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Young People Bring New Energy to Immigrant Rights Movement
With cell phones and e-mail, students and youths across the country organized marches and school walkouts to protest anti-immigrant proposals in Congress. Three young people from San Jose, Calif., where 15,000 took to the streets on March 25, reflect on honoring their parents, leaderless movements and new ways of coming together for change. Raj Jayadev is editor of Silicon Valley De-Bug, where Hector Gonzalez, 22, and Elizabeth Gonzalez, 25, are staff members.
Praising Our Parents
By Hector Gonzalez
SAN JOSE, Calif.--As a Salvadoran immigrant who works in the United States and pays taxes while pursuing a green card, I felt it necessary to be among the 15,000 who came together to protest here in San Jose on March 25.
We began on the east side of San Jose at the Mi Pueblo Super Market, across from the Tropicana shopping center, in the middle of a sea of taquerias and a few blocks from Mathson Middle School, where 75 percent of the student population speaks Spanish. We walked eight miles, from King Road to Cesar Chavez Plaza and back again, then walked the same route again. Men, women, young children and elders covered 16 miles without flagging. One man walked holding his toddler in his arms the whole time, yelling with all his might "Si se puede." His arms would not give out.
When people's legs began to get tired, a young girl reminded the group that only lazy people get tired quick, and we were not lazy, so we kept marching with no complaints. As thousands of people marched together, hundreds of cars cruised behind the group. There was a sea of flags in the air, mostly Mexican but also American, Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran.
As I looked at the protesters' faces, I thought about our common stories. We carried stories of leaving our families behind to find opportunity in a foreign place. Ours were the stories of poverty and hunger, and the stories of hard work with little pay. I thought of my father, and how many of the young people in the crowd were there in honor of the hard work our parents do. Seeing mothers reminded me of my own mother, and how it's been 17 years since my father and I left El Salvador to find opportunity, while she stayed behind.
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By Hector Gonzalez
SAN JOSE, Calif.--As a Salvadoran immigrant who works in the United States and pays taxes while pursuing a green card, I felt it necessary to be among the 15,000 who came together to protest here in San Jose on March 25.
We began on the east side of San Jose at the Mi Pueblo Super Market, across from the Tropicana shopping center, in the middle of a sea of taquerias and a few blocks from Mathson Middle School, where 75 percent of the student population speaks Spanish. We walked eight miles, from King Road to Cesar Chavez Plaza and back again, then walked the same route again. Men, women, young children and elders covered 16 miles without flagging. One man walked holding his toddler in his arms the whole time, yelling with all his might "Si se puede." His arms would not give out.
When people's legs began to get tired, a young girl reminded the group that only lazy people get tired quick, and we were not lazy, so we kept marching with no complaints. As thousands of people marched together, hundreds of cars cruised behind the group. There was a sea of flags in the air, mostly Mexican but also American, Honduran, Guatemalan and Salvadoran.
As I looked at the protesters' faces, I thought about our common stories. We carried stories of leaving our families behind to find opportunity in a foreign place. Ours were the stories of poverty and hunger, and the stories of hard work with little pay. I thought of my father, and how many of the young people in the crowd were there in honor of the hard work our parents do. Seeing mothers reminded me of my own mother, and how it's been 17 years since my father and I left El Salvador to find opportunity, while she stayed behind.
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March for me. I'm 5th generation American Citizen whose family is separated by inhumane and unfriendly immigration laws. I found the woman of my dreams working at a large high tech company. We fell in love were married and now have 2 kids together. Two years ago my wife returned to Mexico. We felt that since she was married to a US Citizen we would have no problem with getting her a Visa to come back. Two years and thounsands of dollars later we now know thats not the case. What my wifes crime was that she entered the US without inspection and the penalty is that she is barred from returing to the US for 10 years even though she is married to a US citizen and has 2 US Citizen children. Which means my 2 sons and my wife will not be able to be in the same room as my 92 year old grandmother for another 8 years. My wife was not able to meet my 98 year old grandfather before he passed away and there for our two young children also missed the once in a lifetime opportunity. The bill that left commitee did not remove the 10 year bar in our case even though it would allow my wife to become legal if she never left. I have been in Mexico for the last few weeks with the birth of my second son and so I have not been able to march so please march for me a US Citizen who just wants to raise a family.
