Sunday, November 28, 2010
CBC closes commenting on the WikiLeaks stories
CBC's comment tool is closed for these wikileaks stories! Why is that? The true colours of the USA are being exposed, the arrogance, the roughshodding, the bullying, the racist sense of superiority of military and diplomatic might from the beast of the belly
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Shaking Our Artistic Hands with the Devil
Shaking Our Artistic Hands with the Devil
From Alumni SFU Inter-disciplinary Indigenous Métis Artist: Donald Morin, BA
Re: SFU Visual Arts & Goldcorp: "Framing Cultural Capital
Attention: Jeff Derksen, Ian Angus, Alexandra Henao, Cecily Nicholson, Irwin Oostindie, Jayce Salloum, Carole Taylor, and all other interested individuals and colleagues
Dear Associated Colleagues of SFU and Salish Territory now know as the lower mainland of British Columbia
As a SFU graduate and artist who has studied two semesters of visual arts along with my performing arts and the SFU film program, I raise my hands up to all of you who help create this upcoming dialogue forum regarding Goldcorps 10 mil donation. Miigweech.
I personally find it deplorable that SFU has accepted this buy off donation from Godcorps.
What is more incredulous is the trilateral position already taken by the university:
• the immediate designation of naming the SFU downtown campus to the Goldcorps Centre for the Arts,
• half of the funds going towards the capital costs of running the facilities,
• and the endowment created to support programs aimed at community engagement in the DTES
Without even asking the downtown eastside community for some input in how such a donation can help the community before accepting the money.
Considering, the whole notion of Goldcorps past history in its mining developments, I am ashamed of being part of SFU's history for their immediate acceptance of this sellout donation without proper consideration of the more urgent needs of the residents of the Downtown East, the lack of cultural protocol with respect to the first people of Salish Territory, and the lack on including a Salish First Nations Artist to this important dialogue event.
As a first nations man who spent close to thirty years on Salish Territory and many years in the downtown eastside as an activist/artist and community member, I learned much about cultural respect and my self worth as an "Indian" man who moved to Vancouver 1980 from Edmonton to realize my potential in life. Where at that time, society's expectation of native people then were only seeing us as drunks, in jail or dead. Moving back to Edmonton Dec 2009, it is sad to still see the judicial system still stereotyping native people in the same light, and certain members of Canadian society still have systemic racist views of Canada's first people.
It is good to see that people are concerned about this donation, but are they the right concerns? Will this dialogue event be seen as a lame afterthought, when it comes to the lateness of the press release, because suddenly people hear about this donation are of concern, and SFU organizers realize they do not have proper community discussions and involvement when Goldcorps first put the money on the table?
And then there is the issue of cultural protocol. Considering the sad and sordid history of the Downtown Eastside Missing women and the strong percentage of aboriginal people in the area, where do these people fit in with this donation?
An artist paints a picture of a missing woman, a dying native on the street, and we all done our part in helping less fortunate people through our work as artists?
I see this late release as a case of poor insight and planning to be sending this press release out now considering the date of this event. I can only assume that there may be a limited crowd of people involved due to this later publication of this event.
What will the result of this event be? Considering the language of the press release, I see it as a rather pretentious event of artists, moderators, and intellectuals complaining about the ethics of such a donation to real people with real concerns, but still the money has been taken, plans have been initiated and discussed, and we can all go away thinking that we are doing some good for the community talking about it.
Meanwhile the residents of the DTES are struggling to survive, eat, maintain a roof and wean themselves of the substances some have fallen into, while the old timers in the area area sit in their rooms they have and will never see the benefits of this sellout donation.
My critics will say, well, there are already many social agencies out there helping these people, and I am missing the point of this donation and discussion. But I would refute that argument, by saying that the university can go against the status quo of community relations, and use that money in a context that will take all your departmental disciplines in consideration, and use that capital to build and improve the current housing conditions for the residents, create all types of employment for the residents, invest in improving the health, body and mind of the residents, and use that endowment fund to help all the people of the DTES instead of just the artists and their subjects.
Any further real concrete action for the university and this discussion panel to do is to tell the university to give back that money to Goldcorps and instruct the corporation to go into the downtown eastside community, and create real change for the residents without any sort of public acknowledgment or recognition.
