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ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 04:11 PM Nov 2014

Cops Arrest Native American For Singing ‘Honor Song’ After Keystone Pipeline Voted Down

Many of us remember the controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren referring to herself as Native American. A 1997 article from the Fordham Law Review listed the Massachusetts Senator as the “first woman of color” hired by Harvard Law School.

But in spite of her questionable Native heritage, Elizabeth Warren called the Senate police on Greg Grey Cloud who had tried to honor the legislators who voted against polluted water tables within Native and non-Native communities.

Grey Cloud had sang what’s called an “honor song” but Warren and police said it was a “flash mob.”

Instead, Gyasi Ross explained, it was “an earnest and honest expression of Indigenous love and appreciation for these politicians who decided to be leaders instead of politicians for one day.”

~snip interview~


http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/11/cops-arrest-native-american-for-singing-honor-song-after-keystone-pipeline-voted-down/
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Cops Arrest Native American For Singing ‘Honor Song’ After Keystone Pipeline Voted Down (Original Post) ZombieHorde Nov 2014 OP
Video Capt. Obvious Nov 2014 #1
1 guy signing is a "flash mob"? And they were upset about it? huh. uppityperson Nov 2014 #2
Yeah, they seemed to have exaggerated the situation. ZombieHorde Nov 2014 #5
It's against the law to disrupt congress Action_Patrol Nov 2014 #3
It's simple civil disobedience. He got his message across. postulater Nov 2014 #4

Action_Patrol

(845 posts)
3. It's against the law to disrupt congress
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 04:37 PM
Nov 2014

Doesn't matter if you sing, yell or throw something. The gallery is set up for spectators and you aren't permitted to talk.

postulater

(5,075 posts)
4. It's simple civil disobedience. He got his message across.
Mon Nov 24, 2014, 04:59 PM
Nov 2014

Good for him. It was probably worth the fine.

I know I was impressed with his response and happy to hear his voice. It sounded like a sigh of relief coming directly from Earth.

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