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The Sins of Our Forefathers ~ Foreskins Forgone Afore
The Child of Innocence ~ Unwitting, Unsuspecting Victim of Man
source: BC Aboriginal Child Care Society
"All babies are born saying God's name. . ." ~ Sinead O'connor
We look to native cultures for human wisdom in dealing with the forces of nature, much of which in western society has been replaced by science and technology, demonizing these innocent souls into less than human. Nazi death camps, this was the true nature of residential schools, using small pox and tuberculosis to exterminate the undesirables. If you were kidnapped and brought to a residential school, even as late as the 1970’s, you were in purgatory on your way to hell.
Islam dictates that all foreigners are infidels, who are higher in status than one’s dog, who in turn is higher in status than one’s wife, who in turn is simply chatel, fodder and grist for the mill.
Christian religions subordinate “the nobel savage” to a place in the animal kingdom, feeling holier than thou. It is time not to sublimate, but to humble ourselves before our human relatives on this blue planet.
* Although the phrase noble savage first appeared in Dryden's The Conquest of Granada (1672), the idealized picture of "nature's gentleman" was an aspect of eighteenth-century Sentimentalism, among other forces at work. ~ Wikepedia
The Problem: There Remains a Hidden History of Torture and Death of Our Native Children in Residential Schools. Telling the Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, VOICES of the Canadian Holocaust. What you must know:
Feature length documentary film: "UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide" (January 2007) ~ One man's journey around a people's suffering. Kevin Annett was a United Church pastor, when he became present to the stories of abuse by unscrupulous leaders under residential schools run by the United, Anglican and Catholic Churches, under annex of the Government of Canada Indian Affairs bureau's intent on racial genocide. As many as 50,000 child victims still lie in unmarked graves.
“Love and Death in the Valley” is Reverend Kevin Annett's biographical work, which recounts his gradual uncovering of the evidence of genocide and mass murder in his Church's "Indian Residential Schools" on Canada's West Coast.
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UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
Award-winning documentary film on Canada's Dirty Secret
(Best Director of an International Documentary Film, New York Independent Film and Video Festival, November, 2006)
http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/histor
Native Residential Schools
http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/
Native Sculptor Michael Irving Remembers Residential Schools
Native children in residential schools were subjected to extreme degrees of cruelty in physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural and sexual abuse.
Residential school abuse was unique in that:
• There was forced removal from homes
• A whole cultural group was forcibly sent to these schools
• There was the forced loss of their language and culture
• It was sanctioned institutionally and legally
• There was no one to turn to for help there was a total loss of family and community
Residential schools communicated and instilled worthlessness, shame, isolation, hopelessness, a lack of belonging, internalized self-hatred.
The legacy of residential schools left a sense of not fitting in anywhere, not with their own culture and families, nor in the rest of Canada. "I don't know who I am." ~ Native Sculptor Michael Irving
Grandfathers:
I pray for your pity,
The acknowledgment of suffering
Be the offering you will turn,
Like the waterspouts of the ocean,
Into the heart of the sun.
Fulfilling the hearts of children
All My Relations
Native Sculptor Michael Irving Remembers Residential Schools
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http://www.irvingstudios.com/child_abus
Fallen Feather – Indian Industrial Residential Schools Cree Nation
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http://www.fallenfeatherproductions.c
The Continuing Suffering and Fallout of Victims From Residential School Abuse ~ To Fix the Problems of the World, Look to Your Own Fold. . .
source: movie Unrepentant
Have you ever wondered why there are no smiles, but an eternal sadness engraved into the faces of our native peoples? Many of us today carry that same sadness in our faces, when we walk through our day. We avoid the drug infested haunts of the homeless, when that is where the only real humans on this planet are forced to reside. When you see their sadness you see a mirror for your pain and suffering. When you see a native smile there is a world of forgiveness. You cannot change what terror our forefathers have wreaked on them, you can only become present to, share their pain, and help to heal the wounds. ~ Luke 3:15-08
Rape Victims Attend Healing Circles in Fallout of Resisdential School Abuses
http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issu
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS: AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF GENOCIDE
http://sisis.nativeweb.org/resschool/ma
And It Doesn’t Stop Here... Another Can of Worms
Just a year and a half ago, after spending over four years on the same story for CNN and CBS before that, a pedophile priest named Oliver O'Grady decided he would participate in the film I wanted to make.
It became Deliver Us From Evil -- the story from inside the sickest mind possible, the secrets that were meant to stay in the private files and crypts of the Roman Catholic Church, and the blind trust in those they perceived as God's messengers that left families with no faith and children with no innocence. After filming for a week and a half, the then defrocked priest mentioned he might need to move to Canada after this film comes public. Seeing the pain, corruption and missed opportunities to provide ministry to those in need was truly a tragic story to watch and the loss was more devastating than I ever imagined. It was so difficult to be so close to such a horror story that in the priest's words "never should have happened." ~ Director Amy Berg
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Deliver Us From Evil
http://www.deliverusfromevilthemovie.co
We Establish Social Systems to Help Those in Need, But Who is Monitoring the Monitors? . . .
Pity, Not Only In Canada. . . ~ Aboriginal Rights Agreement between the Patta Warumungu people and the Northern Territory Government, Australia
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Native Title Consent Determination and ILUA signing in Tennant Creek town area in Australia
http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=169
World-Wide Epidemic of Child Abuse. . . ~ Many Countries Today Face the Problems of Stewardship and Child Protection on a Large Scale
200,000 Filipino children victims of human rights violation: UNICEF
Based on the recent statistics of Childrenís Rehabilitation Center (CRC) report from 2001 to 2006, more than 200,000 Filipino children suffered from various exploitation acts and human rights injustices.
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200,000 Filipino children victims of human rights violation: UNICEF
http://www.stolenchildhood.net/entry/un
World-Wide Epidemic of Child Abuse. . . ~ Internet: The New "Residential School" and Virtual "Babysitter"
From a renowned investigative reporter, the true story behind a horrifying Internet abuse epidemic-and the heroes who are out to stop it.
The Internet has helped make child abuse terrifyingly common - it is the new face of crime in the 21st century. There are tens, probably hundreds of thousands of children whose sexual abuse has been electronically recorded and distributed on the Internet. As Julian Sher reveals, the men perpetrating these crimes include lawyers, priests, doctors and politicians. They pick their victims from the streets of Bangkok to the Boy Scout troops in England, while the police -- from a crack image analyst with the Toronto police to an FBI agent who poses as a 13 year old girl online - work desperately to nab the predators.
