18 December 2017
28 November 2017
21 September 2017
Remembering Bob Gough, knowing that he was on the job leading environmental cases was more than a comfort. So many strong youths are stepping up to raise voices and for a moment it looked as if Indigenous rights would be honoured as the whole world looked on to the events at Standing Rock. The media has gone, and the People remain. Other Pipelines threaten water throughout Indian Country. Enbridge Line 3 threatens to cut through White Earth Reservation. Bob Gough was a friend and attorney to Honour the Earth, and there are younger attorneys keeping strong and vigilant for water quality.
This life story is not over, there is a scholarship fund being set up in his name. Updates will be posted.
https://hazards.colorado.edu/biography/bob-gough
This life story is not over, there is a scholarship fund being set up in his name. Updates will be posted.
https://hazards.colorado.edu/biography/bob-gough
26 June 2017
22 February 2017
03 February 2017
This morning updates from those standing in Prayer at Standing Rock, Dr. Sarah Juanita Jumping Bull, Pediatrician, head of Ft. Yates medical clinic and the first arrestees were found guilty and charged $1,500. Her husband Chase Iron Eyes and 74 arrested yesterday and Last Child camp were not allowed to be seen today for bail hearing in Morton county, and might be seen in the morning. Vanessa Castle filmed updates from court, and was then entrapped and arrested on no grounds taken into custody. It was said that she had a warrant, and reportedly there is no outstanding warrant.
In other news in dc, there is a new supreme court justice selected, Rex Tillerson appointment was rammed through in a less than legal manner as Orrin Hatch suspended the rules and voted without Democrats present, as they boycott the vote for.
https://www.facebook.com/
In other news in dc, there is a new supreme court justice selected, Rex Tillerson appointment was rammed through in a less than legal manner as Orrin Hatch suspended the rules and voted without Democrats present, as they boycott the vote for.
https://www.facebook.com/
02 February 2017
The Nation released a leaked draft of a sweeping religious freedom order revealing sweeping plans to legalize discrimination. There are so many current goose steps to a resurgent Nazi state and it is only day 12 of the 32% low approval rating of our new administration. Pray for us.
https://www.thenation.com/article/leaked-draft-of-trumps-religious-freedom-order-reveals-sweeping-plans-to-legalize-discrimination/
https://www.thenation.com/article/leaked-draft-of-trumps-religious-freedom-order-reveals-sweeping-plans-to-legalize-discrimination/
74 Lakota, Indigenous People and other allies were arrested today on their own land, charged with criminal trespass, rammed into barbed wire, and their live stream news cut. One of those arrested was Chase Iron Eyes, a lawyer and former congressional candidate. Also arrested is Steven Jeffrey Chrisjohn.
This happened in North Dakota on 1851 treaty land while a similar warplay over the highly contested appointment of Rex Tillerson the very recently Exxon CEO was illegally rammed down America's throat by Orrin Hatch the career obstructionist. While the Democrats boycotted the vote due to reported lies on submitted paperwork, Orrin Hatch temporarily suspended the rules to hold vote without democrats present.
How is any of this legal. We Americans are being mass assaulted for oil, and our media is being shut down. The daily human rights abuses are astounding.
This is a coup.
It is for water. Ta uisce beatha. MniWiconi.
30 January 2017
I had to pop some corn and watch the new administration engulfed in their own flames of ineptitude as the world continues a solid week of protesting the 45th resident select squatting in the white house- he has signed an executive order to ban Muslims from entering this stolen land. Interesting details, the 7 countries banned have committed NO acts of terrorism in the U.S, they also have no private business ties with drumpf, nor are they yet banking with the IMF.
This does present a conflict of interest and possible constitutional crisis.
It has been an exciting week 1 for a malignant narcissist in the white house, an empty inauguration followed by a huge 1 million in the streets the following day and marches worldwide against him. There was first a request to the park service to prove that he had bigger crowds than the protest followed by a gag order on park services when they would not oblige in publishing lies. This has given us such comedic gold in twitter storm along with a wealth of climate facts unleashed by rogueNASA, AltParks, and a long growing list of scientists who refuse silence. On the other hand, the press secretary Sean Spitzer retweeted the Onion's satirical flame piece roasting him, perhaps he failed to notice: "Sean Spicer's role in the Trump administration is to provide the American public with robust and articulate misinformation." "You nailed it. PERIOD!" he retweeted, apparently incapable of reading. It could have been a cry for help or an attempt at irony, although, from the way he whiningly read of his speech notes at the top of the week, his performance seems to lean more towards incompetence. Kelly Conway gave the cover for him that Sean Spicer offers alternative facts.