Does the university have to be involved at all? No, I see this as a public relations ploy by this corporation and my former university, and now with all you colleagues being involved, everyone is grandstanding themselves around this donation because, it is a news worthy item and we can all get something out of this fiasco, and the residents get nothing but what is offered later, much later, once the money is implemented in the system and the infra structure develops and everyone gets their piece of the pie, and the status quo remains the same.
In closing, while I accept and give credit to the organizers of this event for creating dialogue in [demanding] " a more active role in shaping [their] position at the university and [their] relationship to the community, nothing is really going to change for the residents of the community outside of the artists who will utilize the downtown SFU Centre for the Arts.
I apologize of I have offended anyone in this dialogue, but what is our role as artists in contemporary society if we do not address immediate basic issues of survival for our fellow humans accepting nothing in return. Miigweech, Gila Kesla, O’Siem, Hy hy, all my relations
Miigweech Donald Morin, BA
http://www.isuma.tv/dammedia http://myspace.com/donaldmorin
http://www.google.com/profiles/donaldmorin http://www.youtube.com/Willy2Frencheater
From Alumni SFU Inter-disciplinary Indigenous Métis Artist: Donald Morin, BA
Re: SFU Visual Arts & Goldcorp: "Framing Cultural Capital
Attention: Jeff Derksen, Ian Angus, Alexandra Henao, Cecily Nicholson, Irwin Oostindie, Jayce Salloum, Carole Taylor, and all other interested individuals and colleagues
Dear Associated Colleagues of SFU and Salish Territory now know as the lower mainland of British Columbia
As a SFU graduate and artist who has studied two semesters of visual arts along with my performing arts and the SFU film program, I raise my hands up to all of you who help create this upcoming dialogue forum regarding Goldcorps 10 mil donation. Miigweech.
I personally find it deplorable that SFU has accepted this buy off donation from Godcorps.
What is more incredulous is the trilateral position already taken by the university:
• the immediate designation of naming the SFU downtown campus to the Goldcorps Centre for the Arts,
• half of the funds going towards the capital costs of running the facilities,
• and the endowment created to support programs aimed at community engagement in the DTES
Without even asking the downtown eastside community for some input in how such a donation can help the community before accepting the money.
Considering, the whole notion of Goldcorps past history in its mining developments, I am ashamed of being part of SFU's history for their immediate acceptance of this sellout donation without proper consideration of the more urgent needs of the residents of the Downtown East, the lack of cultural protocol with respect to the first people of Salish Territory, and the lack on including a Salish First Nations Artist to this important dialogue event.
As a first nations man who spent close to thirty years on Salish Territory and many years in the downtown eastside as an activist/artist and community member, I learned much about cultural respect and my self worth as an "Indian" man who moved to Vancouver 1980 from Edmonton to realize my potential in life. Where at that time, society's expectation of native people then were only seeing us as drunks, in jail or dead. Moving back to Edmonton Dec 2009, it is sad to still see the judicial system still stereotyping native people in the same light, and certain members of Canadian society still have systemic racist views of Canada's first people.
It is good to see that people are concerned about this donation, but are they the right concerns? Will this dialogue event be seen as a lame afterthought, when it comes to the lateness of the press release, because suddenly people hear about this donation are of concern, and SFU organizers realize they do not have proper community discussions and involvement when Goldcorps first put the money on the table?
And then there is the issue of cultural protocol. Considering the sad and sordid history of the Downtown Eastside Missing women and the strong percentage of aboriginal people in the area, where do these people fit in with this donation?
An artist paints a picture of a missing woman, a dying native on the street, and we all done our part in helping less fortunate people through our work as artists?
I see this late release as a case of poor insight and planning to be sending this press release out now considering the date of this event. I can only assume that there may be a limited crowd of people involved due to this later publication of this event.
What will the result of this event be? Considering the language of the press release, I see it as a rather pretentious event of artists, moderators, and intellectuals complaining about the ethics of such a donation to real people with real concerns, but still the money has been taken, plans have been initiated and discussed, and we can all go away thinking that we are doing some good for the community talking about it.