The book goes behind the headlines to show how law officers are fighting back against this tide of abuse, from daring rescues in homes to the seizures of millions of dollars in the offshore bank accounts of the porn merchants. In riveting detail, Julian Sher shows how clue by clue, and image by image, investigators are using cutting edge tools, turning the technology of the Internet against the perpetrators as they race to find and rescue the victims-children who otherwise have no voice.
This important book explores the ramifications of a worldwide struggle, from the need for updated legal powers to the unexpected effects the Internet has had on our social fabric. It also includes a full list of resources for concerned parents. Though sometimes harrowing, this book is also inspiring-and never less than absolutely relevant. ~ kismet
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One Child At A Time ~ A Book About Child Pornography on the Internet by Julian Sher
http://www.journalismnet.com/book/c
Can life improve for the world's poorest? Will the UN's Millennium Development Goals be achieved? The international community's "promise to the world's poor is being broken, "according to the United Nations...
...How do you expect to see an end to poverty when a country like Zambia has an unemployment rate of 80%? ~ BBC article
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Can life improve for the world's poorest? - Look Up the Chain of Command for the Answers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_poin
Shadows of the Slave Trade ~ "You Gotta Serve Somebody..." ~ Bob Dylan
It may be the devil, or it may be the lord, but you gotta serve somebody..."
Oh Brazo Brazil
And speaking of the Jaguar. The brothers of the Jaguar need your help!! This photo is FOR REAL and the brotha named Ghost that risked his life deep in the Amazon to shoot it wants you to know that yeah its the year 2008 and mothafuckaz is still taking native peoples land like it was the 1700's
Ottawa's rejection of native-rights declaration 'sad' ~ From Thursday's Globe and Mail November 21, 2006
OTTAWA — Canada's reputation as a human-rights leader will be smeared when it votes against a declaration on indigenous rights, warns the chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz said it is "very sad" that Canadian officials have gone from active supporters to strong opponents of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which could be put to a final vote as early as next week in New York.
"Canada has a substantial number of indigenous peoples, and having the reputation of being a champion of human rights, will definitely be smeared by this act that they are going to take," she said in an interview with The Globe and Mail.
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source: National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
http://action.web.ca/home/cassa/whatsne
Media Advisory: Canada And The Crown
Queen of England Issued a Letter of Demand, Possible Lawsuit by Indian Residential School Survivors
Evening of Thursday, January 24, 2008
Unceded Squamish Territory ("Vancouver, Canada")
Elizabeth Windsor, the Queen of England, was issued a Letter of Demand yesterday that requires that she identify the fate and burial sites of all the children who died in Indian Residential Schools established under the authority of the Church of England and the British Crown.
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http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/Recent
Orphans of Colonialsim ~ The Fallout of Globalization
Victorian Orphans, Culture and Empire By Laura Peters ~ British Export of Child Labour reached numbers of up to 85,000 over a century ago.
A Modest Proposal
For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public
By Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.ht
Who Decides Who Lives and Who Dies? ~ The Orders of Stewardship and the "Axes of Evil". Don Juan called these subordinate terrorists "petty tyrants" in his The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castanada. These are the entities in our own communities that we all must stand up to in order to survive and flourish.
"In 1991, President George H.W. Bush Sr., a member of the Trilateral Commission, began to openly talk about the New World Order, which expanded the concept to include governance as well as economic unity. Click on the movie to hear Bush in his own words!"
"What is Globalization? It is the collective effect of purposeful and amoral manipulation that seeks to centralize economic, political, technological and societal forces in order to accrue maximum profit and political power to global banks, global corporations and the elitists who run them." August Review
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How to Understand Globalization
http://www.augustreview.com/knowledge_b
New World Order
http://www.augustreview.com/?gclid=CKX4
President George H.W. Bush Sr., a member of the Trilateral Commission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9Syi12
Illuminati and New World Order ~ Evilarchy Ruling Above Hierarchy, German Bavarian Secret Society
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89SB59D
Georgio Hugo Balestrieri, International Rotary of New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9gitez0
http://www.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/re
"For a fraction of the cost of war we could solve all the hunger and homelessness in the world."
This goal is too costly, many say. But this is not true. The cost of our initial military response will easily top $100 billion (on top of our already enormous annual defense budget of $342 billion). What could we accomplish if we spent even a small fraction of that much on programs to alleviate human suffering?
In 1998, the United Nations Development Program estimated that it would cost an additional $9 billion (above current expenditures) to provide clean water and sanitation for everyone on earth. It would cost an additional $12 billion, they said, to cover reproductive health services for all women worldwide. Another $13 billion would be enough not only to give every person on Earth enough food to eat but also basic health care. An additional $6 billion could provide basic education for all.
These are large numbers, but combined they add up to $40 billion —"only one fifth as much as the $200 billion the U.S. government agreed in October 2001 to pay Lockheed to build new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets...
The U.S. government has made much of C-17 cargo planes dropping 20,000 food packets a day to Afghan civilians. But according to world hunger relief organizations active in Afghanistan such as Oxfam, the program has been a dismal failure. The president of one of the world’s most prestigious aid organizations, Doctors Without Borders, speaking from Islamabad, deplored the program as so much “PR.” The airdrops, he said, are a huge waste of money. The packages, containing enough to feed an adult for a day, land all over the place, with no guarantee that they will be retrieved. Many land in the midst of landmines. And the amount being dropped is insignificant is a country where seven or eight million people are in danger of starvation. The money ($25 million according to U.S. government sources) would be far better spent provisioning the regular aid convoys already in action." ~ John Robbins
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Terror, Love and the State of the World
http://www.healthyat100.org/display.a
Aah, but I Digress. . .
One Child At A Time is a non-profit aid organization dedicated to meeting the needs of children all over the world. Medical supplies, clothing, health needs, school supplies and various other items are collected by volunteers and shipped or hand carried by escorts, volunteers or adoptive parents to be donated to hospitals or child care facilities.
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http://www.onechildatatime.org/
UN Charter of Rights For The Protection of Children
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF’s mission is to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is guided in doing this by the provisions and principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/
Children are Multi-cultural
http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/chi
No Child Left Behind Act ~ Bureaucracy At It's Finest !
