Saturday, April 28, 2012

May/June Eclipses and Working with the Earth/Cosmic Energies


All my life there have been those that have shared the traditions and knowledge about this time. They have shared with us in Ways, to support, teach, and align us harmoniously. The time is now, it is no longer a "vision" in the distant future, an oral story we were told, or a prophecy. The information, are truths, that have been known for thousands of years. I am grateful to those that walked before us, and lived and died to protect this knowledge. As inter-connected Beings with All Life, we are aspects of the purifying nature as we ourselves let go of that which no longer serves the greater good of All Life. We are also those who Seed the embodiment of  the Sacred for the greater good of All Life, as we choose to live in our relationship with Divinity and the Source of All Life. 

The following Blog is from our astrological friends at Heaven and Earth. May the information be yet another affirmation and invitation to inter-connect with the Life, Earth-Cosmological resonant energies we are woven from and with. We are made of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, we are made from the marriage between Earth and Sky. Let the coming Sacred Days of equinoxes, solstices, eclipses and galactic line ups, be days for strengthening and nourishing ourselves in mind, emotion, intuition, body and Spirit. Let us move from a linear state of Being to an Earth and Cosmological relationship with our Mother Earth and Sky. With Joy ~ Bear

Friday, April 27, 2012

Collecting Water is Now Illegal in Many States


From this ol Bear's perspective, stupid laws are meant to be ignored and broken. As I been sayin' Water is Life. So I may be looking for political asylum soon, so I can get to writing some children's stories. Preview of a local film coming your way USA:
"So hows your day?" the man asked, as the Bear arrived in the fields, to munch some berries.
"Good, since I know that just because of my Way of Life, I'm considered a terrorist. And how are you ?"
"Watch out for that square of land you are standing on Bear!" the man said, "yesterday HS deemed it theres."
"Have any water?" said the Bear.
"No, that was confiscated. The next rationing is Whenever", said the man.
Collecting Water is Now Illegal in Many States
http://worldtruth.tv/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in-many-state...
Wake-up time!, people of United Corporate Amerika. ~ Bear 

House Resolution 872: Hidden Toxic Waste in the New Farm Bill

this is always their strategy, hide their toxic waste in bad Bills to begin with....

http://www.trueactivist.com/sneak-attack-by-pesticide-makers-on-clean-water-pushed-via-farm-bill/

Petition: Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/yes-to-rights-of-nature/


The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-23 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The Rights of Mother Earth campaign aims to collect one million letters written by people from around the world, addressed to Heads of Nations and the UN General Assembly. The letters  requesting the acceptance and implementation of the Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth by ALL Nations will be delivered by a delegation of youth to the Earth Summit/Rio+20 in June 2012. (http://www.rightsofmotherearth.com/).

Protect the Waters of Life: Fracking Insanity and national ban on fracking petition

The Oil Boys are attempting to implement their fracking practices everywhere. Ohio, New Mexico, Alberta, Vermont, New York, to name only a few places that are either in lawsuits against this practice or actively passing laws to prohibit fracking. If you have any type of gas or oil, they want it, and they do not give a frack about contamination to the Waters of Life. 


Vermont's anti-fracking bill recently passed. Mora County, New Mexico recently passed their Bill of Rights banning fracking, and has a plethora of information to educate yourself about the hazardous chemicals and dangers of the fracturing process. While these are a few successes, these fracking Oil Boys are filing lawsuits, influencing local and national politicians to oppress the People's voice of resistance and are popping up all over the northern hemisphere of Turtle Island, in attempts to get their way. However Ohio is taking the lead of resistance, while Pennsylvania has some real problems with their water due to fracking in their state. To look at a map to see where the Oil Boys may raise thier fracking heads and to learn about "fraccidents" go to: http://earthjustice.org/features/campaigns/fracking-across-the-united-states


The word of resistance is getting out. An Ohio anti-fracking activist talked about the what and whys of anti-fracking, was recently broadcast live on OPN: Other Possibilities Network and this broadcast can be seen again in their channel archive.  In addition to this, the Ohio people, Common Dreams and 350.org are organizing one of the largest anti-fracking actions in Ohio from June 14th to 17th.