Meanwhile the residents of the DTES are struggling to survive, eat, maintain a roof and wean themselves of the substances some have fallen into, while the old timers in the area area sit in their rooms they have and will never see the benefits of this sellout donation.
My critics will say, well, there are already many social agencies out there helping these people, and I am missing the point of this donation and discussion. But I would refute that argument, by saying that the university can go against the status quo of community relations, and use that money in a context that will take all your departmental disciplines in consideration, and use that capital to build and improve the current housing conditions for the residents, create all types of employment for the residents, invest in improving the health, body and mind of the residents, and use that endowment fund to help all the people of the DTES instead of just the artists and their subjects.
Any further real concrete action for the university and this discussion panel to do is to tell the university to give back that money to Goldcorps and instruct the corporation to go into the downtown eastside community, and create real change for the residents without any sort of public acknowledgment or recognition.
Does the university have to be involved at all? No, I see this as a public relations ploy by this corporation and my former university, and now with all you colleagues being involved, everyone is grandstanding themselves around this donation because, it is a news worthy item and we can all get something out of this fiasco, and the residents get nothing but what is offered later, much later, once the money is implemented in the system and the infra structure develops and everyone gets their piece of the pie, and the status quo remains the same.
In closing, while I accept and give credit to the organizers of this event for creating dialogue in [demanding] " a more active role in shaping [their] position at the university and [their] relationship to the community, nothing is really going to change for the residents of the community outside of the artists who will utilize the downtown SFU Centre for the Arts.
I apologize of I have offended anyone in this dialogue, but what is our role as artists in contemporary society if we do not address immediate basic issues of survival for our fellow humans accepting nothing in return. Miigweech, Gila Kesla, O’Siem, Hy hy, all my relations
Miigweech Donald Morin, BA
http://www.isuma.tv/dammedia http://myspace.com/donaldmorin
http://www.google.com/profiles/donaldmorin http://www.youtube.com/Willy2Frencheater
Thursday, November 04, 2010
DAM Comments on CBC story of U.S. pornographer targets Winnipeg aboriginals
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/11/04/man-winnipeg-aboriginal-pornography-website.html#socialcomments-submit#ixzz14MTYRmWB
DAM COM
Regardless of accusers’ talk of victims taking substances, who has not sinned and is able to judge these victims? We as aboriginal people were taken from a language, a land, family, extended families and place in horrible homes where the adoption parents used the cheques on themselves and left the children to struggle and struggle trying to be the assimilated person like the euro-Canadian immigrants, and travelers who came here and stole what was not theirs. THE assimilators stole our true Identity, our mother tongue. An identity as a people which goes back to the days of Jesus among us, and the Great Spirit who made you and I writing here. Grow up you zealots of the new century, the time has come to separate the left from the right, the light from the dark, and we will see who judges who!!
DAM COM
Regardless of accusers’ talk of victims taking substances, who has not sinned and is able to judge these victims? We as aboriginal people were taken from a language, a land, family, extended families and place in horrible homes where the adoption parents used the cheques on themselves and left the children to struggle and struggle trying to be the assimilated person like the euro-Canadian immigrants, and travelers who came here and stole what was not theirs. THE assimilators stole our true Identity, our mother tongue. An identity as a people which goes back to the days of Jesus among us, and the Great Spirit who made you and I writing here. Grow up you zealots of the new century, the time has come to separate the left from the right, the light from the dark, and we will see who judges who!!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Supreme Court to hear case over Quebec’s controversial ethics and religion class
In response to article published in The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/supreme-court-to-hear-case-over-quebecs-controversial-ethics-and-religion-class/article1767535/
The security of our children is paramount. Ideologically, and physically. It is an important debate. How do we help children to understand the different religions, and cultures of this world? It is not as simplistic as teaching a westernized curriculum of mosaic or multicultural values of who we are as Canadians, Americans, indigenous, class or people of diverse cultures.
Parents want to choose? Is that a form of protectionism? How do we look at ourselves and understand a family's interpretation of another culture, religion and history? I.e. stereotyping, propaganda, church values, family history, generational history, it is a complex issue.
