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Why Jose Padilla’s 17-year prison sentence should shock and disgust all Americans
The former gang member and convert to Islam – whose arrest in May 2002 was trumpeted by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft as that of a “known terrorist,” who was “exploring a plan” to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” in a US city – was once regarded...
Posted 30 January 2008 11:21 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Applying Some Critical Thinking to the Lakotah Secession Movement
It is important that we realize that in the modern world, the success and overall legitimacy of this movement will be evaluated later, perhaps decades from now. Additionally, I think it is important that we all ask ourselves this question: just one month...
Posted 05 January 2008 11:14 AM by smileycoyote | 1 comment(s)
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[AUDIO] Interview with Canupa Gluha Mani - Lakota Freedom Delegation
I have been in contact with someone very close to all of this. Here are the words of Canupa Gluha Mani ( Duane Martin Sr. ). The interview is a little over thirty minutes long but the file size is relatively small - less than 6MB. It is an MP3. Does anyone...
Posted 26 December 2007 11:35 AM by smileycoyote | 1 comment(s)
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Strongheart Warrior Society: Withdrawl from the treaty is protection
" Despite criticism the Delegation does not speak for the Lakota people, Delegation representatives have been in ongoing communication with the traditional chiefs and treaty councils all across Lakota for the last three and a half years. Canupa Gluha...
Posted 25 December 2007 01:50 PM by smileycoyote | 1 comment(s)
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Flawed Attempts to Debunk Secession Abound
This is NOT Means' gig. The four member Lakota delegation traveled to Washington D.C. culminating years of internal discussion among treaty representatives of the various Lakota communities. Delegation members included well known activist and actor...
Posted 23 December 2007 01:02 PM by smileycoyote | 6 comment(s)
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Kalahari Bushmen Appeal to President in Fight for their Home
17 December 2007 Bushman woman, CKGR, Botswana 2004 © Stephen Corry/Survival On the first anniversary of their historic court judgment, the Bushman organisation First People of the Kalahari released an open letter to Botswana's President Mogae, detailing...
Posted 22 December 2007 11:34 AM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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60 Years After the End of the 3rd Reich, Catholic Priests STILL Manning Concentration Camps
A much awaited human rights abuse trial is underway in Argentina. The accused is a catholic priest charged with carrying out human rights abuses while working in several clandestine detention centers during the nation's 1976-1983 military dictatorship...
Posted 16 August 2007 02:08 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Do antivirus apps ignore US government spyware?
Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com 18 July 2007 08:18 AM Companies that produce security software may soon be ignoring certain spyware, and potentially even infecting their customers through auto updates, under orders from US government agencies. In the...
Posted 29 July 2007 12:35 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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THE PERSECUTION OF THE BISON
This piece came out when, a couple of months ago, about three hundred of the last wild buffalo whose entirety currently stands under four thousand were sentenced to death. It would have included a hundred calves whose only crime was being on national...
Posted 17 July 2007 03:08 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Geronimo's Great-Grandson Wants Bones Returned
"He died as a prisoner of war, and he is still a prisoner of war because his remains were not returned to his homeland," Harlyn Geronimo said. "Presently, we are looking for a proper consecrated burial." Geronimo's great-grandson...
Posted 19 June 2007 04:22 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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Bored? Frustrated? Confused? GET MAD!!
"Alienation, technoboredom, neurosis, and frustration are not diseases of an unlucky few, nor even of the many. They are built into the structure of this society, twisting beggar and businessman alike, spitting them out like shards from a flawed...
Posted 13 June 2007 08:41 PM by smileycoyote | with no comments
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The Optimism of Uncertainty
"To be trully radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing." ~ Raymond Williams "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today...
Posted 02 January 2007 11:04 AM by smileycoyote | 1 comment(s)
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