NEWS
Civil Disobedience Against SB1070
On April 25, 2012 the U.S. Supreme court began the hearing on the constitutionality of Phoenix, Arizona’s racist SB1070 law. Protestors in Phoenix Arizona took to the streets to voice their opposition against such racist laws. The outcome of the supreme court ruling is significant because if it upholds SB 1070 as a constitutional law it will set it as a precedent for other states to pass similar laws.
Why Western (white supremacist) Science and Civilization are incapable of living in Balance with our Mother
This conversation exemplifies that white people in general CANNOT live in balance with the Natural World!!! It also goes to show that Native People were very observative of european phenotypes and associated them to their beharviors and practices!! These behaviors DID NOT start with capitalism or the creation corporations BUT have been part of white pathology for centuries as Jung looks back into their history!!
When we speak of DECOLONIZATION, we speak of removing this kind of worldview from our mental system!! It is a hard thing to do while still living within an educational and religious system that requires you to follow that way in order to survive within that world! HOWEVER, it still has to be DONE!! So for all you claiming that it is RACIST to see things this way, you are not only promoting ignorance BUT defending white supremacy as well!!!! PIECE OUT!!!
Because we are told that God is found both in the silence as well as in our hearts, when we block our painful feelings, we have set up a difficult situation for ourselves. In order to get to our hearts, we must begin to deal with our pain and all its resulting addictions. When we live in our minds, we have created yet another impediment to our connection with God.
The problem of the “busy mind” seems to be largely a product of our Western culture. Not all peoples everywhere live so much in their heads. The following excerpt, taken from a book about the heart, quotes words of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung that describe his encounter with the Native American chief of the Taos pueblos in New Mexico in 1932.
“”I was able to talk with him as I have rarely been able to talk with a European,’ Jung recalls…
“Chief Ochwiay Biano, which means Mountain Lake, must have sensed a kindred spirit in the Swiss doctor, because he was devastatingly candid with him.
“Chief Mountain Lake: ‘See how cruel the whites look, their lips are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed and distorted by folds. Their eyes have a staring expression; they are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We do not know what they want. We do not understand them. We think that they are all mad.’
“When Jung asks why he thinks they are all mad, Mountain Lake replies, ‘They say they think with their heads.’
“’Why of course, says Jung, ‘What do you think with?’
“’We think here,’ says Chief Mountain Lake, indicating his heart.
“After this exchange, Jung fell into a deep meditation. The Pueblo Chief had struck a vulnerable spot. Jung saw image upon image of cruelties wreaked by his forebears: the Roman eagle on the North Sea and the White Nile, the keenly incised features of Julius Caesar,…Charlemagne’s most glorious forced conversions of the heathen… the peoples of the Pacific islands decimated by firewater, syphilis and scarlet fever carried in the clothes the missionaries forced on them.
“Chief Mountain Lake had shown Jung the other face of his own civilization: it was ‘the face of a bird of prey seeking with cruel intentness for distant quarry…”
The author says of this exchange, “what makes this dialogue reported by Jung so relevant is that it describes an encounter between a representative of the unconscious ‘heart thinking’ of the ancients and a modern man of science and a pioneer of consciousness who understood that the wisdom of the heart must catch up with our overdeveloped ‘thinking heads’ if we are to survive. We have to preserve the gold in the age-old ‘knowledge of the heart’ and keep making it ever more conscious if we are to protect our growing human possibilities from the keen-featured bird-of-prey mentality that circles above. We must develop a new consciousness of the heart.”
If we look at the corporate world today, it is not difficult to understand these words: “In our contemporary bottom-line society, heart-knowledge—based on things like feeling values, relationship, personal courage—-tends to be mistrusted as impractical, profitless, or nonexistent. Where is ‘the heart,’ anyway, scoffs the bird-of-prey executive, trudging joylessly on his treadmill, except under your breastbone?
“No longer do we literally cut out our enemies hearts and feed them to an out-of-date sun god: we do it the bloodless, sophisticated way, without a flint knife, and we feed them to the contemporary god ‘market value function.”
Maybe we have seen enough movie previews to also understand the following words: “Some of us have anesthetized our hearts so thoroughly that it takes the utmost in thrills, the most graphic depiction of horror, to make something in our breasts lurch or recoil: to shock us into a reaction that at least feels like feeling.”
Saludos desde El Hormiguero-Invitation to Earth Liberation All Day Errday!
Saludos a tod@s desde El Hormiguero en Pacoima!
Hormigas want to pass the word along to invite errrrrrrbody to our upcoming Earth Liberation All Day Errday! event at El Hormiguero this Sunday April 22nd from Noon to 7pm! We share this day in Solidarity with the struggle in Flagstaff, AZ to defend the holy San Francisco Peaks/ Doo’k'oosliid and all sacred places on Turtle Island and around the world. Earth Liberation is every day and we dedicate this day of teaching by learning to the continuing fight to walk in balance with the Earth.
We will be fundraising for action efforts in support of the Human Rights March in Flagstaff, AZ. 
Learn more about Doo’k'oosliid and how to help save them. For more info on this struggle and march or to donate visit http://indigenousresistance.org/
Artisan Merkadito 12-7pm
Skill Shares and Info Shares 12:30pm- 6pm
-Music is our Stronghold- beat making skill share by Shining Soul
-Tohono O’odham Resistance Against Border Militarization info share by Alex Soto
-More to come
DIY Activities for the kiddos (child care):
-Seed Planting
-Painting
*need a few accomplices to help with this section. we will provide errthing- msg us.
Food
Live Music by Shining Soul from Occupied O’odham land (Phoenix, Az.): http://shiningsoul-music.blogspot.com/, http://shiningsoulmusic.bandcamp.com/
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED…
*This is an all ages, alcohol and drug free event!
**Art on flyer by Erica Friend
Check out the facebook event at: http://www.facebook.com/events/221664074601979/
To share with folx who are interested in El Hormiguero or are not familiar with the collective: El Hormiguero is a collective and reflective home that actively works towards building a safe, sustainable, and community oriented space. Our purpose is to create a transformative and dignified place through dialogue, mutual aid and accountability.
We are an autonomous collective of queer/ally people of color from various communities in struggle. Our experiences keep us in a common thread of fluid migrant souls dedicated to social change for the betterment of our environment. From below, we are hormigas that create this hormiguero we call home.
Las hormigas work together organically to build community in a horizontal manner as we establish a space that embodies the world we want to create. We are guided by principles of transparency, D.I.T (Do It Together), D.I.Y (Do It Yourself), and each one to teach one to become hormigas de concientización.
In solidarity, caminamos junt@s,
Las Hormigas del Hormiguero.