For more information:
http://www.americanfamiliesunited.com
written on sdimc in response to pro-"Minutemen" comments, some other ideas about human migrations;
So much to say, so little time. Once again the supporters of the Minutemen and their half-hearted attempts to "fix the problem at home" ideas fall a few baskets short of a bushel. If they were undocumented farm workers, they'ld be sent away without any pay. Though most are sons and daughters of priviliged Euro-american colonialists who travel to the nearest grocery store to harvest their tomatoes as they walk down the long aisle pushing the veeery heavy shopping cart. Yet they love to throw tomatoes at the Mexican farm workers who picked them from pesticide soaked plants in the first place. Such tragic irony..
Maybe we need some traveling in the time machine to understand the idea of immigration, traveling and trade before we point the finger at people who inhabited this continent thousands of years before Columbus brought imperialism to Turtle Island..
Where would we be today without the maize plant? Thank the early Mexicans, then called Aztecs and Maya before the seriously lost and confused Cristobal Colon (Columbus) navigated his three ships over to the isla of hispanola (now Haiti/Dom. Republic) and thought he'ld met "Indians" (really Arawaks/Taino/etc..). Anyway the maize cultivated today originated as teosinte in Mexico and over several thousand years was selectively bred (not genetically engineered) and hybridized into the many diverse varieties of modern maize (aka corn) that grace our tables today. To touch up on the crisis of Mexican farmers, the many "land races" of maize in Oaxaca were discovered to be contaminated by genetic engineered ingredients after USAID imports entered the Oaxacan farmer's seed bank. Like Pandora's box, the pollen is now contaminated by the biotech maixe variety, and many of the diverse land races of maize are now contaminated..
"Mexico, center of diversity for maize, has been contaminated. In September 2001 the Mexican government, by means of its Intersecretarial Commission for Biosecurity and Genetically Modified Organisms (CIBIOGEM), announced that scientists discovered contamination of indigenous varieties of maize with genetically engineered (GE) varieties imported from the United States. The contamination was found in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico – one of the world’s centres of origin and diversity of maize.
Research showed that 15 of 22 communities where maize seeds were tested this year were found to have been contaminated by GE maize and that 3% to 10% of the maize seed tested contain genes from GE maize. Two communities showed even higher rates of contamination. Clearly many traditional maizefields in the region have been contaminated; regulators do not yet know the extent of the contamination."
http://www.greenpeace.ca/e/campaign/gmo/depth/pollution/index.php
That is just the tip of the melting iceberg when dealing with the economic and ecological impacts of US trade policies, from NAFTA to the WTO. Mexican farmers are suffering while US agribusiness corporations like Monsanto profit as laws that protec farmers are repealed and/or altered. BTW, if you think Mexican farmers are a bunch of whiners, the US farmers who lost their family farms to corporate agribusiness aren't very happy with NAFTA either, and they're Euro-americans! NAFTA enables biotech corporations like Monsanto to sue local farmers and then confiscate their land!!
"The Nelsons are among the hundreds of farmers Monsanto is suing, usually on the grounds of patent infringement. However, growers have begun to fight back in the courts."
http://www.nelsonfarm.net/issue.htm
The maize or corn varieties that US/Mexican farmers are growing and Monsanto is attempting to own as intellectual property rights to has it's origin in Mexico..
There is significant evidence that 1000 years ago Aztec and/or Mayan travelers from Mexico brought the cultivated maize seeds along with them to the upper Mississippi and the Mississippian culture added maize to their variety of crops. This indicates an exchange of cultural and farming knowledge, and most likely the Cahokians also exchanged some bodily fluids with the Aztec/Mayan travelers from the south, meaning that they traded their genetics. So now the Cahokians have maize and also some new genetic diversity. That means some indigenous north americans could have Aztec ancestors. These cultural, food and genetic exchanges were quite common between indigenous peoples before European conquest. If anyone back then had the bright idea to build a giant concrete/barbed wire wall along an imaginary border, maize would never have been available to the north for a long time..
