PAWÒL APRANTI-SAJ

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:52:41 -0000
From: "UCTP Office" <la_voz_taino@yahoo.com>

Subject:

Remembering Our Role As Caretakers of Mother Earth...

Happy Earth Day! No gifts to buy or cards to send this holiday --
celebrating Earth Day this Friday can be quick and easy.

1) Send a message to car makers - Cars are one of the biggest sources
of global warming pollution. California's groundbreaking new law cuts
global warming pollution from cars. But the auto industry is suing to
block the law. As a potential customer, your voice matters. On Earth
Day, take a moment to tell car makers they should build less polluting
cars instead of suing.

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/car_company_lawsuit/853b6x4f5738be

2) Earth-friendly seafood - print a wallet-sized list - Farmed salmon
or wild - which is better for you and the planet? Carry this list of
fish with you, so whether shopping for groceries or dining at a
restaurant, you can always navigate your way to the best seafood
choices. Print an extra for a friend!

http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/1980_pocket_seafood_selector.pdf
 
3) Follow 20 simple steps to help undo global warming - Global warming
is our most serious environmental problem. Today, tweak a daily habit
or two (or twenty!). Bike or carpool to work. Or even brighten your
house with more energy efficiency bulbs.   

Share this list with your friends and family, and enjoy Earth Day!

http://www.undoit.org/undoit_20steps.cfm

The Haitian Community Says:
No to Racism!
No to Discrimination!
No to the Denigration of our Children in their Own Schools!

On March 16th 2005, following an altercation between some students in the
lunchroom of PS 34 in Queens Village, Mrs. Nancy Miller, the Assistant
Principal of the school, singled out the 13 Haitian students of the school's
only 4th grade Bilingual class and forced them to sit on the floor to eat
their lunch of chicken and rice with their bare hands. When the students
protested, she screamed at them in front of the all the other students in
the lunchroom: "In Haiti they treat you like animals and I will treat you
the same way here".

Instead of acknowledging this cruel and inhumane treatment of our children
and the entire Haitian community, the Principal of the school, Mrs.
Pauline Shakespeare, who according to a Haitian parent described her child's
behavior as "animalism", has chosen to stand with her Assistant Principal.
She has been repeatedly pulling some of the 13 Haitian children out of their
class to try to convince them that the March 16th incident never happened.
According to one of the students, Mrs. Shakespeare has even gone as far as
offering the children free ice cream if they were to "say something else".

We vow to our 13 children, who were so savagely humiliated by this racist
white woman who we are paying to educate them, and to all our children
everywhere that we will not allow this crime to go unpunished.

We demand no less than the firing of both, Mrs. Nancy Miller and Mrs.
Pauline Shakespeare. We don't want them transferred to another school where
they will simply continue to abuse other parents' children.

Join us on Tuesday April 12th, 2005 from 2pm to 4pm
at a picket line in front of PS 34
104-12 Springfield Blvd. in Queens Village, NY

Support us by calling to express your outrage and echo our demand:

Local Instructional Superintendent Janet Won at 718-281-3407
Regional Superintendent Judith Chin at 718-281-3407
Chancellor Joel Klein at 212-374-0200

Call EVERYONE to spread the word and fax this sheet to all Press contacts

For more Information: Call 718-464-6068

I spoke yesterday in a class of around 15 students at the University of Southern Maine (http://www.usm.maine.edu/), in Gorham, near Portland, ME.

Respect to the First Nations of Maine: Sepayik (Passamaquody), Pennobscott, Maliseet and Micmac, regrouped under the Wabenaki denomination.

~Djaloki~

Just starting to read "Money - Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender", by Thomas H. Greco, Jr., offered by my new friends and peaceful warriors and amazones from the E.F. Schumacher Society (http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/).  The little I have read so far in it is enough to make it look like THE book on money I have been looking for in years, and to highly recommand it to anyone who thinks that the current global economy is REALLY insane and needs REAL change.

Check out the cover and link to the book online on the righthand side bar of this blog (in 27th and last position in the list of books, at the time I am writing this).  You can also get it directly from the E.F. Schumacher Society, which would be more logical and more cool.  If you are in Massachusetts or around, I suggest you just go visit their place and library in Great Barrington (140 Jug End Road - tel 413-528-1737).

Thank you Lia for introducing me to this great Ancestor, Joseph Boulogne, born in Guadeloupe in 1745 from a African mother and whose classical music compositions equalled and inspired Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.

The film "Le Mozart Noir" will hopefully be presented at the next Film Festival in Jacmel (Ayiti).  Meanwhile, I'll buy the DVD and offer it to Tant K, the "born again Ayitian" violonist and revolutionary neo-abolitionist white Amazon of Gwo Jan.

Check out the web site ! http://www.lemozartnoir.com/index.htm