'Rez-Robics' by DreamCatchers Inc. and Navajo Health PromotionsPosted: May 08, 2003 by: Lucinda Rowlands / Indian Country Today
MALIBU, Calif. - Richard Simmons had better stay on his toes. White Mountain Apache comedian Drew LaCapa is gunning for his job. But it doesn't look like Simmons will have to turn over his tank-top just yet. LaCapa seems to prefer leopard print spandex and purple gingham dresses.
"Rez-Robics," the long-awaited two-video set produced by DreamCatchers Inc. and Navajo Health Promotion specifically targets American Indians and is available free of charge to them. "Rez-Robics - The Exercise Tape" and "Rez-Robics for Coach Potato Skins" use humor to teach simple methods to treat and beat the silent killer that has reached epidemic proportions - diabetes.
LaCapa provides comic relief on "Rez-Robics for Coach Potato Skins" with the help of Northern Exposure's Elaine Miles, Nez Perce/Cayuse, rapper Natay, Navajo, and other well known Indian country faces. "Rez-Robics for Coach Potato Skins" is a one-hour motivational tape designed to coax even extremely sedentary people to begin exercising and learning to eat better.
"Originally we thought 'wouldn't it be cool if there was an Indian Richard Simmons,' somebody who could make Indian people laugh and make them exercise," said Gary Rhine, the head of DreamCatchers Inc., in an April 25 interview with Indian Country Today.
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http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1052410303Kifaru ProductionsKifaru Productions has been producing documentaries on contemporary Native American issues since 1990. Our programs have garnered both educational and film industry awards and raves from reviewers as diverse as International Variety and The Washington Post. While one of our titles, "Wiping The Tears Of Seven Generations," was broadcast on The Disney Channel as part of Disney's American Legacy Series, another, "The Peyote Road," was instrumental in overturning a United States Supreme Court decision. The mandate of our work has been to amplify the efforts of Native spiritual leaders including urgent religious freedom issues, "A Seat At The Table," as well as the health of the people, "The Red Road To Sobriety."
Too many movies and television programs about Native Americans focus on historical aspects, neglecting the modern day existence of Indian people. They tend to leave viewers thinking that all the Indians died long ago. This impression is not only false, but harmful. With people thinking romantically of the "noble savages" of yesteryear, the dominant culture tends to deny responsibility for protecting the religious freedoms, land claims, health care and other rights of contemporary aboriginal nations. Our documentaries all deal with contemporary Native American issues. We welcome your interest and hope our programs assist with your educational and activist efforts.
THE NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS VIDEO SERIES:
* WIPING THE TEARS OF SEVEN GENERATIONS
The Documentary of The Bigfoot Memorial Ride
* THE PEYOTE ROAD
Ancient Religion In Contemporary Crisis
* THE RED ROAD TO SOBRIETY
The Contemporary Native American Sobriety Movement
* THE RED ROAD TO SOBRIETY VIDEO TALKING CIRCLE
Companion Program to THE RED ROAD TO SOBRIETY
* YOUR HUMBLE SERPENT
The Wisdom Of Reuben Snake
* A SEAT AT THE TABLE
Struggling For American Indian Religious Freedom
http://www.kifaru.com/DreamCatchersDreamCatchers Incorporated is a non-profit, charitable organization founded by the officers of Kifaru Productions to promote cross cultural communications emphasizing social and environmental respect. The organizations work is rooted in the belief that within the spiritual traditions of the ancient cultures of the Americas lie values not only viable in today's world, but absolutely vital to the regeneration of Earth's life cycle.
In cooperation with other culturally based organizations, DreamCatchers fosters the creation of documentaries, feature films, educational events and school curriculum which all promote the values of respect for Nature and respect for the people.
http://www.dreamcatchers.org/Peace Press, February – March 2005
Getting Centeredby Elizabeth Stinson, Director
As we begin 2005, disheartened by 2004, and 4 more years of war and human
loss, the toll continues to escalate.
Our hearts are forced to open wider to embrace the pain and suffering of the many
tsunami victims. My thanks to everyone who contributed and facilitated the many
antibiotics and medications sent to Sri Lanka with Kima Douglas and purchased locally by
Dr. Hergenrather, organized through the blog of Gary Rhine of Dreamcatchers and posted
on the P & J website… Thank-You.
http://www.peaceandjusticesonomaco.org/Peace%20Press%20Archive/PP%20February%202005.pdfFlyby News Archives
"News Fit to Transmit in the Post Cassini Flyby Era"1) 16 solid reasons to vote for John Kerry & John Edwards
- - Get Ready for Democratic Emergency
- - Defend Our Wild Forests - Sign the Petition
The following was received from Rhino's Blog, which is the responsibility of Gary Rhine.
