Gracias for your thoughtful response Companero Bejarano!
I first got that Email in this thred from the Talking-Circle Yahoo Group @
Plus, posted responses to the Humane-Rights-Agenda Group @
So I hope others are kind enough to forgive the cross-postings. I have been online for some years now and involved with different Yahoo Groups, several of which I am the Moderator for, along with others who help us. With my full-time job as a Counselor-Caseworker at the local Salvation Army Emergency Shelter my time is tight, but I believe time is what we make time for to help others, not just what we have.
One could spend their life online and sometimes reading and answering Emails can consume hugh blocks of time. So we must stay focused, keep our priorities in mind and combine our time online with real works offline in our local communities involved with progressive practical activity.
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It now has 1,250 Members and is concerned with issues online with an emphasis on Asia, but they drafted me sometime back as a Moderator and I was honored to help.
The power of the Internet enables us to reach out across borders, despite the repressive efforts of any governments. We must strive to keep a global overview of the whole situation in order to keep our spirits raised up! Indeed, the overwhelming vast majority of the people of the world are with us, support our basic principles and are eager for positive changes in their own lives.
Remember that the MAJORITY of the Earth's people are OUTSIDE the U.S.A. Many millions in Asia, Africa and Latin America support our regional efforts for the rights of immigrants and many look at us INSIDE the United States for advice, guidance and real leadership or at least to add to their rich storehouse of knowledge about global current events. It only seems gloom and doom when we fixate on the general apathetic pathetic Amerikan people inside the continental United States. So we must raise the level of consciousness among decent Americans without forgetting the masses beyond these shores.
We have a madman in the White House, but Amerikans voted him in or failed to protest his coup-de-etat. The Amierkan Military Machine is waging an unjust war of occupation in Iraq, but the Amerikans with full stomachs have allowed this to happen. The rest of the world must think of Amerika and shake their heads in disgust and despair. How can the otherwise decent American people allow this mass madness to continue without massive protects and cries of rebellion? Amerikans are under the MIND CONTROL of fascist reactionary mass propaganda and have been programmed to be paranoid and fear dark-skinned foreigners who speak a different tongue. How many Middle Eastern people look like Chicanos?!?!
Our historical enemies are like aging dinosaurs fearing their eventual extinction and they know their days and nights are numbered. However, Amerikan Fascism would be willing to pull all of humanknd down with its demise. The first one to the button......
We can and should unify with all peoples who love justice, peace and harmony in the world. Naturally, the Internet is a major way of creating communication channels for us once we overcome any and all fears of others, fears of the unknown and fears of foreign peoples.
When I echo Che Guevara's affirmation of Venceremos! We Will Win! It is because I am absolutely certain and confident of our eventual victory over the dominant dark Evil forces of these troubled times, especially the Amerikan Empire.
Without a doubt, we will win, but not without great sacrifices, including the ultimate sacrifice. We must brace ourselves for the storms to come, be ready for whatever may come and never tire in doing good for others. The future is ours!
Come Together and Create!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka Peta
From: Bejarano <artxchange@yahoo.com>
To: NetworkAztlan_News@yahoogroups.com
Cc: *NetworkAztlan_Action <NetworkAztlan_Action@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:20:58 PM
Subject: Re: [NetworkAztlan_News] Response: [Talking-Circle] We have no unity, no unity at ALL!?!
Peter:
We have a like regards for Internet web development
and content. Much of our work calls for real support
against corporate-business, e.g., The Madison Avenue,
oil, war, polluters and the greedy; The Bush Empire,
Internet monopolies and the Fox News, D&B and other
media properties of the later led by Rubert Murdoch.
Net-neutrality and media legislation is needed to
protect the Internet from those Capitalist' Empires
for they will do anything to control Radio, TV,
newspapers, cable, dish and social network "mySpace"
and other Internet capabilities for $$advertisers and
local/national right-wing agendas. The brand name
"NetworkAztlan" is an alternative media provider in
the defense of people of color [Chicano] and
activist's news. Our role is building its
informational structure and content for a
Chicano-Latino networks, which serves the general
American population. Thanks for making the
NetworkAztlan_ Blog and Monitoring Yahoo!NA.C News; it
truly helps to be cooperatively and alike…just
electronic pathways in our ideas and wherewithal that
is creative, real, spiritual and political. By
Action--Any road Is Brave--
Guillermo Bejarano
cc: NA.C_Yahoo!Action
--- "Peter S. Lopez de Aztlan" <sacranative@ yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Sunday, August 12, 2006
>
> It is a sunny Sunday morning here in Sacramento
> and CCN Last Word in Sunday Talk is on the boob tube
> right now. I do not spend a lot of time on the
> Internet these days as much as before because
> connected reality demands my attention around me in
> terms of helping homeless people ~our domestic
> refugees~ in what limited ways that I can here now
> in my social environment.
>
> True unity must be based upon our common survival
> needs as human beings: food, clothing, shelter,
> medical care and basic education. We are work
> together to meet our common needs we come together
> and create new alliances, forge new coalitions and
> stop arguing amongst ourselves behind minor
> differences that won't mean a hoop when all is said
> and done.
>
> Each of us should do our own soul-searching, stay
> focused on our natural environment and find out
> where our Ministry or Cause is centered at instead
> of scattering our forces without a clear vision in a
> set direction.
>
> For sure we must balance our lives between real
> work out in our local communities, mass education
> work online and inner work on our own individual
> spiritual growth in harmony with a greater cosmic
> consciousness.
>
> We must resign ourselves to the connected reality
> that ours is not the only way and grasp the fact
> that there are many ways to mass, social and
> individual liberation. Lifes works in threes, not
> the sterile dualism of Marxist-Leninism, devoid of
> Spiritual Revelation.
