Rueben George "We Are People of the Water" Voices from the Salish Sea

Rueben George

Faced with the economic smallpox of oil pipelines, Rueben George says hold tight to your spiritual intention

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, November 2024

SEATTLE -- They never stopped fighting. Even when they cut off his grandfather's finger as a child in residential school because he couldn't speak English, even when they put them in jail for protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline, they never stopped fighting. Even when the Appeals Court decided that shipping the dirty tar sands oil was more important than the survival of the Orca whales, they did not surrender.

"Even though we're almost extinct, we are still here," said Rueben George, səlilwətaɬ, Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

The Dirty Secrets: Whales, the Grand Canyon and War Criminals

Hualapai camped to defend their ceremonial spring Ha Kam'we, south of the Grand Canyon, said Thursday evening, "Navajo Transitional Energy Company is making its way out." A lithium mine planned by the Australian company Hawkstone Mining is now halted by a restraining order granted by Federal Judge Diane Humetewa, Hopi, in Phoenix. The Australian company hired the Navajo Nation enterprise, Navajo Transitional Energy Company, to operate the lithium mine at Hualapai's Ceremonial Place.

The Dirty Secrets: Whales, the Grand Canyon and War Criminals

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 22, 2024

People who travel the world will tell you two things that they really love: Whales and the Grand Canyon.

U.S. Supreme Court Schedules Apache Stronghold's Case for December

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U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Apache Stronghold's Case to Save Oak Flat in December

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 22, 2024

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court will likely consider Apache Stronghold's case on December 6, Apache Stronghold said today. The U.S. government plans to turn Apaches ceremonial place Oak Flat over to an international mining giant to destroy it with a massive copper mine that would poison the land and water.

Reciprocity: Indigenous Storytellers Film Series, Watch Now

SŪKŪJULA TEI (Stories of My Mother) David Hernandez Palmar with Flor Palmar (Wayuu Iipuana) During a visit to her sister Amaliata, Rosa, a wise Wayuu woman, teaches her grandchildren the importance of reciprocity within their culture.

Reciprocity: Indigenous Storytellers Film Series

FILMS: Amplifying Indigenous Stories

Watch series now

https://www.reciprocity.org/films/season-one

Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass: Activists Sued by Mining Company Tell Their Stories

Activists Sued by Mining Company Tell Their Stories

by Max Wilbert | Nov 20, 2024 | 

WINNEMUCCA, Nevada -- Six people who were sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation last year for protesting the Thacker Pass lithium mine are telling their stories for the first time.

Today, each defendant in the case released a statement explaining who they are and why they took action to defend Thacker Pass, and calling for the public to support their case.

The group includes Dean Barlese, a 66-year-old spiritual leader from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe who was regularly at the protest camps before his foot was amputated due to health issues. Dean’s passion for defending the land drew him back to Thacker Pass soon after his life-changing operation, and he was on the front lines of the 2023 protests.

Tewa Women United: Pueblo Infants Endangered by Los Alamos National Laboratory's Radiation Plan

New Report Reveals Los Alamos National Laboratory's Tritium Venting Could Have Triple the Radiation Exposure to Infants Compared to Adults

Tewa Women United: Pueblo Infants Endangered by Los Alamos National Laboratory's Radiation Plan

Native-Led Nonprofit Tewa Women United Commissioned Two Reports

to Study Impacts. Finding: Los Alamos National Laboratory Omitted Dose Calculations to Infants and Children in Their Compliance Application

By Tewa Women United, Censored News, November 19, 2024

ESPANOLA, New Mexico — The Native-led nonprofit organization Tewa Women United, based in Española, New Mexico, has released two independent scientific technical reports assessing the implications and adherence to regulations concerning Los Alamos National Laboratory’s proposal to release tritium into the open atmosphere from four Flanged Tritium Waste Containers located in Area G, near White Rock, New Mexico.

Mohawk Nation News 'Tree of Peace Planted and Uprooted from McGill U.'

