Saturday, January 10, 2009

Re:GAZA: The Madness Must Stop!

1-10-2009 ~ Sabado @1:37 AM ~ Full Moon Today!
Let us support the Palestinian people and do what we can from where we are at in order to get to the root of the whole global problem that resonates from Amerikan Empire: Fascism on the domestic level, Amerikan Imperialism on the international level and supported by Amerikan corporate capitalism in the global market place.

Total warfare, including spiritual warfare, is waged from all lines, all angles and from all trajectories by any means mandatory!!!

At the same time, let us be careful to make keen distinctions between governments and regular leadership and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people who are indigenous to their own lands. We are all indigenous native peoples!
 

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{Edited Below}

 

From: Sergio Hernandez <chiliverde@earthlink.net>

To: NetworkAztlan_Action@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:04:33 AM

Subject: Re: [NetworkAztlan_Action] Re: [NetworkAztlan_Arte] Fwd: GAZA... Let the whole world know ! horrible pictures!

 

Well said!....... ..Serg

On Jan 9, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Bejarano wrote:

 

> *From Hell, let's boycott MADNESS!

>

> We should boycott to withdraw from the madness and refuse to cooperate with Israelites' Zionist and Palestinians' Hamas. I feel they will not stop in their opposition to each other, I say, let them go to their destruction.

>

> The UN can not save them. "Israel and Hamas ignore UN call for cease-fire." We all know their historical misfortunes, and from their faith comes too much terror, fear, despair and casualty of their battles. I feel that we can not bring to them their punishment or protection "arms" that surely would fail and return to us even more disasters. I think of the innocent victims, the poor, oppressed and disenfranchised people that must be helped, to protest a liberation for peace in the Middle East.

>

> The beast "world capitalism" in its anger and hate that is bent toward more wars, greater expansion of state/private property and profits; willing in torturing people, killing children by the thousands, It's MADNESS.

>

> We should boycott all nations who provide the machinery of death and destruction and have no part in its' ways. The MADNESS Must Stop!

>

> G01B

>

> --- On Fri, 1/9/09, Ron Gochez <mexicanoatucla@ aol.com> wrote:

>

From: Ron Gochez <mexicanoatucla@ aol.com>

Subject: [NetworkAztlan_ Action] Re: [NetworkAztlan_ Arte] Fwd: GAZA... Let the whole world know ! horrible pictures!

 

To: NetworkAztlan_ Arte@yahoogroups ..com

Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 3:04 PM

 

Of course

Hamas fighters are going to be fighting among children; they

ALL live in a TINY little piece of land called Gaza. FYI,

the Gaza strip is tiny (about the same length as the

distance from Anaheim to Glendale) and totally surrounded by

Israeli terrorists (aka IDF); so where is Hamas (or any

other freedom fighters) supposed to fight from??

  

The Palestinian freedom fighters have every right to use

any and all forms of struggle (including violence) against

the terrorist state of Israel because brutal force is what

Israel has used against them from the very initial existance

of the state of Israel (please research Irgun, Stern gang).

If Africans and the Indigenous people's had bombs 500+

years ago, would you blame them for using them against the

terrorists who came here on boats from Europe? Would you

call Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Nat Turner, Crazy Horse,

Harriet Tubman, Manuelito and other African/Native leaders

"terrorists" because they showed young Indigenous/African
children how to fight against the the occupier/invader?

 

Israel is in no moral position to call the Palestinians

terrorists; and neither are we. Hell, we are the ones that

are financing the terrorism (our tax $$$) and most of us are

doing NOTHING about it! So we are in no position to point

fingers.

  

As Raza, WE ourselves have been occupied (like Gaza is

today) since 1492 and then again in 1848. We should be

totally in support of the brave people of Palestine. They

are doing what most Hispanics today would NEVER do; fight

for their land, dignity and freedom.

  

War itself is not the problem. Reactionary war is the

problem. There is a HUGE difference between the two.

Revolutionary war and war for freedom is and should always

will be absolutley justified. Oppressed peoples have every

right to free themselves.. .by any means neccessary.

  

Viva Palestina libre!

Ron Gochez

Social Justice Educator/Community Organizer

  

-----Original Message-----

From: Sergio Hernandez <chiliverde@ earthlin k.net

To: NetworkAztlan_ Arte@yahoogroups .com

Sent: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 1:54 pm

Subject: Re: [NetworkAztlan_ Arte] Fwd: GAZA.... Let the

whole world know ! horrible pictures!

