[PEN-L:9690] RE: Declaration Against Racism (updated July 28)

["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

Arthur,

Please add my name: James Craven, Blackfoot Confederacy

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: arthur [mailto:bayou@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:03 PM
To: jcraven@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: bayou@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Declaration Against Racism (updated July 28)


   Please post widely
DECLARATION AGAINST RACISM
>From NWLPSN bayou@xxxxxxxxx

  This is a very important declaration for it takes a stand against the
growing rightwing turn by some environmental groups. It should be
known by all that using racism and attacking Native treaty rights will not
gain these groups any supporters. Please signon to this statement if
you can and please pass it along to others. Thank you
                                                              In Solidarity
                                                              Arthur J.
Miller
                                                              NWLPSN
Attached are the signers to the declaration as of July 28, 1999. If you
wish to sign the declaration, please contact <bayou@xxxxxxxxx>.

We will be posting this declaration on our website and will send copies
to
the Sea Shepherd Society and other animal rights/environmental groups
who
have participated in using racism in their opposition to the Makah whale
hunt.

Many thanks to all the groups and individuals who have pledged their
support to the native peoples of the Pacific Northwest.

For people who wish to mail in their signing on to this declaration. Send
it to NWLPSN, P.O. Box 5464, Tacoma, WA 98415-0464 USA.
********

STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST

* Please post widely *

We, the undersigned, wish to express our solidarity with native peoples
of
the Pacific Northwest, who are currently suffering from a racist backlash
to the recent hunting of a whale by Makah people.

The backlash has included bomb threats against native schools, and
threats
to shoot native people as "revenge" for the whale. Native people have
been
refused service by white owners of stores and other businesses in the
Pacific Northwest. One native man was beaten so badly he is now in a
wheelchair.

This declaration is not about whether or not the Makah whale hunt is
"right" or "wrong". It is an assertion that racism is always wrong.

While we, the undersigned, have varying opinions about the hunting of
whales, we agree on the following:

1) Racism in all forms must be opposed. We reject any attempts by
environmentalists, animal rights activists, or any other groups to use
racism to gain support for a cause.

2) We call on all groups and individuals concerned about the whaling to
take a strong stand against the racist backlash that is currently
happening
as a result of racist and inflammatory rhetoric used by environmental
and
animal rights groups such as the Sea Shepherd Society.

3) We recognize and support the sovereignty of all native nations,
including the Makah. We reject attempts to use this whale hunt to
undermine
native nations struggling to assert their sovereignty.

4) We reject the polarization of this issue into "Makah vs. the whales".
We
believe that this oversimplification of the Makah whale hunt plays up
racist stereotypes instead of addressing questions of animal
exploitation.
As the Makah have pointed out, non-native people kill animals
deliberately
every day for food, clothing, entertainment, and experimentation, with no
regard for the suffering of the animals or the devastating effects on the
overall environment; non-native industry is responsible for the deaths of
countless whales every year.

While we, the undersigned, may differ in our opinions of the Makah
whale
hunt itself, we are united in our condemnation of the racist tactics which
are being used to oppose the hunt.

We fully support native peoples of the Pacific Northwest and offer our
assistance to work towards stopping the racist backlash.

To express your support by signing this declaration, contact
<sisis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

Signed:

Aanta Forsgren, Forst Sami, Smai Nation, Sweden
Aarne Lozano, Seattle, WA
Aaron Dietz
Achaessa James, Eastern Cherokee/Choctaw/Kwakiutl, Issaquah, WA
Adam Tworkowski, Toronto GMB-IWW/TAO Toronto
Adriene Sere, Said It, Feminist News
AIM--Central California
AIM of Ohio Exective Board members, Philip J. Yenyo, Curtis Crow
  Director, Juan Reyna, Faye Bringsthem, Linda Clause, Marge Villivane
Alan Collins - CA, USA
Alexandra Magdalena Garzero, Haywood, CA
Albert Shamamba, Luicie Shamamba, Kinshasa, Kongo
Alice V. Tillerson
Alicia Littletree, Mendocino Earth First!
Alina Morelli
Alison Benedict
Alison Galemba, Leonard Peltier Support Group--Southwestern
  Connectict
Amanda Dorter, Quelph, Ont., Canada
Amanda Jarman, Seattle, WA
Ana E. Cecena, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Andrew Smith - Champaign, IL, USA
Angela Beallor, Kent ABC
Angela Friesner
Anne Nwokoye
Annette Santos - Burnaby, BC, Canada
Anti-Racist Action--Vancouver
Anti-Racist Emergency Action Network - Tacoma, WA, USA
Anti-Racist Action (Toronto) - Toronto, ON, Canada
Dr. April Lea Go Forth, Director, Resources for Indian Student
  Education, Inc.
Arantza Lacasa - Brazil
Arthur J. Miller, IU 320--IWW, Coordinator NWLPSN
Audna Lang - Las Vegas, NV, USA
Aurora Sauceda, Flint, MI
B. Allyson Garcia, New Rochelle, NY
Bayou La Rose
Ben Brucato, Kent ABC
Ben Mahony, University of Lethbridge - Canada
Benita Bunjun, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Betsy Robinson, Tacoma, WA
Beth Newberry, 4 COLORS List, Black Mesa Projects/ISCO, Leonard
  Peltier Support Group of Eugene/ISCO
Blackrose Wolfwoman
Blue Spruce - Tiwa Tribe, Taos Pueblo
Bob Monroe, Plattsburgh, NY
Bob Shoe, Washington. DC
Bruce Baechler
Bruce Two Eagles, Leicester, NC
Buffalo Heart, Indiana, USA
Carla Walker - Mashantucket, CT, USA
Carter Camp, Chair, Oklahoma AIM
Catherine Davids, Michigan Representative National Coalition on Racism

  in Sports and Media
Cathie Dever
Celine Vaquer-Nos & Sylvain Duez-Alesandrini. Leonard Peltier Support
  Group--France
CENACORA--Brasil, Rev. Antonio Sant'Ana, Profa. Creuza Evangelista,

  Hernani F. da Silva, Profa. Sandra Martins, Profa. Maria da Fe, Profa.

  Lilian Christina P. Machado, Dra. Giselle LaLucce A. Santos
Cesar Masumbuku, Dr. Jean Masumbuku, Heri - Jean Masumbuku,
  Lissa Masumbuku, Hamburg, Germany
Cindy Highsmith, New College Students For Animal Rights
Cindy Siddall, Milwaulie, OR
Charlotte Durie, For Mother Earth (UK)
Christie Spice
Chris Pelton, IWW, Knoxville, TN
Christina Traub
Claire Newman, Melbourne, Australia
Colin S. Cavell, UMASS. Anti-Racism Coalition
Cruz Negra Anarquista de Barcelona (ABC of Barcelona - Spanish
  State)
Czerny Brasuell, Co-Convenor, Racial Justice Working Group,

  NCCC/USA
Damiam Alefria, FMLN, Commader-in-Chief in Guazapa, El Salvador
Dave Coker, IU 640--IWW
David Cristian, Atlanta IWW-GMB
David McLaren - Wiarton, ON, Canada
David & Ruth M. Sickbert, Louisville, KY
Dee Pinkney, Creole, New Orleans, LA
Delia 'Dee' Dominguez, Chairwoman, Tinoqui-Chalola Council of the
Kitanemuk and Yowlumme Tejon Indians
Dennis Galemba, Oxfort, CT
Denny Henke, IWW, Memphis, TN
Diana Muncy
Dick Burton, Philosophy Professor, Seattle, WA
Dr. Jeri Buckely, Seattle, WA
Dr. J. Smalling. Taos, NM
Duane Campbell, Anti-Racism Commission, Democratic Socialists of