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Finally, Something Right With America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_L
U.S. Department of Education Document ~ Dare to Read !
http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea
What You Can Do
Taking Action: What You Can Do
1. Educate Yourself and Others -
a) Order and distribute our book Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust and our film UNREPENTANT to libraries, colleges and the media in your community - UNREPENTANT can be ordered through our Commission (below) and view at google video or on the right of this page
b) Hold a public screening of UNREPENTANT in your community and invite Kevin Annett to come and speak at the event.
c) Order educational material and leaflets from our Truth Commission (Education Kit #1), and distribute them outside Catholic, Anglican and United Churches on
Sunday mornings (see contact info below)
2. Refuse to Cooperate with Genocidal Institutions -
a) Boycott the Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada - Refuse to attend their services or rent their facilities, or if you do attend, withhold from
them all donations, tithings and bequests. (See the sample Declaration of Conscience form below)
b) Withhold all tax payments to the government of Canada.
c) Support an international boycott of Canadian tourism and goods, and a boycott of the 2010 Olympics in British Columbia.
d) Write to your local M.P. and to Revenue Canada and demand that the charitable tax-exempt status of the Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada be revoked.
3. Take Direct Action -
a) Hold protests, memorial vigils and civil disobedience actions at these churches and government facilities, demanding to know where the deceased residential school children are buried, and calling for their return to their families for a proper burial, and for a surrender of those persons responsible for their deaths.
b) Publicly identify and perform citizens' arrests on those persons responsible for crimes against native people and the land.
c) Create indigenous and popular courts of justice where the perpetrators of murder and other crimes against our people and the land can be tried and sentenced.
4. Support our efforts to launch a full, non-governmental inquiry into genocide in Canadian Indian residential schools -
a) Endorse our call for an international Tribunal into Genocide in Canada.
b) Organize a local chapter of our Truth Commission in your community and formally affiliate yourself and your organization with our Commission.
5. Help us to research and document the evidence of genocide in Canada -
a) Interview residential school survivors in your community, record their stories, and help create local video libraries containing this evidence.
b) Research local archives and government and church records for the evidence of crimes in residential schools and hospitals across Canada.
c) Organize academic and public conferences on the theme of genocide in Canada.
5. Send us a donation, which will be used to produce
our books and film and fund our research and travel costs -
To send donations, see the Paypal link on this website, or send a cheque or money order made out to Lori O'Rorke to - 260 Kennedy St., Nanaimo, B.C. Canada V9R 2H8.
To order our books, film and other material, and to arrange to work with us, contact:
The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
c/o 260 Kennedy St.
Nanaimo, B.C. Canada V9R 2H8
ph: 250-753-3345 or 1-888-265-1007
email: hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca OR kevin_annett@hotmail.com
website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org
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Sample Declaration of Conscience Form -
To be submitted to the Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada
Pledge of Conscience
I, the undersigned, cannot in good conscience contribute money to this church until it returns the remains of the children who died under its care, in Indian Residential Schools and hospitals, and fully discloses their fate and cause of death.
Until this occurs, I am refraining from financially supporting this church. I will not make any form of donation or pledge to this church, nor will I rent your facilities. I will urge others to conduct a similar boycott of your institution.
____________ _________ _________
Name
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Date
“Kevin is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have received it in the past.”
- Dr. Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“A courageous and inspiring man." (referring to Kevin Annett)
- Mairead Corrigan-Maguire
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Belfast , Northern Ireland
Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) – National Committee
Church Occupations have Commenced across Canada because of Refusal of Church Officials to Disclose Buried Remains of Children – Churches Ordered Off Sovereign Lands
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http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/Recent
Executive Director
National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 122
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7
Phone: 416-979-3909
Fax: 416-946-1983
e-mail:estellamuyinda@narcc.ca
Web site: www.narcc.ca
CHILD WELFARE
I have been asked to speak to you today about First Nations Child Welfare.
In 2002, Dr. Douglas Durst of the University of Regina said this about the ongoing effect of state-run child welfare agencies:
“Similar to the TB epidemics of the turn of the century, no other government program has destroyed the lives, hearts, and minds of so many Aboriginal people with lingering pain though childhood until death.”
What could be more important than the health and welfare of our youth? For First Nations, children are our most precious resource. They are central to our worldview. It is the role of the Elders to maintain our language and traditions, and to pass these on to the young ones. It is the role of the young people to carry this knowledge forward.
We all want to ensure our children have every opportunity to fulfill their greatest potential and reach for their brightest dreams.
The well-being of our children is particularly important. More than half of our population is under the age of 23.
By contrast, Canada, in general, has an aging population. Many of the baby boomers are approaching retirement. The Canada West Foundation calculated that over the next ten years, the number of Canadians retiring and leaving the workforce will be greater than those entering the workforce.
If Canada is going to remain a robust and competitive country, it is imperative that we nurture and educate our young First Nations citizens. First Nations children are not only the future for First Nations - they are the future of Canada as well. Where goes our youth, so goes Canada...
... Before closing, I want to point out that this weekend's Globe and Mail national newspaper had an excellent feature titled “A Slap in the Face to Every Canadian”- about how international humanitarian agencies like Save the Children are stepping in to help close the gap in the poverty and despair that afflict so many First Nations communities.
Our people are survivors of the residential schools, survivors of the Sixties Scoop, and survivors of centuries of colonization.
For too long, our people have been subject to social policy that amounts to social engineering. The experiments have failed, and we bear the consequences.
This attitude must change. This approach must stop. Now is the time for reconciliation, resolution, and recognition of our historic rights -- to live our own lives and be accountable for our children and our communities.
To do anything less is to deny and denigrate the foundations of mutual respect and mutual recognition on which this country was founded.
To do anything less is to ignore the key principles and recommendations of the Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples report.
We can begin to walk a new path together. We can look ahead and see healthy and happy First Nations children that are thriving in a peaceful and prosperous Canada.
We must harness our collective wisdom and will to make this vision a reality.
We can work together. We must work together. We owe it to ourselves; we owe it to our country.
And most of all, we owe it to our future, our children.
Meegwetch! ~ AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine
AFN National Chief delivers speech at International Conference on Ethics ~ February 13, 2007
Palais des Congrès
Gatineau, Quebec
February 5, 2007
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http://www.firstperspective.ca/fp_templ
BC Aboriginal Child Care Society is a non-profit charitable society. We are a provincial organization serving Aboriginal early childhood programs throughout British Columbia. Our mission is to Build on our Nations ’ Past for our Children’s Future.
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BC Aboriginal Child Care Society
http://www.acc-society.bc.ca/
BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship
The purposes of the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres are:
*To promote the betterment of Aboriginal Friendship Centres in the Province of British Columbia.
*To establish and maintain communications between Aboriginal Friendship Centres and other Provincial Associations and the National Association of Friendship Centres.
