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Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 44
Sign: Virgo

City: SIOUX CITY
State: IOWA
Country: US
Signup Date: 6/9/2006

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Thursday, April 17, 2008 

Current mood:  rejuvenated
Activism is alive and well...get involved in those things that matter to you...live life with passion, try to make a difference.... ..TR>

South Dakota: Native Anti-Hog Farm protest attacked by Police

   
..TR> ..TABLE>..TABLE>Stay tuned for pictures that we took during the first day of the protest!
IndigenousThere is a protest going on right now as we speak in Marty, South Dakota home of the Ihanktowan aka Yankton Sioux. There have been multiple arrests, including minors, as protesters seek to block front loader bulldozers from breaking ground on a new pig farm that will be occupied by thousands of pigs and their waste near a Head Start Program filled with Native children. A man was struck by the metal scoop of the front loader (which is used to excavate tons of dirt) and was medically evacuated by ambulance.

South Dakota: Native Anti-Hog Farm protest attacked by Police

by Prophecy, Antithesis

There is a protest going on right now as we speak in Marty, South Dakota home of the Ihanktowan aka Yankton Sioux. There have been multiple arrests, including minors, as protesters seek to block front loader bulldozers from breaking ground on a new pig farm that will be occupied by thousands of pigs and their waste near a Head Start Program filled with Native children. A man was struck by the metal scoop of the front loader (which is used to excavate tons of dirt) and was medically evacuated by ambulance.

State Troopers have violated their jurisdiction by arresting protesters on a BIA controlled road which is considered Federal land and therefore off limits to State Agencies and Law Enforcement. It was said that the arrests of the minors and others were conducted illegally by the State Police on the Federal Road and they were escorted to State Land nearby to receive their citations and were released.

South Dakota Highway Patrol have informed the Officers that they are in fact in violation of their jurisdiction as this is being written and being told to stand down and not to detain any more protesters. Dakota, Lakota and Nakota and other Native Activists including a AIM chapter are mobilizing to this spot to support and join their Indigenous Families to protect their Native children and community from this gross violation of Tribal Sovereignty and Basic Human Rights.

One Land, One People, One Struggle!!
Mitakuye Oyasin!

Please stay tuned for updates and calls for support.

For more info: keyawitko2676@yahoo.com
All e-mails will be forwarded to parties involved in today's protest

Corporate News Updates on protest:
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080415/UPDATES/80415043/1052/OPINION01

Background story from corporate source:
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/04/15/news/south_dakota/eaf35552976e6d758625742c0013349c.txt

Check out this story and others on staterepressionnews.blogspot.com
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Saturday, June 10, 2006 

Current mood:  cheerful
Category: Life

Just want to say "thank you" to the wonderful friends and family that I have who are supportive and kind.  Graduate school, postdoc, etc. and all the moves and changes really have taken a toll and I am grateful to all of you who were there to help me move, drive kids around, clean the house, do laundry, check in on the business and provide moral support.

Any other parents in grad school or once in grad/med school? My hats off to you!