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imageSince 1998 El Dorado County Officials Have Blocked Efforts ~ Negro Hill Cemetery
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by reprint by Art Garcia
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Congressman Dan Lungren will host a Town Hall Meeting at the Rancho Cordova Town Center, 6:30 p.m. The 36 grave markers in Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery that read, Unknown moved from Nigger Hill Cemetery by U.S. Government in 1954 will be a topic of community interest. Former Supervisor Rusty Dupray blocked efforts to privatize the site and was not supported, last century in the ongoing effort to change the markers. Supervisor Knight did not share with a majority ...
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2011 10:11am PDT
textDay 28 Update: Native Hawaiians Support Glen Cove Spiritual Encampment by Dan Bacher
The Protect Glen Cove Committee received a very special letter of support signed by 45 indigenous people of Hawai‘i on Day 28 of the Spiritual Encampment. "The signatories of this letter are not of any one organization, but represent many different groups, struggles and efforts in protection of our land, culture & people. It is our collective Aloha ʻĀina, love for the land, that we want to share with you as you stand for Sogorea Te." Photo courtesy of http://protectglencove.org...
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:17pm PDT
textDay 27 Update: Winnemem Wintu Leader Speaks At Spiritual Encampment by Dan Bacher
"In the evening, we were blessed by the arrival or Caleen Sisk-Franco, Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu people of Northern California," according to http://protectglencove.org. "Caleen offered her support and expressed interest in planning a Salmon Dance with us at Glen Cove in the future."...
Posted: Wed, May 11, 2011 7:06am PDT
videoUC-Berkeley Hunger Strike in 10th Day (video/quicktime 60.0MB) by Bill Carpenter
Many of us are wary whenever our boss comes out with a plan for change. But if s/he then decides to call it anything like "Operation Excellence" -- well, in October 2009 Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau announced his "OE" for the Berkeley campus of the University of California. When this video was filmed, May 6, 2011, Berkeley students were in the tenth day of their hunger strike against Operation Excellence. Nine-minute QT movie. 63MB....
Posted: Tue, May 10, 2011 9:59am PDT
textDesecration of Glen Cove burial mounds reveal blatant disregard for humanity by Sean Jobst
The desecration of the Glen Cove burial mounds reveal the depths of inhumanity, a disgusting reality when it comes to how governments and corporations have dealt with Indigenous people...
Posted: Mon, May 9, 2011 8:14am PDT
calendarSolidarity w/ Native Encampment @ Glen Cove! information & how to help
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by Station40
Station 40 - 3030b 16th Street, San Francisco https://station40events.wordpress.com/...
Event Date: Tue, May 10, 2011 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Sat, May 7, 2011 4:55pm PDT
imageEagle Scouts, Prison Labor, and Stolen Legacy ~ Anything but the truth… Negro Hill, CA
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by fred blackman
Black Agriculture in Gold Rush California, a Stolen Legacy gone crazy... 1848 to 2011 and maybe the truth can be found... just might take an Executive Order to obtain the truth form a plethora of government agencies intent on ~ anything but the truth......
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2011 11:24pm PDT
imageDignity and Respect for Black Gold Rush Pioneers ~ 2006 Mountian Democrat (Placerville)
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by reprint ~ Wendy Shultz ~ Mountian Democrat
April 26, 2011, a majority of El Dorado County Board of Supervisors suggested they had never heard of the challenge of 36 grave markers that read, Unknown, Moved from Nigger Hill Cemetery, by U.S. Government in 1954. Two Black Men on the front page of the oldest newspaper in California is not a regional secret, nor earlier petitions from the El Dorado Cemetery Commission founder. However, we take people at there word, until proven otherwise. Newspaper accounts from 1850-1872, mining claims...
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2011 9:04am PDT
imageGang injunctions, unfettered police power gentrify Oakland
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by SF Bay View
Two critical hearings: 1) Pack the Council meeting Tuesday, May 3, 5 p.m., City Hall, 14th & Broadway, Oakland, for a hearing on gang injunctions – and what the next city attorney should do; 2) Pack the courtroom Friday, May 6, 2 p.m., 1225 Fallon, Dept. 20, Oakland, for a hearing on the Fruitvale gang injunction...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2011 8:38pm PDT
imageGreeted and Honored by Native Americans at Glen Cove Sacred Shellmounds (Day 2 of March to
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by Jonathan Nack
Indian leaders of camp formally welcomed the marchers "Strike May 2011" march from S. F. to Sacramento Camp to Save the Shellmounds, Glen Cove, CA, May 2, 2011 Photo: Jonathan Nack...
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2011 9:10pm PDT
imageThe fight to keep Glen Cove unchanged and the Shellmounds intact goes on and on and on.