"Between A.D. 800 to 1000 another culture emerged, called Mississippian (Woodland and Mississippian are names assigned by archaeologists; they are not tribal names) . Mississippians developed an agricultural system with corn, squash, and several seedbearing plants (sunflower, marshelder, lambsquarter, maygrass, knotweed, little barley) as the principal crops. The stable food base, combined with hunting, fishing, and gathering of wild food plants, enabled them to develop a very complex community with a highly specialized social, political, and religious organization. Cahokia became a regional center for the Mississippian culture after A.D. 900, with many outlying hamlets and villages, and major satellite towns near the modern communities of Mitchell, Dupo, Lebanon, East St. Louis, and St. Louis."
http://www.state.il.us/hpa/hs/Mounds.htm
Even if all this history is boring to you Minutemen types, consider the land that you currently call home belonged to other peoples and cultures for many thousands of years before the European culture became dominant. Yeah, the usual response would be "might makes right" and that European immigrants were more technologically advanced than the indigenous peoples. Conquest isn't all there is to life, and Euro-americans of this modern society need to recognize the serious ecological effects that market capitalism has on the ecosystem, workers, other nations (like Mexico) and human health in general. Am in agreement that there is a need to fix the corruption in Mexico's political system, though my take is that Mexico's corruption is a direct result of Mexico's political elite collaborating with the NAFTA policies implemented by US politicians (strings pulled by US corporations.) To sum up, as Hugo Chavez stated months earlier, "Mexican President Vicente Fox is a puppet of US imperialism." or something to that effect..
"President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has sought to deflect a growing dispute with Mexico by blaming the US for sowing discord in Latin America.
Wearing a wide-brimmed Mexican sombrero, Mr Chavez told thousands of supporters at a weekend rally in Caracas that the row was not with the Mexican people but their pro-US president, Vicente Fox. Venezuela and Mexico downgraded their diplomatic relations last week in a dispute over Mexico's support of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Matters came to a head when Mr Chavez called his Mexican counterpart a "lapdog of the American empire" and later warned Mr Fox "not to mess" with him."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1121-04.htm
FTAA is just another version of the earlier NAFTA, expanded to the entire Americas (NAFTA is only Mexico, US and Canada). The definition of insanity is making the same identical mistakes over and over again yet expecting different results each time. That sums up the recent free trade globalization pact of FTAA..
The NAFTA plan was supposed to help Mexico's economic condition. Yes, people were leaving Mexico for the US before NAFTA. This was also an indicator of economic inequality. The corporations and politicians put their heads (and wallets) together when coming up with NAFTA, a free trade program that was supposed to boost Mexico's economy by removing trade barriers (worker and environmental protection, etc..), the growth of the maquiladora industry on the south side of the proverbial border was supposed to "fix the problem at home" (thus reducing undocumented immigration). Well, at least that what the politicos made US believe..
"In 1992, the year NAFTA was signed, auto parts companies (including GM & Ford subsidiaries) exported US$6.4 billion worth of parts northward from Mexico.
In 1995, the figure rose to US$9.5 billion.
In the same period, the number of auto parts plants based in Mexico rose form 192 to 210 and the number of workers employed from 156,000 to 210,000.
Approximately 450,000 Mexican workers are now employed in the car and auto parts industries, which now account for 21% of Mexico's manufacturing exports.
Consider the situation at GM's Mexican operations. In 1981 GM employed a Mexican workforce of 7,000. Today it employs about 75,000 in 54 facilities. Furthermore if GM's Mexican operations were a single corporation, it would be the 135th largest in the world. Such developments leave no doubt that GM dramatically expanded the its Mexican operations both before and after NAFTA. In the meantime GM reduced its Canadian workforce by more than one third, from about 40,000 to about 26,000."
http://flag.blackened.net/blackflag/210/210nafta.htm
Undocumented workers from Mexico in the US are often exploited by the argibusiness corporations. Low wages, exposure to toxic chemicals, unsanitary housing are just a few of the problems faced by undocumented workers. This is a problem that needs to be addressed, including the cause at home in Mexico, poverty and corruption in the political system. However, punishing the victim (undocumented immigrants) with harsh draconian laws will never solve the problem, only make the US look like bigger bullies in the worldview. Then tomorrow the problem has magnified beyond what a band-aid border wall can contain..
