POETICALLY PARENTHETICAL: (Umm, Strike that, reverse it…) Looks like Ron Paul might win Iowa this time around. I have problems with Paul just as I do Obama but if he does take it, I know an awful lot of Democrats and Independents (and a huge amount of angry disenfranchised Veterans) who will flood the polls to vote him in. This may in fact be the Revolution that every facet of our police state has tirelessly derailed and frustrated for the past 20 some odd years now. (perhaps my entire adult life when I look back at Iranscam, S&L and EnronValdez)
12/04/2011
11/16/2011
mr rove, I know many mainstream (R)’s in this nation who dont appreciate your work.
Listen up, you stingy old self-appointed rhetorical guru, thinking you’re all that. Really. You’re just one bad Lee Atwater wannabe, really. Here’s my open letter to you.
Mr. karl rove, You’ve been mic checked.
For too long you’ve been given the bully pulpit of expensive ad campaigns, costly think tanks, moneyed secret interest and offshore taxdodge groupthink seed money aiding your attacks on not just your candidate’s perceived enemies; but those of your own personal moneyed interests as well.
Well here it is, we all stumbled on a way to beat your bully pulpit with no microphones, no corporate media favors, no war-room cloister meetings and no per-diem payments to paramilitary logic, philosophy and thought.
Just a bunch of creative folk gathering together and verbally kicking your ass. You don’t need to recognize but your asskicking took more than just courage; but conviction, cause, and a desire to reject last Millenium’s entire way of doing things.
You’ve been mic checked,
You’ve been owned;
And you’ve been occupied.
I could say so much more but I will leave it like this. Racist, sexist, class-apartheid oriented leverage-capital and its lazy abusive cronies the likes of you, are on the losing end from now on.
Go ahead and ply your wares in someone elses’ nation mr. rove you little little whatever-it-is-you-are, man; because you can’t do that thing you do around here no more: we ARE the 99% and you ARE the weakest link.
Sorry, I’ve wanted to say that for “so long.”
for the non corporate media,
I’m marco
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10/28/2011
HOMEMADE PRIMER FOR REMAINING EFFECTIVE DESPITE INFILTRATION
Lately every group with SET GOALS AND EFFECTIVE WAYS TO GET THERE gets attacked directly with every c0int3lpro dirty trick available to the US Government.
I’m sure your group wishes to be that exception but I’m afraid if Uncle Sam knows you exist then you’re already being watched, infiltrated and harmed by dirty-tricks every day.
Here is one excerpt and some links to other snippets from  Brian Glick’s incredibly helpful book “War at Home: Covert action against U.S. activists and what we can do about it.”
l. Establish a process through which anyone who suspects an informer (or other form of covert intervention) can express his or her fears without scaring others. Experienced people assigned this responsibility can do a great deal to help a group maintain its morale and focus while, at the same time, centrally consolidating information and deciding how to use it. This plan works best when accompanied by group discussion of the danger of paranoia, so that everyone understands and follows the established procedure.
2. To reduce vulnerability to paranoia and “snitch jackets”, and to minimize diversion from your main work, it generally is best if you do not attempt to expose a suspected agent or informer unless you are certain of their role. (For instance, they surface to make an arrest, testify as a government witness or in some other way admit their identity). Under most circumstances, an attempted exposure will do more harm than the infiltrator’s continued presence. This is especially true if you can discreetly limit the suspect’s access to funds, financial records, mailing lists, discussions of possible law violations, meetings that plan criminal defense strategy, and similar opportunities.
3. Deal openly and directly with the form and content of what anyone says and does, whether the person is a suspected agent, has emotional problems, or is simply a sincere, but naive or confused person new to the work.
4. Once an agent or informer has been definitely identified, alert other groups and communities by means of photographs, a description of their methods of operation, etc. In the 60s, some agents managed even after their exposure in one community to move on and repeat their performance in a number of others.
5. Be careful to avoid pushing a new or hesitant member to take risks beyond what that person is ready to handle, particularly in situations which could result in arrest and prosecution. People in this position have proved vulnerable to recruitment as informers.
http://www.whale.to/b/glick.html
Most importantly, read the whole book as soon as you can. ISBN 9780896083493
Informed and aware people can deal quickest with each and every incident in ways that won’t consume all our time and energy. This leaves so much more time for our SET GOALS AND EFFECTIVE WAYS TO GET THERE.
Peace and love,
marco frucht
http://tinyurl.com/GlickBook
http://milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/203959.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2011/10/411691.shtml
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Dear Mr Glick,
I’m a huge fan and humble “co-worker” of sorts. I think a couple friends of mine from Global Indymedia circles know you personally.
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve bought several at a time and handed one each to someone I think is being snitch jacketed and also the person I think is doing the snitch jacket-ting. Several dozen maybe.
Anyhew, I’m helping get as much info to the Occupy Providence this week. I haven’t seen the same thing yet in New Haven or Hartford, or even at the small little park that started it all at Liberty Plaza.
