Pondering Words for a New Age, A time of Technological Freedom or Containment?

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NOTED Testimonial [On the online paper NDNs In The Age of Terror]: “Donald Morin, Métis performer, filmmaker, and [former] teacher at Vancouver's Native Education Centre, raised extremely important political and cultural questions about the indigenous media in today's "age of terror" and the use of film technology as a tool of resistance to capitalism. Donald theorized what he sees as a move from the age of mechanical reproduction towards an “age of technological authenticity.” Quotation from: Pam Wilson of wilsonpam@mindspring.com and Michelle Stewart producers of the Global Indigenous Media panels and screenings at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference [March 2004]...in Atlanta. [Georgia, USA.] Artist Note: Addendum 2016. As we move towards the [Winter] Solstice, we are coming to… [a new world order in relationship to the soon to be appointed president of the USA; Donald Trump] …. The Black Snake Prophecy is being fulfilled in Lakota territory, Hunkpapa territory, People starving the world over, indigenous people the world over are being encroached on, decimated, wrongfully imprisoned, have their children being taken away, while drugs usage continues, and alcohol and sex crimes continue to plague our territories, our homes, and our communities. As always, crass commercialism, crass consumerism, social media propaganda and desires, pornography, gangs, crack cocaine, all of it used to suppress a people, the masses, and the dispossessed. …[so we must] ” live life to the fullest, walk gently on this earth, if I can quote an International Indigenous Friend of mine Laila Hansen …. [From previous postings from] AFN Chief, DIA Valcourt, and other traditionalist comments about the current conditions of our people [(Spring, 2015)]. Now over a year later, [o]ur street people here are [still] struggling and dying, others in the new super jail, our women are being abused, and our children taken away, as another indigenous artist friend of mine mentions during Red Jam Slam "...how do we keep the government's greedy hands off our children..." [Peaceful] Resolution [ of the current conflict at Standing Rock is paramount and of extreme importance to the well-being of all sides, and the global community watching, as well as the ones watching from the heavens. As well watching you, me, them, 24/7, all of us even in our sleep, where the Angels of God and the wicked one come visit us in our sleep. We are truly energy beings living in the body of the flesh, our souls directing us down that road of options, choices, desires, and demands. And with my rotting flesh, I have failed so many times, I hope I do not forget to get back up on my feet and keep love in my heart. Write on My Heart Today, is a song http://www.isuma.tv/dammedia/write-on-our-hearts-today-at-the-trc-edmonton I wrote during the Kosovo Wars and when my friend Lyle Thomson had a stroke and I visited him at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. IT truly is what life is about, Life is based on everything that comes from the heart, not what we eat and consume! We truly must remain humble, graceful, be read to take action against injustice and hate. This is continually] …important, as the language of blood permeates in the air these days, as anger turns to hate, hate turns to violence, and bodies into dirt. If I can quote an artist [Sandra Semchuk’s] … recording of my ideas in 1995, "...Canada is not immuned to this chaos of discontent (At the time I was referring to the Kosovo War, and other terrorist situations abroad). IF recent news reports propagate opinions and possible scenarios pertaining to the potential actions of Canada's First People, as another Oka, Gusterferson, etc., then…reconciliation is of paramount importance and with dire urgency to initiate a just place to resolve conflict (Gawa Gyani: 91 -94 KJDC) and to finding balance between all of us in these final days of terror.