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American Indian Airwaves Rundown 09/24/08

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Wednesday, 9/24/08, on American Indian Airwaves

"Hurricane Ike's Aftermath, Palin's Biting Pathologies, and Undermining Indigenous Democracy"


Part 1:__________________________________
Patty Ferguson (Pointe-au-Chien
Nation)
http://pactribe.tripod.com community activist and attorney, joins us for this segment of the show to the discuss how hurricane Ike is forcing communities to relocate and how it devastated, heavily damaged and destroyed First Nations, such as  Pointe-au-Chien and Isle-a-Jean Band of Biloxi-Chitamacha Nations, within the southern Louisiana area. For more information on what people can do to assist, please visit: the Louisiana Coastal Tribes Coalition, Inc. (LCTCI) at (http://www.lctci.com).


Part 2:__________________________________
Evon Peter (Neetsaii Gwich'in Nation) Director of Native Movement
(
www.nativemovement.org) and community activist, joins us for the second featured segment of our show to elaborate and discuss two recent articles he wrote and published "An Alaska Native Speaks Out on Palin, Oil and Alaska" (http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2008/09/alaskan-native-speaks-out-on-palin-oil.html) and "Peter: An Indigenous Vision to Heal America" http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/28625494.html.


Part 3:__________________________________
Benjamin Dengl
(
http://www.upsidedownworld.org), author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia, joins us for the final segment of this two part series on "The Awakening Giant: Undermining Bolivian Democracy." Dengl just returned from Bolivia, where the wealthy, non-indigenous corporate elite is attempting to destabilize, weaken and paralyze Evo Morales's presidency and undermine Bolivia's constitutional referendum being held this December 7th, 2008. All this, plus new recent developments and more.

American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Wednesday from 3pm to 4pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angles, FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, and by Internet with Real Media Player, Winamp, & Itunes at http://www.kpfk.org , and American Indian Airwaves now
broadcast every Saturday from 3pm to 4pm (ECT) on WCRS 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH.

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