  America
Dylan Magon Floyd-Miller, Tacoma IWW
Earth First! Prague-Zeme
e aspinwall, Toronto, Canada
Edna Roland, Fala Preta! Organização de Mulheres Negras - São Paulo,
  Brasil
Eduardo Almeida, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Eduardo Manuel Duarte, Hempstead, NY
E.F. Aranyosi, Seattle, WA
Eileen Conroy, Ontario, Canada
Elaine Quinn
Elena - Spain
Eric Simon Coté
Estelle Giles, Plattsburgh, NY
Esther "Little Dove" John, M.Ed, Seattle, WA
Ferne Clements, Committee of 500 Years, Cleveland, OH
Fiona Taylor, Hobart, Australia
Forence Fiddler, Pembina Band Ojibway, Turtle Mtn.
Fred Chase, General Secretary-Treasurer--IWW, Ypsilanti, MI
gabrielle welford - Manoa, Hawai'i
Gene Lawhorn, Labor Historian, Radio KBOO Programmer
Greg King, IWW-GMB Edmonton
Gretchen Healy, Library Director, Little Priest Tribal College,
  Winnebago, NE
Group Duesseldorf-AFD-D, Germany
Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation, Australia
Hamburg Institute For Inter-Cultural and Migration Psychology,
  Hamburg, Germany
Heather Hall, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Helen Gilmore - Olympia, WA, USA
Helen Luu, London, ON, Canada
Herbert Borges Paes de Barros, Brasilia, Brazil
Hunter Bottoms
Indian People Organizing For Change, Rebecca Michelson, Brenda
  Schildt, Corrina Gould, Warren Bartel, Robert Torres, Loren Nakai,

  Redhouse Poncho, Richard Lovato, Diane Williams, Eileen Baustian,

  Carol Wahpepah, Billy Trice Jr, Diane McKissick, Carlotte Lopez

  Christensen, Jonella Sanchez, Stephanie Lindsey, Donna Seaton,
  Kelly Roanhorse, Sheila Roanhorse.
Indigenous Support Coalition of Oregon
Industrial Transportation Project--Industrial Workers of the World
Initiative For An Anarchist Federation in Germany --
  Hamburg/Grrmoney/Barmbek locals
Ishgooda
International Action Center
Jack Thornburgh, Alberni Social Justice Group
Jacqui Katona, Executive Officer, Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation,

  Australia
James Lord
James Mattiace, Eugene, OR
Jamie Kneen, Communications Coordinator, Mining Watch Canada
Jana Babineau, AIM-NC
Jana Webb, Decatur, ILL
Janet Cavallo
Jason A. Bokelman, member, Anti-Racist Action, Manhattan Kansas
  chapter
Jason Adams, IWW/Tenants Union, Seattle, WA
Jason Spaulding, Redbud Web Site
Jawea Mockabee, Portland, OR
Jeannine Gerhart, Stratfort, CT
Jeff Armstrong, Seattle, WA
Jeffrey Brite - Metairie, LA, USA
Jennifer Cooney, Human Rights Advocate, Trent University, Ont, Canada
Jim Page, Seattle, WA
Joan Elbert, 2000 Kairos/USA
Joan Kuyek, Ottawa, Canada
Josh Shook, Local Affairs Commissioner, U of G Central Student
  Association, Local 54 Canadain Federation of Students
Koeann Argue, Trent University, Petersborough, Ont., Canada
John Eaton,  Detroit IWW
John Hollingsworth, Ottawa GMB-IWW
John D. Berry - Stillwater, OK, USA
John Persak, IWW General Executive Board Member, Seattle, WA
John Two Hawks, Oglala Lakota Nation, Founder, Peggy Hill, Cherokee
  Nation, Four Winds Cultural Outreach
Jon Bekken, Boston Mass. IWW
Jorge Mariscal, University of California, San Diego, EEUU
Jorge Salazar Jara, Veracruz, Mexico
Joshua Freeze, IWW - Austin, TX, USA
June Standing Deer - Tiwa Tribe, Taos Pueblo
Kaidi Allah, Community Activist
Kalpulli Yetlanezi - Tolteka 13/Chicago-Aurora-Teotihuakan, Tekpatltzin,

