Pudgy Indian

Protesters at Huwwara checkpoint dressing like Native Americans – ISM Photo

As we've said on "Mitakuye Oyasin" many times, "The Palestinians are the Indians of the Middle East. The Indians are the Palestinians of the United States."

Check out the article at: http://www.imemc.org/article/46648

On Thursday on "Mitakuye Oyasin" from 1:30 to 3:00pm, we will have Saed Bannoura from PCR, Palestinian Center for Rapproachment who also works on The International Middle East Media Center to be found at www.imemc.org.

Dedicated to Rhonda Baseler
also our children: Felicia Johnson, Rachel Baseler, and Eli Baseler
in Honor of Coyote and Vulture

1.
Coyote ran across an urban street
Head high for the hunt
Ears sharp as Loveless knives
Eyes focused like a prayer to creator

It is good to see she has survived
the invasion and conquest
the occupation of her land.

No one will ever call her
white, mastiff, doberman, Chinese, or nigger lips.
No one will tell her:
"You don't look coyote."
"You're not coyote enough."
No one will call her "chief."
ask if she remembers her language
"Say something in coyote."
"What's your blood quantum?"
"You're not coyote. You're white!"
She will not be identified by the color of her skin.
She will never be measured in genocidal fractions.

But like a good Indian,
she is to be
exterminated, extirpated, annihilated, assimilated.
Put in a zoo exhibit.
She will always be coyote enough
Never "federally recognized"
with her photo on her
"federally recognized" coyote ID card.

She survives, like a good Indian.


2.
Like a homeless vet,
Lady Liberty stands on the side of the road
waving her plastic torch
like a Magic wand.
WHAT THE...!
She has a mustache!

Lady Liberty stands with her good buddy
Uncle Sam
who wears
broad bloody red stripes
and extremely white stars
like marshmallow delights
in a "death to diabetics" cereal.

He waves a rocket at me
keeps his FREE hand behind his back
like Daniel Boone
gripping a knife or pistol.
He has his long wise white beard,
but I expect that.

They are asking me for my money.
Bullets aren't cheap,
Doncha know!

3.
A vulture looms over the toilet
in my bathroom.
Her eyes covered with a bloody bandage
healing wounds received in the war.

Anyone who knows vultures
knows they don't need their eyes
to find food.
She uses her keen sense of smell
...and she smells death
and she waits.
Waits for me to move my life
to get at the death below.


Have you seen the photo
of the little African child
doubled over in the desert
less than a mile from survival,
ribs showing,
and vulture waiting...
Waiting for life to move aside
to feed its hunger for death.


4.
America!
I want it all back!
You've caused enough
pain, suffering, and death
so you can live in your privilege
propagandized as freedom.
Freedom doesn't come at the barrell of a gun,
privilege does.

I want it all back, America!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Real freedom will come
when we ALL stand up and
TAKE IT!

Stand up,
my Beautiful human beings and
TAKE YOUR FREEDOM!
before the monster eats everything
and we all wind up
hungry or starving!
Doubled over in the desert
with vulture waiting...
waiting for...

These photos are from the demo on 1-19-07 in front of the recruiting center at 1317 NE Broadway. The "Surge Protectors" successfully shut down the recruiting center for a couple of hours at least. Let's continue the good work!

Jim Lockhart, producer, originator of the show and original host.



Kelli Labonte, co-producer and all round awesome human being.



We featured Che from a poster my sweetie, Rhonda, gave me for my birthday.

On the show, we talked a lot about Bush's escalation of the war in Iraq. Most of our callers asked what they can do about this. "Take a Stand," David suggested. I made mention of what Howard Zinn said that we should do even a little thing. Throughout history there have been times that all those little things came together and created a big thing. I feel that coming.

There was also lots of questions on how Blacks and Indians can get together as we have a common enemy and common oppressor. I tried a People of Color Committee at KBOO, which fell flat on its face with me being the ONLY person at the last two meetings. I'm open to any suggestions!

Jennifer, our new director



Ellen, camerawoman



Paul, long time cameraman and activist.



Mike, cameraman



David Liberty, co-host

On January 18, 2007, The Chemawa Nation Singers appeared on KBOO's "Mitakuye Oyasin." The only two names I remember are Warner and Sophia Butler. Sorry the rest of you kids, but if you post on the comments of this blog, you will be able to tell us your names. Thanks for coming down!

David Liberty



Warren Robinson



Eugene Johnson



Zale Chadwick (receptionist) and her Lovely hat!

I made it to 43. Today is Benjamin Franklin's, Muhammed Ali's, Gayle Jewel's, and Mick Taylor's birtday. Oh yeah, and mine too.

Check out www.truthout.org, www.commondreams.org, and www.portland.indymedia.org, for January 12 and you will find that a whole lotta people here and the world over are pissed off at Bush's genocidal policies and are doing what we can to stop that @#$##@!#$$$! Yeah, baby, Shit be happenin'. Let's keep it that way until war is as extinct as Bush wants every other living species to be and we create a government that actually honors human rights and the environment and so much more. We have a lot of work to do folks. Might as well start RIGHT NOW!

The U.S. Government is obviously trying to provoke an attack out of Iran in order to start their unholy war with them. They raided an Iranian embassy in Arbil in Northern Iraq, even pissing off their biggest supporters, the Kurds (whom they turned their backs on after Bush 1 war and also sold some of the components to Saddam so he could gas them before he became our enemy). The kidnapped six people are are basically holding them hostage.

Let's get our government back and bring it down in it's current warmongering genocidal form. DO WHAT YOU CAN, FOLKS! EVERYLITTLE BIT HELPS AND IS A STEP TOWARD GREATER ACTION!

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011207T.shtml

Commentary to follow in the comments post this afternoon.

Another article by Rhonda B.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/01/352032.shtml

I apologize for any blurriness.

An article about the elder women who put themselves on the line by my sweetie, Rhonda B.

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/01/352045.shtml

On Saturday, a die-in was held to honor the 3000 "official" American soldiers killed in Iraq. The number, according to other estimates is as high as 10,000. Turns out the U.S. only counts those who die on the ground, not those in hospitals or those who die from wounds after transport out of Iraq. They still haven't officially counted any dead from the attack on Forward Base Falcon on October 10, 2006, either.

Also, please check out my "It's SOOOOO BIGGGGGG!" post a few more posts down. I seem to be able to get my photo thing working again, and I really want your comments on that one.

Thank you!