For the Love of Life ~

duck and taos gorge ungoliantschilde.tumblr.com

“What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?" A rubber duck is a Muggle toy, shaped like a duck and used for recreation in a bathtub. They apparently do not exist or are simply uncommon in the wizarding world.

What is a bathtub? A container to hold or gather water in for a specific reason and use, until it is unplugged and sets the water free.

“Quack Quack”, said the Rubber Ducky, “we will buy and privatize your water, and then finance it back to you, to build our vision for your future civilization”.

 “How long will it be before the world’s elite feel that almost all the world’s problems could be solved by getting rid of that surplus population.” Arundhati Roy

http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture-global-justice/arundhati-roy-avni-sejpal-challenging-%E2%80%9Cpost-%E2%80%9D-postcolonialism?fbclid=IwAR3VLVOEYnmvCnsaYURLSTwCJLOsNbC3ioXTeUr-1Pvk2R62h502Y7pTjhc

“Welcome to the reservation.” Russel Means

This Bear has been musing about Water, Earth, Air, Sun and Life, here in the sacred valley of Taos, and have decided to split this post into 4 parts, for the light hearted reader ~ because there is no Life without Water, Earth, Air, and Sunlight.

Part 1

Our responsibility for living in healthy relationship with Earth, is necessary

for human and all life’s existence.

In recent Taos history, there was a 25 year long resistance to the Airport Runway Expansion. By 2016 the EIS that was being used to push the expansion through no longer reflected the increase of residents that would be directly impacted by the expansion. You might think that there would have been more rigorous safety and ecological standards put in place by the County and Town prior to such an expansion. This was not done, despite residential out cry and many now live in an airport “Sacrifice Zone”.

During those 25 years people living in the Upper Las Colonias area, created a neighborhood association to unify their political, water and land use aspirations with El Prado Water and Sanitation District. The wood man, and the Upper Colonias neighborhood association man became county commissioners and Lower Las Colonias, and Lower Blueberry Hill became an invisible ignored orphan in the scheme of things, and the resistance to the Airport Runway Expansion was lost, and won by those who’s “airport expansion” is just one part of the federal and state funded projects for their economic prosperity “plan” connected to the Abeyta Settlement.

Now the wood man is Mayor of the Town that owns the airport, Upper Las Colonias still has has their county commissioner, and EPWSD got the Abeyta Settlement of fed and state $ to mine water, for the next phase of their “plan”. Tarleton, another Upper Las Colonias Neighborhood Association board member, has been diligently polishing up his part of the plan, with professionally marketed eco-language, websites, and pipe dream$ made of mined water to the residents of the county. Have heard that the land is located in a “flood plane” and appropriate for grazing buffalo, cattle and sheep. Let us hope this alone, makes the County think about their liability should they try to approve building there. 

Listening over the years to our neighbors, the wood man, the neighborhood association man, the water man, the Abeyta Settlement men.....about their “Plan”.

Why you might ask WHAT would EPWSD need approximately 550 AFY water over and above, the approximately 25 AFY they currently use?

Whom else down, up, and local stream have water needs and or economic expansion plans that need water?

Why would Taos Pueblo tell EPWSD that they need to move further away from their Buffalo Pastures?

And who down steam from this "plan" will become the the water "treatment", sacrifice zone?

All above and below water is interconnected. What happens over here, will affect over there.

The “Plan”, in simplified terms, from what this abuelita has been listening to that has been said, is that this is a “plan” for a HWY 64 to Ski Valley Corridor which needs the Airport expansion for military, personal/private and tourist Ski Valley flights, and the industrial/commercial-casino-hotel-shopping mall-“eco”-housing-tourism-playgrounds for the benefit of tourists and investor-developers, and maybe all the families that have sold the lands and waters off for this “Plan”.

All of this needs Water to develop.

Part 2

Deep Aquifer Drilling to mine Water for the Tarleton Ranch Eco Village development,

the expanded airport to serve a military-tourist-industrial-casino-hotel-housing-shopping mall

HWY 64 corridor “Plan”, and other entertainment play grounds for the rich and famous have ONLY taken a few decades to encroach on the land, water and life-ways of “locals”, whom often say “If you don’t like it, move.” yet it is “locals” whom for whatever reasons, historically,  “privatized” the land tracks, so they could be sold off. We now have a wonderful “cosmopolitan” mix of residents, some even stepping up to being participating members of town and county governing bodies.

When I look at the Rio Grand Gorge and the HWY 64 to the Ski Valley corridor Plan, I see the same kind of interests wanting to exploit this Sacred Taos Valley, as the Escalade Developers of the Grand Canyon, and wonder if the People will rise up as they have in the past and recognize that the Milagro Bean Field War, is not over. In fact bean fields and farming may become a hobby, rather than a way of life. https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/stopping-grand-canyon-escalade

Tarleton Ranch “Eco-Village” Development

is not in alignment with the 30% water rights agreed upon in the Abeyta Settlement.

