Zeitgeist Addendum

Columbus Didn't Discover Us: Native People's Perspectives on the Columbus Legacy (documentary)

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Yuri Kochiyama: On Knowing Malcolm X [Video]

Yuri Kochiyama: On Knowing Malcolm X

Freedom is a Constant Struggle TV show, May 16, 2008.

Our guest will be the legendary human rights activist, Yuri Kochiyama, who lived in Harlem for 40 years and worked with Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik el Shabazz). Although no official holiday honors Malcolm's birthday, May 19 has become a traditional day of celebration in the Black and progressive communities. Yuri shares his birthday and will reach 87 this May 19 -- also the birthday of Uncle Ho (Ho Chi Minh). A tireless freedom fighter, political prisoner advocate, and author of Passing It On -- A Memoir, Yuri has also had a biography written about her life by Diane C. Fujino titled: Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama.

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(Anti-) Thanksgiving Sites & Links (re-post)

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I use many of these articles (and some books) to present multiple viewpoints on November as Native American Heritage Month, the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday and the myths surrounding it, the Native perspective, and general background details often missing from the conversation.

The official presidential proclamation for National American Indian Heritage Month
The Truth about Thanksgiving
The Story of Thanksgiving
James Loewen's First Thanksgiving Analysis
Fact or Myth?
Investigating the First Thanksgiving
A Native American View of Thanksgiving: Hope and the Hidden Heart of Evil
Thanksgiving Day Myths 
Are You Teaching the Real story of the “First Thanksgiving”? 
Mistakes, Lies, Misconceptions About American Indian People: The Thanksgiving Myth
The often quoted article in the Christian Science Monitor – The First Thanksgiving
Teaching About Thanksgiving - Debunking a Lesson Plan
General Thanksgiving Links

Published on Sunday, November 15, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving and Learned to Be Afraid by Robert Jensen, 2009
Why We Shouldn't Celebrate Thanksgiving by Robert Jensen, 2007
No Thanks to Thanksgiving by Robert Jensen, 2005
Rethinking Thanksgiving from Rethinking Schools
First Genocide, Then Lie About It. Why I Hate Thanksgiving by Mitchel Cohen from Radical ProFeminist