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MNN ‘Warriors Path: Rotiskenrakete’

bsnorrell — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:33:00 +0000

MNN: WARRIORS PATH

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Warriors Path: Rotiskenrakete
MNN. Feb. 4, 2013. The Great Law has definite functions for the War Chief and his men [Warriors]. They are charged with the protection, defense and welfare of the people. These duties take many forms; keeping the peace, teaching, speaking to the people, repossessing lost lands, maintaining human rights, diplomatic relations with other nations, and all work that promotes the People’s welfare. [Wampum 36, Great Law.]
A warrior’s duties are based on the natural instinct to survive. It is not man-made. He will tell us his name. After receiving his name before the people, he becomes a member of the community.

His mother, grandmothers and grandfathers raise him from birth until his voice changes. They help him develop “onigonra”, the mind, which is his fire. They feed, clothe and make him comfortable, strong and healthy. He learns the basic aspects of indigenous life. The women observe all the young people and find their special gifts, to be guided and trained for certain duties.
Then his uncles on his mother’s side take him. He fasts to seek his protection and medicine. His umbilical cord and the soil of his territory are placed in his medicine bag, which he always wears.
He learns to defend himself and build up his endurance. His physical training begins before sunrise every morning. He starts running as far and as hard as he can until high noon. He sees something new and different every day within nature around him, the night creatures, flowers opening up, birds singing and the day insects coming out.

He’s on the path.

His will comes from nature. He has to know our laws and ways and apply the truth. Kaianereh’ko:wa is based on truth and nature: skenna, kariwiio and kasastsensera [peace righteousness and power]. Sa-o-ie-ra means it’s natural, instilled in us by creation. We have the natural instinct to protect ourselves, our people, our clans, our territories and everything that sustains life.
We were taken off the path by genocide programs of the invaders of Great Turtle Island. They brought man-made beliefs that violated nature. For a time we became confused.
Warriors of old did not have to deal with media manipulations, high tech police surveillance, wanted posters, phony charges to criminalize them into submission to the colonial system.
Our ancestors sacrificed much so that we would survive. Nature is here forever. We are real people forever, Onkwehonwe.
The Rotiskenrakete is not a soldier, but a defender of the people. Peace is the warrior’s goal. He knows the war is not over until it is won. If the conflict continues, the black wampum string is dropped. They fight until they win. The adversary must agree to live peacefully under the great law of peace. Then they will retain their culture, language, government, land and ways.
Rotiskenrakete are the carriers of the soil of Great Turtle Island. As long as the Ongwehonwe are here, the Rotiskenrakete will be here too. All men are warriors. It’s natural.

Great White Buffalo is here now!

As Ted Nugent sang in “Great White Buffalo’’, about our young men: “When I looked above the canyon wall, some strong eyes did I see. I think it’s somebody comin’ around to save my ass, baby. I think he’s comin’ around to save you and me… Look out, baby, here he comes… he’s comin’ to get ya!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDND4qMUVk4

MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to www.mohawknationnews.com More stories at MNN Archives. Address: Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0

Mohawk Nation News ‘Indigenous Bank Run’

bsnorrell — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:49:00 +0000

MNN: INDIGENOUS BANK RUN

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Run on Indian Trust Fund at Indian Affairs

INDIGENOUS BANK RUN
MNN. Jan. 5, 2013. No more bawling for a handout from the corporate thieves. We demand payment forthright of all our money.

We Indigenous are not responsible for the massive failures of the banks that are now going bust. They’ve been bailed out with our Indian Trust Funds, without our knowledge or permission, which is illegal. We never gave permission to Mark Carney and Canada to move our ever-growing Indian Trust Fund to England to continue their debt fraud.

Look another banker!

