Frauds and Exploiters Profiting or Promoting Themselves off NoDAPL

[Piff]

Joseph and Laralyn Riverwind ( http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1897.0 ) :

'It's nice to see the tide turning'

Earlier on Sunday, protester Laralyn RiverWind, who is of Cherokee and Muskogee heritage, told CBC News: "We're really grateful that other cultures are coming out to support."

"In the past, Native people have been disregarded and unheard and forgotten and we've come across so many people who have been taught in school that Native people don't exist anymore, that we're all extinct. And so it's nice to see the tide turning and Indigenous people being valued for the portion of knowledge and wisdom that we have to share with the world," she said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dakota-access-pipeline-1.3881042

Standing Rock Pipeline Veterans March led by War Chief AmaHura-SUCCESS!

http://i09964.wixsite.com/northernarawaktaino/projects

[Defend the Sacred]

Jim Graywolf Petruzzi

https://www.facebook.com/JimGraywolfPetruzzi - "Fan page"
https://www.facebook.com/jim.g.petruzzi - profile page
https://www.gofundme.com/2syy2xw - scamming money
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1749814981940531/admins - running a fake pipeline resistance group

We have a number of mentions here on NAFPS of non-Native Jim Graywolf Petruzzi selling fake Lakota "shamanic" ceremonies, and promoting non-Native frauds like Rachel Holzwarth, who calls herself "White Eagle Medicine Woman". He's a ceremony seller and shameon, and recently he's been trying to exploit the pipeline resistance movement, notably at the Sabal Trail camp in Florida. There are quite a few posts right now about this on Facebook.

So if folks could compile some of the details on him over in the new thread just for him: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4964  it would be good to have something to refer people to as right now there are a lot of questions from the new activists, especially the non-Natives who still don't understand how to spot the frauds. Or, in some cases, even what's wrong with having exploiters and pretendians trying to lead ceremonies at the camps. Thanks.

[Piff]

Regarding Graham Greene's image used to sell tshirts that supposedly raise funds for Standing Rock:

Graham Greene @Rafeolla

They did not ask me for my permission to use my image and none of the money is going to Standing Rock. They keep it. Fucking leeches

Graham Greene ?@Rafeolla

These tee shirts supposedly helping Standing Rock are False, don't buy them, none of the money gets to the people or their cause

https://twitter.com/Rafeolla

[Wakalopi14]

Having spent 4 days working in the Sacred Stone kitchen in Sept with MartiJo, LaDonna's sister, I can attest to how so many seemed to be doing nothing but taking. They'd line up for food before the Elders were fed, start eating before the Prayer was sent, and instead of washing their dishes would just leave them by the tubs of washing/rinsing/sanitizing water. After cooking each of the 3 meals provided daily, some of us would then do a whole bunch of dishes, cups, and utensils to make sure there were enough clean ones for the next meal, and then head right back into the kitchen to start the next meal. Having said that, it was an honor and a privilege to have been at Sacred Stone, and MartiJo started calling me Potato Man, so that's my new moniker!

[Unify]

Hello Everyone.

First. We thank you for holding organizations like ourselves accountable to the mission of Standing Rock, the rights of our native people, and the care of our earth.

We apologize if we have offended any person and any choice we have made that have impacted others in a negative way.

We showed up to Standing Rock to be of service just like many others.  We tried our hardest to come humble and in prayer.  We came observant and asked for permission as often as we could. 

We have been organizing Global Synchronized Prayers and Meditations since 2012 on Earth Day, Peace Day, World Water Day, World Peace and Prayer Day, Women's Day, and more.  This is one of the main ways we offered our expertise, resources, time, and love to Standing Rock.

We organized 4 global synchronized prayers with over 1,600 groups around the world synchronizing with Standing Rock:
-  November 26th - Two days after thanksgiving, 1100+ groups joined us for a synchronized prayer circle across from Turtle Island
www.PrayWithStandingRock.com
-  December 4th - Hundreds of groups tuned in to a live broadcast with Chief Arvol Looking Horse and Interfaith Leaders around the Sacred Fire.
-  December 10th - The world joined for a global wapila / wapida for Standing Rock led by Chief Phil Lane.
- January 28th - Over 250 communities organized prayer actions at financial institutions across the U.S. and listened in to a live broadcast led by the youth and indigenous elders in the Red Lightening Dome in Oceti Sakowin
www.GlobalPrayerAction.com

We created over 10 videos and spread them through our network reaching over 35 Million views, raising awareness for Standing Rock. 

We shared live audio broadcast messages and prayers from Standing Rock Elders with over 600,000 listens.

Through our community's support, we were also able to support partners on the ground focused on:
- The Red Lightning Dome which which was a regular meeting place and shelter for Oceti Sakowen
- Satellite Internet for the Camp
- Trucks of Firewood and support of the firewood team
- Winterization Construction
- The Compost Toilet System
- Hotel room for Elders and others in need
- 12 person camp clean up team for 4 weeks
- Food delivery from camp to local communities.

