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Monday, February 11, 2013

BE LOVING BUT FIRM

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I'm just taking one of the mini-posters in the post below
 and "personalizing" it to the "Big Cheese"
 in this group of foreign folks trying
to get their hands on the water.
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(Editor's Note:
The definition of "big cheese" needs to be
clarified here.  Here's an edited explanation,
for brevity sake, from  World Wide Words,
an online dictionary:
The big cheese is the most influential or important person
 in a group.  Big cheese is the only positive slang sense of cheese
 that seems ever to have existed. This was first recorded in
 London in the nineteenth century, in forms like he’s the cheese,
 it’s quite the cheese, just the cheese, or simply the cheese, with
 the sense of a thing that was “good, first-rate in quality,
 genuine, pleasant or advantageous” as John Camden Hotten
 defined it in his Slang Dictionary in 1859.)
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I've gotten so many international hits on
this blog, in such a short time, starting with
a rash of hits out of Germany,
 but now,
with regular pageviews from not just Germany,
but Malaysia, Russia,  South Korea, Indonesia -
it makes you certain you're dealing with
a real global "organization."
They come in in the dead of night, or
whenever, and will hang out for an hour -
 more.... on the site.  I can see the stats.  Fascinating.
It's a certain level of digital transparency.
I bet they like the graphics!
(Well, I hope they do.)
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No one from these countries would be even
 slightly interested in this mess, unless they
were connected to this obscenity, someway,
 somehow, albeit long distance.  
Family? Mob? 
 Probably.  But not like you're thinking. 
 Allright.  Good.  I'm glad that's clear. (?)
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Bruno Modena: Listen to me here....
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STOP THE WATER GRAB!
“Water, like religion and ideology,
has the power to move millions of people.
 Since the very birth of human civilization,
 people have moved to settle close to it.
 People move when there is too little of it.
 People move when there is too much of it.
 People journey down it.
 People write, sing and dance about it.
 People fight over it.
And all people, everywhere and every day,
 need it.” 
     Mikhail Gorbachev
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

TAKE A MINI-POSTER!

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These are all 8.5 x 11 standard format
jpeg's at 600 dpi.  They'll print up nice
 however you do them, but on glossy,
 quality paper or card stock, they
 look extremely sharp!
You have a chance here to help spread an
important message - to get folks talking,
and maybe asking questions -
and that's a good start.
If nothing else, please Facebook, or whatever
flips your skirt, as they say, and help
do something here.  Thanks!
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

PUEBLO INDIANS - ALLIES IN THE WAR

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The Coalition of Six Middle Rio Grande Pueblos
is another of the many "PROTESTANTS" in the legal
battle against the WATER GRAB.  The Pueblos have
"senior" water rights, also called "prior and paramount"
water rights, on Rio Grande water.  Since the San Augustin
Plains aquifer has subterranean connections to both the
Rio Grande as well as the Gila River, the tribes are taking
the WATER GRAB very, very seriously.
The Pueblos of Acoma and Zuni are now
 joined in as "PROTESTANTS" as well.
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Historically of course,
 the Pueblo Indians have a great deal
of experience with people trying to rob or
 cheat them out of what is theirs. 
 They are a good ally to have.
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The sepia tone photos were taken early in the 20th century
 by Edward S. Curtis, when he traveled through
 the New Mexico pueblos,
working on his monumental project
THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN.
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 For the pueblos, the river is more than
 the source of water rights.
It is considered sacred and plays a central role
 in spiritual life.

    "Moving water and clean water are central to some
 of the fundamentals of our view of the world and our
 connection to our deities," said Les Ramirez, lawyer for
Santa Ana Pueblo. "We don't just drink it or use it for crops,
 we immerse ourselves in it and are immersed by it."
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Stephine Poston, a spokeswoman for Sandia Pueblo,
 said tribes generally don't talk about how they use the river
 in cultural ways.
    But she said, "The pueblo has extremely high regard for
 the river, the land, the resources.
 We view that the Rio Grande is a life-giver."
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 The Coalition of Six Middle Rio Grande Pueblos also is
 worried about water depletions "caused by the ever-increasing
 demand for, and use of, water to meet the rapid growth which
 has taken place in the basin over the past 50 years,"
 Roy Montoya of Santa Ana told a group meeting
on water issues recently.
    "The state and its subdivisions have ignored pueblo water
 rights in granting new water use permits and
 encouraging growth.
  This century has seen water replace land as the
 Indian asset most craved by non-Indians."
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STOP THE WATER GRAB!
"He who is present at a wrongdoing
And lifts not a hand to prevent it,
Is as guilty as the wrongdoers."
ESTAMAZA (Iron Eyes) - Omaha Tribe
 1818-1888
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Note - When you call the number above you reach the
 Governor's "Constituent Services" office -
 very easygoing, nice folks who are there to
 simply answer the phone lines
 and make note of your opinion on a state
 issue of importance.
The Governor, you can be sure, hears about
 what issue is getting traffic volume -
the number of folks calling in.
This is how a politician can get not just
reelected - but RESPECTED, across
the state.
If they have some smarts, and some kind
of genuine love for their people, and this
incredible land that we live in,
then maybe they'll act.
Maybe they'll stand up.
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Ask the Governor to make her position clear.
Ask her to STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!
Please call, if you haven't already.
E-mail your legislator.  Write a letter to
the editor of your local paper. 
 Do something.  Stand Up!
Thanks!
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