The “executive branch” of the European superstate, of which Canada and the US are affiliated, do not rule us or our funds. Look at Iceland. They proved that the bankers did not have a legitimate debt from the people. It was all bogus. The criminal bankers went to jail.
The oligarchs’ debt to us can be verified quickly. it’s real! We do not have to obey their directives. We Indigenous people of Great Turtle Island are sovereign and not members of any corporate “artificial” system. Each Indigenous person who is a legal titleholder of the Indian Trust Fund can demand full payment immediately. We will say where our money goes.
Along with Al Qaeda, Taliban and Iceland, and anyone who goes against the economic royalists of Europe and their accomplices [banks], we Mohawks have been placed on a terrorist list. This means nothing to the people of the world who know the truth. The law enforcement officers have been tricked to illegally detain us.
We demand full payment asap. It won’t be going to any corporate entity [Canada, etall]. The band and tribal councils won’t be entitled to anything because they willingly stepped out of the canoe and jumped onto their boat. They have forfeited their rights to the money.

The emperor has no clothes!

We will deal directly with the bankers. No corporate entity can have anything to do this Indigenous bank run. This run will bust the bank.
As Pink Floyd sang: ”Money, it’s a crime. Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie. Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today”.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03JdA7lCLTo

MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to www.mohawknationnews.com More stories at MNN Archives. Address: Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0

Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, he can rob the world.

The Disappeared Article on First Nation Nuclear Rail Blockade

bsnorrell — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:05:00 +0000

Sorry, the news coverage of the First Nation Nuclear Rail Blockade has been disappeared, buried along with the nuclear waste

By Brenda Norrell
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http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Censored News has been in pursuit of the missing link, that’s the Toronto Star’s coverage of the First Nation Nuclear Rail Blockade on Sunday. Now, when something that important vanishes from Google News, readers want to know why. http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2013/02/03/protestors_block_cp_rail_tracks_over_lansdowne_ave_uranium_plant.html

When the link never recovered, and the article remained disappeared, Censored News contacted the webmaster at the Toronto Star.
Here’s the response. “It was moved here:”
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/02/03/protestors_block_cp_rail_trac
ks_over_lansdowne_ave_uranium_plant.html
The before and after links show that the Toronto Star moved the article from the crime section to the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) of the newspaper.
The original placement of this coverage in the crime section leads one to ask this question: “Who is the criminal, the person standing up for the future of mankind, or the uranium corporation GE Hitachi in Toronto that is endangering all life forms in this region?”
There were no arrests.
Although the Toronto Star’s coverage was moved, and a new link created, it did not appear on Google News. Censored News asked the Toronto Star why it was moved, and why the new link and article failed to appear on Google News.
On Tuesday night, the Toronto Star webmaster said, “The address changed because it either moved to a new section or the headline changed. Google News didn’t update it quickly it seems.”
Censored News was created because of the collapse of ethics, and censoring of the voices of Indigenous Peoples and others engaged in resistance and the struggle for human rights.
The radioactive tailings from the Cold War remain scattered across Native lands, and mining corporations continue to target Indigenous communities globally with radioactive dumping, and poisonous mining.
Censored New Most Censored 2012 also disappeared from Google
This isn’t the first article to disappear from Google News. Censored News Top Ten Most Censored in 2012 also disappeared from Google News, within hours of appearing and never returned. Among the top ten was mining on Indian lands, the collapse of media in Indian country, US spying on Tohono O’odham land, Native Americans support of Palestine, and Salazar’s leaked memo.
Among those top ten was the leaked memo revealing that US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar planned to push a so-called “water rights settlement” for the Little Colorado River through a “lame duck” Congress with Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl.
Navajos has already said “No” to the water rights theft aimed at providing water to one of the dirtiest coal fired power plants in the US, the Navajo Generating Station.
The water rights theft scheme – by the US Interior, Arizona Congressmen, non-Indian attorneys, and corrupt tribal politicians — would have also provided water for wasteful Arizona residents downstream who are watering the desert in luxury lifestyles, while many Navajos have no running water, and have to haul water long distances.
Salazar announced he would leave the US Interior in January.