*To act as a unifying body for Aboriginal Friendship Centres. To provide an Association for Government Agencies to communicate through and obtain information from. This, in no way takes away a centre's right to negotiate directly with any agency.
*To advise the Government, when requested by the collective centres, on how and what programs may assist Aboriginal Friendship Centres, in the development programs to better the lives of Aboriginal Native people in British Columbia.
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BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship
http://www.bcaafc.com/component/opt
Residential Schools Survivors Crisis Line ~ Healing and Wellness
Haig-Brown, Celia. (1988). Resistance and Renewal : Surviving the Indian Residential School. Vancouver. Tillacum Library, Arsenal Pulp Press Ltd. 0-88978-189-3.
"The elimination of language has always been a primary stage in a process of cultural genocide. This was the primary function of the residential school. My father was physically tortured by his teachers for speaking Tseshaht: they pushed sewing needles through his tongue, a routine punishment for language offendersÂ…The needle tortures suffered by my father affected all my family. My dad's attitude was "why teach my children Indian if they are going to be punished for speaking it?" (Randy Fred, p. 16).
This collection of First Nations Peoples stories and views on the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia serves two main purposes. First, to provide a written history of the residential school system in Canada, from the perspective of First Nations Peoples themselves, not as a rationale by government or missionaries. Second, the book sets out to provide a limited overview on the evolution of First Nations Peoples Education in Canada. Despite the wide-spread injustices that First Nations students faced, what is of particular interest in this book is the First Nations resistance movement that developed against the residential schools for control over their own education and destiny.
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Residential Schools Survivors Crisis Information and Links
http://www.turtleisland.org/resources/r
Living conditions for First Nations 'unacceptable': Fontaine
First Nations people in Canada live in "Third World" conditions, with a lack of access to clean water and decent housing, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations said Tuesday.
"We rank no better than a Third World country, and that is simply unacceptable. There is no good reason why our people should be as poor as they are," Phil Fontaine said in Toronto. ~ CBC online
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/0
Residential school protesters gather in Vancouver ~ Supported by Ex-clergy Kevin Annett
Emboldened Survivors Confront Clergy and Churchgoers in Vancouver
Updated Sun. Jan. 13 2008 10:33 PM ET ~ CTV.ca News Staff
Protesters gathered outside a downtown Vancouver Catholic church Sunday, demanding to know the locations where children were allegedly buried at residential schools in the province.
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s
A Quick Coverup? ~ Alexandria Library Visits Vancouver/ Hitler Burned Books to Hide the Truth
Kevin Annett and The United Church of Canada ~ May 2007, revised January 2008
For over a decade, Kevin Annett has made allegations about the United Church and its role in the Indian Residential School system. In 2007, Mr. Annett’s promotion of his film Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and the Canadian Genocide drew public attention to these allegations. More recently, misinformation carried on Mr. Annett’s website about the United Church archives and allegations concerning the Very Rev. Bill Phipps necessitate a direct response by the church.
On his website, Mr. Annett claims that in December 2007, The United Church of Canada closed its archives to the public in order "to conceal their guilt" about the deaths of children at the schools and that the Rev. Phipps "is one of the officials responsible for hiding these records". The truth is that the archives of the United Church have been open for many years. As of late December 2007, the archives are in the process of moving from one location to another, and most holdings will be closed to the public for several months. Throughout the transition, however, special provisions have been made to keep the archives related to Indian Residential Schools open and accessible. This has been clearly stated in every public announcement about the move that the church has made, including our recent press release of October 25, 2007. Bill Phipps is not involved with decisions regarding the archives.
At the present time, the United Church is actively participating with the federal government, other churches, the Assembly of First Nations, and Library and Archives Canada on the Missing Children Working Group, which is coordinating research in government and church archives specifically on the subject of the deaths and burials of students at the schools. ~ United Church of Canada
Kevin Annett and The United Church of Canada
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http://www.united-church.ca/communicati
UN Charter of Rights For The Protection of Children
"A child means every human being below the age of 18 years." The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most endorsed human rights treaty in the world, ratified by all but two countries. Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989, it celebrates childhood and codifies in international law the rights due every child. A former child soldier, DR Congo
Article 2: Children must be treated " ... without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of ... race, colour, sex, language, religion ... or other status." A family lives in poverty, Bangladesh.
Article 3: "In all actions concerning children ... the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration." A boy lives with his mother, who is HIV-positive, Russian Federation.
Articles 5 & 18: State signatories must "... respect the ... rights and duties of parents ... [and recognize that] both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing ... of the child." A family, India.
Article 6: "... every child has the inherent right to life ... survival and development ...." A boy and his grandfather in their village, Togo.
Articles 7 & 8: "The child shall be registered immediately after birth and ... have the right ... to a name ... a nationality ... [and] to preserve his or her identity ...." A newborn is registered, China.
Articles 9 & 10: "... a child shall not be separated from his or her parents against their will ... [and shall be permitted to cross national borders] for ... family reunification ...." A child and father, China.
Articles 12-14: "... the child who is capable of forming his or her own views [has] the right to express those views [and] the right to freedom of ... thought, conscience and religion." Displaced children, Sudan.
Article 16: "No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy ... nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honour and reputation." Girl in a displaced centre, Maldives.
Article 19: Children must be protected from "... injury or abuse ... including sexual abuse, while in the care of parents ... or any other person...." A girl was repeatedly raped by her father, Guatemala.
Articles 20 & 21: The State shall "ensure alternative care ... [for] a child ... deprived of his or her family environment ... [according to] the best interests of the child ...." An orphanage nurse, Armenia.
Article 22: "... a child who is seeking refugee status or who is ... a refugee ... [shall] receive appropriate protection and humanitarian assistance ...." One of 7.5 million Afghan refugees in 2001, Pakistan
Article 23: The State recognizes "... the right of the disabled child to special care" and the right to "... enjoy a full and decent life in conditions which ensure dignity ...." Boys play football, Sierra Leone.
Article 24: All children have the right to "the highest attainable standard of health ... [including access to] primary health care ... nutritious foods and clean drinking-water." A home health care visit, Haiti.
source: UNICEF
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF’s mission is to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is guided in doing this by the provisions and principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/
Children are Multi-cultural
http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/chi
Desiderata ~ Life 101 From Days Gone B. . .
"You are a child of the universe...
you have aright to be here
and whether or not it is clear to you...
the universe is unfolding as it should ~ Desiderata
Time Reveals All Wounds ~ Time's a Revelator, Gillian Welch
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=r4LdjEObj
Brother, we have some heavy legal shite coming down the pike! And heavy healing to do to help our native land. . .