"30% water rights” for 30,000 plus local residents, for this abuelita, means that

un-checked expansion and development for a 200 - 400 2nd or 3rd home ownerships, and  

90 “unknown-types” of commercial developments is not feasible, is not healthy, during this time of drought. Nor does this abuelita think that we need another alcohol vendor…in the likes of a 500 person capacity building to distill and serve whisky.

30% water rights, means that this side of the “cattle guard” needs to live within the 30% of what Taos Watershed will naturally provide. To exceed this, will also affect Taos Pueblo and All future generations to come, because all water is inter-connected. However, the Abeyta Settlement

benefactor, El Prado Water and Sanitation District (EPWSD), has the answer: 

Mine Water for expansion and? 

And thus was awarded an increase in water “rights”, am sure by hard won “negotiations” for the “Plan”. 

The mining of water for the increase of water consumption by EPWSD from approx. 25 AFY to 575 AFY for development that’s primary purpose is to serve private or corporate investor-developer interests? To have every home near and far hooked up to piped, chlorinated water? Why not move to Santa Fe or Albuquerque for that? Their “Plan” and economic model based on tourism, and housing sub-divisions for 2nd and 3rd home owners, is not sustainable. Nor are commercial industries with high water usage. 

An economic model with roots in the vitality of water, food, energy and locally made goods and services, is “sustainable”.

Now is the time to invest in the life, land, foods and culture of the local peoples.

Tourists will come and go, entertainment will come and go, what is in fashion will come and go, oil and gas has come and is going, and one day, as has happened before, the truck will not come to feed our children.

To be truly “sustainable” a community must be able to feed the people. Taos Pueblo and the neighboring villages, were once able to do that. We can do that again, however to do this, means that

dependance and addiction to unsustainable lifestyles, need to change, or 

at the very least, get healing for our addictions.

https://youtu.be/WhlKs_3Srj0

Part 3

Our responsibility for living in healthy relationship with the Earth, is necessary

for human and all life’s existence.

Our first priority needs to be in implementing solutions for water conservation, water catchments, aquifer and watershed-replenishment-agri-cultural methods, solar, recycling, composting, compostable potties, and locally “owned” production of goods and services for the cultural health and vitality of the current population, and future generations.

Development that does not recognize or acknowledge the impact on water, the watershed, residents, animal habitat and migration patterns, nature, existing culture, and night skies, beyond 500 to 1000 feet from it’s boundaries is not sustainable in this region. We are all inter-connected.

Why build and who really benefits from another “housing and business complex” when there are a plethora of vacant commercial spaces, rents are too high for locals, and portions of the county are under or totally un-represented by the county commissioners? 

Part 4 

Some say “If we build it, they will come”. What has been built and what do we have?

To name a few: 

We live in the Sacred Taos Valley of a World Heritage site of the Taos Pueblo Peoples. 

The Rio Grande del Norte National Monument is the main water artery of our region, home of the famous Gorge Bridge and Gorge Bridge Vendors. 

We have the internationally famous Greater World Eco-Village, that truly is an “eco- village” that does not need wells, or piped water to exist.

We have expanded the airport to accommodate the military, personal-private commuter planes and tourist flights, regardless of the adverse affects it has on Elk migration, coyotes, the bee, bird, bat and butterfly, etc… populations…oh but, I guess developers would not know about that because they don’t actually live in the Sacrifice Zone, that at one time had lots of sheep and horses. 

We have a Taos Golf Course and Country Club, and astroturf high altitude olympic training and soccer field. 

We have about a dozen radio stations that include KVOT, KKIT, the World Famous Solar Radio Station and bar, Cultural Energy Radio and KNCE- the Taos Stream. 

We have annual Fiestas, Rodeo,Taos Pueblo Pow Wow, Circus, Taos Art Tour, the Wool Festival and a variety of art venues and fairs.

We have 4 Ski Resorts in the area, Taos Pueblo Casino, Ojo Caliente Hot Springs Resort, an Artist Colony, 2 health and tennis spas with swimming pools, the village plazas for shopping, Breweries, the Hempstress and Wumanity, Taos Film Auditorium, a new Park Concert Sound stage, Taos Town Plaza Music concerts,Yoga, Martial Arts and Dance studios, River Rafting, Eco-petro-glyph hiking tours, Balloon rides, Equestrian rides, Unicorn School Supply, print and copy shops, more than 100 restaurants and a plethora of hotels, 

We have some of the best locally grown foods in the world, the Farmer’s and Red Willow Markets, great grocery stores, fair trade coffee shops and the Taos Food Co-op, 

and numerous bars, liquor, dollar, outlet and wal-mart type stores. 

And let us not forget the Mayor’s annual pig roast dinner, pancake breakfast, and 130K Christmas lights on the plaza.

Many of these serve both local and tourist entertainment, and yet…what are we lacking investment in? What more could we possibly need to be happy, besides turquoise skies, the sweet illumination of the cosmos, the still quiet music of nature, and savory green chile?

