Maori Battle for Rights as Racism Spreads in New Zealand, Maori Tell United Nations

Kym Hamilton, National Iwi Chairs Forum, speaking at United Nations in July. Screenshot Censored News

Maori Battle for Rights as Racism Spreads in New Zealand, Maori Tell United Nations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 26, 2024

GENEVA – The increased racism and white supremacy in New Zealand, and the government’s attempts to diminish Maori treaty rights, are causing a regression in Indigenous rights, Maori told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"In Aotearoa, New Zealand, we are currently experiencing radical regression of enhanced participation at a state level. The New Zealand government is proposing to repeal the foundations of our treaty that gave them the right of settlement," Kym Hamilton of the National Iwi Chairs Forum told the United Nations.

Hamilton said Maori ancestors signed this treaty to protect their sovereignty which was never ceded. The government's proposals would reduce Maori participation and decision-making on their tribal lands and waters, and undermine many of the obligations of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Hamilton told the U.N.

Lakotas for Palestine Attacked in Hate Crime in Rapid City

Lakotas for Palestine Attacked in Hate Crime in Rapid City

Lakota Statement , Censored News, July 24, 2024

RAPID CITY, South Dakota – On Saturday, July 20th, we traveled to Mni Luzahan to support the International Indigenous Youth Council for a peaceful rally for Palestine. The rally was co-sponsored by ally group SD4Pal. Within 5 minutes of our arrival, this worker began heckling us from the lawn of City Hall, where she was working.

Oglala Lakota Youths: 'Peaceful Youth-led Rally for Palestine Attacked by Zionists in Rapid City'

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Oglala Lakota Youths: Peaceful Youth-led Rally for Palestine Attacked by Zionists

By International Indigenous Youth Council-Oglala Lakota Chapter

Censored News

RAPID CITY, South Dakota -- On July 20th, a Saturday afternoon, dozens peacefully gathered around the City Hall to call for a ceasefire for Palestine. We were assaulted with spray paint and threatened with a firearm. These violent acts prove exactly what Palestinians have to experience from day to day.

Kayapó Forest Defenders Urge United Nations to Help Halt Illegal Gold Mining in Brazil

Doto Takak Ire, leader of the Menkragnoti Indigenous Land 📷 Fred Mauro/Terra Floresta Filmes/ISA

Kayapó Forest Defenders Urge United Nations to Help Halt Illegal Gold Mining in Brazil

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 23, 2024

GENEVA -- Indigenous from Brazil urged the United Nations to join them and demand Brazil halt illegal gold mining, and its mercury contamination, now destroying the ancestral homelands of Kayapó, Yanomami and Munduruku Peoples, during the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Doto Takak Ire, Mebêngôkre, said, "The Kayapó are still warriors and we will always be defenders of the forests."

Aboriginal Elder Describes Australia's Child Abuse to United Nations

Photo courtesy New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, Censored News

Aboriginal Elder Describes Australia's Child Abuse to United Nations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 22, 2024

GENEVA -- Aboriginal elder BJ Cruse described the Australian government's child abuse and cultural genocide of children -- aimed at breaking Aboriginal children's spirit -- during the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Violence and Repression: Indigenous from Russia, Algeria and Nicaragua Appeal to United Nations

An Indigenous woman from Russia describes the coal and gold mining at the U.N. Screenshot Censored News.

Violence and Repression: Indigenous from Russia, Algeria and Nicaragua Appeal to the United Nations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 17, 2024

GENEVA -- The coal and gold mining in Russia has driven Indigenous Peoples from their homes and poisoned their rivers. In Nicaragua, the assassinations and imprisonment of land defenders has fractured families and communities, presenters told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

In Algeria, the people have barely survived 3,000 years of violent colonization and genocide.

"Other people should not undergo what we have experienced – which is the case now in Palestine," said the representative from the Algeria Association, Learned Society of scientific research, religious and mystical bodies. Describing the genocide in Algeria, he said France has thousands of bones and craniums of the people in French museums.

