College newspaper: 'Taser this ... F--- Bush'

Truth telling is expensive

FORT COLLINS , Colorado – Rocky Mountain Collegian Editor J. David McSwane is under fire for publishing an editorial, "Taser this... F--- Bush."
It was a costly article, with advertisers pulling $30,000 to $50,000 in ads.
But, what the heck, you're only young once.
One student referred to Texas Gov. George Bush's use of the expletive in a magazine interview. Kristopher Hite said, "I'm here to tell you that the editor of a student newspaper should not be held to a higher standard than the president of the United States of America." Applause followed by students who turned out to support McSwane.
No Collegian editor has ever been fired in its 116-year history.
... Read article ...
http://www.9news.com/news/top-article.aspx?storyid=78048

Censored Blog: "Taser me down or suffocate me later"
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2007/09/taser-me-down-or-suffocate-me-later.html

Western Shoshone Carrie Dann in Tucson

Indian Right Advocate's Talk Can be Heard by All, Thanks to UA Program
UA News

By La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications UA News
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Carrie Dann, one of the most prolific advocates of indigenous peoples rights, is coming to Tucson to speak about current environmental threats to Western Shoshone land and her ongoing legal actions before international human rights courts.
Her discussion, slated for 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 28, will be broadcast live on the Web by a University of Arizona program.
“I will be talking about the land and the beliefs of the Western Shoshone people and how the two are connected,” says Dann. “America doesn’t know the history – the actual history of the indigenous peoples and their situation.” Read more:
http://uanews.org/node/16053
Listen to broadcast, Sept. 28, at 3:30 pm online:
http://www.arizonanativenet.com/
Dann will be available for interviews after her presentation.
To learn more about the Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, visit http://www.law.arizona/edu/depts/iplp

'Blackfire' pick at Rolling Stone

Congratulations to Blackfire, and not just for their music, but for sounding out the struggles of Indigenous Peoples, and besides they're just really good people.

Fricke's Picks at Rolling Stone

Native American Punks Blackfire are a punk-rock family — brothers Klee and Clayson Benally and their sister Jeneda, on guitar, drums and bass, respectively — with a direct line to another. CJ Ramone produced their 1994 EP, and Joey Ramone’s final recordings were his guest vocals on 2002’s One Nation Under. Blackfire are also Navajo Indians who connect their distortion-warrior originals to the traditional songs of their people on [Silence] Is a Weapon (Tacoho), produced by Ed Stasium (who did the same for the Ramones). One disc is pure Navajo, ceremonial vocal-and-drum music. The second disc is pure ire, CBGB-hardcore-matinee protest with jolts of ancient chorale. Of special note: “Alien,” written by Indian folk singer Peter LaFarge (as “I’m an Indian”) for his 1965 LP On the Warpath — a title that describes the way Blackfire raise their voices, like a painted-desert X, for anyone with a righteous fight on their hands.
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/09/11/frickes-picks-blackfire-pearl-jam-and-eyvind-kang/

Today's new articles

A Meeting of Indigenous Peoples in Caracas
By Brenda Norrell
CounterPunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/norrell09252007.html

Katrina's Flood: Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans
by Brenda Norrell
U.N. OBSERVER & International Report
http://www.unobserver.com/

Navajos urged to oppose uranium mining Thursday in Gallup, NM

Navajos are urged to oppose new uranium mining in Gallup, NM, on Thursday. The targeted area is the same where the devastating U.S. uranium mill spill took place in Church Rock, N.M. in 1979, contaminating Navajo water supplies. The Bush Administration has targeted numerous American Indian communities for new uranium mining, power plants and toxic dumping.
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Read article:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/navajos-urged-to-oppose-uranium-mining.html
Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. Beginning at 6 P.M: Best Western Inn and Suites, 3009 West Hwy 66, Gallup , NM. Phone (505) 722-2221.

Censored's Hall of Fame and Shame

By Brenda Norrell

It is a great day not to be working on staff at a newspaper where I have to hype Nike or anyone else. Thanks to Klee Benally for his article on Nike's profiteering. A special thanks to Common Ground and filmmakers in New Orleans for their videos shown at the University of Arizona last night, resulting in the article, "Katrina's Flood: Apartheid and ethnic cleansing in New Orleans."
The Hall of Shame award today goes to National Public Radio, for their excrements promoting military service and their broadcast fueling religious prejudice and racism toward Muslims in prison.
NPR's program promoted the official US notion that having religious books in prison will lead Muslims to convert innocent inmates into terrorists:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14728199

Katrina's Flood: Apartheid and ethnic cleansing in New Orleans

Why hasn't the U.S. Congress probed the Apartheid that followed Hurricane Katrina? The neutered Congress does not want to deal with the controversial issue of racism in America

By Brenda Norrell
Human Rights Editor

U.N. OBERVER & International Report

http://www.unobserver.com/

TUCSON, Ariz. -- There is a new film out about Apartheid and ethnic cleansing. No, it is not about South Africa, it is about the United States' Apartheid in New Orleans. You might not have heard of this film, unless you follow the underground railroad in America, that's truth-seekers censored by the mainstream media.

"Welcome to New Orleans," is the story of Common Ground, the grassroots organization that rose up out of Katrina's flood waters to deliver aid to neighborhoods in Algiers and New Orleans in 2005.

In some ways, the 58-minute documentary is a simple story, revealing how Common Ground cofounder Malik Rahim and volunteers served their neighbors. But it is also the story of Apartheid and ethnic cleansing in America.

Rising above all of this, it is the story of hope. When Rahim issued the call across America for help, because white mercenaries were shooting blacks, it was white people, like Scott Crow of Texas, who responded to help create a grassroots clinic. Rahim says there is no amount of money that can repay those who responded during those first days after Katrina's flood waters swept through and devoured communities. This is what gives him hope.

Read more:

http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/katrinas-flood-apartheid-and-ethnic.html

Benally: Nike Opportunism: Turning Native plight into profit?

By Klee Benally (Navajo, Indigenous Action)

Nike has introduced what it is calling the "Air Native N7", a shoe designed especially for us Natives. Not only is Nike proud in producing its first shoe for a "specific" ethnic group, the company is also hoping that this product will help cure diabetes! Before we all start praising this multinational corporation for its recognition and attempt to promote wellness for our Indigenous communities, we should critically question the meaning of this gesture, look beyond their slick marketing scheme, and take a look at Nike's business practices.

Read more:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/nike-opportunism-turning-native-plight.html

UPDATE, BACKFIRE: Nike uses Hurricane Katrina as PR tool

http://media.www.lsureveille.com/media/storage/paper868/news/2007/09/28/Sports/Nike-Uses.Katrina.As.Pr.Tool-2999202.shtml