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source: BC Aboriginal Child Care Society "All babies are born saying God's name. . ." ~ Sinead O'connor
We look to native cultures for human wisdom in dealing with the forces of nature, much of which in western society has been replaced by science and technology, demonizing these innocent souls into less than human. Nazi death camps, this was the true nature of residential schools, using small pox and tuberculosis to exterminate the undesirables. If you were kidnapped and brought to a residential school, even as late as the 1970’s, you were in purgatory on your way to hell.
Islam dictates that all foreigners are infidels, who are higher in status than one’s dog, who in turn is higher in status than one’s wife, who in turn is simply chatel, fodder and grist for the mill.
Christian religions subordinate “the nobel savage” to a place in the animal kingdom, feeling holier than thou. It is time not to sublimate, but to humble ourselves before our human relatives on this blue planet.
* Although the phrase noble savage first appeared in Dryden's The Conquest of Granada (1672), the idealized picture of "nature's gentleman" was an aspect of eighteenth-century Sentimentalism, among other forces at work. ~ Wikepedia
The Problem: There Remains a Hidden History of Torture and Death of Our Native Children in Residential Schools. Telling the Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada, VOICES of the Canadian Holocaust. What you must know:
Feature length documentary film: "UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide" (January 2007) ~ One man's journey around a people's suffering. Kevin Annett was a United Church pastor, when he became present to the stories of abuse by unscrupulous leaders under residential schools run by the United, Anglican and Catholic Churches, under annex of the Government of Canada Indian Affairs bureau's intent on racial genocide. As many as 50,000 child victims still lie in unmarked graves.
“Love and Death in the Valley” is Reverend Kevin Annett's biographical work, which recounts his gradual uncovering of the evidence of genocide and mass murder in his Church's "Indian Residential Schools" on Canada's West Coast.
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UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
Award-winning documentary film on Canada's Dirty Secret
(Best Director of an International Documentary Film, New York Independent Film and Video Festival, November, 2006)
http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/histor
Native Residential Schools
http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/
Native Sculptor Michael Irving Remembers Residential Schools
Native children in residential schools were subjected to extreme degrees of cruelty in physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural and sexual abuse.
Residential school abuse was unique in that:
• There was forced removal from homes
• A whole cultural group was forcibly sent to these schools
• There was the forced loss of their language and culture
• It was sanctioned institutionally and legally
• There was no one to turn to for help there was a total loss of family and community
Residential schools communicated and instilled worthlessness, shame, isolation, hopelessness, a lack of belonging, internalized self-hatred.
The legacy of residential schools left a sense of not fitting in anywhere, not with their own culture and families, nor in the rest of Canada. "I don't know who I am." ~ Native Sculptor Michael Irving
Grandfathers:
I pray for your pity,
The acknowledgment of suffering
Be the offering you will turn,
Like the waterspouts of the ocean,
Into the heart of the sun.
Fulfilling the hearts of children
All My Relations
Native Sculptor Michael Irving Remembers Residential Schools
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http://www.irvingstudios.com/child_abus
Fallen Feather – Indian Industrial Residential Schools Cree Nation
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http://www.fallenfeatherproductions.c
The Continuing Suffering and Fallout of Victims From Residential School Abuse ~ To Fix the Problems of the World, Look to Your Own Fold. . .
source: movie Unrepentant
Have you ever wondered why there are no smiles, but an eternal sadness engraved into the faces of our native peoples? Many of us today carry that same sadness in our faces, when we walk through our day. We avoid the drug infested haunts of the homeless, when that is where the only real humans on this planet are forced to reside. When you see their sadness you see a mirror for your pain and suffering. When you see a native smile there is a world of forgiveness. You cannot change what terror our forefathers have wreaked on them, you can only become present to, share their pain, and help to heal the wounds. ~ Luke 3:15-08
Rape Victims Attend Healing Circles in Fallout of Resisdential School Abuses
http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issu
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS: AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF GENOCIDE
http://sisis.nativeweb.org/resschool/ma
And It Doesn’t Stop Here... Another Can of Worms
Just a year and a half ago, after spending over four years on the same story for CNN and CBS before that, a pedophile priest named Oliver O'Grady decided he would participate in the film I wanted to make.
It became Deliver Us From Evil -- the story from inside the sickest mind possible, the secrets that were meant to stay in the private files and crypts of the Roman Catholic Church, and the blind trust in those they perceived as God's messengers that left families with no faith and children with no innocence. After filming for a week and a half, the then defrocked priest mentioned he might need to move to Canada after this film comes public. Seeing the pain, corruption and missed opportunities to provide ministry to those in need was truly a tragic story to watch and the loss was more devastating than I ever imagined. It was so difficult to be so close to such a horror story that in the priest's words "never should have happened." ~ Director Amy Berg
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Deliver Us From Evil
http://www.deliverusfromevilthemovie.co
We Establish Social Systems to Help Those in Need, But Who is Monitoring the Monitors? . . .
Pity, Not Only In Canada. . . ~ Aboriginal Rights Agreement between the Patta Warumungu people and the Northern Territory Government, Australia
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Native Title Consent Determination and ILUA signing in Tennant Creek town area in Australia
http://www.kimberlychristen.com/?p=169
World-Wide Epidemic of Child Abuse. . . ~ Many Countries Today Face the Problems of Stewardship and Child Protection on a Large Scale
200,000 Filipino children victims of human rights violation: UNICEF
Based on the recent statistics of Childrenís Rehabilitation Center (CRC) report from 2001 to 2006, more than 200,000 Filipino children suffered from various exploitation acts and human rights injustices.
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200,000 Filipino children victims of human rights violation: UNICEF
http://www.stolenchildhood.net/entry/un
World-Wide Epidemic of Child Abuse. . . ~ Internet: The New "Residential School" and Virtual "Babysitter"
From a renowned investigative reporter, the true story behind a horrifying Internet abuse epidemic-and the heroes who are out to stop it.
The Internet has helped make child abuse terrifyingly common - it is the new face of crime in the 21st century. There are tens, probably hundreds of thousands of children whose sexual abuse has been electronically recorded and distributed on the Internet. As Julian Sher reveals, the men perpetrating these crimes include lawyers, priests, doctors and politicians. They pick their victims from the streets of Bangkok to the Boy Scout troops in England, while the police -- from a crack image analyst with the Toronto police to an FBI agent who poses as a 13 year old girl online - work desperately to nab the predators.
