa people resisting foreign oil interests in Colombia, â^À^Üif you
suck the blood you kill us.â^À^Ý
Clearly, new laws do not necessarily translate into new realities. The
movements that gave birth to the new constitutions of Bolivia and Ecuador
will have to be maintained and strengthened if the articles on
environment, plurinationalism, and social rights are to be fulfilled or
expanded in practice.
Right-wing Opposition in Historical Context
A long time ago, a Mayan said:
They destroyed our crops
They cut our branches
They burned our tree trunks
But they could not kill our roots.
In 1781, Tupak Katari, the leader of a widespread and nearly successful
revolt by South Americaâ^À^Ùs native peoples against Spanish colonialism,
was captured and tortured. His body was torn apart, literally
â^À^Üquartered.â^À^Ý Before his death, he proudly announced to his
captors: â^À^ÜI will return and I will be millions.â^À^Ý
Evo Morales, a strong advocate for world peace and non-violence, has said
the right-wing opposition is attempting to â^À^Üquarterâ^À^Ý Bolivia but
will not succeed. In a sense, Tupak Katari has returned and is millions.
The Bolivian rightists, relatively strong in four departments rich in
commerce, narco-trafficking, agriculture, gas, and other natural
resources but unable to win national elections, seek to create a
secessionist State centered around the economically powerful city of
Santa Cruz. This would leave the rest of Bolivia impoverished.
Just as in Bolivia, there are anti-democracy rightists in Ecuador and
Venezuela with links to US governmental agencies and paramilitary
elements in Colombia. They too seek to topple the new democratically
elected revolutionary governments by splitting off the richest areas into
separate, new States: the industrial, oil, agricultural, and commercial
region of Guayaquil in southwestern Ecuador and the oil-rich Zulia in
northeastern Venezuela.
Bolivians have a long history of popular resistance to right-wing
elements that have governed the nation on behalf of domestic and foreign
elites. They have learned from their earlier struggles. In 1952 they
achieved the continentâ^À^Ùs first revolution since the Mexican
Revolution of 1917. They introduced a short-lived agrarian reform and
nationalization of tin mines, the main industry at the time. Many miners
were Marxists. In 1946 the Minersâ^À^Ù Congress passed the â^À^ÜPulacayo
Thesis,â^À^Ý a program echoing the ideas of Bolshevik revolutionary
thinker and military commander Leon Trotsky. This program called for
workersâ^À^Ù control of the means of production, a genuine democracy, and
internationalization of the revolutionary struggle. Armed miners turned
the tide in 1952 just when it looked like the rightist military might
crush the democratic revolutionary forces in a bloodbath.
However, the United States gradually reversed Boliviaâ^À^Ùs 1952
Revolution by training the Armed Forces and sending in economic advisers
favorable to free-market capitalism and foreign capital. By 1964, the
Revolution was not only reversed. It was being replaced by a series of
military dictatorships and occasional civilian governments that carried
out several massacres of workers, peasants, and students, in a â^À^Üdirty
war.â^À^Ý Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, later extradited to France and
convicted in 1987 of mass murder, helped set up Bolivian concentration
camps. Poverty increased. Because of silicosis, overwork, and the decline
of the mining sector, the lifespan of the average miner today is just 35
years.
A guerrilla struggle led by Ernesto â^À^ÜCheâ^À^Ý Guevara in southeastern
Bolivia failed when US-trained Bolivian Army forces captured Che on
October 8, 1967, and, on US orders, killed him the next day. Crosses
labeled â^À^ÜSaint Cheâ^À^Ý began appearing in several rural locations.
In 1971 a Peoplesâ^À^Ù Assembly backed by the military government of
General Juan José Torres approved a worker-peasant alliance and a
program for socialism. Torres was overthrown by General Banzer, leading
to a savage seven-year wave of repression known as â^À^Üthe
Banzerato,â^À^Ý a prosperous period for Boliviaâ^À^Ùs elites and foreign
capital. The boom city of Santa Cruz began concentrating most of the
nationâ^À^Ùs wealth.
Popular protests by the poor majority and by the small economically
squeezed middle classes continued. By 1980, strikes, revolts, and
massacres reached another severe stage. The so-called â^À^ÜCocaine
Coupâ^À^Ý of that year established a particularly brutal and corrupt
dictatorship that lasted more than two years. In 1985, Harvard-educated
economist Jeffrey Sachs introduced a â^À^Üshock therapyâ^À^Ý neo-liberal
treatment of the economy that laid off thousands of miners, who had to
migrate with their families to the countryside or cities to try to find
work to survive. In the early 1990s, Sachs introduced the same economic
approach in the former Soviet Union. In both cases the results were
disastrous for the majority of the peoples.
During and after Sachsâ^À^Ù â^À^Üshock therapy,â^À^Ý Boliviaâ^À^Ùs
resistance movements reached new levels of community-based organization.
People perfected roadblocks and other acts of civil disobedience.
Womenâ^À^Ùs committees, a traditional institution among miners, began
running urban slums. A street vendorsâ^À^Ù union grew each year to its
present size of 800,000 members. Boliviaâ^À^Ùs citizens conducted huge
marches â^À^ÜFor Life and Peace,â^À^Ý â^À^ÜFor Life and Bread,â^À^Ý and
for â^À^ÜPeople before Profits.â^À^Ý
Native peoples completed an historic 33-day â^À^ÜMarch for Territory and
Dignityâ^À^Ý (1990). A movement by coca growers led by Evo Morales gained
strength and called itself the Movement to Socialism. Workers, steet
vendors, ex-miners, desperate peasants, and heads of households in El
Alto and other urban slums organized neighborhood defense-and-struggle
committees. Women and youth played pivotal roles. Most of the time
Bolivia was under a state of siege, with all opposition repressed.
Nonetheless, the social movements kept reappearing and gaining strength,
toppling government after government until Evoâ^À^Ùs election in 2005.
Prefect Ruben Costas in Santa Cruz and several ex-Nazis and large
landholders began to organize their ¨civilâ^À^Ý coup. They referred to
Evo with racist epitaphs and claimed no â^À^ÜIndian monkeyâ^À^Ý could
possibly govern the nation. They sent fascist goon squads to attack, beat
up, and kill native peoples. They took over national offices, including
airports, making it impossible for the nationâ^À^Ùs president to fly to
important areas.
Several of the fascistic right-wing leaders of the opposition movement
are anti-communist fanatics whose pro-Nazi families came to Bolivia from
Eastern Europe after World War II, often protected or encouraged by the
US government, as in the case of Klaus Barbie. One current leader, Branco
Marinkovic, a Croatian-Bolivian, is widely believed to be in the pay of
the man in the government of â^À^Üel gringoâ^À^Ý who ordered the El Alto
massacre of 2003 and later fled to the United States with â^À^Üel
gringoâ^À^Ý and other top government officials.
Over the years, the fascist leaders of the four breakaway departments
routinely have hired Brazilian gunmen, some of whom joined Bolivian and
Peruvian gunmen in the Pando massacre of September 11, 2008. Pando is the
department that gave refuge to the murderers of Chico Mendes, the
world-renowned trade-union and environmentalist leader of Brazilian
rubber tappers assassinated in 1988. Ever since then, these assassins and
their henchmen have been operating on behalf of Pandoâ^À^Ùs elites to
help maintain labor discipline and political loyalty, but with decreasing
success.
Even though momentarily defeated in their attempt to topple Bolivian
democracy, right-wingers of all varieties have not stopped their
pressures on Evo. The social movements and native peoples continue to
mobilize in defense of Evo´s government.
In the middle of October 2008, some 50,000 to 200,000 people conducted an
8-day, 150-kilometer march that was joined on its last day by Evo
himself. The marchers surrounded the national Congress in La Paz to
demand approval of a future referendum on the new constitution. They
succeeded in winning the required two-thirds majority of votes and then
celebrated in the streets.
However, prior to the successful vote, centrist and rightist political
parties in Congress modified more than 100 articles. Details of the
changes are rather complex, but it is clear that greater though not
complete autonomy is to be granted the breakaway departments. Also, Evo
will not be allowed to run for re-election after the December 6, 2009
presidential and congressional elections. His potential years in the
presidency thus would have to end in 2014.
In both Bolivia and Ecuador, as in Venezuela, the rightist opposition is
increasingly divided. For example, Boliviaâ^À^Ùs PODEMOS (Social
Democratic Power in Spanish), the largest opposition group, now has at
least four squabbling factions.
But the opposition is not just from the right. While leftists generally
support Evo and Correa, even if critically at times, there are a few who
feel that both nationsâ^À^Ù presidents are moving too slowly and with too
many compromises. Some even see the emergence of â^À^Üa new
neo-liberalism with a human face.â^À^Ý Also, there are people inside the
governments of both nations who act as cliques that tend to undermine
democratic processes and thus serve the rightist oppositionâ^À^Ùs claims
that the presidents are â^À^Üdictators.â^À^Ý
Cooptation and clientelism are occurring, more so in Ecuador than in
Bolivia, but the social movements continue demanding genuine democracy
and a new type of socialism that meets all human needs in harmony with
¨Pachamama.¨ The chances of either a civilian or a military coup seem
slimmer each day but can never be ruled out. Both nations´ Armed Forces
have sworn to uphold the constitutional processes underway. The Bolivian
and Ecuadorian peoples are on the alert against possible traitorous
officers or soldiers.
