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14 April 2006
Volume 3, Issue 3
Free Voices
eZine of the People
Shout the
Truth....
Free
Voices Needs You!
By Brandon Batzloff
Editor, Free Voices
Free Voices will be growing in wonderful new ways, but we need your
help! We have obtained fiscal sponsorship through Fractured Atlas
and need to raise one thousand dollars in order to begin applying
for grants. If everyone who reads this were to donate just one dollar,
we would reach this goal immmediately. Helping us out requires two
minutes of your time and about as much change as you have in your
pocket. What could be easier? Click
here to make a donation. Feel free to donate more if
you are feeling kind! After all, donations are tax deductible. Funding
is needed for: Continue
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2 Plus 2 Equals Five
By Stacey Curtis
Berlin, Germany
Back in the day your average white American had to be totally paranoid
and pessimistic to think the US government and its entrenched power
structure was secretly working against the people it was sworn to
represent. Not many bought into that logic. Those who did were classified
as fringe lunatics: communists/socialist/anarchists (Red Scare),
and paranoid dellusionists (my word — crafted to parallel
illusionist, defined as "a person with unusual powers of foresight").
Names like Joe Hill and Sacco/Vanzetti come to mind. But wait, those
weren't white Americans - oops! Continue
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Solidarity With the Immigrant
Rights Movement: An Open Letter to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender Community
We are a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
people of color who work in the LGBT movement. We are writing to
you in response to Jasmyne Cannick's article "Gays First, Then
Illegals", which ran in The Advocate, in which she, a black
lesbian, argues that she cannot support the current battle for immigrant
rights because LGBT people have not yet won the right to marry.
We are writing to express our profound disagreement with her, and
to offer alternative LGBT perspectives to the current immigration
battles happening across the country. To begin with, Cannick fails
to realize an obvious fact – the LGBT community and the immigrant
community are not mutually exclusive. There are thousands of LGBT
immigrants in this country. Continue
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Mohawks at Six Nations Resist Canadian Invasion
By Terrance Nelson
Ginew, Manitoba, Canada
The Okiijida Society is issuing a yellow alert for all Warrior Societies
regarding the escalating situation between Mohawks at Six Nations
and the Ontario Provincial Police. In 1990, most First Nations were
in shock over the Oka crisis. Since 1990, warrior societies have
meet regularly to plan out a strategy if a similar situation occurred.
A yellow alert is a stand by alert issued by warrior societies to
their membership on a particular situation. It is also a warning
to Canada that the situation is being monitored. Continue
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Backtalk....
If It Can Happen Here, Then...
Re: Checkmate: The End of US Hegemony and What It Means
for the People of the United States
By Annie Schlax
Denver, Colorado
This article makes me think of the work I used to do back in the
80s with Amnesty International. I did a monthly news show and we,
at the time, were working very hard on what was going on in Chile.
We interviewed people who had fallen victim to Pinochet and his
regime. The stories of torture and imprisonment were horrendous,
but the constant in all of the stories reminds me so much of what
you are saying here. Continue
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Storytelling....
Shralma
By Brandon Batzloff
Editor, Free Voices
The sky was a deep cobalt blue that made one feel as if they were
about to burst from the surface of the earth into the starry depths
of space. Warm currents of air stirred under the steel and clary
canopy of the fields. There was more than a hundred working the
fields, preparing vegetables for harvest. Every now and then some
one would pause in their labor and let the brightness of the sun
wash over their skin. The weather had been pleasant lately. Even
the snow on the lower hills around the canopy had melted revealing
an emerald carpet of growth. For this reason, Elnen decided to conduct
classes beneath a tree that granted a view across the top of the
canopy toward the cliffs where the people made their homes. Continue
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The Bondage of Destiny
By Glenn Macleod
Edmonds, Washington
When she had done her business he pointed to a nearby log. They
walked over and grabbed a seat. He handed her one of the beers.
"I'm guessin' ya had more than a few of these in the past year
or so," he said amiably. "Yeah but never for breakfast.
Mind if I smoke?" "Naw go ahead." he said casually.
Mitzi lit up a Camel Light. Russell looked at her intently. "Ya
pissed me off yesterday Mitzi. Ya killed my buzz. Do ya love your
girlfriends?" Continue
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Crying Art....
Wetback: The Undocumented
Documentary
By Arturo Perez Torres
Puppy Machine Productions
WETBACK – The Undocumented Documentary is a feature length
documentary that follows several immigrants from Central America
and Mexico on an extraordinary and extremely dangerous journey to
North America. More than 3,000 Latin Americans a day embark upon
this journey. Less than 300 make it to their destination. Nayo,
Milton, Luis, Oscar and Ana are just some of the thousands of people
that will join one of the largest migration movements in history.
Their motivation is a life with dignity. Their disadvantage is that
neither of them have legal traveling documents. Continue
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Encounter Point
Just Vision
Just Vision's Film, Encounter Point, is premiering at the Tribeca
Film Festival in New York City on April 26th at 6pm. Help us pack
the theaters and demonst rate that there is a demand for stories
not being told on the nightly news, of courageous civilians seeking
to resolve the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in nonviolent ways.
We need you to bring your friends, and encourage your local mosque,
church, temple, community group, and teachers to come out to the
theaters. The film is 90 minutes long and is not to be missed. Help
us widen the influence of civic leaders in Israel and the Occupied
Palestinian Territories. Continue
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Sir, No Sir!
Displaced Films and Balcony Releasing
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the
course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college
campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished
in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround
military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West
Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It
was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds
went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in
the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet
today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
Continue
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