Watch videos of First Nation Nuclear Rail Blockade and read more:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/02/video-first-nation-nuclear-rail.html

Dine’ Arlene Bowman: Indigenous women filmmakers shut out of the industry

bsnorrell — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:24:00 +0000

Arlene Bowman’s ‘Graffiti’ has shown in international film fests.

Dine’ filmmaker Arlene Bowman, originally from Greasewood, Ariz, on the Navajo Nation, describes how Indigenous women filmmakers are shut out of the film industry

By Arlene Bowman

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Recently I watched The Turin Horse, 2011 on Cinema Guild DVD directed by Bela Tarr, a Hungarian filmmaker. I have not seen his previous work but want to. Other information posted on the DVD. Other early work screened.Jonathan Rosenbaum a film critic and writer wrote and interviewed Bela Tarr a few times; also he recorded an audio commentary as the Turin Horse played. What Bela Tarr said meant a lot to me. This Turn Horse is an anti climatic drama. Tarr at some point said Turin Horse was his last film but I do not know if it will be. I liked it a lot. Tarr expressed to Rosenbaum his history:

a. “I have nothing to do with the filmmaking community in Budapest. They don’t like me because I don’t make conventional films. I can’t talk with them about films because I live and think differently than them. They are filmmakers and I am not. I don’t know what I am.”

b. In another interview he expressed to someone else: “When I started to make films, I wanted to change the world and slap people in the face. I wanted to destroy the whole world, whole society. I was full of emotions and energy. I really wanted to change the world. Afterwards I was shocked. The world didn’t change. I just finished my movie.”

He was born in July 21, 1955. I am older than him by six years.

My retort to those 2 lines, a. I have ranted and raved to a few people a few times about this very snubbed, shut out feeling I receive from Indigenous and non Indigenous filmmakers in North America about me, my films and videos I have made. I have always felt like this and it doesn’t change. When I heard that in the audio commentary about Tarr, I felt: I’m not alone in this world in this similar way I feel about my peer group of filmmakers and the kind of things I like in film and video, etc.

Retort to b.: That’s what I thought too after I finished UCLA film school. I thought the world might change towards Indigenous cinema but it did not. What it was: I only finished my graduate degree in filmmaking. That was it. I experienced a lot of politics and fighting the administration to finish my film. Used every energy I had. Mentally and physically very tired, after I finished it. Long story.

After all these years I still have no one to talk to about the issues related to making films and videos not acceptable to the mainstream film and video, the lack of the Indigenous women in major actor roles and the lack of Indigenous women filmmakers in main stream film and television more in the U.S. than Canada, except to few I dare express this. I still don’t not as much. Tarr’s the only one so far who has expressed those feelings of alienation I feel among Indigenous and non Indigenous filmmakers or the mainstream.

Also: Hey us Indigenous women filmmakers! We’re just getting started! I’m not quitting now and saying this is it. We’ve always been shut out. Always! Always knocking on the doors. We don’t get heard. No way! We’re going all the to the top til it happens: some change at least or big changes!

Sometimes I feel like I’m from another planet but I am an earthling.

Arlene Bowman’s films ‘Navajo Talking Picture’ filmed on the Navajo Nation, and ‘Graffiti’ filmed in Vancouver BC, have shown in international film festivals. Bowman’s Song Journey, on the powwow trail, showed on PBS. Graffiti screened at the French film festival, Festival International Du Film D’Amiens.

Mohawk Nation News ‘Sage Advice’

bsnorrell — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:10:00 +0000

MNN: SAGE ADVICE

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MNN. Jan. 3, 2013. During the Caledonia struggle, former Prime Minister Mulroney gave Prime Minister Harper some advice on how to deal with Indians.

I got that one, Brian.