So what to do?
1. Sign this national ban on fracking petition
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6125
2. raise awareness about this issue in your community
3. If the fracking oil boys are in your state already, organize to resist them, Water is Life.
4. Stand up in solidarity across the nation against fracking.




Links to Blog:
Ohio Action: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/10-9?print

OPN: www.livestream.com/otherpossibilities
Pennsylvania water problems: http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/In_rural_US_gas_fracking_sparks_scare_999.html
More info about fracking:

http://drillingmoracounty.blogspot.com/
Vermont passes anti-fracking:
http://www.vpirg.org/news/fracking-ban-passes-senate-27-1/
Ohio Medina Park fracking resisters banned from earth day at park
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/04/22/18711831.php

Gila River O’othom have to fight again to protect their lands and water

"After a long battle over water rights Gila River O’othom have to fight again to protect their lands and water from mining contaminants. Please help by contacting the agencies at the bottom and tell them to leave the water alone, no In-Situ mining! Your support is greatly appreciated!"


http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14778%3Aarizona-protect-gila-river-indian-lands-and-water-from-copper-mining-south-of-phoenix&catid=22%3Anorth-america-indigenous-peoples&Itemid=55&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IndigenousPeoplesResources+%28Indigenous+Peoples+Issues+&+Resources%29

Thursday, April 26, 2012

LINKS TO PETITIONS AGAINST SB 2109



Control of the People

Reposts regarding fascism in this country.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1575.htm

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242766-Obama-Signs-Anti-Protest-Trespass-Bill-H-R-347

Repost: Processes of Change

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/processes-change-and-indigenous-participation

Initial Shut Down


The Global and Local Monetary system

Preparation steps for a global disengagement from the monetary slavery system. Rough Draft, via a 15 minute writing session.

First we must begin to think and operate in each of our locations in the sense of a “village”.

The global and local monetary systems are interconnected. So we buy locally to raise local revenues to then trade or purchase foods, tools, or services form other neighboring villages....now, let us look at what the Black Panthers initiated in the 60's. Working groups of local people devoted to protecting both the people and their right to trade, grow food, and trade with who they choose.

Any and all people with the skills to transition homes from electricity and gas, people with food growing and food preservation skills need to do that, and if a local commercial kitchen for canning and preserving is not available in your village or a neighboring one, gear out a restaurant with wood ovens into your local pantry.

Healers identify who your local elders, disabled and children are that have special needs. Create a neighborhood community medical resource and treatment site.

Communities need to identify those that are willing to accept responsibility for current local infrastructure, ie: buildings, internet infrastructure, energy co-ops...so when the corp boys go...these people distribute and insure what there is left in the community of gas, oil, electricity etc is used for COLLECTIVE needs.

This said: There may be predators, infiltrators, ppl in fear with guns, that think they “own” something.
Americans are some of the most armed ppl in the world. There will also be hardship to transition to working together...

Elders of Wisdom, Restorative Justice, and Spiritual Practice, will need to have their place as well, to nourish, guide and support the Spirits of all.

This post does not address the concern of the military coming into our communities. This is why Obama wants drones, because we do not have enough military ppl when roads get blown by ourselves or them. We are talking about 350 Million ppl, folks, and some will cross over honorably and dishonorably, but this will have to be a discussion that each community needs to have with themselves, and their neighboring allies...

On a local, state and national grassroots level....f the current voting system...we can organize
local paper votes ourselves...
Identify national organizations, that have and are currently protecting Mother Earth. Ask them if should the current government collapse would they be willing to oversee and be responsible for lets say the role of the EPA, FDA, AMA, etc....Corporate manufacturers will become cooperatives run by the ppl.

These preparations need to be in good working order to be able to go the short haul of 6 months, 3 months minimum....