Read the article at Mohawk Nation News:

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/11/18/tree-of-peace-planted-uprooted-from-mcgill-u/

Mohawk Mothers Deplore Hate Crime -- Great White Pine Uprooted at McGill University

They Disappeared the White Pine, They Disappeared the Children

Tuesday update Ellen Gabriel said, "The Peace Tree - Great White Pine sapling has returned home to Kanehsatà:.ke. Returned to us by McGill Security Skén:nen - As-Salaam Alaikum- Shalom- Peace - la paix"

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, November 18, 2024

MONTREAL -- Kanien'kehà:ka women, Mohawk Mothers, planted a Great White Pine, the Haudenosaunee symbol of peace, in solidarity with Palestinians, at McGill University on Sunday.

It was uprooted in a hate crime.

Mohawk Mothers said this demonstrates McGill University's paranoid stance against anyone supporting peace in the world. Protecting their homeland, Mohawk Mothers stood in solidarity with Palestine, calling for an end to genocide in Gaza.

Lakota Matt Remle: When Standing Rock's Burials were Bulldozed, They Went After the Banks

Standing Rock 2016: Defending the Water

Lakota Matt Remle: When Standing Rock's Burials were Bulldozed, They Went After the Banks

"They didn't have a permit -- and they still don't have a permit to be operating, that's why we shifted focus to the financial institutions, and launched a very targeted campaign." -- Matt Remle, Hunkpapa Lakota

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, November 2024
Watch Video by Govinda 

SEATTLE -- Speaking at the Salish Sea Assembly, Matt Remle, Hunkpapa Lakota from Standing Rock, describes how the Dakota Access Pipeline used Standing Rock's map of burial places against them, and brought in attack dogs as the pipeline bulldozed their sacred burial place.

Remle, whose Lakota name is Wakíƞyaƞ Waánataƞ (Charging Thunder,) said it was then that they made the decision to target the banks and financial institutions that funded this pipeline, the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Protect Ha'Kamwe: Water Ceremony on Nov. 23, 2024

Gumyu'ja ya'ga-hun
Protect The Sacred
Good morning, my relatives near and far. Thank you for all your support, so we would like to take time out and invite you all to come join us. Camping is available.
No Lithium Mining in Wikieup, Arizona
Water Is Sacred Water Is Life
 

Live from The Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle Day 1

Live From the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle

Watch Day 1 video by Govinda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp2VHfE_pq8

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 6, 2024

updated 

SEATTLE -- The Salish Sea Assembly welcomes everyone on Wednesday evening. "There's a fire going outside, and fresh salmon is being cooked," Govinda said as the gathering began.

The Warrior Song began the gathering.

Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Saturate U.N. Climate Summit in Azerbaijan

Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca Nation, and WECAN at U.N. Climate Summit today in Azerbaijan.

Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Saturate U.N. Climate Summit COP29 in Azerbaijan

By WECAN International, Censored News, Nov. 15, 2024

BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Fossil fuel lobbyists continue to saturate every corner of COP 29.

At least 1,773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP29 summit in Baku— one of the largest delegations this year.

Watch: Maori Haka erupts in New Zealand Parliament

https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/11/14/watch-haka-erupts-in-parliament-before-treaty-principles-bill-passes-first-reading/

Te Ao Maori News

Watch: Haka erupts in Parliament before Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading

With the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti only halfway to Parliament, ACT leader David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill has gone through its first reading.

During the count of votes for and against the bill, Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke stood up from her seat starting a haka directed at Seymour, which her colleagues and MPs from the Greens and Labour joined. When people in the public gallery above joined in loudly, Speaker Gerry Brownlee suspended Parliament for an hour until the gallery was cleared.

Akwesasne 8 Dismissed: New York Power Authority Fails to Produce Documents

Akwesasne 8 DISMISSED. New York Power Authority fails to produce documents necessary to move forward.