Mulroney: “First, you gotta make those Indians look bad. Hire some top publicity firms. Put out 4 negative stories for every positive one. Say the Indians are breaking the law. Block them from arguing their case publicly. They have too many valid papers and good arguments. Lay criminal charges wherever you can”.
Harper:
Mulroney: “Lie. Confuse the public. Say they have no real evidence. Suggest they ‘might’ have weapons and criminal records! The public won’t read the “might”. They’ll just read “weapons” and “criminal”. Make negative images so the public sees the Indians as the bad guys. Say you are “defending law and order” [while you are evicting them from their legal property]. Never mind that they might only have 2 by 4s, bats or a bag of stones. Don’t mention the millions of dollars you are spending on ouzies, tasers, pepper spray, ear drum splitters, M-16s, silencers and the latest in ultra high tech weaponry for the cops”.
Mulroney: “Announce that you want to solve the crisis peacefully. Shut the People out of the negotiations. Deal only with those on your payroll [corporate Indians]. Let the Ministry of Propaganda [corporate media] do their job of putting out 4 bad stories for every good one. Announce that you will tour the reserves to see what the people need. [Still hasn’t done that!] Appoint a known adversary of Indians [such as Mike Harris] as chair of a Commons Committee on Aboriginal Affairs. You know, someone who excuses police brutality.
Harper:   You are right Brian ! Mike is our man, remember he got away with the Ipperwash thing.
Mulroney: Act surprised that the protesters won’t leave peacefully. Then surround them, point guns at them and scare them. Stop their supporters from entering or leaving the protest. If the Indigenous keep resisting, some of them and even our cops might get killed or hurt. Remember, there will be men, women and children there. Indian Affairs policy has been to absorb the Indians into Canadian society whether they like it or not. Harper, your job is to “clean it up” so US and foreign companies can get richer extracting their resources without paying them. You and I will load up our pockets, hahahah! The bankster’s economy depends on clear cutting, mining, water diversions and generally despoiling the land.
Harper: We are working on new laws right now to be rid of those pesky indians
Mulroney: “The Indians just want to make a stand on a principle, like land and resource rights and their poor living conditions. Tell them, “You’ve made your point. Now go home”.
Harper: “We know there are no leaders. We want to see who the main resisters are. We need a target, someone to shoot at.
Mulroney:   “Our miltary needs practice so we can send them out to support American interests in the Middle East and elsewhere. We both got elected due to support from American companies. Don’t bite the hands that feed us. Gotta think about our Benjamins, not the people, Stevie.
Mulroney: “Keep saying, “No one will get hurt”, if they do as they’re told. The main resisters should be told that the cops will take them out.
Harper: “The cops don’t want to do the killing!
Mulroney: “Put native cops on the front line. Mention native factionalism all the time. Let the cops beat Indian prisoners so it doesn’t leave bruises on their faces. They die later of their injuries, like Lasagna of the Oka crisis. I was PM then. It’s dirty work that someone has to do. Cops don’t really care if they lose one of their own. Few remember Marcel LeMay who was killed at Oka? If a cop gets shot by “friendly fire”, pretend it was the “injuns that done it. With one of your Senate appointments, put in an Indian face.
Harper: ”What happens if some of our cops sympathize with them?”

Time to feed the masks.

Mulroney: ”Say it’s the Stockholm Syndrome. He’s gone crazy. Then run a feature on an old anti-Indian fable. It’s cowboys and Indians time again, Stevie, yee haw! hahahah!

Mulroney: “The Indians just want to carry out their original legal rights that we promised long ago. We have to avoid that at all cost, Stevie.

Our amorphous source that is everywhere told us about this secret conversation on their Indigenous genocide program.
Listen to Jimi again: “Some people say day dreaming is for the lazy minded fools with nothing else to do. So let them laugh. Laugh at me…” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wbZPOUwEDA  
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to www.mohawknationnews.com More stories at MNN Archives. Address: Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0

Mohawk Nation News ‘People’s Fire’

bsnorrell — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:29:00 +0000

MNN: PEOPLE’S FIRE

PEOPLE’S FIRE
MNN. Jan. 3, 2013. The power is the People. They select the chiefs, clan mothers, titles and positions, who answer to the people. If they don’t listen, the people will remove errant chiefs or clan mothers.
The fire symbolizes the people coming together. “Sa’tsi”ra” means, “You have a fire”. “Swa’tsi:rare” means, “the fire is inside you”. It is the spirit, life of the person, family, clan, community, nation, confederacy.

