Breakaway

i am so there

let's go!

wanderlust

 

before you tear up your US sscard, technoshamans,
you might wanna do a little more research. one possible problem with the legality issue here is that no one officially representing any of the twelve Lakotan (brother) nations was in attendance (some equated them to the French Nazi collaborators of WWII). many lakotan officials were gathered together at the time, but for the Lakotan National Invitational basketball tourney in Rapid City instead. they apparently had not even heard of the secession, and denied to comment further then.

russell means and co. must therefore act merely as a group of individual lakotans, but ones with a proven track record of stirring up ink and capitalyzing on hype along with a mandate from their elders. remember wounded knee 1970s? perhaps the time is ripe for provoking the move, but the fruits' still largely dangling on the vine, waiting for the other shoefly to drop. don't know too much what else their people have left to lose. this "lakota" faction certainly gains some traction to their cause in meeting with embassy officials while in DC. they conferred with interested representatives from south america, chile, venesuela, and bolivia (the first country to have ratified into national law the UN's declaration of indegineous rights, under native president Morales). and the recent buzz has gotten folks talking at least, but shooting the breeze ain't gonna be blow blow blowing down the house anytime soon.

but nevertheless i offer more idle talk:
i support the incremental reaffirmation and assumption of declared continuing independence (ala the 1978, and look forward to the time when i can do so more fully. to transition from arguably complicit collaboration in systematized oppression inherent in every single transaction i make as a native (United States of) American: i took the opportunity to move to the Nation and State of Hawai'i in hopes, that something substantial comes of their own soveriegnty movement. so far their royal highness (as recognized by the UN) has issued a similar declaration (visas, passports; the whole bit), with warnings of land deannexations of their own. but, thusfar: we're still in the proceedings stage of action. likewise, personally: i have yet to complete Zinn's leap to neutralize negatively trained momentum (or better yet, go beyond neutral into strictly positive directions). if anybody knows of genuine opportunites for dropping out and hooking up at present, please drop me a line.

i can cook, make art, and brainstorm with the best of them (not that i yet count myself amoung their number usually). there's been a lot of attention devoted on RS to coverage of self-sufficency and sustainability movements... but i've not seen much in the way of open invitations to participate. we'd like to put ourselves (and our money if we had any, but then accumulating that would precipitate the perpetuated funding of all i'm seeking to sever) where our big mouth is, but our eyes can't seem to find the prize outside our own mind... so we'll just keep biding our time.

~from the philes of stoph
myspace.com/mystophspace

i really hope this type of action catches on, and creates a wave for more alternative communities to organize. i can't help but dream to be apart of something like that. i'm a musician in nyc and yeah i may be striving for something, but if enough of these alternative places started popping up, and if they had solid foundations built on putting the planet first, on becoming "planetary citizens" in an effort to first and foremost serve the needs of the earth, to incorporate a lifestyle that would bring back rituals offered to the planet in every action we would perform, yet still able to sustain everyone involved, i'm down, "later nyc, there's a better life out there happening!"