Have you seen what Carl Messineo and Mara Verheyden-Hilliard have been going through in DC? Yikes!
cheers,
marco
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Thanks Marco. Â So glad my little book is still of some use.
I’m attaching a pdf of the full text. Â You have my permission to reproduce it for OWS and give it out to all the folks who are finally stepping forward to challenge and overturn the plutocracy.
It’s also supposed to be available on http://www.publiceye.org, but I wasn’t able to find it on a quick try.
In solidarity,
brian
Yes, this image is print-ready.
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09/17/2011
Becoming a 2011 NAMA Nominee for my song “Frybread;” wow!
Woah, now I can now call myself a Nammy nominated songwriter and record producer.
My mind is blown.
I’m so excited about this, but I’m happiest about the fact that this might get even more people singing this song. Yay!
And most excited that even more and more people get to hear the storyline behind the lyrics to this song. Yay! Exponentially more people can share this song now than I could ever have pulled off on my own with normal distribution channels such as labels and advertising firms. Yippie!
When I first heard I got the nomination I ran around my yard screaming, I’m not going to lie. A little bit awkward because it was about 1am on a weeknight. Then I couldn’t sleep which is not a good thing for me right now because I teach 7th graders. You definitely need all the energy 7-8 hours can bring you if you’re going to keep your wits about you with middle schoolers.
So here’s the press release the NAMMYS are sending around and instructions for online peoples’ choice voting and stuff.
Thank you everyone who helped further the non-traditional production and distribution of this song. I’m grateful, humbled and inspired. Winning would of course be extra cool, I’ll know if it does that on 7oct up near Niagara Falls! But I have to tell you, getting this nomination truly is the best thing that has ever happened to me in my life since the day I was adopted!
Peace and love,
marco frucht
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“This year’s nominated recordings span from historical recordings featuring the prison writings of Leonard Peltier, present day questions for the great Ogalala leader, Crazy Horse, to Native youth speaking louder than ever with their powerful raps about their poignant plights armed with a spirit of undaunted perserverence. Music productions throughout our 35 categories reflect an impressive and diverse array of talent and soundscapes from all ages and tribal nations throughout the Americas and Europe as well.
These are the many voices of the original roots music of the Americas and they arrive at their strongest and in record-breaking numbers, with over 200 CD and DVD recordings submitted this year for all to hear. ”
— Â Ellen Bello
Founder/President
Native American Music Awards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nominees Announced for the
Thirteenth Annual
Native American Music Awards
To Be Held On Friday, October 7, 2011
At The Seneca Niagara Hotel & Casino In Niagara Falls
Featuring Performances By Derek Miller, Gabriel Ayala, Pipestone, Yarina, Janice Marie Johnson, and a national debut by 13 year old Dylan Jennett.
Plus Keith Secola and Nokie Edwards Hall of Fame Inductions
And Jim Thorpe Award Presentation to Ted Nolan
Tickets On-Sale Now At All Ticketmaster Outlets & At The Seneca Casino Box Office
September 16, 2011 – New York, NY.  Nominations for the 13th Annual Native American Music Awards (NAMA) were announced today by The Native American Music Association reflecting the combined votes of the NAMA Advisory Board Membership Nominating Committee and general public membership.
General Public voting is now open on the Awards website or by clicking the followiing link:Â
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NAMA2011W
Winners will be announced at the 13th Annual Native American Music Awards which will be held on Friday, October 7, 2011 at the Seneca Entertainment Center in the Seneca Casino & Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York.
Tickets are on-sale now through www.Ticketmaster.com, all ticketmaster outlets, and at the Seneca box office (716) 501 2444. Tickets are $25.00 and up. Special discounted hotel rates are available for NAMA attendees at $189.00 plus tax and fees per night on a first come first serve basis and by calling 716-299-1100 or 1-877-8SENECA (73-6322) and using the code name; NAMMYS. NAMA Advisory members and nominated artists who are attending, should contact the Awards office before purchasing tickets.
Both new and established artists share the list of nominations throughout a diverse array of 35 music categories spanning all genres. A new category was launched this year for Best Latin American Indigenous Recording. This is the second consecutive year that N.A.M.A. has added a new Awards category. Last year’s Awards program introduced a new music category for Best Waila Recording.
This year’s top nominees all with three nods each are; Shelley Morningsong’s Full Circle, Pipestone’s As The Rez Turns, Jack Gladstone’s Native Anthropology Challenge, Choice and Promise in the 21st Century, Jan Michael Looking Wolf’sLive As One, Aaron White and Anthony Wakeman’s Handprints of Our People, Derek Miller’s Stoned For Days, and newcomers’, Josh Halverson’s These Timesand October Soul’s Don’t Turn Back.
