Friday, July 13, 2012

GREAT PEACE GATHERING


Emergency “Great Peace Gathering” calls to all Nations:
As you are probably aware, there are many new conflicts arising from the creation of new imposing laws being implemented within North America that will pose a danger to our Mother Earth and her natural resources more so now than ever. In Canada and in the USA, we have the tar sands and pipeline dangers and Plan Nord amongst many other Government and privatised projects, stealing more sovereign traditional lands and waters from our Peoples within North America until there will be nothing left for the seven generations to come.
Through International law, we as the original North American Indigenous Peoples had the right to proper decolonization since 1945.  However, the US and Canadian Governments, the Vatican and the British Crown`s constant interference has denied us our proper decolonization rights to regain all of our North American lands as long as we consider all of its citizens through the United Nations Decolonization Declaration of 1960. We have been denied through false and misleading interpretations and perceptions of international law to decolonization and right to self determination only upon our reserves and immediate territories.
What they have done is deceitful and illegal within their own laws. For proper decolonization to be legal, everyone within all Nations would have had to agree through a “referendum process” to proper decolonization which was obviously never had by our People. Thus, adding insult to injury, their fictitious use of the doctrine of discovery “terra nullius” (lands without owners) has been legally “Nul and Void“ since 1960 given, proper decolonization rights including its determination in relevance to the Western Sahara decolonization process by the international Court judges determination in 1975 in regards to “terra nullius”.
Many worldwide, including the immigrants to these lands are awakening to the truth of the past and of the now, as we are coming into a critical point in history.  If we take a final stand together to make things right for all Nations, the karma of the past can be rectified by the restructuring of Canada and the United States through proper decolonization; which would instill a more direct democracy and a much brighter Nation to Nation future for the Indigenous Peoples of North America and all citizens.
Given the present developments of infringements upon the natural resources and human rights, and especially as of last week, things are drastically escalating and getting out of hand for all Nations upon these North American lands. In Canada, the Province of Quebec has implemented Bill 78, where 50 or more assembled is considered illegal and can mean imprisonment as well as a 1,000.00 – 5,000.00 dollar fine.
Bill 78 was passed to stop protests in Montreal but also from happening anywhere and especially within the vicinity of natural resources of Plan Nord as the Canadian military has been brought in, to enforce the law against Canadian and Indigenous peoples.
Within the next few months, this law will be imposed upon all living within the Canadian borders especially since we now have fallen under the US Homeland Security through the imposition of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) agreements between Canada, Mexico and the USA.
As it stands and because it will be simpler in Canada to decolonize, we have a narrow window of opportunity to turn things around not just for the Indigenous Peoples of North America and its citizens but for all life upon Mother Earth if we act quickly and this is why we must all unite at Eagle`s Nest occupied Mohawk territory in Brantford Ontario Canada with as many Nations as possible. We must take a collective stand within the proper decolonization of all of North America while the AFN (Assembly of First Nations Chiefs) of Canada have their annual meeting in Toronto, so that they can remember who they are as they hear our voices, so that we can all set things right before it is too late and everything is lost.
The time has come for us as North American Nations to gather in order to stop the insanity so that we can all create the change upon our Mother Earth as Creator of All intended it to be for all life.
P.S. In order to make this important gathering a huge success given the short notice of time, we welcome all the help, support and sponsorship anyone can provide us with so that many of the elders and peoples from the four directions can assist these crucial meetings and have their voices heard.
Much love, respect, and gratitude for your time.
Barbara Henry – Cayuga Nation
Barb Garlow – Cayuga Nation
Cheryl Squire – Mohawk NationY
Cathy Walker – Anishinabek Nation
ProtectedSun / Nicole Lebrasseur (mtl)
Christelle Jolicoeur (mtl)
Sicilia Dawes De Santis (mtl)
Nicole Mamuza (Brantford)
For more information or to RSVP please go tohttp://www.decolonizenorthamerica.org
Or contact us directly at the numbers and email addresses below.
Barbara Henry
Tel: 1-519-445-0676
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Nicole Lebrasseur
Tel: 1-519-774-0850
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Sicilia Dawes DeSantis
Tel: 1-514-813-1301
sici18@hotmail.com  
www.decolonizenorthamerica.org 