Mount Graham Sacred Run July 18 --21, 2024

The Mother Tongue: Countering the Identity Thieves of Canada, Russia, Japan and U.S.

Josh Gandier. Photo Southern Chief's Organization, Censored News

The Mother Tongue: Recovering Indigenous Languages from the Identity Thieves of Canada, Russia, Japan and United States

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 16, 2024

GENEVA -- Indigenous languages are on the verge of extinction in Russia. An ancient language in Japan is denied recognition by the government, while Native Americans struggle to recover from the torture in boarding schools that was meant to silence them. In Canada, efforts are underway to revitalize Anishinaabe after Native languages and culture were targeted with erasure in residential schools, presenters told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"My own hope for this decade is to see the restoration, formation and protection of intergenerational connections between youths, language keepers and communities," said Southern Chiefs Organization's youth delegate Josh Gandier, Peguis First Nation.

Apache Stronghold: Prayer Journey to Supreme Court

Apache Stronghold: Prayer Journey to Supreme Court

By Apache Stronghold, Censored News July 15, 2024

The Apache Stronghold started the journey of prayer to the Supreme Court to stop the shattering of human existence and to protect Mother Earth. We begin our journey with our relatives from the Lummi Nation, north of Seattle, Washington.

Indigenous Expose Racism and Genocide at U.N. -- Governments Rush to Deny Abuses and Insult Presenters

Rachana Sam At on behalf of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Caucus points out that Indigenous Peoples can not participate in this process unless approved by a non-governmental organization, and this must change for there to be enhanced participation. Photo AIPC.

Indigenous Expose Racism and Genocide at U.N. -- Governments Rush to Deny Abuses and Insult Presenters

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 14, 2024

GENEVA -- Indigenous youths spoke with courage and eloquence, calling out the environmental racism and genocide carried out by governments around the world. In response, government representatives rushed to deny the human rights abuses, and in some cases, used insulting language to criticize Indigenous Peoples who exposed their abuses, during the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The representative of France denied the government is responsible for genocide in New Caledonia. Azerbaijan denied responsibility for genocide in Armenia and used derogatory accusations, describing speakers as frauds and part of a "smear campaign." 

The United States government failed to describe the ongoing seizure of Native ancestral lands for lithium and copper mines, and fake green energy projects targeting ceremonial places.

The Russian Federation government criticized speakers on Thursday. Responding to speakers statements, he said their status needs to be examined. He claimed some had lost touch with their communities, and some were funded by former colonial powers. He also said one organization presenting a statement was not recognized in Russia.

"We need to exclude the participation of chauvinists and racists," the Russian Federation government representative said.

Indigenous Women: Land Defenders, Water Carriers, Life Givers, Assert Rights at United Nations

Indigenous in Chile battling transnational companies told the U.N. that the environmental impact statements are paid for by the companies who become the judge and jury of the outcome.
Screenshot by Censored News

Krystal Brant, Mohawk, Ontario Native Women's Association speaking at U.N.

Indigenous Women: Land Defenders, Water Carriers, Life Givers, Assert Rights at United Nations

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 11, 2024

Updated July 13, 2024

GENEVA -- Indigenous women spoke of their ancestral languages woven into their  relationship with the land, and as caretakers of biodiversity, from the deserts of the Sahara to Canada and the Amazon.

Speaking out against oppression and genocide from Armenia and Vietnam to the Americas, where they are celebrated as "folklore," while being violently oppressed, Indigenous women urged new measures to ensure justice for land defenders, murdered and missing Indigenous women, and increased efforts to protect medicine plants from exploitation, during the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Leonard Peltier's Message Read at Conclusion of United Nations Session in Geneva

Leonard Peltier's message was read before closing prayers at the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples this morning in Geneva. Screenshot by Censored News.

