Wonderful Circle of Evolutionary Leaders that I was honored to be invited to join, a year ago. I would be there with these relatives, but I am here in San Francisco, with my family, attending the International Gathering of the Global Trustees and Staff of the United Religions Initiative.
Many relatives from this Gathering of Evolutionary Leaders, at the Sunrise Ranch in Colorado, will join us at Stanford University, Wednesday and Thursday, June 26-27, to initiate a grassroots, Spiritually Based Global Peace Movement.
This Global Peace Initiative (URI) began in September 1996, at the State of the World Forum, at the Fairmont Hotel, in San Franciso, the same place that the United Nations was born April 25, 1945. The State of the World Forum is where my beloved wife, my mother, and father had the opportunity to meet with Makail and Raisa Gorbachev, Stephan Seagal, Ted Turner, Elder Sister, Jane Goodall, Steven Covey, Tony Robbins, and a great delegation of Indigenous Peoples, including brother and Chief Leonard George and Tahanshi Kevin Locke.
Two of our relatives that helped initiate this Global Movement have gone to the Other Side Camp, Brother, and Chief Leonard George and Sister Ingrid Washinawatok. Sister Ingrid, along with Hawaiian activist Lahe’ena’e Gay and environmental activist Terence Freitas, were murdered in Columbia by FARC in 1999.
They were kidnapped by FARC, in Columbia, February 25, 1999, and were found dead in a week later. They were murdered, and their bodies dumped in Venezuela. Sister Ingrid and my mother connected deeply when we were together at the State of the Forum, 1996. It was a great loss for all concerned.
Behind the scenes, like many, I tried the best I could, communicating with relatives, in both Venezuela and Cuba, to try and prevent their murders, but with no success. The murders were ordered by a rouge FARC Commander, Nelson Vargas Rueda.
In 2003, Mr. Rueda was extradited to the United States for prosecution in the case. He was the first FARC member ever extradited to the USA. However, the case was dismissed when two witnesses failed to appear. Despite this seeming injustice, the spiritual reality is, sooner or later, everyone one of us will have to address and take full responsibility for our actions in our brief time in this physical realm and plane of existence.
Ingrid Washinawatok O'Peqtaw-Metamoh, Flying Eagle Woman, (July 31, 1957 – c. February 25, 1999) was a member of the Menominee Nation of upper Wisconsin. Thank you, Sister Ingrid and our many other relatives that have and continue to give their lives to protect our Mother Earth and future generations!