This is what happens when an illiterate reality tv star puts a gag order on the climate scientists, calls CNN fake news, has journalists arrested in streets facing ridiculously trumped up charges and puts his illiterate cronies out as his media team. The protests signs are comedic gold. One sign held showed trumpf's approval rating 32%, rotten tomatoes rating for Paul Blart mall cop 33%. The immigration lawyers of the NLG and ACLU are working on the ground in airports this weekend filing habeas corpus, and Standing Rock natives are leading resistance to stop fascism. Trumpf has long expressed his dislike for Indigenous People throughout his tarnished faux gold-plated history in New York, saying years ago in a hearing "they don't look native to me"as if Indigenous nations are for him to judge. International treaty law long pre-dates trumpf's immigrant history to this country. As he calls for a nonsensical wall to cut through Indigenous territory of Akimel O'otham and Tohono O'otham which will cost 50 billion while fixing Flint water would cost only 25 million, we get a quick glimpse into the business sense of the man who has crashed and burned so many of his own failed businesses now somehow pirating at the helm of our great nation. We would move to deport him, although his Grandfather's Germany most certainly will not take him, in fact, expelled him. His mother's country has countless entertaining ways of stating their strong dislike for this strange man. Since we can not immediately deport him, there has been since Day 1, at least 4 different petitions to impeach the man. The devil being in the details, it is the GOP behind him that is truly frightening. Once trumpf is impeached there will be Pence, a man whose policies are worse than trumpf's crazy talk.
Hat's off to all the lawyers, researchers and journalists waking shortly to bring us reports on the week 2 circus. Will there be Impeachment proceedings? Civil war? This author hopes the former, and never again the latter. It is likely to be eventful times ahead. Humanity has seen too much Genocide on constant repeat, and this week has been filled with millions resisting the ugly rise of fascism. It is past due time for humankind to learn from mistakes. Speaking of learning, a billionaire with zero education experience is ready to buy her cabinet appointment as education secretary, after she privatized the education out of Michigan. Her brother Erik Prince incidentally is the owner of the mercenary group formerly known as Blackwater, privately responsible for war crimes in Iraq.
This does present a conflict of interest and possible constitutional crisis.
It has been an exciting week 1 for a malignant narcissist in the white house, an empty inauguration followed by a huge 1 million in the streets the following day and marches worldwide against him. There was first a request to the park service to prove that he had bigger crowds than the protest followed by a gag order on park services when they would not oblige in publishing lies. This has given us such comedic gold in twitter storm along with a wealth of climate facts unleashed by rogueNASA, AltParks, and a long growing list of scientists who refuse silence. On the other hand, the press secretary Sean Spitzer retweeted the Onion's satirical flame piece roasting him, perhaps he failed to notice: "Sean Spicer's role in the Trump administration is to provide the American public with robust and articulate misinformation." "You nailed it. PERIOD!" he retweeted, apparently incapable of reading. It could have been a cry for help or an attempt at irony, although, from the way he whiningly read of his speech notes at the top of the week, his performance seems to lean more towards incompetence. Kelly Conway gave the cover for him that Sean Spicer offers alternative facts.
This is what happens when an illiterate reality tv star puts a gag order on the climate scientists, calls CNN fake news, has journalists arrested in streets facing ridiculously trumped up charges and puts his illiterate cronies out as his media team. The protests signs are comedic gold. One sign held showed trumpf's approval rating 32%, rotten tomatoes rating for Paul Blart mall cop 33%. The immigration lawyers of the NLG and ACLU are working on the ground in airports this weekend filing habeas corpus, and Standing Rock natives are leading resistance to stop fascism. Trumpf has long expressed his dislike for Indigenous People throughout his tarnished faux gold-plated history in New York, saying years ago in a hearing "they don't look native to me"as if Indigenous nations are for him to judge. International treaty law long pre-dates trumpf's immigrant history to this country. As he calls for a nonsensical wall to cut through Indigenous territory of Akimel O'otham and Tohono O'otham which will cost 50 billion while fixing Flint water would cost only 25 million, we get a quick glimpse into the business sense of the man who has crashed and burned so many of his own failed businesses now somehow pirating at the helm of our great nation. We would move to deport him, although his Grandfather's Germany most certainly will not take him, in fact, expelled him. His mother's country has countless entertaining ways of stating their strong dislike for this strange man. Since we can not immediately deport him, there has been since Day 1, at least 4 different petitions to impeach the man. The devil being in the details, it is the GOP behind him that is truly frightening. Once trumpf is impeached there will be Pence, a man whose policies are worse than trumpf's crazy talk.
Hat's off to all the lawyers, researchers and journalists waking shortly to bring us reports on the week 2 circus. Will there be Impeachment proceedings? Civil war? This author hopes the former, and never again the latter. It is likely to be eventful times ahead. Humanity has seen too much Genocide on constant repeat, and this week has been filled with millions resisting the ugly rise of fascism. It is past due time for humankind to learn from mistakes. Speaking of learning, a billionaire with zero education experience is ready to buy her cabinet appointment as education secretary, after she privatized the education out of Michigan. Her brother Erik Prince incidentally is the owner of the mercenary group formerly known as Blackwater, privately responsible for war crimes in Iraq.
26 January 2017
40 different scientists this week went rogue tweeting out information after gag order from the new resident select, as a huge Greenpeace banner urging the public to resist was raised high over the White House on a Sunny Day. Here is a growing list of science-backed twitter accounts.
Please stay tuned for further developments.
