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Remarks by phone on October 17, 2020, to Indigenous People’s Day event in Washington, D.C., delayed from October 12.

There may be no more important place to mark Indigenous People’s Day than Washington, D.C., the center of global weapons dealing, base building, and war making — the leading hub of nuclear weapons production and environmental destruction, the seat of a national and imperial government that overseas colonies of second-class citizens on Caribbean and Pacific islands as well as in Washington DC itself, while keeping nearly 1,000 major military bases in over 80 other countries, a government that continues to abuse the remaining native people of North America, exploit the land to destroy the sky and poison the water, in a city that after decades of protest is willing to rename its professional concussion-inducing team as long as it can name it for warmakers.

America is currently experiencing a historic surge of protests igniting a cultural awakening and racial reckoning. Shorts, documentaries, animation and features by and about the Pacific Islands’ indigenous peoples are being highlighted at the 36th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (https://festival.vcmedia.org/2020/). Since 1983 Visual Communications, a nonprofit organization, has presented LAAPFF, dedicated to its mission “to develop and support the voices of Asian American and Pacific Islander filmmakers and media artists who empower communities and challenge perspectives.” This year due to the pandemic the Festival is online.

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Sign saying Ruth Justice and the American Way

The bridge across the Olentangy River between Columbus City Hall and the Ohio Supreme Court building was filled with demonstrators demanding that Ruth Bader Ginsberg's dying wish be granted: that the confirmation of a new US Supreme Court  Judge to replace her wouldn't happen until after the 2020 election results are finalized. People held signs Saturday afternoon (October 17) at the downtown intersection that read: "Ruth, Justice, and the American Way," "Keep Abortion Legal," "Stop Racism Now," "Let's All Tweet - Hold the Seat!," "Stop the War on Women," and "Hey GOP - Our Country called and wants our Democracy back!" There were lots of supportive car horns honking throughout the demonstration. 

Below is the abstract of a recently published Drug Safety article that came out of a HHS, NIH, NIAID-funded study that actually acknowledges – contrary to the Establishment-approved narrative - the existence of vaccine-induced neurotoxicity (especially vaccine-induced encephalopathy resulting in childhood seizure disorders) and other adverse toxic effects following the cocktails of vaccines that are injected during routine well child exams , vaccines that always contain numbers of toxic ingredients, which have never been studied for safety when given in cocktails.

The article appears in the October 2020 issue of Drug Safety.

“No one cares about the prisoners.” Over the past few years, I have heard this phrase - or some variation of it - uttered many times by freed Palestinian prisoners and their families. Whenever I conduct an interview regarding this crucial and highly sensitive topic, I am told, repeatedly, that ‘no one cares.’ 

 

But is this really the case? Are Palestinian prisoners so abandoned to the extent that their freedom, life and death are of no consequence? 

 

Man holding sign saying Honor RBG's wish

Saturday, October 17 from 12 PM to 1:30 pm
85 Marconi Blvd. (Federal District Courthouse, Southern District) in Columbus, OH
There will be a Sign-Holding event to honor Ruth Bader Ginsberg and demand that the seat she vacated remain unfilled until after the 2020 election results are finalized. Let the people decide. Corner of Marconi and Broad, near the Federal District Courthouse, Southern Division. Sidewalk only. No permit sought. I will have some masks and hand sanitizer. No sign-making materials. Please bring YOUR great sign and a friend!

Hi folks,

SInce the House and Senate have thus far refused to allow for public testimony on HB6 repeal legislation, we're joining with other groups calling for repeal to host our own online community hearings.

Starting next week, our coalition had scheduled three online hearings. These hearings will allow anyone that wants to, anywhere in the state, an opportunity to make their voice heard.
We will be sending out an email alert to recruit for the hearings and doing additional outreach but in the meantime, you can register for one of the hearings here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ohioans-speak-out-repeal-house-bill-6-registration-125218430697

Below are the dates for currently scheduled online hearings

Wednesday, October 21 from 12 to 1:30 PM
Tuesday, October 27 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM
Thursday, October 29 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM

Before the fake holiday known as Columbus Day completely disappears for another year, I want to grab hold of it for a moment and look at what it really has to offer us: a dizzying dose of historical realism.

We’re not who we think we are. The social order in which we find ourselves is far more the result of dominance and dehumanization than principled integrity — a reality that demands deep introspection, not celebratory lies and a silent shrug as the worst of who we are continues.

The scariest part about the legacy of Columbus, and Europe’s “Age of Discovery” — ah, the white men break out of their cage and find the rest of the world — is that it’s still alive. And while there’s a growing demand that we should dump Columbus Day as a national holiday and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I think something else is necessary as well: We need to look deeply at the legacy of Columbus and begin to own it. No more whitewash!

“Amy Coney Barrett claims to be religious; yet here she is perpetuating money grubbing entities who violate the commandments like “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s farm, thy neighbor’s ox or anything of thy neighbors”. How about thy neighbor’s right to 1 man - 1 vote?”– Anonymous

(28-minute lecture of Barrett from October 13, 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjcXVKg43qY (331,263 views)

(20-minute questioning of Barrett on the next day of the hearings): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5-Snk_thAs (54,318 views)

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