All we can do is each pray to the Creator in their own words, thoughts, and prayers, and perhaps we can find what is best for our children and not directed by state ideological apparatuses bent on form control and mass order.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/supreme-court-to-hear-case-over-quebecs-controversial-ethics-and-religion-class/article1767535/
The security of our children is paramount. Ideologically, and physically. It is an important debate. How do we help children to understand the different religions, and cultures of this world? It is not as simplistic as teaching a westernized curriculum of mosaic or multicultural values of who we are as Canadians, Americans, indigenous, class or people of diverse cultures.
Parents want to choose? Is that a form of protectionism? How do we look at ourselves and understand a family's interpretation of another culture, religion and history? I.e. stereotyping, propaganda, church values, family history, generational history, it is a complex issue.
All we can do is each pray to the Creator in their own words, thoughts, and prayers, and perhaps we can find what is best for our children and not directed by state ideological apparatuses bent on form control and mass order.
Clinton tackled for oilsands comments
"Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. has said its pipelines pose no threat to the environment", they say there is no guarantee in life, and it is rather arrogant for the corporation to say that. Let’s not forget the accidental rupture some time ago in Burnaby when an independent contractor made a mistake. Oil is oil; IT will destroy everything it touches No matter what clean up attempt is initiated.
The Creator will take that arrogance of man and humble us to our knees, as we slowly devour ourselves to survive. Life's Windigo's is here there and everywhere, If I can quote an old pop songs from way back lore.
We must stop this pipeline, stop our dependency on what is suppose to stay in the ground to keep the world balanced We are slowly dying driving faster to nowhere. Clinton is a realist as she knows the system will not change and the cost of our freedom is climate change, pollution, less resources and a human race who can not see their own demise every morning we go to work or play. Our polluted bodies die, our soul goes where it will go, free of oil, but still the human race can not change, because we are living in the end of days. Aho all my relations I am, that I am! And it will be down.
The Creator will take that arrogance of man and humble us to our knees, as we slowly devour ourselves to survive. Life's Windigo's is here there and everywhere, If I can quote an old pop songs from way back lore.
We must stop this pipeline, stop our dependency on what is suppose to stay in the ground to keep the world balanced We are slowly dying driving faster to nowhere. Clinton is a realist as she knows the system will not change and the cost of our freedom is climate change, pollution, less resources and a human race who can not see their own demise every morning we go to work or play. Our polluted bodies die, our soul goes where it will go, free of oil, but still the human race can not change, because we are living in the end of days. Aho all my relations I am, that I am! And it will be down.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Alta. child welfare system needs to change: report
Story closed for commeting, why is that? The majority of the children under care are first nations. Is the government hiding behind legislation in their positioning and conditioning of indigenous people? Has anything changed for our children since the 60s Scoop? Tell us something we do not know. Stop taking away our children! have a good day, and week ahead.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
All 33 Minors rescued in Chile! Rescuers remaining!
Thank our Creator, all "33" men were rescued. Very important number considering Jesus lived 33 years, now we have the resecuers to rescue, God help them all. God bless the survivors in the belly of our rocky life!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Prostitution laws struck down by Ont. court
The protection of our life givers is paramount. The old saying about "the oldest profession” rings true throughout history, the bible, other teachings, writings and the modernity of our popular culture. Women and men have a God given right to their bodies, and how one cares for the human body and what we do to our bodies.
God gave us that choice, and we deal with the consequences when the physical body is returned to our Creator. It is written that we must treat our body like a temple for our Creator, keep it clean and pure. Yet. the reality here on earth is vastly different than what we all ideally would like if we were free of our urges, senses, and idealization of whom we are as a body and how we live our lives. Morally or immorally, but then who is the judge of our bodies, our choice in private, and what people do not see.
Trudeau mentioned something about keeping the state out of the bedrooms of the nation? Does that apply here? Perhaps, for sex between two beings can happen anywhere if we were animals. but we are not, and we must protect our body, spirit and mind from falling into the primal instincts of our nature. Prostitution will not go away, as long as we have immoral people, who have lost respect for the human body, and replace love with lust. Yes, protect the vulnerable from exploitation in this sexual trade of relations, but as well protect our woman without prejudice, malice or judgment and do the right action, without bowing down to fundamentalist or the religiosity of institutions, and organized political fronts of conservatism.