Tied with two nominations each are recording artists: Aura Surey (Cherokee), Becky Thomas (Cherokee) , Bobby Bullet (Lac Du Flambeau), Brad Clonch (Choctaw), Desiree Dorion (Cree), Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole), Don Amero (Metis), Dylan Jenet Collins (Montaukett) , Evan Lee Cummins (Crow), Gabriel Ayala (Yaqui), Gary Small & The Coyote Brothers (Northern Cheyenne), Gilbert Tyner (Comanche), Golana (Cherokee), Jimmy Lee Young (Mayan), JJ Kent (Oglala Sioux), Jonathan C. Ward (Lumbee), Joy Harjo (Muskoke), Lady Xplicit (Navajo), Leanne Goose & Snow Blind (Inuit & Dene), Louis Capchez (Quechua Inka), Marc Brown & The Blues Crew (Huslia), Marcus Briggs-Cloud & Anna Rangel-Clough (Muscogee), Mike Gouchie (Lheidli T’enneh), Mike Hammar and The Nails (Muscogee Creek), Northern Cree (Cree), Northern Cree Fiddle (Cree), Plenty Wolf Singers (Oglala Lakota), Randy Granger (Cholton/ Mayan), Rushingwind & Mucklow (Cahuilla), Shane Yellowbird (Cree), Southern Scratch (Tohono O’odham), Talibah Begay (Navajo Dine), Tonemah (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora), Uno (Cherokee), Vince Fontaine (Ojibway), Vince Redhouse (Navajo)and Yvonne St. Germaine (Cree)
“This year’s nominated recordings span from; historical recordings featuring the prison writings of Leonard Peltier, present day questions for the great Ogalala leader, Crazy Horse, to Native youth speaking louder than ever with their powerful raps about their poignant plights armed with a spirit of undaunted perserverence,” states Awards President, Ellen Bello. “Music productions throughout our 35 categories reflect an impressive and diverse array of talent and soundscapes from all ages and tribal nations throughout the Americas and Europe as well.”
These are the many voices of the original roots music of the Americas and this year, they arrive at their strongest, and in record-breaking numbers, with over 200 CD and DVD recordings submitted this year for all to hear. The upcoming Awards celebration promises to be unlike any before.
Scheduled to perform at the 13th Annual Native American Music Awards show will be; Derek Miller, Gabriel Ayala, Pipestone, Yarina, Janice Marie Johnson, and a national debut by 13 year old female vocalist, Dylan Jennett. Plus Keith Secola and Nokie Edwards of The Ventures (Wipe Out, Hawaii Five-O) who won Best Instrumental Recording at last year’s Awards show for his solo instrumental effort, “Hitchin’ A Ride,” will be honored with Hall of Fame Inductions. A Jim Thorpe Sports Award Presentation will be made to former Head Coach of the Buffalo Sabres and New York Islanders, Ted Nolan. Other special guests include Winona LaDuke and Buddy Big Mountain with more to be announced.
Public voting to determine the winner of each category is open to the general public. Music tracks from all nominees are featured on the Awards’ website.
The Native American Music Awards & Association is the world’s largest professional membership-based organization committed to honoring contemporary and traditional Native American music initiatives.
See below for a complete list of official nominees for the 13th Annual Native American Awards. The Native American Music Awards & Association extends its sincerest congratulations to all the 2011 NAMA Nominees.
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Bobby Bullet (Lac Du Flambeau) – Bigfoot
Gabriel Ayala (Yaqui)– Passion Fire & Grace
JJ Kent (Oglala Sioux) – Prairie Meditation
Joy Harjo (Muskoke) – Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears
Vince Redhouse (Navajo)– Hozhooji’ – The Beauty and Blessing Within Us (Navajo)
Yvonne St. Germaine (Cree) – My Jesus I Love Thee
BEST BLUES RECORDING
Blues Joose Vol1 – Joel Johnson (Tuscarora)
Indian Rock ‘n Roll – Marc Brown & The Blues Crew (Huslia) STOPPED
Recipe for the Blues – Mike Hammar and The Nails (Muscogee Creek)
Rez-Bomb – Cornbred (Onondaga)
Table Top Three – Table Top Three (Onondaga)
Thin Line – Graywolf Blues Band (Yaqui, Seminole, Choctaw, Cherokee, Muskogee)
BEST COMPILATION RECORDING
All My Best – Gilbert Tyner (Comanche)
Honoring Traditions Pow Wow (Intertribal) –Various Artists
Live As One – Jan Michael Looking Wolf (Kalupuya)
The Color of Hope – Various Artists
