Bernie Sanders Speaks at Pine Ridge SD about his plans for Native American Rights (5-12-16)

[Bernie93]

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[okasha]

1. He's 43 years late.

[rug]

8. Amen.

And Leonard Peltier is still in prison.

[okasha]

9. A salute to you, friend.

You were there.

One of my disappointments with Bill Clinton was that he didn't pardon Leonard on his way out of the White House. We need to make sure that President Obama does.

[rug]

26. I was just talking to my daughter about that tonight.

She's doing a paper on the Trail of Years and the 1830 Removal Act. I told her how the effects are still being felt today. And I told her Leonard Peltier is sitting in a cell this very minute.

I hope Obama pardons him. 39 years is a long, long time.

[okasha]

29. Good for your daughter,

and you for guiding her.

Thirty-nine years of injustice is an intolerable evil.

[imagine2015]

13. He arrived on time. Where's Hillary?

[Uncle Joe]

2. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes"

Thanks for the thread, Bernie93.

[William769]

3. Is that where he helped send nuclear waste from Vermont?

Or is it someplace else Sanders had it sent to?

[Redwoods Red]

5. No, and it's not the place Hillary bombed into chaos, either.

[okasha]

11. That was Sierra Blanca, Texas.

And the people he proposed to dump it on are Hispanic, mostly mestizo/a, to be sure.

Jane is still getting paid for that, by the way.

[William769]

14. Thanks for the information.

[William769]

18. One thing? Don't even get me started about guns or monies from Universities.

I'll stop there for now.

[Redwoods Red]

22. So you just came in to hijack this thread with irrelevancies?

Do you actually have anything to say bout Indian Country policy or Bernie's take on it?

You'd best get back to gloating about getting people shitcanned here.

[reddread]

37. no respect or consideration for Native issues, just vicious spam

it makes me sick to see the sort of race based politics
they exploit so cynically and with utter insincerity.

I have never been so embarassed to be an American.
the clownshow has to end.

[Demsrule86]

32. Sanders supported the bombing of Yugoslavia

So spare me...he did the politically expedient thing.

[okasha]

23. Pine Ridge does have severe contamination/environmental justice problems, though.

The ground water has been polluted with the residue of uranium mining.

[TheBlackAdder]

33. And you called me clueless. Alex White Plume tried to grow Industrial Hemp, met with DEA raids.

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Their soil has turned almost unusable, with only several sporadic crops that can grow on it, most of their farm animals died or were forced to sell due to debt payments. The one crop that would thrive is industrial hemp and they got raided multiple times, right before harvest, threatened with imprisonment. Their crime, infringing on foreign trade deals, since industrial hemp is leagal to import and sell, just not to grow.


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Now, you're on this uranium kick, trying to claim it's from the dumpsite, when really it's in the mountain.

http://marcellus.com/news/id/12385/8-billion-worth-rare-earth-minerals-sierra-blanca-area-mountain-company-says/


Kiss goodbye that mountain...

Texas Rare Earth Resources holds two state leases to explore and develop a 950-acre rare-earth minerals deposit in the almost mile-high Round Top Mountain, located eight miles northwest of Sierra Blanca and about 85 miles southeast of El Paso.

The minerals are called rare, not because they are hard to find, but because they are found in small concentrations that are difficult and often costly to extract from the ground. There are 17 rare earth elements divided into two groups — light, and heavy. The heavy group of elements are in shorter supply and thus considered more valuable, Marchese said.

“They’re talking about some low-grade uranium there, which raises some concern about dust, and everything they pull out of there will use an acid wash to purify it,” Doyal said. “I can’t say one way or the other about the operation. I don’t know enough about it.”

That’s why he invited the company to make a presentation at Hudspeth County Commissioners Court on Tuesday.

UTEP’s Pingitore said Round Top has a small amount of uranium, which is found in “virtually any rare earth deposit.”

“The uranium is a sellable material if we can separate it” from the rock, he said.

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[okasha]

34. Still clueless.

I support Alex White Plume in specific and the legalization of cannabis in general. Hemp is a readily sustainable source of fiber for paper (saves trees), for fabric (needs much less water than cotton) and many other uses. Still has nothing to do with what happened 43 years ago.

[TheBlackAdder]

36. You're moving two two words now. #Progress Pine Ridge was more than just one 43 year-old event.

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Your constant harping on "43 years ago" shows a level of ignorance towards Native Americans that is unbelievable.


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[okasha]

35. Oh, Jayzus.

Pine Ridge and Sierra Blanca are two different places.

There ain't no cure.

[TheBlackAdder]

38. Duh.

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You talk about Pine Ridge, you talk about Sierra Blanca Tx.

If you cannot determine that my one post handles both of your comments, back atcha!


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[TheBlackAdder]

16. You should research the stripping of funding that led to that decision to repurpose their land.

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Right now, you come off as a bit foolish in your comments!

This was both Federal Republicans and Democrats who effed over the Native Americans and Latinos there.


They were forced into repurposing their land so they could survive.

Still the Native Americans are getting effed over on Obama's watch!


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[okasha]

21. You obviously have no idea what this conversation is about..

[TheBlackAdder]

24. It seemed to fork into some idiotic SBS bashing that is delusional at best, deceptive at worst. nt

[okasha]

27. 43 years late.

Figure it out for yourself.

[TheBlackAdder]

28. I don't need to, but quite a few on this thread are buying bullshit that they want to hear.

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There's no decade's long backstory as to the government actions in that region.

There's no backstory on why that facility was planned and how the people were jammed who lived there.


Just a bunch of supposition articles that a few are grasping onto that has little research, the state of modern news.


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[okasha]

30. Clueless.

Go play in the BS Group.

[TheBlackAdder]

31. Soon you too can comment like Trump, when you move to multi-word, multi-syllabic denegrations.

[Redwoods Red]

4. Glad to see Bernie addressing Indian issues.

The Pine Ridge and those other reservations in the Dakotas are pretty grim.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. I had no idea Bernie had an interest in addressing issues in India.

[Redwoods Red]

20. Indian/Native American...My South Dakota Indian friends aren't too hung up on that.

They seem to be more interested in jobs and things.

[EndElectoral]

7. Doubt you'll see HRC at Pine Ridge. Can't afford the speaking fees.

[imagine2015]

10. Perhaps she'll offer them a discount.

[bigtree]

12. k&r

[okasha]

25. Just another white man

referring to Natives as "the least among us."

[okasha]

43. "This is probably the first time you even thought about them....

[XemaSab]

42. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is located in Oglala Lakota County

where its per-capita income makes it the second poorest county in the United States, at $6,286.