Part 5: "We are a peaceful people-yet we're not a fragile people"
By Dr. Inés Hernández-Ávila
March 11, 2003
nephew of Benjamin Netanyahu
(former prime minister of Israel),
court-martialed for refusing to serve
in the Israeli Defence Force
on pacifist grounds.
ʔú nikse
March 16, 2003
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Rachel Corrie,
a 23-year-old college student from Olympia, Washington
and a member of the Palestinian International Solidarity Movement,
is killed by an Israeli bulldozer when she tries to prevent it as a
human shield from demolishing the house of the Palestinian Dr. Samir Masri.
ʔené·sweʔniks
March 17, 2003
The Mni Wiconi water project
fighting for its life
2003 funding $30.7M
2004 Bush request $6.8M
ʔú·nikse
March 17, 2003
George Bush
pú ʔnikse
United States
Sovereign authority
Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said to a crowd in London:
"We do not want this war, we do not want this violence, and
we are ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”
ʔu·ʔní·x! ʔu·ʔní·x!
George Bush
pú ʔnikse
FORCE
ridding
Iraq
weapons of mass destruction
finding Iraq in material breach
vowing serious consequences
March 17, 2003
“Members of America’s tribes have been shipped
to the Middle East in preparation for
a U.S.-led war against Iraq.
American Indians and Alaska Natives
have served in the military
at rates surpassing other
ethnic and racial groups.”
ʔú·nikse
March 20, 2003
Mary Ann Wright, a U.S. diplomat in Mongolia, resigned
out of disagreement with George W. Bush's Mideast policy,
his approach to North Korea and the domestic consequences
of the War on Terrorism.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq begins as land troops from United
States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland attack.
“Day X Protests” begin in the U.S. & around the world.
ʔú nikse
This is not a question of authority, it is a question of will.
This is not a question of authority, it is a question of will.
Bush pú ʔnikse
March 22, 2003
Estimates of between 125,000 and 250,000 people
march for peace in New York City. The march was
organized by the group United for Peace and Justice.
ʔú nikse
March 23, 2003
A 2000-pound (900 kg) meteorite explodes
over Chicago shortly before midnight, raining
fragments over the city.
ʔú nikse
This is not a question of authority, it is a question of will.
March 26, 2003
A meteor exploded over the midwest, showering
Park Forest, Illinois, with dozens of meteorite fragments.
ʔú nikse
A broad coalition is now gathering to enforce the just demands of the world.
Bush pú ʔnikse
ʔú nikse
This is not a question of authority, it is a question of will.
ʔú·nikse.