Decline of US Hegemony
Events in Bolivia and Ecuador reflect a growing defiance of the â^À^Übig
brother to the North.â^À^Ý Latin American nations are integrating into a
larger â^À^Ügran patriaâ^À^Ý independent of the United States, an idea
originally advocated by â^À^Üthe Liberatorâ^À^Ý Simón BolÃvar in the
Wars of Independence against Spain when he attempted to unify the region
against future US hegemony. BolÃvar was unsuccessful, in part because of
US opposition. He concluded in 1829: â^À^ÜThe United States appear to be
destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of
liberty.â^À^Ý
In addition to UNASUR, several new institutions have been created in this
recent integrative process. Among them are the following:
Rio Group (created in 1986 by members of the Contadora Group active
in seeking peace in Central America, today an organization of almost
all Latin American and Caribbean states whose most recent new member
is Cuba)
TeleSUR (a continent-wide television news and entertainment channel
countering the slant and distortions of CNN and most US mass media)
RadioSUR
PetroSUR and PetroCARIBE (for energy integration with discount prices
on Venezuelan oil, gas, and know-how)
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas -- ALBA, a socially
responsible instead of profit-guided alternative to the now defeated
US initiative Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
MERCOSUR â^À^Ó Common Market of the South, an earlier alternative to
the FTAA
Community of Andean Nations and Caricom (two more regional trade
blocs)
Latin American Court of Justice
Banco del Sur (Bank of the South, a response to US-dominated,
neo-liberal financial institutions like the World Bank and the
Inter-American Development Bank).
Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (a South American
Parliament is to be built in San Benito, Bolivia)
Security Council of South America (a military alliance of 12 nations
excluding the United States)
There are also plans for a single unified currency possibly to be called
â^À^Üpachaâ^À^Ý and a Monetary Fund of the South (Fondo Monetario del
Sur) as an alternative to the US dollar and the IMF (International
Monetary Fund). There is talk of an economic Stabilization Fund as well.
In the past, the US Government and Latin American oligarchies would not
have tolerated this for a second. They would have mounted bloody military
coups and new dictatorships in the name of defending democracy. But those
days of US hegemony are long gone. Spainâ^À^Ùs capitalists now have more
investments in the region than those of their US counterparts. The United
States and the OAS have been largely absent from all major decisions
about conflicts; new coalitions like UNASUR and the Rio Group make those
decisions, without a single dissenting vote so far. Even the influential
US policy-creating Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), in its May 2008
report, says the Monroe Doctrine is dead and should not be resurrected.
Significantly, Washington has accepted the 12-nation Security Council of
South America.
US military and diplomatic failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan,
together with the global financial crisis triggered by US bank failures
in 2007-2008, have extended the United Statesâ^À^Ù loss of hegemony
worldwide. The Euro and other currencies have long since weakened the
dominance of the US dollar. The gigantic US economy has become dependent
on investments and loans from China, Japan, the European Union, and
sundry oil kingdoms. According to CNN reports, the two-trillion-dollar US
bank rescue plan may cost each US citizen $40,000 by 2010. The
three-decade economic reign of neo-liberalism is spiraling rapidly
downward into the abyss of human suffering it has helped generate.
Multiple Poles of Power and the rise of new economic and geopolitical
alliances are replacing the 18-year-long dominance of a sole Super Power.
Conclusion
It is evident that Bolivia and Ecuador, like so many Latin American
countries, are undergoing historic changes in the correlation of social
and class forces and in relations with the United States. Only the
rightists and the US Government oppose these two new popular and vigorous
democracies. Others are trying to learn from them.
In July 2008, the 8,000-mile â^À^ÜLongest Walk 2 All Life is Sacred â^À^Ó
Save Mother Earthâ^À^Ý reached Washington, D.C. One of its leaders,
Dennis Banks, cofounder of the American Indian Movement (AIM), summed up
its goal as one of â^À^Üenvironmental protection, an end to global
warming, the protection of Indigenous cultural survival, and the
empowerment of Native youth.â^À^Ý Most of the marchers expressed
solidarity with Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
US policy on Latin America in 2008, however, continued down the
anti-democratic path. The Pentagon sent the modernized Fourth Fleet to
police the oceans and waterways of the region. More military bases were
constructed in Colombia, bordering Ecuador and Venezuela. US support for
the mega-project IIRSA (South American Regional Integration of the
Infrastructure in Spanish) increased. It is a multi-billion dollar
transcontinental transport and commercial development plan that will
violate several indigenous territories. Despite widespread bank failures
and skyrocketing unemployment rates at home and abroad, US aid programs
continued to give short shrift to meeting human needs and instead
contributed to the military repression of social and indigenous movements
or renewed attempts at â^À^Ücivilâ^À^Ý coups.
The world faces a profound ecological crisis. World hunger is rapidly
increasing. In a relatively short time there will not be sufficient
potable drinking water, food, or petroleum to maintain current standards
of living even in the most industrialized nations. Neo-liberal capitalism
faces both deepening economic crisis and loss of credibility on a world
scale. The indigenous and popular movements of Bolivia and Ecuador, on
the other hand, have achieved significant advances and now have a chance
to push for even greater gains in the re-founding of their States and the
introduction of new programs in defense of the environment and the
peoples of the world.
In November 2008, some 400 academics of the prestigious Latin American
Studies Association sent a letter to president-elect Barack Obama in
which they expressed their hope that his presidency would convert the
United States into â^À^Üan ally instead of an adversary of the positive
changes taking place in the Hemisphere.â^À^Ý It remains to be seen if
Obama will maintain old policies; make mere cosmetic changes; or create
new policies in the interests of all the peoples of Latin America â^À^Ó
and the United States.
James Cockcroft can be reached at: jcockcro@yahoo.com
In 2007, the UN passed its Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
with only four â^À^ÜNoâ^À^Ý votes (United States, Canada, Australia, and
New Zealand). It echoed and expanded the International Labor
Organizationâ^À^Ùs Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples that
entered into force in 1991.Award-winning Canadian novelist Thomas King,
son of a Cherokee father and Greek mother, has pointed out that
â^À^ÜMother Earthâ^À^Ý is a potent concept for native peoples, but it has
been abused to the point where it sometimes has no more power or import
â^À^Üthan the word freedom tumbling out of George W. Bushâ^À^Ùs
mouth.â^À^Ý King then cites Mohawk writer Beth Brant: â^À^ÜWe do not
worship nature. We are part of it.â^À^Ý See Thomas King, The Truth about
Stories (Toronto: House of Anansi Press Inc., 2003), p. 114.
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:58:19 -0500
From: kahiwal@cs.com
Lingle: Native Hawaiians Have No Stake in Ceded
Lands
David <HOTCOFFEE@prodigy.net> wrote:
>No claims???...how odd....,,,, I guess if the State of Hawaii really
>believes that no claims exist hey won't object to removing this
>language from the Akaka Bill:
Lingle is absolutely correct.
As the "real" claims are political, Native Hawaiians (by race) don't have
a claim.
It is the Hawaiian Kingdom AND its subjects OR the allegiant descendants
of its subject who have THE CLAIM.
As many Native Hawaiians pay NO allegiance to the Hawaiian Kingdom - I
would argue that any claims they may make are defective.
This is one of the big problems of the so-called "akaka bill" - "racial"
Native Hawaiians don't have standing. On the other hand, the so-called
"state of hawaii) can't have it both ways. It either has to stand in line
or get completely out of the picture - especially when it is only the
"trustee" by defective u.s. domestic law.
On the other hand, I don's see the u.s. supreme court making a "correct"
decision. It is like a hired gunslinger - that will maintain the position
of its employer - the u.s. of a.
Onipa'a! Our claims are just and we will hang around until true justice
prevails.
ku
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:13:01 -1000
From: Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
<announce@HAWAII.EDU>
University of [UNKNOWN] Hawaii-Mânoa Research Grant Competition
^ÓSustainability Science, Technology and Policy^Ô
Background
Globally, we are currently facing our inability to meet the demands of
unchecked population growth, rapid depletion of natural resources,
increasing energy needs, and the world-wide deterioration of complex
ecosystems. This has led to our functioning, on borrowed time, at a level
that is not sustainable.
Sustainability, or lack thereof, is most critical in Hawai^Òi given our
geographic isolation, fragile ecosystems, limited resources, and resulting
increased costs (monetary and otherwise) to function in an island
economy/ecosystem. To this end, it is imperative that we focus our
efforts to reach and ultimately move beyond a plateau of sustainability.
The University of Hawai^Ñi at Mânoa should play a key leadership role in
this endeavor, as the flagship UH Campus and a leading research
institution.
Earlier this year a Manoa Ad Hoc Committee of faculty and Deans proposed
an Institute of Sustainability Science, Technology and Policy
(http://www.manoa.hawaii.edu/ovcrge/pdf/inst_sustainability.pdf). The
mission they articulated was^Å. ^ÓTo apply the knowledge and talents of
the University to the practical problems that our society faces in
supplying ourselves with the resources of energy, water, food that a
growing population requires from a diminishing resource base.^Ô
Specifically, they suggested that the Institute would ^Ó^Å..build on the
vision of sustainability science ^Ö a transdisciplinary method of
organizing research to deliver meaningful contributions to critical issues
of resource management and rigorous policy analysis^Ô.
As an initial step in support of the stated objectives the Office of the
Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education is pleased to announce
an internal competition open to University of Hawai^Ñi-Mânoa faculty for a
single 1 million dollar research grant in the broad area of
sustainability. Specifically, funding will be provided over 2 years, for
an interdisciplinary research effort in an area of sustainability research
of significant relevance to Hawai^Ñi. The proposed effort should build
and expand on research strengths presently at the UH-Mânoa. It is
anticipated that after two years the successful applicant team will be
able to transition the project to an externally funded center/program that
will continue to address critical issues around sustainability science,
technology and policy.
