National Day of Mourning event.

39th NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING Thursday, November 27, 2007 12 Noon - Cole’s Hill (the hill above Plymouth Rock) Plymouth, MA For More Information Contact: United American Indians of New England/LPSG 617-522-6626 info@uaine.org www.uaine.org Pot-luck Social to Follow 2008 National Day of Mourning Flyer 2008 National Day of Mourning Orientation

Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning onthe US thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other European settlers. Thanksgiving day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression which Native Americans continue to experience.

ORIENTATION FOR 2008 NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING

WHAT IS NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING?

An annual tradition since 1970, Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly political day. Many of us fast

from sundown the day before through the afternoon of that day (and have a social after Day of Mourning so

that participants in DOM can break their fasts). We are mourning our ancestors and the genocide of our

peoples and the theft of our lands. NDOM is a day when we mourn, but we also feel our strength in political

action. Over the years, participants in Day of Mourning have buried Plymouth Rock a number of times,

boarded the Mayflower replica, and placed ku klux klan sheets on the statue of William Bradford, etc.

WHEN AND WHERE IS DAY OF MOURNING?

Thursday, November 27, 2008 (U.S. "thanksgiving" day) at Cole's Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 12 noon

SHARP. Cole's Hill is the hill above Plymouth Rock in the Plymouth historic waterfront area.

WILL THERE BE A MARCH?

There will be a march through the historic district of Plymouth. Plymouth has agreed, as part of the settlement

of 10/19/98, that UAINE may march on Day of Mourning without the need for a permit as long as we give the

town advance notice.

PROGRAM: Although we very much welcome our non-Native allies to stand with us at NDOM, it is a day

when Native people only speak about our history and what is going on with us now and the struggles that are

taking place throughout the Americas. Speakers will be by invitation only. This year's NDOM is once again

dedicated to our brother Leonard Peltier.

SOCIAL: There will be a social held after the National Day of Mourning speak-out and march this year. It is

possible that the hall that we have obtained is not large enough to seat everyone at once. We may have to do

two seatings. Preference for the first seating will be given to Elders, children and their mother/caretaker,

pregnant women, Disabled people, and people who have traveled a long distance to join National Day of

Mourning. Please respect our culture and our wish to ensure that these guests will be the first to be able to sit

and eat. With this understanding in mind, please bring non-alcoholic beverages, desserts, fresh fruit &

vegetables, and pre-cooked items (turkeys, hams, stuffing, vegetables, casseroles, rice & beans, etc.) that can

be easily re-warmed at the social hall. Thank you.

TRANSPORTATION: Limited carpool transportation may be available from Boston. Contact the Boston IAC

Office at (617) 522-6626. There is transportation from New York City via the International Action Center, for

more information call 212-633-6646.

Directions: National Day of Mourning is held by the statue of Massasoit at Cole's Hill. Cole's Hill is the hill

rising above Plymouth Rock on the Plymouth waterfront. If you need directions, use Water Street and Leyden

Street in Plymouth, MA as your destination at mapquest.com. That will bring you to within a few hundred feet of

Plymouth Rock and Cole's Hill. You can probably find a place to park down on Water Street.

Donations: Monetary donations are gratefully accepted. Please make checks payable to the Metacom

Education Project and mail to Metacom Education Project/UAINE at 284 Amory Street, Boston, MA 02130.

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Nazi Acts...by Jewish hands

Comment by Khalid Amayreh
in Occupied E. Jerusalem

There is no doubt that the cold-blooded
extermination by the Israeli air-force
of an entire Palestinian family in
Gaza on Friday, 15, was a monstrous
crime not unlike Nazi atrocities during World War II.

The only difference lies in the fact that the Nazis did it “wholesale”
while their ideological descendants, the Zionists, are doing
the same thing by retail.

What else can be said about the deliberate and premeditated bombing
from high altitudes of a residential home and the annihilation of
a man, his wife and their three children who were asleep in the dead of night?

We all know that F-16 fighters and other state-of-the-art machines of
death were designed to be used against powerful armies. However,
using them against brick houses where innocent people live is just
beyond the pale of human morality. It is not an expression of power,
it is rather an expression of cowardice and monstrosity.

It is a heinous crime added to a long list of Nazi-like crimes perpetrated
by the Jewish state which can be said with little exaggeration
to represent the Nazis of our time.

I know that there are many decent Israeli citizens and other Jews
who are kind-hearted and peace-minded and opposed to Israel’s
criminality and evilness.

However, this laudable fact doesn’t alter the more clarion
reality of the Nazi-like nature of the Israeli political-military
establishment.

Israel, a terrorist state par excellance, claims that man of the house,
Ayman Al Fayeq, was involved in acts of terror. But did that justify
exterminating his entire family and neighbors? If so, then it would
be perfectly right to murder tens of thousands of Israeli Jewish families
on the ground that some members of these families were involved in
terror and murder of the Palestinians.

Israeli apologists claim that Israel had to kill Palestinian civilians and
children in order to prevent the death of Israeli civilians and children.

But this rationale is as mendacious as it is pornographic. Mendacious
because the Palestinians pose no real threat to nuclear Israel which
also controls the politics and policies of the United States of America
and has strong influences on the governments of Western Europe.
Didn’t Sharon, the infamous certified war criminal declare a few years
ago that “we, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans
know it?” And pornographic because oppressive regimes could resort
to this criminal logic in order to physically eliminate their respective
untermensch, blacks, Jews and Palestinians on the ground that “their
very existence pose a mortal threat to our future.”

This is what the White barbarian immigrants in North America did to
the native Americans (the American Indians) and ultimately called
it “manifest destiny.” The same thing can be said about other
“civilized” White European pioneers who used their guns and tools
of death rather liberally against the indigenous inhabitants
of the New World.

And, now Israel, which represents the ubermensch, the master-race
or chosenites, , is doing more or less the same thing to the unprotected
Palestinians, while the rest of the world is looking on passively.

This disgraceful silence, this criminal indifference, this moral outrage
is undoubtedly a reflection of the moral decadence plaguing
humanity these days.

Of course, this is not the first time Israel’s hands are stained with
the blood of the innocent, for Israel’s entire history is an interrupted
chain of crime and bloodshed.

However, the fact that these hideous crimes are committed
in full view of the world community suggests that the world is
going through a definitive process of bestializing, which really
casts a dark shadow on the future of the entire humanity.

This is sad and lamentable, not only because Palestinian kids are
being slaughtered to appease the criminal whims of the children,
grandchildren and great grandchildren of the holocaust.

The merciless daily killing of Palestinian civilians and the banal
frequency it is assuming will perpetuate the seemingly
unmitigated enmity between Arabs and Jews. Moreover,
it will make sure that Israel will remain a garrison state, living by
the sword, very much like ancient Israel did.

Just as sad is the deafening silence and/or the
enthusiastic infatuation of many Jews around the world with the
crimes of the evil state. These Jews may think that by siding with
Israel they are safeguarding the future of the Jewish people.
However, it is amply clear, as the Torah says,
that evil doers shall not prosper.

To be sure, the wanton and outrageous backing of
Israeli criminality by many Jews constitutes a real
moral tragedy for world Jewry. It also explains in a
certain way why the German masses kept silent and
looked the other way while Jews and non-Jews were
being exterminated and incinerated and starved to death.

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