It is not “sustainable” to be unable to feed the current population from what we grow, ranch, gather, hunt and trade, though this is still possible to do, if we chose to “invest” in true “sustainability”. 

What will you do when the truck doesn’t come to feed our children? Have you seen the bare shelves in the grocery stores when the truck hasn’t come for a day or two? 

To transition from dependance on externally driven markets to nourishing our local and regional needs, we are told, is harder to do, and not as financially lucrative, enticing for “investors” or “there aren’t any federal and state dollars out there for that”. Well, isn’t it the JOB of the governing representatives to work for the People? or is it only to work for those that commute to work in their private planes ? oh, wait, I forgot, our government in part runs on taxing the people, land, and goods and services and the Town has now invested in the entertainment industry.

Locally made products and services may or may not flourish without investing partners. However, there is the local  thousands of years old indigenous knowledge and

life ways, that has lived “sustainably” since before “civilization” came here.

Is time to think like Zapatistas. 

To name only a few dreams I dream of….community owned, yes i said it….

“community owned and operated”, grainery-bakery and nix-mal ( fresh locally grown corn masa) tortillaria facility, a canning facility for a “Taos feeds Taos” locally grown food and seed bank, a hemp, wool and fabric facility, a health products facility, a “solar oven” factory, a solar panel and compostable potty retro-fit your home and car facility, hemp bio-fuel facility, a few small fields for high density herb, berry and specific types of medicinal trees and a processing facility to process the medicinals, and groups of youth taking care of old folks by putting in drip lines and water catchments for small gardens, and remember the trash sorting facility we were promised ?, well how about one of those big box buildings to store the glass until we have enough to sell, instead of crushing it up and spreading it on the earth? …. 

I dream of collaborations between aging family farmers and young farmers, and old orchards gently retiring and giving birth to younger trees….I dream of enough community centers to serve the under and non-represented areas of this county, and the ones under lock and key would open up for the use of the communities they are supposed to serve…. I dream of affordable homes for those that need homes.

I dream that the community will begin to have the necessary conversations about what “sustainability” looks, feels, and tastes like, and what the relationship with water, earth, air and sun have to do with this, and make a collective “plan” and choose to live it. 

What are your dreams?

Maybe a Conference Center? What kind of conference would you like to participate in here?

Water is First Medicine? 

A Community Resolution for the Right of Water, the Watershed and Earth?

After all is said and done, let us please be honest about the worldwide war on water, earth, air, energy, and human beings being free. Let us be honest about our own addiction to the convenience, of more is better. 

What easier way to enslave, remove or eliminate a “surplus” population, than to take the water ?

What we need, dare I say it?  Yes. 

The Earth needs to be given back to the Children of Earth.

When a Billion-Millionaire comes here and says, “here am giving this back to you, so yous may live.I’m giving this back to you because I already have enough for myself and my heirs for the next 7 generations, am giving this back to you because you belong to this sacred place before I got here”….That is when hope will float, green washing carbon foot prints will be understood for what they are and the financially rich will deeply understand that they can not live the lifestyles they live, without exploiting the earth, employing servants, and building on the backs of people who grow the food that feeds them from 

the breasts of the Earth’s watershed.

Now is the time to rise and live, speak and give action for the Love of Life.

https://youtu.be/o5zb0WTSLsY

Thank you for listening to my tale ~

BearSense

A Dollar Store Prophecy

A Dollar Store Prophecy:

Not so long ago the dreams and visions that came to people were considered and respected as sacred guidance from Creation. 

Some dreams and visions have become known today as “prophecies”, because the accuracy of them foretold the truth and consequences 

about the choices human beings were given 

regarding which road or path to live. 

Knowledge nor political position is Power. 

Power is the choice to use knowledge wisely for the greater good of All Life. 

Abuse this Power and loose it. 

What will you do when the truck doesn’t come to fill the dollar store shelves with cheap toxic food, plastic, chemicals and goods from China ? 

As Arundhati Roy so eloquently wrote:  “Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

So, what else is possible?

As I look upon the big box stores that litter my community’s thinking, land and life with cheap, toxic food, plastic and clothes…Remembering when we did not know we were financially “poor” …when the wombs of hornos giving birth to sweet, spicy, savory foods from our relationship with water, earth and the seeds of life was the fabric that clothed us in cooperation and filled our bellies with belonging to earth and sky and each other. 

Know this: When the land is paved over for airports, big box stores, etc.. that land dies from the toxic materials used to build such. That land will be toxic for generations, because you can not simply remove the concrete and parking lot and road materials from the land to be healthy again, because there are toxic materials used that leach into the earth below it. Yet some still think that paving over paradise will bring them security, through financial wealth, a security that is only temporary and at the cost of pollution to our water, earth and cultures.  And the hand full of low paying “jobs” at best, are not “economic sovereignty”. So, the county got rid of Stan’s Treasure Island recycle store and instead opted for corporate trash to feed and cloth our community ? As if corporate trash is more acceptable than the free boxes for the “poor” ? We are not “poor” nor do we choose to be “victims” to corporate empire, faux economic models, and  “rich” people’s “playgrounds”. 

