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 The RCIF asks the City of Portland and Multnomah county to make the following admission:
- **We admit that neither Massachusetts Bay nor Oregon country is the "Promised land", that neither State's capitol city Salem is the "City on a Hill" of which Jesus spoke in the Sermon on the Mount, and that neither WASPs nor Roman catholics are the "Light of the world" or the "Chosen people" or the "Spiritual Israel" that they claim to be.  We admit that our white ancestors and current political leaders have used and are still using these cultural and textual misappropriations from the Jews in support of Christian dominionism.  western expansionism, manifest destiny, and now progressive liberalism.**
+     * We admit that neither Massachusetts Bay nor Oregon country is the "Promised land", that neither State's capitol city Salem is the "City on a Hill" of which Jesus spoke in the Sermon on the Mount, and that neither WASPs nor Roman catholics are the "Light of the world" or the "Chosen people" or the "Spiritual Israel" that they claim to be.  We admit that our white ancestors and current political leaders have used and are still using these cultural and textual misappropriations from the Jews in support of Christian dominionism.  western expansionism, manifest destiny, and now progressive liberalism.**
+The RCIF accuses the Portland Public Teachers Union, the Graduate Teaching Fellows of PSU and UofO, and others who pretend to value de-colonization of actively undermining it instead:
+     * Rather than admitting this oppressive intersection of anti-Judaism and settler colonialism, many progressives perpetuate it, through anti-zionism, and anti-Israel bias, projecting their own white guilt onto Jews returning to their homeland in Palestine, and falsely accusing them.   This is either prejudiced ignorance, or else deliberate dishonesty practiced in bad faith.
+Invite local tribes to send ambassadors to the:
+     * [[https://www.indigenousembassy.org/|Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem]]
+We encourage local tribes to follow this example in learning from the Jews and finding resonant parallels with traditional indigenous teachings, working to de-colonize their religious communities from imperial christianity:
+     * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrCQmSGFUfc|Joint Proclamation recognizing the Seven Grandfather principles of the Ashinaabe Ojibway people and the seven commandments of the Noahide covenant]]
+     * Great Spirit Methodist church, Thanksgiving sermon.
+     * [[http://atonethanksgiving.org/|atonethanksgiving.org]]
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