Everyone on our team showed up the best we could.  From a place of prayer, service, and openness.
We hope to learn and continue to be of service to humanity, our earth, and all living beings.

We are creating a comprehensive report of our work at Standing Rock that we will release to the public in the next couple weeks.

If you are interested in receiving the report once it is finished, please email support@unify.org.

And please email us if you have any questions.

Wishing you all well.

Kind Regards,

The Unify Team

[Defend the Sacred]

First, Stop spamming our forum. You posted the same message three times in a row. Two of them have been deleted.

Second, you haven't addressed your specific misrepresentations that people have raised concerns about.

Third, until Native people who were supposed to benefit from your efforts vouch for you, your claims are meaningless.

Thank you for posting publicly, since before now you were just using the private messages here to try to get people to engage with you one on one, despite their lack of interest in doing so. Thank you for finally honoring the repeated requests to say what you have to say in public. Though I do see you are continuing with the, "email us" thing, which still comes off like an attempt to avoid transparency.

Hello Everyone.

First. We thank you for holding organizations like ourselves accountable to the mission of Standing Rock, the rights of our native people, and the care of our earth.

We apologize if we have offended any person and any choice we have made that have impacted others in a negative way.

We showed up to Standing Rock to be of service just like many others.  We tried our hardest to come humble and in prayer.  We came observant and asked for permission as often as we could. 

We have been organizing Global Synchronized Prayers and Meditations since 2012 on Earth Day, Peace Day, World Water Day, World Peace and Prayer Day, Women's Day, and more.  This is one of the main ways we offered our expertise, resources, time, and love to Standing Rock.

We organized 4 global synchronized prayers with over 1,600 groups around the world synchronizing with Standing Rock:
-  November 26th - Two days after thanksgiving, 1100+ groups joined us for a synchronized prayer circle across from Turtle Island
www.PrayWithStandingRock.com
-  December 4th - Hundreds of groups tuned in to a live broadcast with Chief Arvol Looking Horse and Interfaith Leaders around the Sacred Fire.
-  December 10th - The world joined for a global wapila / wapida for Standing Rock led by Chief Phil Lane.
- January 28th - Over 250 communities organized prayer actions at financial institutions across the U.S. and listened in to a live broadcast led by the youth and indigenous elders in the Red Lightening Dome in Oceti Sakowin
www.GlobalPrayerAction.com

We created over 10 videos and spread them through our network reaching over 35 Million views, raising awareness for Standing Rock. 

We shared live audio broadcast messages and prayers from Standing Rock Elders with over 600,000 listens.

Through our community's support, we were also able to support partners on the ground focused on:
- The Red Lightning Dome which which was a regular meeting place and shelter for Oceti Sakowen
- Satellite Internet for the Camp
- Trucks of Firewood and support of the firewood team
- Winterization Construction
- The Compost Toilet System
- Hotel room for Elders and others in need
- 12 person camp clean up team for 4 weeks
- Food delivery from camp to local communities.

Everyone on our team showed up the best we could.  From a place of prayer, service, and openness.
We hope to learn and continue to be of service to humanity, our earth, and all living beings.

We are creating a comprehensive report of our work at Standing Rock that we will release to the public in the next couple weeks.

If you are interested in receiving the report once it is finished, please email support@unify.org.

And please email us if you have any questions.

Wishing you all well.

Kind Regards,

The Unify Team

[Unify]

Hello.

Here are our responses to your items below.

1) Apologies for posting in such a way that was not correct protocol.  Learning this system and doing our best.  We were trying to post in all the areas where people had questions about our organization.

2) It is hard for us to find all the places where people have questions and we would like to answer all of them.  Can you please send links to all the places where people have question so we can directly answer them?

3) Thank you for bringing this up.  We will gather this information and the native allies who know Unify and our work in the world.

4) We sent one message to one person (Piff) when we first signed up on this platform to let them know we are here and see if we could address any questions or concerns they had directly.  They asked us to post publicly and we haven't sent a message since then.  We then got a message from (educatedindian) asking us to post publicly.  We did not message them.  They reached out to us.  We looked at the public forums and were not familiar with the protocol or system.  So we sent (educatedindian) another message asking to send us the links where we should be engaging.  It says they are an 'administrator' and thought they would be able to help us.

They again asked us to post publicly so we did the best we could, not knowing the system.

Please let us know any questions you have about Unify directly in this thread and we will be happy to answer. 

First, Stop spamming our forum. You posted the same message three times in a row. Two of them have been deleted.

Second, you haven't addressed your specific misrepresentations that people have raised concerns about.

Third, until Native people who were supposed to benefit from your efforts vouch for you, your claims are meaningless.

Thank you for posting publicly, since before now you were just using the private messages here to try to get people to engage with you one on one, despite their lack of interest in doing so. Thank you for finally honoring the repeated requests to say what you have to say in public. Though I do see you are continuing with the, "email us" thing, which still comes off like an attempt to avoid transparency.

Hello Everyone.