The Red Road: Peyote Way – Various (Intertribal)
Volume 2 – Two Rivers (Tohono O’odham)
BEST COUNTRY RECORDING
Got You Covered – Leanne Goose & SnowBlind (Inuit & Dene)
Native Heart – C.C. Murdock (Shoshone/Piaute)
Sexy Mama – Rodeo Highway (Navajo)
Shattered Glass – Mike Gouchie (Lheidli T’enneh)
Soul Back Jack – Desiree Dorion (Cree)
The Old Road – Hudson Dean (Grand Ronde)
DEBUT ARTIST OF THE YEAR –
Bear Fox (Mohawk) – Rich Girl
Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole) – The Storm
Don Amero (Metis) – The Long Way Home
Dylan Jenet Collins (Montaukett) – Hear Our Prayer
Josh Halverson (Mdewakanton Sioux) – These Times
Uno (Cherokee) – A Strange Revolt
DEBUT DUO OR GROUP OF THE YEAR
Aura Surey (Cherokee) – Many Roads Home
Marcus Briggs-Cloud & Anna Rangel-Clough (Muscogee) – Pum Vculvke Vrrakuecetv
Mike Hammar and The Nails (Muscogee Creek) – Recipe for the Blues
October Soul (Lac Courte Oreilles) – Don’t Turn Back
Plenty Wolf Singers (Oglala Lakota) – Plenty Wolf SIngers
Wendy Jo Bradshaw & Rose Yazzi Thomas (Nez Perce/Navajo) – A Great Gift
BEST FEMALE ARTIST
Becky Thomas (Cherokee) – Sacred Ground
Desiree Dorion (Cree) – Soul Back Jack
Lady Xplicit (Navajo) – Cali Girl
Leanne Goose & SnowBlind (Inuit & Dene) – Got You Covered
Shelley Morningsong (Northern Cheyenne) – Full Circle
Talibah Begay (Navajo Dine) – Navajo Songs for Children
BEST FOLK RECORDING
Ayosgi (Soldier) – Clear Water Drum (Cherokee/Yaqui/Metis)
Native Anthropology, Challenge, Choice and Promise in the 21st Century – Jack Gladstone (Blackfeet)
Reservation Reflections – Frank “Anakwad†Montano (Ojibwe)
The Long Way Home – Don Amero (Metis)
Under A Different Day – Peter Sackaney (Cree)
You (Understood) – Samantha Crain (Choctaw)
FLUTIST OF THE YEAR –
Anthony Wakeman (Pottowatomi/Oglala Lakota) – Handprints of Our People
Cody Blackbird (Cherokee) – The Journey
Brad Clonch (Choctaw) – Live At The McSwain Theatre
Jason Chamakese (Cree) – Native American Flute Songs Volume 2
Jonathan C. Ward (Lumbee) – An Epic Ride
Vince Redhouse (Navajo) – Hozhooji’ – The Beauty and Blessing Within Us
BEST GOSPEL INSPIRATIONAL RECORDING
God is With You – Echoes of Faith (Lumbee)
Hymns – Golana (Cherokee)
Likanii Tse Bii Holo – Larry Kaibetoney ( Navajo)
My Jesus I Love Thee – Yvonne St. Germaine (Metis)
Passionate Love – Evan Lee Cummins
Sacred Ground – Becky Thomas (Cherokee)
GROUP OF THE YEAR
Marc Brown & The Blues Crew (Huslia) – Indian Rock ‘n Roll
Nake Nula Waun (Rosebud Sioux) – Scars and Bars
Northern Cree (Cree) – Temptations
Pipestone (Ojibwe) – As The Rez Turns
Sayani (Cherokee) – Breakaway
Wind Spirit Drum (Lenape, Mic Mac, Cherokee) – Ancient Winds
BEST HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC RECORDING
Alowanpi: Songs of Honoring, Lakota Classicss Past & Present – Porcupine Singers (Lakota)
My Life Is My Sun Dance: Prison Writings of Leonard Peltier – Harvey Arden w/Rev Goat Carson & New Orleans Light
Native Anthropology, Challenge, Choice and Promise in the 21st Century -Jack Gladstone (Blackfeet)
Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper, by Harvey Arden & Mathew King (Noble Red Man – Lakota)
Pum Vculvke Vrrakuecetv – Marcus Briggs-Cloud & Anna Rangel-Clough (Muscogee)
What Would Crazy Horse Say? – Shadowyze (Muskogee Creek)
BEST INSTRUMENTAL RECORDING
Corn & Boots – Northern Cree Fiddle (Cree)
Where the Sun Rises-Estun-Bah (Apache)
How Sweet The Sound – Southern Scratch (Tohono O’odham)
Passion Fire & Grace – Gabriel Ayala (Yaqui) & Will Clipman
Songs For Turtle Island – Vince Fontaine (Ojibway)
Spider Brings Fire – Nashville String Machine (Chickasaw)
BEST LATIN AMERICAN RECORDING
Great Spirit – Jimmy Lee Young (Mayan)
Indians Colour – Luis Capcha Vilchez (Quechua Inka/Peru)
Pura Vida: This is Pure Life – Randy Granger (Choltan/Mayan)
Sanchito – .Luis Capcha & Naomi Torres (Peruvian Indigenius Quechua Inka)
Tribal Thunder – The Blessed Blend (Taino, Creek, Cherokee)
Taino Prayer Song – Aura Surey (Echota Cherokee, Taino)
BEST MALE ARTIST
Aaron White (Dine) – Handprints of Our People
Derek Miller (Mohawk/Ojibway) – Stoned For Days
Gary Small (Northern Cheyenne) – Wyoming (For Dummies)
Jan Michael Looking Wolf (Kalupuya) – Live As One
Opie Day Bedeau (Chippewa) – One Love Round Dance Songs
