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8:00-8:01 Billboard:
People’s Historian Howard Zinn on Occupied Iraq, the
Role of Resistance Movements, Government Lies and the Media
An Alaskan Indigineous Leader Speaks Out Against Corporate
Exploitation and Cultural Genocide
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:40 People’s Historian Howard Zinn on
Occupied Iraq, the Role of Resistance Movements, Government
Lies and the Media
INTRO: On this Indiginous Peoples Day, we hear from historian
Howard Zinn who wrote extensively about Columbus' so-called
discovery of the Americas. Today Zinn examines the occupation
of Iraq, the role of the media in the build-up to war and
the historical role of dissent in the United States.
Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Groups across the country
today are holding anti-Columbus Day protests.
In Denver protesters are planning to gather at the state
capitol to protest what they describe as the Colombian legacy
of war, racism, intolerance and violence.
In Hawaii, Indigenous Peoples Day and Anti-Discoverers Day
events have been organized.
And other anti-Columbus Day events are scheduled throughout
the country.
For many people, the true story behind Christopher Columbus
would not be known if it were not for historian Howard Zinn
who chronicled Columbus’s so-called discovery of the
Americas in his book, People’s History of the United
States.
Zinn attempts to tell the story of Columbus through the eyes
of people who were here when he arrived, the people Columbus
called "Indians" because he thought he was in Asia.
And he relied heavily on primary documents and Columbus’
own writing that put Columbus in a far different light than
many history textbooks.
Zinn quotes one letter from Columbus that reads, “
They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate
them all and make them do whatever we want."
In another journal entry, Columbus wrote, "From here
one might send, in the name of Holy Trinity, as many slaves
as could be sold..."
Well today we are going to hear a recent talk by Howard Zinn
on the invasion of Iraq, the Patriot Act and the Bush administration.
- Howard Zinn, professor and author of “People's
History of the United States” among other books.
8:40-8:41 One Minute Music Break
8:41-8:58 An Alaskan Indigineous Leader Speaks Out
Against Corporate Exploitation and Cultural Genocide
INTRO: Dune Lankard discusses how the Exxon Valdez oil spill
destroyed not just Alaska's coastlne but a way of a life for
many indigenous peoples including the Eyak tribe.
On this Indigenous People's Day we go to Alaska.
On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker crashed onto
a reef spewing millions of gallons of heavy crude oil into
the waters of Prince William Sound. Within days, 1,500 miles
of coast were polluted, leaving a trail of dying oil-drenched
wildlife. Hundreds of thousands of birds were killed, and
thousands of sea otters died alongside harbor seals, whales
and brown bears.
Overnight the livelihood of thousands of fishermen disappeared.
Dune Lankard was one of them.
He is an Eyak fisherman. The Eyak are an indigenous people
who occupied the lands in the Copper River region in southcentral
Alaska for some 3,500 years. They are as much a part of the
Copper River ecosystem as the bears and the salmon that inhabit
it.
After the Exxon Valdez spill, Lankard decided he would make
it his life's mission to help prevent that kind of destruction
of life and livelihood. He says "by the ocean dying something
came to life in me."
He began working with the Indigenous Environmental Network
and Project Underground. He later started the Red Oil Network,
an organization focused on halting and providing alternatives
to destructive oil and gas projects
He now sits on the board of several action oriented nature
and culture preservation organizations including Ruckus Society,
Circle of Life, Seva foundation to name but a few. He is the
co-founder of the Eyak Preservation Council and Redzone, an
organization whose mission is to "protect the inherent
rights of culture, heritage, language and ancestral lands
of native people in Alaska. He joins us on the phone from
Alaska.
- Dune Lankard, co-founder of the Eyak Preservation Council
and Redzone, an organization whose mission is to "protect
the inherent rights of culture, heritage, language and ancestral
lands of native people in Alaska.”
Link: www.redzone.org
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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Democracy Now! is produced by Kris Abrams, Mike Burke, Angie
Karran, Sharif Abdul Kouddous, Lenina Nadal, Ana Nogueira,
and Elizabeth Press. Mike Di Filippo is our music maestro
and engineer.
[Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Rafael delaUz, Gabriel Weiss, Johnny Sender,
Rich Kim, Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Jenny
Filipazzo and Ionnis Mookas.]
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