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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Turtle Island 42 Initiative: Defending Religious Pluralism in America

Contact:

• Professor Ukumbwa Sauti
  ukumbwa@e4fb73a5f056b6.gmail.com
  781-492-4392
• Rev. Galina Krasskova
  krasskova@e4fb73a5f05a9e.gmail.com
  831-383-8255

FIGHTING BACK: INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS TAKE A STAND AGAINST DC40
“The New Apostolic Reformations’s DC40 Campaign is anti-American and anti-human.”

The Turtle Island 42 Initiative (TI42) has been created out of the work of contemporary Pagans and Heathens, polytheists, and indigenous elders in response to the New Apostolic Reformation movement’s upcoming onslaught against religious liberty, titled DC40.  TI42 is being facilitated by Rev. Galina Krasskova, a teacher and priest within contemporary Heathenry (Norse polytheism) and an initiated Dagara Elder and by media professor Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed. Both are deeply committed to restoring their own ancestral traditions and to helping others to reconnect with their own indigenous ancestral traditions across the globe.

Named after a common Native American name for this continent, the TI42 initiative is a peaceful, non-violent protest designed to raise political and social awareness and to counter the ideological attack on freedom, liberty, and religious pluralism embodied in the NAR’s DC40 campaign. DC40 is set to begin on October 2, 2011 and run through November 12, 2011.  “We cannot allow the narrative of this nation today to be written by religious fascists. TI42 rejects the disrespect inherent in the Doctrine of Discovery, monotheistic imperialism and organized and predatory missionary work.  TI42 stands with the indigenous people of Turtle Island and beyond and all those who struggle to carry forward their Ancestral indigenous traditions from all corners of this world.”

From www.dc40.net: “RELEASING THE LIGHT AND SOUND OF ETERNAL WORSHIP OVER THE DISTRICT OF CHRIST” (what they propose the nation’s capital should be called).  TI42 rejects the narrow cultural, political and spiritual intention of DC40’s neo-manifest destiny program.

The main TI42 thrust is the website: http://ti42.weebly.com/. Each day throughout the project, updates will be posted, designed to help participants better engage with their world, with Turtle Island, its people, and with the threat to progress and pluralism that groups like the NAR represent. Above all else, this program is designed to put people in touch with their own indigenous roots as everyone, everywhere, if you look back far enough, came from indigenous Ancestors. TI42 is a call to explore that indigenous human legacy, as an antidote to the religious imperialistic madness of the NAR and its supporters.

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Rev. Krasskova contacted me and asked me to share their press release.  If you would like to share it with other groups or organizations, feel free to download a copy of it and do so.