Indigenous Peoples, Resistance and Human Rights brendanorrell@gmail.com
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Photo Tells a Story: US Torture and Leonard Peltier
This photo tells a story of US torture and the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier, two of the issues that the US State Department attempted to ignore during the first-ever US Periodic Review on Human Rights at the United Nations on Friday. Photo: Political prisoners rally at the Democratic National Convention in Denver 2008/Photo copyright Brenda Norrell
Chief Arvol Looking Horse: Unite for energy shift for healing June 21
Click image for statement.
NOW! Protectors ready to defend Winnemem Wintu Ceremony
War Dance Underway. Defenders ready to protect Coming of Age Ceremony. Tell Forest Service the world is watching: Click for more info.
Mohawk John Kane: Sovereignty and the UN agenda 'We're not jilted lovers'
Amnesty International slammed the UN in its 2012 report for the UN failures, reflecting similar criticisms voiced by Indigenous Peoples during recent sessions.
TODAY! Help Winnemem Wintu protect ceremony this weekend
US authorities consider the Coming of Age ceremony here an act of civil disobedience. Be a protector, or provide food, near Redding, Calif. May 24-27, 2012. Update Friday: Helicopters and planes surveying from air, park rangers have been to the site. Click for more.
Rising Tide and Indigenous: Shell harbinger of death
March for Vern Traversie Monday, May 21, 2012/AP photo Kristi Eaton
March for Vern Traversie through Rapid City. Twitter photo Mesha Camp.
Justice for Vern Traversie. Twitter photo Robin LeBeau.
Madonna Thunder Hawk speaks at Rally for Vern Traversie in Rapid City SD. Twitter photo by Kristi Eaton.
Rally and march in Rapid City, SD, where Lakota Vern Traversie, blind elder, had KKK carved into his chest during heart surgery at Rapid City hospital. Twitter photo: Kristi Eaton. Click image for video of rally.
Justice for Vern Traversie rally. Twitter photo Kristi Eaton.
AIM cofounder Dennis Banks speaking at Justice for Vern Traversie Rally in Rapid City, SD. Twitter photo Kristi Eaton.
NOW! Rally for Lakota hate crime victim Vern Traversie. Twitter photo Kristi Eaton.
Shell Oil Protests in London and the Hague
Grim Reaper protesting Shell Oil outside annual meeting on Tuesday. Click for more.
Winnemem Wintu holding War Dance this weekend to protect ceremony
Click for their statement.
Indigenous shut out of UN Conference in Brazil by elitists and sellouts
Read the new report: Shell plans to expand destruction in the Arctic and Canada tarsands, after a trail of oil spills in Nigeria. Click for Censored News Homepage.
Mohawk Nation News: Two Row Decision: Iroquois v. NYS Troopers
May 19, 2012
Western Shoshone Carrie Dann: Civil disobedience one way to protect Mother Earth
During her testimony to the UN Rapporteur, Carrie Dann described the sacredness of all living things, and the need to protect the land and water from gold mining.
Lakota Debra White Plume: Speak Truth to Power 'The meat is spoiled and that is not OK with us'
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Pentagon's Northcom monitored Occupy crackdown
New documents, by way of Freedom of Information Act, reveal Northcom monitored Occupy Oakland, and the role of DHS and the White House nationwide. Click image.
Photos Yinka Dene Alliance Freedom Train
NO! to Enbridge! NO! to Tarsands! NO! to pipelines! Click image for photos by Yinka Dene Alliance of northern BC. Protest at stockholders meeting and Freedom Train in Canada.
Censored News: When the fat cat reporters come to town
Banning of Native books in Arizona leads to new release of Mohawk book of poetry
Sometimes the magic arrives in the mail, as it did today. Click for more.
Vi Waln: Special Rapporteur visits Rosebud
“The treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is based on how American Indians were treated,” stated Oglala Lakota Russell Means. Click image for article. Photo Alex White Plume and Russell Means/Photo Vi Waln.
Featured Website: Indigenous Action Media
Click image for incredible website of Navajo and Hopi youths.
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Vi Waln Photos: Lakota testimony to UN Rapporteur
Click image for photos by Vi Waln from Tuesday and Wednesday. Thank you for sharing with Censored News! The session today, May 3, 2012, is at the University of Tulsa, Okla, College of Law.
Navajos testimony to UN Rapporteur
Click image for testimony on Censored News homepage.
