A-Infos (en) US, Boston, Anarchist newsletter BAAM #15 - Contents + Not Thankful for Genocide by Cady

Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement's 15th Monthly Newsletter ---- We are proud 
to announce that BAAM's 15th monthly newsletter is now out. As always, you can 
find it at some of Boston's comunity centers (45 Mnt Auburn, TJ's Vegan Pizza, 
and soon at be at Encuentro 5 and the Lucy Parsons Center) or check it out 
online in PDF and plain text form at: 
http://boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/206296/inde...x.php
**Additionally we are trying to work up a mail subscription list so we can put 
some money into the paper. If you'd like a yearly subscription sent to your door 
for $12-15 donation, send me (Jake) an email at renchesfullofpoets(at)riseup.net

This issue:
-- No Bailout for Massachusetts by Jake Carman
-- Not thankful for Genocide by Cady
-- "Green Coal" and Dirty handed banks by Rising Tide Boston
-- From the Mouth of Zinn by Morrigan
-- Zombies Tell Bank of America: "Coal is Killing Us" by Rising Tide Boston
-- Where the Real Terrorists are Trained by James
-- G20: Summit of Plummeting Powers by Jeff Reinhardt
-- Hempstead 15 Plead Not Guilty by Matthis Chiroux
-- The Hartford Anarchy Conference by Cady
-- Review of "The Tyranny of Oil" by Sublett
-- REview of the film "Flow: For Love of Water" by Adrienne
-- Calendar!

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"I will not sit back silently and allow my reputation...to be ripped to shreds 
by the employees of rich, media corporation owners, who have one desire--and 
that is to silence anybody who is willing to stand up and speak the truth about 
opression in this city, in this state, and in this country." Chuck Turner 
defends himself from allegations that he took a $1000 bribe at a public rally on 
November 25 at City Hall.

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Not Thankful for Genocide by Cady

The first European settlers in what
we have come to refer to as Amer-
ica were not Pilgrims. They were a
group of profiteers operating as the Virgin-
ia Company. The Virginia Company had a
charter from King James I to establish a sat-
ellite English settlement in the Chesapeake
region, where they founded Jamestown in
1607. Before Jamestown was abandoned,
the residents had turned to cannibalism.
    More than a decade later, the more eas-
ily lauded Pilgrims came to this continent
by way of Holland, to which they had al-
ready escaped by the time the residents of
Jamestown began to eat each other. In the
Netherlands, the Pilgrims experienced no
restrictions on their religion whatsoever.
However, they were worried about the ef-
fect of what they believed to be an overly
decadent and indulgently secular soci-
ety on their children and decided to look
farther afield for a place to call home. By
this time, in addition to being a source of
many slaves, America was known for its
unspoiled natural resources.
   Upon landing in the harsh environment
they called Plymouth, the Pilgrims were
faced with near-immediate starvation.
This changed when a man named Squanto
walked into their settlement to offer his
aid. Squanto was a former slave to the
English who used his language skills to
help the pilgrims broker a treaty with the
neighboring Wampanoag. At the end of the
Pilgrim's first year, they held a feast in the
honor of the Wampanoag and Squanto who
had saved them from starvation. This was
1621.

    Until about 1629, Pilgrim aggression
was somewhat mitigated by inferior num-
bers, as well as officially cordial relations
with neighbors. Unfortunately, new waves
of settlers caused a hunger for land that
could easily be seized from "savages," es-
pecially if one was inclined to refine and
emphasize racist ideologies in order to jus-
tify one's actions. Complaints about the an-
tisocial behavior of new arrivals on the part
of original settlers were punished by instant
excommunication and expulsion from the
church.

    The collaborating Dutch and English po-
litical leaders of Massachusetts enacted a
systematic massacre of all native people,
including the village-by-village burning of
the vast Pequot empire. In 1637, the first of-
ficial Thanksgiving in Massachusetts was a
celebration of the return of men from Mas-
sachusetts Bay who had just finished mur-
dering seven hundred Pequot in what we
call Mystic, Connecticut. In 1641, a Dutch
governor introduced the first scalp bounty
in North America. A few decades later, all
but two thousand Wampanoag were killed,
with the remaining sold into slavery.
    The genocide of Indigenous
peoples by the United States
government continues
in one form or another
pretty much unabated
to this day, whether it
takes the form of out-
right war, slow star-
vation, land theft,
forced sterilization, kid-
napping of children, sexual
violence or forced poverty. Abra-
ham Lincoln, a man who was instrumen-
tal in carrying out this genocide, declared
Thanksgiving an official national holiday
during the Civil War. The same day, he or-
dered his troops to attack the Sioux living
in Minnesota.
    Naturally, American Indians do not cel-
ebrate Thanksgiving; they mourn it. The
first official National Day of Mourning in
1970 was a result of the censorship of a
speech to be given by a Wampanoag man at
Plymouth, Massachusetts' yearly Thanks-
giving Banquet. This year's Day of Mourn-
ing takes place in Cole's Hill Massachu-
setts and meets at twelve noon sharp. A
march will then proceed through downtown
Plymouth. Carpools are available from
Boston. Those interested in giving rides
or riding with others should contact the
Boston International Action Center by call-
ing 617-522-6626. For more information,
please visit www.uaine.org.
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