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Monday, January 6, 2003 |
Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (30 min)
Profiles of five Native women from across Canada. Of varied ages and backgrounds, each one has achieved success in a variety of careers: as the Yukon legislature's Native woman minister, as a deck hand on a fishing boat, as a teacher, a lawyer, and an Indian Chief. Each woman speaks of how she got to where she is today, and attests to the importance of Native culture - its values, art, and spiritual beliefs - in helping her to develop a sense of self and seeing her through rough times.
Urban Elder (30 min)
Meet Vern Harper, Urban Elder, who walks the "Red Road" in a fast-paced, urban landscape. The film follows Vern as he leads a sweat lodge purification ceremony, watches his 11-year-old daughter Cody at a classical ballet rehearsal, conducts a private healing ceremony, participates in a political march of 150,000 people, and counsels Native prisoners at Warkworth Federal Prison. He tells how he reaches into the past for his people's traditions, blending those old ways into the present so that the future can be a time of personal growth and spiritual strength.
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Fri, Jan 10, 3:00 AM ET (Fri, Jan 10, 12:00 AM PT)
Fri, Jan 10, 9:00 AM ET (Fri, Jan 10, 6:00 AM PT)
Fri, Jan 10, 3:00 PM ET (Fri, Jan 10, 12:00 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
"I find it shameful that many Italians and many Europeans have chosen as their standard-bearer the gentleman (or so it is polite to say) Arafat. This nonentity who thanks to the money of the Saudi Royal Family plays the Mussolini ad perpetuum and in his megalomania believes he will pass into history as the George Washington of Palestine."
- - Oriana Fallaci
RHINO HERE:
In the wake of the latest homicide bombings in Tel Aviv this weekend, I give you 4 sources of information regarding what has come to be know as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Many Rhinos Blog readers hold passionate positions regarding Israel & Palestine and each time I wade into these waters, I hear from them, often with no holds barred. That's okay with me. I welcome and even hope I encourage dialog between my friends and relatives on opposing sides. I offer these three web links today because I believe they each have important points for all of us to consider. I've been criticized in the past for not making my own beliefs clear when I offer articles on the subject. While many people fall out firmly on one side or the other, my problem as a Jewish, American, politically progressive, life long pacifist, I see an incredibly convoluted moral dilemma. My thoughts and feeling can't be summarized in one blog or one essay, but I'll offer a few of my beliefs.
1) I believe in Israel's right to exist, hopefully some day in peace.
2) I believe the Palestinian people, as all people, also deserve to live in peace.
3) I believe violence begets violence no matter who the perpetrator and I mourn all the victims.
4) I believe the Palestinian people have been used as pawns by many of their Arab brethren and have moved into a culture of hate and violence that will never get them the lives they desire & deserve.
5) I believe for a breakthrough to occur towards peace, Israel will have to give up a significant amount of what is known as the occupied territories including the improvements which have been made to them.
WashingtonPost.com has posted an interactive guide to the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict entitled, "One Land, Two Peoples", including lots of graphics and an historical photo gallery:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/world/israel/IsraelHistory.htm
U.S. News and World Report has an editorial by their editor in chief, Mortimer B. Zuckerman entitled, "Who finances the fanatics?" which deals with the rulers of Saudi Arabia and how they came to be the exporters of the "puritanical variant of Islam" known as Wahhabism, and how the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs was given billions of dollars to export Wahhabism to the Muslim world, financing fundamentalist religious schools in Pakistan and building Wahhabist-oriented mosques from the Balkans to Indonesia to America. The result is the militant form of Islam pervading much of today's Muslim world.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021230/opinion/30edit.htm
In December, the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center did a poll on Palestinian Attitudes towards the Palestinian situation in general.
- 81 % of Palestinians support the continuation of violent attacks against Israelis
- Suicide bombings against Israelis were supported by 62.3 % of the Palestinians
- 24 % said they thought the suicide bombings were harmful to Palestinian interests
- 82.7 % of Palestinians believe there is corruption in the Palestinian Authority
- 47 % believe the purpose of the current Palestinian campaign of violence is the destruction of the state of Israel.
http://www.jmcc.org/publicpoll/results/2002/no47.htm
Last, and below the line, is an article by leftist Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci whose best-selling book, "The Rage and the Pride," has caused an uproar with critics saying it incites hatred of Muslims. A ban of the book was requested but recently refuted by Italian courts. Fallaci, 73, is a former Resistance fighter & war correspondent best-known for her uncompromising interviews with world leaders.
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By Oriana Fallaci
Corriere della Sera | December 2, 2002
I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photographs of Israeli leaders on whose foreheads they have drawn the swastika, incite people to hate the Jews. And who, in order to see Jews once again in the extermination camps, in the gas chambers, in the ovens of Dachau and Mauthausen and Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen et cetera, would sell their own mother to a harem.
I find it shameful that the Catholic Church should permit a bishop, one with lodgings in the Vatican no less, a saintly man who was found in Jerusalem with an arsenal of arms and explosives hidden in the secret compartments of his sacred Mercedes, to participate in that procession and plant himself in front of a microphone to thank in the name of God the suicide bombers who massacre the Jews in pizzerias and supermarkets. To call them "martyrs who go to their deaths as to a party."
I find it shameful that in France, the France of Liberty-Equality-Fraternity, they burn synagogues, terrorize Jews, profane their cemeteries. I find it shameful that the youth of Holland and Germany and Denmark flaunt the kaffiah just as Mussolini's avant garde used to flaunt the club and the fascist badge.
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. That in Sweden they asked that the Nobel Peace Prize given to Shimon Peres in 1994 be taken back and conferred on the dove with the olive branch in his mouth, that is on Arafat. I find it shameful that the distinguished members of the Committee, a Committee that (it would appear) rewards political color rather than merit, should take this request into consideration and even respond to it. In hell the Nobel Prize honors he who does not receive it.
I find it shameful (we're back in Italy) that state-run television stations contribute to the resurgent anti-Semitism, crying only over Palestinian deaths while playing down Israeli deaths, glossing over them in unwilling tones. I find it shameful that in their debates they host with much deference the scoundrels with turban or kaffiah who yesterday sang hymns to the slaughter at New York and today sing hymns to the slaughters at Jerusalem, at Haifa, at Netanya, at Tel Aviv...
SEE THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4830
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