Application Process
Electronically submit to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
and Graduate Education (VCRGE@hawaii.edu) by March 1, 2009 a (1) research
plan of no more than 10 pages, single-spaced (12 pt.) to include any
necessary figures and tables; (2) a separate budget and detailed budget
justification; and (3) two page Curriculum vitas of all participants.
The proposals will be reviewed by a committee of internal and external
scholars and the recipient(s) of the 1 million dollar grant will be
announced on Earth Day (April 22, 2009). Project funding will run from
June 1, 2009 through May 31, 2011.
Criteria for Evaluation
Merit, Feasibility, Appropriateness of Budget, Qualifications of Proposed
Investigators, Team Organization and Interdisciplinary Approach, Potential
for Sustained Funding, Relevance to Hawai^Ñi.
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:35:32 -1000
From: D <dhira.hkm06@gmail.com>
Short Video on "Stuff"
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:57:36 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Makua Valley reflections
Joe Estores reflects on Makua and accepting responsibility for actions
that may have harmed the valley, 12.6.08.
what i didn't capture on tape was the request, at the end of his talk, for
forgiveness. leandra wai (sparky's wife) forgave him. i thought he was
in tears. after that more people spoke up. it was a perfect ending to an
excellent day. and the bus driver was giving us the high sign--time to
board and head back to town. lc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lymFSI0gsdQ
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:37:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Kekahuna Keaweiwi <kekahunakeaweiwi@yahoo.com>
The Puppet Masters
Bag the Fed!
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
Dec 8, 2008, 00:22
Despite its name, the Federal Reserve System is not owned by the federal
government. It is actually a private company of bankers with 12 branches
or central banks that expand and contract our money supply as they have
doing for nearly 100 years.
And, even though the Fed is not part of the US government, the Fed^Òs
Board of seven governors is appointed by the president and confirmed by
the Senate for 14-year terms.
As we look at the Federal Reserve System, we should remember banker Meyer
Rothschild^Òs apocalyptic warning ^ÓLet me issue and control a nation^Òs
money and I care not who writes its laws.^Ô Really? That^Òs pretty cocky.
But let^Òs go back to the beginning, the first central bank in America.
Dubious thanks go to that scoundrel Alexander Hamilton who lobbied for
the first private central Bank. Despite protests from many, including
Thomas Jefferson who said, ^ÓI sincerely believe the banking institutions
having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than
standing armies,^Ô <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />Hamilton got his way.
In 1791, Congress chartered the First Bank of the United States for 20
years and George Washington signed off on it. Hamilton also got to be the
first Secretary of the Treasury. Yet Jefferson^Òs knock was right on the
money.
When the charter expired in 1811, Madison, desperate to stabilize the
currency, revived it in 1816 as the Second Bank of the United States.
Both banks were private companies. For that and other reasons (like there
was no mention in the Constitution of national banks), President Andrew
Jackson hated the bank and wanted it gone. He commented that, ^ÓThe bold
efforts the present bank had made to control the government are but
premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be
deluded into a perpetuation of the institution or the establishment of
another like it.^Ô Jackson had to replace two Secretaries to the Treasury
who refused to remove the government^Òs funds and call on former Attorney
General Roger Taney to do his bidding. This caused the Second Bank of the
United States to lose its charter in 1836 and cease operations in 1841.
In 1863, the National Banking Act created a system of national banks.
They managed to create a series of panics in 1873, 1893, and 1907, which
led to a demand for a third central banking system. And thus, in meetings
veiled in secrecy at Georgia^Òs Jekyll Island, the Federal Reserve System
was born in 1913, spurred on by GOP Senator Nelson Aldrich.
Aldrich^Òs other players included A. Piatt Andrew, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury and Special Assistant of the National Monetary Commission;
Frank Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank of New York; Henry
P. Davison, senior partner of J.P. Morgan Company, and generally regarded
as Morgan^Òs personal emissary; and Charles D. Norton, president of the
Morgan-dominated First National Bank of New York.
Joining the group just before the secret train left New Jersey^Òs Hoboken
station were Benjamin Strong, also known as a lieutenant of J.P. Morgan;
and Paul Warburg, a recent immigrant from Germany who had joined the
banking house of Kuhn, Loeb. Warburg was considered the architect of the
plan devised in secret.
Six years later, a financial writer named Bertie Charles Forbes who later
founded Forbes Magazine (the present editor, Malcolm Forbes, is his son)
wrote: ^ÓPicture a party of the nation^Òs greatest bankers stealing out
of New York on a private railroad car under cover of darkness, stealthily
hiding hundred of miles South, embarking on a mysterious launch, sneaking
onto an island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full
week under such rigid secrecy that the names of not one of them was once
mentioned lest the servants learn the identity and disclose to the world
this strangest, most secret expedition in the history of American
finance. I am not romancing; I am giving to the world, for the first
time, the real story of how the famous Aldrich currency report, the
foundation of our new currency system, was written. . . .^Ô
Aldrich^Òs daughter, Abby, later married John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and
their son Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, brother of John D. III, Winthrop,
Laurence and David, became governor of New York and later vice president
under Gerald Ford. Eek. Bottom line, this was the crème de la crème of
the financial system creating the Federal Reserve System? The name
purposely omitted the words ^ÓCentral^Ô or ^Óbank^Ô or Wall Street. It is
also a curiously random fact that the dollar of 1907 is now worth about
four cents.
How the Fed controls our money<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O />
Since its inception, Wiki tells us, the Fed has controlled the interest
rates on lending money. Then, by increasing or decreasing the money
supply, it regulates the value of money. The more of it around, the lower
its values, sort of a hidden inflation. You could say the Fed actually
produces one thing: debt. Every single buck the Fed issues is loaned at
interest, with an inherent debt amount. The Fed has a monopoly on issuing
money.
We actually have Hamilton again to thank (not) for proposing to establish
the initial funding for the First Bank of the United States through the
sale of $10 million in stock, of which the US government would buy the
first $2 million in shares. Since the government didn^Òt have the $2
million, Hamilton suggested that it make the stock purchase using money
loaned to it by the bank; a very contemporary paradigm. He proposed that
the loan be paid back in 10 annual equal installments. The remaining $8
million in stock could be bought by the public in the US and overseas, a
sample of how Hamilton^Òs mind worked and could to this day on Wall
Street with great success.
But I digress. The Fed always increases the money supply to increase the
money owed to it. That money is also loaned out, as said earlier, at
interest, creating more debt, which equals a kind of economic slavery
because it^Òs impossible for the government to ever free itself from this
self-generating debt-load. The Fed also issues bonds at interest to the
public and banks and foreigners. When the Fed wants to create more money,
it buys bonds with a simple bookkeeping entry, thereby not paying for
them.
This leads us to the Fed^Òs other major cancer: fractional lending, i.e.
for every actual dollar in reserve, they can lend 10 to-x-number of
dollars in fractional reserve. Thus banks can create deposits by creating
money with fractional lending, billions of free money each year, less
interest to depositors. It^Òs no wonder that banks create and are
responsible for the lion^Òs share of inflation. In fact, the Fed was
faulted that during the 1920s, it experimented with alternatively
creating and destroying money. The notable Milton Friedman, among many
other scholars, said the Fed helped to create the late 1920s inflated
stock market bubble which burst in 1929, after which money was tightened,
adding greatly to the pain.
The only relatively stable period in our history, an expert friend of
mine notes, came out of the New Deal^Òs banking reforms, the last of
which Clinton signed away. As wikipedia reports, it was the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act . . . enacted
November 12, 1999, by the United States Congress. It repealed the
Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, ^Óopening up competition among banks,
securities companies and insurance companies. The Glass-Steagall Act
prohibited a bank from offering investment, commercial banking, and
insurance services.^Ô Now, we have one big disastrous muddle.
^ÓThe Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) allowed commercial and investment
banks to consolidate. For example, Citibank merged with Travelers Group,
an insurance company, and in 1998 formed the conglomerate Citigroup, a
corporation combining banking and insurance underwriting services under
brands including Smith-Barney, Shearson, Primerica and Traveler Insurance
Corporation. This combination, announced in 1993 and finalized in 1994,
would have violated the Glass-Steagall Act and the Bank Holding Company
Act by combining insurance and securities companies, if not for a
temporary waiver process. The law was passed to legalize these mergers on
a permanent basis. Historically, the combined industry has been known as
the financial services industry,^Ô which fundamentally and first serves
itself your bucks.
The Fed^Òs never been audited by Congress
Yes, in the near century it has existed, the Fed has never had the
pleasure of being audited by Congress, yet it should audit and control
the Federal Reserve for it to be a legal institution conforming to the
Constitution of the United States. Not. A 1982 Supreme Court case
determined that the Fed is an independent entity with no oversight by
government. The Reserve does issue a weekly public balance sheet,
although it has been criticized for its ^Óculture of secrecy^Ô in terms
of obtaining other information. Some critics have claimed that the
Federal Reserve System is a scheme to enrich a few wealthy bankers at the
expense of the public. Could that possibly be? My god, remember that 1907
dollar worth four 2008 cents.
In fact, to my knowledge the Fed hasn^Òt paid income tax on trillions of
dollars taken from taxpayers. Yet the Congressional record claims the US
government can buy the Fed back at any time for $450 million, about half
the money we pay them every day. Are you wondering why the Congress
doesn^Òt do just that: buy them back or better flat out nationalize them
into the Treasury, under complete surveillance, with total transparency?
One good reason is that Congress loves the Fed because it allows them to
spend all they want without restraints, except, of course, for that mangy
national debt piling up in the background that our kids will have to eat
for Christmas. In fact, the Constitution does say, ^ÓThe Congress shall
have the power . . . To coin Money, regulate the value thereof,^Ô yet
nowhere does it give Congress the authority to hand over this
responsibility to a bunch of private bankers. Yet, there are the basics
for your perusal.
