From: Harvey Arden <harveyarden@starpower.net>
To: robert@studio-rla.com
Sent: Tue, October 6, 2009 6:51:36 PM
Subject: ~In the Spirit of Leonard Peltier~

~Are you getting this email? If so, please reply with GOT IT! on the subject line. Thanks!~

ON BEING DENIED

My tears are gasoline,

My snot explosive

I piss sulphuric acid

and dump brown bombs of hatred

Oh, God, yes, I hate

the murderers of my People

of my Family

of my Ancestors

of my Elders

of myself

Oh, God, yes, I hate

But their hatred far exceeds mine

and mine hurts only me

I bear the hurt alone

I bear the hurt of the World

Alone

And who will share my pain?

You?

Oh, take my hand then, Brother, Sister,

And let us share the pain of the World

Let us pool our tears of Sadness

And drown our Great Grief

Together

You & I

And the People

Yes, together

Mitakuye Oyasin

We are All related

We are All One

~In the Spirit of Leonard Peltier~

www.whoisleonardpeltier.info

harveyarden@starpower.net

From: Pauline Hillaire [pauline_hillaire@...]

What a sacred moment you had to write this poem. God bless Leonard Peltier; may his freedom be spiritual and real one day soon. Pauline "Scalla" Hillaire

From: Barbi Brant [mailto:barbibrant@...]
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 1:16 PM
To: Harvey Arden
Subject: RE: ~~Innocence is the new CRIME and we are ALL guilty!~~ 4+

Your E-mails touch the hearts of many, keep working, keep going, and Blessings!

Barb Brant
Turtle Clan
Mohawk Nation
Lands of the Peacemaker

Harvey answers:

Many thanks, Barb. We WILL get him out…or die trying. And even from Beyond, I will spam the Universe on behalf of Leonard Peltier. Blessings, /Harvey

…………………………..

From: Alexandra C

Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:53 PM
To: Harvey Arden
Subject: Re: ~^~Something to Share~^~

Dear Harvey,
As a supporter of Leonard's release I thank you for sharing this
video with me. It was wonderful to view and hear your words
and thoughts on each man you have written about and been
blessed to know.

Humanity has been taught to believe the lies and that only lies
are spoken by those who have an agenda, sadly not to hear the
truth when it is spoken. I am blessed to know when I hear the
truth and to believe when it is in the best interest for all.

You are a blessing for all of humanity, and to think you have only
just begun is an other blessing.

They say we are to wait for the White Buffalo to return. I have thought
of this many times and what the return would be about. Where is it
said the White Buffalo would return in animal form? I believe he has
returned in the form of a man, that man being Leonard Peltier. Just
this woman's belief.

Thank you again for this gift.

Sincerely,
Alexandra C

Harvey answers:

Alexandra—If I might extend your metaphor a bit…summed up as 'Leonard can be seen as a human manifestation of the White Buffalo'—isn't it interesting that, were that true, or even if it isn't true, the Elite has chosen to imprison him for life for the unforgiveable crime of being innocent. Yes, though he's as imperfect a human being as any of us, there IS something holy about Leonard—he represents the suppression and oppression of Innocence and Truth by a shadowy beyond-the-law Elite and its servant minions (FBI etc) now strangling the entire human species and all Life itself in its insidious tentacles.

Innocence is the new CRIME and we are ALL guilty! Blessings, /Harvey

From: Pat Talley [mailto:pattalley@...]
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:15 PM
To: harveyarden@starpower.net
Subject: WisdomKeeper Reading Video

Dear Mr. Arden,

Wado. Wado. Thank you for sharing this video. Your heart filled reading touched me immensely.

When I first read Noble Red Man I was impressed by the sharing of Mathew King's forthrightness. His plain talk made clear the message he intended to share. His words are timeless. This video will carry his words to many that might never have the opportunity to read the book.

Your insights shared during the reading are a treasure.

Mr. King's dream lives on through your sharing of his vision.

I will certainly share the link to your video with many that I know will also appreciate the words shared.

Thank you for the gift of preserving and sharing the words of the WisdomKeepers.

Respectfully,

Pat Talley

Harvey answers:

Pat—Thank you for your kind words. They warm my old heart. I was 74 yesterday,,,and, hey, I'm just getting started! Hope to meet you some day…you ever invite old authors to speaking venues? I'd be honored. I'll be in Houston to give some talks sometime this fall, when my new NOBLE RED MAN audio CD (with music) comes out. Publisher George Blitch of www.haveyouthought.com is bringing me down; maybe have a sidetrip to Corpus Christi? If you like give him a call at 713-302-2028. Blessings, /Harvey.

PS: Be sure to have folks check out www.haveyouthought.com –GREAT STUFF THERE!

From the desk of Harvey Arden

Author: WISDOMKEEPERS: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders

DREAMKEEPERS: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia

NOBLE RED MAN: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King

TRAVELS IN A STONE CANOE: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers

~HAVE YOU THOUGHT of LEONARD PELTIER LATELY?~

Editor: PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE by Leonard Peltier

WHITE BUFFALO TEACHINGS by Chief Arvol Looking Horse

VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER by Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon

Hope you enjoy this free 50-minute video. Lemme know what you think. Please FWD to friends & post online.