Breaking News

By Akwesasne 8, Censored News, Nov. 12, 2024

The charges of Conspiracy to a Felony, and Trespassing against the six of the Akwesasne 8, who appeared today, were dismissed today at Massena Town Court. The District Attorney stated that New York Power Authority (NYPA) did not produce appropriate documents to move forward.

Mohawk Nation News 'Akwesasne 8 Dismissed: NY Power Has No Documents'

 Breaking News! Read the article at Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/11/12/akwesasne-8-dismissed-ny-power-has-no-documents/

Paul Chiyokten Wagner: Protectors of the Waters, From the Salish Sea to Standing Rock

Paul Chiyokten Wagner

Paul Chiyokten Wagner: Protectors of the Waters, From the Salish Sea to Standing Rock

Protectors of the Waters: Paul Chiyokten Wagner speaks on carrying forward the sacred way of life, from the Salish Sea to Standing Rock

"Our people hold the road map to paradise. Our people have that memory within us."

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 11, 2024

SEATTLE -- The Protectors of the Salish Sea baked camas on their ancestral island for the first time in one-hundred years, occupied the Washington State Capitol, and  journeyed to Standing Rock to build warm structures for the elders to brace against the blizzards, said Paul Chiyokten Wagner, WSANEĆ (Saanich) sharing the history from the Salish Sea to Standing Rock and beyond.

Coast Salish Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News at Indybay, Nov. 8, 2024

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

SEATTLE -- The powerful Salish Sea Assembly magnified the voices of the Coast Salish Water Warriors, the struggle to shut down the Trans Mountain Pipeline, and the flow of dirty oil from the Alberta tar sands to the Salish Sea. It was censored by all major media.

"We are not just activists, we are revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years," said Kanahus Manuel, Secwepemc and Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline in British Columbia.

Coast Salish Water Warriors, The Salish Sea Assembly, Day 3

'State of Emergency for the Salish Sea' 

in Seattle, Day 3

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 8, 2024

Watch video by Govinda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct0JKlCZtVc

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

Water Warrior Patricia Gonzalez, Puyallup, Screen capture Censored News

"All of those waters lead back into one," said Patricia Gonzalez, Puyallup, Water Warriors Council, during the Coast Salish Water Warriors Panel.

"If you ever need healing, just go to the water."

Coast Salish Freedom Fighters: From Alberta Tar Sands to the Salish Sea: Live in Seattle Day 2

Coast Salish Freedom Fighters: From Alberta Tar Sands to the Salish Sea, Day 2

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 8, 2024

Watch Day 2 video by Govinda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giH3RP2S1Fw

Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction

SEATTLE -- The dead birds floating in the Alberta tar sands tailing ponds, the man camps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased oil tankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil of the Trans Mountain pipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands, bound for oil tankers in the Salish Sea.

"We are not just activists, we are revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years," said Kanahus Manuel, Secwepemc and Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Live The Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle, Day 2

"This is really uplifting," says Rueben George, "Come have some food."

Reuben George is speaking on reliance on the spirit and the spiritual ecosystem.
Listen live now to The State of Emergency for the Salish Sea, in Seattle.
"We're people of the water."

In Major Win for Hualapai, Judge Extends Drilling Freeze for Lithium

Hualapai march outside the federal court in Phoenix. The tribe sued the Department of Interior's BLM for illegally approving a plan to drill test holes for lithium and endanger the sacred hot spring called Ha’Kamwe.' (Ash Ponders for Earthjustice, Censored News)

In a Major Win for Hualapai Tribe, Judge Extends Drilling Freeze

Victory — Arizona Lithium must pause activity near Ha’Kamwe’ until lawsuit plays out

By Earthjustice, Censored News, Nov. 6, 2024

LEGAL DOCUMENT

PHOENIX, Arizona — A federal judge yesterday decided to extend a temporary pause on harmful drilling for the duration of the Hualapai Tribe’s legal case challenging federal approval of the Sandy Valley Lithium Exploration Project.

