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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on September 12, 2013, 09:24:43 PM
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Flags commemorating 9/11 taken down as political statement
http://middbeat.org/2013/09/11/flags-commemorating-911taken-down-as-political-statement/#more-4031
UPDATE (9/12/13): Here is part of a statement written by Amanda Lickers, the woman Shireman-Grabowski claimed to assist in removing the flags. Lickers says she is a member of the Onondowa’ga Nation, which is a part of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The statement was posted in an article on the website Climate Connections:
yesterday i went to occupied abenaki territory. i was invited to middlebury college to facilitate a workshop on settler responsibility and decolonization. i walked across this campus whose stone wall structures weigh heavy on the landscape. the history of eugenics, genocide and colonial violence permeate that space so fully like a ghost everywhere descending. it was my understanding that this site is occupying an abenaki burial ground; a sacred site.
walking through the campus i saw thousands of small american flags. tho my natural disdain for the occupying colonial state came to surface, in the quickest moment of decision making, in my heart, i understood that lands where our dead lay must not be desecrated. in my community, we do not pierce the earth. it disturbs the spirits there, it is important for me to respect their presence, their want for rest.
my heart swelled and i knew in my core that thousands of american flags should not penetrate the earth where my abenaki brothers and sisters sleep. we have all survived so much – and as a visitor on their territories i took action to respect them and began pulling up all of the flags.
i was with 4 non-natives who supported me in this action. there were so many flags staking the earth and their hands helped make this work faster. this act of support by my friends, as settlers, tho small was healing and inspiring. we put them away in black garbage bags and i was confronted by a nationalistic-settler, a young white boy who attends the college demanding i relinquish the flags to him. i held my ground and confiscated them. i did not want to cave to his support of the occupying, settler-colonial, imperalist state, and the endorsing of the genocide of indigenous peoples across the world.
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From YAF's Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151898028027941&l=ea1b6c4eaa
They made statement on a climate change blog.
Climate Connections
http://climate-connections.org/2013/09/12/vermont-protestors-remove-american-flags-at-911-memorial-in-act-of-solidarity/
American Indians did not do 9/11. It was Muslims. :???: :wtf2: :bs: Such criminal behavior. :mental: :bird: I wonder what Amanda Lickers and Anna Shireman-Grabowski's DU names are. :mental: :mental:
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She's a member of the school's College Democrats club.
Go figure.
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She's a member of the school's College Democrats club.
Go figure.
And, apparently, capital letters are a tool of the colonialist oppressor.
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Native American moonbat.... :mad:
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Native American moonbat.... :mad:
She's got as much Native American blood in her as Ward Churchill or Elizabeth Warren.
(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Tc4cry6Pkow/hqdefault.jpg)
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She's got as much Native American blood in her as Ward Churchill or Elizabeth Warren.
(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Tc4cry6Pkow/hqdefault.jpg)
"we do not pierce the earth." ....but any and all body parts are fair game.
The Indians traded ownership back and forth of this great land by killing each other off. The white man came along and stopped that.
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Amanda Lickers...Window Lickers...same same.
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Moonbat Lezbo of the highest order. :thatsright:
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9/11 flag vandalism shocks Middlebury College
http://www.addisonindependent.com/201309911-flag-vandalism-shocks-middlebury-college
Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe, called the vandalism “disgusting,†and believes the protesters were acting to promote their own political beliefs.
“We didn’t know anything about this and if we had we certainly wouldn’t have sanctioned it,†Stevens said.
He said that Abenakis do not publicize the locations of their burial sites in order to protect them, and that he has no knowledge of any such sites on the Middlebury campus. Stevens said that even if the site of the memorial had been a burial site, the American flags placed in the earth would not have been a desecration.
“Our burial sites honor our warriors and their bravery,†Stevens said. “Putting flags in the earth to honor bravery would not be disrespectful.â€
Stevens served in the U.S. Army; his father fought in Korea and his son served in Iraq as a member of the National Guard.
The chief of Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe finds it disgusting.
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She's got as much Native American blood in her as Ward Churchill or Elizabeth Warren.
(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Tc4cry6Pkow/hqdefault.jpg)
does the one drop rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule) apply when claiming you are a native American just like it does for those claiming they are black?
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It would have been nice if, after taking the picture, the photographer would have tried to stop her from destroying the memorial.