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4/24 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/25/MN186211.DTL Gubnor Davis talks about reparations for blacks, chinese and mexicans. Guess who didn't get a single word of mention but was treated *much* worse by this country? \_ I agree, Denis Leary has been oppressed for far too long. \_ This is a GREAT solution to the upcoming deficit he created with expensive power contracts. \_ Other Asians? \_ Think 'reservation' and not the 5 star kind. \_ Oh! The native Americans, right? \_ If you are speaking of american indians, reparations in many many different shapes and forms are in process, or at least more than you might guess. The efforts still need lots of help, though. Check out California Indian Legal Services (http://www.calindian.org and the Native American Rights Fund (http://www.narf.org for two of the primary movers. A site for news is <DEAD>www.indianz.com<DEAD> They need money, lawyers and engineering support. This is closely related to what I do for a living. Ask if you want to know more. I'm currently helping out a newly "recognized" tribe that is being given land in trust in and around Death Valley. -- ulysses \_ What does any of this have to do with the displaced Native Americans all across this and other states? Does any of this even remotely make up for entirely wiping out many tribes and killing millions of others and taking their land? \_ I've lost money at their casinos. Doesn't that count? \_ No. Very little money from casinos goes to help the average Native American. Most of it is concentrated in a few tiny tribes. Most of the tribes in California were put in such incredibly barren and out of the way areas that a business of any sort is economically impossible. \_ Sure, as far as I'm concerned. After all, it is the casinos that are why Davis probably didn't mention the indians. He has been quite public in his efforts to limit the expansion of indian casinos. Nevada's gambling kingpins are getting ready to megafund a ballot initiative to all but strip the casinos completely from the indians. Stay tuned. -- ulysses \_ Yeah, this is good. So the Mob is going to take another shot at the casinos so Davis can bring in more taxes from Mob run casinos after outlawing the Indian ones and this is why he didn't mention the Native Americans? Either they're doing ok with casinos or they're not. If they're going to get stripped of even that much then they have nothing. Either way they should be mentioned and deserve reparations as much as anyone. By saying they have casinos and therefore don't require reparations is like saying it was ok to kill the Jews in Germany because today they have Israel and are doing fine. Doing ok or not today has nothing to do with crimes committed in the past which continue to this very day. |
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| www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/04/25/MN186211.DTL Jesse Jackson at the Digital Connections Conference, a small business gathering organized by Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in San Jose. Jackson said African Americans, as well as Mexican Americans, also appeared to have been the victims of unethical insurance business practices in which they were charged more than whites for the same services. Jackson, in an editorial board meeting at The Chronicle this week, said he would not expect reparations to be paid to individuals but to nonprofit groups, educational programs, arts facilities or other groups that help minorities. Jackson praised Davis and state Insurance Commissioner Harry Low for assisting the current study and "laying out the predicate . In what appears to be an unexpected finding, some of the data collected has confirmed that some Chinese workers were insured in the same manner -- after one insurance firm submitted a policy covering "coolie" workers in response to the state's request for information, Esalen said yesterday. A companion bill directs the University of California to hold a research conference to examine the economic legacy of slavery, which may well try to tote up the economic benefits of slavery for owners and the insurers. This study could attempt to put a dollar amount on the damages resulting from slavery, one source said yesterday. But the issue of reparations to minorities in California -- which has the nation's largest minority population -- poses a potentially thorny problem for Davis in his re-election year. The Democratic governor must satisfy the concerns of legions of minority voters in his Democratic base, who were represented in force yesterday at Jackson's business conference. But 71 percent of the Californians who voted in the 2000 presidential election were non-Latino and white, studies have shown. Davis also has been under fire from Republicans, including his opponent in November, Bill Simon, who charged this week that the governor had been unfriendly to California business; Davis suggested yesterday that he would side with Jackson on the issue. |
| www.calindian.org On the Verge of a Significant Victory for California Indians, CILS May Close its DC Office in May 2004 Due to a Lack of Unrestricted Funding - WASHINGTON, DC - In November 2001, on behalf of all California Indian Tribes and California Indians, California Indian Legal Services (CILS), a tribally-controlled not-for-profit, took the historic step of becoming the first legal services program and the first California Indian organization to open a DC office. Openings to Serve on CILS' Board of Trustees - Southern Region - We currently have openings on our Board for tribal representatives who live in Southern California. The Southern region consists of the following counties: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. |
| www.narf.org Current Job Openings at the Native American Rights Fund We currently have no positions open. |