"Our brother Leonard Peltier is one of the many victims of a covert war waged by governments against the American Indian Movement, the AIM, and its supporters," Mario Agreda Uzeda said before reading Peltier's message, adding that Peltier is in prison for a crime that he did not commit. "For as long as Leonard Peltier is in prison, we all are." Agreda said a campaign for freedom for Leonard Peltier is beginning in Spain. 

Leonard Peltier's Words Conclude United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva

'No one can break the Spirit of a Sundancer'

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 12, 2024

French translation by Christine Prat

GENEVA -- The words of Leonard Peltier concluded the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples week-long session in Geneva this morning.

"I could not foresee that fifty years later that I would be entombed in a lock-down nightmare. I was chosen to be the sacrifice to cover up the crimes committed against our people," Peltier said in a message to the United Nations session.

UNITED NATIONS: Russia's Anti-War Indigenous Denied Credentials, Their Voices Heard Anyway

Photo Yana Tannagasheva addressing U.N. https://vimeo.com/981992869
 

The voices of Russia's anti-war Indigenous activists denied credentials were heard anyway at the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.

Indigenous women denied credentials say Russia needs mineral industries to wage its wars, and is asserting pressure at the United Nations.

Oral intervention by Yana Tannagasheva, International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia 

Censored News, July 11, 2024

Russian translation

Thank you, Mr./Madam Chair, for the floor.

The Russian government talks all the time about the colonialism of IP (Indigenous Peoples) in other countries but has never said that the IP of the North, Siberia and the Far East were also colonized and continue to suffer. The everyday reality of the Indigenous Peoples of Russia is profoundly different from the rights described by Russian government and some of non-independent Indigenous representatives from Russia.

United Nations: Australian Aboriginal children seized, 'green energy' impacts worsen for Saami

Systematic racism in Australia means that Aboriginal children are being seized from their families, children that are later the victims of a system that results in high rates of child incarceration in Australia's prisons, a representative told the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples this morning. Screenshot by Censored News.

United Nations: Australian Aboriginal children seized, 'green energy' impacts worsen for Saami 

Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 9, 2024

GENEVA -- Australian Aboriginal children continue to be seized from their families by the government, and the situation for Saami in Norway is worsening because of 'green energy' projects, Indigenous representatives told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples today.

Both Norway and Australia had country engagements with the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples during the past year, but Australian Aboriginal and Saami representatives said today that conditions are not improving.

Urgent Plea from Guatemala

Deb Haaland doesn't care about the yellow-billed cuckoo: Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache make appeal in letter

 

Yellow-billed cuckoo. Photo National Geographic

Deb Haaland doesn't care about the yellow-billed cuckoo: Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache make appeal in letter

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 9, 2024

SAN PEDRO VALLEY, Arizona -- Deb Haaland doesn't care about the yellow-billed cuckoo. She doesn't care about the migratory birds traveling north who enjoy the water and trees here. Haaland doesn't care that the bulldozers for SunZia's transmission line, taking wind energy to California, are destroying an ancient village site of the ancestors of San Xavier O'odham.

The federal court failed to stop her, so Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations appealed to Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, in a letter on Monday.

U.N. Expert Mechanism on Rights of Indigenous Peoples Begins in Geneva

Photo courtesy Indigenous Peoples Rights International

The Expert Mechanism on Rights of Indigenous Peoples began today in Geneva with a discussion of implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

By Indigenous Peoples Rights International, Censored News, July 8, 2024

The 17th session of EMRIP is July 8 -- 12, 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland

The collective spirit of struggle fueled the start of #EMRIP!  Today we discussed  important issues: how States have implemented laws to achieve UNDRIP's ends and the status of Indigenous peoples' rights in post-conflict situations  Undoubtedly, we Indigenous peoples have pushed for many achievements, but many States continue to refuse to recognize our collective being and rights to land and territory.

