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Tuesday, November 5, 2002 |
River People documents a timely issue - the clash between an ancient culture and modern society. It is the story of David Sohappy Sr., a Native-American spiritual leader who was sentenced to a five-year prison term for selling 317 salmon out of season. For twenty years Sohappy has fished in open defiance of all state and federal fishing laws. He staunchly defended the historic and religious traditions that allowed the region's Native Americans to live and fish freely in the waters of the Columbia River The film uses Sohappy's case to explore the historic conflict over the resources of the Columbia and the political controversy involving fishing rights and the right to religious freedom. Behind the controversy is the story of a man caught in a conflict between two cultures, and two seemingly irreconcilable ways of looking at the world
THIS WEEK'S SCREENING TIMES
Thu, Nov 07, 9:00 PM ET (Thu, Nov 07, 6:00 PM PT)
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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.
2:15:29 PM 
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"To Kofi Anan, Secretary General, United Nations: This time, for God's sake, man, please -- send international observers and ballot inspectors to Florida! Peacekeepers may be needed in Tallahassee."
- - Michael Moore
RHINO HERE:
Below is a letter from Michael Moore regarding today's election. In it he urges us to "take the day off". He suggests on our own, each one of us, go door to door in our neighborhoods and encourage folks to go vote. Off the wall? Far Fetched? My plan is to spend the day at the local shopping center with a sign reading, "Vote Democratic Today - Vote Republican Wednesday". This should break the ice for lots of spirited neighborly conversations and hopefully get some people to vote that might not have.
Question - Can we, even just any one of us, make a difference against shrub & company, who seem so monolithically powerful these days? Answer - Yes!
You may remember in a recent blog, I highlighted the efforts of The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) http://www.nrdc.org ...and their law suit to stop the U.S. Navy from bombarding the world's oceans with sonor. Disregarding the fact that low-frequency sonar has been proven to cause the deaths or injuries of dozens of whales and dolphins, who rely on their own sonar for survival, shrub gave the Navy permission to use sonar in July and the NRDC went after them and won! U.S. Magistrate Elizabeth D. LaPorte imposed a temporary worldwide ban to force the Navy to work with environmental groups to find a compromise solution. The ruling chastised shrub and co. for violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act. More on the story at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-whales1nov01.story
So what are you doing sitting around reading email? Get out there and vote! And get your friends and relatives to do the same today. Let's get out there and win one for the..."Mensch From Minnisota". And for ourselves & our kids.
2:07:03 PM
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Dear Friends,
Well, folks, Tuesday is the day! The day that George W. gets taught a long overdue lesson. The day that we, the MAJORITY -- the 52% who never elected him -- get our chance to reclaim a bit of our former democracy (back when ALL the votes used to be counted). What if, on Tuesday, all of us, regardless of our political stripe, and just for the fun of it, decided to serve one big-ass eviction notice that said, you have two years to remove yourself from the premises-and you had better not damage anything on your way out? I think we can give Bush the Mother of all Shellackings on Tuesday. It can happen if you, and the millions of others, who are now reading this letter, will do one simple thing:
TAKE THE DAY OFF THIS TUESDAY.
That's right. Call in sick, skip work, skip school, skip Springer, and then devote the next 12 hours to dragging as many people as you can out of their homes and getting them to the polls. I know a lot of you cannot afford to do this. But, honestly, can we afford NOT to? Bush has been effectively stymied in his first two years from doing much of the serious damage he was hired to do (we owe a big thanks to Jim Jeffords for that). Yet, if he has both the House and Senate under his thumb for his final two years, we will all pay a huge price for many years to come.
On Tuesday, go down to the local candidate's office and volunteer to do whatever is needed: give a ride to the polls for senior citizens who can't get there, make last minute phone calls to probable voters who may have forgotten to vote, pass out handbills on street corners, do cartwheels in the middle of the mall -- you name it, I am sure it will work.
Or you could just start going door to door in your own neighborhood. Knock on every door and tell people in plain, non-political language why you would like them to go down to the polls right now and vote for so-and-so. Tell them you have never done this before, that you were just compelled to do it as an act conscience, to do something for our country. Or tell them you just needed to get some exercise. Tell them what they already know: that the corporate guys have made off like bandits while the rest of the country lives in utter fear over whether they will have jobs, health care benefits, or our pensions when they retire. EVERYONE can relate to this -- and trust me, it is on everyone's mind right now. Even many conservatives who have seen their job or their 401(K) go up in smoke are now livid and want their pound of flesh.
I know that for many of you this will be a new thing. Give it shot. I promise you, at the end of the day on Tuesday, if we succeed, you will never again doubt the power of just one individual who decides that she or he can make a difference...
http://www.Michaelmoore.com
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2:03:23 PM
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