Here's what Roberto Martinez thinks about the border wall..
"Economic factors being what they are in Mexico, the devaluation of the peso, the growing increase in food prices ... they can put five walls up fifty feet high and still people are going to come. They are going to dig around it, under it."
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/rm99.html
One other example that needs repeated mentioning is the unequal distribution of Colorado River water, of which Mexico gets only less than 10 percent. Of course we don't hear much from Vicente Fox, though many scientists and fishing peoples aren't happy with the decline in native species over the decades. The Colorado delta clam is nearly extinct following many years of lack of fresh water and increased salinity. The Colorado river water is dammed and diverted primarily for golf courses, suburban lawns, and agriculture corporations of the Imperial Valley (iceberg lettuce for McDonalds)..
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/ceam/Hecold/before%20the%20dam%20body.htm
Ironically the iceberg lettuce of the Imperial Valley takes up the perchlorate (rocket fuel) that enters the irrigation canals from nearby military test sites..
"Eating lettuce or other vegetables grown in fields irrigated by the Colorado River may expose consumers to a larger dose of toxic rocket fuel than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to test data and documents obtained by Environmental Working Group (EWG)."
http://www.ewg.org/reports/rocketlettuce/
On a more positive note, if we can all get beyond the nationalism and return to ecowisdom of bioregionalism, this desert plant is packed with protein and other nutrients and requires no irrigation, pesticide, etc..
"Martha Burgess, education director of Native Seeds/ Search, a seed bank and research and education organization here that studies and promotes the use of native desert plant foods, said, for example, that "If tepary bean plants are given lots of water, they produce tons of foliage and few beans," adding, "But if the plants are starved of water, they put their effort into flowers and seeds and produce beans that can have as much protein as soybeans." "
http://www.spmesquite.com/articles/ancientfoods.html
Here we all are traveling together down the path;
"Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there." -William Commanda, Mamiwinini, Canada, 1991 "
http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewwritingdetail&returnto=viewjournal&printIssueId=19&writingId=546
So much to say, so little time. Once again the supporters of the Minutemen and their half-hearted attempts to "fix the problem at home" ideas fall a few baskets short of a bushel. If they were undocumented farm workers, they'ld be sent away without any pay. Though most are sons and daughters of priviliged Euro-american colonialists who travel to the nearest grocery store to harvest their tomatoes as they walk down the long aisle pushing the veeery heavy shopping cart. Yet they love to throw tomatoes at the Mexican farm workers who picked them from pesticide soaked plants in the first place. Such tragic irony..
Maybe we need some traveling in the time machine to understand the idea of immigration, traveling and trade before we point the finger at people who inhabited this continent thousands of years before Columbus brought imperialism to Turtle Island..
Where would we be today without the maize plant? Thank the early Mexicans, then called Aztecs and Maya before the seriously lost and confused Cristobal Colon (Columbus) navigated his three ships over to the isla of hispanola (now Haiti/Dom. Republic) and thought he'ld met "Indians" (really Arawaks/Taino/etc..). Anyway the maize cultivated today originated as teosinte in Mexico and over several thousand years was selectively bred (not genetically engineered) and hybridized into the many diverse varieties of modern maize (aka corn) that grace our tables today. To touch up on the crisis of Mexican farmers, the many "land races" of maize in Oaxaca were discovered to be contaminated by genetic engineered ingredients after USAID imports entered the Oaxacan farmer's seed bank. Like Pandora's box, the pollen is now contaminated by the biotech maixe variety, and many of the diverse land races of maize are now contaminated..
"Mexico, center of diversity for maize, has been contaminated. In September 2001 the Mexican government, by means of its Intersecretarial Commission for Biosecurity and Genetically Modified Organisms (CIBIOGEM), announced that scientists discovered contamination of indigenous varieties of maize with genetically engineered (GE) varieties imported from the United States. The contamination was found in the state of Oaxaca in Mexico – one of the world’s centres of origin and diversity of maize.
