Could you post this for me on PEN-L and LBO and anywhere else it might usefully fit? Thanks very much! Hunterbear
WEBSITE ADDITIONS AT LAIR OF HUNTERBEAR
Hunter Gray [Hunterbear]
Our large website -- Lair of Hunterbear www.hunterbear.org -- is constantly being up-dated and feathered-out.
Our website front page has been somewhat changed.
New announcements have been posted on the Index/Directory page.
And here are several of a number of recent additions involving a number of key issues -- with the respective link:
1] My just sent open letter to the United States Left radical community on contemporary FBI repression/surveillance. This is followed immediately by the national Report on Terrorism and Task Forces from Portland, Oregon 1-11-01. Among the many fascinating and sinister dimensions indicated in this excellent summary and analysis, be sure to note the massive financial boondoggle pay-offs for "law enforcement" agencies at all levels, for equipment-producing outfits and for consultants; the heavy emphasis on a sweeping and vague "potential" dimension vis-a-vis "social" and "political" "terrorism" etc. and the frightening formulation of the concept of "Potential Threat Element" relating to an individual or individuals -- and utilizing the vaguest kind of hearsay and rumour; and the virtual lack of any actual on-going terroristic activity in the United States within the meaning of these Federal statutes and policies!
http://www.hunterbear.org/an_open_letter_to_the_left_radic.htm
2] Our own bizarre situation as a Left radical [and family] in contemporary Pocatello, Idaho -- obviously targeted by the local FBI / state police / city police "task force" and harassed, crudely and blatantly, ever since we arrived in Idaho four years ago. Because of the crudity of this whole thing, it's been extremely obvious -- standing as an interesting and classic case history in contemporary McCarthyism. We constantly update this situation -- about which we now continue to hear more and more.
http://www.hunterbear.org/camp.htm
3] On-going massive injustice against Leonard Peltier, the lack of any significant social justice consciousness in his home town of Grand Forks, ND -- or at University of North Dakota -- is discussed in the up-dated
http://www.hunterbear.org/undsituations.htm
4] Organizing philosophies and strategies and Left unity are explored in this developing, new section:
http://www.hunterbear.org/working_organizer.htm
5] The poisonous origins and effects of racism and cultural ethnocentrism -- and some other anti-people isms -- are handled in this material of mine which has just been published in The Northwest Ethnic Voice:
http://www.hunterbear.org/nativetribalism.htm
6] The June 11 2001 issue of the normally reliable radical journal, In These Times, carried, as its lead story and front cover piece, an article which essentially supported the fantastic claim that, in 1943 in South Mississippi, over one thousand Black GIs were massacred and the affair completely and effectively covered up for more than half a century by the United States Army and other governmental authorities. Many are the racial and ethnic and gender and related crimes in the United States [and elsewhere] but this utterly bizarre contention -- put out and carried primarily by two older White men from McComb Mississippi -- is nonsense. I immediately posted three major pieces debunking all of this -- and those posts were carried -- via my initial listings and dozens of forwards -- to many thousands of people. [The Radical History Discussion section carried them faithfully, reposting at least once.] I have received nothing of any kind which even remotely challenges my position in any substantive fashion -- and, indeed, I have received a large number of messages from persons of all sorts of racial and regional backgrounds who vigorously agree with me.
http://www.hunterbear.org/newactivistthoughts.htm
7] I was a leading plaintiff in the generation-long Federal case involving the files of the old Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This a summary of that tangled affair and my final comments on the matter:
http://www.hunterbear.org/tangledsovcomcase.htm
I have recently done several articles on various social justice topics which are presently in press. When they appear in print, I'll post them on our Website.
My experiences as the only tenured Native American professor [and, for several years, chair] of Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota were among the most vicious that I've ever experienced in any academic setting. When we came here to Pocatello, Idaho, in 1997, we immediately encountered [1] very friendly immediate neighbors and, [2] the crude and vicious actions of the so-called Federal / state police / local police "task force."
We survive all of these things -- as we've always survived all of these things since my Teen years [if not earlier!] and we keep right on keeping on. We always will. In the Fall of 1959, in a period of high crisis for the copper workers of the Mountain West, the late Juan Chacon, then president of the Amalgamated Bayard District Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers - Local 890, commented to me: "Success will be ours in the long run." I've always remembered his steadfast courage and unbroken optimism.
Juan Chacon was, by the way, the male lead in the great labor film, Salt of the Earth [worker rights, minority rights, womens' rights], filmed on location in Grant County, NM in 1953 -- in the face of unremitting attacks by vigilantes and thugs, mining bosses, American Legion, the House Un-American Activities Committee, et al. "Salt," which won numerous top international film awards, was black-listed vis-a-vis every commercial movie theatre in the United States. It was recently picked by the United States Library of Congress as one of the 100 films made in the United States which must and will be preserved for everlasting posterity. Long before that, New Mexico Western University named a building for Juan Chacon.
Anyway, to our friends and fellow workers -- keep fighting! And, to our enemies, we shall always keep going -- full ahead.
In Solidarity -
Hunter Gray [Hunterbear] www.hunterbear.org