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Jun 1, 2012

The Native Americans had the best cavalry in the world. In spite of what Hollywood portrays, the U.S. Cavalry by itself could never have defeated them. What once-and-for-all-time defeated the Native Americans, was putting in the railroads, and then paying professional hunters {from the trains which crossed the plains, using them as platforms}, to wantonly SHOOT-TO-EXTERMINATE ALL THE BUFFALO, thus cutting off the basis for existence of the tribes. The once-huge herds were down to just a very few hundred individuals, when it was finally decided to "save a few" before they went totally extinct. Huge piles of buffalo just rotted on the plains; the starving Native Americans were herded onto reservations, where they were fed on scanty government rations of canned beef, often poisoned, whether deliberately or just by poor "quality-control". Thus further decimating their numbers. This Genocide was INTENDED TO ELIMINATE the Native Americans as well as the buffalo. Eliminate their entire, "savage, un-Christian" culture. That is why their children were kidnapped and taken to boarding schools and forbidden to speak their Native language -- "to drive the Indian out of them", as was SAID at that time.

What happened to the Native Americans, is a MODEL for what the Corporations are now doing to US, and to the WORLD!
CUTTING OFF OUR ECOLOGICAL BASE OF SUSTENANCE;
and THEN feeding us the CANNED, POISONED CRAP THAT THEY CONTROL!
{And, EXACTLY THE SAME THING they are doing to our EDUCATION. Cutting us off from our Cultural Heritage, so that we will be their OBEDIENT SERVANTS, wherever they want to put us to work -- or in their military if there are no other jobs for us!} {The Native American children were supposed to be trained to be good little domestic servants and "hired help" -- they were taught THOSE SKILLS and no others -- but that didn't really work out too well, they rebelled and became mixed-up crazies and alcoholics instead -- only a few survived the abuse, both physical and psychological, and the forced religious indoctrination.} {Those that were strong and survived, were truly the outstanding, exceptionally hardy people.}

So here we are at a REAL DILEMMA, and it is on Care2 as everywhere else.
We KNOW that poor young men and young women, HAVE to join the Military, often THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE. Often they need to pay off DEBTS from college; or have no other hope of getting into college {they think}, or any job or any life at all. This is more and more the case with middle-class young people also.
These young people are often IDEALISTIC; they are TOLD they are "fighting for Freedom" and they BELIEVE that! If they didn't have these IDEALS, maybe they wouldn't join the military, in spite of poverty and lack of choices! There is a full-time propaganda machine cranking this out......
So, these young men and young women go abroad to foreign countries THAT HAVE DONE US NO HARM AND ARE NO THREAT TO OUR "FREEDOMS";
and these young persons KILL PEOPLE IN OUR NAME, THINKING {at least at the beginning!} THAT THEY ARE "DOING GOOD" IN THIS WORLD.....KILL PEOPLE, WOUND PEOPLE, MAIM PEOPLE, DESTROY ANIMALS AND PROPERTY, DRIVE WOMEN AND CHILDREN INTO POVERTY AND PROSTITUTION {true in EVERY war!}....

Meanwhile, WE HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED TOO -- with that fine, all-purpose Slogan "Support Our Troops" -- after all, it isn't these young people's "fault", it isn't THEIR war, they suffer too.... we MUSTN'T DIVEST THEM OF THE "IDEALS" THEY *THINK* THEY ARE FIGHTING AND DYING FOR..... Hey that would make them feel bad, feel we don't love them.....
SO WE DON'T TELL THE TROOPS THE TRUTH. WE COVER UP. WE PUSSYFOOT. WE USE EUPHEMISMS.
And they get so CONFUSED, they GO CRAZY and, all-too-often, COMMIT SUICIDE out of their Moral Confusion and Lack of Understanding.......

SO, WHEN DO WE FESS UP AND START TELLING THE TROOPS THE TRUTH:
THAT KILLING PEOPLE IN AN OVERSEAS WAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF CORPORATIONS,
DOES *NOT* MAKE THEM, quote, "HEROES"......
I personally, think the troops would WELCOME SUCH STRAIGHT TALKING.....
just the Generals wouldn't. AND the Corporate Propaganda Masters.....

