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Bay Area Reclaiming in Solidarity to Protect the West Berkeley Shellmound

5/31/2018

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(main text updated June 4 2018)
We, the undersigned members of the San Francisco, North Bay, and East Bay (and international) Reclaiming communities of Witches support Ohlone families and allies working to #SaveTheWestBerkeleyShellmound. Despite genocidal violence by the Spanish and later U.S. colonial governments, Ohlone people are still here. We acknowledge the Ohlone and neighboring California Indian tribes and nations, including the Pomo, Miwok, Patwin, Yokuts, Salinan, and Esselen peoples as the past, present, and future care-takers of the lands on which we reside.
 
The Reclaiming Tradition began in the 1980s when members the original collective were involved in demonstrations against the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. The origins of our spiritual practice include modern interpretations of earth-based ceremonial traditions of pre-Christian Europe. Our commitment to feminism, ecology, and justice in all its forms compels us to support Ohlone peoples. We do so with the awareness that as a community which has developed in the San Francisco Bay Area, our spiritual tradition was largely founded on occupied Ohlone territories.
 
In 1909, archeologist Nels Nelson created a map of the over 425 shellmound burial sites that ring the Bay Area. Many have been destroyed as a result of settler intrusion. One of the largest is buried below the Bay Street Mall in Emeryville. Today, the oldest shellmound and village site located at 1900 Fourth Street in Berkeley is threatened. Despite being named a historic landmark by the Berkeley Landmarks Commission and its ceremonial importance for Ohlone peoples, West Berkeley Investors has aggressively sought to build apartments, restaurants, and a parking garage on top of this site. We affirm East Bay Ohlone families whose statement says: “We oppose any desecration of our sacred site.  Our sacred sites are not for sale.  We will not allow our ancestors to be disturbed.  This sacred site represents more than 5,000 years of our history and it also currently represents our living culture. We will not permit the desecration of a site that is sacred to our families, our culture, and our ancestors.”
 
We recognize the role of Ohlone women on the front lines of sacred sites protection, Indigenous rights, and cultural survival. This is especially important to mention in light of the rising epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirits across Turtle Island (North America). We also acknowledge the struggle to protect the West Berkeley Shellmound is related to larger Indigenous movements to defend sacred places against the forces of commodification, extraction, and pollution including efforts to protect Oakflat (Apache), defend Mauna Kea (Kānaka Maoli/Native Hawaiians), and resist the numerous oil pipelines through Indigenous territories.
 
Acting in solidarity includes following the lead of Ohlone elders, showing up when asked, contacting local officials, donating what we can, and working in our own communities to disrupt settler-colonialism and white supremacy. We commit to doing our part to support Ohlone peoples to protect the West Berkeley Shellmound and other sites for the generations of Ohlone peoples yet unborn. 

Calls to Action   
*Contact the City of Berkeley and tell them why saving the Shellmound is a priority for you. Email the city planner: [tburroughs@cityofberkeley.info]. E-mail the city attorney [attorney@cityofberkeley.info].
Call  and e-mail the City Manager Dee Williams Ridley at 510-981-7000 or manager@cityofberkeley.info [manager@cityofberkeley.info] Within the next 36-48 hours.  

*Donate to our legal fund  https://shellmound.org/take-action/  

*Learn more at https://shellmound.org   

*Stay connected through social media:
West Berkeley Shellmound group on Facebook (https://tinyurl.com/hwe3696)
Twitter (@WBShellmound)
Instagram (@savetheshellmound)  
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26 Comments
Amy Graham
5/31/2018 08:38:49 am

I stand behind this statement.
Save the Berkeley shell mound.
Amy Graham

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Abel G
5/31/2018 09:54:55 am

I sign this statement in support of Ohlone families to save the West Berkeley Shellmound.

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Mykel Kathryn Mogg
5/31/2018 10:09:53 am

I urge the city of Berkeley to honor their commitments to Ohlone people and protect this sacred site. I hope that this place will be protected as a site for Ohlone people to gather in ceremony for many generations to come.

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Irisanya
5/31/2018 11:07:01 am

I also sign this statement in support of Ohlone families to save the West Berkeley Shellmound.