Okey dokey then...now that that is done on to harder things...the take over of oil and gas refineries, with the goal of eventually shutting them down once other energy systems have been built and in place.
(Some reservations are already doing this)
Also there is the take over of incarceration centers, to house some very serious global predators....but really I think many of them have hide outs and will crawl into them.

So the Action of stopping the monetary system. It goes like this: out of 350 million ppl in the USA and millions in Canada, millions in the UK and all over the world. Listen closely to this: STOP PAYING your mortgage, rent, student laons, car payments, credit card debt...STOP PAYING AT THE SAME TIME...pick a one month time
(not a day/they won't crash in a day even with everyone not paying...they stagger payment dates,and right now not enough ppl won't stop)
If this does not crash them, then 2 months...etc....

The challenge is this, there has to be enough millions of pll NOT paying, becasu eof only a few, they will just raise the tariffs on those that are still paying...and the system will keep going.
Also Occupy Wall Streeters and geeks need to be big enough to occupy that building.
And this strategy has to be re-written in and passed by telepathy...lol,  

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Fukushima Update: Wake Up TIme


Just read it...and someone told me that "Occupy needs to stop otherwise there will be blood-shed in the streets"...From a Bear's perspective, there has been, there still is and the blood shed will continue if the way of life of Industrialized Nations does not change. The blood shed is not being committed by Occupy, but rather the lethal exploitation of our Mother Earth, to support and maintain the dis-harmonious industrialized lifestyles around the world. ~ Bear
"If they are MOX fuel, containing 6% plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people. If this pool collapses, as Senator Wyden is now saying too, we would face a mass extinction event from the release of radiation in those rods."

Water Wars: Navajo Truth Recommends More Ways to Help Stop SB 2109



From a Bear's perspective, the Peoples here in the southwest, with additional support from our regional and  global on-line community are applying pressure to stop SB 2109. However to insure that the Navajo maintain their Water Rights, more solidarity and actions are needed.
An update from Diné Hada’ Asídí The Navajo Vigilant Ones(A Navajo People’s Public Interest Organization) titled "Navajos press president for his stance on water rights theft" was posted with CENSORED NEWS, April 24th, 2012. http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/, which indicates that President Shelly is behaving like any politician who wants to keep his job while at the same time making shady deals at the expense of our water, earth, air and Way of Life.
Navajo Truth however is asking that we keep the politico's fat to the fire. https://www.facebook.com/navajotruth
I have added links for your convenience.
"Things you can do to HELP!!!!!! here are just a few.......tons of things we can all do!!! 
From Rachel Bingham: 

Here are some ideas to actively stop SB 2109

Google sb2109 and sign online petitions.

Please sign them all:


Go to CNN's website ireport and click for them to cover this issue.
Write to the Arizona newspaper with letters to the editor
Write Help the Native Americans, stop SB 2109 on your car with shoe polish Put your shoe polish in the car and write on anyone's car that will let you.
Go to Ben Shelly's facebook page( Navajo Nation's president) and state that you are strongly against SB 2109 Tell him you are telling/ emailing and facebooking everyone you know about what is going on.
https://www.facebook.com/president.benshelly
Repost information about SB 2109 on facebook Post online petitions on your face book
Specifically ask non-natives to join in. We need more than just native support
Write to the Navajo Times Newspaper
Go to Oprah's website and message her
Complain loudly to your friends so people start talking about this
Email one of the online petitions to the contacts you have.
If you're clever make and post a political cartoon
Message the Daily Show on facebook and ask them to consider addressing this issue

Write/Call the tribal leaders

If you have contact with any environmental groups alert them. If water is running low in AZ now is a perfect time to promote conservation products they may already have ways to get information out
Alert other minority associations
Write your to the AZ senators and representatives even if you are from another state.
Let them know you are writing to your senator, emailing, reposting petitions, facebooking, telling everyone etc. Let them know this will effect your vote.
Someone find the contact info for the companies pushing this. They should get letters and phone calls too. They are the power behind this and need to feel some heat and get some serious publicity BY NAME as to what they are doing.
Send a hand written letter by mail to your Senator. Turns out these are weighted as representing more people than emailing.
Post a sign on your lawn Stop SB 2109
If you know anyone in the media, call and alert them of the issue. This has interested and appalled every non-native I have explained the issue to.
Can anyone come up with clever protest sign slogans, I haven't got one but I loved the "navajos drink kool-aid too"
Leaders of other tribes speak up. What effects one tribe effects us all.