God gave us that choice, and we deal with the consequences when the physical body is returned to our Creator. It is written that we must treat our body like a temple for our Creator, keep it clean and pure. Yet. the reality here on earth is vastly different than what we all ideally would like if we were free of our urges, senses, and idealization of whom we are as a body and how we live our lives. Morally or immorally, but then who is the judge of our bodies, our choice in private, and what people do not see.
Trudeau mentioned something about keeping the state out of the bedrooms of the nation? Does that apply here? Perhaps, for sex between two beings can happen anywhere if we were animals. but we are not, and we must protect our body, spirit and mind from falling into the primal instincts of our nature. Prostitution will not go away, as long as we have immoral people, who have lost respect for the human body, and replace love with lust. Yes, protect the vulnerable from exploitation in this sexual trade of relations, but as well protect our woman without prejudice, malice or judgment and do the right action, without bowing down to fundamentalist or the religiosity of institutions, and organized political fronts of conservatism.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Edmonton hospital asks homeless for advice
See: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/08/17/ed-royal-alexandra-hospital-homeless-survey.html
It is good that such institutions are look at other ways of helping less fortunate people than ourselves. Instead of judging the homeless, the street bums, why not go out and buy them a coffee, sandwich, and ask how they are? Do they need to know where to go to need help, is life that busy and fast that we forget about the founding values of Canadian society? Bad apples in every crowd, so do not judge all people on the street with the same brushes. I was looking for work downtown Edmonton & saw a native man bandaged over his left eye, He was weak and softly asking for $. No passerby could hear him, did not care, & didn’t pay attention to this poor soul. I gave him a smoke, told him I was not working and sat near him as I waited for the bus. It was sad to see all these people walk by, as this man held his cap out and tried to survive. I dug in my pocket and gave him the two quarters, but felt bad because I still had a loonie. Late Chief Dan George's son Len George told me once that if you see someone who needs help, dug in your pocket and give what you have in change. It is the right thing to do. Today I see signs saying give to social agencies instead of to the people on the street, Why do we follow the rules of society when it comes to helping the less fortunate, instead of trusting the teachings of your/our Creator totally by helping the less fortunate regardless of ones judgment and assumption of their background, ulterior motives, or the degree of their empty stomach or brain; if you consider the ones who have bad motives regarding charity like the woman who faked cancer and defrauded many as a result of their good grace and charity? People on the street are our equal, Help them, karma exists be on the left hand or right hand? U decide.
It is good that such institutions are look at other ways of helping less fortunate people than ourselves. Instead of judging the homeless, the street bums, why not go out and buy them a coffee, sandwich, and ask how they are? Do they need to know where to go to need help, is life that busy and fast that we forget about the founding values of Canadian society? Bad apples in every crowd, so do not judge all people on the street with the same brushes. I was looking for work downtown Edmonton & saw a native man bandaged over his left eye, He was weak and softly asking for $. No passerby could hear him, did not care, & didn’t pay attention to this poor soul. I gave him a smoke, told him I was not working and sat near him as I waited for the bus. It was sad to see all these people walk by, as this man held his cap out and tried to survive. I dug in my pocket and gave him the two quarters, but felt bad because I still had a loonie. Late Chief Dan George's son Len George told me once that if you see someone who needs help, dug in your pocket and give what you have in change. It is the right thing to do. Today I see signs saying give to social agencies instead of to the people on the street, Why do we follow the rules of society when it comes to helping the less fortunate, instead of trusting the teachings of your/our Creator totally by helping the less fortunate regardless of ones judgment and assumption of their background, ulterior motives, or the degree of their empty stomach or brain; if you consider the ones who have bad motives regarding charity like the woman who faked cancer and defrauded many as a result of their good grace and charity? People on the street are our equal, Help them, karma exists be on the left hand or right hand? U decide.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Friday, August 06, 2010
MY PERSONAL REPLY TO CBC WEB ARTICLE: Oka developer met with protests
MY PERSONAL REPLY TO CBC WEB ARTICLE: Oka developer met with protests