25 January 2017
This week saw 1/2 a million women marching in solidarity in Washington DC Saturday, and Indigenous Women Rising were singing, dancing, holding space for strong hearts in prayer at the center of it all. Yesterday the selected resident of the white house signed an order to put America First, forgetting Indigenous have always been here first, and there is International Treaty Law to back up land claims. Spontaneous presence of strong Indigenous water protectors and allies sprang up all over the nation last evening and International solidarity has been strongly felt. The People are returning to Standing Rock. We will not back down, we stand to live. We stand for our children. We stand for those who died from uranium in the water. We stand in prayer for those who lived strong lives, were buried, and dug up from their sacred resting place in violation of human decency and NAGPRA laws as well as 1851 Ft. Laramie Treaty.
We stand for the many miscarried babies who could not grow full term because of radiation in the water. We stand for those lost to cancer. We stand for those stolen babies who died in the boarding schools. Every one of those lives were sacred, and wanted by their parents. We stand in the face of continued Genocide. We stand for your life. We stand for water. Water is life. We are Mamas, we want our children to live, and those yet unborn.
We stand for the many miscarried babies who could not grow full term because of radiation in the water. We stand for those lost to cancer. We stand for those stolen babies who died in the boarding schools. Every one of those lives were sacred, and wanted by their parents. We stand in the face of continued Genocide. We stand for your life. We stand for water. Water is life. We are Mamas, we want our children to live, and those yet unborn.
21 January 2017
Cheeky boycotted inauguration of the rejected select
Many reported today to boycott the inauguration of our new president select and went marching in the streets. My Honorable city councilman Carlos Menchaca and others sat down in front of trump towers and said "Resist from Day One!"
In DC, Lauren TwoBraids Howland was chased and tackled by a trumpf supporter.
Richard Spencer gets punched is trending and a lil white kid named Connor set a fire in protest of the alt-right (ahem, Nazi) ball, and corrected a Fox news reporter with a shrug.
That's just the last 24 hours condensed snippets from the Twilight Zone, aka Washington DC.
In DC, Lauren TwoBraids Howland was chased and tackled by a trumpf supporter.
Richard Spencer gets punched is trending and a lil white kid named Connor set a fire in protest of the alt-right (ahem, Nazi) ball, and corrected a Fox news reporter with a shrug.
That's just the last 24 hours condensed snippets from the Twilight Zone, aka Washington DC.
20 January 2017
DJ Cynthia Cherish the Luv Malaran will be spinning beats at the Women's March tomorrow in DC. This sweet animation from Deanna Katz for Author Leslie Kauffman from UFPJ organizing latest writing is https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Leslie%20Kauffman%20author is a cute reminder. On our drive down Leslie played pumped up dance hits and laughed that it is an endless playlist of all the artists in the world who refuse to play for the rejected president select.
Live, laugh and love. Never give up, and our bodies are ours, no one has the right to assault. It is easy to grieve common sense today, although one must lift the spirits and stay strong. Some of us survived Jackson, while many made the journey home too soon. Harriet Tubman freed herself and went back south to free more slaves. She said she could have freed more if only they knew they were slaves.
Human Rights organizers are our most treasured, we need you now more than ever, so stay strong.
#Staywoke, y'all.
Am currently in Dc metro area. The Indigenous Women Rising March on Saturday has my attention. There has been such recent momentum for Indigenous rights and attention given in mainstream media to strong Indigenous women raising voices, making their own media, telling their own stories.
At the beginning of January, I started to see allies eyes turning attention to DC and the inauguration and the Women's March on the 21st. This inauguration is a distraction from the main issue of our day which is staying alive and protecting life for next seven generations by protecting our remaining potable water supply.
We need water to live.
There is a lot of big money backed PR for the old companies, and Indigenous still stand strong. The 1851 Treaty Law clearly states that Standing Rock is within unceded Indigenous land. Out of state attorneys are now able to assist in North Dakota cases.
Greg Palast has been giving updates on the rigged election. We do not need to accept or normalize this select.
The Black lives Matter movement blocked off 7 out of 12 entrances to false inauguration of the cheato. There were round dances last night surrounding the deplorable ball.
The Indigenous Women Rising march tomorrow morning in DC has direction link below.
https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/opinions/supreme-law-land-standing-rock-dakota-access-pipeline/
https://www.facebook.com/tfaunealford/posts/1539871682694256?pnref=story
https://www.facebook.com/brenda.norrell.90?fref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/GregPalastInvestigates/videos/vb.87777747127/10154934599072128/?type=2&theater¬if_t=live_video_explicit¬if_id=148488097758172
https://www.facebook.com/events/1620216874940152/
12 January 2017
As current political climate is hotter than the melting polar (formerly -known -as) ice caps, Laughing Deer Productions is sending out a wee PSA to remind us all to be kind and mindful in our daily interactions in our communities and neighborhood. Showing Kindness costs us nothing at all.
Let's be good to one another as we all share this small world.
USC’s You Matter Campaign
Let's be good to one another as we all share this small world.
USC’s You Matter Campaign
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