Many thanks, /Harvey

*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*<+>*

Author Harvey Arden speaks & reads

at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, CA

1/15/2009

Part 1) On the Wisdomkeepers and 'Travels in a Stone Canoe.'

2) On Lakota Elder Mathew King from the book 'Noble Red Man'

3) On Leonard Peltier: A Plea to President Barack Obama

See 50-minute free video here: http://www.vimeo.com/5313449

(Also scroll down to 'comments' for lots of other interesting 'soul-stuff')

Comments to harveyarden@starpower.net

For more info on Harvey's recent works—including the new NOBLE RED MAN audio CD—

see www.haveyouthought.com

******************************************************************************
******************************************************************************|
To keep getting messages from Harvey Arden reply with YES on subject line
******************************************************************************

~We need to widen our Community of Souls!

Please FWD this to others! CC me, if you like~

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Fallout from Honduras's presidential crisis – in Washington + Comment

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1006/p02s13-usfp.html

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya talks at the U.S. State Department after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington on September 3.

Larry Downing/Reuters

Fallout from Honduras's presidential crisis – in Washington

The military ouster of Honduras's president, Manuel Zelaya, has led to a deep divide between Democrats and Republicans.

By Howard LaFranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

from the October 6, 2009 edition

Washington - The military ouster of Honduras's president in June has led to deep ideological fissures, paralysis in a legislative committee, and efforts to undermine national foreign policy.

And no, that's not a sampling of what's happening in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, but rather in Washington, where a deep and cranky divide has formed between Democrats and Republicans over what most Democrats call a "coup" in America's backyard.

Honduras thus becomes another entry on a long list of Latin American countries that have served as Olive Oyls to Washington's left-right tug of wars.

"There's a time-honored history of members of Congress turning to Latin America to play out their ideological differences with each other and with the White House," says Daniel Erikson, senior associate for US policy at the Center for Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. "It's an easy place to play politics from the perspective of Congress because it's not seen as an area of vital national security interest, as Afghanistan or the Middle East or Asia would be."

The Organization of American States plans to take another stab Wednesday at resolving the three-month-old stalemate between ousted President Manuel Zelaya – now holed up in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa – and interim president Roberto Micheletti. An OAS delegation will travel to the Honduran capital and a "call to dialogue" is anticipated, though a snap resolution of the political conflict appears unlikely.

In Washington, fallout from the Honduran crisis is piling up. Presidential diplomatic appointments are being held hostage; one Democratic senator tried to block a Republican colleague from visiting Honduras; and the State Department – suspected in parts of Latin America of actually supporting the military action against Mr. Zelaya – faces renewed questions about the US stance on Central America's most serious political crisis in at least a decade.

Washington's Honduras divide is captured in the heated battle between the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry of Massachusetts, and a Republican committee member, Jim DeMint of South Carolina. Senator DeMint enraged Senator Kerry by placing a hold on two nominations before the committee: that of Arturo Valenzuela to become assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere affairs, and that of Thomas Shannon to be ambassador to Brazil.

DeMint, like a number of conservative Republicans, says Zelaya was legitimately removed from office as he plotted a takeover in the image of Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chávez. He faults both nominees for, "like the Obama administration, defending the unconstitutional strong-arm tactics of Zelaya."

For his part, a furious Kerry tried to foil DeMint's plans for a fact-finding trip Friday to Tegucigalpa. In the end, the Pentagon provided DeMint and his delegation with a plane.

"This is the kind of latent ideological divide that flares up in Congress when you get a crisis like this one in Honduras with elements that fit the beliefs and concerns of each side," says Mr. Erikson. The involvement of Venezuela's Mr. Chávez, who defends Zelaya against a "rightist coup" he insists was aided by the US military, "really reverberates with the US Congress," Erikson adds.

DeMint claims that, as a result of his trip, Mr. Micheletti on Monday announced his intention to lift a controversial emergency decree, made shortly after Zelaya's surreptitious return to Honduras, that limits civil liberties such as press freedoms and freedom of assembly.

But Obama administration backers say DeMint's actions undermine US foreign policy. Micheletti is playing the US congressional divide for all it's worth, these policy analysts say, adding that he may feel little incentive to compromise if he senses he has support in Washington. After some hesitation, the State Department sided with Zelaya and imposed some measures against the Micheletti government, including a revocation of some Honduran officials' visas and millions of dollars in reduced aid. The US is also threatening not to recognize the winner of presidential elections set for late November.

But the administration was also irked by Zelaya's risky, undercover return to Tegucigalpa and has refrained from imposing anything as harsh as trade sanctions.

Meanwhile, says Erikson, the sound and the fury in Congress go "well beyond Honduras to the whole question of how the US should deal with the left-leaning countries in Latin America."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Comment: The U.S. government takes the Honduras coup lightly, especially when there is no strong unified Latino Liberation Movement inside the United States to give the government a close up reminder of our millions here and our potential to move in support of Liberation in Latin America.