Ducharme says he has the rights and deeds for the land on behalf of a financial institution, and implies the Mohawks committed heresies. Having finished my first feature film in 2004 based on the incident of Oka, 1990, After years of study, research, and travel to the Mohawk territory in my younger days, I have met the late Joe David, As well as members of the Gabriel family. Wonderful people who spoke the truth regardless of the stereotyping and racism that is steeped deep in Canadian History, Alanis Obamsowin's film Kanasatake 200 years of resistance is also a great film to understand the history of the area, which is the results of this current valid form of resistance. The Whiteman’s malaise. The title deeds are worthless when it comes to broken treaties, manipulating priest from the Oka area and its history, and how the euro centric ancestors of that territory's history stole the land from the Mohawks. Duchames sounds like that guy from Pale Rider who shows Clint Easton’s character his piece of paper saying he owns the land. White devils again manipulating the media and council people
See the article at: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/08/06/que-oka-conflict.html#socialcomments
Donald Morin, BA
seen and heard at
http://www.isuma.tv/dammedia
www.myspace.com/moredammusic
http://www.reverbnation.com/#/donaldmorin,
http://www.google.com/profiles/donaldmorin,
http://www.youtube.com/Willy2Frencheater,
http://myspace.com/donaldmorin
Ducharme says he has the rights and deeds for the land on behalf of a financial institution, and implies the Mohawks committed heresies. Having finished my first feature film in 2004 based on the incident of Oka, 1990, After years of study, research, and travel to the Mohawk territory in my younger days, I have met the late Joe David, As well as members of the Gabriel family. Wonderful people who spoke the truth regardless of the stereotyping and racism that is steeped deep in Canadian History, Alanis Obamsowin's film Kanasatake 200 years of resistance is also a great film to understand the history of the area, which is the results of this current valid form of resistance. The Whiteman’s malaise. The title deeds are worthless when it comes to broken treaties, manipulating priest from the Oka area and its history, and how the euro centric ancestors of that territory's history stole the land from the Mohawks. Duchames sounds like that guy from Pale Rider who shows Clint Easton’s character his piece of paper saying he owns the land. White devils again manipulating the media and council people
See the article at: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/08/06/que-oka-conflict.html#socialcomments
Donald Morin, BA
seen and heard at
http://www.isuma.tv/dammedia
www.myspace.com/moredammusic
http://www.reverbnation.com/#/donaldmorin,
http://www.google.com/profiles/donaldmorin,
http://www.youtube.com/Willy2Frencheater,
http://myspace.com/donaldmorin
Monday, July 26, 2010
DAM T5H3K8 and The Indigenous Hawaii Resistance | IsumaTV
First section of My New Experimetnal film I am developing!
DAM T5H3K8 and The Indigenous Hawaii Resistance | IsumaTV
DAM T5H3K8 and The Indigenous Hawaii Resistance | IsumaTV
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Drunks force Winnipeg business to close: owner
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2010/07/22/mb-kraut-king-close-downtown-booze-winnipeg.html#ixzz0uRX9gF58
The implication of this CBC news article is that the people who move in & around this location are always 1st nation’s people who are extremely intoxicated, & that "...the ...aboriginal leaders need to step up and do more to address addiction problems among First Nations people..." The article also mentions the MLCC fining the hotels that sell liquor to the " disadvantaged people who wind up drinking...illegally in public places..." While I empathize with the business owner, I would ask, is only 1st nation people who are causing the problems, or a combination of euro-Canadian & native people, along with some of our multicultural friends, who are being disrespectful to others in public places? The historical conditions that helped define the pathos of these people is entrenched with the endless dreams of fame and fortune, growing up in a society that endure two world wars, endless conflict, & the lose of land, language, & culture as a result of colonial practices, immigrational distanciation, & the development of life in a new country, new environment and a new sense of values and shortcomings. Sadly 2 say Canadian history is full of successes and failures when it comes to the conduct of the self in relation to the other. Is it a question of race, genes, destiny, stupidity, or simple series of bad luck situations and the lack of will to do better in life? How long do we strive to reach our potential in life, instead of just settling with life? We all have choices in life, and ultimately The Great Spirit allows us 2 success or failure in according each day's progression of life and death. This world creates vices for us all, but it is the ones on the street that shows the true mirror of who we are, if we judge & condemn others B4 our Creator.