Mohawk Nation News -- 'Whistle Blower Wonder Kimberley Murray Reveals Crime of the Century'

 

New at Mohawk Nation News:

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/11/05/whistle-blower-wonder-kimberley-murray-reveals-crime-of-the-century/

The Independent Special Interlocutor Released her Final Report and the Indigenous-led Reparations Framework for Missing and Disappeared Children and Unmarked Burials

New! The Red Nation: Diné for Palestine Brutalized, Tackled by Police, Jailed at Democrats Rally on Navajo Nation

Photo courtesy The Red Nation

Harris/Walz campaign staffers brutalized Diné at Navajo Nation capitol

By The Red Nation Podcast

Video https://www.therednation.org/the-red-nation-podcast-3/

NAVAJO NATION, Window Rock, Arizona -- Vice President candidate for the Democratic Party Tim Walz stopped in Window Rock, Arizona where snipers lined the monument and three Diné citizens were brutalized by his staffers during the Harris/Walz campaign stop; 10 days before the general election.

While standing in the crowd, a Diné woman was continuously harassed by authorities and attacked by a Walz staffer, while another Diné man was brutalized and arrested. Meanwhile, Buu Nygren, President of the Navajo Nation, was getting heckled about his missing Vice President and another woman chanting for Trump in the crowd. It was clear that campaign staffers weren’t clamping down on “disruptors”, rather, they were targeting Diné people—on their own homelands—policing anyone who supports Palestine.

Interior Sec. Haaland's Pueblo is in the Ballistic Missile Parts Business

 Laguna Industries manufactures parts for the ballistic missile, LGM-30G Minuteman III

Interior Sec. Haaland's Pueblo is in the Ballistic Missile Parts Business

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 4, 2024

LAGUNA PUEBLO, New Mexico -- Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's tribe's enterprise, Laguna Industries, manufactures parts for both the ballistic missile, and parts for combat jets, including the F-15. Biden recently approved the sale of fifty F-15 jets to Israel in a $20 billion deal.

The discovery comes after Biden was protested at Gila River Indian Community, and Interior Sec. Haaland was sued by three Arizona tribes for targeting and destroying the sacred.

The F-15 combat jet by McDonnell Douglas.

Laguna Industries, owned by Laguna Pueblo, is a defense contractor and produces electrical components. As a Native American owned company, it receives priority in defense contracting.

O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

Photo courtesy O'odham Solidarity, published with permission, Censored News

Biden used the crimes committed against children in boarding schools to advance the political campaign at Gila River Indian Community. It backfired. -- Censored News

O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024

LAVEEN VILLAGE, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona -- In the Gila River Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to Native children who were victims of U.S. boarding schools. His glory campaign was short-lived.

As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: "There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! Land Back."

Indigenous Spiritual Walk to White Mesa Uranium Mill -- Unicorn Riot's Four Part Video Series

Yolanda Badback, organizer of the White Mesa Spiritual Walk: “I will always do this spiritual walk annually until I get my goal achieved of  cleaning up the mill or closing the mill down.”

White Mesa Ute Spiritual Walk 2024 Photo Unicorn Riot

"This is about the human race. We are all one people," says Sylvia Clahchischilli, Dine'.  "We need the natural world to survive."

Indigenous Spiritual Walk in Utah Protests Last Conventional Uranium Mill

By Alex Binder, Unicorn Riot November 1, 2024

Watch the new four-part video series:
https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/indigenous-spiritual-walk-in-utah-protests-last-conventional-uranium-mill/

White Mesa, Utah — The White Mesa Mill was built in 1979 with plans to process uranium ore for 15 years. With the facility now well past its initial operational lifespan, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, other Indigenous tribes and allies continue their call for it to be shut down and cleaned up. On October 12, over 75 people participated in an annual spiritual walk in opposition to the mill, which is the last conventional uranium processing plant in operation in the United States.