BLACK ACHIEVEMENT: Idris Elba, actor


Understand how hard it is for people in pursuit of the development of high skill who live with a vision that requires a commitment to excellence. That calling leads to roads beyond mediocre, and most people are incapable of holding and sustaining that kind of energy for years upon years in the partnership of marriage and friendship. If Idris Elba has a white woman, or a woman from Argentina instead of a Black woman it doesn't mean his relationship with Black women is severed. It is enhanced constantly because of his relationships with Black women's energies from birth to the present is a potent force of reciprocation.

Many Black women, and men often underestimate the value of developmental work, and the value of owning a spiritual consciousness needing to elevate itself beyond belief into knowing. It ain't easy, but it is needed by men and women at certain levels of development and involvement with Life. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories


Thursday, July 12, 2012

BLACK ACHIEVEMENT: Tasha Smith

Tasha Smith @ 38th NAACP Image awards luncheon 
Black actress Tasha Smith has mastered the skill of playing women who base their relationships on conflict. It is extraordinary. I hope it leads to roles that expand her obvious training, talent and skill. Not only are her roles tutorials into a consciousness needing to change her roles bring to the screen the complexity of living like that. A  disappointment is always on the horizon for  women and men who live like this. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [July 6, 2012]


Tasha Smith at the Black Movie Awards 

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

a BLACK WOMAN'S face

Pamela Brown, educator


"The beauty of carriage, antiquity that impresses the deeper sense of what is beautiful is plain and simple expressing itself in your beauty, and how deep it is is dependent upon the depth of a man seeing you, and understanding what arises within him in your presence. It is quite a challenge to be a man in the presence of a woman who looks so much like First Woman." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories



Tuesday, July 10, 2012

healing hands

The recipricoal relationship with the energies of the Universe speaks to the soul of the Healer, the ordinary person, the Child, the Old Ones. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories October 17, 2010 

Monday, July 9, 2012

ELDER'S MEDITATION July 9


Elder's Meditation of the Day July 9

"We have to educate ourselves to know who we are. That's what I mean when I say, 'Teach the children.'"
--Eddie Benton-Banai, OJIBWAY

It is only by knowing ourselves that we can get in touch with our power. It is said, "Tell me what you know about yourself and I'll tell you what you know about God. Tell me what you know about God and I'll tell you what you know about yourself." As we increase knowledge of ourselves, as we choose to grow spiritually, as we clean up our act, then we can teach the children.

My Creator, You have said "Know thyself." Today let me see the wisdom of this Truth. Give me Your insight of myself. I am always walking the talk and most people can see it. Today, help and guide me on the Red Road.


WAR HEROES?

Dawn Wolf & Heather Mandy Levy in West Virginia at Abrams Creek in 2010 after a lodge ceremony I led.


Having proven myself as a warrior I earned the right to be blunt and honest in the assessment of what a hero is and the difference between a soldier of noble character and cannon fodder. The inability to grasp these distinctions is a telling story of denial, and in the end it is disrespectful to send young men to conquer other people's lands without intelligent thought, or redemptive powers from sacred ritual, and consequentially blind to the historical significance of a war. This is the 16th country we have invaded since 1980, as I recollect. It is a small number against the hundreds of other wars the Americans have raged across the globe, and still we insist on pretending the Emperor has no clothes on. What is that, and what will it mean to the mental state of our soldiers when and if they deepen and wake up to the truth of their existence as cannon fodder? - Gregory E.Woods, Keeper of Stories 


Paris Hilton reading SUN TZU !!!!