The book goes behind the headlines to show how law officers are fighting back against this tide of abuse, from daring rescues in homes to the seizures of millions of dollars in the offshore bank accounts of the porn merchants. In riveting detail, Julian Sher shows how clue by clue, and image by image, investigators are using cutting edge tools, turning the technology of the Internet against the perpetrators as they race to find and rescue the victims-children who otherwise have no voice.
This important book explores the ramifications of a worldwide struggle, from the need for updated legal powers to the unexpected effects the Internet has had on our social fabric. It also includes a full list of resources for concerned parents. Though sometimes harrowing, this book is also inspiring-and never less than absolutely relevant. ~ kismet
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One Child At A Time ~ A Book About Child Pornography on the Internet by Julian Sher
http://www.journalismnet.com/book/c
Can life improve for the world's poorest? Will the UN's Millennium Development Goals be achieved? The international community's "promise to the world's poor is being broken, "according to the United Nations...
...How do you expect to see an end to poverty when a country like Zambia has an unemployment rate of 80%? ~ BBC article
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Can life improve for the world's poorest? - Look Up the Chain of Command for the Answers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_poin
Shadows of the Slave Trade ~ "You Gotta Serve Somebody..." ~ Bob Dylan
It may be the devil, or it may be the lord, but you gotta serve somebody..."
Oh Brazo Brazil
And speaking of the Jaguar. The brothers of the Jaguar need your help!! This photo is FOR REAL and the brotha named Ghost that risked his life deep in the Amazon to shoot it wants you to know that yeah its the year 2008 and mothafuckaz is still taking native peoples land like it was the 1700's
Ottawa's rejection of native-rights declaration 'sad' ~ From Thursday's Globe and Mail November 21, 2006
OTTAWA — Canada's reputation as a human-rights leader will be smeared when it votes against a declaration on indigenous rights, warns the chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz said it is "very sad" that Canadian officials have gone from active supporters to strong opponents of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which could be put to a final vote as early as next week in New York.
"Canada has a substantial number of indigenous peoples, and having the reputation of being a champion of human rights, will definitely be smeared by this act that they are going to take," she said in an interview with The Globe and Mail.
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source: National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
http://action.web.ca/home/cassa/whatsne
Media Advisory: Canada And The Crown
Queen of England Issued a Letter of Demand, Possible Lawsuit by Indian Residential School Survivors
Evening of Thursday, January 24, 2008
Unceded Squamish Territory ("Vancouver, Canada")
Elizabeth Windsor, the Queen of England, was issued a Letter of Demand yesterday that requires that she identify the fate and burial sites of all the children who died in Indian Residential Schools established under the authority of the Church of England and the British Crown.
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http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/Recent
Orphans of Colonialsim ~ The Fallout of Globalization
Victorian Orphans, Culture and Empire By Laura Peters ~ British Export of Child Labour reached numbers of up to 85,000 over a century ago.
A Modest Proposal
For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public
By Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.ht
Who Decides Who Lives and Who Dies? ~ The Orders of Stewardship and the "Axes of Evil". Don Juan called these subordinate terrorists "petty tyrants" in his The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castanada. These are the entities in our own communities that we all must stand up to in order to survive and flourish.
"In 1991, President George H.W. Bush Sr., a member of the Trilateral Commission, began to openly talk about the New World Order, which expanded the concept to include governance as well as economic unity. Click on the movie to hear Bush in his own words!"
"What is Globalization? It is the collective effect of purposeful and amoral manipulation that seeks to centralize economic, political, technological and societal forces in order to accrue maximum profit and political power to global banks, global corporations and the elitists who run them." August Review
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How to Understand Globalization
http://www.augustreview.com/knowledge_b
New World Order
http://www.augustreview.com/?gclid=CKX4
President George H.W. Bush Sr., a member of the Trilateral Commission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9Syi12
Illuminati and New World Order ~ Evilarchy Ruling Above Hierarchy, German Bavarian Secret Society
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m89SB59D
Georgio Hugo Balestrieri, International Rotary of New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9gitez0
http://www.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/re
"For a fraction of the cost of war we could solve all the hunger and homelessness in the world."
This goal is too costly, many say. But this is not true. The cost of our initial military response will easily top $100 billion (on top of our already enormous annual defense budget of $342 billion). What could we accomplish if we spent even a small fraction of that much on programs to alleviate human suffering?
In 1998, the United Nations Development Program estimated that it would cost an additional $9 billion (above current expenditures) to provide clean water and sanitation for everyone on earth. It would cost an additional $12 billion, they said, to cover reproductive health services for all women worldwide. Another $13 billion would be enough not only to give every person on Earth enough food to eat but also basic health care. An additional $6 billion could provide basic education for all.
These are large numbers, but combined they add up to $40 billion —"only one fifth as much as the $200 billion the U.S. government agreed in October 2001 to pay Lockheed to build new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) jets...
The U.S. government has made much of C-17 cargo planes dropping 20,000 food packets a day to Afghan civilians. But according to world hunger relief organizations active in Afghanistan such as Oxfam, the program has been a dismal failure. The president of one of the world’s most prestigious aid organizations, Doctors Without Borders, speaking from Islamabad, deplored the program as so much “PR.” The airdrops, he said, are a huge waste of money. The packages, containing enough to feed an adult for a day, land all over the place, with no guarantee that they will be retrieved. Many land in the midst of landmines. And the amount being dropped is insignificant is a country where seven or eight million people are in danger of starvation. The money ($25 million according to U.S. government sources) would be far better spent provisioning the regular aid convoys already in action." ~ John Robbins
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Terror, Love and the State of the World
http://www.healthyat100.org/display.a
Aah, but I Digress. . .
One Child At A Time is a non-profit aid organization dedicated to meeting the needs of children all over the world. Medical supplies, clothing, health needs, school supplies and various other items are collected by volunteers and shipped or hand carried by escorts, volunteers or adoptive parents to be donated to hospitals or child care facilities.
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http://www.onechildatatime.org/
UN Charter of Rights For The Protection of Children
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF’s mission is to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is guided in doing this by the provisions and principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/
Children are Multi-cultural
http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/chi
No Child Left Behind Act ~ Bureaucracy At It's Finest !
