DECAL IT!! Direct Action, Label Racism in Your Community!!

11/23/02

From New York:

The decals arrived today. Thanks! The hardest thing now will be showing enough restrained discipline to wait until next weekendbefore starting to use them.

KS-

Ok, I admit. I could NOT wait. I already started! :) Actually been doing it for about 3 mos.

I will be posting update soon . It is like 25 states now!

Wa do

New York-

LOL! Excellent. I guess I don't have to feel guilty about getting a little "practice" in before the official start of SOAR.

11/25/02

Florida-:

I am in Florida and I am seeing all of these Seminloe license plates. I am thinking of sticking my stickers all over them!! I am going to the malls this week to hunt down opportunities to use my stickers. Can't wait!!

KS-:

YES YES

Tags Perfect anything and everything!

Florida 11/29/02

Oh friend them stickers are already on everything from police cars to mascot flags all over Tampa-St Petersburg. Tallahassee is next on the stickering list.

Florida 12/8/02 A cross country SOAR!

Florida that weekend and I will tell you that all I was able to do was a licence plate in Florida and then....my favorite...we went to Baltimore to
visit my daughter on the way back and across the street from her, which I had never noticed before was one of those STUPID clubs called The IMPROVED Order of the Red Man. They have the typical Indian head with the Plains bonnet on their sign and on their door. I plastered the image on the door with stickers, and left some with my daughter so she could reapply them after they took the others off. I am planning to go into the mall this weekend and see if I can't find some more good uses for them. It was so fun!!!!!

From: Joni Tucker-Nisbeth

Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 11:02 PM

Subject: PRESS RELEASE SOAR!

RE: SOAR! ( Stamp Out ALL Racism)
First Annual National Action Against Racist Imagery in Sports and Media
November 28, 29, 30, Dec. 1, 2002

Contact Spokeswoman: Joni Tucker-Nisbeth

American Indian Movement Kansas Support Group

PO 425, Hutchinson KS 67504 ph/ 620 6639879

Thursday kicked off SOAR! The First Annual National Direct Action Against Racist Imagery in Sports and Media. There are nationwide American Indian Movement (AIM) activists, human and civil rights groups and individual citizens in twenty -six states participating in SOAR! actions across the country. SOAR! Participates will distribute educational materials and carry out awareness actions in their communities.

Un-identified activists from Kansas carried out the inaugural event of SOAR! weekend actions by posting anti-racism messages over two offensive billboards erected on US 56 by Little River, Kansas. The 8 by 8-foot billboards signs, sponsored in part by the local Lyons Club, read “Welcome to Redskin Country”, which refers to that school district’s sports team the Redskins.

AIM KS spokeswoman, Joni Tucker-Nisbeth, states the redskin word originated as a racist and de humanizing term targeting American Indians and is equal to racist terms against other races. For over thirty years The American Indian Movement and many other national civil rights organizations have called for these offenses to stop.

While November has been recognized as Native American Heritage Month, true honor and recognition can not be fulfilled until ALL forms of public and government endorsed bigotry and racism against Native people cease.

SOAR! was initiated to bring attention to these types of civil rights violations that continue against Native people. Despite more than Ten years of nation wide attention, the industries of sports and media, as well as schools, continue to exploit, mock and abuse imagery that is disparaging against Native people and culture. Acts which result in racist stereotyping, oppression and violations of the rights of Native people.