Also, creating what is a fiat currency causes inflation and savers are
hit the hardest by this. Some who try to beat inflation become investors
in the stock market. But look how the Federal Reserve lending practices
caused the price of stock to tank in the recent economic crisis, nearly
wiping out people^Òs life savings. Inflation and mismanaged policies are
felt by everyone and are reason enough to oppose the Federal Reserve. In
the words of Thomas Jefferson ^Ó^ÑA government big enough to give you
everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have . . .^Ô
How to put the brakes on
Besides today^Òs government issuing its own US Notes as the currency,
they can take it over making it replenish the reserves. This can be done
so that banks can be at 100 percent reserve banking, not fractional
reserve banking. Central banks would be needed as clearing houses and
vaults for US notes. The Federal Reserve Act would be no longer necessary
and should be repealed. If this sounds a little Ron Paulish, it is. It
allows for monetary power to be transferred back to the Treasury
Department, disallowing further creation of money by central banks.
The national debt, despite its staggering $12.3 trillion could be
reversed, and with a little help from our friends, be reversed in a
matter of several years. Getting rid of fractional lending along with the
Fed would help avoid bankruptcies, governmental and personal inflation,
deflation, and/or total financial collapse.
The Monetary Reform Act
This is as Paul advocates propose it and I understand how it would work .
. .
1. Pay off the debt with debt-free US notes. Amen.
2. Abolish Fractional Reserve banking. As the debt is paid off, the
reserve requirements of all banks and financial institutions would be
raised proportionately at the same time to absorb the new US notes, which
would be deposited and become the banks^Ò increased reserves. Towards the
end of the first year of transition, remaining liability of financial
institutions would be acquired by the US government in a one-time
operation.
They too would be paid off with US money notes to keep US money supply
stable. At the end of the first years, all debt one hopes could be paid,
and we can enjoy the benefits of full reserve banking. The Fed would be
obsolete, oh guzzling dinosaur that it is.
3. Repeal the Federal Reserve Act and the National Banking Act of 1864.
The acts delegate money power to private organizations. Hand back the
powers to the Department of Treasury as they were under President
Lincoln, when he created bank notes, Greenbacks, to pay for Civil War
expenses. No banker affiliated with financial institutions should be
allowed to regulate banking. After the first two years of reform, these
acts would serve no useful purpose.
4. Withdraw the US from the IMF (International Money Fund), the World
Bank and the BIS (the Bank of Internal Settlements). They further
concentrate interests and powers of private banking over the world^Òs
economy and the US^Òs. We must withdraw from them. The harmless functions
they perform like currency exchanges can be accomplished by newer
organizations limited to those functions.
Such a Monetary Reform Act would guarantee that the amount of money in
circulation stay stable, causing neither inflation nor deflation. In the
last three decades alone, the FED has doubled the US money supply every
10 years. That fact and fractional reserve lending are the real causes of
inflation and the reduction in our buying power.
The money supply should increase slowly to keep prices stable and in
proportion to population growth, roughly around 3 percent a year, and not
at the whim of a group of bankers meeting in secret. In fact, all future
decisions about how much money must be in the US economy must be made on
statistics of population and the price-level index. The new monetary
regulators and the Treasury Departments (in the past called the Monetary
Committee) would have zero discretion in this matter except in times of
declared war.
This would insure a steady stream of stable money growth, 3 percent a
year, and result in stable prices and no sharp changes in money supply.
To make sure the process is completely open and honest, all deliberations
would be public not secret as meetings of the Fed Board of Governors are
today. How do we know this will work? Because these steps remove the two
causes of economic instability: the Fed-interest-bled dollar and
fractional (fictional) reserve banking -- and the newest one as well, the
Bank of Internal Settlements (BIS) mentioned above. Most important, the
danger of depression would be eliminated.
Bottom line
No matter how we cut it, the Fed needs to be bagged. It has bound and
gagged our financial system for too long and the damage has been savage.
There is a movement called THE FED IS DEAD, basically putting forth these
ideas which are definitely worth considering, otherwise we all drown down
the money hole while the rich and greedy sail away with everything we
own. It^Òs that simple. Act now. This offer will be repeated. That is,
until everyone gets it.
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:30:44 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com
State of Hawaii Fully Owns Land Given at Statehood, KUE Jan. 17, 2009
State of Hawaii Fully Owns Land Given at Statehood
By Gov. Linda Lingle and Mark Bennett, 12/8/2008 8:06:49 AM
HONOLULU â^À^Ó The Governor and the Attorney General released the
following statement today in response to an article in the Honolulu
Advertiser that contained statements that mistate the State's long held
position on the issue of ceded lands:
The comments made by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) in
Saturdayâ^À^Ùs newspaper, that the State's legal position regarding ceded
lands has changed, is untrue. Since the beginning of the lawsuit, the
State's position has remained unchanged.
The State fully owns the land it was given at Statehood, and there are no
other claims to the land that a court of law can adjudicate.
OHA and the other plaintiffs have always based their case on a claim that
the State lacks good title to the ceded lands, and the State has always
taken the position it holds such good title and that there are no claims
to the land recognizable in court other than the State's. The stateâ^À^Ùs
position has not changed in the more than a decade this case has wound
its way through the court system.
For example, in March 1996, the State wrote in a pleading in this case:
'[The Apology Resolution] does not, it must be appreciated, expressly or
by implication purport to reverse Annexation or repeal any part of the
Admission Act which created the State and vested legal title to ceded
lands in it.'
More than 10 years ago, in March 1998, the State wrote in a pleading:
'Plaintiffs base their attack on the State's title to ceded land and its
ability to alienate that land on a federal law, known as the Apology
Bill, which confers no substantive rights and cannot be read as an
implied repeal of the provisions of the Admission Act that confer title
on the State and authorize use of the land to develop among other things
home ownership.'
In 2001, the State wrote: 'There is no legal basis for Plaintiff's
request. To grant injunctive relief, the Court would have to defy all
existing laws on the issue - including the Admission Act by which
Hawaiâ^À^Øi received Ceded Lands, the Hawaiâ^À^Øi State Constitution and
Hawaiâ^À^Øi Supreme Court opinions - each of which specifically allows
the State to sell or convey public lands, including Ceded Lands.'
Indeed, based on precedent, and the State's arguments, the Circuit Court
in 2002, ruled in the State's favor , noting that 'When Hawaiâ^À^Øi
became a state pursuant to the Admission Act, however, complete title and
control [of the ceded lands] passed to the State . . . .'
We have never argued, and do not now argue, that there are not strong
moral claims that can be asserted. But we have argued since the inception
of this lawsuit that the only forum that can consider such claims is one
that encompasses legislative actions.
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:55:16 -1000
From: Vicky Takamine <vtakamine@gmail.com>
Picket at Lingle's Hale Dec. 26th [and did anyone else hear talk of a
general strike on the 19th?]
Aloha Kakou,
We're calling for a picket from 10 am - 4pm on Friday, Dec. 26, 2009 on
Beretania St. Fronting Washington Place and the State Capitol to bring
awareness to Lingle's im-moral claim that the state has the right to sell
and/or transfer Hawaiian ceded lands. Please join us with your signs,
family and friends...We'd like to get a few hundred people out to
picket. We're hoping to draw media attention while Obama is here for his
vacation..and urge him not to meet with her..
Make your signs over the holiday..bring it down on Dec. 26th to Beretania
St. fronting Washington Place and the side of her hale...
Save it for the march and rally on Jan 17th, 2009 through Waikiki to
Kapi'olani Park
Protect Hawaiian Lands
Stop Stealing our Land
Shame on Lingle
Shame on Aiona
Mahalo nui loa!
Vicky Takamine
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:16:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Laweleka <laweleka@yahoo.com>
Urgent: BLM Sale Puts Parks at Risk.
Aloha Mia,
I don't mean to be nasty or rude but the fool who purchases this is going
to be standing alone holding a bag that no one really wants. Times are
changing with autos now running Water, and Air as well as people going
solar and green....... I don't see a demand building but rather the
decline of its use as time goes by. I do hope though that some fool money
driven person does buy it and gets stuck with the bag cause it'll teach
them a good lesson and perhaps we can entitle it lesson number
"1"......... Nah !! All joking aside one would truly be a fool to lease
or purchase that. They are just unloading what they can no longer use
allowing people to think they'll get rich by investing into those parcels
at a time when they already have the technologies to move away from its
use. Planes will no longer need fuel either and those times are already
upon us readying to make its intro. My guess ( I could very well be
wrong) too is its a bait and switch ........ Feds, States, (government)
are needing monies right now because they have been losing their pants to
fund Jr's wars big mistake still it hasn't stopped them from wanting to
be recognized as having plenary powers with shouting rights has it..!?! I
see them as readying for all of that and this is just one of the facets
in which they hope to make those monies. As you can see Lingle has been
busy doing her part as well which means its gonna get worse as long as
theres a government that's bent on power.
Lawe
Mia <kaimi@lava.net> wrote:
FYI....
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:45:32 GMT
From: "Dionna Humphrey, NPCA" <takeaction@npca.org>
Send a Message to Secretary Kempthorne Today!
Take Action
We have an urgent matter we need your help on. On
December 19th, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
intends to hold a lease sale for oil and gas tracts in
the state of Utah. Ninety-three of these parcels are on
or near the borders of Arches National Park,
Canyonlands National Park, and Dinosaur National
Monument. If this moves forward, thousands of acres
could be developed for oil and gas, industrializing the
landscapes surrounding Utah's national parks.
