New STS Interview on the Corbett Report

Corbett Report Radio Interview with Splitting The Sky
Date/Duration:	2009/03/06 / 1:28:43
Description:	Mohawk activist, author and lecturer Splitting The Sky joins us to talk about some of his incredible experiences, including his participation in the Attica State prison rebellion of 1971, his 9/11 Truth research, upcoming activism planned around Bush's Calgary visit this month and surviving the institutional genocide inflicted on the native peoples of North America.
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Attica State - By John Lennon and Yoko Ono - song and lyrics

Studio Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkWFPnb5FM

Accoustic Live Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irzuXZvC8lA


Lyrics:

What a waste of human power
What a waste of human lives
Shoot the prisoners in the towers
Forty-three poor widowed wives

Attica State, Attica State,
we're all mates with Attica State

Media blames it on the prisoners
But the prisoners did not kill
"Rockefeller pulled the trigger"
That is what the people feel

Attica State, Attica State,
we're all mates with Attica State

Free the prisoners, jail the judges
Free all prisoners everywhere
All they want is truth and justice
All they need is love and care

Attica State, Attica State,
we're all mates with Attica State

They all live in suffocation
Let's not watch them die in sorrow
Now's the time for revolution
Give them all a chance to grow

Attica State, Attica State,
we're all mates with Attica State

Come together join the movement
Take a stand for human rights
Fear and hatred clouds our judgement
Free us all from endless night

Attica State, Attica State,
we're all mates with Attica State

Attica State, Attica State,
we all live in Attica State

Attica State, Attica State,
Attica, Attica, Attica State

The 37th anniversary of Attica: Remember Attica and Never forget 911!

9/06/08
This article (below) was written on the 35th anniversary of the Attica rebellion and ultimate massacre by New York state troopers. The author Heather Thompson has written a new book on Attica which will be coming out soon.

I thought it would be good to post this article on the 37th anniversary of Attica... September 9th to the 13th.
Remember Attica- Never forget 9/11!
STS

The Attica Uprising

by Heather Ann Thompson

ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1971 a four-day rebellion of over 1200 inmates at the Attica State Correctional Facility in bucolic upstate New York ended most horrifically after Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered almost 600 state troopers to storm the prison. Even though the raid took only 10 minutes, when one could finally see through the haze of spent ammunition, it was immediately clear that the price of retaking this facility by force had been staggeringly high.

Strewn across the muddy, rutted earth were bodies — 29 inmates and 10 hostages lay dead and scores of other men lay so severely wounded that they were assumed dead. As inmate James Asbury recalled shuddering, “I could see all this blood just running out of the mud and water. That’s all I could see.”…..

The bodies that littered D Yard were cleared away long ago. But the Attica rebellion is worth remembering, and reckoning with, because in ways that few have appreciated this uprising (and more specifically, the way in which it was “spun” to the public), left an important legacy. Not only did it have a significant impact on the post-1970s evolution of justice policy in the country, but it also had some serious political as well as legal fallout….

READ MORE http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/313

Rudy Guliani's vain attempt to make me a political issue

8/26/08
NYC: Attica's Blood Is Obscured In Sound Bites - New York Times

By CLYDE HABERMAN

Published: September 30, 1997

IT comes as no shock that Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has been harsh in attacking Ruth W. Messinger instead of using his big lead in the polls to take the high road back to City Hall. It is his nature to treat opponents, or even well-meaning critics, as enemies....
READ THE REST HERE (NY Times original)

COMMENTS: This is an old article on Rudy Guliani's attempt to make me John B. Hill (thats' John Boncore Hill ) a political issue in the vain of a smear campaign against his mayoral contender that year Ruth Messinger. It was a Willie Horton type tactic used by George Bush Sr. against Mike Dukakis in his first bid for president of US. It was Guliani's bid for a second term as NY City mayor. At that time there were hundreds of articles on me in every major newspaper in the world related to this smear and I was interviewed in Surrey by CBC TV for CBS in the states. When I was asked what I felt about Guliani using me as a pawn in his bid for mayor I stated to the press, which was aired all over the world that he could have his fun now as I would one day expose his part in the massacre at the Twin Towers..

In all my interviews I have exposed Rudy as covering up the crime scene at 9/11 and ordering the removal of all debris and human remains to be shipped to Fresh Kill Landfill in Staten Island and ultimately shipped to China to melt down steel which if the crime scene was left for investigation it would have clearly shown massive deposits of explosive material was used to bring down towers 1, 2, and especially 7.

BTW, I finished the TV interview by telling Rudy to "kiss my pretty Mohawk....!"

STS