So I look upon these big box stores, and in my dream-visions I see their corporate masters leave due to the lack of business, no one buying their cheap, toxic, plastic goods… and I see infinite potential born from the Power of the Peoples….

In my dreams I see these big-box buildings being taken over as Public Commons Buildings, and being re-tooled with solar power, water catchments and compostable potties, because the current Planning and Zoning does not have adequate rules and regs insuring that the buildings that are being built adhere the environmental standards needed for Earth and Water “changes” of today.

And these Public Commons Buildings are returned to the People to give space for:

Seed storage, a locally grown Food Bank, a fabric and wool and leather, clothing and quilt sewing machine complex, an Artisan, local health products, and furniture complex, a Grain Mill, a fruit and food cannery, a community meat dehydrator, a Solar facility for solarizing ALL of our homes, and a real Nixmal tortillaria, and bakery…OR how about a storage building for our recyclable glass, until we have enough to sell or bring glass blowers to town, so that the glass is not just broken up and spread on the land ….or how about a trash sorting facility? remember the one we were promised ? ….to name only a few uses…..

In my dreams “every job” serves the life and culture of the People, the water is not pumped out of the Heart of Mountains, rather is reverently respected as the life blood from which we are all responsible for cooperatively caring and sharing….and so too is everything that we CHOOSE to build or not build done with the same remembering and reverence that Earth gives us Life.

In my dreams our community representative-politicians resist drinking and thinking from the kool-aid manufactured by the corporate-capitalist-unending-progress-unsustainable economic model, and then marketing it to our community; for if we allow our representatives to pump the water from the Heart of these Mountains and Pave Paradise, one day they will remember while walking the ghost towns of Taos valley, that “they thought they could bury us, but they did not know we are seeds”….

In my dreams this valley is a flourishing garden, with new orchards being planted as the older ones begin to retire and re-emerge into worm and compost farms. 

Water sovereignty = Food  sovereignty = Energy Sovereignty = Collective and Personal sovereignty.

In my dreams, when the roads wash out or crumble, or become too packed with ice and snow, both to the north and south of us… leaving the dollar store shelves bare, the people will Rise and take back the earth, return to planting seeds, and making adobes out of necessity and the love of life….

We all know that Earth herself will have the last say ~ She is already speaking to us.

Are we listening? Human beings are only one organism of the whole of earth’s children. 

The harm to one is the harm to all. The honor of one is the honor of all. 

~ * ~

There are so many wonderful human beings that have come to this Sacred valley, this Sacred place, Sacred Home,  to live in harmonious relationship with earth, sky, culture and family. 

Having traveled near and far, the issues everywhere are the same, the trash is the same trash made from the same corporate entities making chemical foods and plastic from oil, and the choices are the same.  In the same way that this trash and chemically manufactured foods, chemical soaps, detergents, make-up, clothes - clogs rivers and streams, litters the ranchos and arroyos, fills the land dump, and is now islands of trash in the ocean…so too this trash and chemicals are clogging the arteries of our bodies, minds and life ways. What we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves. 

There will be no peace without peace with Earth, Water, Air and Fire/SunLight. We as human beings were given sacred intelligence, to understand the natural laws of nature, for living in beautiful harmony with Earth. The time is Now, to Rise, for the future generations of water, land, all life and the human family. 

So my beloved Town and County representatives and the Planning and Zoning regulators and all the people employed in The People’s halls of laws and regulations, remember that you work for the People, and the People, you and your future generations included, can not and will not flourish culturally or economically without a healthy Earth. What we allow to be put into our community we allow to be put into our bodies and minds. I am old and you are young, please take heed to these dream-visions and deeply consider the temporary wealth you may acquire, and at what cost to earth, water and culture, that is not computed in your antiquated economic models. 

No Water, No Earth, no Life. 

As representatives of the Peoples, it is your responsibility to seek out funding for culturally and ecologically healthy “economic” venues that will serve to nourish our community Sovereignty as a whole. Taos has everything that a people’s could need to grow enough food to feed everyone here, and create goods and services to trade with other communities…   Another Dollar Store will not provide food, energy, economic and cultural sovereignty to Taos. Then again, if you build it, the People will take it back and do something useful with it, just as the dreams and visions of seeds have infinite potentiality to return to the earth and grow life. 

Thank you for listening.

Sincerely, 

Abril Mondragon resident on the Martinez land tract ~

What Papal Bulls got to do with #MeToo ~

FB Meme posted by Melissa Silver

May the song of our spirits and life ways, 

give rise to the ways of clearing and healing 

from the systems of oppression 

maintained by violence.  

Am writing today, as we are experiencing a great wave of awareness of Earth's Nature, Human Nature, Sky Nature, All Life Nature responses responding to the the normalization of Domination that has been willingly adopted and unwillingly imposed on All Life.

“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.” 

― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

We can be "aware" of "something", yet not know where this something came from or why violence keeps being re-lived, imposed and reinvented throughout American social, political, educational, environmental, media,  systems of living. We can tell ourselves, "oh it is a learned behavior". Ok, well where was this behavior of violence learned, who taught it? and if this is unhealthy for us, why are we still doing it? And the most interesting belief is "we chose to experience domination and violence".

These "somethings" appear in even the most "environmentally conscious" organizations, institutions and movements in recent history. Is like an addiction to something harmful to us. Is so pervasive in it's "normalcy" that some cultures have created a nice safe place called the "unconscious" to store it in. Most will agree that masculine and white privilege, lateral violence, verbal abuse, domestic violence, rape culture, and molestation is about control and domination. How many times have we heard an abuser say, "don't tell", "is our secret", "you're special", "you're the chosen one", "is for your own good", "am spiritually guided to do so" and even..."god love's you" and "I will bestow on you blessings".

Many have had enough. Many choose to focus all attention on solutions, creating beauty, sharing with others, being in prayer, being of service, creating a different reality, being in another reality, and some are in the practice of seeing no evil, hearing no evil and speaking no evil.

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. 
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. 

Remember this: We be many and they be few. 

They need us more than we need them. 

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.

On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” 

― Arundhati Roy

"Domination" is a very powerful drug. In Relational Cultures, the concept of "domination" does not exist. How we relate to, and understand "power" and what and why we give our personal power/energy to or With something is effected by experiences of domination. People and systems of domination use multitude forms of violence to Subjugate others emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually (EMPS), this is the economic fuel for the engine of Domination. If a person can be convinced to give their EMPS power/energy away to the subjugation systems of Domination, then there is no cohesive and coherent change. For example: the word "No" has been spoken in english to first language english speakers for at least a thousand years, and has not diminished nor stopped another from doing acts of violent domination.

In 1493 the Holy See issued Papal Bulls that legitimized to themselves, the conquest of Abya Yala (the Americas) by deeming that the inhabitants of any lands and territories not of the Catholic religion, and persons not caucasian Catholic/Christian males, were of inferior intelligence, and not fully human beings. The Papal Bulls also sanctioned the conquest, domination, genocide and established territorial ownership rights over peoples and the lands for caucasian catholic/christian men (patriarchy). Following in the Vatican’s lead, other countries, (France, Spain, England, Netherlands = world domination) in complicity with the Catholic/Christian domination code and hefty war chests acquired from the pillaging of sacreds, the water, mineral and plant organs of Mother Earth, and enslaving human beings, began to divy up the world territories and claiming divine right of domination and ownership (economics of domination).  For more on this subject see and listen to this documentary, at https://www.38plus2productions.com/.

To maintain this domination system of subjugation, a mass media dis-informational system was enacted through military and educational Missionary systems of violence (military, churches and schools) and has exponentially grown through out the "psychology of media" that is one of the integral Arms of Domination.

The aforementioned clearly establishes white male privilege, the culture of misogyny, racism and classism of empire, and "benefits" to all those who align with it and become "allies".

Today Domination has become internalized ideological indoctrinations that few can even recognize are at work in their thinking, feeling and behaviors.  The ideologies of the Papal Bulls created positions of authority and implied or inferred assumptions of impeccable integrity for those that are practitioners and "allies" of that “religion” and the “rule of law” which are laws created to uphold the Doctrines and Bulls, in the Doctrines and Bulls Courts, governments, education, economics, and systems. This is a “Kangaroo” system… and i mean no disrespect to the Kangaroo, am only using the language that Americans recognize as meaning:  “a court held by a legitimate judicial authority who intentionally disregards the court's legal or ethical obligations” in order to maintain the appearance that the  Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny and the Papal Bulls and it's systems of subjugation are “legitimate” as well as the actions of “legalized” war, assault, rape and pillaging of Earth and her children.

So, if we report, and go to these courts, we can not expect truth, justice, and reconciliation. We can however, jam their courts with overwhelming numbers of cases, that their courts will implode under the weight of truth.

No Court of Domination, can change the Truth.
So think about who the Vatican subjugated first, their women.
The formula worked so well, it has been exported around the world.

For example: The appointment of a Arpaio Maricopa County prosecutor to question Dr. Ford, was not lost on us. Nor the "old boyz club" that grooms successors, through alliances with Kozinski.

Furthermore: rape and sexual assault is a common part of the Papal culture of War and Military training for "God and Country". See documentary “The Invisible War”.

Some glorify “freedom”: "the suffix of “dom” on free"dom" means to dominate, thus, freedom means, the domination over free", oh how cleaver we be, in the crazy matrix of illusion of the english language. ( Steve Newcomb, 38+2 productions).

While “ American democracy” is dressed up as the poster child for "land of the free", and glorified and commodified all over the the world, there has never been an American “democracy”,…if there had been or is, we would not be resisting the oppression, and “fighting for rights” today, now. America was created by a group of white men. Call them “white” and be clear on what “white” means, because the Irish and Sami are still resisting this abomination. “White” today means to me, “anyone who is willing to uphold and live by the Doctrines and Bulls indoctrinations and all the systems of oppression that the Doctrines and Bulls have created to enslave Earth, the human family and all life. There are many educational pathways to heal and come into our wholeness as human beings, restoring our ability to mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually, untangle ourselves from the matrix of Doctrines and Bulls’ ideo-ill-logical violence and systems that is the internalized dominating presence in American Culture. 