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Finally, Something Right With America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_L
U.S. Department of Education Document ~ Dare to Read !
http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea
What You Can Do
Taking Action: What You Can Do
1. Educate Yourself and Others -
a) Order and distribute our book Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust and our film UNREPENTANT to libraries, colleges and the media in your community - UNREPENTANT can be ordered through our Commission (below) and view at google video or on the right of this page
b) Hold a public screening of UNREPENTANT in your community and invite Kevin Annett to come and speak at the event.
c) Order educational material and leaflets from our Truth Commission (Education Kit #1), and distribute them outside Catholic, Anglican and United Churches on
Sunday mornings (see contact info below)
2. Refuse to Cooperate with Genocidal Institutions -
a) Boycott the Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada - Refuse to attend their services or rent their facilities, or if you do attend, withhold from
them all donations, tithings and bequests. (See the sample Declaration of Conscience form below)
b) Withhold all tax payments to the government of Canada.
c) Support an international boycott of Canadian tourism and goods, and a boycott of the 2010 Olympics in British Columbia.
d) Write to your local M.P. and to Revenue Canada and demand that the charitable tax-exempt status of the Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada be revoked.
3. Take Direct Action -
a) Hold protests, memorial vigils and civil disobedience actions at these churches and government facilities, demanding to know where the deceased residential school children are buried, and calling for their return to their families for a proper burial, and for a surrender of those persons responsible for their deaths.
b) Publicly identify and perform citizens' arrests on those persons responsible for crimes against native people and the land.
c) Create indigenous and popular courts of justice where the perpetrators of murder and other crimes against our people and the land can be tried and sentenced.
4. Support our efforts to launch a full, non-governmental inquiry into genocide in Canadian Indian residential schools -
a) Endorse our call for an international Tribunal into Genocide in Canada.
b) Organize a local chapter of our Truth Commission in your community and formally affiliate yourself and your organization with our Commission.
5. Help us to research and document the evidence of genocide in Canada -
a) Interview residential school survivors in your community, record their stories, and help create local video libraries containing this evidence.
b) Research local archives and government and church records for the evidence of crimes in residential schools and hospitals across Canada.
c) Organize academic and public conferences on the theme of genocide in Canada.
5. Send us a donation, which will be used to produce
our books and film and fund our research and travel costs -
To send donations, see the Paypal link on this website, or send a cheque or money order made out to Lori O'Rorke to - 260 Kennedy St., Nanaimo, B.C. Canada V9R 2H8.
To order our books, film and other material, and to arrange to work with us, contact:
The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
c/o 260 Kennedy St.
Nanaimo, B.C. Canada V9R 2H8
ph: 250-753-3345 or 1-888-265-1007
email: hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca OR kevin_annett@hotmail.com
website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org
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Sample Declaration of Conscience Form -
To be submitted to the Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada
Pledge of Conscience
I, the undersigned, cannot in good conscience contribute money to this church until it returns the remains of the children who died under its care, in Indian Residential Schools and hospitals, and fully discloses their fate and cause of death.
Until this occurs, I am refraining from financially supporting this church. I will not make any form of donation or pledge to this church, nor will I rent your facilities. I will urge others to conduct a similar boycott of your institution.
____________ _________ _________
Name
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Date
“Kevin is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have received it in the past.”
- Dr. Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“A courageous and inspiring man." (referring to Kevin Annett)
- Mairead Corrigan-Maguire
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Belfast , Northern Ireland
Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) – National Committee
Church Occupations have Commenced across Canada because of Refusal of Church Officials to Disclose Buried Remains of Children – Churches Ordered Off Sovereign Lands
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http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/Recent
Executive Director
National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 122
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7
Phone: 416-979-3909
Fax: 416-946-1983
e-mail:estellamuyinda@narcc.ca
Web site: www.narcc.ca
CHILD WELFARE
I have been asked to speak to you today about First Nations Child Welfare.
In 2002, Dr. Douglas Durst of the University of Regina said this about the ongoing effect of state-run child welfare agencies:
“Similar to the TB epidemics of the turn of the century, no other government program has destroyed the lives, hearts, and minds of so many Aboriginal people with lingering pain though childhood until death.”
What could be more important than the health and welfare of our youth? For First Nations, children are our most precious resource. They are central to our worldview. It is the role of the Elders to maintain our language and traditions, and to pass these on to the young ones. It is the role of the young people to carry this knowledge forward.
We all want to ensure our children have every opportunity to fulfill their greatest potential and reach for their brightest dreams.
The well-being of our children is particularly important. More than half of our population is under the age of 23.
By contrast, Canada, in general, has an aging population. Many of the baby boomers are approaching retirement. The Canada West Foundation calculated that over the next ten years, the number of Canadians retiring and leaving the workforce will be greater than those entering the workforce.
If Canada is going to remain a robust and competitive country, it is imperative that we nurture and educate our young First Nations citizens. First Nations children are not only the future for First Nations - they are the future of Canada as well. Where goes our youth, so goes Canada...
... Before closing, I want to point out that this weekend's Globe and Mail national newspaper had an excellent feature titled “A Slap in the Face to Every Canadian”- about how international humanitarian agencies like Save the Children are stepping in to help close the gap in the poverty and despair that afflict so many First Nations communities.
Our people are survivors of the residential schools, survivors of the Sixties Scoop, and survivors of centuries of colonization.
For too long, our people have been subject to social policy that amounts to social engineering. The experiments have failed, and we bear the consequences.
This attitude must change. This approach must stop. Now is the time for reconciliation, resolution, and recognition of our historic rights -- to live our own lives and be accountable for our children and our communities.
To do anything less is to deny and denigrate the foundations of mutual respect and mutual recognition on which this country was founded.
To do anything less is to ignore the key principles and recommendations of the Royal Commission of Aboriginal Peoples report.
We can begin to walk a new path together. We can look ahead and see healthy and happy First Nations children that are thriving in a peaceful and prosperous Canada.
We must harness our collective wisdom and will to make this vision a reality.
We can work together. We must work together. We owe it to ourselves; we owe it to our country.
And most of all, we owe it to our future, our children.
Meegwetch! ~ AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine
AFN National Chief delivers speech at International Conference on Ethics ~ February 13, 2007
Palais des Congrès
Gatineau, Quebec
February 5, 2007
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http://www.firstperspective.ca/fp_templ
BC Aboriginal Child Care Society is a non-profit charitable society. We are a provincial organization serving Aboriginal early childhood programs throughout British Columbia. Our mission is to Build on our Nations ’ Past for our Children’s Future.
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BC Aboriginal Child Care Society
http://www.acc-society.bc.ca/
BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship
The purposes of the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres are:
*To promote the betterment of Aboriginal Friendship Centres in the Province of British Columbia.
*To establish and maintain communications between Aboriginal Friendship Centres and other Provincial Associations and the National Association of Friendship Centres.
*To act as a unifying body for Aboriginal Friendship Centres. To provide an Association for Government Agencies to communicate through and obtain information from. This, in no way takes away a centre's right to negotiate directly with any agency.