Jul 3, 2009
Focus: Government
Action Request: Various
Location: United States
On-going Demo and Petition

**Beginning JULY 4 - 7, in Lafayette Park outside the White House in Washington D.C.; The Change We Knead Now - BAKE BREAD FOR WORLD PEACE call for nonviolent civil action. Sit with us outside the White House and bake bread for World Peace. PETITION SIGNING. All Welcome. Everyone is invited to join us outside the White House in support of the changes Americans voted for in the historic election of Obama. We spent trillions to bail out America's corporations now it's time to bail out the American people. On July 4, 2009 we will start baking bread with the sun outside the White House and ask people to sign this petition: 1. Implement universal government-paid (Single- Payer) healthcare for all; 2. Free federal prisoner Leonard Peltier by executive order today; 3. Solar energy collectors available for every house; 4. Passenger trains connecting every city; 5. Organic gardening classes in every school; 6. Call for a global ceasefire. Sit with us outside the White House to inspire Obama to implement the proposals of this petition within a year. America voted for change, but so far corporate America has high-jacked our dreams. This is the moment when Obama's supporters can push his administration to fulfill the mandate of his victory. Obama has the power to begin implementing these six priorities by July 4, 2010, so consider joining us outside the White House. (You don't need to bake bread to participate) info http://www.thechangewekneadnow.net or 575-770-3377

SOUNDS REAL GOOD TO ME! I like that green program!  BMutiny T

Ongoing until July 2010! Actions you can take now or later. 

[I had trouble trying to sign their Petition On-line, and couldn't do it; there is some technical glitch, apparently. They have only 42 signatures; that's probably why, some technicality in signing! They rejected my e-mail address. I hope they get it all straightened out!]

Apparently, the demo is ONGOING, and not just until July 7th, as inferred above! They ask if you will use some of your vacation time to join in front of the White House..... [Warning: Washington D.C. is known to get fearsomely hot in the summer.... I have heard that staff from foreign countries got or used to get, "tropical pay"!]

We certainly can ALL of us, write to our Congresscritters about this campaign.......

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PLEDGE: THE CHANGE WE KNEAD NOW - BAKE BREAD FOR WORLD PEACE call for nonviolent civil action.

Sit with us outside the White House and bake bread for WORLD PEACE starting July 4, 2009 in Lafayette Park in Washington D.C.

Consider taking your vacation and join us outside the White House. One or two weeks of participation would be a rewarding way to spend your summer break. If you can participate all July or all August that is really helpful. If you have the freedom to stay until every point on the petition is achieved, fantastic! What ever time you can dedicate is so important to changing the direction of the country and the world. Each participant is invited to sit in blocks of a few hours at a time throughout the day. We will try to provide free food to help keep the vigil going. This is our time to to inspire Obama to advance the positive changes we need now!

I agree to sit outside the White House from ______ To_____.
I will bring _______pounds of flour.
I will bring a solar oven. Yes/No
I will bring a water bottle. Yes/No
I will bring a comfortable blanket or pad to sit on and a rain coat or umbrella. Yes/No
I will help collect food and cook meals for the action. Yes/No
I will bring _______friends to join the action.
I will ask my group ________to endorse The Change We Knead Now campaign. I will post ______ flyers announcing campaign.
I will get as many people as I can to sign the petition. Yes/No

I will send a letter to my congress person and the local media about why I am participating in The Change We Knead Now campaign. Yes/No

I agree to be nonviolent during this legal civil action.
Signature________

[This is just an example of what you would sign if agreeing to participate.]

DOWNLOAD THE PLEDGE (legal size paper)
http://thechangewekneadnow.net/pledge.html

Endorsed by: Bill McKibben - author and cofounder of 350.org, Healthcare NOW! - Organizing for a National Single-Payer Healthcare System, Cindy Sheehan, Country Joe McDonald - Singer/Songwriter, Starhawk - author/activist, Thomas Mapfumo - Zimbabwe Afropop Musician, Jamaat al-Muslimeen - An Independent Forum for the Oppressed, John Nichols - Author of The Milagro Beanfield War,  Kiilu Nyasha - Black Panther Breakfast Program, David Barsamian - Director Alternative Radio, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, Pat LaMarche - Green Party vice-presidential candidate in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Justin Bailey - Taos County Field Coordinator for Elect Obama Campaign 2008, Nikki Craft - radical political activist, Ellen Thomas - Proposition ONE in 2010! Campaign, Franco Mares - Singer/Songwriter, The Clearlight Quaker Worship Group - Taos NM, The Taos Peace House and Infoshop, Keith McHenry - cofounder of Food Not Bombs.

THE CHANGE WE KNEAD NOW - BAKE BREAD FOR WORLD PEACE P.O. Box 424 - Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 USA
thechangewekneadnow.net   
575-770-3377


 

 
 
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