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This powerful and unsettling film won an Academy Award in 1985 for Best Documentary Feature. Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd present a scathing overview of the shameful treatment of Native Americans during the 1970s. The forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo Indians from their lands in northeast Arizona was set in motion by the greed of energy consortiums eager to have access to the oil, gas, uranium, and coal on the sacred lands of these peoples. Narrated by Martin Sheen. "Broken Rainbow" is part of the "First People's TV" series made possible by DreamCatchers, a non-profit organization working to bring Native films to a wider audience.
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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
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts that reason."
- - Thomas Paine (From his introduction to Common Sense, 1776)
RHINO HERE:
The US is preparing to use the toxic riot-control agents CS gas and pepper spray in Iraq in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention, provoking the first split in the Anglo-US alliance.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=383006
This in addition to their already publicized plan to bomb Baghdad in amounts able to "SHOCK & AWE". Meanwhile, American & European activists have been arriving in Baghdad to act as "human shields", hoping to deter shrub from his plans. See the following links for more on the human shields.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,898878,00.html
http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030221~hs.asp
Now the Pentagon is warning journalists that they should consider getting out of Baghdad. "If there is military action, it is going to be a really, really bad place to be," said chief Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke. Source: New York Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/63314p-59062c.html
One of the women that stands tall on my list of heros is the courageous Australian medical doctor, Helen Caldecott, who for the last 25 years has waged an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age. Recently she founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute...
http://www.nuclearcommonsense.org
...which I featured in the Rhinos Blog of October 11, 2002...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0103207/2002/10/11.html
...along with her informative article entitled, Medical Consequences of Attacking Iraq.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1010-04.htm
Dr. Caldecott has just issued a request to for millions of people around the world to email, fax or write Pope John Paul II to ask that he go to Baghdad and stay there until a peaceful resolution is accomplished. Below is her request and suggested letter. I emailed mine today. Please join me.
Then THE BOTTOM LINE for today is the text of a letter of resignation by John Brady Kiesling to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. Mr. Kiesling is a career diplomat who's served in U. S. embassies from Tel Aviv to Casablanca to Yerevan. His letter is extremely tell-tale of the many more defections the shrub administration can expect if he continues his current course. Here's a teaser:
"We are straining beyond its limits an international system we built with such toil and treasure, a web of laws, treaties, organizations, and shared values that sets limits on our foes far more effectively than it ever constrained America's ability to defend its interests."
An Appeal from Dr. Helen Caldicott to write a letter to the Pope
Dear Friends
I write this appeal for your help as a pediatrician, a mother, and a grandmother -- and I am writing about the lives of tens of thousands of children. Although the current administration has demonstrated it has no reservations about slaughtering up to 500,000 innocents in Iraq, there is one person whose life they absolutely will not risk. That person is Pope John Paul II.
While the Pope has already formally denounced the proposed war, calling it a defeat for humanity, as well as sent his top spokesperson to meet with Saddam Hussein, he now must take a historically unprecedented action of his own and travel to Baghdad. The Pope's physical presence in Iraq will act as the ultimate human shield, during which time leaders of the word nation can commit themselves to identifying and implementing a peaceful solution to this war that the world's majority clearly does not support.
To persuade the Holy Father to take this unusual but potent action, he must hear from you and millions of others around the world who have already been inspired to stand up and speak out for peace. A mountain of surface mail, email, faxes, and phone calls are our devices to inspire him. Please understand that your taking just a few minutes right now to communicate with him may ultimately spare the lives of thousands of innocent people who at this moment live in complete terror from the threat of an imminent U.S.-lead military strike on their homeland.
So here is what you can do to be a part of this powerful final action to stop the march to war in Iraq.
1. Do not forward the letter below. Its power depends upon your sending it directly, as a personal communication to the Pope.
2. Simply cut and paste the letter below into a new email. Also cut and paste the Vatican email address we have provided.
3. At the close of the letter, type in your name, city and state--no need to include your address.
4. Either email, (accreditamenti@pressva.va) FAX ([from USA] 011-39-06698-85378--from other countries drop the 011 prefix -- or send a hardcopy of this letter to the addresses in the letter below. DO NOT put "Italy" anywhere on the envelope, as this will send your mail into the Italian mail system which is independent of the Vatican system. Should you wish to phone the Vatican directly, (from USA) dial 011-39-06-69-82--all other countries must use their appropriate international prefix.
5. Pass this original email on to as many people you can so as to assure a critical mass is reached in this action.
6. Note that as you and others begin sending your letters, faxes and emails, there will be a simultaneous effort to alert the media of this action, so as to be sure it is publicly known throughout the world.
Thank you for participating in this formal request of the Pope. We just may stop this war in Iraq -- and save these childrens' lives.
Dr. Helen Caldicott
Apostolic Palace
00120 Vatican City State
Europe
Your Holiness:
It is out of a sense of great urgency that I am writing this letter. At this very moment the United States of America is on the verge of launching what may be the most cataclysmic war in history, using weapons of mass destruction upon the Iraqi people.
Conservative estimates are that such a war will result in the death of 500,000 Iraqis; fifty percent of their population are less than 15 years of age. It seems clear that, at this time, you are the only person on Earth who can stop this war. Indeed, your physical presence in Baghdad, will prevent the impending slaughter of hundreds of thousands of human beings, and force the international community to find and implement a peaceful way to prevent this unprecedented, preemptive aggression.
I implore your Holiness to travel to Baghdad and to remain there until a peaceful solution to this crisis has been reached. The lives of the people of Iraq rest in your hands as does the fate of the world.
With hope,
(Your signature)
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RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE
U.S. Diplomat John Brady Kiesling's Letter of Resignation
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I am writing you to submit my resignation from the Foreign Service of the United States and from my position as Political Counselor in U.S. Embassy Athens, effective March 7. I do so with a heavy heart. The baggage of my upbringing included a felt obligation to give something back to my country. Service as a U.S. diplomat was a dream job. I was paid to understand foreign languages and cultures, to seek out diplomats, politicians, scholars and journalists, and to persuade them that U.S. interests and theirs fundamentally coincided. My faith in my country and its values was the most powerful weapon in my diplomatic arsenal.
It is inevitable that during twenty years with the State Department I would become more sophisticated and cynical about the narrow and selfish bureaucratic motives that sometimes shaped our policies. Human nature is what it is, and I was rewarded and promoted for understanding human nature. But until this Administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer.
The policies we are now asked to advance are incompatible not only with American values but also with American interests. Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America's most potent weapon of both offense and defense since the days of Woodrow Wilson. We have begun to dismantle the largest and most effective web of international relationships the world has ever known. Our current course will bring instability and danger, not security...
READ THE ENTIRE LETTER AT
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/27/international/27WEB-TNAT.html?pagewanted=p
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