My personal statistics, from personal experience: There are many forms of violence and domination, and we have named them sexism, racism, classism, etc etc etc. So am way over the top on the 1 in 4 women statistics. Real statistics are that women, PoC, LGBTQ, and all genders and ages will experience violence multiple times, and in multiple forms,  in their lifetime. Violence toward Everyone, and All Life is a worldwide phenomenal crisis.  The majority of perpetrators are White males, because they are the majority who maintain the beliefs, privileges and systems of the Doctrines and Bulls, that are acquired and maintained through the many forms of domination. Be that domination the funding of wars, the extraction of oil, corporate welfare, dolling out slave wages, etc. All the women who fall in lock step stockholm syndrome with them, are no different than queens of the middle ages, that attained position, property and $ through marriage and alliance with the Kings aligned with the Vatican’s Doctrines and Bulls.

So how does everyone else fall prey to being indoctrinated in the systemic systems of the Doctrines and Bulls?

Very simple, the system provides ways to gain money, property and prestige/position. These ways are marketed to you every day, in every way, in every flavor, color, and size. Is not easy to live outside the system. We have families to feed, cloth, and shelter. Yup, we still be in a 3-D world of form, we eat, sleep, poo, need healthy water, we get cold and hot..... get a job, need a job, and if we loose the job, don't have $ for health care, etc....well...like Johnny said, "you pay to be born, pay to live and pay to die" in this system of domination.

Ever wonder why in the 60’s when there was a big movement to “change the system from within the system”, and we saw the corner "food" stores replaced by liquor stores, and an increase in drugs on the streets?

We can not change the systems of domination from within the same constructs, language, thinking, and behaviors of those systems. These "systems" have been and are designed and created in such a way to maintain Domination. For Example, let's decode:, "Creating life long appointments/positions to America's Supreme Court, to uphold, set precedence, and determine the "law of the land". The word "supreme" defining the hierarchy of man made law over Earth and all who are children of Earth. When the present "justices" die, another one made in the image of the Holy See's Doctrines and Bulls, is appointed to take the seat until they die. This is just one aspect of Domination's idea of eternal life.

We are seeing a Rise in human awareness and activity giving their power and energy to gatherings, on-line educational seminars, with or without knowing, if they are recreating another hierarchal structure of domination or truly undoing the internalized systems of domination and violence within their own thinking, feeling and way of Being a human being. Domination teaches us not to trust in our Natural knowing, Natural senses. Domination teaches us to give our inherent power and intelligence away and to follow in the shadows of the perceived religion, political party, leader, guru, who's voice is loudest, who's on TV, standing at the podium, is dressed in a uniform, has acquired a degree, got the most FB likes....whatever.

May we give care to innerstanding that liberation starts from within and liberation from domination is relational.

One "something" for sure is that domination also falls like dominoes.

Meanwhile enough will never be enough in the great debate over she said he said, innocent until proven guilty, and corroborating evidence in "Kangaroo" courts.

 So will leave you with this:

she is daughter of earth, light, water and wind
she is grand daughter of cosmos
she is the eye of hurricanes
and pulse of ocean waves,
rippling springs and river rains
dancing, living and weaving
with the rhythm of
creation creationing
life giving nature

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. -Black Elk

thank you for listening to my thoughts and innerstanding about
#MeToo and the Doctrines and Bulls ~

thank you for being

~ Alis-Itlatol

Peace and War Games

image of wool blanket from the pendleton woolen mills

Awake:  A Dream from Standing Rock

https://vimeo.com/209849804

His trailer was nestled at the feet of the mesa made of touching sky stone people , who protect the world of corn maidens. 

That day, winds blew sand seeds that smoothed the pathway to the trailer house, leaving no trace of those that walked before,

and gathered up around the bottom of the peeling turquoise painted door.

As I paused before knocking, I could hear a TV blaring rumpus inside.

He opened the door, smiling. “Come in, Come in, good to see you.”

Inside, the TV droned melee, was something I never heard in Gramma’s home.

After hugs n greetings we sat down on the couch. 

The TV blared voraciously as he went back to working on a carving. 

I glanced over at the TV, and it was a show about military strategy.

“Why are you watching the military channel?” I asked.

“Because we need know what they are doing, and how they think.”

I thought about this, and that he was carving beauty while listening.

We were raised in ways that nurture life and our “roles”, are about living

and sharing the culture and language of living peace, with every generation.

He was one of the most peaceful, happy people I knew, and yet I also knew that

he had been to war, had learned the way of the military as well as the ways of our people to be protectors of all life. 

A few generations ago, the people had few or no “warriors”,

so they made friendships with others that were defenders, 

to help protect us all.

