[Ppnews] Fasting for Peltier - Ignoring us out of existence

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News blackout (whiteout): Fasting for Peltier at the White House

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2009/09/news-blackout-fasting-peltier-white-house
By Brenda Norrell

Ben Carnes, Choctaw, and Rob Fife completed a week long fast at the 
White House, to bring attention to President Obama of the long 
standing injustice of the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier. But if you 
check Google News this morning, you will see that there's only one 
news article, the one posted by Narco News.

Since the columns here go directly to Google breaking news, 
mainstream reporters can not claim that they were uninformed. It is 
obvious that freedom for Leonard Peltier remains one of the most 
censored issues in the media, even as Amnesty International calls for 
Peltier's immediate release.

News reporters weren't the only ones ignoring this fast. So far, 
there's been no word from President Obama, who could see the men 
fasting from his window.

Today, Wanbli, at the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, 
released a statement, "Ignoring us out of existence." It is 
appropriate for these times, when censorship has increased to such an 
extent that the US media is a mockery of the ethics of journalism.

Ignoring us out of existence

by Wanbli

"From the time the invaders have come to our Turtle Island they have 
tried to murder the Indigenous Peoples out of existence . They have 
tried to rape the Indigenous Peoples out of existence. They have 
tried to poison us out of existence. They have tried to steal us out 
of existence. None of it worked , completely. Although they did 
manage to kill 40 million of us in 500 years.

We are still here.

Now they are trying to ignore us out of existence: Ignore their 
broken treaties, ignore their theft of our land and the killing of 
our women and children, ignore the medals of honor that the US 
government awarded for the murders at Wounded Knee and Sand Creek, 
ignore the infant mortality rate of our people, ignore our health 
care. Ignore us till we disappear.

While our children aren't learning sign language but learning gang 
signs. They aren't learning their language, but the language of the 
larger culture. They are not learning their own peoples' spirit 
tradition, but those of people who come from a different part of the 
world. They are not learning the traditional songs, but learning gangster rap.

In the ignoring of us and the needs of our people they are ensuring 
that our people blend into the melting pot.

I don't want to blend into the melting pot. I don't want my children 
or grandchildren to be a part of the american way . It is a way of 
disgrace and dishonor.

In the past couple of days people have said to me don't rock the 
canoe, be nice and write letters and file things with them to get changes.

That doesn't work .

The canoe is sinking and we have a choice to sit quietly till we 
drown or to rock hell out of it.

The only way we can get their attention is by embarrassing them or 
irritating them .

They have proven with 8 years of george bush that they can't be embarrassed.

I've been told that we shouldn't irritate them.

We haven't irritated them enough ! Our only chance to regain our 
peoples health as cultures is to irritate the hell out of the oppressor.

Make them make changes or make them spend so much time dealing with 
us that they decide to do the right thing.

It's time for a new movement ... a movement that will not accept 
appeasement. A movement that will not sit nicely and wait for 
promised changes. It time for a new generation of warriors to step up 
and defend our people against the continued cultural genocide while 
there is still a people to defend.

Wanbli"

Listen online interviews with Ben Carnes, and Wanbli, during last week's fast:

<http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com>http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com




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