Indian Island Massacre 128 years ago. Beginning of Zionist Colonization of Palestine 126 years ago

Right now in Humboldt County we have two very prominent advocates of "Progressive" politics, one being Hank Sims, the Editor of the Northcoast Journal, and the other being Eric Kirk, Prog activist with one of the most popular Progressive political blogs in Humboldt County, teaming up to discredit local Native Americans of the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria by ridiculing their Heartlands Project and one of its directors, me.

Now if it was just me I wouldn't be drawing the community's attention to Hank and Eric because as most of you know, I get criticism up the yin yang all the time because I am an activist myself and do not hold back from criticizing Prog sacred cows in Prog political territory like Eric's blog and Heraldo's. But this is different.

Hank Sims is the Editor of the Northcoast Journal. He has a responsibility to the community for NOT CENSORING TRIBAL NEWS which he has done for over two years now, refusing to publish anything about Bear River's Heartlands Project or the Tribe's involvement with the Palco Bankruptcy. The Bear River Heartlands Project included a partnership with Palco employees and news of that too Hank Sims has censored out of the Northcoast Journal news--two groups of people, one with over 300 Bear River tribal members and the other representing literally over a thousand Palco workers, past and present.

Does Hank Sims have a right to not only censor news of their Project from the community's awareness but to add ridicule of these people and their representative? I think he does not have such a right and exercising unilateral negative judgment on a Project that carries the hopes of so many people is something Hank Sims needs to rethink. As does Eric Kirk who has followed Hank into supporting Hank's slurs against Bear River tribal members and the person they've chosen to represent their interests now for over 13 years.

Here's Hank ridiculing the Bear River's Heartlands Project's Palco coordinator:

"Steve: It's not Bear River members and Palco workers -- it's the spun-out bwana who presumes, wrongly, to speak for them.

Mon May 12, 06:48:00 AM


Here's Hank thinking he's funny by giving the one name guaranteed to anger Bear River tribal members who remember Ken Miller's and Humboldt Watershed Council co-founder Bob Martel's attempts to sabotage the Heartlands Project in 1997.

"It sounds like a good idea, but wouldn't such a powerful story threaten the progressive community? Let me run it by Ken Miller and get back to you.

Otherwise, I'm thinking women's roller derby.

Tue May 13, 07:08:00 AM


Here's Eric going along with Hank in ridiculing Bear River and censoring my posts protesting Eric's and Hank's racist actions against local Native Americans.


Yeah -- gotta go with the roller derby.

Tue May 13, 10:13:00 AM


Here's Hank again:

"You're talking three (ex-)Palco workers and one uppity Injun, right?

Put 'em in spandex and skates and then we'll talk.

Tue May 13, 03:52:00 PM



Here's Hank telling us Bear River tribal members are calling me some isoteric Spanish song to ridicule me. As if the Spanish are particularly fondly remembered by California Native Americans.

"Go up about 19 posts above to the appropriate post which should have informed that how many Bear River tribal members are involved in the Heartlands Project? One? Hank?

But I thought that was superceded by the post about 12 posts up, in which the tribe determined that you were cucurrucucú.

Tue May 13, 07:06:00 PM


Here's Hank again making fun of my observation that he's racially prejudiced against local Native Americans.

"Steve: If I'm racist, it's only because of the ancient Ashkenazi blood flowing through my veins from 600 years ago. Not my fault.

But you're not being fair to Eric. He was merely suggesting that the Heartlands Project could be significantly improved with the addition of an American Gladiators component.

Judges love American Gladiators. Eric knows this.

Wed May 14, 07:07:00 AM



Eric and Hank, the new White People's gurus telling the Progressive community that Bear River tribal members are for all intense and purposes nuts for thinking they can get back their ancestral lands through the Heartlands Project. An anon using Hank's language to that effect even tried to post Hank's sentiment here. And of course, all Palco workers are "wacky" too even though three former Palco workers are behind the Palco Community Corporation part of the Heartlands Project and every current Palco worker we've talked to about the PCC plan wishes us luck even if they are too afraid of losing their jobs to help us.

But we cannot get help to them or to the Bear River tribe if we have people like Hank and Eric censoring news of us to the Progressive community, the people most likely in Humboldt County to want to help Bear River tribal people regain their ancestral lands and Palco workers form an employee owned new Palco corporation that protects their rights.

My anger is up and I am calling Hank and Eric racists for their actions against local Native Americans. Actually, I can include Eric's support of colonial Zionists also of the same racist stripe as was seen here in Humboldt County in 1860, the beginnings of the California Indian Wars with the victors after slaughtering Native Americans indiscrimatel and stealing all their land, us.

Don't let it happen again. Protest Hank and Eric leading Progressives into wrong attitudes and wrong action against local Native Americans.

P