I'll think of more later but I thought so many people are upset about this that having a list of simple ways to help allow for people to make a difference."

Friday, April 20, 2012

STOP SB 2109 and more info from Brenda Norell, CENSORED NEWS


At this time NavajoTruth of Facebook has sent out word, for signatures and a vocal presence to STOP SB2109
Please sign this petition
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/649/816/551/senate-bill-seeks-to-extinguish-navajo-and-hopi-water-rights/
Please see the 3 videos from Navajo Truth on youtube or www.livestream.com/occupyvision

For More information about this situation read CENSORED NEWS


Navajo government hires firm to push through Navajo and Hopi water rights theft bill, 
by Brenda Norell
"The Navajo Nation has hired an aggressive pro-mining firm to push through the theft of Navajo and Hopi water rights for the benefit of non-Indians in Arizona. The scheme would rob Navajos and Hopis of water rights to the Little Colorado River."

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/04/navajo-government-hires-firm-to-push.html



Thursday, April 19, 2012

Tlazokomati Tonantzin

I come forth from the void into light,
I am the breath that nurtures life,
I am that emptiness, that hollowness beyond all consciousness,
The I, the Id, the All.
I draw my bow of rainbows across the waters,
The continuum of minds with matters.
I am the incoming and outgoing breath,
The invisible, untouchable breeze,
The undefinable atom of creation.
Soy Tonantzin.
Tlazokomati Tonantzin

Monday, April 16, 2012

2 Batz | Monday, April 16, 2012

Resonance of the Day by Jose Barreiro. Jose is one of the best Day keepers I know. In shifting from the Gregorian Calendar to the Mayan Day count, he gives easy access via his blog to the resonances and other information to understand what the Calendar is about.

Corresponding with this day in the Gregorian calendar is 2 Batz. Batz is Monkey; 2 is duality. Monkey braid, monkey fingers, monkey tail, Batz is the grasp of the monkey's hand so tight and braided the fist will not let go, even in death. Batz is a good day for beginnings, and for some Maya daykeepers, Batz begins the 20-day calendar. Batz is unity, a good day to tie things together, a good day for a marriage or to start a construction, a good day for initiation into the ways. Batz is the thread of Time that rolls out from under the earth, weaving life until cut, weaving Time into History. People born on Batz are calm and self-confident; they make good spiritual guides and leaders, good-hearted architects. —Jose Barreiro 
http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/maya-calendar/

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Oil Boys and their Dirty Death Deeds

Brenda Norrell of Censored News, reports that " Those oil and gas semi-trucks have resulted in the deaths of seven children and youths in the past the three years, including two children who were three and five years old."   
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/04/fort-berthold-oil-trucks-killed-seven.html

At what point, will the greater population of the United States, recognize that the death of our children, and the destruction to earth, air and water, is not worth staying on an oil based economy? This is not just about, the pollution that we as a western industrialized culture are producing, the trucks to maintain an oil based way of life, are literally hitting and killing our youth. What have you done today, to change your lifestyle? Everything is made of plastic, which is produced from oil...what have you chosen to stop buying? Do you drive less? 


Our government, that is bought and paid for by big pharma, oil, and mining industries, is NOT going to give the People of this country, alternative energy. They are NOT going to transition our homes off the grid. Therefore it is up to local communities to come together and work on their own solutions. 