Shane Yellowbird (Cree) – It’s About Time
BEST NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH RECORDING
All My Best – Gilbert Tyner (Comanche)
Greatest Hits – Meewasin Oma (Cree)
Love Songs of the Native American Church – Kevin Yazzie (Navajo)
Old Style Native American Peyote Songs – Antonio Woody (Navajo Dine)
Renewed Spirit: Harmonized Church Hymns of the Kiowa – Cheevers Toppah (Kiowa)
The Red Road: Peyote Way – Various
BEST NEW AGE RECORDING
Ancient Elements – Rushingwind & Mucklow (Cahuilla)
Flute Meditations – David Searching Owl (Abnaki)
Hymns – Golana (Cherokee)
It’s About Time – Herman Edward (Okanagan/Similkameen)
Prairie Meditation – JJ Kent (Oglala Sioux)
White Cloud Black Thunder – Black Thunder Singers (Oglala Lakota/Inupiaq/Micmac)
with Randy Armstrong and Volker Nahrmann
BEST POP RECORDING
Bigfoot – Bobby Bullet (Lac Du Flambeau)
Full Circle – Shelley Morningsong (Northern Cheyenne)
Great Spirit – Jimmy Lee Young (Mayan)
Hear Our Prayer – Dylan Jenet Collins (Montaukett)
Scars and Bars – Nake Nula Waun (Rosebud Sioux)
These Times – Josh Halverson (Mdewakanton Sioux)
BEST POW WOW RECORDING
As The Rez Turns – Pipestone (Ojibwe)
Black Thunder – Black Thunder Singers (Oglala Lakota/Inupiaq/Micmac)
Chasing The Sun – Midnite Express (Sioux, Ojibwe, Menominee)
Plenty Wolf SIngers – Plenty Wolf Singers (Oglala Lakota)
Temptations – Northern Cree (Cree)
XI Pow Wow Songs Recorded Live @ San Manuel – Bear Creek (Ojibwe)
BEST PRODUCER
Brad Clonch (Choctaw) – Chickasha Alhiha’
George Morgan – The Water Place
Kevin Charbo & Bob Frank – Shattered Glass
Michael Mucklow– Ancient Elements
Stephen Butler – Handprints of Our People
Vince Fontaine – Songs For Turtle Island
BEST RAP/HIP HOP RECORDING * Three way tie for last nominee slot
A Strange Revolt – Uno (Cherokee)
Cali Girl- Lady Xplicit (Navajo)
Lowlife – Rezhogs (Yakama)
Passionate Love – Evan Lee Cummins (Crow)
Scars and Bars – Nake Nula Waun (Rosebud Sioux)
The Rapture – Buggin Malone (Oneida)
The Storm – Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole)
RECORD OF THE YEAR
As The Rez Turns – Pipestone (Ojibwe)
An Epic Ride – Jonathan C. Ward (Lumbee)
Full Circle – Shelley Morningsong (Northern Cheyenne)
It’s About Time – Shane Yellowbird (Cree) (US Release)
Mulligan – Tonemah (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora)
Stoned For Days- Derek Miller (Mohawk/Ojibway)
BEST ROCK RECORDING
Alaska Jazz – Archie Cavanaugh (Tlingit)
Don’t Turn Back – October Soul (Lac Courte Oreilles)
Mulligan – Tonemah (Kiowa/Comanche/Tuscarora)
The Red Album – Original Xit aka Ox Boyz (Taos, Santa Domingo, Laguna Pueblo)
Tribal Thunder – The Blessed Blend (Taino, Creek, Cherokee)
Wyoming (For Dummies) – Gary Small & The Coyote Brothers (Northern Cheyenne)
SONG SINGLE OF THE YEAR –
“All My Relations†– Duane Deemer Wind Horse (Choctaw/Cherokee)
“Cybergirl†– Raphael Deas (Apache)
“Heavy†– Nake Nula Waun (Rosebud Sioux)
“Hometown Hero†– Dark Water Rising (Lumbie/Cohorie)
“I Can Help You With That†– Shane Yellowbird (Cree)
“Out of Many We Are One†– Joseph FireCrow, Thomasina Levy & Others (Northern Cheyenne)
“The Storm†– Doc featuring Spencer Battiest (Seminole)
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Dawn Avery & Janet Rogers (Mohawk) – Our Fire
Jack Gladstone – Native Anthropology Challenge, Choice and Promise in the 21st Century
Kyra Climbingbear (Eastern Cherokee) – Kyra Climbingbear
Rona Yellow Robe & Bruce Witham Robe (Chippewa Cree) – Voice of the Trees
Jamie Brace (Lac Courte Oreilles) – Don’t Turn Back
Josh Halverson (Mdewakanton Sioux) – These Times
BEST SPOKEN WORD RECORDING
Just For Kids – Deborah New Moon Rising (Abenaki)
Moccasins and Microphones: Modern Native Storytelling through Performance Poetry – Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team (Intertribal)
My Life Is My Sun Dance, by Harvey Arden and Leonard Peltier with arrangements by Rev. Goat Carson and the New Orleans Light
Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper, by Harvey Arden & Mathew King (Noble Red Man)
Red Grass – Terry Lee Whetstone (Cherokee)
BEST TRADITONAL RECORDING
Faith, Hope, Charity, Compassion – Nantaanii Nez Yeis The Eteittys (Navajo)
It’s A New Day For Love – Oshkii Giizhik Singers (Anishnaabe)