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by Francisco Da Costa
Glen Cove is well know as a site that has Shellmounds. The Sacred Burial ground of the First People of the Bay Area. Several attempts have been made to educate the Greater Vallejo Recreation District (GVRD) to NO avail. The GVRD Master Plan is fake and does not take into consideration that the land was stolen and that the First People lived around Glen Cove for thousands of years. Already, near by hundreds of modern homes have been built on Shellmounds - with no consideration what so ever. No...
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2011 7:04am PDT
textDay 16 update - Glen Cove spiritual encampment holding strong by Dan Bacher
New banners were painted and a banner was dropped over Interstate 780 at the Glen Cove Road overpass. Others handed out flyers downtown and at the nearby Safeway store....
Posted: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 10:29am PDT
textThousands to be released from California prisons and SF will get its share of parolees. by Francisco Da Costa
The City and County of Sana Francisco better prepare itself, seriously to accommodate thousands of parolees who will be released according to a new policy signed by the California State Department of Prisons. Now, murderers and those serving large sentences will not be released easily - but, what we will see are thousands of prisoners with lesser sentences. Those deemed to stay longer with light convictions; will be given there releases - earlier. In the last five years - the prisoners have h...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2011 7:55am PDT
textGlen Cove Day 14 Update: Supporters requested Thursday-Friday! by Dan Bacher
The Protect Glen Cove Commitee is encouraging people to show up at Sogarea Te Thursday and Friday to support the Native American occupation to protect the ancient burial site from desecration by the City of Valley and the Greater Vallejo Recreation District (GVRD). Wounded Knee DeOcampo and the rest of the committee are also asking all of their supporters to please take a moment to send emails and letters to the Native American Heritage Commission, to make it clear to them that there is w...
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 8:14am PDT
textYou cannot respect the living unless you respect the dead - Shellmounds. by Francisco Da Costa
You cannot respect the living unless you respect the dead. The First People always pay tribute and respect to the ancestors - both the living and the dead. Here in the Bay Area - again and again - we have evil forces - desecrating Sacred Burial Grounds. The time has come to stand united and honor and respect our ancestors. Fight against those force that do not know - better....
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2011 3:22pm PDT
imageProtect Sogorea Te aka Glen Cove - let the ancestors rest in peace on land they own.
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by Francisco Da Costa
Protect Sogorea Te also known as Glen Cove. For thousands of years, before some immoral strangers set foot in the Bay Area - the Native American had Patrimonial Jurisdiction over their land. History has recounted again and again - about killings, scalping, raping, and a host of atrocities. The authorities pretending to govern the City of Vallejo must be ashamed of themselves. Paying journalist to spread disinformation and lying all the time. The land belongs to the Ohlone and the ancestors th...
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 6:37am PDT
textProtect Sogorea Te/Glen Cove! Response to Erroneous Vallejo Times Herald Op-Ed by Committee to Protect Sogorea Te/Glen Cove
The following letter was submitted to the Vallejo Times Herald on April 23 by the Committee to Protect Sogorea Te/Glen Cove....
Posted: Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:51pm PDT
imageInjustice to all California Native Americans at Glen Cove by greedy corrupt politicians.
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by Francisco Da Costa
All Californians, must rally to the support of Glen Cove and the protesters. At Glen Cove; where lie the remains of our ancestors - greedy politicians desire to desecrate the Sacred Ground. As much, as we have convinced the politicians from Vallejo; to stop desecrating the "Sacred Remains" of our ancestors - every ploy and machinations has been used to desecrate the Sacred Burial Ground. The time has come to put a stop to all mundane development and sordid acts - now....
Posted: Sun, Apr 24, 2011 8:35pm PDT
imageDesecration at Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island - disrespecting the OHLONE.
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by Francisco Da Costa
Thousands of Sacred Remains - Ohlone remains have been desecrated at Treasure Island and on Yerba Buena Island - aka Goat Island. Missing in all the talk about development NOT a word about the on going desecration - and the history of the Ohlone; to these two parcels. Yerba Buena Island a natural island and Treasure Island - a man made island - sinking three inches; every single year. The man made island prone to liquefaction, flooding, and of course the impending Tsunami. Underlaying, all th...
Posted: Sun, Apr 24, 2011 8:58am PDT
imageEl Dorado Chamber of Commerce ~ Negro Hill Memorial Monument
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by michael harris
Will the El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce and regional business interests support the removal of the word "Nigger" from historic gravemarkers established in 1954 representing early California Black Pioneers. Historic Negro Hill School on Negro Hill Road could be preserved at Peninsula, State Park campground in the region where Negro Hill residents of El Dorado County continue to live. El Dorado County Officials, for over 50 years, continue to embrace the notion of "Unknown Niggers" this...
Posted: Sat, Apr 23, 2011 6:51pm PDT
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