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3/11/2011
3/10/2008
Caribbean Editor Appointed for Indigenous Portal
UCTP Taino News – The United Confederation of Taino People (UCTP) has been appointed Caribbean Regional Editor for the International Indigenous Portal. Created by the Indigenous ICT Task Force (IITF), the International Indigenous Portal at http://www.indigenousportal.com/ is a developing project, which comprises a general web site and regional sub-sites highlighting various regions of the world including Africa, Arctic, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, North America, the Pacific, and Central and Eastern Europe, Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia.
Welcoming the UCTP officially to the project, Malia Nobrega (Hawai’i), a representative of the IITF and the Indigenous Portal Board stated that the interview committee “was very happy to learn about the exciting work that the United Confederation of Taino People has done and continues to do with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean.”
Announced at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2006, the call for regional portal editors began during a special session, which launched the International Indigenous Portal. The announcement was distributed world wide through various internet networks and acceptance of applications closed February 28th. Regional editors for the portal will be responsible for site content, editing, technical support on site usage, community outreach, project development, and reporting.
“The portal will increase the visibility of the Taino and other Caribbean Indigenous Peoples internationally along with our other indigenous relatives from around the world” stated Ericc Diaz who is a lead member of the UCTP’s information technology team.
“We look forward to introducing this innovative technology to our communities throughout the region” said Diaz.
UCTPTN 03.10.2008
Welcoming the UCTP officially to the project, Malia Nobrega (Hawai’i), a representative of the IITF and the Indigenous Portal Board stated that the interview committee “was very happy to learn about the exciting work that the United Confederation of Taino People has done and continues to do with Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean.”
Announced at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2006, the call for regional portal editors began during a special session, which launched the International Indigenous Portal. The announcement was distributed world wide through various internet networks and acceptance of applications closed February 28th. Regional editors for the portal will be responsible for site content, editing, technical support on site usage, community outreach, project development, and reporting.
“The portal will increase the visibility of the Taino and other Caribbean Indigenous Peoples internationally along with our other indigenous relatives from around the world” stated Ericc Diaz who is a lead member of the UCTP’s information technology team.
“We look forward to introducing this innovative technology to our communities throughout the region” said Diaz.
UCTPTN 03.10.2008
3/09/2007
Tree frogs that Puerto Ricans like are fiends in Hawaii
By ROBERT FRIEDMAN
While the Hawaiian government continues its coqui cleansing, some voices are being raised on those islands urging residents to adopt a live-and-let- live policy toward the little tree frog, whose night song soothes Puerto Ricans and maddens the Aloha State.
Both the state and federal governments have joined forces to try to rid the Pacific paradise of the Caribbean intruders. But efforts also have begun, with the recent opening on the Big Island of the Hawaiian Coqui Frog Sanctuary and Nature Preserve, to have Hawaiians take the
little chirpers to their hearts, as Puerto Ricans have done.
The local environmentalists behind the project want visitors to "experience coquis and listen to their sunset serenades."
The sanctuary founders medical anthropologists Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer also play up the tourism potential of the coqui.
"There are millions of frog lovers throughout the world," said Singer in a recent interview. "Instead of spending millions each year to burn frogs to death by spraying acid into the forests, Hawaii can be making millions each year by promoting our coquis."
Still, as this 67-acre nature preserve hopes to attract tourists to the song of the little frog there will be a few "coqui cottages" for overnight stays the state government is gearing up to spend for the second year another $2 million in efforts to make the state coqui-free.
The preferred method of killing is through chemical spraying, but residents are also urged to capture the critters so they could be cooked to death in pots or iced in freezers, presumably with no cryonics procedure in mind. The U.S. Department of Agriculture' s Wildlife Services also is involved in the coqui elimination plan.
The state has officially declared the little guys with the big voices agricultural pests, an invasive species that officials say is "drastically changing the food web for birds and native insects" by gobbling up mosquitoes, termites, spiders, ants and, seemingly most damaging, upsetting the nighttime tranquility of the resident humans.
"The species' shrill, incessant mating calls, compounded by the animal's high population densities, shatter the peace and quiet of residents and visitors alike," said Bill Kenoi, executive assistant to Mayor Harry Kim of Hawaii's Big Island. "It is clear that coqui infestations present a serious threat to the quality of life for our island residents," Kenoi said in an Hawaii County Newsletter.
Mindy Wilkinson, the state's invasive species coordinator, noted that while the coqui population of Puerto Rico appears in decline, as island scientists have noted, the number has exploded in Hawaii. There are up to three times higher density of coquis in Hawaii than in Puerto Rico, according to the experts.
The 70-decibal song of the coqui is just something that Hawaii residents can't get used to, Wilkinson said. "We don't have that level of sound," she said.
Utah State professor and ecologist Karen Beard, who did coqui studies in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico, noted that there aren't as many coqui predators (other than human) in Hawaii as on the island, where presumably enough rats and mongooses keep the population in control.