  Xochimeh, Mazatl, Ollin Tochtli, Chicometochtlt, Tepechihuaz, Camila,

  Julio, Joe, Ocelotl, Huitziloxxipe, Meztli, Ozomatli, Jose
Kaththea Borland-Millsmailo
Kathleen Brotherton
Kathleen Maupin - Spencer, IN, USA
Kathleen Mavournin. Knoxville, TN
Kathryn Weymouth, Hampsire, UK
Kathy McDonald, M.D. (Spear Woman), Blackfeet
Kawika M K I Liu - Honolulu, Hawai'i
Kenneth & Marsha Rose Joyner, Honolulu, Hawaii
Kim Walker, Sarasota, FL
Kriste Keniray
Kurt Cockrum
Kyle Kajihiro, Honolulu. Hawaii
Lauriel L. Moulin
Lawrence Ignace, Lac Des Milles Lacs Anishnawbe First Nation, Ont.
  Canada
Leanne Grossman
Leigh Prahl
Leisette Rodriguez, Project Assistant II, MESA Statewide Office
Leonard Peltier, political prisoner
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee - Lawrence, KS, USA
Liliane Shamamba, London, UK
Lisa Brodyaga, Refugio Del Ro Grande, Harlingen, TX
Lona Hinckley, Sumner, WA
Long Standing Bear, Chief
L. Tatanka Wakinyan, Vice-Chairman, Confederated Tribes, Oregon
Lutz Mulert Sousa Ribeiro, Comissao de Justice Paz da Arquidiocese

  de Salvador, Brasil
Lynette Cruz, Hawaiian Kingdom
Macdonald Scott - Toronto, ON, Canada
Madonna L. Moss, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of
  Oregon
Marcel Hatch, Freedom Socialist Party - Canada
Margaret Sapp, Delaware
Mark Damron, General Executive Board--IWW member
Mark Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer, General Defense Committee-IWW
Mark Noble
Martin McWaters, Anti-Racist Caucus--New Socialist Group, Toronto
  Branch
Mary Grace
Mashane Buck, Metis, New Mexico
Megan Lewis - Victoria, BC, Canada
Melvin Litte, Socialist Party USA, Selma, NC
Meredith Ferguson, IWW, Norfolk, VA
Merrill Cole - Seattle, WA, USA
Michael A. Lewis, Fairbanks, Alaska
Michelle Lowry, Graduate Womens Studies Program, York University,
  Toronto, ON, Canada
Mickael Bennett, Portland, OR
Mike Wicks, American Indian Cultural Support, Lutz, FL
M.J. "Whitebear" Correll
Molly Johnson, Save Ward Valley, Needles, CA
Molly Sparhawk
Morgan Miller, Portland IWW
Morning Star Gali, American Indian Film Institute, San Francisco, CA
Mutual Aid Collective, Portland, Maine
Mykola Szoma, (Schoma Mykola Opanasovych) Sociologd Analistade
  Sistemas Administratives de Computer Estudioso da Biblia &
  Assuntos correlatos
NANI'S Tci-he-nde
Nicole Shamamba, Ioulon, France
Nicole Tenny, CA
Norm Dixon, Journalist, Greenleft Weekly, Australia
Northwest Leonard Peltier Support Network - USA
Nuevo Amanecer Press--USA--Mexico--Spain, Co-Director General
  Roger Maldonado--Mexico, Co-Director General Susana Saravia (Antes
  Anibarro), Director NAP-Europa Darrin Wood, Director de
  Commicacion Alterative NAP Mexico-USA Robrigo Bengoches,
  Mexico
OPIRG--Toronto
Oscar Huenchunao - Temuco, Chile
Office of Taino Tribal Affairs, Jatibonicu' Tribe
Orenda J. Short Oak, Dandridgo, TN
Owen Barton - Lancaster, England
Patricia Phillips, Indian Territory
Patricia Young, Anishinabe (Abnaki/Ojibwa) San Diego, CA
Patrick McGuire, IWW & ABCF, Winnipeg, Canada
Patti Bancroft, Vermillion, South Dakota
Paul Ford, Shared Parenting Forum - Canada
Paula Peterson, Chicago, ILL
Paula Walters, Garrett, IN
Peoples Video Network
Peter d'Errico, Prof. of Legal Studies, University of Mass., Amherst, MA
Philippe Shamanba, Oxford, UK
Pierre George, Aazhoodena Unceded Territory, Stoney Point, Miigwetch
Pio Celestino, Refugio Del Ro Grande, Harlingen, TX
Prof. Guillermo Michel Sinner, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitane de

