CENSORED, MURDERED AND SPIED ON
Guatemala: Indigenous radio station denied accreditation to cover Bush visit by Secret Service and Guatemala officials:
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/81972/
Reporters Without Borders:
Mexico has the highest rate of murdered and missing reporters in the Americas; only in Iraq were more reporters murdered in 2006:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=20539
New York Times:
New York City police posed as activists to spy on groups in US and Europe, from Albuquerque to San Francisco ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/nyregion/25infiltrate.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1174881600&en=43b73ac31ea4d84e&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
March 24, 2007
Register to monitor Minutemen at the border
Photo: Names of more than 4,000 people who have died, or been murdered, at the southern border. Photo Brenda NorrellREGISTER FOR LEGAL OBSERVER TRAINING (to monitor Minutemen at the border in April)
Training will be held:10 a.m. to Noon on Saturday, March 31at the Pima Friends Meeting House: 931 N. Fifth Ave., Tucson
To register or for more information contact
Leila at Lpine@tds.net by noon on March 29
Training will be held:10 a.m. to Noon on Saturday, March 31at the Pima Friends Meeting House: 931 N. Fifth Ave., Tucson
To register or for more information contact
Leila at Lpine@tds.net by noon on March 29
Trespassing, the movie you didn't see at Sundance
"Trespassing" the movie you didn't see at Sundance
Rejected by Sundance Film Festival twice, and many other avant-garde film festivals, "Trespassing" documents the successful protest of the Ward Valley hazardous dump by members of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, Mojave Nation, AIM and their friends.
Winner of top film awards in Spain, Oaxaca and Tucson, the often-censored film by Carlos DeMenezes also reveals the Western Shoshone protests at the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada on Shoshone land.
View film trailer online:
http://medialab.ifc.com/film_detail.jsp?film_id=4407
Return to Censored blog homepage:
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
Rejected by Sundance Film Festival twice, and many other avant-garde film festivals, "Trespassing" documents the successful protest of the Ward Valley hazardous dump by members of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, Mojave Nation, AIM and their friends.
Winner of top film awards in Spain, Oaxaca and Tucson, the often-censored film by Carlos DeMenezes also reveals the Western Shoshone protests at the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada on Shoshone land.
View film trailer online:
http://medialab.ifc.com/film_detail.jsp?film_id=4407
Return to Censored blog homepage:
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
Desecration of Mato Paha (Bear Butte)
From: Debra White Plume, LakotaTo: Dept of Environment and Natural Resources,
Division of Environmental Services
Surface Water Quality Program
Joe Foss Building,Pierre, SD 57501-3181
Dear Sarah Speck:
I care very much about protecting the natural resources around Mato Paha(Bear Butte) and Bear Butte Lake and I encourage the DENR to exhaust allremedy available to it to protect the water quality and aquatichabitat of Bear Butte Creek & Belle Fourche River while processingthe Glencoe Camp Resort's application for Surface Water DischargePermit # SD0028355. Please accept my encouragement also to deny this application because the effect on the water quality and aquatic habitat of theselocales cannot escape a detrimental impact from so much dirty water being putinto it. There is NO safe guarantee of what is in shower water, sewer water or any kind ofused water it could even include meth or other harmful chemicals that are VERYdangerous. Just the shower water from up to 70,000 people times 7 days is half amillion people's waste water that I do not want to see added to a creek, lake,and/or river. Such a cumulative influx of dirty used waste water cannot beenvironmentally safe nor respectful of Mother Earth and the creatures and plants that live nearby, not to mention the human beings, andespecially the sacredness of Mato Paha. Mato Paha is a sacred mountain and deserves the respect and integrity shown toall sacred places of prayer, such as a church or synagogue. I think the CatholicChurch would resist the state of SD allowing someone to pour the used dirtyshower water of 490,000 people onto the floor of their church, or church parkinglot, or church front lawn. The outrage expressed by those church members is thesame as what we Lakota People will feel if the Glencoe Camp resorts' waste waterdischarge permit is granted to pour his waste into a good place, a sacred place. Mr. Lippold may not respect Mato Paha and all water and the life it supports, butthe DENR and the state of South Dakota can show that respect by not granting thispermit to desecrate Mato Paha and the surrounding area.
Sincerely, Debra L. White Plume, Oglala LakotaOceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the "Great Sioux Nation"Manderson, SD 57756-0071
Photo: Deb White Plume tells the Lewis and Clark Expedition to turn around and go home in Chamberlain, South Dakota in 2004. White Plume gave the Expedition a symbolic blanket of smallpox. It was among the most censored stories in 2004. Photo Brenda Norrell.