It's going to take all of us to help put a stop to
this. Tell Secretary Kempthorne to put a stop to the
sale.
The front doors of our national parks are no place for
oil and gas drilling. You and I know that, and the BLM
should know this too. And the truth is, we don't have
much time. Write your letter to Secretary Kempthorne
TODAY and tell him to stop the BLM development rush.
Take action!
Sincerely,
Dionna
Dionna Humphrey
Director of Advocacy
National Parks Conservation Association
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:38:05 -0500
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
Disappeared News - 5 new articles
"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 5 NEW ARTICLES
1. Tribune company files for bankruptcy
2. Chicago workers sit-in gains momentum--Illinois governor to halt
business with Bank of America
3. Amy Goodman among Right Livelihood awardees honored today in Sweden
4. The plot thickens on Penguin Bank energy plan
5. Non-profits donâ^À^Ùt get bailouts-introducing Panetic governance
6. More Recent Articles
7. Search Disappeared News
Tribune company files for bankruptcy
 Updated: The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection in a
federal court in Delaware on Monday, as the owner of The Los Angeles
Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs baseball team struggled
to cope with mountains of debt and falling ad revenue. Tribune, which was
acquired last year by billionaire real estate investor Samuel Zell, had
hired bankruptcy advisers like Lazard and....
Chicago workers sit-in gains momentum--Illinois governor to halt
business with Bank of America
by Larry Geller People power works. Imagine a governor taking sides with
protesting workers. He must have received quite a bit of pressure.
Hereâ^À^Ùs another way you can send a message to BOAâ^À^Ôa website that
will send them an email (thanks, Katy!). According to this CNN story,
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Monday that the state will temporarily
suspend doing business with Bank of America in an....
Amy Goodman among Right Livelihood awardees honored today in Sweden
by Larry Geller The ceremony is supposed to stream live from the
Democracy Now website starting 7 am Hawaii time, thatâ^À^Ùs right now!
Amy Goodman , one of the best journalists, broadcast journalists and
authors in this world is going to receive the award "...for developing an
innovative model of truly independent political journalism that brings to
millions of people the alternative voices that....
The plot thickens on Penguin Bank energy plan
by Larry Geller Please check out the comments on Company applies to place
Chinese-made wind turbines offshore in Hawaii and Of course, proposed
wave/wind generators are in precisely the wrong place (if youâ^À^Ùre a
whale). Readers who know much more about this than I do have weighed in
with background on why this plan was snuck in under the radar. Itâ^À^Ùs
easy to miss comments since theyâ^À^Ùre hidden, so....
Non-profits donâ^À^Ùt get bailouts-introducing Panetic governance
by Larry Geller Sometime soon -- probably within the next 60 days -- our
agency will file for bankruptcy protection. Nearly 200 employees,
including child-care workers, case managers and social workers, could
lose their jobs. The hundreds of children we serve will lose the
protection we have provided for them. They are homeless, abused,
abandoned and neglected. It would take $3 million to $4....
More Recent Articles
* Support labor-call Bank of America and tell them what you think of
cutting off workerâ^À^Ùs pay
* Of course, proposed wave/wind generators are in precisely the wrong
place (if youâ^À^Ùre a whale)
* Lingle administration cuts to mental health services protested
* Hawaiiâ^À^Ùs most vulnerable forced into Medicaid HMOs run by
mainland for-profits-Legislature to investigate why
* Company applies to place Chinese-made wind turbines offshore in
Hawaii
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From: nimchira <nimchira@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:25:11 -0600
Voices Health/Environment News
News from the Health and Environmental Communities.
Published since Nov, 2005
Dec. 8, 2008
In this Issue:
Recalls:
Walgreens is recalling 173 teddy bears with chocolate bars sold in stores
since late September 2008. Analysis by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
found that certain samples of the chocolate provided with the teddy bears
were contaminated with melamine. Customers who purchased any of the 173
teddy bears should return them immediately to the Walgreens stores where
they were purchased for a full refund.
Walgreens already has instructed stores to stop selling the product, which
is specifically described as an approximately 9-inch high Dressy Teddy Bear
with 4-oz. Chocolate Bar. The product's UPC number is 047475864485, and the
product tag also includes the item number 291332. Walgreens has not received
any reports of illness or injury related to this product.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/walgreens12_08.html
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Terumo Cardiovascular Systems notified healthcare professionals of a
worldwide recall of its Tenderflow Pediatric Arterial Cannulae involving 21
lot codes (see Terumo press release for complete list). Terumo received five
reports of difficulty retracting the introducer from the cannula. When the
introducer cannot be retracted from the cannula, the cannula must be removed
and replaced, a process that may lead to aortic damage, blood loss and/or
death. Healthcare professionals are advised to not use the product unless
medically necessary. In those cases, the cannula should be used without the
introducer. http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2008/safety08.htm
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dangers of osteoporosis drugs http://www.naturalnews.com/025021.html
Coke, Pepsi Used as Agricultural Pesticides by India Farmers
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000590_Coke_Pepsi_pesticides.html
Soldiers' Traumatic Brain Injuries Cause Dementia, Aggression, Depression
and Relationship Problems
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000589_soldiers_War_on_Iraq_Traumatic_Brain_Injury.html
Physician Who Performed Hysterectomy on Patient as a Medical Experiment
Still Allowed to Practice Medicine
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000588_hysterectomy_malpractice_reproductive_health.html
Forced Medication of Psychiatric Patients Now Being Called Into Question
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000587_forced_medication_psychiatry_patient_rights.html
Melamine may be Just the Tip of the Iceberg
http://www.naturalnews.com/025017.html
New Research Shows Antidepressants Increase Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
http://www.naturalnews.com/025010.html
GaryMoller.com: My doctor has poisoned me with flouroquinoline!
http://blog.garymoller.com/2008/03/my-doctor-has-poisoned-me-with.html
The White House finalized a rule making it even easier for coal mining
companies http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/washington/03mining.html to dump
the remains of mountaintop removal operations into streams and valleys,
paving the way for further devastation of Appalachian forests and river
systems
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/rperks/bush_admin_to_let_mining_compa.html
EPA To Gut Mountaintop Mining Rule That Protects Streams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03-0
Coke/Pepsi Used as Pesticides in Other Countries-57-second video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fpEgurO-ec
Coca-Cola's Latest Environmental Scam
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IdHNHNZ72vtUSJEud3pMoDCLx%2F%2B2MGCq
US panel supports Allergan drug for longer lashes
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSN0547202420081205
Fat: What the Experts Don't Know About Obesity: A recent documentary shows
how fat prejudice is keeping even some doctors from understanding obesity.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BhKjR9jy8ICakkV5iB3Ry4eyKyNctsCk
JUPITER Study highlights Four Reasons to Say No To Crestor
http://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane144.htm
Potomac River tap water has small levels of contaminants. Tap water in the
District and parts of Northern Virginia contains small amounts of
herbicides, gasoline additives and industrial solvents with concentrations
so small that there is probably no risk to consumers, according to a new
federal study.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18992/3057/24753/0/
Rushed Interior Dept. rule overrides Congress; allows uranium mining near
Grand Canyon. After only 15 days' review -- less than half the normal
period -- the Department of the Interior issued its final rule today that
will effectively allow controversial mining of uranium next to the Grand
Canyon National Park.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18992/3057/24773/0/
Halliburton accused of supplying rotten food to U.S. forces--Halliburton and
KBR--the companies that were controlled by Dick Cheney until he became vice
president [sic]--are facing a mountain of lawsuits over their past and
present activities in Iraq and elsewhere. U.S. Air Force in 2006 at the
Balad air force base northeast of Baghdad, alleges KBR 'knowingly and
intentionally supplied to U.S. forces and other individuals food that was
expired, spoiled, rotten, or that may have been contaminated with shrapnel,
or other materials'. http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php?sid=439418
Bio and Agro Lab Relocating from Plum Island to Manhattan, Kansas--Homeland
Security selects Kansas as site for National Bio and Agro Defense Labs
http://www.farmfutures.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=CD26BEDECA4A4946A1283CC7786AEB5A&nm=News&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=962554BEC6A443D595D82B9506
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:23:35 -0500
From: Barbara Cervone <bcervone@whatkidscando.org>
WKCD's Barbara Cervone Wins 2008 Purpose Prize
2008 PURPOSE PRIZE
WKCD makes news on the older end of the generational spectrum!
Barbara Cervone, WKCD's co-founder and president, is among 15 winners of
the 2008 Purpose Prize, a six-year, $17 million program for people over 60
who are taking on society's biggest challenges.
Sponsored by the Encore Careers program, the Purpose Prize is the nation's
only large-scale investment in social innovators in the second half of
life. A jury of 23 distinguished leaders chose the winners from over 1,000
nominees, for their creative and effective work tackling problems ranging
from poverty to pollution, recidivism to racial reconciliation, health
care to homelessness. Barbara's work at WKCD won praise for "empowering
young people by providing opportunities to publish."
Six Purpose Prize winners this year received $100,000 awards and nine
received $10,000. Barbara Cervone's $10,000 prize will support WKCD's
ongoing work of bringing forward the voices and vision of youth around the
world. "Our hope is to show that youth are a positive force in the world,"
Barbara said in the Purpose Prize video introducing her work at WKCD.
"When they are given the right opportunities, they can accomplish great
things."
Award ceremonies for the Purpose Prize took place December 5 at the Center
on Social Innovation at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business,
a leading academic center for social entrepreneurship.
To learn more about the Purpose Prize and to read about the other 2008
winners, visitwww.purposeprize.org.