Keshjee, Navajo Shoegame Songs – Porcupine Singers (Navajo)
Navajo Songs for Children – Talibah Begay (Navajo Dine)
The Gift of Love – Randy Wood (Cree)
Wiohinhanble The Dream (Rosebud Sioux) – Kashnapi The Mystic Elk Dreamer (Rosebud Sioux)
BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO –
Can’t Change The World – Shy-Anne Hovorka (Metis)
Grandfather – Wind Spirit Drum, Karla La Rive, Chris Crosby
Live As One – Jan Michael Looking Wolf & Various Artists
Pick Up Truck – Shane Yellowbird (Cree)
Stoned For Days – Derek Miller (Mohawk/Ojibway)
XI Pow Wow Songs Recorded Live @ San Manuel – Bear Creek (Ojibwe)
BEST LONG FORM MUSIC VIDEO
Blake & Tracy Nelson and The Native Blues Band & Guests (Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians)
Injunuity (Chickasaw/Choctaw) – Live At The McSwain Theatre
Journey To Soul Blessings – Tony Redhouse (Navajo)
Live At The Winsted Green – Joseph FireCrow (Northern Cheyenne)
Questions For Crazy Horse – Oliver Tuthill
Pow Wow Music -Cree Confederation
BEST WAILA RECORDING
A Little Beat of Something For Everyone – Native Pride (Tohono O’odham)
Corn & Boots – Northern Cree Fiddle (Cree)
How Sweet The Sound – Southern Scratch (Tohono O’odham)
PD – Live – Papago Warrior (Tohono O’odham)
Pure Nativez – Pure Nativez (Tohono O’odham)
Timeless – Native Thunder (Tohono O’odham)
BEST WORLD MUSIC RECORDING
Indians Colour – Luis Capcha Vilchez (Quechua/Peru)
Kayas – Rhonda Head (Cree)
Many Roads Home – Aura Surey (Cherokee)
Pura Vida – This is Pure Life – Randy Granger (Choltan/Mayan)
Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears – Joy Harjo (Muskoke)
Valley of Thunder – Gvwi (Cherokee)
NATIVE HEART
Bernhard Wolfsheart Weilguni – Call of the Canyons
Harvey Arden – Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper, by Harvey Arden & Mathew King (Noble Red Man): Lakota Wisdom Keepers
Jonny Lipford – Breeze @ 72 Degrees
Marco Capelli Frucht – Frybread
Peter Phippen – Summerland
Terry Frazier – My Spirit Voice
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09/06/2011
Humbled by my friend Aaron and so many others!
My friend Aaron saw me in a Starbucks the other day and said “I really love your ‘Frybread’ song.” I blushed and said thanks. “No, you don’t know. I mean I really really love it. My girlfriend loves it, the kids love it, we play it in the car constantly.” I’m so grateful he loves it, and I’m also quite happy that these lyrics are being sung along to. That means the world to me.
Congrats on your submission this year! Good music!
— Jan Michael Reibach
This song brings me back to my grandmothers cooking..YUMMY. Thanks Marco and God bless.
— Silver Starr Sargent
I’ll always remember frybread.. (and the versions of Sean singing it while we were married omg) lol and the kids LOVE the song I hope it gets you that nammy… you really deserve it!!
— Charlene Mills
This post is essentially an extention of the earlier one down there: Â Â http://muffinbottoms.org/?p=872
So much is happening so swiftly in my life, I need to figure out on the fly how to combine these two into one post. 😉
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09/01/2011
Enjoy yourself; it’s later than you think.
Wake up people, Connecticut Light and Power, United Illuminating and others left you in harms way and things are far worse than you can ever imagine.
CL&P and UI are sure going to have to answer to this once everyone’s safe. It’s painfully obvious there was fraud and negligence involved. We the people should’ve known better after Exxon Valdez, Enron and BP, but what have we done? Remained asleep, simply shifting our addictions from Netflix and Blockbuster to Redbox and Hulu!!!
— Anon.
I refuse to blame the linemen in this. UI and CL&P have become mulitnational conglomerates that don’t care about our nation, our saftey, or our comfort. People, our lives have been enangered this whole time. WAKE UP. I refuse to merely give Malloy a hard time, this is not about (R) or (D) it is about privatization of water, oil, electricity and life.
You know, most of my European and Asian friends just ask me constantly how I can keep admitting publickly after all these years living in the laughingstock of the planet that I’m an American. You know, I really don’t have an answer.