Water is Life: Sign the Petition Against SB 2109

Senate Bill 2109 will steal Hopi and Navajo Water Rights. Please sign this petition and share this with others. Thank you. Water is Life!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/649/816/551/senate-bill-seeks-to-extinguish-navajo-and-hopi-water-rights/

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Drilling Mora County: Community Bill of Rights Bans Fracking, from Kathleen Dudley



Community Bill of Rights Bans Fracking
Kathleen Dudley
April 4, 2012


A victory for nature, human rights and democracy was celebrated in Las Vegas, New Mexico, on April 2, when the city council passed an historic law that exerts protective rights to all residents, natural communities, ecosystems and its watersheds—and bans fracking within the City of Las Vegas.

The process to enact the Las Vegas Community Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance has proven to be a roller coaster ride from one council meeting to another, beginning in February. Opposition was voiced extensively by the Las Vegas city administration at the 11th hour, with both the mayor and city attorney claiming illegalities and predicting lawsuits, as they tried to equate balancing budgets and guarding the city from legal action with protecting life and nature.

The new law for the city of Las Vegas is not just a fracking ordinance, as the media have portrayed it, but asserts a basic community bill of rights, declaring the right of all residents, natural communities and ecosystems to water from natural sources, the right of residents to unpolluted water for use in agriculture, the rights of natural ecosystems to exist and flourish, and the rights of residents to protect their environment by enforcing these rights.

Also enumerated is the right to a sustainable energy future and the right to local self-government. To protect these rights, the law would make it unlawful for corporations to “engage in the extraction of oil, natural gas, or other hydrocarbons within the City of Las Vegas and its watersheds.” It legislates that corporations shall not have the rights of persons afforded by the U.S. and N.M. constitutions, nor afforded rights under the 1st or 5th Amendments to the United States Constitution or corresponding sections of the New Mexico Constitution, nor protection under the commerce or contracts clauses of the constitutions.

Las Vegas is not new to the struggle over the lack of abundant clean water for citizens. Its drinking water supplies depend upon snow and rainfall, and the recent drought has diminished its available water (mostly in Gallenas watershed and Storey Lake Reservoir) to just a matter of days for the residents, according to the Las Vegas Optic reports on water for the city.

The arrival of interested oil companies in San Miguel County prompted the city council in 2011 to unanimously pass a temporary ban on drilling through a moratorium. Even without leases within the city limits, they agreed on the necessity to take this strong stand to show their solidarity with the county and neighboring counties, whose oil and gas leases total over a half-million acres. Many Vegas citizens understand the impact drilling in the county could have on their own fragile ecosystem should drilling begin in the nearby Las Vegas basin. Recent EPA water test results from Pavillion, Wyo. strongly link aquifer contamination to natural gas fracking and drilling.

The unsustainable extraction of fossil fuels will not stop until communities take a stand to change the very laws that were “established to protect production and commerce at all costs,” says Thomas Linzey, senior legal counsel for Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), whose nonprofit law group works with citizens to help protect their communities from corporate threats.

The current regulatory structure, coupled with the 2005 U.S. Energy Bill, gives the oil industry a free ride by allowing drilling and fracking without liability to the corporations for the consequences of their contamination. They are exempt from the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act, for example. When the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division issues permits for drilling in San Miguel County, industry will not only be legally “permitted,” but above the law should any harm result from their drilling.

“The permeable nature of the rock would lead to aquifer contamination in time,” stated Councilor Andrew Feldman, a geologist, during a presentation about the Las Vegas basin. Under this system of regulatory law neither the community nor the individual can say “no.” In fact, they can do nothing to protect their communities or families from the harm by the oil companies due to the rights afforded to corporations through the Constitution and especially by court interpretation of these laws.

This system of law that gives rights to corporations to do harm within municipal communities is the very reason Las Vegas citizens began working with CELDF. Las Vegas activist Miguel Pacheco took the lead, along with the late civil rights attorney Larry Hill, to refine and customize the CELDF Pittsburgh Ordinance to reflect the regional issues that define the city of Las Vegas and its culture. “This ordinance was put together very finely to protect all life—it’s defensible and it’s unique. And it’s revolutionary,” said Pacheco. “This is a time we have to stand up and take a stand. This is not going to be easy, but it is the right thing to do.”