People’s Fire is most powerful.

The root word for family, “kawa’tsi:re”, is “otsire”, the word for fire. It means the family still has a fire and exists. Each person, family and clan has a fire. The People’s Fire is the most powerful because all the minds come together.
The fire is the people’s voice. Each person has a voice, a duty to express their views on all social, political and economic issues. Individuals must exercise their personal power on behalf of the people. This is the foundation of the consensual decision making process of the Kaianereh’ko:wa, the law of the land.

People make sure protocol is followed by all the People.

All direction comes from the fire of the People. Then it goes to the clan mothers and then to the chiefs. We all keep an eye on the chiefs and clan mothers to make sure they are all following the law.
The Kanianereh’ko:wa, the Great Law, came to our people because dictators had risen, taken control and created constant warfare. The Great Law got rid of the dictators and the wars. We lived in peace for thousands of years, until the Europeans brought the war back to Great Turtle Island.
Band and Tribal councils are corporate Indians who are part of the royal economist bankers genocide program. They work under the direction of Indian Affairs and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs. Without any legal right, they sign surrenders of our land and resources. Our land cannot be sold or given away. They cannot use our titles to legitimize themselves and mislead the people. They don’t rule us.
Our traditional chiefs are the spokespersons for the People, saying only what the people tell them. Those chiefs who don’t listen to the People are outside the circle. Their antlers break off, the blood goes into their eyes, ears and mouth. The people cannot listen to those whose words are not clear, whose eyesight is gone and who have become deaf.
Our great law of peace is the law of the land. We have a Two Row relationship with the settlers that they have breached. This needs to be redressed.

Meeting until sunset, followed by feast and dancing.

Our fire continues. Our voices are becoming stronger every day. Each person has a duty to counsel themselves and learn as much as they can about their issues. As long as we are alive, our fire will not go out. When the colonists tried to extinguish us, we continued our fire. We did everything to stay alive. Only we can extinguish our fire.
As Jimi sang in “Fire”: “You tried to give me your money, you better save it, babe. Save it for your rainy day. I have only one burnin’ desire. Let me stand next to your fire.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkgGNvZIunw

MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to www.mohawknationnews.com More stories at MNN Archives. Address: Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0

Journey of Nishiyuu welcomes new trekker to Ottawa

bsnorrell — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:15:00 +0000

Monday, Feb. 4, 2013: The Journey of Nishiyuu. Marybelle Neacappo, one of the new walkers, with her sled loaded and ready to go. Chisasibi this morning. Idle No More.
P hoto: Ricky Angatookaluk

The Journey of Nishiyuu. The original seven do a group prayer before starting the next stage of the walk south from Chisasibi today. Idle No More.

Photo: James Napash

Mohawk Nation News ‘OHENTON KARIWA’TEK:WEN, the Thanksgiving’

bsnorrell — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:44:00 +0000

MNN: Ohenton Kariwa’tek:wen, Thanksgiving

Mohawk Nation News

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OHENTON KARIWA’TEK:WEN, the Thanksgiving
MNN. FEB 3, 2013. The “words that come before” is a dedication to the coming faces that we do every day. We place ourselves within an interdependent relationship with the natural world. We remind ourselves that we are equal with all elements of nature.
The Indigenous women are the progenitors of the soil of this land. It is held for the coming generations of our people yet unborn. Sovereign power is exercised to remind us of our way of life based on the Kaianereh’ko:wa, the Great Law of Peace. The natural world is the perfect reality. At every gathering, the “ohenton kariwa’tek:wen” is said so that we may gather our minds together as one.