Maybe I’ll just sing ’em a Lee Greenwood song and tell them to STFU
This blog entry started as many posts on my personal facebook. Here are the earliest comments. My first impulse is to develop this into one cohesive essay. But frankly I don’t want to take the extra time required to form that. I’d rather put this out there raw like this and get the dialogue going.
Please discuss.
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Bob — (fictitious first names only, sorry) Â I noticed all the trucks in my area are from Michigan. Heard something on the news about it being cheaper to hire crews from out of state than to pay its own employees overtime. There’s you days long power outage!
Gloria — My brother was talking to some of those out of staters while they were just sitting around. Apparently they were waiting for someone to tell them what to do. So, even when we HAD the willing linemen, no managers were organized enough to use them consistently. Argh.
Andrew — hopefully you will get it soon. I know Groton Utilities has just finished their area and pretty soon they are going to start helping CL&P customers. Also I know some companies in Canada are lending a hand as well. They have driven down to help out. Last I heard CL&P still have about 400,000 customers state wide without power
Agnes — Linemen rock. You nailed it.
Donna — we were down a bit over two days. My sister in Saybrook is hearing restoration by Sunday…i didn’t notice where our linemen were from, Wichita? ‘Dit-dit-da-dit’….’
Grace — Private enterprise can’t run health care and they sure can’t power my home right. The Stockholders come first
This is all so dark, I must drop a metaphor on ya…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSm2llQLCH4
The music is Carl Sigman and Herb Magidson. 1949. I honestly don’t know if I like Keb Mo’s version or Taj Mahal’s better. Or maybe Manu Chao. Guy Lombardo?
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Enjoy+Yourself%22+%28It%27s+Later+Than+You+Think%29&aq=f
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06/10/2011
Blogging a Poem I Wrote That’s Disappearing From The Net
Untitled
by Marc Frucht
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- What profits a man
Who has almost everything
Yet still he must
Steal from the poorQué beneficia a un hombre
Que pudo tenerlo todo
Pero él guarda el robar
El más pobres del pobre
- What profits a man
[ref]=[http://web.archive.org/web/20050122085604/http://www.sondra.net/al/vol6/62Frucht.htm]
This was first published at Autumn Leaves which appears to be going away.
Two more poems archived at the following URLs:
http://www.frucht.org/whyweclash.html
http://www.frucht.org/secondblackmesamemory.html
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05/04/2011
METACOMET’S HEAD ON A STICK IN A PLIMOTH PARK FOR 20 YEARS: Roots Of Our Racism.
The blood lust of so many of my “countrymen” (and women) this week over news of Osama Bin Laden’s death frightens me greatly as a human being but also as an army signal corps veteran.
There should be somber reflection and subdued “joy” regarding Osama Bin Laden’s demise.
There should be a search for closure and catharsis throughout the land perhaps, and especially among those who lost loved ones but there should not be all this demonstrative applause and neo-patriotic joy. A real Warrior prays for and seeks peace only killing as a last resort and necessary “evil.”
All this armchair warrior behavior gives me great pain. Not to mention I find it rude because come on now! It shows very bad form.
A songwriter friend of mine named Spook Handy puts it this way:
WORSE, HOWEVER, IS THAT HE BROUGHT OUT THE WORST IN SO MANY AMERICANS. PEOPLE I KNOW, FRIENDS AND EVEN RELATIVES, ALLOWED THEIR DARKEST DEMONS TO RULE THEIR RATIONALE AND EMOTIONS – COLLECTIVELY PRETENDING THAT WE DIDN’T KNOW WE WERE WRONG TO TEAR APART IRAQ, TORTURE PRISONERS AND DISREGARD THE SPIRIT OF BOTH THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND GENEVA CONVENTION.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/spook-handy/thoughts-on-osama-bin-laden/10150560528145654
My friend Lucy put it this way:
IT RATHER BOTHERS ME THAT ONE OF THE SEALS COMMUNICATED TO HIS SUPERIORS THAT ‘GERONIMO’ (OSAMA BIN LADEN) HAD BEEN KILLED IN ACTION.
GERONIMO WAS A GREAT NATIVE HERO. WHAT AN INSULT — OF THE GREATEST MAGNITUDE!
WHY WASN’T THE CODE NAME COLUMBUS, HITLER, STALIN, CUSTER, JACKSON, OR SADDAM USED ?????
Shepard Smith and Christiane Amanpour are both very excited about this new path that the United States is
taking now that Seal 6 team took Bin Laden and four other peoples’ lives away two days ago. If you follow their careers with any kind of discerning eye you will see they do not go anywhere that they can’t make low millions of dollars and high hundreds of thousands of dollars exploiting death, war and conflict. Falluja, Palestine, Tokyo, Britain, New Orleans or a vote count in Florida or Ohio. Doesn’t matter. If there’s conflict, if there are people grieving dead relatives, they will be there with their teleprompters and microphone. “How does it feel, Mrs. Metacom, to see your dead husband’s skull rotting on a pike at the gates to your neighbor’s village?” “This just in, we have a 9 year old grieving his dead dad, Metacom junior, please speak clearly into the microphone, your dad is dead, you are in shackles, they are beating your mother nearly to death and tonight they’ll be boating you down to Bermuda to be slaves, how are you feeling right now?”