Education for Liberation! Venceremos Unidos!

Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta

Sacramento, California, Aztlan

Yahoo Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com

http://twitter.com/Peta51

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Come Together! Join Up! Seize the Time!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Humane-Rights-Agenda/

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

http://humane-rights-agenda.blogspot.com/

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

http://humane-rights-agenda-network.ning.com/

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetworkAztlan_News/

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/THIRD-WORLD-NEWS/

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Monday, October 05, 2009

Via "The New Latino Movement" on Facebook...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Education for Liberation! Venceremos Unidos!

Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta

Sacramento, California, Aztlan

Yahoo Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com

http://twitter.com/Peta51

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Come Together! Join Up! Seize the Time!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetworkAztlan_News/

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/THIRD-WORLD-NEWS/

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

From: Facebook <notification+ijvhk_vi@facebookmail.com>

To: Peter S. Lopez <peter.lopez51@yahoo.com>

Sent: Mon, October 5, 2009 12:23:40 PM

Subject: "The New Latino Movement" sent you a message on Facebook...

Christine Gonzales sent a message to the members of The New Latino Movement.

--------------------

Subject: *10/5 Update: REGISTER TO VOTE!*

TODAY, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5TH IS THE VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR MANY STATES, INCLUDING:

AZ, CO, FL, GA, IN, TX, MI, OH, PA, WA, & VA.

If you live in one of the states listed above, you still have time to print and fill out a voter registration form – just be sure to drop it off in-person before your election office closes today. Be sure to read the form's directions closely—in many states you can also just mail your form at the post office to get it postmarked with today's date.

Links to voter registration forms:

AZ: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/odci

CO: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/11qWJT

FL: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/29Kj33

GA: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/gi1wa

IN: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/18z1rk

TX: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/108Dce

MI: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/kqGi6

OH: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/AkZfX

PA: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/wMTCM

WA: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/2Mc1bY

VA: http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/D7Gow

Many more states' deadlines are right around the corner to register to vote in the November 3rd elections! Click here to see what your state's voter registration deadline is: http:// http://www.facebook.com/l/24c84;bit.ly/OWj7T .

Make your voice heard this November – REGISTER AND VOTE!

--------------------

To reply to this message, follow the link below:

http://www.facebook.com/n/?inbox/readmessage.php&t=1213549588465&mid=13444eaG61b947cfG9f6de6G0

___

Find people from your Yahoo address book on Facebook! Go to: http://www.facebook.com/find-friends/?ref=email

Facebook's offices are located at 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Blood on the Maple Leaf - Recent killings linked to Canadian Nickel Mine in Guatemala

http://tinyurl.com/yagutl5

Blood on the Maple Leaf - Recent killings linked to Canadian Nickel Mine in Guatemala

October 4, 2009 by admin1
Filed under News

Discuss This Now!

RECENT KILLINGS LINKED TO CANADIAN-OWNED NICKEL MINE IN GUATEMALA

Written by Dawn Paley
Thursday, 01 October 2009
Source: The Dominion Two Qeqchi leaders were shot and killed and over a dozen wounded this week near the site of a shuttered nickel mine in Guatemala. The first shooting took place on Sunday, September 27 on land claimed by the community of Las Nubes, which Compañia Guatemalteca de Niquel (CGN), a subsidiary of Manitoba's HudBay Minerals, also claims to own. Early reports indicated CGN's private security guards opened fire while attempting to remove families from their land. Adolfo Ichi Chamán, a teacher and community leader, was killed by gunshot, at least eight more wounded by bullets fired from an AK-47. Prensa Libre, Guatemala's leading newspaper, reported that during Chamán's funeral service yesterday, thousands of people marched through the streets of El Estor, demanding that the company and the local police chief withdraw from the area within 24 hours. HudBay released a lengthy statement yesterday claiming that there were no evictions, but instead that "protestors" went on a rampage, attacking government vehicles, a local police station (where they allegedly stole automatic weapons), destroying a hospital built by a coalition of US NGOs, and wounding five employees. Hudbay goes on to make the absurd claim that the protesters proceeded to open fire on each other. Liezel Hill of Mining Weekly went on to parrot the company's version of events, as did the Canadian Press and Reuters. One day after the murder of Chamán, men armed with machine guns opened fire on a mini-bus carrying Indigenous educators and leaders from the El Estor region to Cobán. One man, Martin Choc, was killed, and at least nine more wounded. These killings are a flare up in a tense area, where the track record of Canadian mining companies includes forced displacement over multiple generations, co-operation with the army, and the burning of homes belonging to Indigenous people. Shortly after a series of violent evictions that took place on nearby lands in 2007, Skye Resources (later acquired by Hudbay) representatives went on the record and lied through their teeth to defend their actions. The English-language corporate media has repeatedly turned a blind eye to recent and past events unfolding in El Estor. This kind of reporting facilitates corporate lies and deceit, plain and simple. Lies and deceit are just what HudBay needs, not only to avoid an international outcry over the recent killings, but also to spin a mining project that is not likely to produce any nickel at all.