Circle of life.

First, let us pay our respects to the people and remind ourselves of the necessity of good relations between ourselves in order to be productive and happy. So be it in our minds.
Let us extend our respect to our Great Mother Earth, and how the functions of the women parallels the role of the earth. The immunities and medicines we inherit come from living on her. So be it in our minds.
Let us extend our thanks for our cousins, all the waters, and to the contents of the waters – the fish, plant life and other things. Food and medicines needed to live healthily come from the waters. So be it in our minds.

Our Sisters.

Let us now extend our respect to our sisters, the plant life, such as corn, beans and squash, strawberries and other foods. So be it in our minds.
Let us give our respect to our brothers and sisters, the animals, insects and birds, who are also beneficial to the people. So be it in our minds.
Let us give our thanks to our grandfathers, the four winds and thunderers. They help renew nature for the peopleSo be it in our minds.
Let us now give our thanks to our grandmother, the moon, which regulates all female life. From her we learn the best time to put seeds into the ground and pick medicines. So be it in our minds.
Let us now give our respects to our eldest brother, the Sun, who is the example for the men to follow. The sun supports the earth by warming it so things can grow. He gives support and reinforcement to the people. He beautifies everything that has been put on the earth. They protect and support the people, particularly the women. They help raise the children and ensure their well-being and continuation of life. So be it in our minds.
Let us now give respect to our distant cousins, the stars, who have a lot of knowledge and strength when we need them. So be it in our minds.
Let us give thanks to our teachers who pass on the language, culture and messages from our ancestors. So be it in our minds.
We give thanks to all our relatives of the natural world, to all that helps human life, to the “Kasasten’sera’kowa sa oiera”, the great natural power, which is the power that produces them. We place ourselves in an interdependent system of relationships of all elements of nature, which are equal. We shall never know the face of this power, nor the name of this power, nor where this power dwells. We know it is logical, neither male nor female. So be it in our minds.
We, the people have the duty to rescue this earth for the faces yet unborn, who are under its surface and will be released to us. We work together to create an environment that will give them a good life on earth. So be it in our minds.
We, the people, work together for the continuity of life. Saving humanity and the earth is through exercising the power of the Kaianereh’ko:wa. If there is anything in the great natural world that we forgot to thank, we add it here. So be it in our minds.
Now that we have given thanks and respect to all elements of Creation, we are ready to deal with the matters at hand.
Song: We ask here for the silence, to sit still and block everything out so that we can only hear the Earth spinning.

Kaneron’kwa:tsera, love is the medicine.

VIDEO First Nation Nuclear Rail Blockade Feb 3, 2013

bsnorrell — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:49:00 +0000

Toronto Star article removed from Google News on Sunday.
Read activist communique:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/02/first-nation-rail-blockade-at-uranium.html
Update Monday night:
The Toronto Star article on the Nuclear Rail Blockade remains disappeared from Google News, but this one has appeared from Metro News http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/535311/idle-no-more-protesters-and-anti-nuclear-activists-block-cp-rail-line-in-toronto/

Oklahoma woman locks neck to Keystone XL Construction

bsnorrell — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:22:00 +0000

BREAKING: Oklahoma woman locks her neck to Keystone XL Construction Equipment

Posted on February 4, 2013 by tsbok

By Great Plains Tarsands Resistance
Early this morning Norman, Oklahoma resident Elizabeth Leja locked her neck to equipment used in constructing the Keystone XL pipeline. Citing concerns for Oklahoma’s waterways, and their importance for the health of future generations, her actions have halted construction at the site on Highway 62, just North of the North Canadian River, for the day. The Gulf Coast segment is being actively constructed in Oklahoma and Texas, despite objections by impacted communities.
MORE http://gptarsandsresistance.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/breaking-oklahoma-woman-locks-her-neck-to-keystone-xl-construction-equipment/