Today, many more people are choosing to be protectors, yet are not like the military, and do not think the same way as the military. 

So on that day, the winds blew and our tracks were invisible to the human and technologic eye, 

we became the sand seeds of time, flying within the cloud nations raining upon the corn maidens 

who would one day, become corn women bearing children. 

~  *  ~

So maybe you will listen to this video and consider all the many ways we live and pass peace to the present generation, who will pass this to the next,

and that there are many peace full people who are also protectors, warriors, defenders of All Life ~

and that there are many paths to the place we call truth, peace, compassion and generosity that honors the beauty and sacredness of Life. 

Video: The Peace Games ...and other 4th-grade achievements

https://youtu.be/lCq8V2EhYs0

A quote from the book the teacher refers to in the video:

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” 

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3200649-s-nzi-b-ngf

And this: http://speakaboutitonline.com/

Thank you for listening ~
Alis-itlatol

Women Rise Up

Image: http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/

for the 2016 launch of the national inquiry of missing and murdered women

Women RISE Up ~ 

https://youtu.be/Vu7JSCOOy0s

May the movement of our personal and collective political actions be strengthened, guided and informed by our inherent Spirituality and Indigenous Cultures ~

May we realize the fulfillment of our collective cultural promises and “prophecies” at this time ~

and May we nourish the wise ways and life ways of feminine power, embodied by Grandmothers, Women, Daughters and 2-Spirits worldwide. 

This is a spiritual-cultural, emotional-intelligent movement, a journey, that we have been living and have been prepared for, for many many generations.  

We are not here for replacing the current regime with another regime of oppression, nor for the pendulum of swinging from one extreme to the other, though some would like to believe that this will continue to happen like the in and out breath of the cosmos, and will happen again ….as if in creations conscious, aware, intelligent energy in motion of infinite potentiality …there are not other possibilities besides a linear swing. So, my intention here, is to share with you something that am observing, about the RISE of feminine power...that nourishs the health of Earth and her Peoples.

Be it this side of the REZ or the other, this side of the US-Mex and US-Can imaginary yet militarily enforced borders, or internationally, the health of Earth, the health of the Elements, the health of Nature, effects the health of the human family, and vis versa. What we do to Earth and each other, we do to ourselves. The health of the village down the road, effects the health of neighboring villages. The health of parents, effect the health of the children and vis versa. 

We are looking beyond the systemic corrupt political system that peddles the same kinds of corrupted “solutions”. We remember how we lived and thrived before it’s system.  For example, instead of "universal health care" that could include traditional natural cultural practices and medicines…we are offered to pay for and buy health care coverage from Medicaid…which does not even include massage therapy! ….meanwhile Billions are spent on nuclear bombs, military and prisons ~ 

we are being thrown a crumbs, 

which is similar to Gov. Martinez -NM, who signed very quickly a bill to give the least paid teachers a raise ~ yes she got wind of Virginia state wide teacher strike, moving to Oklahoma, and knows NM is right "at the bottom" with them. However this is not only about "wages" and feeding our hungry children, the "curriculum" within the colonial schools is also corrupt. See we would like to be left alone and go about our self-determination, in fact we would like the colonial government to stop imposing their laws and criteria on our schools ... however, we know that the corruption has continued to encroach more and more on our spiritual-cultural-lands and sovereignty as human beings. 

We have been told, “that it takes time” to make changes, it takes time to include our indigenous knowledge and sciences, well “taking time” from whom and what? “Taking time” conceptually, is meant to mindfu you. We give and receive in the infinite moments of now and now, is all we really have in this moment, this now of simultaneous past, present and future ~ and we have been seeding, nourishing and growing this "time of change" for generations. 

There is a Call to “Clean House”, meaning that we need to clean out the corruption of colonial capitalist governments locally, regionally and internationally, as well as the imposed colonial puppet governments within Indigenous Nations. This includes, the People's thinking about leadership and the structure of government, education, economics, etc. 

So let us, begin to support and place women and men in these “houses” who will clean them out as well as act on this opportunity to replace- change-heal the very structure of the corrupt colonial- capitalist -political- educational-systems that have oppressed our Peoples worldwide, for generations. 

May this be one more step in embodying relational responsibility, balance and harmony in the movement of Peace with Grandmother Earth, All Life and the unity of the human family, as well as for our cultural regeneration.

Please give a read of this information I have collected for you as well as about the 4 candidates that are very important to support, imo. 

What is also important is that the cultural leadership, knowledge, and coherent vision of these Women need to be heard for the cultural landscape of leadership to change. We can no longer afford to give more "time" to the same corporate female or male voices.  

“There are 500 women that have stepped up to run for office in 2018”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/huge-2018-story-more-500-women-are-running-major-office-n841916

However this is not nearly all of what is going on ~

So i took a look at the current stats for US seats, by gender, race, religion and age: https://www.legistorm.com/congress_by_numbers.html

34,000 women have contacted Emily’s List https://www.emilyslist.org/

to be trained and run for office. Emily’s List only supports “Pro Choice” Democrat candidates.