Some folks, she noted, move to Hawaii specifically to "get away from noises" and find the sound of the coqui, or thousands of coquis, distressing. "It's just what you're used to," she said.
*Source: Scripps Howard News Service
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=TREEFROGS-03-08-07
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See also:
Coqui of Puerto Rico http://www.vineland.org/history/pr_festival/coqui.htm
Endangered Species of Puerto Rico
http://uctp.blogspot.com/2006/12/endangered-and-threatened-species-of.html
While the Hawaiian government continues its coqui cleansing, some voices are being raised on those islands urging residents to adopt a live-and-let- live policy toward the little tree frog, whose night song soothes Puerto Ricans and maddens the Aloha State.
Both the state and federal governments have joined forces to try to rid the Pacific paradise of the Caribbean intruders. But efforts also have begun, with the recent opening on the Big Island of the Hawaiian Coqui Frog Sanctuary and Nature Preserve, to have Hawaiians take the
little chirpers to their hearts, as Puerto Ricans have done.
The local environmentalists behind the project want visitors to "experience coquis and listen to their sunset serenades."
The sanctuary founders medical anthropologists Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer also play up the tourism potential of the coqui.
"There are millions of frog lovers throughout the world," said Singer in a recent interview. "Instead of spending millions each year to burn frogs to death by spraying acid into the forests, Hawaii can be making millions each year by promoting our coquis."
Still, as this 67-acre nature preserve hopes to attract tourists to the song of the little frog there will be a few "coqui cottages" for overnight stays the state government is gearing up to spend for the second year another $2 million in efforts to make the state coqui-free.
The preferred method of killing is through chemical spraying, but residents are also urged to capture the critters so they could be cooked to death in pots or iced in freezers, presumably with no cryonics procedure in mind. The U.S. Department of Agriculture' s Wildlife Services also is involved in the coqui elimination plan.
The state has officially declared the little guys with the big voices agricultural pests, an invasive species that officials say is "drastically changing the food web for birds and native insects" by gobbling up mosquitoes, termites, spiders, ants and, seemingly most damaging, upsetting the nighttime tranquility of the resident humans.
"The species' shrill, incessant mating calls, compounded by the animal's high population densities, shatter the peace and quiet of residents and visitors alike," said Bill Kenoi, executive assistant to Mayor Harry Kim of Hawaii's Big Island. "It is clear that coqui infestations present a serious threat to the quality of life for our island residents," Kenoi said in an Hawaii County Newsletter.
Mindy Wilkinson, the state's invasive species coordinator, noted that while the coqui population of Puerto Rico appears in decline, as island scientists have noted, the number has exploded in Hawaii. There are up to three times higher density of coquis in Hawaii than in Puerto Rico, according to the experts.
The 70-decibal song of the coqui is just something that Hawaii residents can't get used to, Wilkinson said. "We don't have that level of sound," she said.
Utah State professor and ecologist Karen Beard, who did coqui studies in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico, noted that there aren't as many coqui predators (other than human) in Hawaii as on the island, where presumably enough rats and mongooses keep the population in control.
Some folks, she noted, move to Hawaii specifically to "get away from noises" and find the sound of the coqui, or thousands of coquis, distressing. "It's just what you're used to," she said.
*Source: Scripps Howard News Service
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=TREEFROGS-03-08-07
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See also:
Coqui of Puerto Rico http://www.vineland.org/history/pr_festival/coqui.htm
Endangered Species of Puerto Rico
http://uctp.blogspot.com/2006/12/endangered-and-threatened-species-of.html
2/20/2007
Human experimentation in Puerto Rico*
The following is taken from "In the Name of Science, A history of secret programs, medical research and experimentation" by Andrew Goliszek published in 2003:
"...corroborated by witnesses involved in the experiments, the Rockefeller Institute, founded in 1901 to study the science of medicine and to develop an understanding of the nature and causes of disease... sponsored a cancer research project using healthy Puerto Rican citizens... unwitting human subjects were deliberately injected with cancer cells... to see how humans develop cancer... Dr. Cornelius Rhoades (who conducted the experiments)when asked why he chose Puerto Ricans to conduct the research stated flatly, 'The Puerto Ricans are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever to to inhabit this spphere'. Despite the resulting cancer deaths and blatant racism, Dr. Rhoades was lauded for his research."
It is inconceivable that experiments similar to this are still being condoned all over the world. Governments are polluting not only the atmosphere but our bodies as well.
J.Reyes
jreyes1443@yahoo.com
Save the Trees - Save the World
http://www.jointhesolution.com/brightsun
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*UCTP Taino News Editor’s Note: The above entry notes a case of actual “human experimentation in Puerto Rico” with concern to the injection of cancer cells into human subjects who were unaware of the “experiment”. This is not the first time “human experimantaion" has been conducted on the People of Puerto Rico.
