Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Creaks between laptops, words and paper

If folks have not been following this story, it is of interest to the Indigenous people of all colonized territories. We are dealing with a cultural authoritarian impasse with two major world powers ascertaining the freedom and un-freedom of an individual in a presumed globalized democratic system of trade, travel, and exchange. Where we should have the ability to share information pertaining to all of us as individuals on colonized territories, where everyday people pay taxes. After all it is OUR information as individuals in a duly elected government, where our hard working sweat and labour pays the salaries, ratifies governmental initiatives to royal ascent, and creates the cultural, technical, educational institutions/apparatuses, that created the laws which governs us as a free people under the laws of the Creator. A God, who allowed the ratification of a government for the people, because well, someone has to lead the people, or anarchy prevails. At the same time we allow our taxes to maintain the everyday, we must at the same time keep an eye on governments, as it is people who run political parties, ideologies that define them, and private political agendas grow leaps and bounds. We can see all the new draconian laws being ratified towards our beloved Queen (Not)for ascension like she lives in the third heaven or somewhere else! Snowden as one of the daily taxpayers out there who work day in day out, saw that the government is going behind the back of the people (the taxpayers) and that the information that is being collected , allocated out to parties to investigate potential dealings with terrorists, still our privacy rights as individuals will be compromised and slowly the machinations of totalitarianism settled invisibly around our democratic elected government morphing into something totally different than what we expect to believe or to be real. We are living in the age of information, our information, and Snowden has woken up the world, the beast, and we are all now on the downward slide to the end of the road as we know it, Miigweech, OSiem, Gila Kesla, Hiy Hiy,

Monday, June 10, 2013

Notes about Under Surveillance, the working title of my SFU FIlm Workshop Fourth year student film Crossings

Notes before the CTV link regarding under surveillance: What`s on my mind? Thanking the Creator, The Great Spirit, all that was, is and to be...Fearing the worst of times, during the sign of times, What arising out of the news of four winds, the four races, the four directions, as we awake under surveillance by the capitalist beast. Under surveillance was the first working title of my Final Student Film CROSSINGS at SFU Film workshop 1989. It was a twisted tale from my imagination, my sex life, betrayal, and wondrous moments of abandonment. The lead was a woman who had an affair and tells, the young man, Oh, it was nothing,...then she gets in to a long monologue about her being a woman, getting beat, used, raped, and falling in love all at the same time. It was a true story told to me by an X, and as a young student artist at the time, I was simply being creative, and after five years of academic training, being brain washed into the euro- centric validation of artist that we all wanted to be, Being aboriginal, or native, NDN or Metis, was never really my bag. I was simply a student artist who happened to be an Indian. I as well just finished three upper level women studies courses, I was so determined to success, Even though Spirit Song Theatre and The Chief Dan George Film Video program were great, my history as the white Indian, I always felt under the watchful eye of the system, welfare, justice, dominant society ideology, and the embedded racism that judged us. We all know how history, the spectacle, and the body has defined the Indigenous signatory first people of this continent. Treaties that are void as they were signed under duress, as prisoners of war, we always had to be under the watchful eye of the government. Now it has moved to the masses, as the Prism Echelon machine gazes at all of us now, even you thru the Pyramidic eye. When I wrote Under Surveillance, The first two drafts strongly critiqued by the profs, the feminist students, did not like the fact of the lead being a woman, and was too ambitious. I never liked the final script, the final film, Crossings, which the mixer at the post house created the release print out of sync. I was not happy, but such is life, I felt I was always under the watchful eye of the system, and being a young Indian student artist, this developed in my work during the OKa crisis when I worked for CBC news, started community radio, then under surveillance with my 7 fires 4 U Kitchi Manitou Film, and then asked to be an intelligence officer for The system. Now 2013, we are waking up to the Orwellian world, Mr Orwell created back in the 40s. I performed the role of Winston Smith in Carnegie Theatre's 1984 stage adaptation of Orwell's novel. Again, questions arose; what's he doing the role for, he's not English? He's not white? Anyway, the first people were always under the watchful eye of their "other" because colonialism defined us as the enemy in the way of their brave new world. Watch you back now FBers, and anyone else, The invisible has BEEN REVEALED, now what are you going to do? http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/how-canadian-internet-users-may-be-getting-caught-in-u-s-surveillance-1.1318910

Sunday, April 07, 2013

I was told I was going to be the only white Caucasian in the whole of the prison

I write this in reference to the published reference made to an recently incarcerated airline passenger in Baffin Correctional Centre: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2013/04/06/north-darren-cosby-interview.html The passenger was told: (quote:....I was told I was going to be the only white Caucasian in the whole of the prison....Unquote) Here we have a foreign individual who apparently blacked out after some alcohol and caused a dangerous ruckus on the plane leading to his arrest. We have a non-Canadian convicted in the Canadian courts, but at some point along the way is told this rather systemic statement. The signification of the statement is that the prison systemic is built for native and inuit prisoners, it is dangerous, and be prepared to die, get injured by the non-white prisoners, What is not signified? That our prison systems are built for The First people of Canada, that all native and Inuit people are dangerous, criminals, that we as a people can not be trusted, that the institutional officers, workers within the judicial, policing, correction services are racists and hate non-white people. Does this one published statement define the literacy reality of Canadian society? Who told him this statement? I can only assume an white correction, judicial, policing individual, who has a racist view of the people he or she rules over and enjoys his or her sense of power and place in control these non-white prisoners. Assumptions, opinions? Perhaps, but the semiotics of this loaded statement demands a responses of this nature, please continue the argument and discussion, Miigweech, all my relations!

Thursday, January 03, 2013

A Web Request to all Idle No More Participants

A request to all documentarist who are have participlated in Idle No more Movement: Wound A Knee, Break A Leg, Merde! As some may know, I was sidelined by a work accident Dec 7th. Considered a life threaten situation due to Concussion, broken rib, collapsed lung, and air and fluid leakage in body; I was released mid Dec and have been slowly healing. Off work, I secured a new laptop, digital keyboard, and a good friend bought me a new guitar. So two days ago, I was strong enough to start some creative muses. Emotional the Idle No-more Movement was deep within me and a new song was created based on what is happening today. I would like to ask all Idle No more documentarists who videoed or photographed aspects of this global movement, if I can utlize such Internet postings of your uploads for this new song based on the Idle No More Movement? This is purely a community video and not intended for commercial development. People can let me know here on FB or email me at dammedia@icloud.com or donaldmorin@gmail.com. Leave me your name for end credits please. Miigweech, O'Sien, Gila Kesla, Hiy Hiy, all my relations Newspaper story published Sept 1990 about Vigilant Performances in support of Oka Crisis 1990. Produced by Donald Morin and Gunargie O'Sullivan in support of the people at Oka, Quebec