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In this spirited and hopeful documentary, Native American health practitioners and traditional medical professionals reveal the importance of tribal values and spiritual awareness in the alcohol recovery process. The Contemporary Native American Sobriety Movement is flourishing throughout the Indian communities of North America. This vital social movement combines ancient spiritual traditions with modern medical approaches to substance abuse recovery. Despite a serious indictment of governmental abuse, and a delving into the dark history of alcohol in the Native American community, the driving force of this documentary is the positive spirit emanating from the Native people interviewed. The Native director, Chante Pierce, is a Cherokee and Cheyenne filmmaker as well as vocal recording artist. Her directing partner is filmmaker and activist, Gary Rhine.
THIS WEEKS SCREENING TIMES
Thu, Oct 03, 9:30 PM ET (Thu, Oct 03, 6:30 PM PT)
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FIRST PEOPLES TV
WorldLink TV (http://www.worldlinktv.org), the first nationwide television network providing Americans with global perspectives on news, events and culture, is broadcasting a new weekly series by and about the tribal peoples of the world. "First Peoples TV" features 26 award-winning documentaries and dramas focusing on the lives of contemporary Native and Aboriginal people and the issues they face.
WorldLink's programming consists of first run documentaries, foreign feature films, global news reports and eight hours of world music each day. Launched in December 1999, the channel is available in over 17 million U.S. homes via basic service on the direct-to-home satellite services DIRECTV® (Channel 375) and EchoStar's DISH Network® (Channel 9410). "First Peoples TV" is the first time a regularly scheduled TV series concerning tribal peoples will be accessible to all urban areas, including the territories of every Indigenous nation in the United States.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
- - Albert Camus
RHINO HERE:
On Saturday hundreds of thousands of people protested in the streets of London, led by the mayor of London, an Anglican bishop and a huge coalition of people all to voice their opposition to the U.S. & U.K. threat to attack Iraq.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2285861.stm)
Thousands more protested in Rome, Berlin, Dublin, Sydney, Cairo and across the globe, but you wont see that on Fox news or the other corporate controlled media. You'll have to find it on independent news sources like:
http://www.indymedia.org
http://www.alternet.org
Meanwhile Saturday, thousands of protesters converged in Washington, DC to protest the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Demonstrators decried the detrimental effects of neoliberal economic policies and called for global justice and democracy. Then on Sunday, thousands marched to the residence of Dick Cheney to protest the Iraqi war.
On Thursday, the radio show "Democracy Now!" conducted an informal survey on Thursday of 70 Republican and Democratic Senate offices. Of the 26 offices which responded to their inquiries, 22 reported an overwhelming majority, in some cases up to 99 percent, of constituents opposed war in Iraq.
(http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=?30)
Friday Washington Post reported that the 1998 International Atomic Energy Agency shrub has cited as the proof against Saddam which supposedly reported that Iraq was a mere 6 months away from having nuclear weapons, never existed. So White House spokesman Scott McClellan claimed Bush was talking about a 1991 report. But the International Atomic Energy Agency said they didn't issue a report in 1991, either.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020927-500715.htm
All the above could make a peace loving activist like myself feel pretty good, until I read an article like the one excerpted below concerning the weapons shrub & co have recently been providing to such places as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, and Uzbekistan. Even with the fact that the U.S. armed and funded Saddam and Osama and the Taliban, which have all come back to bite us, they're still arming thuggish dictators. Makes one wonder if they're stupid, or if they know exactly what they are doing.
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By Jim Hightower, AlterNet, September 23, 2002
For a guy who claims to be a "rancher," George W sure is stepping in a lot of cow patties.
Take his undeclared, unlimited, undefined war against all of the world's "evildoers." George claims the moral high ground in his crusade against the "Axis of Evil," but as he strides around the globe he's stepping into some mighty gooey and stinky alliances with repressive, dictatorial, and demonstrably-evil regimes in such places as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, and Uzbekistan. As even the New York Times has noted: "Washington will be mopping up for years from the inevitable foreign policy disasters that come of befriending autocrats who maintain a stranglehold on their own people."
Bush is not merely befriending thuggish dictators, he's arming them! He has quietly lifted restrictions banning U.S. arms and other military resources from being sold or given to these unsavory and unstable regimes. In the past year the Bushites have dumped some $3.5 billion-worth of military hardware and support into explosive regions and into the hands of evildoers who'll use the weaponry to prop-up their own dictatorships. This includes equipment for Yemen's special forces, Cobra attack helicopters for Pakistan's military dictator, Hellfire missiles for Kuwait's repressive monarchy, and surveillance equipment for Kyrgyzstan, as well as arms shipments to governments fighting their own people in Azerbaijan, Colombia, Ethiopia, and the Philippines...
TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE, GO TO:
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14164
Reprinted under the Fair Use doctrine of international copyright
law ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html ).
All copyrights belong to original publisher.
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rhino@kifaru.com
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