  

I'm with you Armando....Carlos sent me some terrible

pictures of death and destruction by the Israeli forces on

the Palestinians. ...then I get a bunch of pictures of Hamas

fighters fighting among children and children being

indoctrinated by Hamas to continue the terror...where does

this madness stop?......I don't think it never will and

it will eventually lead to the destruction of both........

.. possibly the world STOP WAR!......... ....Serg

 

On Jan 9, 2009, at 12:39 PM, armando baeza

wrote:

  

Better than that , BOYCOTT WAR.

 

Children live (die) in every country.

 

mando

  

On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:47 AM, armando@artegana s.

com wrote:

  

It is high time to boycott Israel, it's products

and services. Someone please provide a list of Israel companies doing business in

the U.S.

  

DO not buy products produced in Israel!

  

Thank you.

  

Quoting Carlos Callejo <ccallejo@yahoo.com:

  

--- On Tue, 1/6/09, Trgunn1@ aol.com <Trgunn1@ aol.

  com wrote:

  

From: Trgunn1@ aol.com <Trgunn1@ aol.com

  

   Subject: Fwd: GAZA... Let the whole world know !

  horrible pictures!

  

To: ccallejo@ yahoo.  com, magu4u@hotmail.com

  

  Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 8:35 PM

  

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Friday, January 09, 2009

Wellbriety Movement for Prisons: A Way to Bring Incarceration Numbers Down

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Wellbriety Movement for Prisons: A Way to Bring Incarceration Numbers Down

Why is recidivism so high for Native people who've been to prison? What do people need to make prison a one-time-only experience or a not-at-all experience? White Bison's Wellbriety for Prison's Program has some of the answers.

A New Program to Deal with Incarceration


The correlation between alcohol abuse and prison time for Native Americans is almost 100%. A good start on sobriety can take place in prison because abstention from alcohol is close to 100% on the inside. But what happens when someone gets out and heads back to the community or Reservation where he or she came from?


Wellbriety for Prisons uses the Medicine Wheel and the 12 Steps program as its core learning approach, but it also adds knowledge on the criminal mind into the mix so that the needs of former inmates can be addressed.


The Medicine Wheel and 12 Steps Program is culture-friendly 12 Step work conveyed by a set of videos and a workbook as well as teaching by a facilitator. It is also taught by the new book The Red Road to Wellbriety: In the Native American Way which was introduced in September of 2002. Where conventional 12 Step work is strong on words and a mainstream cultural orientation, the Medicine Wheel and the 12 Steps Way draws on visual learning (pictures) and kinesthetic learning (movement and hands-on activities) to balance the words with emotional, cultural, and ceremonial experiences. It also uses a strong cognitive teaching style that helps people work with the very thinking process that got them in trouble to start with. These special features, not found in conventional AA, make this approach work for Native people.

The aim of the Wellbriety for Prisons Program is to provide a series of intensive four-day training sessions covering all 12 Steps so that the participants can take the program back to the prisons or communities they work in. The program is for people who work in prisons, either as staff or volunteers, workers in probation or parole departments, pre release centers, or in halfway houses and treatment centers serving Native people.

Another important part of Wellbriety for prisons is the connected follow-up trainees can draw on after the four-day session is over. Connected follow up means that those who attended the training can come to follow-up workshops or communicate with the facilitators about their special needs for up to four years after their training. If they can organize a training in their own home communities or prison institutions it may also be possible to do a customized training right onsite. Connected follow-up also means participating in the discussion board that is now taking place on the www.Whitebison.org website.

Combining Three Powerful Ways…

Wellbriety for Prisons combines the well-known 12 Step approach with cognitive self change learning, and knowledge of the criminal mind. What does all this mean?


The 12 Step approach of AA has been around in the mainstream world since the 1930's. Many Native Americans have sobered up and gone on to live sober lives after entering its doors.. The Medicine Wheel and the 12 Steps Way brings the 12 Steps into a circle and connects a great principle of living with each step.


These 12 Principles point the way to working the conventional 12 Steps in a cultural manner.