Havasupai to UN Rapporteur: Halt uranium mining in Grand Canyon
Click image for Havasupai and Navajo testimony on Censored News homepage.
Arizona ignored threat of border militia exposed by Anonymous
Photo: JT Ready at Occupy Phoenix. Ready and four others apparently died in a murder suicide on Wednesday. Click image for article by Censored News.
Marchers declare state of human rights emergency in Arizona
Photo by Sabin Portillo/Outta Your Backpack Media
Vast Navajo Water Giveaway Exposed
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Mohawk Nation News website relaunched!
Congratulations to Kahentinetha and the writers at Mohawk Nation News who could not be silenced! Kahentinetha recovered from her heart attack, after Canadian border police put her in a stresshold in an attempt to kill her. Now, she has relaunched the website!
KKK carved on blind Lakota elder at Rapid City hospital
Click image for video statement by Cheyenne River Lakota elder Vern Traversie.
FAA forced to reveal 63 drone launch sites in US
Click image for more. Texas has the highest number. A border drone is over North Dakota.
Lazy journalists: The Best Friends of Corrupt Politicians and Corporations
Exclusive censored photos: Border Patrol abuse on O'odham land
When Tohono O'odham police, with Border Patrol, arrested Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, Indian Country Today censored the story in 2004. However, last week, ICT profiteered from her story with an article, and pretended to be a champion of human rights, following the release of the Amnesty International border report. Click image for more.
LISTEN to Simon Ortiz: Indigenous Sing the Americas
Click to watch video recorded at Tucson Festival of Books on Sunday.
Oglala Commemoration Auction
I Dance with the Spirit of Horses" Litho by Leonard Peltier. Click image for website.
Obama corrals pipeline protesters in Cushing, Okla.
Click for photos by Charity Chapman.
About Censored News
Publisher Brenda Norrell, who served as a reporter at Navajo Times beginning in 1982, has been a news reporter in Indian country for 30 years. Norrell worked for AP and USA Today as a correspondent during the 18 years she lived on the Navajo Nation. She was a reporter for newspapers in Gallup, Flagstaff and Farmington. After working at Indian Country Today for most of the years between 1995 and 2006, she was first censored, then terminated, and began Censored News in 2006 for grassroots people who want their voices to be heard. She is now blacklisted by all the mainstream media. brendanorrell@gmail.com
CLICK for today's top story, with more than 5,000 views, by Brenda Norrell/Censored News
Bad Bear's Photos: Reno Rally for Leonard Peltier
Thank you Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone, for these photos of Saturday's rally for Leonard Peltier in Reno, Nevada. Click image for more photos!
Debra White Plume: A Thread in the Beautiful Fabric of Resistance
Click for article by Debra White Plume, Lakota. Thanks to Vi Waln, Lakota Country Times editor, for sharing the photo!
Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors
Banned author and professor Roberto Rodriguez responds. On the banned list is Rethinking Columbus, with many Native authors, and books by Sherman Alexie and Ofelia Zepeda. Click image for article by Censored News.
Defending San Francisco Peaks
Jeneda Benally, Navajo, at rally at federal court in San Francisco. Photo by Dixie. Click for more.
Listen: Native America Calling: Most Censored Native Newsmakers 2011
Homeland Security Pitches New Spy Towers at Tohono O'odham
After its billion dollar boondoggle, using Boeing and the Israeli Apartheid contractor Elbit Systems, now Homeland Security is pushing new spy towers on sovereign Tohono O'odham land. Breaking news exclusive by Censored News. (Photo US spy tower on Tohono O'odham land 2007 by Brenda Norrell.)
Elem Pomo: Aboriginal land Rattlesnake Island
Elem traditional leader Jim Brown reads a statement declaring Rattlesnake Island sovereign Elem territory.
Ottawa: Portraits of Arrests by Ben Powless
MON: Sept. 26, 2011: Photos by Ben Powless, Mohawk
Border Patrol: A Culture of Cruelty
No More Deaths released a two year study documenting abuses by Border Patrol agents, "A Culture of Cruetly," on Wednesday, Sept. 21, and delivered it to the US Border Patrol Headquarters in Tucson. Photo Brenda Norrell.
Lehman Brightman Healing Fund
By United Native Americans. Click to assist Lehman Brightman, who suffered a stroke.
