❧❧❧ Whatever you can do or dream, you can BEGIN IT. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe ❧❧❧
❧❧❧ You were born whole, not broken. Sandra Hammel ❧❧❧
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO YOUR HISTORY. NO RIGHT TO YOUR TRUTH. WHY? BECAUSE IT MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR US TO FLY PLANES FROM TURKEY TO IRAQ……*
When there is a list of genocides, you never see on that list the United States of America and the indigenous people that the immigrants from across the Atlantic called - Indians. But in my opinion it was a genocide. Others want to argue it. http://www.hnn.us/articles/7302.html
And those immigrants who came to North America to claim the land as “This Land is My Land” were Christians, right? Nice people, right? Who were practicing the biblical standard of “Love thy neighbor as thyself", right?
What if we don’t call the treatment of the Indians "genocide", but acknowledge how wrong it was to treat the Indians in the way they were - and continue to be - treated?
What if some other group of people came to the shores of the United States of America today and invaded us and took over not only “our” land, but made laws to make it illegal to speak English, changed our names to their comfortability sense, took our children away from us and put the children in boarding school to force them to take the New People’s culture, language, customs, government and religion? Everything that we have done our whole lives that was indeed our personal and community’s identity was now against the law. We had to give up our way of dress, cut our hair to a foreigners' proclamation and we were limited to land that these foreigners chose to put us on. Then generations later, as the Rhode Island Narragansett Indians have found the state does not recognize them as a sovereign people. What would we do if we were invaded? Would we seriously let this happen without trying to maintain our beliefs, our way of life?
Slim to none chance, don’t you think? And yet that is exactly what happened to the indigenous people before this land was stolen in reality from the “Indians”. A good dose of acknowledgement of what really happened is long over due. And the USA government's "stealing" of the trust funds belonging to the Indians is a crime that we would have to know about and "search" for the news coverage on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobell_v._Kempthorne http://www.indianz.com/News/2005/009852.asp http://www.indiantrust.com/
The Mission Statement of the American Indian Genocide Museum: The purpose of this museum is to bring historical truth to light through the means of education using actual documentation of events that have transpired in the near extermination, and in some cases, the total extermination of native tribes and cultures. It will be a memorial to the victims of ethnic cleansing. Racism, discrimination and injustice will be addressed with the purpose of promoting public awareness that these elements of genocide which existed in the past, continue to exist today. A further purpose of the museum will be to address prejudice which is generated toward native peoples through biased reporting of history. http://www.aigenom.com/
* This is Bush’s quote regarding the Armenian genocide which more people acknowledge than have ever acknowledged what happened to the Indians between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. “We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people that began in 1915,” Mr. Bush said in remarks that, reflecting official American policy, carefully avoided the use of the word genocide. “This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings, and its passage would do great harm to our relations with a key ally in NATO and in the global war on terror.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNjzTIPllbw Jon Stewart on Bush and Rice dissing the Congress non-binding resolution of calling the Armenian 1915 human crisis - GENOCIDE
The land the United States of America was created upon
Human inhumanity is a legacy and a stain on all of us.All of these places have this word in common:GENOCIDE.Do you know what genocide is?It was defined December 9, 1948 at the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide… http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
And do you know the date that the United States of America ratified it?Not until November 25, 1988.
I was on a nationwide, worldwide really, hour conference call today with approximately 75 others via the Save Darfur Coalition offices in Washington, D.C.I consider myself a human rights activist and Darfur community leader in the state of Rhode Island.It was a privilege today to participate in this call.We listened to the worldwide coordinator of the Olympics Torch Relay for Darfur, Jill Savett, explain the progress and plans of this huge endeavor.There will be a Torch Relay for Darfur going through countries that have had genocides:Starting at the Chad/Darfur border, where the current genocide is, continuing in Rwanda, Armenia, Bosnia, Germany, Cambodia ending in China or in a symbolic location of China (if China won’t allow us in China).The Torch Relay will link the Darfur genocide to China, where the 2008 Olympics will take place.The Dream for Darfur Olympic Torch Relay will begin August 8, 2007, one year in advance of the opening ceremonies in Beijing, China of the 2008 Olympics.By the way, Steven Spielberg is producing the opening and closing ceremonies in Beijing, China, land of theDarfur genocide funding.
But also, there will be a symbolic Torch Relay for Darfur in the United States of America.This United States of America Olympic Symbolic Torch Relay will begin September 9, 2007 which is the anniversary date that Secretary of State Colin Powell initially identified and acknowledged the actions as genocide in Darfur. The USA Darfur Relay will culminate on December 10, 2007, Global Day of Action for Darfur, which is also the date of World Human Rights Day.
SaveDarfur.org has a post called "Unity Statement" that's worth checking out...
