Uncensored News and courageous acts

By Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Special thanks to Victor Rocha at Pechanga Net for rising above the censorship of other media this week. As always, Pechanga Net has published a story that others have censored and attacked: The outrage of the Mohawk delegation over the treatment of Indigenous Peoples walking to a better life and dying on Tohono O'odham Nation land. http://www.pechanga.net/ If you look on the Google Breaking News, you will see that the Atlantic Free Press in the Netherlands has picked up four stories from the Indigenous Peoples' Border Summit of the Americas 2007, including "US Apartheid Wall on the Tohono O'odham Native Land," and "End of Game ..." You will also see that the UN OBSERVER & International Report at the Hague and Narco News provided coverage of the Indigenous Peoples' Border Summit of the Americas 2007. Mohawk Nation News' publisher Kahentinetha Horn was not just a Border Summit participant, but a driving force at the US/Mexico border action on Tohono O'odham land, asking the tough questions and ready to intervene on behalf of Mayan brothers and sisters. Although the local media in Tucson was invited to the Indigenous Border Summit, KXCI Radio was one of the few to attend. Special thanks to KXCI news director Amanda Shauger. Now, thanks to Govinda at Earthcycles.net those who were not able to attend can listen to the powerful testimony and reports. Audio downloads at: http://www.earthcycles.net/ Another "thank you" goes out to Jay Johnson-Castro of Del Rio, Texas, who traveled to the Indigenous Border Summit at his own expense to share the information on the imprisonment of migrant infants and children at T. Don Hutto Detention Center near Austin. As for heroes, words can never express the thanks to the delegation of Mohawks who attended the Indigenous Border Summit, also at their own expense, to provide the strength and fortitude to change perceptions of Indigenous brothers and sisters walking and dying at the border. Thanks to each of you for your personal sacrifices to attend, including the Yaqui from Sonora, Mexico, Chris George from the Oneida Nation (in what others call Canada) and the Indigenous women whose homeland is what is known as the Texas border.

 A special recognition from the Censored Blog also goes out to those courageous heroes who will participate in the vigil against U.S. torture in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, this weekend and the lovers of privacy and freedom in Arivaca, Arizona, who will picnic around the US spy tower on Sunday. The Censored Blog honors the peaceful protesters attacked and savagely beaten by the US Border Patrol in Calexico, Calif., and the peaceful protesters beaten by police in Berkeley, Calif. Thanks to all of you who are struggling to fight oppression, manipulation of truth and the McCarthyism of the mainstream media. It doesn't take a lot of people to make a difference heard around the world. Thanks to all of you. --Brenda