Once the ordinance was fully vetted by CELDF, Pacheco approached both Mayor Alfonso Ortiz and Councilman Feldman for their review and support. “This ordinance is a new area of law, and as such it draws its authority and power from the federal and state constitutions and the Declaration of Independence,” Feldman said when presenting his support and sponsorship of this ordinance at the city council meeting. “Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed,” he added.

During the February meeting, Mayor Ortiz spoke out strongly in support of the ordinance: “This ordinance sends out a message that we really care about our environment and that water and our environment mean more to the people who live here than money or oil. I support this, and support bringing it to a final vote.” It was a position from which he would retreat between February and April.

City Attorney David Romero took grave issue with this ordinance during the April meeting, stating that he had “serious, serious concerns about the constitutionality and the legality of this document. It violates, in my opinion, the Constitution of the U.S. and the Constitution of New Mexico. . . . 14th and 5th Amendments, which provide due process and equal protection, and prevents government from taking any rights away without due process or without just compensation.”

In response, Feldman stated, “This ordinance is not illegal, nor is it unconstitutional. The ordinance is a frontal and direct challenge to existing laws, and attorneys are sworn to uphold that [existing] law, and so they reject it by calling it illegal and unconstitutional. Passage of the ordinance, however, is not a legal question but a political one. We can adhere to existing law and leave ourselves open to fracking and loss of our water, or we can seek to change the law to prevent those damages from happening to our precious water resources.”

Attorney Romero objected: “And there is a second part—community rights—bill of rights. And that section is just out of bounds with the laws, as we know it. This ordinance extends rights to people who have never had them before.” Many citizens found Romero’s reasoning astonishing. After all, the rights-based Suffragist and Abolitionist movements pushed back against similarly unjust laws under constitutions that did not afford them rights to vote or to be considered “persons” according to the law of the land.

Attorney Romero at one point in the meeting threatened to sue the city for its actions if the council voted to pass the ordinance. “I feel so strongly about this that if it is passed by the council, under my oath as city attorney, I may have to challenge the issue myself as part of my duties,” he said. But before he was able to complete his sentence, the standing-room-only crowd drowned out his words by shouting “Resign, resign, resign!”

Mayor Ortiz backpedaled from his strong support at the February and March meetings as he asserted his preferences for more lengthy review and the modifications as presented by attorney Romero. “I think the majority of the people are in favor of it, but there’s little flaws, little clues in there that can be read in different ways,” he said.

The discussion was contentious, with attorney Romero clearly representing his client, the municipal corporation of the city of Las Vegas, rather than the residents of the city. At one point his voice crackled as he said, “Yes! It’s an unpopular position to stand here in front of you with nearly everyone disagreeing with me, but as your attorney it is my duty to advise the council.”

At a time of such contention, some expected to hear opposition in the crowd, but with few exceptions, the room was strongly in favor of the ordinance. A rather small subdued group who appeared to be representatives of the oil companies sat furiously taking notes from the second row.

Despite the mayor and city attorney’s insistence upon slowing down and postponing the vote, the council voted 3-1 to adopt of the ordinance. Voting in favor were Andrew Feldman, Tonita Gurule-Giron and David Romero. (The mayor only votes in the event of a tie.) After the meeting, as Gurule-Giron was leaving, she stated, “It was the right thing to do.” Gurule-Giron is running for mayor against Ortiz in an April 17 runoff. Feldman will be stepping down as councilman at the end of April. The lone vote against came from new councilman Vince Howell.

Immediately upon the passage of the ordinance, the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association informed the city attorney the group would file suit against the city—a move that surprised few, given that this is the first community in the Southwest to stand boldly for the rights of citizens and nature against those of corporations. NMOGA’s hope is no doubt to frighten the city of Las Vegas and other communities into submission in order to keep this movement from spreading like wildfire. Attorney Romero indicated that the municipality’s insurer may pull its insurance coverage. The next day the mayor, at a citizen meeting, threatened to find a way to not sign the ordinance, which according to its own terms, becomes law in five days after the vote.