>
> We build unity by working together on common goals
> through various groups, social movements and
> relevant organizations, not in dysfunctional
> isolation trying to be king of the hill.
>
> As we continue to 'exhaust all legal peaceful
> means' we must see now that the inevitable showdown
> cannot be put off forever ~ the whole situation
> could deteriorate and all come down to a trial by
> armed combat. At least, we must stay prepared and
> ready for whatever may come. Armed conflict
> engulfing major sections of the general population
> is as predictable as nightfall, unless other ways
> are found to resolve fundamental internal
> contradictions.
>
> The typical American is a paranoid pathetic
> apathetic being who is just trying to make it
> through the day, struggle to work, pay his taxes and
> make ends meet to feed his family as those ends
> drift further apart under corporate capitalism.
>
> All of us should be seeing life today from a
> global overview and there is much for us to be
> inspired by when we look at life from a global
> perspective and think outside the box {in our case,
> outside the national boundaries of the continental
> USA}.
>
> White Americans can think and do what they want,
> but they are actually a shrinking minority on a
> global scale. To combat the great Super-power of the
> American Empire we need to utilize the Super-power
> of global public opinion for the hearts, minds and
> souls of the vast masses of people inside the United
> States and outside the United States in the Middle
> East, Asia, Africa, Latin America {the so-called
> Third World and all the forgotten little regions of
> the world}.
>
> All of this momentum requires us to gain more and
> more access to the mass media with innovative
> imagination, plus, starting up small local
> newspapers to spread the news on the local street
> level. Most of the poor oppressed people we need to
> reach out to are not even computer literate or do
> not even have regular Internet access! Then, some of
> our online groups are limited to those who hold
> similiar opinions as we do, when the truth is that
> we need to have different opinions, discuss our
> differences and not be afraid of changing our minds
> about certain issues.
>
> With Internet access, we can easily Google what we
> want to find out about what is going on in different
> places upon the planet and regurgitate news articles
> to onlne groups, but what are we actually doing in
> our own personal lives on a day-to-day basis???
>
> Are we establishing survival programs? Are we
> teaching people basic literacy? Are we getting
> involved in voter registration?
> Are we spending time with our children?
>
> The so-called Left-Wing Movement inside the United
> States will always be divided and splintered with a
> leftist schizophrenic mentality that is blind to the
> larger humane rights movement worldwide! Some
> movements only carry us so far, then, they should be
> developed further, broadened in scope and heightened
> in consciousness.
>
> We are in the new Millenium! Many progressives are
> enslaved by theories that were first developed in
> the 19th Century and have failed to develop the
> praxis of relevant revolutionary theory 'live and
> living color'.
>
> The corporate-controlle d mass media is now
> dominated with news about the U.S. Presidential
> race, the Iraq War and other items of interest on
> the corporate agenda. We should report about the
> small things too. What is going on in our local
> communities? What is happening on the street level?
> What is going on in our local Emergency Rooms?
>
> Unity is built by coming together, working
> together on the basis of a common humane rights
> agenda and as we work together we will gradually
> lose remnants of racism, narrow nationalism and
> other manifestations of division. Those who do not
> break bread together cannot bake bread together.
>
> "Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light
> should be seen."
> — José MartÃ
>
> "Our every action is a battle cry against
> imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's
> unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United
> States of America." ~ Che Guevara
>
> With Deeds, Blessings & Prayers~ Peter S. Lopez
> ~aka: Peta
> Yahoo Email: sacranative@ yahoo.com
> ++++++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ ++++++++
> Original Subject Line:
> [Talking-Circle] We have no unity, no unity at ALL
> "Virginia S." <eeching2004@ yahoo.com> wrote:
> \ Thanks again (as usual!), Norma!!
>
> I agree that multiple arrows aimed at the megalith
> is good. I do wish though that Murkans weren't so
> preoccupied with causes that seem to get them
> nowhere (like fighting CONgress) that they cannot
> see what is about to happen. Martial law is already
> SET UP and ready to roll.
>
> This monetary crises is going to have everyone
> scrabming for mining stocks and gold. What happens
> as the mining company lobbyists try to get lowered
> work ing conditions, as it pertains to URANIUM
> mining ..? We already seeing what is hapening up
> here, as this is the leading source of supply ..
> which is native groups standing guard to prevent
> nuclear runoffs in all the waterways (Lake Sharbot -
> and about to begin in Sasketchewan as the Germans
> want MORE, must mure produced NOW.)
>
> My point is that problems are multiplying by the day
> as the Three Amigos are about to sound off, the
> CRAZY As hell Malloch Brown in the UK is pushing
> Britain to go into the ONE world government, the
> Chinese are getting crazy, the Middle East is losing
> any strategic staying power . and here is the
> oppostion and the movement for peace and justice
> limping along. I guess I just am afraid of
>
> But yes, you are TOTALLY correct - there are plenty
> of movements that ANYONE could join to help out.
>
> Thanks,
> Virginia
>
> Norma J F Harrison <normaha@pacbell. net> wrote:
>
> There are many of our movements. While some might
> be 'wrong' , really, the more the better. All it is
> is to do any, some, many. Coalescence might come.
> But change will surely come if we keep up doing
> them.
> Building unity is the goal. But what you see as
> not unity really discounts what everyone else is
> doing. Huge numbers of us are doing a bunch of
> stuff. It's ok. We want to make it better, of
> course.
> Norma
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Virginia S.
> To: earthlings_anonymou s@yahoogroups. com ;
> onathimagen@ yahoogroups. com ;
> talking-circle@ yahoogroups. com
>
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