11-22-2006 @11:11 PM
Gracias Hermano GB! ~ The Aztlan Chicano 0101 Website looks a lot better! Muchos gracias for leading us all in this endeavor:
I hope others take this opportunity to Join Up!
I will forward this Email to other groups and pass it on.
There are some great socio-political online groups that address a range of central humane rights and social justice issues. I belong to several of them, though, I usually Edit Membership to only receive Special Notices.
I strive to balance my life-energy with community education work out in my local environment. I wish there was more of a focused concentration on the coordination of communications among online groups, especially when certain social campaigns are going on.
In connected reality, reality is primarily actual, not virtual, and we need to reach out to as many people we can who are not able to enjoy the relative luxury of being online. Much basic local community work still needs to be done, including basic literacy and bi-lingual education.
I remember in early 2001, all that summer and going into the fall when there was a lot of Internet mobilizing being done by a lot of key online progressive groups sharing timely messages with each other and cross-posted, especially in relation to the 2000 Bush Regime's coup-d-etat when there were some big anti-Bush demonstrations. Then, 911 hit and changed the world's social, political and military dynamics. A lot of people got paranoid and some strident voices got silent. The People's Liberation War goes on and faint hearts never win decisive battles!
Now that the Democrats have the bulk of the power in Congress I hope some things will improve but I will not hold my breath. Revolution is still the ultimate solution. We are still living under a mature disguised fascism, especially when people have a comic-book notion about fascism with images of Nazi Germany and grossly underestimate the flexibility of Amerikan Fascism.
Earlier this year, especially around May 1st, when the world witnessed the great immigrant rights marches and rallies a lot of Latinos, including Mexicanos, woke up for awhile yet no real immigration reform has happened and we will suffer more and more repression as times goes by and the Amerikan border wall goes up! The whole USA is becoming a fascist-inspired militarily gated community that will keep many out and keep us all locked up within its legal borders inside the continental United States.
At the risk of being redundant, we still need to build up a strong global vanguard liberation movement not limited by colors, tongues or borders.
I really wish more progressive activists who are online and interested in Latino News would join up with Aztlannet_News Yahoo Group, especially with all that is going on in different regions related to various issues. We have more strong collective power when our impassioned voices are joined together.
Ideally, we should have our own TV Cable News Show, more videos and utilize all forms of media. Internet Power is one major way we can utilize to overcome the dominant corporate media.
Know that to many indigenous people’s inside the USA what is known as Thanksgiving Day is seen as a sad bitter reminder and classic example of genocide against Native-Americans, especially the public posting of the head of the great chief of the Wampanoags, Metacomet. I am sure I will get the usual Email posts about it tomorrow.
"'Thanksgiving' did not begin as a great loving relationship between the pilgrims and the Wampanoag, Pequot and Narragansett people. In fact, in October of 1621 when the 'pilgrim' survivors of their first winter in Turtle Island sat down to share the first unofficial 'Thanksgiving' meal, the Indians who were there were not even invited! There was no turkey,squash, cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie. A few days before this alleged feast took place, a company of 'pilgrims' led by Miles Standish actively sought the head of a local Indian leader, and an 11 foot high wall was erected around the entire Plymouth settlement for the very purpose of keeping Indians out!”"
“"When Captain Benjamin Church tracked down and assassinated Metacomet, his body was quartered and parts were "left for the wolves." The great "Indian" chief's hands were cut off and sent to Boston and his head went to Plymouth where it was set upon a poke on Thanksgiving Day, 1767. Metacomet's nine-year-old son was destined for execution, the Puritan reasoning being that the offspring of the "Devil" must pay for the sins of their father. He was instead shipped to the Caribbean to serve his life in slavery.”"
We should learn from true history, learn from our mistakes and each of us needs to find our own sense of spirituality in these times of great transitions. I myself am thankful for all my many blessings and every day should be a thanksgiving day in honor of the Great Creator!
Tomorrow I will work the swing shift at the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter as the Front Desk Monitor. As usual this time of year, we will be serving lots of turkey and stuff to hungry people in the downtown area!
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Tu Amigo ~ +Peta-de-Aztlan+
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Thank you for your participation and support.
I wish you and your family a happy and joyful Thanksgiving Day.
Sincerely yours,
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