The implication of this CBC news article is that the people who move in & around this location are always 1st nation’s people who are extremely intoxicated, & that "...the ...aboriginal leaders need to step up and do more to address addiction problems among First Nations people..." The article also mentions the MLCC fining the hotels that sell liquor to the " disadvantaged people who wind up drinking...illegally in public places..." While I empathize with the business owner, I would ask, is only 1st nation people who are causing the problems, or a combination of euro-Canadian & native people, along with some of our multicultural friends, who are being disrespectful to others in public places? The historical conditions that helped define the pathos of these people is entrenched with the endless dreams of fame and fortune, growing up in a society that endure two world wars, endless conflict, & the lose of land, language, & culture as a result of colonial practices, immigrational distanciation, & the development of life in a new country, new environment and a new sense of values and shortcomings. Sadly 2 say Canadian history is full of successes and failures when it comes to the conduct of the self in relation to the other. Is it a question of race, genes, destiny, stupidity, or simple series of bad luck situations and the lack of will to do better in life? How long do we strive to reach our potential in life, instead of just settling with life? We all have choices in life, and ultimately The Great Spirit allows us 2 success or failure in according each day's progression of life and death. This world creates vices for us all, but it is the ones on the street that shows the true mirror of who we are, if we judge & condemn others B4 our Creator.
Sage for Our Warriors and Elders from Turtle Island to Hawaii | IsumaTV
Sage for Our Warriors and Elders from Turtle Island to Hawaii IsumaTV
103 meg repro of First rough edit and early start of Donald Morin's Experimental film depicting an unique approach to Indigenous Resistance and Hawaiian Indigenous Sovereignty Issues. More work has to be done on translations, text notes and the Hawaiian One Law government March and rally.
103 meg repro of First rough edit and early start of Donald Morin's Experimental film depicting an unique approach to Indigenous Resistance and Hawaiian Indigenous Sovereignty Issues. More work has to be done on translations, text notes and the Hawaiian One Law government March and rally.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Response to Elder criticizes native omission from summit and native protest comments on CBC news story about Natives protesting peacefully
CBC did not publish article, so here it is: 2nd. story about Elder omission is at link below:
Some people have 2 understand the fiduciary relationship of Canada & her 1st people 2 the original treaties & why there is a lack of treaties & broken treaties which exist. We can thank Cabot, Champlain, Cartier & others who were looking 4 a passage to India. Cabot thru the King’s Letter of Patent, set sail & the rest is history. The new immigrants, traders took advantage of our ancestors because they had the best resources. 2day we still struggle with this historical embedded racism yet some people will never understand why we must fight for our rights & benefits, because those treaties are law which last for generations 2 come. Treaties were signed because of the land that we lost. Dead or no deed that is old world written literacy thinking that has no argument here today. The cultural , political, economic apparatuses of this country romantized the 1st. people’s history The dime novels of the time, the melodrama forms & newspapers of the Wild West defined our relationship to each other since the modernist period 2 the literacy of your local papers & media 2day. The historical real, the spectacle real, & the erotic real has defined your coveting of who we are as a people due to this modernist period, I write about, but as well to the romanticist period, with novels like Ferdinand Cooper’s Last of The Mohicans, or the story of John Smith & Pocahontas romanticized our relations to each other. This ideological condition developed out of the progression of North American Pop Culture as the masses bought into the desires of a material capitalist culture. From how your grandparent’s great great Grandparents, the “Indian” was painted in the derogatory light then, as it is 2day. Why? Because of the lack of correct education about the history of the 1st people.
That is why there was no Elder at SUmmit, because these politicians are not properly educated about Indigenous history with the moonyass!