Dine' Klee Benally 'Violence against the land is violence against the people'

Dine' Klee Benally. Video by SubMedia https://vimeo.com/978417283

"Violence against the land is violence against the people"

Dine' Klee Benally: Colonialism, police and genocide in the U.S.

Klee speaks on how colonialism, capitalism and police are part of the dynamic affecting violence against women and the destruction of sacred places, and the roles of Treaties and sovereignty.

Klee shares the Indigenous way of being and peacemaking in parallel to police and prisons, and the need for the restoration of traditional Indigenous systems for healing.

Watch the video, in English, with new French subtitles by Christine Prat. Klee passed to the Spirit World in December. https://vimeo.com/978417283

Klee's book, finished shortly before his passing, can be ordered at Detritus Books.

"No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred"

https://detritusbooks.com/products/no-spiritual-surrender-indigenous-anarchy-in-defense-of-the-sacred

Indigenous Women Sterilized by Governments Thwarted on Slow Road for Justice

Jean Whitehorse, Dine', spoke at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2019 and described the forced sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service. Photo courtesy Yvonne Swan, Colville Nation, AIM West delegation.

Indigenous Women Sterilized by Governments Thwarted on Slow Road for Justice

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 1, 2024

Indigenous women were sterilized by governments throughout the Americas, lawsuits and testimony reveal from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Peru. In the United States, Jean Whitehorse, Dine', described how the Indian Health Service in Gallup, New Mexico, carried this out in secrecy. In Peru, Indigenous women were brutalized in villages during massive sterilization campaigns. In Canada and Greenland, Inuit women were targeted with both forced sterilizations and contraceptive devices as young girls.

Indigenous women tell their stories.

Mohawk Nation News 'Longhouse Ladies'

 New at Mohawk Nation News: Read the article at MNN

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/07/04/longhouse-ladies/

Surveillance Balloon Circling South of Chamberlain, South Dakota July 4, 2024

A surveillance balloon is currently circling south of Chamberlain, South Dakota, above the Missouri River

Thunderhead Balloon Flight 676. July 4, 2024, 9:39 a.m. local time

Surveillance Balloon Circling South of Chamberlain, South Dakota July 4, 2024

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 4, 2024

This helium balloon, owned by Aerostar, is currently circling south of Chamberlain, South Dakota, above the Missouri River. The FAA shows the balloon is owned by Aerostar of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Aerostar says it conducts "intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance" for the U.S. military, and has multiple defense contracts.

Peltier Denied Parole

Leonard Peltier denied parole, Amnesty International urges Biden to grant clemency

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 2, 2024

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison, has been denied parole, Associated Press reports.

The U.S. Parole Commission said in a statement Tuesday announcing the decision that he won't be eligible for another parole hearing until June 2026. Peltier is serving life in prison. He was convicted in 1977.

Mohawk Nation News 'Truth About Treaty -- Rarihokwats'

 New at Mohawk Nation News: Read at MNN

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/06/30/truth-about-treaty-rarihokwats/

Mohawk Nation News 'From Lake Erie to Kanekota'

New today at Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/07/01/from-lake-erie-to-kanekota/

 

Mohawk Nation News 'McGill Cana'jon'

 New today at Mohawk Nation News: Read the article at MNN

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/06/30/mcgill-canajon/

Mohawk Nation News 'DARPA: Dark Side of McGill'

New today at Mohawk Nation News: Read the article at MNN;

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/06/29/darpa-dark-side-of-mcgill/ 

Mohawk Nation News 'Emancipation Is Here On This Island'

 

New today at Mohawk Nation News: Read the article at MNN https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/06/28/emancipation-is-here-on-this-island/

Australians Rush to Mine Lithium in Hualapai's Sacred Place, a Navajo Enterprise is Leading the Desecration

 

Australians Rush to Mine Lithium in Hualapai's Sacred Place, and a Navajo Enterprise is Leading the Desecration