Research showed that 15 of 22 communities where maize seeds were tested this year were found to have been contaminated by GE maize and that 3% to 10% of the maize seed tested contain genes from GE maize. Two communities showed even higher rates of contamination. Clearly many traditional maizefields in the region have been contaminated; regulators do not yet know the extent of the contamination."
http://www.greenpeace.ca/e/campaign/gmo/depth/pollution/index.php
That is just the tip of the melting iceberg when dealing with the economic and ecological impacts of US trade policies, from NAFTA to the WTO. Mexican farmers are suffering while US agribusiness corporations like Monsanto profit as laws that protec farmers are repealed and/or altered. BTW, if you think Mexican farmers are a bunch of whiners, the US farmers who lost their family farms to corporate agribusiness aren't very happy with NAFTA either, and they're Euro-americans! NAFTA enables biotech corporations like Monsanto to sue local farmers and then confiscate their land!!
"The Nelsons are among the hundreds of farmers Monsanto is suing, usually on the grounds of patent infringement. However, growers have begun to fight back in the courts."
http://www.nelsonfarm.net/issue.htm
The maize or corn varieties that US/Mexican farmers are growing and Monsanto is attempting to own as intellectual property rights to has it's origin in Mexico..
There is significant evidence that 1000 years ago Aztec and/or Mayan travelers from Mexico brought the cultivated maize seeds along with them to the upper Mississippi and the Mississippian culture added maize to their variety of crops. This indicates an exchange of cultural and farming knowledge, and most likely the Cahokians also exchanged some bodily fluids with the Aztec/Mayan travelers from the south, meaning that they traded their genetics. So now the Cahokians have maize and also some new genetic diversity. That means some indigenous north americans could have Aztec ancestors. These cultural, food and genetic exchanges were quite common between indigenous peoples before European conquest. If anyone back then had the bright idea to build a giant concrete/barbed wire wall along an imaginary border, maize would never have been available to the north for a long time..
"Between A.D. 800 to 1000 another culture emerged, called Mississippian (Woodland and Mississippian are names assigned by archaeologists; they are not tribal names) . Mississippians developed an agricultural system with corn, squash, and several seedbearing plants (sunflower, marshelder, lambsquarter, maygrass, knotweed, little barley) as the principal crops. The stable food base, combined with hunting, fishing, and gathering of wild food plants, enabled them to develop a very complex community with a highly specialized social, political, and religious organization. Cahokia became a regional center for the Mississippian culture after A.D. 900, with many outlying hamlets and villages, and major satellite towns near the modern communities of Mitchell, Dupo, Lebanon, East St. Louis, and St. Louis."
http://www.state.il.us/hpa/hs/Mounds.htm
Even if all this history is boring to you Minutemen types, consider the land that you currently call home belonged to other peoples and cultures for many thousands of years before the European culture became dominant. Yeah, the usual response would be "might makes right" and that European immigrants were more technologically advanced than the indigenous peoples. Conquest isn't all there is to life, and Euro-americans of this modern society need to recognize the serious ecological effects that market capitalism has on the ecosystem, workers, other nations (like Mexico) and human health in general. Am in agreement that there is a need to fix the corruption in Mexico's political system, though my take is that Mexico's corruption is a direct result of Mexico's political elite collaborating with the NAFTA policies implemented by US politicians (strings pulled by US corporations.) To sum up, as Hugo Chavez stated months earlier, "Mexican President Vicente Fox is a puppet of US imperialism." or something to that effect..
"President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has sought to deflect a growing dispute with Mexico by blaming the US for sowing discord in Latin America.
Wearing a wide-brimmed Mexican sombrero, Mr Chavez told thousands of supporters at a weekend rally in Caracas that the row was not with the Mexican people but their pro-US president, Vicente Fox. Venezuela and Mexico downgraded their diplomatic relations last week in a dispute over Mexico's support of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Matters came to a head when Mr Chavez called his Mexican counterpart a "lapdog of the American empire" and later warned Mr Fox "not to mess" with him."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1121-04.htm
FTAA is just another version of the earlier NAFTA, expanded to the entire Americas (NAFTA is only Mexico, US and Canada). The definition of insanity is making the same identical mistakes over and over again yet expecting different results each time. That sums up the recent free trade globalization pact of FTAA..