The emergency in Sudan’s western region of Darfur presents the starkest challenge to the world since the Rwanda genocide in 1994. A government-backed Arab militia known as Janjaweed has been engaging in campaigns to displace and wipe out communities of African tribal farmers (notes…
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Why Focus on China
China has two large oil companies in Sudan, which makes money for the Sudanese government.Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir uses 70 % of the nation’s budget for his military who works in coordination with the Janjaweed to commit the genocide on the Darfuri families.This is proven by human rights organizations, independent films, such as Darfur Diaries, as well as the African Union troops who have for years been documenting the stories and actions, in addition to taking pictures of the carnage.China sits on the Security Council of the United Nations and is in a position to put an end to this four and half year genocide, however it has done not only nothing to alleviate or stop the genocide, but it has done the opposite by making supportive statements repeatedly for Omar al-Bashir, the mastermind behind the genocide.
Email the National Olympic Committee to state your position on the Darfur genocide:
The organizers of the Dream for Darfur’s sponsored International Olympic Torch Relay forDarfur met the China Ambassador to the United States last Friday.China proved to be cognizant of this endeavor.We have their attention.It is important that we have their attention.And more.
Gabriel Starring, who is and has been on the Chad/Darfur border for two weeks, was also on the conference call today and told us that the people in the “refugee” camps just “want to go home” and that they are in “survivor mode” in these camps.He said:
there is “no rule of law”, life is “unpredictable”, there is “no security”, “humanitarian aid is hit and miss”
that when he was there in 2005, camps were relatively stable and things have deteriorated drastically
the people want to find hope and that they want to connect with us
the people are resilient, beautiful and strong and that he feels at one with them.
Gabriel stated that the people are no different than us and that we would want them to do for us if it was us.
Gabriel told us that videos that they have been taking there are uploaded daily and can be seen at www.stopgenocidenow.orgGabriel’s group is going to leave video equipment with the people when they leave, so that the people can feel a connection to the rest of the world, which they so desperately need.
Then, Mia Farrow spoke to us about her trip there.She said that more than the needed water and food, the people's plea is for protection, safety . . . that the UN is hopelessly paralyzed, that China sits on the Security Council and has rendered the UN toothless regarding Darfur, that Beijing pours billions of dollars into the Sudanese government’s coffers and in effect are underwriting the first genocide of the 21st century, that China’s oil companies’ air strips in Sudan are being used for planes bombing the Darfuri families and communities, that 76% of China in a poll stated that they believe that China has the responsibility to step up and do the right thing.
Youtube Submission for CNN question for Presidential Candidate “Debate”
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Scott Warren, of Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, who is the new executive director of www.standnow.org told us that the United States Olympic Torch Relays goals are to:
Influence China regarding their responsibility to use their leverage to end the Sudanese government’s perpetrating the genocide on their own people
1. That the 2008 Chinese Olympics are China’s “Coming Out Party” and that by shaming
them - they will do the correct thing
b.To gain media coverage of this issue of our complicity and living out our stated values of
human rights is something we also must be pressured to do as a nation
Make an impact on the world, the USA populace and the Presidential candidates
202 – 456 – 1111, just as I ask you to do every day.
I was only asked what state that I am from.
Today, my message was:
"I am calling about the Darfur genocide.I believe we are standing idly by and I’d like us to stop that and take action."
When the automated message came on I just waited as if I have a rotary dial phone in order to talk to the person live.This is the President’s Comment Line and she says that she will pass on the message to the President.If you and I call every day until this genocide is over, it is a small step for humankind and toward peace.It’s really up to us to shine a light on our responsibility to stop genocide.Evidentally, our leaders need us to lead them in times of genocide.
The President's Comment Phone Line is open Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time 202 - 456 - 1111
email: president@whitehouse.gov
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Call your US Senators & Representatives at
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Genocide flourishes when there is no accountability.
WE CAN’T SAY THAT WE CARE ABOUT JUSTICE
WHEN WE DO NOTHING TO STOP THE INJUSTICE
We each have a voice.
We each have a presence.
We have been called to be human
in the most basic way
on this subject.
Where there is a will - there is always a way.
And where there is no will - there is no way.
Silence is necessary for genocide to go on.
Our collective silence is a weapon used by the genocidaires.
I love my life. I love where I live. And I am passionate about my passions. I love to dance. Necessary to live: music, piano, singing, writing, acting, painting.
I have been fighting for and supporting the arts all my adult life. Since 2004, I have been working with other activists to end the Darfur genocide.
I have traveled to Europe many times since my early twenties. Places I have been: many USA states including Hawaii, Montreal, Canada, Barbados, France, Spain, Luxembourg, England, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Germany - and have wonderful memories.
My last trip was in May - June 2013 to Spain.
I would like to travel to Europe and Kyoto, Japan.
I love the southwest where I have visited Hopi, Navajo, Zia and San Idlefonso potters.
Life is exciting and I intend to live it full-out to the end.
B.S. and M.M., both in music
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Darfur - The Abandoned Genocide - a video by Sandra Hammel
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"May I Suggest" by Susan Werner
Satchita - Playing for Change
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Genocide is not only a word,
it is crying of the whole human race.
There is nothing redeeming about being silent
when speaking up is the humane thing to do.
The honor and integrity of the human race is at stake.