WKCD (www.whatkidscando.org) brings youth voices to bear on important
issues in our schools and society. Check out our other sites,too:
www.nextgenerationpress.org,
www.firstinthefamily.org,www.inourvillage.org,
www.lifeinnewchina.org. Next Generation press is WKCD's publishing arm.
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:00:03 -1000
From: Board of Publications <announce@HAWAII.EDU>
WKCD's Barbara Cervone Wins 2008 Purpose Prize
Ka Leo survey
Aloha,
In a continuing effort to improve our publications, the Board of
Publications is conducting a Ka Leo Readership/Quality survey. Responses
gathered from the survey will help BOP assess the UH community's opinion
of the campus newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawai'i.
Please take a few minutes to complete the survey found at
http://www.hawaii.edu/bop/survey.htm
This survey will close at 5 p.m. on Dec. 31.
The Board of Publications is a UH Manoa student organization chartered by
the Board of Regents. It publishes student publications, including the
campus newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawai'i. The board is comprised of 14
members--9 students, 3 faculty/staff, 1 professional from the publications
media industry and 1 alumnus/alumna. Email bop@hawaii.edu for more
information or visit http://hawaii.edu/bop/.
Mahalo for your participation.
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:14:47 -1000
From: HV <hv@aq.org>
Enhancing Your Creativity this Sat., Dec. 13, 2-5:30,
Kaimuki; Reduced rate if you bring a friend
Please pass this e-mail on to anyone who might be interested. Bring a
friend and each get a reduced rate of $18!
*Enhance Your Creativity!*
*- *A workshop to discover your best tools for fresh thinking**
· **Solve problems more quickly, with more options**
· *Enrich your life with more meaning and fun!*
· **Develop more self-trust and self-confidence**
· **Unlock your inner guide that knows the way**
*Discover and experience:*
· More quality solutions and choices
· What stimulates and blocks creativity
· Practical tools for inspired thinking ^Ö one tool alone will triple
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Dates: Sat., Dec. 13
Time: 2 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Hawaii Self Storage Conference Room
Address: 2909 Waialae Ave., Kaimuki
*Investment: $25-$35 sliding scale** if you sign up by 12/12 *
*Limited Seating; Work Trade Available*
*Preregistration recommended ($35 at the door)*
*More info/to register: 227-7659 or serenity2525@gmail.com
<mailto:serenity2525@gmail.com>*
**Sign up and pay by Dec. 12 and attend 3 for $55. Pay in person or at
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hv@aq.org <mailto:hv@aq.org> or mail to me at PO Box 12174, Honolulu, HI
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**Workshop Facilitator: HEIDI VANDERHEIDEN**
Heidi is a life coach who has been facilitating groups/classes since
1993 on Enhancing Your Creativity, Finding Your Life Purpose, TheMagic
of Journaling, Compassionate Communication, Nonviolent Communication ^Ù,
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testimonials.
"Heidi is a thoughtful caring professional who will bring insight and
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experience demonstrates a certain mastery in the field. I would
recommend her without reservation.
--Bennett Marks, Founder, Life Directions, Speaker, Author, Coach
"Heidi is a smart, intuitive thinker with a gift for understanding the
personal struggles of others. Life coaching is an intimate personal
connection, requiring chemistry that fosters trust and open
communication. Such chemistry is hard to predict, but I highly recommend
meeting Heidi to see if her gifts can help you gain greater focus and
traction on your life path." September 15, 2008
Chris Hurwitz, Freelance Programmer, Red Sky Interactive
"Heidi facilitated a support group for our organization. Her skills were
evident then in her ability to listen, empathize, and direct the
conversation to productive channels for the members. She was never
didactic, always comforting, and her advice when proffered was smart. We
all missed that combination of warmth and talent when she moved on."
September 12, 2008
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"I've worked with Heidi while doing volunteer work at a non-profit
within the Boston area. She's very capable at what she does, and I
whole-heartedly endorse her work." August 19, 2008 --Doug Krick, Owner
,Krikket's Cargo
*Please let me know if you'd like to be added to or removed from my
workshop mailing list.*
--
My next workshops: 1) Enhancing Your Creativity: Finding More Ways to Get
What You Want: Sat., Dec. 13, 2-5:30pm at Hawaii Self Storage conference
room, 2909 Waialae Ave. in Kaimuki. $25-$35 sliding scale if paid in
advance, limited seating. Preregistration advised. Previous Life
Purpose/Creativity participants $25 if payment received by Dec. 12. Free
water/coffee.
2) Finding Your Life Purpose workshop: Sat., Dec. 27, 2-5:30pm at Hawaii
Self Storage conference room, 2909 Waialae Ave. in Kaimuki. $25-$35
sliding scale, paid in advance, limited seating. Previous workshop
participants $25 if payment received by Dec. 12. Free water/coffee.
3) The Magic of Journaling: Sat., Jan. 10, 2-5:30pm, Location in Honolulu,
to be decided. $35. $20 if payment received by 12/12. Limited seating.
Preregistration advised.
**Sign up and pay by Dec. 12 and attend 3 for $55. Pay in person or at
www.paypal.com; log in free; then send money to hv@aq.org or mail to me at
PO Box 12174, Honolulu, HI 96828.**
Serenity Meditation CDs available for $15. Makes a great Christmas gift!
Holiday gift certificates available in any increment.
See my blog -- http://alternativeservices.blogspot.com The zip can be
found at: www.higp.hawaii.edu/~mark/heidi
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:38:36 -0800
From: Facebook <notification+nabmqqn@facebookmail.com>
"Native American/First Nations Literature" call for papers
Niigonwedom James Sinclair sent a message to the members of Native
American/First Nations Literature.
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Subject: Special Issue on Indigenous Literature - Canadian Journal of
Native Studies
What We Do, What We Are: Responsible, Ethical, and Indigenous-Centered
Literary Criticisms of Indigenous Literatures
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies (CJNS) invites submissions for a
special issue on Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) literatures
with a focus on investigating responsible, ethical, and
Indigenous-centered literary criticisms of these literatures.
In her 1993 landmark essay â^À^ÜNative Literature: Seeking a Critical
Center,â^À^Ý Anishinaabe critic Kimberly Blaeser lamented a history of
reckless and misdirected approaches to Native literatures, describing the
field as perpetuating a dangerous and damaging paradigm in which the
â^À^Üimplied movementâ^À^Ý is â^À^Üthat of colonization: authority
emanating from the mainstream critical center to the marginalized native
textsâ^À^Ý (56). Now, over a decade and a half later, literary scholars
continue to struggle with the intersection of theory, responsibility, and
ethics when it comes to Native literatures. In his 2006 book Our Fire
Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, University of Toronto
professor Daniel Heath Justice reminds us that this dialogue is crucial,
as the role of the â^À^Üliterary scholarâ^À^Ý is â^À^Üthe telling,
preservation, interpretation, and creation of stories. Stories are what we
do, as much as what we areâ^À^Ý (206, original emphasis). So, who
constitutes â^À^Üthe mainstream critical centerâ^À^Ý today, and how does
one go about arguing â^À^Üfromâ^À^Ý the Indigenous text in question
instead of imposing â^À^Ücolonizingâ^À^Ý theories on it? What defines
theoretical marginalization of Native texts and, in turn, centering? What
constitutes an â^À^Üethicalâ^À^Ý and â^À^Üresponsibleâ^À^Ý approach? What
are some of the obstacles, paradigms, and possibilities available in
theorizing Indigenous literatures through such lenses?
This special issue of CJNS invites contributions that discuss these and
other questions towards the establishment of responsible, ethical and
Indigenous-centered criticisms. Essays may consist of an evaluation of
practiced critical approaches in the field or exemplify a new approach
through the analysis of an Indigenous text. Contributors are strongly
encouraged to examine Indigenous texts in their culturally-specific
historical, political, and subjective contexts while emphasizing the
uniqueness, complexity, and creativity of writers and their writing.
Besides conventional, scholarly essays, provocative work that combines
Indigenous storytelling and critique are also welcomed.
Theories may emerge from, but are not limited to, literary approaches to:
- nation building, defining, recovering
- historical and political aesthetics, rhetoric, memoirs
- critical reader-text interactions and activism
- tribal, intertribal, and colonial law and literary production
- the role of kinship, community, adoption
- urban issues, culturalism, pan-tribalism
- the influence, innovation, and employ of â^À^Üwesternâ^À^Ý theories for Indigenous purposes
- the continuing role of â^À^Üoral traditionsâ^À^Ý and orality in writing
- traditional language(s) and/or English usage in Indigenous literatures
Submitted essays must be between 5,000-7,000 words, in appropriate MLA
format, and mailed in two duplicate hard copies by May 1, 2009. Questions
may be e-mailed to the guest-editors, Niigonwedom J. Sinclair
(niigon@interchange.ubc.ca) or Renate Eigenbrod
(eigenbro@cc.umanitoba.ca). Please mail all submissions to:
Renate Eigenbrod
Department of Native Studies
University of Manitoba
Room 204, Isbister Building
Winnipeg, MB
R3T 2N2
Canada
I apologize for cross- or multiple-postings
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:21:01 -1000
From: Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw <announce@hawaii.edu>
Arts and Sciences Planning Update
First of all, mahalo to all who have been working hard on envisioning a
College of Arts and Sciences to meet the goal of academic excellence now
and into the future. In recent years, across the nation and here at UH
Mânoa, there has been much discussion over the quality of undergraduate
education and clearly the key to achieving a high quality experience
depends on the strength of the Arts and Sciences. Enhancing that strength
certainly involves a number of factors, particularly having productive
faculty who are supported by an organizational structure that promotes
coordination, visibility and support for them, along with students and
staff.
