Reply #190: Earlier tonight, I had

[H2O Man]

posted a notice on DU:GD that the documentary "Stolen Land" was premiering on Sundance. It is about the efforts of the Nasa (aka "Pawz") to reclaim their land in Colombia. They need that land to grow food. The corporations need it to "develop."

While watching it (soon after first reading this OP), I was reminded of many years ago, when Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons was speaking to a group of non-Indians about the Native experience with the US government/corporations. I remember him telling the audience that what happens to the "least" in our society -- the Indians -- would soon begin to happen to middle class Americans.

From everything I know of you, my opinion is that you are in the spirit of the Nasa/Paez. A land-based natural human being, who understands the land that you live upon. Including that the land provides medicine as part of its willingness to supply nourishment. The Machine does not tolerate that.