She Should Run http://www.sheshouldrun.org/ 

has a goal of getting 250,000 women to run by 2030

Run for Something https://runforsomething.net/ supports both female and male progressive candidates and they have a search engine to see who they are supporting in your state.

When I think about 250,000 candidates, with the potential to be put in leadership positions, some of my questions are:

Are they corporate-capitalist status quo? Do they think outside the box of colonial systemic thinking? What is their cultural knowledge? Do they see all children as children of the human family equally ? Do they respect and have reverence for Earth? Will they put a Turtle Island Department of Peace in place with authority to end wars? yeah I know the UN has not done it yet... however the International Treaty that outlaws the use, proliferation and threat to use nuclear weapons is a start of something good. And will they put indigenous people and organizations in place, for example in the EPA, that already have been and are protecting water, sacred sites, land, air , and will uphold UNDRIP ? Will they support the rescinding of the Doctrines and Bulls ? And in my wildest dreams they would at the very least know what the "Great Law of Peace" is....

Now the 4 Candidates ~

Eve Reyes-Aguirre for Arizona Senator

https://eve4az.com/

https://earther.com/meet-the-indigenous-woman-running-for-arizona-senate-1822385150

Deb Haaland

New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District

this district by the way has historically been very right wing ~

May she bring a breath of fresh air to the district ~

https://debforcongress.com/

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/yw54bj/deb-haaland-congress-new-mexico-native-american

Paulette Jordan, for Governor in Idaho

https://www.jordanforgovernor.com/

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/qvwayx/the-woman-who-could-become-americas-first-ever-indigenous-governor

Maria de Jesus Patricio for President of Mexico

https://youtu.be/Vu7JSCOOy0s

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/it-time-people-maria-de-jesus-patricio-martinez

* Update https://www.facebook.com/theguardianaustralia/videos/1656149504420129/
Now is the time  ~

if you like these women, please consider letting your relatives know about them.

Now some say, everything will change when i heal myself, or am spiritual and not political, or the Empire is falling so my time and energy is better given to XYZ.

All of these statements are valid, true …we need everyone to heal, and participate in positive ways for Peace to be realized ~

And, how did our local Town of Taos Elections go? The same old colonial- capitalist-economics was re-elected.  I live in the county, so could not vote for the town government. However, i feel a rumbling ... 

Thank you for listening ~

Alis-Itlatol 

Butterfly Warriors and the Zapatista Presidential Candidate

“All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own forest without being devoured. To understand the predator is to become a mature animal who is not vulnerable out of naivete, inexperience, or foolishness.” 
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Was so interesting to read the comments about the Why? an Indigenous Zapatista Presidential Candidate, María de Jesús Patricio.

https://desinformemonos.org/responde-el-ezln-a-los-cuestionamientos-de-partidos-e-intelectuales-que-se-pusieron-histericos-ante-el-anuncio-de-una-candidatura-indigena-y-zapatista/#comment-12164

We could debate all sorts of things like why would the Zapatistas participate in the corrupt system, why is this woman wearing as mask, why why why ?

so, if you don't know who the CNI and María de Jesús Patricio is:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-06-02/mexico-has-its-first-indigenous-woman-candidate-president

She clarified that the effort isn’t just for indigenous people, but for Mexicans from all walks of society, “to join forces to be able to destroy this system that is generally finishing us all off.”

 Thirty-two years after the September 1985 Mexico City earthquake, in September 2017,  another earthquake shook near Mexico City... what was seen from afar, here in northern New Mexico, was a dream that came during the time of the Sept 2017 earthquake. Not knowing exactly where it fit into the weaving of dreams that are the living conscious and intentional dialogue of Grandmother Earth ...
Have received numerous dreams similar to this one... so waited to see or hear something in this tangible world acknowledging the dreamspeak...
after all this here "northern New Mexico" was only severed from Mexico by conquest's illusionary borders in 1848 ~

The Dreamspeak:
Grandmother Earth was breaking and splitting, upheaving and hurling off buildings and earth, imposed religious, political, military systems and
birthing out of this ...
were Butterflys...
ancestral Butterflys
Ancestors in the form of Butterflys...Itzpapalotl ~

For me, the mask allows for autonomy during the fall of the empire of the age of patriarchal man, man speak, and man spread ... this could be any woman, this could you or me, speaking in terms of infinite potentiality,
in the Nowness,
time of metamorphosis.
Speaking in the Voice of the Feminine,
this voice, that rumbles n moves with the earth,
that sings with the winds,
that weaves with the seasons,
that flows with the rivers,
this voice a timeless voicing Power
of the life giving wilding nature of the original instructions
from the Sea of Emergence ~

Am not naive enough to think that the Zapatistas give a hootie about being part of the corrupt political system ~ rather this is a another Calling, 
for Now is the time,
when the women will lead and the men will protect and support us ~

yes the "prophecies" have been and are being fullfilled and realized ~

Yours Truly ~
Alis Itlatol