With that in mind, two committees (Chancellor^Òs Working Group and the
Arts and Sciences Transitional Committee) have worked over the last
several months to examine and consider structures and leadership that
might work best for UH Manoa. These committees approached this task in an
intellectual manner in that they researched many universities, phoned and
interviewed individuals at other campuses, and carefully examined worked
best practices. The written summary of the committees recommendation
(http://manoa.hawaii.edu/as-transition/docs/TT_Final_Report.pdf ) and a
PowerPoint of the committee^Òs work
(http://manoa.hawaii.edu/as-transition) are highly informative. I surely
thank them for their efforts and I have now received their joint
recommendation that has also been presented to faculty in Arts and
Sciences. I support their recommendation for the ^Óhybrid model^Ô
(described in page 8-10 at
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/as-transition/docs/TT_Final_Report.pdf), so we are
now ready to proceed to the next stage of this effort.
Next steps: The recommendation from the committee is to pursue the
^Óhybrid model.^Ô This model provides flexibility and is a proven model at
many research campuses. With this model in mind, it is time to search for
the best individual to work with the faculty in Arts and Sciences to turn
the vision into reality. Therefore, we will all need to continue to work
to bring more detail to this organizational structure and I anticipate
that the A&S Faculty Senate Executive Committee will facilitate discussion
and planning on various aspects of the model, so a new dean can engage
more quickly in supporting the direction that best fits UH Manoa. At the
same time, I am engaging a search firm to begin the process of finding the
best person available to strengthen Arts and Sciences here at UH Manoa.
Searches are a challenging endeavor with regard to time lines since we
can^Òt always predict the outcome; however, we all need to have a time
line. I propose that we strive to keep to the following time line:
Dec. 2008 ^Ö Establish a search committee and begin the search with the
aid of a search firm
Feb-Mar 2009 ^Ö Interview Candidates
June-Aug 2009 ^Ö Welcome a Dean of Arts and Sciences
Mahalo for everyone^Òs efforts to date and in the future.
Virginia S. Hinshaw
Chancellor
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:27:36 -0800 (PST)
From: kukuna_o_ka_la <kukuna_o_ka_la@yahoo.com>
Lingle Stopped on Kaua'i !!! --Dwight
http://etexts.tripod.com/koohanPaik.html
Koohan,
I hope you like the captions !!
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:45:08 -1000
From: Laura crites <crites@hawaii.rr.com>
mindfulness workshop for stress reduction
Please share the following flyer and attachment.
MEDICAL AND NON-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
Presented by: Hawaii Consortium for Integrative Healthcare
A workshop for medical professionals and the public By Thanh V. Huynh,
M.D.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10TH, 1:00 - 3:00
John A. Burns School of Medicine
(Kakaako campus, auditorium)
(no registration required)
In this time of growing stress in our personal and work lives, mindfulness
can be a critical tool to return our minds to a state of peace. Stress is
a major factor in 95% of all health conditions. It is present for medical
professionals as well as for the people who come to them for health and
healing. Don't miss this important workshop.
What is Mindfulness??? Mindfulness is the mental quality that is
associated with non-judging attention, moment by moment, to the
present-time unfolding life experience without attachment to pleasantness
or resistance to unpleasantness. This relaxed non-bias awareness allows
one to see things clearly as they really are and learn to respond, rather
than react to stressors encountered. This results in more joy and a sense
of peace. Mindfulness has been successfully taught in hospitals and stress
reduction clinics around the world.
What You Will Learn? Workshop highlights:
Theory
-Benefits of the mindfulness practice. Literature review.
-Concentration and mindfulness.
- Four foundations of mindfulness.
-Concept and reality.
Practice
-Guided instruction on some techniques of mindfulness
-Application of mindfulness in daily activities.
Dr Huynh is a radiation oncologist who holds faculty appointments with
University of Hawaii JOB School of Medicine and the Cancer Research Center
of Hawaii. He has been studying and practicing mindfulness
(insight/vipassana) meditation since 1984. He began sharing this practice
with Oahu prisons' inmates in 1992. Dr Huynh offers regular Mindfulness
classes to the public, school children and cancer patients with rewarding
results. He and Dr C. Gotay of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii
recently completed a successful feasibility study using the internet to
teach cancer patients mindfulness.
Co-sponsored by:
Hawaii Medical Association
Queens Medical Center,
HMAA
Kaiser
Hawaii Pacific Health
John A. Burns School of Medicine
Laura Crites, MA, MS
Executive Director
Hawaii Consortium for Integrative Healthcare
2333 Kapiolani Blvd. #2108
Honolulu, HI 96826
941-8253
www.hawaiiconsortium.com
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:06:53 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com
Hawaii Superferry's Interisland Serivce Depends On Court Ruling
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 Honolulu Advertiser
Hawaii Superferry's Interisland Service Depends On Court Ruling
SERVICE MAY BE HALTED IF HIGH COURT RULES AGAINST LAW THAT LET SHIP
OPERATE
By Derrick DePledge, Advertiser Government Writer
The state Supreme Court, whose ruling last year led to a three-month
shutdown of Hawaii Superferry, will decide whether the interisland
service can continue in a new case to be heard next week.
The court will decide whether Gov. Linda Lingle and the Legislature
violated the state Constitution last year with a new law that allowed
Superferry to resume operation while an environmental review of the
project is completed.
A ruling could have an immediate impact on whether Superferry can operate
between O'ahu and Maui. It could also influence the separation of powers
among the governor, the Legislature and the courts.
The Sierra Club, Maui Tomorrow and the Kahului Harbor Coalition, the
nonprofit groups that brought the legal challenge that temporarily
stopped Superferry last year, have asked the court to declare the new law
unconstitutional.
Arguments before the court are scheduled for Dec. 18.
The Supreme Court ruled in August 2007 that the state should not have
exempted the Superferry project from an environmental assessment. A Maui
court subsequently halted ferry service to Kahului Harbor, while public
protests kept the ferry from returning to Kaua'i.
Lingle called a special session of the Legislature, where lawmakers
passed a bill that allowed the ferry to resume operation under conditions
designed to protect the environment while an environmental impact
statement is prepared. Lingle signed the bill into law, and the Maui
court allowed the ferry to return to Kahului Harbor.
Many political observers thought the legal challenges were largely over,
but the court's willingness to hear the appeal so soon raises the
possibility that Superferry may again be stopped.
"This case is now a case of even greater public importance," Isaac Hall,
the Wailuku attorney representing the environmental groups, said in court
filings.
violations alleged
Hall's main arguments are that the new law violates two parts of the
Constitution: Article I, Section 21, which bars the state from making any
irrevocable grants of special privileges; and Article XI, Section 5,
which says the Legislature can only exercise power over state lands
through general laws.
The constitutional restriction on special privileges, according to the
Legislative Reference Bureau, is meant to ensure the state acts on behalf
of all people and not for the sake of the elite. The provision limiting
the Legislature's power to general laws over state lands is designed to
prevent sweetheart land deals for private interests.
Lawmakers, mindful of the constitutional restrictions, were careful not
to mention Superferry by name in the new law, and instead described a
"large capacity ferry vessel."
But Hall argues that the new law was "conceived, cut and tailored" solely
for Superferry, a special law that gave Superferry access through an
operating agreement to state land at Kahului and other harbors.
Hall also argues that the new law deprives the environmental groups of a
vested right, given by the Supreme Court's ruling last year, for an
environmental assessment under the state's environmental review law. The
new law removed the large-capacity ferry vessel from under the state's
environmental review law and created a similar â^À^Ô although not
identical â^À^Ô process to conduct an environmental impact statement by
next summer.
Hall argues that the new law "amounts to a legislative and executive
revision of judicial decisions."
Lawmakers were guided when drafting the new law by the 1992 U.S. Supreme
Court ruling in Robertson v. Seattle Audubon Society. The ruling found
that it was not unconstitutional for Congress to change timber harvesting
rules in federally managed forests in response to legal challenges by
environmentalists, who had argued that the old rules threatened
endangered northern spotted owls.
The ruling found that Congress did not direct results in the legal
challenges under the old law, but instead replaced the legal standards
with new provisions.
Lawmakers in Hawai'i essentially did the same thing with Superferry.
State lawyer counters
Dorothy Sellers, the state solicitor general, argues in the state's legal
briefs that the governor and lawmakers acted within their authority to
create new public policy.
Sellers said the new law is not an irrevocable grant of special
privileges for a ferry company because it expires when the environmental
impact statement is accepted by the state or, at the latest, by next
summer.
The new law is not a special law involving legislative power over state
lands, Sellers argues, because the operating agreement is between an
executive-branch agency â^À^Ô the state Department of Transportation
â^À^Ô and a ferry company. The ferry company also does not have an
exclusive right under the agreement and must share state harbors with
other users.
Sellers said Hawai'i courts have not addressed the meaning of general law
as it applies to Article XI of the Constitution, but the Supreme Court
has upheld a legislative act designed to respond to a singular
circumstance. In Bulgo v. County of Maui in 1967, the court found that it
was constitutional for the Legislature to pass a law tailored for Maui
calling for a special election to replace the chairman of the board of
supervisors, who had died shortly after re-election and had not begun his
new term.
Sellers also argued that the environmental groups have no vested right to
an environmental assessment for Superferry under the state's
environmental review law because the August 2007 Supreme Court decision
was not the final judgment in the case.
The appeal, Sellers said, is "an assault on the inherent, essential power
of the Legislature to speak for the people and to revise the public
policies of the state as the Legislature determines necessary."