This new voice for rights for the people and nature challenges 200 years of entrenched government law and court interpretation that has given corporations personhood as well as carte blanche to drill at will. Corporate power has been so profound that even with the threat of the contamination and depletion of communities’ water, there has been no legal recourse the citizens could use within the current structure of law to stop industry from drilling.

“We’re in such a deteriorating state, we have to pass laws to protect life,” said Miguel Pacheco.

Feldman summed up his passionate support for this rights-based law in his final statement during the council meeting: “Revolutions always start small—we know that. The Abolitionists started with 12 kids in the 1840s. This one has started small as well, with a handful of communities intent on turning the existing system upside down. Hopefully, if we move forward, it will make it OK for others to follow in the path. And we must make that path by actually walking it.”

Kathleen Dudley is co-founder, Drilling Mora County, www.drillingmoracounty.blogspot.com


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     David Bacon on April 7, 2012 at 10:30 am

     One fascinating aspect of the reporting of the ordinance in the “mainstream” press is the repetition of the lawyer’s reactions that this is “gravely” unconstitutional, without one factual sentence to back that up. Why does the ossified press let the fear flag fly so frequently ? Sorry for the alliteration. But seriously, this shows so clearly that we are, as people, kept from any real back and forth with regard to our own system of government, and that deciphering the constitution must be left to the high priesthood of attorneys and judges. Are the attorneys for the municipal league and the city of Las Vegas even competent to comment on constitutional issues?
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     Rivera Sun Cook on April 5, 2012 at 1:34 pm

     It is a stunning experience to watch people from so many walks of life, many different viewpoints and perspectives come to the same conclusion that without water there is no life, with out clean environments there is no life. We do not have to be ‘environmentalists’ to understand this.

     Based out of Taos County, my partner and I tour all over the United States with our performance and teaching work. We have seen many, many communities taking similar actions. A huge transformation is happening as economic and environmental and social situations become more dire. People are waking up. We have to. It is our water, our air, our ability to provide for our selves and families that are being threatened. Las Vegas has done a brave act. I hope many New Mexico Communities will have the courage to follow suit.

     Rivera Sun Cook, playwright/performer
     inspiring, heart-warming, deeply profound stories
     http://www.risingsundancetheater.com
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Friday, April 13, 2012

Earth Day Elder's Counsel Gathering April 20th


April 20th, 2012
EARTH AND SPIRIT COUNSEL: Earth Day Elder's Counsel Gathering
7 – 9:30 pm PST : Opening ceremony continues inside with Women’s Drum
Introductions and statement of conference question:  “What gives us the hope/heart to continue to work towards what is best for our Earth in the face of difficult changes?”
Panel of elders – 
Duane Elgin, Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Tata Erick Gonzalez, Larry Merculieff, Barbara Ford answering the conference question and dialoguing with youth  
For more information: http://www.earthandspirit.org/
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

People who make decisions based on money are not protecting Life.

When town, city and state "officials" make decisions based on money, they are not interested in Life. Water is Life and I will keep saying this. This article is only one example of total insanity. Giving more water to an industry that will contaminate water, rather than a farmer, because the farmer got "out bid".


http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/04/05/458478/frackers-outbid-farmers-for-water-in-colorado-drought/?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150721602035808_20795750_10150721923875808&mobile=nc#f43e2357

Miguel Santistevan: The Wealth of Water , Protecting our Water , Locally and Globally


The Wealth of Water:  Short Term Gains vs. Long Term Opportunity presented by Miguel Santistevan who is a native of Taos, New Mexico.
Miguel's work has lead him to become a seed saving activist, farmer, mentor, educator, and ethonobotonist.  He is an active acequia parciante and past Mayordomo, as well as a board member for the Taos Valley Aceuqia Association.  Water is life in Miguel Santistevan's world.