Diné Supporters for Palestine Removed, Arrested, on Navajo Nation During Democrats Rally

Diné Supporters for Palestine Removed, Arrested, on Navajo Nation During Democrat's Rally

While standing in solidarity with Palestine, and in opposition to genocide, Diné women were manhandled and removed from the rally on their homeland, one Diné warrior remains jailed

By The Red Nation, Censored News, Oct. 27, 2024

WINDOW ROCK, Navajo Nation -- The Vice President candidate for the democratic party, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, campaigned at the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, Arizona, where snipers lined the sacred monument and three Diné citizens were escorted out. Two of them being women who were manhandled and one Diné man being tackled and arrested.

Snipers on the roof. Red Nation video, Censored News

The women were repeatedly harassed by secret service in the crowd, and one woman was violently attacked by a Harris/Walz staffer.

Arizona's Universities are Instruments of War

 

The United States provides more than 70 percent of the funds and weapons used for war crimes and genocide in Palestine. Arizona universities are a backbone of the war industry.

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 31, 2024

TUCSON, Arizona -- When Arizona's largest universities slammed down on Palestine supporters, it was obvious they were hiding something. What they were hiding was the fact that they are thriving on war dollars.

The most obvious is Raytheon Missiles located at the University of Arizona's Tech Park in Tucson. The less obvious are the millions in grants and contracts that both the University of Arizona and Arizona State University receive for technology, including cyber technology, artificial intelligence and robotics.

'The Day They Brought the Dogs In' Standing Rock Files New Lawsuit Against DAPL

Energy Transfer bulldozed burial places on Sept. 3, 2016

Energy Transfer Bulldozed Burial Place of Elite Lakota Warrior Society

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 29, 2024

STANDING ROCK LAKOTA NATION -- Standing Rock's burial place of an elite warrior society was bulldozed by Energy Transfer. While Water Protectors rushed to defend the sacred place, the security hired by Dakota Access Pipeline brought in vicious attack dogs.

The Standing Rock Lakota Nation has filed a new fedral lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers in Washington describing its threat to the water, and how Energy Transfer bulldozed the burial places of their elite warrior society. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe demands the immediate shut down of the pipeline.

In a separate lawsuit in North Dakota state court, Energy Transfer is carrying out a fishing expedition, serving media and Water Protectors with third party subpoenas for the case slated in court for February 2025.

Mohawk Nation News 'Let's Read the 'Indian Lands Act' of 1924'

New at Mohawk Nation News: Read the article at MNN

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/10/28/lets-read-the-indian-lands-act-of-1924/

 

O'odham Solidarity with Palestine: 'NO! to Genocide Joe' on Gila River Today

O'odham Solidarity with Palestine: 'NO! to Genocide Joe' on Gila River Today

Update: O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/oodham-woman-becomes-hero-when-genocide.html

By O'odham Solidarity, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024

LAVEEN VILLAGE, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona -- An apology for genocide while actively causing a genocide is mind-blowing!

Show your presence on the outskirts of the reservation if you are NOT indigenous. We ask for respect for the O’odham first and foremost!

Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Biodiversity and Climate Crisis in Colombia

"We are never to be bought and sold, we are never to be enslaved," said Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, urging women to rise up against the false solutions of carbon credits, and rescue the rivers, land and air from the corporations poisoning the Earth for future generations.

Press Conference: Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Biodiversity and Climate Crises

Watch instant replay now:

http://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1r/k1rvk86l8b

Friday, October 25, 11:00 - 11:30 AM (COT)

The Media Center, Blue Zone, CBD COP16 Cali, Colombia

Frontline and Indigenous women leaders and global advocates will present solutions and strategies to tackle the interlinked biodiversity and climate crises, emphasizing the importance of gender equity, food sovereignty, forest protection and reforestation, traditional ecological knowledge, Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), protection of environmental human rights defenders, and financing genuine solutions in the Global Biodiversity Framework.

