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Tuesday, December 10, 2002 |
The Cleveland Indians. Washington Redskins. Atlanta Braves. What's wrong with Native American sports mascots? "In Whose Honor?" takes a critical look at the long-running practice of "honoring" American Indians as mascots and nicknames in sports. It follows the story of Native American mother Charlene Teters, and her transformation into the leader some are calling the "Rosa Parks of Native Americans" as she struggles to protect her cultural symbols and identity. The film explores issues of racism, stereotypes, minority representation and the powerful effects of mass-media imagery, and the extent to which one university will go to defend and justify its mascot.
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FIRST PEOPLES TV
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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
"The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war."
- - Vera Brittain, 1964
RHINO HERE:
Lest anyone think all us anti-war activists do is complain about the sorry state of affairs, here are a bunch of examples of what people are doing to try and make a difference:
The organization MoveOn is pushing a campaign urging the powers behind shrub to, Let The Inspections Work! They're buying space in key newspapers to publish a letter to the president. They're also going to buy radio time in Washington DC and are asking any pro or would be writers to create a 60 second radio spot with the theme of, Let The Inspections Work!. To read the letter, or donate to the ad fund, or submit your 60 second radio script, go to:
http://www.moveon.org
The organization True Majority is working in resonance with MoveOn. In their Enewsletter and on their website, they offer to facilitate faxing letters from each member, to the president and congresspeople, urging them also to Let The Inspections Work!. Their motto is "Give us two minutes a month - we'll give you a better world. They urge us all to:
"...make a call. We are working with a bunch of good groups on this issue, including MoveOn and Working Assets. As part of the campaign the groups are running an ad in The New York Times that supports the inspection teams and urges people to call the President and their Members of Congress asking them to do the same. You can reach the President at 202-456-1414 and the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121."
http://www.truemajority.org
And on Monday, both the Toronto Star and Time Magazine did feature stories profiling the efforts of individual activists. Both those stories are excerpted and linked below. One of the people profiled in the Time piece is an old friend, and Rhinos Blog recipient, Judy Meeker, who works with Peace Roots Alliance, the Peace IS Patriotic billboard folks.
http://www.peaceroots.org
See her wonderful quilt project she calls, "More Than Warmth" at:
http://www.peaceroots.org/quilts/index.htm
So as Scoop Nisker always says, "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own!"
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By ROMESH RATNESAR, Time Magazine, December 09, 2002
A former fourth-grade teacher who sews quilts for peace, a 24-year-old who is the closest thing to a professional pacifist, a Gulf War veteran who is trying to rally his brethren against Gulf War II [~] these are the new faces of the peace movement, a motley collection of activists who would seem to have little chance of changing popular sentiment but have started to make their voices heard all the same. Some protests have been hard to miss, like the Oct. 26 march on Washington that drew 100,000 people. But for months the antiwar movement has been churning in smaller, less clamorous ways. In Dallas antiwar protesters wore yellow ribbons and read poetry at the city's cultural festival; in Miami a dozen people wave NO WAR signs on U.S. 1 every Friday during rush hour. This week several peace groups plan to stage protests in at least 15 states [~] but don't expect the spectacle of Vietnam War [~] era rallies. "You can't burn a flag here," says Anne Marie Weiss-Armush, a longtime Dallas peace activist. "Here people are very image conscious, and the image of peace protesters is very weird."
For folks like Weiss-Armush, that's a challenge. At a time when most Americans view the war on terrorism as self-defense and close to two-thirds support a military campaign to remove Saddam Hussein, members of the antiwar movement have to be careful to avoid drifting even further outside the mainstream. "There are a lot of people who may say they are against the war but are in no mood to be politically demonstrative about it," says Columbia University sociology and journalism professor Todd Gitlin, a 1960s student-protest leader. "And so you can't simply argue that the U.S. poisons everything it touches. The left-wing sectarian style is an impediment to moving it to a larger public."
While no amount of protest is likely to have much effect on whether the Administration decides to go to war, the movement could still push legislators to speak out if the fighting goes badly. Activists say they are slowly building a diverse constituency of dissent, one that includes labor unions, the National Council of Churches and Gulf War veterans' groups. Interviews by Time across the U.S. show that a wide variety of Americans have joined the antiwar campaign. Here are some of their stories...
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,397510,00.html
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by Allan Thompson, Toronto Star, December 9, 2002
WASHINGTON Jane Coe says she cannot sit home any longer and listen to the drums beating for war against Iraq. So, tomorrow, she'll take to the streets of the U.S. capital to join this country's growing anti-war movement. "I'm not an activist really. I much prefer letter-writing to marching,'' the 64-year-old anthropologist said this weekend. "But I just couldn't sit at home any longer amid this drift, and all the buildup to a war in Iraq that we don't need."
Coe is helping to organize a peace march in downtown Washington on International Human Rights Day, a rally expected to bring together faith groups, seniors and peace activists. "The public discourse is: `Bomb ´em. Gear up for war.´ But in terms of Iraq, they didn´t have anything to do with Al Qaeda, so linking them to terrorism is stretching it. And we need to give weapons inspections a chance to work. That´s a chance, that´s a hope,´´ Coe said.
Saturday morning, Coe attended a meeting of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Gray Panthers, a group dominated by seniors that has lobbied for decades on social justice issues. It's part of a growing coalition against war with Iraq...
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Peace Movement Growing Below U.S. Radar
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