Peltier theater review includes censored facts
Denver Post theater critic John Moore reviews Peltier prison monologue and includes the often-censored facts on uranium and Peltier's innocence:
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_5487763
Peltier prison monologue rallying cry for supporters
*** RATING
By John Moore
Denver Post Theater CriticArticle
Launched: 03/22/2007 01:00:00 AM MDT
You know from the start this isn't going to be a typical night of theater.You know by the solemn welcome from the old Native American filling theentranceway of the tiny loft theater with smoke he calls "sacred medicine"... by the "Free Leonard Peltier" T-shirts in the audience ... by themerchandise booth just a few feet from the playing area.You know by the reading of a letter that sends a jolt all the way to Boulderfrom a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa."At night when the cell doors close and I hear the silence of the night, Ican hear the voices of the Theatre 13 group as they recite their script,"Peltier's greeting reads. "I can also hear your prayers as the group workstogether in unity. I am deeply honored by your work and creativity."It seems no one has come to the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art seekingan objective examination of whether Peltier actually killed two FBI agentson the Pine Ridge (S.D.) Reservation in 1975 - half his 62 years ago. Theyhave not come seeking theatrical catharsis but to demand a miracle. Theywant Peltier freed. Yesterday."My Life Is My Sun Dance" is both rally and theatrical prayer. Yet in itssmall way, it is also catharsis and small miracle.It is mostly a monologue performed by Lakota Indian Doug Foote - a hauntinghulk of a man with a deep scar bridging his nose. With a measured andunassuming cadence, Foote (an Army reservist who served two tours in Iraq)plays Peltier as percussive native music is performed underneath by a trioincluding Foote's son, Nicholas.Wearing prison grays, Foote chronicles injustices made against Peltier by acorrupt legal system, and talks of his struggle to find forgiveness inincarceration. Intermission includes political songs and heart-rendingspeeches.The stage is spare, save for six pillars wrapped in native colors and asheet that serves as both haunting scrim and screen for the projection ofarchival photos, video and Peltier's prison artwork. Gentle light and soundenhancements help turn this rally into something quite moving.At 8, Peltier was taken from his family and sent to a U.S.-run boardingschool where he says he was physically and psychologically abused. He grewinto an activist and leader in the American Indian Movement but says he was150 feet away from where two FBI agents died in a 1975 shootout, sparkingthe largest manhunt in U.S. history.Tensions were high at the time. The feds wanted the Black Hills for itsuranium. Two years earlier, the Oglala Sioux had briefly reclaimed WoundedKnee after an armed standoff. The next three years were marked by policebrutality, 1,200 arrests, rampant vigilantism and 64 unsolved murders oftribal members. The attack against these occupying FBI agents was seen bysome as an inevitability. Three men were arrested. Only Peltier wasconvicted.Peltier is serving two consecutive life sentences and is not eligible forrelease until 2041. But a one-word change in his sentence - from"consecutive" to "concurrent" - would make him eligible for parole inDecember 2008. It is likely his last chance to die a free man.In "Sun Dance," there no pretension of impartiality. This audience islargely pre-converted. But for the few of us who don't presume to know whatreally happened 32 years ago, a more objective telling would make for a moreeffective call to action. Someone, after all, ambushed those two men, thenfinished them off with point-blank shots to the head.But if Peltier is innocent, he is the victim of egregious institutionalmalfeasance: Fabricated evidence involving shell casings; a woman who claimsthe FBI threatened to put her hands through a grinder if she did not placePeltier at the scene.The possibility that Peltier was railroaded makes the Supreme Court'songoing refusal to even hear the case unconscionable. And the U.S.'spontificating about human-right abuses from Darfur to China rings a littlemore hollow.At the very least, Peltier deserves another day in court. What does thegovernment have to lose but its hypocrisy? If he's innocent, let's get onwith it and free him."America," we are asked, when "will you live up to your principles?"--Theater critic John Moore can be reached at 303-954-1056 orjmoore@denverpost.com.
The imprisonment of Leonard Peltier remains among the most censored topics in Indian Country Today.