Brazil's Indigenous Women at Biodiversity Convention in Colombia

Indigenous women leaders from Brazil and WECAN at the UN Biodiversity Convention in Colombia today

'We are the Guardians of the Planet'

Deputy Célia Xakriabá (Xakriabá), Federal Deputy in Brazilian Congress in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and co-founder of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (ANMIGA), Brazil (Screenshot Censored News)

Indigenous Women from Brazil: Calls for Action to Protect Biodiversity, Indigenous Rights and Climate

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 24, 2024

CALI, Colombia -- Indigenous women leaders from Brazil defending their rivers, forests and people, spoke with courage and the fire of their ancestors at the United Nations Biodiversity Convention.

"We sing because when we sing together, we don't feel that we are alone," said Deputy Célia Xakriabá, Federal Deputy in Brazilian Congress, and co-founder of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality.

"All of our lands, all of our rivers are being murdered," Xakriaba said during the press conference today of Women's Earth and Climate Action Network.

Colombia's Indigenous Demand Ancestral Knowledge is at Forefront of COP16 Biodiversity Convention

Colombia's Indigenous Demand Ancestral Knowledge is at Forefront of COP16 Biodiversity Convention

Indigenous communities from different regions of Colombia march in the southwestern city of Cali to demand that their ancestral knowledge on conservation be taken into account at the UN biodiversity summit, COP16, which is being held in the city.

Watch video by AFP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWUjFLE1AY4

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 24, 2024

The United States is the only United Nations member state that has not ratified the Convention on Biodiversity. While 197 countries arrive in Cali, Colombia for the COP16 Biodiversity Convention, the U.S. is engaged in war crimes and genocide in Palestine.

In the U.S., the team of Biden and Interior Sec. Deb Haaland plans to desecrate the Hualapai's sacred ceremonial water with a lithium mine; is promoting lithium mining digging into the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass; is allowing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatening Havasupai's aquifer and poisoning their medicine plants with radioactive dust; allowing dumping radioactive ore and global radioactive waste in White Mesa Ute's community; is bulldozing the ancient village sites, burial places and medicine plants of Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache for a wind energy project; plans a massive copper mine from San Carlos Apache sacred Oak Flat; and plans to increase the radioactivity in the Pueblo homelands with increased plutonium production and storage at Los Alamos Labs in northern New Mexico.

Women Lead at United Nations COP16 Biodiversity Convention in Colombia

Women's Press Conference screenshot by Censored News

Women Lead at United Nations COP16 Biodiversity Convention in Colombia 

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 22, 2024
Video https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1z/k1z1e5wzg9

CALI, Colombia -- Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, is at the United Nations COP16 in Cali, Colombia today. "The Ponca Nation is on the ground here at COP16 in Colombia, trying to raise up the issue of false solutions to the climate crisis, like carbon credits and biodiversity credits that are killing nature," she said, adding that fossil fuels must be phased out.

"My people are suffering from environmental genocide," Casey said during the press conference today, "Rights of Nature: A Systematic Solution to Protect Biodiversity."

Casey, introducing herself with her Ponca name, said, "I'm a Ponca woman from the occupied territory of the United States, an area called Oklahoma, that was a POW camp for all the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island at one point."

Casey said ConocoPhillips and all of the extractive industries, are mass murderers killing her people, and killing our Mother Earth. They are poisoning the air, poisoning the rivers and the Ponca people.

    Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca

Describing the scam of carbon credits, she said carbon credits are a way for fossil fuels to continue what they have been doing for a hundred years. Buying into the carbon credit scam is the same as saying: "We give you permission to murder life on Earth and Earth herself."

Carbon credits give corporations the power to continue to pollute the frontline communities, as in Ponca, where the air, water and earth is already defiled.

"Don't give them permission to buy carbon credits."

"They are killing life on Earth."

The Ponca Nation is the first Nation in the United States to pass a statute around the rights of nature, among the nations of the world that have followed Ecuador's lead. 

"If you eat, if you drink, if you breathe, you are a part of nature, and nature is a part of you," she said.

"We are inseparable from nature."

Casey Camp-Horinek is the Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) board member and project coordinator.