The NAFTA plan was supposed to help Mexico's economic condition. Yes, people were leaving Mexico for the US before NAFTA. This was also an indicator of economic inequality. The corporations and politicians put their heads (and wallets) together when coming up with NAFTA, a free trade program that was supposed to boost Mexico's economy by removing trade barriers (worker and environmental protection, etc..), the growth of the maquiladora industry on the south side of the proverbial border was supposed to "fix the problem at home" (thus reducing undocumented immigration). Well, at least that what the politicos made US believe..
"In 1992, the year NAFTA was signed, auto parts companies (including GM & Ford subsidiaries) exported US$6.4 billion worth of parts northward from Mexico.
In 1995, the figure rose to US$9.5 billion.
In the same period, the number of auto parts plants based in Mexico rose form 192 to 210 and the number of workers employed from 156,000 to 210,000.
Approximately 450,000 Mexican workers are now employed in the car and auto parts industries, which now account for 21% of Mexico's manufacturing exports.
Consider the situation at GM's Mexican operations. In 1981 GM employed a Mexican workforce of 7,000. Today it employs about 75,000 in 54 facilities. Furthermore if GM's Mexican operations were a single corporation, it would be the 135th largest in the world. Such developments leave no doubt that GM dramatically expanded the its Mexican operations both before and after NAFTA. In the meantime GM reduced its Canadian workforce by more than one third, from about 40,000 to about 26,000."
http://flag.blackened.net/blackflag/210/210nafta.htm
Undocumented workers from Mexico in the US are often exploited by the argibusiness corporations. Low wages, exposure to toxic chemicals, unsanitary housing are just a few of the problems faced by undocumented workers. This is a problem that needs to be addressed, including the cause at home in Mexico, poverty and corruption in the political system. However, punishing the victim (undocumented immigrants) with harsh draconian laws will never solve the problem, only make the US look like bigger bullies in the worldview. Then tomorrow the problem has magnified beyond what a band-aid border wall can contain..
Here's what Roberto Martinez thinks about the border wall..
"Economic factors being what they are in Mexico, the devaluation of the peso, the growing increase in food prices ... they can put five walls up fifty feet high and still people are going to come. They are going to dig around it, under it."
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/rm99.html
One other example that needs repeated mentioning is the unequal distribution of Colorado River water, of which Mexico gets only less than 10 percent. Of course we don't hear much from Vicente Fox, though many scientists and fishing peoples aren't happy with the decline in native species over the decades. The Colorado delta clam is nearly extinct following many years of lack of fresh water and increased salinity. The Colorado river water is dammed and diverted primarily for golf courses, suburban lawns, and agriculture corporations of the Imperial Valley (iceberg lettuce for McDonalds)..
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/ceam/Hecold/before%20the%20dam%20body.htm
Ironically the iceberg lettuce of the Imperial Valley takes up the perchlorate (rocket fuel) that enters the irrigation canals from nearby military test sites..
"Eating lettuce or other vegetables grown in fields irrigated by the Colorado River may expose consumers to a larger dose of toxic rocket fuel than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to test data and documents obtained by Environmental Working Group (EWG)."
http://www.ewg.org/reports/rocketlettuce/
On a more positive note, if we can all get beyond the nationalism and return to ecowisdom of bioregionalism, this desert plant is packed with protein and other nutrients and requires no irrigation, pesticide, etc..
"Martha Burgess, education director of Native Seeds/ Search, a seed bank and research and education organization here that studies and promotes the use of native desert plant foods, said, for example, that "If tepary bean plants are given lots of water, they produce tons of foliage and few beans," adding, "But if the plants are starved of water, they put their effort into flowers and seeds and produce beans that can have as much protein as soybeans." "
http://www.spmesquite.com/articles/ancientfoods.html
Here we all are traveling together down the path;
"Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there." -William Commanda, Mamiwinini, Canada, 1991 "
http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewwritingdetail&returnto=viewjournal&printIssueId=19&writingId=546
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