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_5487763
Peltier prison monologue rallying cry for supporters
*** RATING
By John Moore
Denver Post Theater CriticArticle
Launched: 03/22/2007 01:00:00 AM MDT
You know from the start this isn't going to be a typical night of theater.You know by the solemn welcome from the old Native American filling theentranceway of the tiny loft theater with smoke he calls "sacred medicine"... by the "Free Leonard Peltier" T-shirts in the audience ... by themerchandise booth just a few feet from the playing area.You know by the reading of a letter that sends a jolt all the way to Boulderfrom a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pa."At night when the cell doors close and I hear the silence of the night, Ican hear the voices of the Theatre 13 group as they recite their script,"Peltier's greeting reads. "I can also hear your prayers as the group workstogether in unity. I am deeply honored by your work and creativity."It seems no one has come to the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art seekingan objective examination of whether Peltier actually killed two FBI agentson the Pine Ridge (S.D.) Reservation in 1975 - half his 62 years ago. Theyhave not come seeking theatrical catharsis but to demand a miracle. Theywant Peltier freed. Yesterday."My Life Is My Sun Dance" is both rally and theatrical prayer. Yet in itssmall way, it is also catharsis and small miracle.It is mostly a monologue performed by Lakota Indian Doug Foote - a hauntinghulk of a man with a deep scar bridging his nose. With a measured andunassuming cadence, Foote (an Army reservist who served two tours in Iraq)plays Peltier as percussive native music is performed underneath by a trioincluding Foote's son, Nicholas.Wearing prison grays, Foote chronicles injustices made against Peltier by acorrupt legal system, and talks of his struggle to find forgiveness inincarceration. Intermission includes political songs and heart-rendingspeeches.The stage is spare, save for six pillars wrapped in native colors and asheet that serves as both haunting scrim and screen for the projection ofarchival photos, video and Peltier's prison artwork. Gentle light and soundenhancements help turn this rally into something quite moving.At 8, Peltier was taken from his family and sent to a U.S.-run boardingschool where he says he was physically and psychologically abused. He grewinto an activist and leader in the American Indian Movement but says he was150 feet away from where two FBI agents died in a 1975 shootout, sparkingthe largest manhunt in U.S. history.Tensions were high at the time. The feds wanted the Black Hills for itsuranium. Two years earlier, the Oglala Sioux had briefly reclaimed WoundedKnee after an armed standoff. The next three years were marked by policebrutality, 1,200 arrests, rampant vigilantism and 64 unsolved murders oftribal members. The attack against these occupying FBI agents was seen bysome as an inevitability. Three men were arrested. Only Peltier wasconvicted.Peltier is serving two consecutive life sentences and is not eligible forrelease until 2041. But a one-word change in his sentence - from"consecutive" to "concurrent" - would make him eligible for parole inDecember 2008. It is likely his last chance to die a free man.In "Sun Dance," there no pretension of impartiality. This audience islargely pre-converted. But for the few of us who don't presume to know whatreally happened 32 years ago, a more objective telling would make for a moreeffective call to action. Someone, after all, ambushed those two men, thenfinished them off with point-blank shots to the head.But if Peltier is innocent, he is the victim of egregious institutionalmalfeasance: Fabricated evidence involving shell casings; a woman who claimsthe FBI threatened to put her hands through a grinder if she did not placePeltier at the scene.The possibility that Peltier was railroaded makes the Supreme Court'songoing refusal to even hear the case unconscionable. And the U.S.'spontificating about human-right abuses from Darfur to China rings a littlemore hollow.At the very least, Peltier deserves another day in court. What does thegovernment have to lose but its hypocrisy? If he's innocent, let's get onwith it and free him."America," we are asked, when "will you live up to your principles?"--Theater critic John Moore can be reached at 303-954-1056 orjmoore@denverpost.com.
The imprisonment of Leonard Peltier remains among the most censored topics in Indian Country Today.
Mohawks block off disputed quarry
Mohawks block off disputed quarry
Group wants gravel pit's operations stopped, land claim settled
http://www.thewhig.com/webapp/sitepages/search/results.asp?contentID=456099&catname=Local%20News&type=search&search1=mohawk
Friday, March 23, 2007 @ 00:00 By Jeremy Ashley DESERONTO/Osprey News Network
Clad in camouflaged apparel and hauling camping gear, more than 125 members of the mohawks of the Bay of Quinte community seized control of a gravel quarry on a disputed tract of land located along the northeastern outskirts of Deseronto last night.
Group wants gravel pit's operations stopped, land claim settled
http://www.thewhig.com/webapp/sitepages/search/results.asp?contentID=456099&catname=Local%20News&type=search&search1=mohawk
Friday, March 23, 2007 @ 00:00 By Jeremy Ashley DESERONTO/Osprey News Network
Clad in camouflaged apparel and hauling camping gear, more than 125 members of the mohawks of the Bay of Quinte community seized control of a gravel quarry on a disputed tract of land located along the northeastern outskirts of Deseronto last night.
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