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Monday, September 30, 2002

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)
Fri, Oct 04, 3:30 AM ET (Fri, Oct 04, 12:30 AM PT)
Fri, Oct 04, 9:30 AM ET (Fri, Oct 04, 6:30 AM PT)
Fri, Oct 04, 3:30 PM ET (Fri, Oct 04, 12:30 PM PT)


TO PURCHASE A CASSETTE OF THIS PROGRAM, CONTACT:
Kifaru Productions (800) 400 8433
http://www.kifaru.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON FIRST PEOPLES TV & WORLDLINK TV:
For program descriptions visit http://www.dreamcatchers.org/fptv
or for program schedules visit http://www.worldlinktv.org


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.

4:55:44 PM    comment


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.

8:12:16 AM    comment


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



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8:07:58 AM    comment


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Haaretz
International Solidarity Movement
Israeli Government's Official Website, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
ME Report
Rabbis for Human Rights
The Geneva Accord Draft Permanent Status Agreement
The Jewish Week
Uri Avnery's News Pages
NATIVE AMERICA:
Aboriginal Links
Aboriginal Super Information Highway
Aboriginal Youth Network
Abya Yala Net
American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
Americans For Indian Opportunity
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Center For World Indigenous Studies
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Indian Country Today
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Library of Congress Native Gopher
Native America Calling
Native American Journalist Association
Native American Rights Fund
Native American Traders
NativeWeb
National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA)
Sacred Land Film Project
Turtle Island Native Network
WindSpeaker Canada's National Aboriginal News Publication
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT:
Arms Control Association
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Global Security Institute
Zero-Nukes
PEACE ANTI-WAR:
America Coming Together
BrianWillson.com
Center on Conscience & War
Citizens Awareness Network
Conceptual Guerilla's Strategy and Tactics
GI Rights Hotline
Mothers' Alert
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Pax Christi USA
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People For The American Way
Praxis Peace Institute
Proposition One Committee
School of the Americas Watch
The Farm's Peace Index
"Shock and Awe" - Vladimir Slipchenko interview
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International Rhino Foundation
National Geographic Creature Feature - Black Rhinos
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Save the Rhino International
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South African Development Community Regional Programme for Rhino Conservation
Wildlife Conservation Network
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AIKIDS
Amnesty International
Amnesty International USA
Arianna Online
Bowling For Columbine
Citizens For Legitimate Government (CLG)
Citizens For Tax Justice
Civil Society Institute
Co-op America
Congressman Kuchinich's Action Center
Democracy Now!
Democrats.com
Education for Peace in Iraq
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Father Resource Network
Freedom Forum
FTCR Consumer Watchdog
Global Exchange
Hippie Lawyer (Alan Graf)
Institute for Global Communications
Iraq Peace Team
Labor Against The War
Living Wage Resource Center
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org PAC
Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement (NALE)
Not In Our Name
Notes From Peter
People For The American Way
Plenty USA
Public Campaign
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RAWA
Rock The Vote
School Of The Americas Watch
Take Back The Media
The Jung Page
The Farm, Summertown, TN
Tikkun.org
truthout
Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann
United for Peace
Universal Living Wage
VoiceForChange.org
Voices in the Wilderness
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Alternative Health and Spiritual Directory
Allspirit
Cesar E. Chavez Foundation
comparitive-religion.com
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions
Council on Spiritual Practices
Crooked Cucumber
dharma door
Dharma Walk
Hinduism Today Magazine
Institute for Cooperation in Space
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Mahatma Gandhi eArchive
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Murshid Samuel L. Lewis
Prophecy Keepers
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach Foundation
SPIRIT AND STARDUST; Speech by Dennis J. Kucinich
Sufi Order Internationalh
The Reluctant Messenger
The Tramsmisson of Mind
The Way Things Are
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Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO)
WAR & ANTI-WAR BLOGS:
Back To Iraq 2.0
Kevin Sites blog
Stand Down (a.k.a. the No War Blog)
The Agonist
Where Is Raed? - Salam Pax blogging from Baghdad
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CODE PINK for Peace
Global Exchange
More Than Warmth
National Organization For Women
Peace Action
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
United for Peace & Justice
Unreasonable Women
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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