First. We thank you for holding organizations like ourselves accountable to the mission of Standing Rock, the rights of our native people, and the care of our earth.

We apologize if we have offended any person and any choice we have made that have impacted others in a negative way.

We showed up to Standing Rock to be of service just like many others.  We tried our hardest to come humble and in prayer.  We came observant and asked for permission as often as we could. 

We have been organizing Global Synchronized Prayers and Meditations since 2012 on Earth Day, Peace Day, World Water Day, World Peace and Prayer Day, Women's Day, and more.  This is one of the main ways we offered our expertise, resources, time, and love to Standing Rock.

We organized 4 global synchronized prayers with over 1,600 groups around the world synchronizing with Standing Rock:
-  November 26th - Two days after thanksgiving, 1100+ groups joined us for a synchronized prayer circle across from Turtle Island
www.PrayWithStandingRock.com
-  December 4th - Hundreds of groups tuned in to a live broadcast with Chief Arvol Looking Horse and Interfaith Leaders around the Sacred Fire.
-  December 10th - The world joined for a global wapila / wapida for Standing Rock led by Chief Phil Lane.
- January 28th - Over 250 communities organized prayer actions at financial institutions across the U.S. and listened in to a live broadcast led by the youth and indigenous elders in the Red Lightening Dome in Oceti Sakowin
www.GlobalPrayerAction.com

We created over 10 videos and spread them through our network reaching over 35 Million views, raising awareness for Standing Rock. 

We shared live audio broadcast messages and prayers from Standing Rock Elders with over 600,000 listens.

Through our community's support, we were also able to support partners on the ground focused on:
- The Red Lightning Dome which which was a regular meeting place and shelter for Oceti Sakowen
- Satellite Internet for the Camp
- Trucks of Firewood and support of the firewood team
- Winterization Construction
- The Compost Toilet System
- Hotel room for Elders and others in need
- 12 person camp clean up team for 4 weeks
- Food delivery from camp to local communities.

Everyone on our team showed up the best we could.  From a place of prayer, service, and openness.
We hope to learn and continue to be of service to humanity, our earth, and all living beings.

We are creating a comprehensive report of our work at Standing Rock that we will release to the public in the next couple weeks.

If you are interested in receiving the report once it is finished, please email support@unify.org.

And please email us if you have any questions.

Wishing you all well.

Kind Regards,

The Unify Team

[Smart Mule]

We've linked your organization with Rave' Mehta however LaDonna herself states in the Rave' thread that "none of these groups are giving funds to standing rock or the camps"

[Sparks]

We've linked your organization with Rave' Mehta however LaDonna herself states in the Rave' thread that "none of these groups are giving funds to standing rock or the camps"

This is the quote in its place:

none of these groups are giving fund to standing rock or the camps

This is the thread, maybe "Unify" should reply there? http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4944.0

[Unify]

Great.
Thanks. 
Yes.  Will go to that link and respond there as well. 

We've linked your organization with Rave' Mehta however LaDonna herself states in the Rave' thread that "none of these groups are giving funds to standing rock or the camps"

This is the quote in its place:

none of these groups are giving fund to standing rock or the camps

This is the thread, maybe "Unify" should reply there? http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4944.0

[Unify]

Hello Everyone.

We are completing some of our final projects for Standing Rock in collaboration with Chief Phil Lane Jr. and will have our Standing Rock Report finished by April 22nd.   

Thank you for your patiences.

 

[Diana]

Hello Everyone.

We are completing some of our final projects for Standing Rock in collaboration with Chief Phil Lane Jr. and will have our Standing Rock Report finished by April 22nd.   

Thank you for your patiences.

 

To everyone: Don't we have a post for that Phil Lane Jr.? And by the way Phil Lane is not a chief.

Lim lemtsh,

Diana

[Sparks]

To everyone: Don't we have a post for that Phil Lane Jr.? And by the way Phil Lane is not a chief.

A search reveals about a dozen scattered posts where he's mentioned, in addition to this thread:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2731.0   (Chief Phil Lane Jr.)

[Sparks]

This old thread is also about Chief Phil Lane Jr.: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=60.0

And then he is mentioned in this long comment:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1516.msg9309#msg9309

[educatedindian]

Hello Everyone.

We are completing some of our final projects for Standing Rock in collaboration with Chief Phil Lane Jr. and will have our Standing Rock Report finished by April 22nd.   

Thank you for your patiences.

 

Not only is Phil Jr not a chief, he's appeared at one of your fests that had exploiters, obvious frauds, and dubious characters.

http://unifyfest.com/2016/04/18/ceremony/

Your group hosted obvious frauds Adam DeArmon, Carlos Cedillo, Jose Federico Munoz, on top of Lane. Your group personally profited from this festival, and presented them as legit.

Do you even bother to check out the people you host? Or do you just not care? How naive and ignorant would you have to be to host someone claiming crystal skulls were part of Mayan belief?

Unify.org may deserve its own research thread as an exploiters organization. That's unless you can convince us you were clueless, and show us you are willing to make an effort to avoid hosting exploiters in the future.