Today I offer 16 solid reasons to vote for John Kerry & John Edwards. The first reason is described in the article below from Intervention Magazine. It concerns what the Bush 2 Coup has deemed, "The New Freedom Initiative" wherein, the U.S. Government seeks to test all Americans, school kids 1st, for "disruptive behaviors and emotional disorders" and then initiate drug regimens, eventually using "emerging treatments" like a capsule implanted within the body that delivers doses of medication without the patient having to swallow pills or take injections."
Line up kids. This won't hurt a bit. (Cue the Twilight Zone music)
Bush Wants To Be Your Shrink -- Now Bush Wants to Test Every American for Mental Illness--Including you! And guess who will create the tests?
By Jordanne Graham, Intervention Magazine, August 8, 2004
http://tinyurl.com/4dm9kThe other 15 reasons to vote for John Kerry were created by a couple of politically progressive Americans who struggle trying to convince their progressive friends & relatives not to vote for Ralph Nader
. Sound familiar? Rhino thinks they' make a lot of sense while staying concise. Since it hasn't been published as yet on the web, I hereby post it in full.
Why Vote for Kerry?
Greg Woods & Taigen Dan Leighton
1. During the Bush Administration, there has been unprecedented fraud and corruption that has moved the country from a balanced budget to its greatest debt level in history. This will affect social services, social security, environmental protection, education, and medical practices for generations to come.
2. The Bush Administration is more secretive and lacking in democratic transparency than any administration in modern history.
3. The Bush Administration has lied more and lied more blatantly about the effect and intent of its own policies than any other Administration in modern history. Bush, at best, was asleep to warnings of the impending 9/11 tragedy, and thereafter he stonewalled its investigation. The Bush Administration lied about the reasons for invading Iraq, and violated international and domestic law to do so.
4. There has been a deliberate and concerted attack against civil liberties, the Balance of Powers and Rule of Law. Bush Administration policies have introduced measures that have not been new law so much as the erosion of law. This has amounted to attacks on the Constitution itself in its very foundations and upon the American people in their most fundamental Rights as citizens. Privacy, Due Process Rights and equal protection of law are all affected. John Ashcroft, the misnamed "Patriot Act" and "Homeland Security" measures have undermined American Rights in ways the public has not even begun to imagine collectively.
5. It has now been well established by Seymour Hersh, The Wall Street Journal, and the International Red Cross, among many reports, that torture was investigated planned and approved by the Bush Administration in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay. Torture, bare in mind, is the ultimate expression of the corruption of power. Rationalizations of torture in public -- also planned by Bush and his propagandists -- pervert the very notions of civil behavior, law, and government responsibility.
6. Nader's campaign and his presence on the ballot in many states has been very highly financed by Republicans and specific Bush operatives. Nader's presence in the election confuses theory and practice, substituting credible ideology for devastating real consequences. Should Bush be re-elected something near martial law will be the result. Kerry, certainly, does not represent that.
7. Just on the effect of the Supreme Court for the next 2-3 decades, the next president will appoint at least 3 new Supreme Court Justices, including probably the Chief Justice. Bush will appoint more right-wing anti-Constitutional ideologues opposed to women's rights, environmental protection, and corporate regulation. Kerry will appoint respectable liberal justices.
8. John Kerry's promise to shut down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, condemned as unsafe by scientific studies, is reason in and of itself to strongly work for Kerry over Bush, who promotes massive government subsidies to the nuclear energy industry, and development of "usable" nuclear weapons. Kerry also says he will oppose any central nuclear waste dump until we get scientific opinions on the best available approach to nuclear waste safety. Bush and company disdains all science.
9. John Kerry has an overall excellent record on the environment. Bush, as fast as he can, often secretly, has been handing over public lands to oil drilling, and logging, mining, and grazing corporations. He has plans to set up oil drilling up and down the California coast.
10. The Bush government denies the scientific reality of global warming and has actively distorted or suppressed scientific fact to suit its political purposes and influence pedaling.
11. Kerry was the only Senator to work to expose the Iran-Contra scam.
12. Kerry opposes the Death Penalty. Bush bragged about his Texas executions as Governor, and continues sponsoring mass killings of civilians in Iraq, and death of American soldiers in Iraq.
13. Bush will make his massive tax cuts for billionaires permanent. Kerry will repeal them immediately.
14. The Bush War in Iraq is using radioactive weapons. These appalling weapons are polluting the Iraqi ecosystem, it people and American soldiers alike with the most grotesque consequences for all. So called "Depleted" Uranium munitions, in fact, produce active and deadly uranium contamination that is like a radioactive plague effecting soldiers, their wives and children, for the rest of their lives. The consequences are so severe and far reaching that this may very well be the most cynical and shortsighted policy in the history of government.
15. All in all, the Bush government cannot be called an "American" government in any real sense. It is, in fact and in deed, the most anti-American, anti-democratic and divisive government in American History. VOTE FOR KERRY. Appeal to friends. REGISTER VOTERS if you can. Your vote may be the last best chance to preserve and protect American liberty and democracy.
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Rest easy Gary, we've got your back.
Steven P. :cry:
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