VIDEO Long Walk 3: Tar Sands, a prayer on Lolo Pass
Lisa Peake offers a prayer for the earth and the people at the snowbound megaload for oil refinery on Lolo Pass, where Chief Joseph once crossed with the Nez Perce. Click for video.
Navajo Jean Whitehorse: Boarding Schools, Relocation and Sterilization
Hosted by the Indigenous Alliance without Borders, recorded by Earthcycles/Censored News.
Vigil song for BC carver murdered by Seattle police
Vigil for John Williams, BC carver who was deaf in one ear, died after being shot multiple times by Seattle cop. Click image
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VIDEO: Tewa Women United at US Social Forum
Tewa women describe the widespread contamination by Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico. Click to watch broadcast by Earthcycles.
Mike Wilson: Tohono O'odham Chairman lacks moral authority to speak against SB 1070
Mike Wilson, Tohono O'odham who puts out water for migrants on the nation's deadliest trail, said Tohono O'odham Chairman Ned Norris has no moral authority to speak out against SB 1070, since he and other elected O'odham officials allow migrants to die for want of water, and confiscate or destroy his water stations. Photo Brenda Norrell.
Playing Soccer with Evo Morales
Click image for article by Brenda Norrell. Photo by Brenda Norrell/Colomi, Bolivia.
Censored News received a Censored 2009 award for reporting on the censorship of Indigenous Peoples at the UN Climate Conference in Bali in 2007. It is included the Censored 2009 book, now available.
Tohono O'odham in poverty ask, 'Where are the casino millions going?'
By Brenda Norrell Censored News
Every week, Tohono O'odham friends call and say they have no money, no money for food, no money to heat their homes at night and no money for their elderly parents. Every week, they ask where are the millions going from the Tohono O'odham casinos. Read article: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2009/01/tohono-oodham-in-poverty-ask-where-are.html
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Writers and photographers
Kahentinetha Horn, Mohawk publisher of Mohawk Nation News
Author Splitting the Sky, Mohawk
Author Leonard Peltier
Author & Photographer Michelle Cook, Navajo
Author Carlos Marentes, on the border in El Paso
Author Ben Carnes, Choctaw
Author Chris Mato Nunpa, Dakota
Author Quanah Parker Brightman
Mano Cockrum, Hopi/Navajo in Denver
Author Carter Camp, Ponca
Author Wanda MacDonald, former First Lady of the Navajo Nation
Author Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, founder O'odham Voice Against the Wall
Author Jose Matus, Yaqui, director Indigenous Alliance without Borders
Author Klee Benally, Navajo
Author Bahe Katenay
Author Elouise Brown, Dooda (NO) Desert Rock
Author Alph Secakuku, Hopi council representative
Sipaulovi, Second Mesa
Author Ben Nuvamsa, Hopi
Author Vernon Masayesva, Hopi
Author Debra White Plume, Lakota
Author Larry Emerson, Dine' Nation
Author John Redhouse, Navajo
Author Larry Kibby, Wiyot
Author Arlene Bowman, Navajo filmmaker
Author Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear
Author & Photographer Margo Tamez, Lipan Apache
Author and photographer Kitty Carnes
Author Jay Johnson-Castro, Jr.
Author Tamra Brennan
Author and photographer Lisa Wolf
Author Kevin Annett
Author Mark Anquoe
Columnist Robert Rodriquez
Author RM Arrieta
Author and photographer Arthur Manuel
Authors Steve Melendez, Paiute, and Cheryl Melendez, American Indian Genocide Museum in Houston
Author Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
Author Houma Indian Nation Chair Brenda Dardar Robichaux, La.
Author Scott Nichol, on the border
Author Bradley Angel, Greenaction
Author and photographer Ofelia Rivas, O'odham Voice against the Wall
Kenneth Tellis, Venezuela news analysis
Author Morning Star Gali, Pit River Nation, California
Author Russell Means, Lakota
Author Petros Evdokas, Street Medic
Author Bahe, Sheep Nation Rocks
Author Tupac Enrique
Authors Pointe-au-Chien Indian Nation
Author Evon Peter, Gwich'in
Author Enei Begaye, Navajo
Author Sequoyah Kofi Ade
Author Tony Gonzales
Photographer Calvin Johnson, Navajo
Photographer Larry Gus, Hopi/Navajo
Photographer Arlene Bowman, Navajo
Photographer Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Paiute/Shoshone
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