With every aspect of sustainability at odds as a result of corporate development, Miguel is speaking out on what it means to protect the water here in Mora County, New Mexico, the United States, and around the world.

Come listen. Bring your children.  Miguel will present at 4:00 PM to the children.  His experience teaching children about the land, planting, water, and a respect for all, will be a rare and delightful opportunity for your children to receive a gift that spans the many generations of knowledge through Miguel and his ancestors.

Miguel will again present at 5:00 PM and then free tamales and refreshments at 6:30 followed by the showing of the documentary, "GasLand" by Josh Fox, director and producer.

Join us in solidarity.  Bring family, friends and neighbours.

DATE:  Monday, April 16th, 2012
TIME:  4:00 PM children presentation
      5:00 PM adult and children presentation
      6:30 PM free tamales and refreshments and the showing of GASLAND, documentary
WHERE: Tapetes de Lana, Mora, Mora County, New Mexico

SPONSORED BY MORA DEMOCRACY SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Drilling Mora County: Community Bill of Rights Banning Corporations from Fracking for Shale Gas



As per Drilling Mora County, 
" Las Vegas, New Mexico Council Votes to Pass the Community Bill of Rights Banning Corporations from Fracking for Shale Gas….This Ordinance establishes a new system of law--giving rights to citizens and nature."

However, the Oil Boys, have already filed a lawsuit to challenge it. City Attorney Romero, said that "the Municipal League, which is the city’s insurer, also reviewed the ordinance and found it to be in violation of the state and federal constitutions," and would not foot the bill for a lawsuit.


Drilling Mora County
Las Vegas Optic

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Frackin blood money: Sierra Club and Tex Hall: by Brenda Norell

"Selling out: Frackin blood money for the Sierra Club and Tex Hall"


"In 'Breaking Up with the Sierra Club,' Sandra Steingraber said the Sierra Club admitted secretly accepting $25 million from the fracking industry between 2007 and 2012 and most of it came from Chesapeake Energy."


http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/04/frackin-blood-money-sierra-club-and-tex.html

Cut Blood Tree

It has been said that we have left the world of the 4 original tribes, now we are one humanity. Ism's can hurt if we believe them. Ism's are an illusion. Those that seek "pwr" by the implementation of "rules" over information...well  If I respond to blatant mis-and dis-information, used to divide the One Heart, One Prayer, One Love...and people do not like it....well we might just replace one "pwr" with another that enslaves, us, our minds, our hearts..."evolve or expire" as my friend BuddhaQ says. As a mestizo, you get it from all sides. Great Mystery made me this Way for a reason...just as I can't cut an arm or leg off to make me more acceptable to anyone, so too, I can not change the incarnation I have chosen, the color of the blood in my veins or the collective memories in both human and All Life's creation...I carry all wounds that can be healed by our Love.


The Cosmos loves us, Father Sun loves us, our Mother Earth loves us.



CUT BLOOD"

Weather you like it
or not
I am, you
and you
are me
I am born from
The Love and Hate you feel

Bridges made
by marriage to another name
Weave and spiral
Through out genetic memory

I am born from
the wars you fought
The girl women
you sold off
into patrilineal slavery
they became the mothers
of past, present and future

I am you and you are me
Whether you like it
Or not
Your Teachings
Are interwoven with mine
Feel the colors
Life’s Blood entwined
Look at the rainbow
The colors that are
You and I

I am born from living herstory
Let me be
Free
From hierarchy
racism and bigotry
indoctrination
domestication
False classifications
Separations
capitalist globalization
Raping and pillaging
Earth, air, water and all living
relations

With this living memory
I will be Free

To DANCE
ACROSS THE STARS
DANCE THE DANCE
OF HARMONY
being THE RAINBOW
THAT IS YOU AND ME
I AM
THE "CUT BLOOD" TREE
That permeates and expands
Infinitely
Peace and Love
for All Eternity
For I am you and you are me
April Mondragon ~ 1995