Update:
The Bureau of Land Management approved the Big Sandy lithium project in the area of Hualapai's Ceremonial Place in June. The so-called 'Navajo Transitional Energy Company,' a Navajo Nation enterprise is carrying out the drilling operation for an Australian mining company. This is the latest attack on sacred places by Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's BLM. It is another fake green project destroying ceremonial places for lithium for batteries, under the name of green energy for profits for an Australian corporation.
BLM approves lithium mine on June 6, 2024 
https://www.blm.gov/announcement/blm-approves-lithium-exploration-project-arizona

 Ha’Kamwe’

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, April 11, 2024

Translated into French by Christine Prat

SYDNEY, Australia -- While sipping wine at the Sydney Opera House, investors hear how much money they can make mining lithium in Arizona. The enthusiastic project manager is excited to tell them that Arizona loves mining, as can be seen with all its copper mines.

"They are a mining friendly state," says Paul Lloyd, managing director at Arizona Lithium, based in Perth, Australia. "They are very pro-lithium production."

On the other side of the world, Hualapai are offering prayers at their sacred spring, Ha’Kamwe’ their sacred place for healing and rites of passage, including childbirth and coming-of-age ceremonies for young women. It has been their ceremonial place since time immemorial.

Not far away, in Farmington, New Mexico -- a bordertown with a long history of crimes against Native Americans -- a new epicenter of fake green energy projects emerges.

Aerostar Helium Balloon over Crownpoint, Navajo Nation, at Midnight

Aerostar Thunderhead Balloon

Aerostar Helium Balloon over Crownpoint on the Navajo Nation at Midnight

Spy Balloons over Lakotas' Homes in the Dakotas the Past Four Days

Aerostar's helium balloons have surveillance technology attached, and have been over Indian country in South Dakota and North Dakota this week.

Spy Balloons over Lakotas' Homes in the Dakotas the Past Four Days

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 23, 2024

Spy balloons were above Lakotas' home on Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Yankton, Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, and Arikara, Mandan and Hidatsa this week, first spotted on June 19. The helium balloons, loaded with surveillance technology, can be used for tracking. Attorneys warn it is surveillance without a warrant, and is being used to track activists.

Julian Assange is Free

Twitter video: Walk to freedom 

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

By Wikileaks, Censored News, June 25, 2024

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.

Standing Rock: Pipeline Still Going After Unicorn Riot and Water Protectors in Court

Photo credit Unicorn Riot

Standing Rock: Pipeline Still Going After Unicorn Riot and Water Protectors in Court

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 22, 2024

Energy Transfer is still going after the files of Unicorn Riot media, to find out the details of Water Protectors actions at Standing Rock. In the case filed against Greenpeace and others, Energy Transfer, the owner of Dakota Access Pipeline, is now asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to review a recent court decision.

Vigil for Leonard Peltier in San Francisco

Prayer Vigil for Leonard Peltier on June 10, 2024. Video by First Voice Media. Screenshot by Censored News

Vigil for Leonard Peltier in San Francisco

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 2024

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Prayer Vigil for Freedom for Leonard Peltier, held at the U.S. Department of Justice, honored the Ohlone people whose land the people stood on, and honored Peltier with a tribute by Pomo Yuki Resistance. Peltier was remembered for the stand he took for the Lakota people on Pine Ridge before he was imprisoned 49 years ago.

"It would be very cruel if the parole board denies him his freedom," said Tony Gonzales, AIM West, pointing out that Peltier's last parole hearing was in 2009. The vigil was held on June 10, the same day as Peltier's parole hearing at Coleman Prison in Florida.

Peltier's nephew Adam Villagomez, Dakota Chippewa, said Peltier went to Pine Ridge to help the people. "When the grandmas asked for help, to come protect them, to please come help them from being attacked, just for being traditional people, for standing up, standing up for traditional rights, he went there, and put his life on the line and started working with the community." His mother is the first cousin of Leonard Peltier.

Remembering Klee, For the People, by Shannonlynn Chester

Klee Benally, