Broken Rainbow

Academy Award Winning Documentary

"Land is the center of life to Native People." 

 

"It's almost as if they have lost a portion of their souls

when they can no longer return to that land."

Evocative storytelling weaves the ancient history of Navajo and Hopi homelands with traditional mythology and current tribal culture.  Historical archival photos, news footage, current events, and interviews round out the presentation. The collision between profit seeking corporations empowered by governmental forces with traditional lifestyles is well illustrated and touches the very core of what it is to be human.


Palestinian parallels include home demolitions, the destruction of culturally important trees and plants, removal of the Indigenous people from the land for the economic benefit of corporations and the colonizer/settlers, and finally being fenced out of their own land with no compensation.

"There is no word for relocation in the Navajo language."

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Available by request from your local library or where ever you  normally rent movies.  You can also watch on-line at the link:  http://www.southwestindian.com/p/broken-rainbow-dvd

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All quotes are from the DVD.

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Participate!  If you know of other  DVDs covering home demolitions,  tree destruction, relocation, removal, or ethnic cleansing of other Indigenous People in any part of the world, please tell us about them in comments.  We may be able to feature your recommendations in up-coming posts.  Or, if you like, prepare a blurb similar to what we have done here, and if we are able to use it--you will get a by-line which you can use as a publication credit.  Plus you will be helping educate others about the plights of Indigenous People everywhere.

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Boycott AHAVA

Israeli companies, including AHAVA, generate around 3 billion USD annually from the sale of Dead Sea minerals.  The Dead Sea is in Palestinian territory which is being illegally occupied and raided by Israel.

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Documentation:                     

“Ahava – Dead Sea Laboratories . . . is a private Israeli cosmetics corporation that operates from the occupied West Bank:”  http://www.whoprofits.org/content/ahava-tracking-trade-trail-settlement-products

AHAVA’s “factory and visitor's center is located in the Mitzpe Shalem settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley. In addition, Ahava is partially owned by the settlement of Mitzpe Shalem and Kalia. The company's products are sold in Europe under a misleading label, which doesn't indicate the name of the settlement the factory is located in. The company uses mud which is excavated from the occupied Palestinian area in its products:”  http://www.whoprofits.org/company/ahava-dead-sea-laboratories

“Pillage of the Dead Sea: Israel’s Unlawful Exploitation of Natural Resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory:”  http://www.alhaq.org/publications/publications-index/item/pillage-of-the-dead-sea-israel-s-unlawful-exploitation-of-natural-resources-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory

“Israel’s total control of the Jordan Valley and Dead Sea is depriving the Palestinian economy of income and jobs, while bringing in big profits for the occupation.” http://www.imemc.org/article/65987

“Israel is stealing and damaging Palestinian natural resources, including Dead Sea salt, mud and land, and using this for profit.  Israeli companies generate around 3 billion USD annually from the sale of Dead Sea minerals (primarily potash and bromine) and from other products, which are derived from Dead Sea Minerals.  That is a huge amount of money being generated by and for a state which upholds apartheid and occupation of Palestinian lands.”  http://www.boycottisraelisalt.com/why-boycott/

When “you buy Ahava products you help finance the destruction of hope for a peaceful and just future for both Israelis and Palestinians.” http://www.stolenbeauty.org/article.php?id=4951

AHAVA documents its own use of minerals found near and in the Dead Sea:  http://www.ahavaus.com/discover-ahava/our-story#

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Take Action!  In addition to boycotting, Code Pink offers a number of action plans; from those you can engage in from your home computer to a ten step guide to taking action at a store that sells AHAVA products:  http://www.stolenbeauty.org/

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Participate!  If you can get a decent photo of AHAVA products or even just one product, we may be able to use it in an upcoming meme.  Contact us by private message on our facebook community page:  https://www.facebook.com/boycott4peace

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Be sure to boycott table salt from the Dead Sea as well:

http://boycott4peace.blogspot.com/2015/02/salt-justice.html

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If you have any question about why we boycott Israel please check out the posts at this link:

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Boycotting is the right thing to do!  Here is our complete boycott list:

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Photo for meme - Code Pink protests AHAVA from:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CodePink-BeautyProductProtest-July2009.jpg

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Resist Nestle!