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Ingrid Pollyak
5/31/2018 11:16:57 am

I stand with Ohlone folks-- let there be no desecration of this sacred site.

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Cypress F Gormly
5/31/2018 01:12:21 pm

I stand with the Ohlone.

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Toni Savage
5/31/2018 04:42:29 pm

Please leave the Shellmound to the Ohlone

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Hilary Mary Buffum
5/31/2018 05:44:16 pm

I stand solidarity with the Ohlone people. Save the Berkeley Shellmound. I urge the city of Berkeley to do what you said you would do and protect this sacred site.

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elaine magree
5/31/2018 08:25:10 pm

I agree with this statement.
“We oppose any desecration of our sacred site. Our sacred sites are not for sale. We will not allow our ancestors to be disturbed. This sacred site represents more than 5,000 years of our history and it also currently represents our living culture. We will not permit the desecration of a site that is sacred to our families, our culture, and our ancestors.”
Come on Berkeley- do the right thing.

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Dani Burlison
6/1/2018 06:56:43 am

I urge you to preserve the last 2.2 acres of the West Berkeley Shellmound and Village site. Berkeley's commitment to the Ohlone people should be honored and this historic site should be preserved for future generations.

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Rahula Janowski
6/1/2018 10:25:34 am

I support this statement completely.

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Quincy Nolan
6/1/2018 12:46:21 pm

I stand in complete support of this statement

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Holly blash-wood
6/1/2018 01:46:50 pm

Not one more desecration in the name of greed.

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Kaeli Mogg
6/1/2018 02:13:19 pm

Make the right choice, Berkeley, and honor your agreements with Ohlone people. Protect this sacred site.

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Christine Patch-Lindsay
6/1/2018 04:34:01 pm

I stand in support of preserving the shell mound and honoring native peoples important sites.

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Stephen Pocock
6/1/2018 11:42:41 pm

Please support the rights of the Ohlone People. Don’t be known as the ones who didn’t.

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Judith Federico
6/4/2018 02:57:13 pm

I support the Ohlone People lets not put greed ahead of doing the right thing for them and the West Berkeley Shell Mouind.

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Eddy Rivers
6/4/2018 05:50:42 pm

I sign this in support of the Ohlone people and for preserving this historical and sacred site for future generations.

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S. L.Townsend
6/5/2018 03:47:49 am

I sign in support of and respect for the Ohione people and their special relationship to this site.

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Sheri Keller
6/6/2018 10:41:34 am

I stand behind this statement.
Save the Berkeley shell mound.

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Boneweaver
6/7/2018 07:34:31 am

I stand with the Ohlone.

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Curtis Rash
6/7/2018 03:11:40 pm

I support this statement. Protect the Berkeley shell mound.

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Fio Aengus Santika link
6/12/2018 06:28:54 am

I stand in solidarity, from here in Australia, with the Ohlone people of a land I deeply love.

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Heidi Marian
6/12/2018 03:06:28 pm

I stand in solidarity

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Maureen G. Moss Lubell
6/13/2018 12:42:54 am

I urge the City of Berkeley to honor your commitments to the Ohlone people, and protect this sacred site. This is an ancient and important piece of land in the ancestral history of these peoples, and should be protected as a place for the Ohlone people to gather in ceremony for all their generations to come.

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SELF denied Holy Warrior for Jesus Holy Trinity
7/17/2021 04:43:11 pm

https://www.instagram.com/lone_corpse_123 , GAB is an alternative to Twitter - https://gab.com/lone_corpse_123 , jeffreydavidmorris on Parler.com.

global extermination by 2025 - And I've sent this & messaged DOD & military base's in new mexico re: Dulce's military base as well; It's gonna be a literal, human incomprehensible global bloodbath massacre & not even the word nightmare nor Crime's against humanity can scratch the surface. Including those fool's (devil court jester's) - The 'Utah Data Center', code-named "Bumblehive". And the Multiprogram Research Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

ALL $ bought & sold out your humanity & NON-SELF owned Soul (as solely God owns ALL), but re: Even with & like THOSE upon indian reservation (no respect for THE LAND) = New Mexico's 7 mile's down Dulce military base (& their just ONE amidst USA, despite global elsewhere), but press - on your computer keyboard key's Ctrl & 'F' & search / find keyword - type in: Level 6 & see thereof text wordage around thereof: https://www.crystalinks.com/undergroundbases.html.