When the 12 Steps are combined with a cultural approach, each person's own tribal traditions and ceremonies can be used as he or she works the Steps. So, for example, the Steps can be taken in a traditional Sweat Lodge (Purification Ceremony) with a traditional elder or a sobriety and wellness mentor as a person's sponsor. Each time an individual or a group of people comes into a Circle to work the Steps the process can begin with a smudge of sage, cedar, sweetgrass or other local medicines.

Understanding the thought process is also a contribution of the Medicine Wheel and the 12 Steps found in the Wellbriety for Prisons Program. One way of doing this is through the use of mind maps. A mind map is a picture of what is going on with our thoughts and feelings. Getting our heart and mind out on paper in a visual way helps us not to be stuck in words and concepts. A mind map brings life to words and concepts so that we feel what we are talking about.

Another part of the cognitive self change approach contained right within the Medicine Wheel and the 12 Steps Program understands self talk. Self-talk is that conversation which we are having with ourselves right at this moment.. But do we really know what we are saying to ourselves? We can learn to pay attention to how we are talking to ourselves and to not fall prey to our own negative self-talk. We can then replace negative self-talk with positive, helpful self-talk. Negative self talk is like a predator who is stalking us and waiting for our own negative instructions to ourselves to become harmful behavior. It's just a matter of time. These voices are also called "super ego voices" because they are designed to protect our own egotism and keep it going. The cognitive self change component of the Prisons program shows how to replace harmful self talk with healing self talk.


How it works

Blaine Wood (Woody) talks about the cognitive learning experience in the Prisons program. He says, "If you have the right facilitator it's very exciting to start discovering stuff that you really didn't know about yourself. Depending on how it is delivered, I think cognitive self change can be very helpful. If its delivered with pictures and kinesthetic learning then I can change. If I help you see a problem with you two things could happen. You could develop a resentment of me, or you could get excited. The automatic thing that will happen is the motivation to want to change it. And that comes from Great Spirit."


Understanding the criminal mind is a part of the Prisons program that has great potential for helping people break the logjams that often come up in ordinary 12 Step programs. Most 12 Step work doesn't include knowledge about how our beliefs, attitudes, and mindsets make it difficult for us to take a look at ourselves.

"When you go into a prison there are mindsets, beliefs and attitudes towards treatment, treatment providers, and staff," explains Woody. "The 12 Steps are about reducing and removing resentment and de-victimizing. In the criminal mind a set pattern that is not worked on makes it harder, and sometimes even impossible to remove a resentment. You can write that 4th Step inventory all you want, but if you don't discover that you have a belief, mindset and attitude, you won't understand why you are trying to remove a resentment. And so its more difficult."


Wellbriety for Prisons provides a network of supportive programs for individuals within the prison system, in treatment centers, half-way houses, pre-release centers and in the community. These programs provide resources, emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual support for Native Americans who are looking for a traditional alternative for recovery support and relapse prevention.

Photo Credit: Building a Sweat Lodge, by Darin Barry on Flickr. Creative Commons License.

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Friday, January 02, 2009

Cuba Marks Revolution’s Anniversary

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/world/americas/02cuba.html?ref=americas

January 2, 2009
Cuba Marks Revolution's Anniversary
By SIMON ROMERO

Cuba marked the 50th anniversary of its revolution on Thursday amid somber assessments of a struggling economy, even as its Communist leaders exalted the resilience of a political system that has endured 10 United States administrations.

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Fidel Castro, 82, whose group of bearded rebels waged a guerrilla war that toppled the strongman Fulgencio Batista on Jan. 1, 1959, remained behind the scenes during the subdued festivities on the island nation, grappling with an undisclosed illness that forced him into seclusion more than two years ago.

"I congratulate our heroic people," Mr. Castro said in brief comments published by Granma, the newspaper of Cuba's Communist Party.

Mr. Castro's younger brother, President Raúl Castro, 77, addressed the nation Thursday night from the eastern city of Santiago. But instead of jubilation, the younger Mr. Castro, who officially became president in 2008, seems to have been preparing Cubans for more hardships as the revolution enters its sixth decade.

Speaking from beneath the same balcony where Fidel Castro declared victory over the Batista government, President Castro said the revolution would survive another 50 years.

But he also referred to a speech by his brother a few years ago, in which he warned that "this revolution can destroy itself," The Associated Press reported; if that occurred, Raúl Castro quoted his brother as saying, "it would be our own fault." Nearly all of the time since Fidel Castro seized control of the country has been spent under a United States economic embargo. Cuban officials said in December that the economy would grow 4.3 percent in 2008, about half the rate that had been expected.