Quick Action: Petition


Across the globe, Nestlé is pushing to privatize and control public water resources.




Nestlé's Chairman of the Board, Peter Brabeck, has explained his philosophy with "The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution."

Tell Nestlé:

“Water is a public right. Start treating it like one and stop privatizing our resources.”

Find more information and sign the petition here:
http://action.storyofstuff.org/sign/nestle_water_privatization_push/

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Nestle, Israel, Palestine, & Water:

Access to adequate safe, clean water is a human right. A human right that it is not surprising to learn that the country that would give Nestle its highest award would deny to Palestinian people. 

Scroll down on this page to "Access to adequate safe, clean water . . . " for more information on Palestine's water woes:
http://boycott4peace.blogspot.com/2014/10/defend-human-rights-boycott-dasani.html

 "Nestle received from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1998 the Jubilee Award, the highest tribute ever awarded by the State of Israel in recognition of those individuals and organizations, that through their investments and trade relationships, have done the most to strengthen the Israeli economy."  http://vpm.org.my/bds/35-why-boycott-nestle

 

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The Light we Lost

 

 

Rachel Corrie, an Amazing Light

Born, April 10, 1979

Crossed over, March 16, 2003

  The Israeli Defense Forces ended her life with a CAT D-9 bulldozer, because she cared about the Palestinian people. 

Rachel’s Words in Print

When she was a ten-year-old child in Olympia Washington, Rachel 
delivered a speech at her fifth grade press conference on world hunger:

"I'm here for other children.

I'm here because I care.

    I'm here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.

I'm here because those people are mostly children.

We have got to understand that the poor are all around us and we are ignoring them.

We have got to understand that these deaths are preventable.

We have got to understand that people in the Third World countries think and care and smile and cry just like us.

We have got to understand that they dream our dreams and we dream theirs.

We have got to understand that they are us.  We are them.

My dream is to stop hunger by the year 2000.

My dream is to save the forty thousand people who die each day.

My dream can and will come true if we all look into the future and see the light that shines there.

If we all help and work together, it will grow and burn free with the potential of tomorrow."

Rachel Corrie

Excerpted from, Her Name Was Rachel Corrie, which is primarily from Rachel's own writings and worth reading:  http://www.rense.com/general73/name.htm

This speech, featuring 10 year old Rachel Corrie, is available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDq32EgMxb8

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Rachel Corrie was an American citizen.  She traveled to Palestine as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement in January 2003.  She went, because she cared. Her work there was primarily to be a witness to the inhumane conditions and atrocities imposed on Palestinian people by Israel.  There was also the profound hope that the presence of international citizens would help protect Palestinian people, their homes, and necessary infrastructure, just by their presence. 

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Quotes from Rachel Corrie's writing while she was in Palestine.

"We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot."

"Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with."

“We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.” 

"I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying." 

“This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don’t think it’s an extremist thing to do anymore."

From: Brainy Quotes,  Good Reads,  and the article: 'Rachel Corrie’s Parents Journey to Palestine.'

 

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Learn More ~

For a deeper understanding of what she thought, you may also want to read Rachel's e-mails from Palestine,  available on the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice's web site:  http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/rachel/emails

Rachel Corrie's very moving book, Let Me Stand Alone, W.W. Norton & Company, is available on request from libraries, book stores, and on-line.  For more information please see:  http://letmestandalone.com/

Follow the Rachel Corrie Foundation on facebook:
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On March 16, 2003,  Rachel was crushed to death by the IDF.  Even though there were four eyewitnesses to this murder, Israel has absolved itself and all parties involved of any wrong doing.  

She will not be forgotten! 

From Wikimedia Commons

“This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop."  

Rachel Corrie

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Take Action!  

Boycott Caterpillar for its complicity and profiteering from the illegal occupation and Rachel Corrie's murder:  http://boycott4peace.blogspot.com/2014/12/caterpillar-corporate-conscientiousness.html

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