  Xochimilitane, Mexico
Professor Mark Berenson, New York City
Prostitutes' Empowerment, Education & Resource Society
Quefren Crillanovick, Group Estruturcao, Brazil
Rachel Iwaasa & Joshua Goldberg - Settlers In Support of Indigenous
  Sovereignty - Victoria, BC, Canada
Rafael Uzcategui, La Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas de
  Venezuela
Randall Standing Horse Shreve, Mi'nqua Nation
Randy & Jeane Russell, Alha, TN
Ray Colby, Makah, Veterinary Technologist, U of W, Seattle, WA
Red Cap Press
Refugio Del Rio Grande
Rev. Tony Jones, East Ohio Annual Conference of the United Methodist

  Church
reid freeman jenkins - Atlanta, GA, USA
Ria Verjauw
Ries van Schelven, Ireland
R. Lame Bull McDonald, Blackfeet & Ottawa/Chippewa, National
  Association of Native Medical Students, Executive Board member
Robert B. Corson, Blackfoot & Rhonda M. Corson, Lakota
Robert Winter Owl Vann, Deputy Chief, Texas Gulf Coast Cherokee &
  Associated Bands
Rocky Draugton, Denver, CO
Rod Coronado
Ron Poirier, Pawtucket, RI
Rossano Lopes Basto, Arqueologo do Instituto do Patrimonio Historicoe

  Artistico Nacional, Estado de Santa Catarina, Brasil
Russell A. Mitchell & Sandra Mitchell
Ruth Webb, Ohio
S. O'Brien - Potawatomi
Sam Adams, IWW, Minneapolis, MN
Sandi & Scott Spaeth
Sandy Sunderland
Sarah Lindgren - Yurok (Humboldt County)
Sara Newman, Melbourne, Australia
Scott Erker
Se-ven Sioux Kolektibo, Basque Country, Spanish State
shane babiy
Sharon Moles Kirk
Sharon Vance, IWW, Philadelphia
Sherry Luna, New Harvest Organics
Sheryle Z-Armstrong
Shira Z. Rawat, Student, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University,
  Toronto, ON, Canada
Silvia Flores, Davis, CA
Society of New German Citizens, Hamburg, Germany
son sun smiling moose
Stacey Osder
Stefan Brueck, Bangkok, Thailand
Steven D. Stokes, Olympia, WA
Sue C. Ogden, Capecod, Mass
Susan Anderson & Roy Stanley, Lamont, Fl
Susan A. Jamerson, Sioux/Paiute/Maidu/Seneca, Standing Rock
Susan Donnelly, Educator
Susan Frost
Sven Berg, Journalist, Hamburg, Germany
Tanya Lukin - Alutiiq, Kodiak Island
Tanya Seriger, Sydney, Australia
Tegan Ollie, Oak Harbor, WA
Teressa Harnois - Campbell, CA, USA
Teri Lee, Oakland, CA
The Internet Anti-Fascist
Thelma O. Garcia, President of the Board of Refugio Del Rio Grande
Theresa Sents, Renton, WA
Tina (Holder) Talkington, Mesa, AZ
Tiokasin Veaux, Producer-Programmer at WBAI/Pacifica Radio 99.5
  FM, NYC, NY
Tom Burghardt, Editor Antifa Info-Bulletin
Tony Tracy, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Tovarich - Spain
Travis Allan - BC, Canada
Trish Booth
Tom Antush - Tacoma, WA, USA
Uri Strass, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Valerie Van Clieaf
Victoria GMB-IWW
Vilma Celestino Montero, Moche, Trujillo, Peru
Vonda Welty - Pleasant Hill, OR, USA
White Feather Siouxsun, Napa, CA
William Boemmels, Leonard Peltier Support Group--Southwestern
  Connectict
W.L. Hallameyer, Original Nations of the East
Wendy
Wolfclanmother Nagi, Council Women, Coosawatie District
Women Of Colours In Action, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Workers World Party
Working Circle Indians Today, Germany
Works In Progress Monthly Newspaper, Olympia, WA
Zoltan Grossman & Debi McNutt, Midwest Treaty Network, Madison, WI
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