Last year, lawmakers were not enthusiastic about returning in special
session to help Superferry but agreed because of the potential benefits
of interisland ferry service. Lawmakers found that the ferry was an
alternative mode of transportation that could help move people and cargo
between the islands and could be an asset in disaster relief.
State Senate President Colleen Hanabusa, D-21st (Nanakuli, Makaha), said
she believes the Legislature acted properly. She wishes, however, that
the state House, Lingle and Superferry had agreed with the Senate and
supported an environmental review of the project before the court ruled
that such a review was required.
Hanabusa predicted that justices would decide the appeal based on an
Article XI test of whether the new law is general or special.
'a major problem'
If the court were to issue a broad ruling limiting the Legislature's
power, Hanabusa said, lawmakers may have to consider asking voters to
amend the Constitution.
In 2006, for example, voters approved a constitutional amendment that
allowed the Legislature to define what constitutes the continuous sexual
abuse of a minor under 14. The court had ruled that a law defining
continuous sexual abuse was a violation of the right to due process
because jurors were not instructed that they had to be unanimous about
which specific acts amounted to continuous abuse.
"If the Supreme Court comes back and says that we don't have the right to
make exceptions to the law, for whatever reason, then we're going to have
a major problem," Hanabusa said.
Irene Bowie, the executive director of Maui Tomorrow, said the
environmental groups deserve a real environmental assessment of
Superferry, not what their attorney has described as a "pseudo-process
that falls far short" of the state's environmental law.
"I think that this has been an illegitimate process. I don't think
there's any real results that we'll come away with on this," Bowie said
of the new law. "We would absolutely like to see this done over again in
the proper way."
Reach Derrick DePledge at ddepledge@honoluluadvertiser.com.
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:08:23 -0600
From: revolutionbks@yahoo.com
Sunday Open House at Revolution Books!
HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
Join the staff of Revolution Books
Sunday, December 14
Between 1pm - 5pm
Revolution Books has been part of the Honolulu landscape for 31 years
because of the dedication of a small all-volunteer staff and support from
people like you. Join us as we celebrate our determination to make the
world a far better place.
There will be music and poetry throughout the afternoon, including Brenda
Kwon and other poets (around 2pm), musician James McCarthy and
storyteller Jeff Gere (around 4pm). This will be an informal afternoon -
a time to meet friends and make new ones. Stop by for a few minutes or
stay the afternoon. Bring your own poem or song to share.
We have a great new selection of books and T-shirts, buttons and bumper
stickers. Give gifts that matter. Everything you buy will help keep our
doors open for another year.
We'll also have the addresses of GI Resisters who are currently in jail
or who are facing trial, along with holiday cards for you to sign and
thank them.
Light refreshments. Children welcome. Free parking anywhere in front of
the store.
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:18:33 -0800
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
Amish and Other Farmers Raided by SWAT Teams
Posted: 12/04/2008
SWAT Team Like Raid by Ohio authorities on a farm house in LaGange
Ohio authorities stormed a farm house in LaGange Monday, December 1, to
execute a search warrant, holding the Jacqueline and John Stowers and
their son and young grandchildren at gunpoint for nine hours. During the
raid the Ohio Department of Agriculture and police confiscated over ten
thousand dollars worth of food, computers and cell phones. The Stowers'
crime? They run a private, members-only food co-op.
While state authorities were looking for evidence of illegal activities,
the family was not informed what crime they were suspected of, they were
not read their rights or allowed to make a phone call. The children, some
as young as toddlers, were traumatized by armed officers interrogating the
adults with guns drawn.
The Morning Journal, a newspaper serving northern Ohio, reported that the
Stowers were believed to be operating without a license. However, the
Stowers claim that the food co-op they run does not engage in any
activities that would require state licensing.
Friends of the Stowers openly question why such aggressive tactics were
necessary to investigate a licensing complaint.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture has apparently been chastised by the
courts in previous cases for over-reach, including entrapment of an Amish
man to sell raw milk, which backfired, when it became known that the man
gave milk instead of selling it to a state undercover agent, refusing to
take money for what he believed to be a charitable act. The Amish
literally interpret the Gospel of Matthew (5:42) to "give to him that
asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away."
The matter has been forwarded to the Lorain County Prosecutor's Office and
the Lorain County General Health District according to Lorain County court
records.
http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/4287/Brannon-%20Howse/By-John-Loeffler
Thursday, December 4, 2008
SWAT TEAM CONDUCTS FOOD RAID IN RURAL OHIO
http://www.christianworldviewnetwork.com/article.php/4287/Brannon-How...
SWAT TEAM CONDUCTS FOOD RAID IN RURAL OHIO
On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered
the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the
family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on
parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8
PM. The team was aggressive and belligerent. The children were quite
traumatized. At some point, the "bad cop" SWAT team was relieved by
another team, a "good cop" team that tried to befriend the family. The
Stowers family has run a very large, well-known food cooperative
called Manna Storehouse < http://www.mannastorehouse.com> on the
western side of the greater Cleveland area for many years.
There were agents from the Department of Agriculture present, one of
them identified as Bill Lesho. The search warrant is reportedly
supicious-looking < http://steveandpaularunyan.blogspot.com/>.
<big snip>
Over ten thousand dollars worth of food was taken, including the
family's personal stock of food for the coming year. All of their
computers, and all of their cell phones were taken, as well as phone
and
contact records. The food cooperative was virtually shut down. There
was
no rational explanation, nor justification, for this extreme violation
of
Constitutional rights.
<another snip>
See also:
http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/oda-swats-manna-storehouse-...
The issue appears to be the discovery of a bit of non-institutional
beef in an Oberlin College food service freezer a year ago that was
tracked down by a county sanitation official to Manna Storehouse.
<snip snip>
"No one is saying exactly why. At the same time the FDA says it it
safe to eat the 40% of tainted beef found in Costco's and Sam's all
over the nation. These farm raids are very common now. Every farmer
needs to fully eqiped [sic] for the possibility of it happening to
them. The Farmer To Consumer Legal Defense Fund www.ftcldf.org/> was
created just for this purpose. The USDA just released their plans to
put a law into action that will put all small farmers out of business.
Animals for the sale of meat or milk will only be allowed in
commercial farms, even the organic ones." December 3, 2008 7:09 PM
file://localhost/comment.g
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.support.depression/browse_thread/thread/b122f5c064d4cc16
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:44:12 -0800
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
Video: Stronger Than Cement & Six Times Lighter
More banned technology
How would like like a building material that is stronger than cement and
SIX TIMES lighter?
Better yet, one of its main ingredients in the waste product of a plant
that literally grows like a weed.
Well, Big Brother says you can't have it because the plant - hemp - is
"dangerous to society."
Here's the reality about cement:
1. The manufacture of traditional cement is incredibly energy intensive,
so much so that many cement companies seek and receive legal variances to
not only burn coal, but also medical waste and used automobile tires as
fuel for their kilns.
2. After oil refineries and chemical plants, cement factories are the
most polluting factories in the world, spewing tons of microparticles
containing toxins like arsenic and mercury into the air.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/491.html
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:16:03 -0800
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@koanifoundation.org>
Free Hawai`I TV - "Stop Thief!"
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US Supreme Court To Rule They Never Belonged To Hawaiians Anyway.
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What Can You Do? Watch & Find Out
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:40:58 -0500
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
Disappeared News - 2 new articles
"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 2 NEW ARTICLES
1. Al QExA hearing to be televised today-tune in, or weigh in
2. Tribune collapses on top of its employee stock ownership plan
3. More Recent Articles
4. Search Disappeared News
Al QExA hearing to be televised today-tune in, or weigh in
Tune in to the hearing today on the QExA program right from your home TV
or computer. â^À^ÜAl QExAâ^À^Ý is my name for the Department of Human
Services program that has many seniors and persons with disabilities
terrified about how they will receive medical care in Hawaii starting in
February. Can you imagine that a few people holed up in a cave over at
DHS can strike terror into the hearts of so many....
Tribune collapses on top of its employee stock ownership plan
For continuity, here is an article about how Tribune employees are being
trapped and how owner Sam Zell might lose only a small fraction of his
great wealth. Oh, and the Cubs franchise is not part of the bankruptcy
filing. Tribune Bankruptcy Snares EmployeesReal estate mogul Sam Zell
built a complicated deal to take over Tribune Co., putting little of his
own money at risk Technorati Tags:....
More Recent Articles
* Tribune company files for bankruptcy
* Chicago workers sit-in gains momentum--Illinois governor to halt
business with Bank of America
* Amy Goodman among Right Livelihood awardees honored today in Sweden
* The plot thickens on Penguin Bank energy plan
* Non-profits donâ^À^Ùt get bailouts-introducing Panetic governance
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:50:13 -1000
From: Oahu Deeksha <ohm.oahu@gmail.com>
North Shore Oneness Deeksha Blessing
On Sunday, December 14th we will begin a seven week sadhana here on the
North Shore. We will be meeting at Sabrina Lobdell's house near Sunset
Beach at 4:30 p.m. She lives at the end of Kapuai Place, which is the
second left after Ted's bakery as you are heading toward Turtle Bay. Her
house is light green with white trim and is down a gravel drive at the end
of Kapuai. Although it is most beneficial to attend the entire series to
get the full effect, it is not required. You may come and go as you like.
Donation Requested, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Hope to see
you there! Feel free to pass this information on to anyone you think might
be interested. -- Many Blessings; the Oahu Oneness Blessing principal
facilitators www.oahudeeksha.com Rev. Sue 808-221-6782 or 744-5500 Rev.
Heddy King 808-223-7177 Skype # 512 394 8507
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:14:46 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com
_Paul Harvey - The overthrow of a friendly monarch_
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