Even though Cuba's economy has been stabilized in recent years by the provision of about 100,000 barrels a day of subsidized oil from Venezuela, it is dealing with a host of other problems.

Hurricanes wrought damage last year, while agricultural disarray heightened reliance on food imports. The younger Mr. Castro has introduced halting reforms like allowing Cubans to buy cellphones or stay at hotels set aside for foreign tourists, but average salaries of about $20 a month put such luxuries out of reach for most people.

Scattered flags and small banners with slogans appeared in recent days in the capital, Havana, but otherwise events surrounding the revolution's anniversary were in keeping with the somber economic mood.

Illustrating just how long the enmity between Cuba and the United States has persisted, the incoming United States president, Barack Obama, who is 47, was not yet born when President Eisenhower ordered the first sanctions against Cuba in 1960.

But while Mr. Obama has signaled the possibility of dialogue with Cuba's leaders and the lifting of some restrictions on travel to Cuba, other nations in Latin America and elsewhere have gone much further in efforts to make Cuba less isolated.

The presidents of Brazil, China and Russia have all visited Havana in recent months, pledging greater economic cooperation. At Mexico's initiative in December, Cuba was admitted to the Rio Group, a diplomatic association of Latin American and Caribbean countries. And in October, the European Union formally renewed ties to Cuba.

"While the U..S. is dithering, virtually every other major actor in world affairs is becoming more engaged with Cuba," said Daniel Erikson, director of Caribbean programs at the Inter-American Dialogue, a policy research group in Washington.

Still, Cuba's enduring revolution, which has secured advances in education and health care, faces other challenges. It has one the hemisphere's lowest birthrates, 1.6 children per woman, and one of its highest life expectancy rates, 77.3 years. Emigration of thousands of young people each year also erodes its population of 11..4 million.

Some Cubans find opportunity in a society in which revolutionary fervor wanes while other needs prevail. One 33-year-old resident of Havana said he studied international trade, but gave up a legitimate career in business because of a lack of job opportunities.

Now he works on the black market. "I have my own business; I sell Viagra pills," said the man, who did not want to be identified for fear of running afoul of authorities. "You can't buy them in Cuban shops, so that is a pretty good business considering that the Cuban population is growing older every year."

Guillaume Decamme contributed reporting from Havana.

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Read: [NetworkAztlan_News] RAZA PRESS AND MEDIA ASSOCIATION!!!

12-28-2008 @11:34 AM ~ Gracias ~ We definitely need to have our presence as a unique people felt, seen and witnessed across the social landscape of Amerika via various multi-media formats, including movies.

It is smart how you all use Flickr and as media tool:
http://www..flickr.com/photos/razapress/

At the same time we need to do basic local community education with a special emphais on promoting general literacy among all our people. In all our endeavors we must never ever forget the basic survival needs of the people: food, clothing, shelter, medicine and quality education. A people who are not full armed and educated will never be liberated!

On a cosmic level, our struggle is quintessentially a spiritual struggle between the forces of the light of truth and the darkness of ignorance.

Related Link:
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Education is Liberation! Peter S.. Lopez aka: Peta Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com Key Link: http://www.NetworkAztlan.com


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Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 1:48:43 PM
Subject: [NetworkAztlan_News] raza press!!!

RAZA PRESS AND MEDIA ASSOCIATION

The Raza Press and Media Association (RPMA) will be holding its first meeting of the new year. The meeting, which will take the form as a "summit," will be held in San Diego, Califaztlán on January 24, 2009 (Time & Location: TBA).

The RPMA was reestablished in 1990. It is the only existing
pro-liberation Raza media organization currently active in Occupied
America. For more than 18 years, the RPMA has struggled to:

• provide critical and accurate information to the Raza communities
• create a space and network for Raza journalists/ media workers
• assisted in the creation of progressive and revolutionary media
throughout Occupied America

The summit will be open to all progressive and revolutionary Raza media workers (print, internet, video/film, art, radio/audio, etc.) who see the urgency of uniting our efforts as a way of making our work more effective.

Read the latest "Guerrillera/ os de La Pluma", Journal of the RPMA at
our Web site: razapressassociatio n.org

Venceremos
Mesa Directiva RPMA

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