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/g20streetlevel/2010/06/elder-criticizes-native-omission-from-summit.html#socialcomments-submit
Some people have 2 understand the fiduciary relationship of Canada & her 1st people 2 the original treaties & why there is a lack of treaties & broken treaties which exist. We can thank Cabot, Champlain, Cartier & others who were looking 4 a passage to India. Cabot thru the King’s Letter of Patent, set sail & the rest is history. The new immigrants, traders took advantage of our ancestors because they had the best resources. 2day we still struggle with this historical embedded racism yet some people will never understand why we must fight for our rights & benefits, because those treaties are law which last for generations 2 come. Treaties were signed because of the land that we lost. Dead or no deed that is old world written literacy thinking that has no argument here today. The cultural , political, economic apparatuses of this country romantized the 1st. people’s history The dime novels of the time, the melodrama forms & newspapers of the Wild West defined our relationship to each other since the modernist period 2 the literacy of your local papers & media 2day. The historical real, the spectacle real, & the erotic real has defined your coveting of who we are as a people due to this modernist period, I write about, but as well to the romanticist period, with novels like Ferdinand Cooper’s Last of The Mohicans, or the story of John Smith & Pocahontas romanticized our relations to each other. This ideological condition developed out of the progression of North American Pop Culture as the masses bought into the desires of a material capitalist culture. From how your grandparent’s great great Grandparents, the “Indian” was painted in the derogatory light then, as it is 2day. Why? Because of the lack of correct education about the history of the 1st people.
That is why there was no Elder at SUmmit, because these politicians are not properly educated about Indigenous history with the moonyass!
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/g20streetlevel/2010/06/elder-criticizes-native-omission-from-summit.html#socialcomments-submit
Monday, June 21, 2010
The Lies of Aboriginal Day
The best of Aboriginal day to you all even though Canada does not live up to the ideals that bind us together as a people or a country, as statistics defines Canada's first people and our relations to your economic, social, cultural, state apparatuses and your skid rows. So shame on Canada on this propaganda day for the immigrant Canadians, who will never really know us as a people , only as how the system paints their picture of who we are before contact, after contact, and during the time of you occupiers!
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Response to CBC article: G20 police arsenal includes plastic bullets
The fact that they are practicing is down right scary. Sure, they say plastic bullets and tear gas, but it takes one projectile in one vulnerable place of the human body to destroy ones right to voice their dissatisfaction with leader who are over-consuming Earth’s resources.
Practicing to shoot first to justify their over-priced weapons of death and authoritative control shows how the current ultra right conservatives do not care about people. People who want to change the status quo for he care and betterment of Mother Earth and her children. To spend the excessive money they have on security, so they can practice using guns is unacceptable. Cancel the G20, recall this current government and fire all these security personnel.
CBC artile at: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/18/arwen-weapon-summits.html#socialcomments-submit
Practicing to shoot first to justify their over-priced weapons of death and authoritative control shows how the current ultra right conservatives do not care about people. People who want to change the status quo for he care and betterment of Mother Earth and her children. To spend the excessive money they have on security, so they can practice using guns is unacceptable. Cancel the G20, recall this current government and fire all these security personnel.
CBC artile at: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/18/arwen-weapon-summits.html#socialcomments-submit
Friday, June 18, 2010
A response to commenters on a CBC article Renew Aboriginal Healing Foundation: MPs, See link below for Comments by dumb people
Free sky and LaRock, Your negative comments and hatred, and racial ideals will be the downfall of your existence. Without compassion, grace, and humility, you will never enter the Creator's garden, but head to the place where fire and hate fills your dying space. Treaties maintain the current relationship to the modern world, because our ancestors knew that they must consider their future generations, when the treaties were singed and the land of the area know as parts of Canada were transferred to the Old World explorers. Treaties that exist today and helped develop the relation that we have now with Canada. Treaties that are utilized to provide aspects of life for the first people, but it is because of the greedy mercantilists, capitalists who went beyond the legal aspects of the treaties and manipulated land and resources form the first people. GO over the treaties of the time and educate yourself and see that your comments and negativity is full of hot air. You guys get over it, move on and realize that the relation exist between Canada and her first people exist today because of your forefathers, and swindlers who undermined the first people and began to perpetuate the racism and bigotry that exist today. SO you Euro Canadian post immigrants and immigrants get over your inadequacies, your insecurities and learn to love your neighbor and understand how the past affects the present which in turns affects the future, where we will all be judged. SO smarten up you racist fools. grown up and learn bout your past and see that we are all in the same canoe traveling down the same river of life together as one human family helping one another.
To see comments and CBC article go to: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/06/17/aboriginal-healing-commons-report.html#socialcomments-submit
To see comments and CBC article go to: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/06/17/aboriginal-healing-commons-report.html#socialcomments-submit
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