[Antiracism] Petition racist video game

Thu Mar 30 22:51:26 EST 2006

Subject: "Kill the Indian Save the Man" (Movie trailer at bottom of page)

"The Canary Effect" is screening at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. It
should see limited release after that and then hopefully DVD in wide
release. There aren't too many documentaries on the American Indian
experience, we're here and we don't ride horses, wear loincloths, shoot bow
and arrows and live in teepees anymore. The silent, forgotten "minority".

"The Canary Effect, Kill the Indian Save the Man" a documentary directed by
Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman, written by Davey (U.S.A.) - World
Premiere. This visually powerful documentary explores the horrific abuses
enacted on Native Americans throughout history, abuses which meet the U.N.'s
definition of genocide. Today, reservations rank in the bottom of the nation
for quality of life, and in the top for suicide. The Canary Effect forces us
to confront the uncomfortable legacy of history.

GET AWARE OF THE CANARY EFFECT
Dave and Davey and Thunder Woman

'The Canary Effect' marks the debut of the film making team Yellow Thunder
Woman and Robin Davey. With their movie they want to bring awareness and
understanding to the often misunderstood story of the Indigenous people of
America.

Yellow Thunder Woman is an artist, singer and film maker who was raised on
the Yankton Sioux and Rosebud Sioux reservations in South Dakota. Robin
Davey (of The Davey Brothers and legendary The Hoax) was born and raised in
southern England, he is a musician, producer and film maker. After crafting
music videos for his own band (signed to Dave Stewart's Artist Network in
2002, now to his Weapons of Mass Entertainment), he quickly started making a
name for himself as a director and has since made videos for Disney,
Paramount and Interscope Records.

What noone knew until now is that this movie was not only executively
produced by John Shanks but also by Dave Stewart  of Eurythmics who
contributed his experience with setting up the financing and with the making
of films and documentaries from the very beginning of the project.

If you are interested in this important topic please watch a trailer below
and support 'The Canary Effect' on  their Myspace page.

http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf?u=YUhSMGNEb3ZMMk52Ym5SbGJuUXViVzk
yYVdWekxtTmtiaTV0ZVhOd1lXTmxMbU52YlM4d01EQTFOVEV6THpNNEx6STFMelUxTVRNNE5USTR
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----- Original Message -----
From: "JT M. Koch" <jtkoch at mtholyoke.edu>
To: <antiracism at hermes.hampshire.edu>; <action-l at mtholyoke.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:32 AM
Subject: [Antiracism] Petition racist video game

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> I thought this might be of interest, both for knowledge and action, to
> many of you, please forward widely.
> thank you for taking the time to look at it.
> peace and revolution,
> julia
>
>
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>  Subject: Fwd: Petition racist video game
>
> Please pass on...
>
> OK folks...time for YOU to help ME.
>   I need everyone available to PLEASE sign this petition.
>
>   This new game is called GUN and is racist and inflammatory in it's
> portrayal of my people...the APACHE INDIANS.
>
>   I don't care that some will argue "It's just a GAME!"....it's NOT just a
> "game", it's a racist covert attempt to spread HATE against the indigenous
> people all around the world, under the guise of a "game".....and has NO
> PLACE in the lives of our future, which is the children that it is
> marketed towards.
>
>   Sure, it's marked "M" for Mature but we all know how effective those
> "grading systems" are in preventing children from buying, and playing
> adult themed "games".
>
>   This "game" makes it a "sport" to KILL INDIANS...no different than if a
> game was made showing African Americans being chained and hunted ala
> KKK.....or Jews being tortured and gassed ala Nazis....I can imagine the
> uproar if those "games" were ever made and marketed towards children, so
> why not an uproar about this one marketed as a sporting "game" to kill
> Native Americans?!
>
>   Or do you think it's OK to KILL US even if it's just in a "game"?
>
>   I would also like to ask for your assistance, in that if you agree that
> this game needs to be pulled off the market and the company who sells it,
> Activision , be held responsible and accountable for the damage this is
> causing, PLEASE send me a short but sweet [j/k] letter stating your
> opinion of this game and the racist portrayal of Indians, sign and date
> it, electronic signature is fine....and in it state that I have permission
> to forward your message to the proper authorities, so that I can collect
> signatures and send them to the FTC and also to file a complaint with the
> proper authorities, to see this thing removed off the market.
>
>
> In advance allow me to ahe*hye*e [THANK YOU ], for taking the time to
> write and send me, your personal opinion letter and for signing the
> petition.
>
>   Cricket
>   [ndee a*yol]
>   Apache Wind
>   White Mountain Apache
>
>   The petition can be found at www.boycottgun.com.
>
>   http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412632
>
> GUN video game is the subject of Native boycott
>
> Posted: March 13, 2006
> by: Matt Ross / Indian Country Today
>
> SEATTLE - Surrounded by an onslaught of hatchet-wielding Indians
> attempting
> to blockade a railway trestle, the "hero" fearlessly raises his rifle and
> begins to fire indiscriminately.
>
> The ultimate goal is to kill all those who stand in the way of the hero's
> quest. During this particular mission, it was a band of Apache that was in
> the gun's crosshairs.
>
> This depiction of the Wild West, whether this scenario ever occurred in
> the
> late 19th century, is being portrayed in thousands of homes across America
> in the form of a video game and has drawn the condemnation of an American
> Indian group. The Association for American Indian Development has launched
> a petition demanding the recall of the game GUN as produced by Activision
> Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif.
>   [for those who would like to send their letters directly to Activision]
>
>   Activision Corporate Headquarters
>   Activision, Incorporated
>   3100 Ocean Park Boulevard
>   Santa Monica, California
>   90405
>   [310] 255-2000
>   http://www.activision.com
>
>   Board of Directors for Activision are;
>
>   President: Ron Doornink
>   Vice President: Robert J. Corti
>
>
>
> WINS Program Staff
> Washington Semester American Indian Program
> Washington Internships for Native Students (WINS)
> 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW
> Washington DC 20016-8083
> Tel: 202-885-5934
> 800-853-3076
> Fax: 202-895-4882
> email: wins at american.edu
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