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Thread #148169 Message #3438798
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
19-Nov-12 - 02:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Thanksgiving--Debate
Subject: RE: BS: US Thanksgiving--Debate
"...The first Thanksgiving Day did occur in the year 1637, but it was nothing like our Thanksgiving today. On that day the Massachusetts Colony Governor, John Winthrop, proclaimed such a "Thanksgiving" to celebrate the safe return of a band of heavily armed hunters, all colonial volunteers. They had just returned from their journey to what is now Mystic, Connecticut where they massacred 700 Pequot Indians. Seven hundred Indians - men, women and children - all murdered....."
Taken from here
Greg, I'm not sure which part you don't understand...
The folks on my page aren't just 'facebook non-entities', they are deeply determined people who are out to change the world. Over 3,000 of them came over from the Occupy Wall Street page last year....
They phone Embassies, share out one helluva lot of information, ring up The White House, if I ask them, on behalf of Leonard, they phone up Norte Energia, the banks concerned in financing Belo Monte etc.etc.etc...Hell,they even made a video! Nadine, from Lebanon made it, and many of them were actually in it, after they'd sent their film to her and she put it all together. Norte Energia got to hear about it and were hopping mad too...(YAYYY!)
...and they have helped hugely in signing and sharing petitions and donating for the Ecocide campaign and the Save Pe'Sla one too...
And before you poopoo petitions, did you know that Rousseff ONLY backed down over the shocking situation regarding the Guarani-Kaiowa tribe a few weeks back PURELY because of the petition that whizzed around the planet in days??????? The tribe had said they wanted to die, altogether, rather than be forced off their land, so she backed down...
Hopefully, she'll back down over Belo Monte too eventually, for she's have it built illegally....
Some folks even want to get down there, have done demonstrations in their countries etc...
South Dakota? Nothing I'd like more than to take Richard Branson to Pine Ridge and get him to sort it all out, get decent food in there, decent shops, swimming pool, cinema, etc..something for the young people to do, give them hope at long last.
With regard to Pe'Sla, the Great Sioux Nation has come together to raise $7.5 million of the $9 million need to buy it. The last Pe'Sla 'push' raised nearly $400,000 in around a month, from good folks all over the world and now we're trying to raise that final $1 million or so...only got 11 days left, but hopefully, somehow, the money will come from somewhere...
I wrote to the auction house when Pe'Sla was up for auction backalong, asked them to beg Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds to give the land back to the Lakota, to whom it belongs anyway....Never heard back, but a few days later they DID pull Pe'Sla out of the auction with no explanation at all. I'd imagine MANY folks wrote to them...maybe they passed the messages along? Maybe they didn't and it happened because of other reasons, but either way, to lose it now, when they are so desperately close would break their hearts....
I wrote to Paul McCartney recently, as someone asked me to, trying to raise a gig with some major stars in for Leonard..Paul donated to Pine Ridge backalong when they had the tornado rip through there causing so much damage...
Stop being so up your own arse and get helping too, for the Lakota are missing Russell Means I'd imagine and they need us all to help now!
As for Pe'Sla, well, that's in good hands and AIM are in there doing all they can do, so hopefully it WILL all come together...
And now, back to Thanksgiving which would be nice if it were turned into a special day where Thanks is Given not just for family, friends and food, but for the fact that the Native Americans are still around, still here despite all they've come through..and that is cause for celebration in itself!
Happy Native American Month too!