Lockdown and tree sitters blockade: TransCanada's Keystone pipeline seizing family farms, promoted by Obama
By Brenda Norrell
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On the Border
The corporate apartheid at the Arizona border and in Palestine is now more apparent, as the New Statesman reveals how the security company G4S is responsible for aiding Israel to illegally imprison Palestinians in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
The Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems was also contracted
by Boeing on the Arizona border for security systems in the billion dollar boondoggle
involving spy towers and the border wall. Israel's Elbit also supplied drones earlier for the US/Mexico border to
Homeland Security.
Protect the Peaks
OCT. 1, 2012
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| Texas tree sitter surviving bad weather Tarsands Blockade photo |
The top story today is the Texas lockdown and the tree sitters
attempting to halt the TransCanada Keystone pipeline that is now seizing family farms near Houston.
This
is the same southern Keystone pipeline for carrying dirty tarsands oil from Alberta, Canada, that President
Obama came to Oklahoma to promote.
It is Day 8 for the tree sitters, who have
survived rainy weather and threats by sheriffs, while blockaders held off
bulldozers in Winnsboro, Texas. http://tarsandsblockade.org/
In South Dakota, the Owe Aku International Justice Project
held a Protecting Sacred Water Teach In, as Lakotas struggle to protect their
water from uranium mining and the threat of the Keystone XL pipeline which
could poison the massive Ogallala Aquifer. Lakotas Debra White Plume and Richard Iron Cloud were among those who spoke at the teach in, watch videos at www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
The corporate apartheid at the Arizona border and in Palestine is now more apparent, as the New Statesman reveals how the security company G4S is responsible for aiding Israel to illegally imprison Palestinians in violation of the Geneva Conventions.
G4S also has the contract to transport detained migrants at the Arizona border. Earlier Wackenhut, in an apparent effort to profiteer from misery, split into two companies, GEO private prisons and Wackenhut Transportation, which is owned by G4S and has the Arizona contract.
Meanwhile on Tohono O’odham land, the US Border Patrol plans
a massive complex to house 32 agents, horses, dogs and helicopters. The plan
was kept secret from the O’odham people until the draft Environmental Impact
Statement was issued in Sept. O’odham say that their tribal government has been
co-opted by the US government and will not protect them from the abuse of Border Patrol agents. This comes as the US is installing new spy towers on Tohono O'odham land, with another US spy tower now at 'The Gate' on Tohono O'odham land in southern Arizona.
Hundreds of Border Patrol agents have already been
arrested for conspiracy and drug running, according to testimony before
Congress. Other Border Patrol agents have been charged with assaults, rapes and murders in the deaths of migrants. This comes as the ATF’s Project Gunrunner has been supplying assault weapons to
the cartels, since it began in 2005 in Laredo, Texas, according to a Department of
Justice report. Project Gunrunner then expanded to the Arizona border. Earlier,
US soldiers, high school military recruiters in Tucson, police and prison guards in
southern Arizona were so anxious to
smuggle cocaine from Nogales, to Phoenix, that Operation Green Light
was halted after nearly 100 arrests.
The struggle to protect San Francisco Peaks continues.
French writer and photographer Christine Prat shares her work from her September
stay in Arizona. Navajos, Havasupai, Hualapai and Hopi are among 13 area Native
American Nations struggling to prevent the Arizona Snowbowl from using sewage
water to make snow for tourist on the sacred mountain. Native medicine men
perform ceremonies, and gather healing herbs, on the Peaks. Already the pipeline path has destroyed old growth pines.
(French language)
First Nation Delegation to Iran
In other news, First Nation Terrance Nelson alleges vote buying in Canada, as a First Nation delegation prepares to leave for Iran in October. Canada closed its Iranian Embassy shortly after Nelson made the announcement of the Native delegation, which said it will share photos of the Massacre of Wounded Knee. Nelson said the delegation will also ask for their lives to be spared of three Canadians imprisoned in Iran. More at www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
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