Considering that indigenous Taino ancestry is traditionally traced via the mother’s linage, it is important to note that Puerto Rican women have specifically been targeted within population control policies. Beginning in the late thirties, privately funded foundations based in the United States, and later, the Puerto Rican government, with U.S. government funds, promoted sterilization programs developed by the ‘Eugenics Board” under the guise of “limiting population growth”.
By the the 1950s, large numbers of Puerto Rican women were forcibly sterilized unknowingly or thinking they were undertaking a simple reversible procedure. Women factory workers were given time off to attend appointments in clinics, which were located within the very factories where they were employed. Social workers were encouraged to promote this program “door to door” by making home visits. By 1974, 35 percent of Puerto Rican women of child-bearing age - some 200,000 women - were permanently sterilized. By 1980, Puerto Rico had the highest per-capita rate of sterilization among women in the world. From the 1950s through 1980, Puerto Rico was also used as a testing ground for birth control pills while they were under development. Pills twenty times stronger than the ones used today were tested on Puerto Rican women.
Today, "human experimentation" in Puerto Rico continues as daily experiments are conducted on genetically modified plants where there is little regulation, oversight or accountability. Puerto Rico is host to more GM food experiments per square mile than any U.S. state except Hawaii. Located on a small island with a civilian population, the U.S. military bases on Vieques, which were used as a testing site for weapons should also be considered within the context of “human
experimentation” on the Puerto Rican People.
To review stories on these issues, see the following:
The Sterilization of Puerto Rican Women
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=326
Female Sterilization in Puerto Rico
http://clem.mscd.edu/~princer/ant440b/paper_04.htm
The Role of Fertility Control in Socio-Economic Development
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1999/gormley.html
Puerto Rico’s Biotech Harvest
http://uctp.blogspot.com/2005/08/puerto-ricos-biotech-harvest.html
Olmos decries bomb test site cleanup
http://uctp.blogspot.com/2007/02/olmos-decries-bomb-test-site-cleanup.html
"...corroborated by witnesses involved in the experiments, the Rockefeller Institute, founded in 1901 to study the science of medicine and to develop an understanding of the nature and causes of disease... sponsored a cancer research project using healthy Puerto Rican citizens... unwitting human subjects were deliberately injected with cancer cells... to see how humans develop cancer... Dr. Cornelius Rhoades (who conducted the experiments)when asked why he chose Puerto Ricans to conduct the research stated flatly, 'The Puerto Ricans are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever to to inhabit this spphere'. Despite the resulting cancer deaths and blatant racism, Dr. Rhoades was lauded for his research."
It is inconceivable that experiments similar to this are still being condoned all over the world. Governments are polluting not only the atmosphere but our bodies as well.
J.Reyes
jreyes1443@yahoo.com
Save the Trees - Save the World
http://www.jointhesolution.com/brightsun
--------
*UCTP Taino News Editor’s Note: The above entry notes a case of actual “human experimentation in Puerto Rico” with concern to the injection of cancer cells into human subjects who were unaware of the “experiment”. This is not the first time “human experimantaion" has been conducted on the People of Puerto Rico.
Considering that indigenous Taino ancestry is traditionally traced via the mother’s linage, it is important to note that Puerto Rican women have specifically been targeted within population control policies. Beginning in the late thirties, privately funded foundations based in the United States, and later, the Puerto Rican government, with U.S. government funds, promoted sterilization programs developed by the ‘Eugenics Board” under the guise of “limiting population growth”.
By the the 1950s, large numbers of Puerto Rican women were forcibly sterilized unknowingly or thinking they were undertaking a simple reversible procedure. Women factory workers were given time off to attend appointments in clinics, which were located within the very factories where they were employed. Social workers were encouraged to promote this program “door to door” by making home visits. By 1974, 35 percent of Puerto Rican women of child-bearing age - some 200,000 women - were permanently sterilized. By 1980, Puerto Rico had the highest per-capita rate of sterilization among women in the world. From the 1950s through 1980, Puerto Rico was also used as a testing ground for birth control pills while they were under development. Pills twenty times stronger than the ones used today were tested on Puerto Rican women.
Today, "human experimentation" in Puerto Rico continues as daily experiments are conducted on genetically modified plants where there is little regulation, oversight or accountability. Puerto Rico is host to more GM food experiments per square mile than any U.S. state except Hawaii. Located on a small island with a civilian population, the U.S. military bases on Vieques, which were used as a testing site for weapons should also be considered within the context of “human
experimentation” on the Puerto Rican People.
To review stories on these issues, see the following:
The Sterilization of Puerto Rican Women
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=326
Female Sterilization in Puerto Rico
http://clem.mscd.edu/~princer/ant440b/paper_04.htm
The Role of Fertility Control in Socio-Economic Development
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1999/gormley.html
Puerto Rico’s Biotech Harvest
http://uctp.blogspot.com/2005/08/puerto-ricos-biotech-harvest.html
Olmos decries bomb test site cleanup
http://uctp.blogspot.com/2007/02/olmos-decries-bomb-test-site-cleanup.html
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