*To advise the Government, when requested by the collective centres, on how and what programs may assist Aboriginal Friendship Centres, in the development programs to better the lives of Aboriginal Native people in British Columbia.
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BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship
http://www.bcaafc.com/component/opt
Residential Schools Survivors Crisis Line ~ Healing and Wellness
Haig-Brown, Celia. (1988). Resistance and Renewal : Surviving the Indian Residential School. Vancouver. Tillacum Library, Arsenal Pulp Press Ltd. 0-88978-189-3.
"The elimination of language has always been a primary stage in a process of cultural genocide. This was the primary function of the residential school. My father was physically tortured by his teachers for speaking Tseshaht: they pushed sewing needles through his tongue, a routine punishment for language offendersÂ…The needle tortures suffered by my father affected all my family. My dad's attitude was "why teach my children Indian if they are going to be punished for speaking it?" (Randy Fred, p. 16).
This collection of First Nations Peoples stories and views on the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia serves two main purposes. First, to provide a written history of the residential school system in Canada, from the perspective of First Nations Peoples themselves, not as a rationale by government or missionaries. Second, the book sets out to provide a limited overview on the evolution of First Nations Peoples Education in Canada. Despite the wide-spread injustices that First Nations students faced, what is of particular interest in this book is the First Nations resistance movement that developed against the residential schools for control over their own education and destiny.
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Residential Schools Survivors Crisis Information and Links
http://www.turtleisland.org/resources/r
Living conditions for First Nations 'unacceptable': Fontaine
First Nations people in Canada live in "Third World" conditions, with a lack of access to clean water and decent housing, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations said Tuesday.
"We rank no better than a Third World country, and that is simply unacceptable. There is no good reason why our people should be as poor as they are," Phil Fontaine said in Toronto. ~ CBC online
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/0
Residential school protesters gather in Vancouver ~ Supported by Ex-clergy Kevin Annett
Emboldened Survivors Confront Clergy and Churchgoers in Vancouver
Updated Sun. Jan. 13 2008 10:33 PM ET ~ CTV.ca News Staff
Protesters gathered outside a downtown Vancouver Catholic church Sunday, demanding to know the locations where children were allegedly buried at residential schools in the province.
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s
A Quick Coverup? ~ Alexandria Library Visits Vancouver/ Hitler Burned Books to Hide the Truth
Kevin Annett and The United Church of Canada ~ May 2007, revised January 2008
For over a decade, Kevin Annett has made allegations about the United Church and its role in the Indian Residential School system. In 2007, Mr. Annett’s promotion of his film Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and the Canadian Genocide drew public attention to these allegations. More recently, misinformation carried on Mr. Annett’s website about the United Church archives and allegations concerning the Very Rev. Bill Phipps necessitate a direct response by the church.
On his website, Mr. Annett claims that in December 2007, The United Church of Canada closed its archives to the public in order "to conceal their guilt" about the deaths of children at the schools and that the Rev. Phipps "is one of the officials responsible for hiding these records". The truth is that the archives of the United Church have been open for many years. As of late December 2007, the archives are in the process of moving from one location to another, and most holdings will be closed to the public for several months. Throughout the transition, however, special provisions have been made to keep the archives related to Indian Residential Schools open and accessible. This has been clearly stated in every public announcement about the move that the church has made, including our recent press release of October 25, 2007. Bill Phipps is not involved with decisions regarding the archives.
At the present time, the United Church is actively participating with the federal government, other churches, the Assembly of First Nations, and Library and Archives Canada on the Missing Children Working Group, which is coordinating research in government and church archives specifically on the subject of the deaths and burials of students at the schools. ~ United Church of Canada
Kevin Annett and The United Church of Canada
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http://www.united-church.ca/communicati
UN Charter of Rights For The Protection of Children
"A child means every human being below the age of 18 years." The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most endorsed human rights treaty in the world, ratified by all but two countries. Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989, it celebrates childhood and codifies in international law the rights due every child. A former child soldier, DR Congo
Article 2: Children must be treated " ... without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of ... race, colour, sex, language, religion ... or other status." A family lives in poverty, Bangladesh.
Article 3: "In all actions concerning children ... the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration." A boy lives with his mother, who is HIV-positive, Russian Federation.
Articles 5 & 18: State signatories must "... respect the ... rights and duties of parents ... [and recognize that] both parents have common responsibilities for the upbringing ... of the child." A family, India.
Article 6: "... every child has the inherent right to life ... survival and development ...." A boy and his grandfather in their village, Togo.
Articles 7 & 8: "The child shall be registered immediately after birth and ... have the right ... to a name ... a nationality ... [and] to preserve his or her identity ...." A newborn is registered, China.
Articles 9 & 10: "... a child shall not be separated from his or her parents against their will ... [and shall be permitted to cross national borders] for ... family reunification ...." A child and father, China.
Articles 12-14: "... the child who is capable of forming his or her own views [has] the right to express those views [and] the right to freedom of ... thought, conscience and religion." Displaced children, Sudan.
Article 16: "No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy ... nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honour and reputation." Girl in a displaced centre, Maldives.
Article 19: Children must be protected from "... injury or abuse ... including sexual abuse, while in the care of parents ... or any other person...." A girl was repeatedly raped by her father, Guatemala.
Articles 20 & 21: The State shall "ensure alternative care ... [for] a child ... deprived of his or her family environment ... [according to] the best interests of the child ...." An orphanage nurse, Armenia.
Article 22: "... a child who is seeking refugee status or who is ... a refugee ... [shall] receive appropriate protection and humanitarian assistance ...." One of 7.5 million Afghan refugees in 2001, Pakistan
Article 23: The State recognizes "... the right of the disabled child to special care" and the right to "... enjoy a full and decent life in conditions which ensure dignity ...." Boys play football, Sierra Leone.
Article 24: All children have the right to "the highest attainable standard of health ... [including access to] primary health care ... nutritious foods and clean drinking-water." A home health care visit, Haiti.
source: UNICEF
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF’s mission is to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. UNICEF is guided in doing this by the provisions and principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/
Children are Multi-cultural
http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/chi
Desiderata ~ Life 101 From Days Gone B. . .
"You are a child of the universe...
you have aright to be here
and whether or not it is clear to you...
the universe is unfolding as it should ~ Desiderata
Time Reveals All Wounds ~ Time's a Revelator, Gillian Welch
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=r4LdjEObj
Brother, we have some heavy legal shite coming down the pike! And heavy healing to do to help our native land. . .
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