And here’s some of what Rabbi Lerner has to say about all that:
The task of spiritual progressives at this moment is to reaffirm a different consciousness —
to remind ourselves that we are inextricably bound to each other and to everyone on the planet.
The struggle against terrorism will not be won through killing, no matter how many people
we assassinate. It will only be won when we in the West can show genuine love, caring,
and generosity toward everyone else on the planet.
http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/tikkuns-spiritual-response-to-the-assassination-of-osama-bin-laden
Last word goes to my friend Rachel who asks this!
What does this say to our children?
Did you know Native Americans historically
serve in the United States Armed Forces
in higher numbers per capita than
any other ethnic group.
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04/10/2011
Liner Notes and Back Cover of Chiapaneca Rekkid. Enjoy!
A
Chiapaneca is a tone poem
It is December 22, 1997.
A paramitlitary group called “Paz y Justicia” rapes and murders dozens of women and children
at a prayer meeting in Acteal, Chenalho, Chiapas. One paramilitary chooses to leave. He
picks up a little girl, Marcela saving her from harm. But later he is found out in the act
of helping her escape to the neighboring village and they hang him after much torture.
Aggressively they search for little Marcela but give up after a time.
There are other witnesses they weren’t able to kill.
Undetected, a guitarist sits in the bushes; waiting for them to leave. He remembers
everything he has seen.
Dedications: RIP Matt Chew, __________ [Censored], my Dad, John Ross, The Bees, Alma and you.
i dig local musicians.
UPC: 700261324746
Poet, Producer and Writer Marco Capelli Frucht wishes the four Sledge Grits
girls all the continued success that can possibly come along to match their
amazing skills and talent!!
ShoutOuts: Snark tuners, Page Capos, SIT strings, Zinky amps and the only new
guitar purchases anymore are Navatone and Godin.
Recording Studios acknowledged:
Lite Straw, Pwop, Dirt Floor.
http://www.oilpanalley.com
http://www.frucht.org
Oasis Disc Manufacturing
B
Frybread was written near Black Mesa Arizona
(Ch)Fry bread, frybread, make me some frybread
How can you be my Nana if you won’t make me frybread.
Frybread, frybread, make me some frybread,
How can you be a Nana if you won’t make some frybread.
Make me some frybread, chop up some peppers,
Make up some frybread- add some beans and cheese
How ’bout some frybread ‘n lettuce n’ tomatoes
Make it any kind of bread but make some fry bread please.
(ch)
I’ll herd the sheep for you I’ll chop the wood.
I’ll mud the roof if you’ll only make frybread
I’ll sweep the floor auntie, I promise I’ll be good.
I’ll learn a song for you but please make some fry bread.
(ch)
Wheat flour or white flour
Use any kind of flour
Heck even Jewish rye flour
But make some frybread please.
(chorus, repeat and fade…)
This song dedicated to all of Bob and Bonnie’s children.
Shouts to my Nana, my Bubbe, Ana Egge and Mrs. Laurie, (my 5th grade
English teacher at Groton Heights.)
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03/10/2011
Whether a Governor, F-15 pilot or a Sheep Herder, your actions influence people you will likely never know.
BLACK MESA ARIZONA – Â I was herding Roberta Blackgoat’s sheep one sunny February day when a fighter plane dusted by 20 feet overhead or less.
I hit the ground as all the sheep and both dogs scattered. They all gathered back together when the plane was long gone and seemed to be comforting by circling around each other in really strange ways that I can’t understand. That all seemed fine though.
I looked over and there was one lamb shaking nonstop near a short tree. I went over and pet her and hugged her, and tried to say things in assuring ways hoping she would feel in my breath that she no longer needs to fear all that. Her shaking seemed to subside but she never seemed right after that. She would always drink less water than the others, and sometimes refused to drink or eat altogether.
Not too many days later Roberta handed me a long knife and instructed me to go out and slit the lamb’s throat saying that she will freeze to death either tonight or tomorrow night so our job was to stop the suffering. It was very difficult for me to do, but she was 50 some odd years my Elder and I was there primarily to herd sheep and chop wood for her, so I completed the task as competently as I could. She had said to be very swift, and use the sharpest part of the knife right across the neck so the lamb would die instantly and feel no extra pain.
That was not the most difficult thing I ever did in my life, but it remains in my top ten.
Incidentally, I will never forgive the very same military that I served proudly in years before that. The two men or women in that F-15 did NOT need to do that, and they probably don’t even care how much suffering they caused in a gigantic circle around them.
The only thing I can thank these two inhumane people for, is they helped me to live out my life being just a little more deliberate about each and every action I make as I try to be more aware who I might help or hurt in a big circle around me.
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