Do your own research, come to your own conclusion's, but DON'T deem vast that they have been doing & are (tick tock 'time', right now) aren't even worse so: global extermination by 2025, & whom TOP Power deem that 9-1-1 was JUST a TEST, to see just how the global masses would react & respond.

Globalist's, misc aren't really doing what they plan on, their really just passing the time, evil - senselessly, & their talk of reducing 7 billion plus down to 500 million, huh, OH don't think it'll stop there, oh no, just so Satan who solely started this Holy War against God, can eventually 'spite' God with exhibited all human eventually narrowed down & killed, like Satan's timeless laughing off it's ass at us (having put on a clueless humor show for that beast) & deeming to God, "LOOK AT THEM ALL, YOUR SO-CALLED PRIDE & JOY, THEIR SUPPOSE TO REPRESENT YOU?!"

And you gonna tell me (fellow human's) THAT no bothers you? OH it will, upon Coming Judgment Day before Jesus per / via your Heaven Life Record (everyone has one, even Adam & Eve), OH . . . I 'GET' much BECAUSE I chose to SELF denyingly Holy Warrior rise up for solely Holy Trinity. You (CARE?) to read - hear more? Huh, fine, it's NOT my Holy intel & I'm no threat nor lone wolf (as lone wolf is NOT in nor of Holy Trinity). Men in Black? Crime's against humanity NO even begin to scratch the surface.

Like judge Marshall ("Time Cop") said, "The sentence is DEATH, to be carried out IMMEDIATELY!" NO waiting around for the right cocktail, & thereof WATCH & WITNESS just how fast 6' x 9', misc tier's would be cleared & emptied!

Know that it was Adam that sinned first, NOT Eve BUT old men long ago would have vast past since - to date believe otherwise, & why would anyone think? YEAH, huh, right.

Here's another one: When satan got defeated re: Jesus's testing in the desert, Satan just deemed (BECAUSE of '?', ROGUE us all as a whole FROM Holy Trinity), "Fine Satan would just go after Jesus's next best thing, HIS Little One's 'children / kids' through the adult's".

Humanity could & should have SELF denyingly chosen to Holy Warrior rise up & represent solely Holy Trinity - as to why we were created & thought up in the first with WITH all we'd ever need ie: gift's, talent's, skill's & free will, NOT EVER to exhibitedly deem (UGH) that God is somehow a maid & janitor for us?

Uh, NOT HE wouldn't even have to exhale & we'd go out quicker than a candle & think NOT fellow humanity why Jesus REALLY came, huh, there'd be WHAT? Animatedly White streak's down all adult's back in fear & terror finding out the REAL Truth, with that we were solely created to self denyingly care take of each & Earth, NOTHING off!

And the dying Earth? Try: The Natural balance is off - once like a force field shielding, like a computer firewall going down, thus, having allowed in, because of Adam first & THEN Eve, which Satan seeing Adam failing God priorly THEN did God allow Satan to try testing Eve.

And re: children / kid's, Jesus: "If any adult's keep any of these Little one's from me, they will NEVER see my Father". MUCH has been changed, suppressed, misc by whether the Vatican, fill in the blank's over centuries, even destroyed so that later humanity would NOT know of the truth or say that - to do such, simply would have been purposely not been recorded so as to deem that it just never happened & thus, later humanity would not know.

Yeah, I know much BUT it AIN'T me, it's Holy Trinity, per / via HIm 'touching' me, knowing I'd be shunned but I don't care because I will die for Jesus & have past since - to date until my eventual death, SELF denied voluntary & chosenly Holy Warrior for Jesus Holy Trinity.

Huh two thing's: THEY of whether globalist's, etc or TOP - down globally deem cluelessly that - 1) Satan started this nevertheless 70 century - to date Holy War against God, 2) Adam FIRST, NOT Eve, sinned & then Eve of course but old men

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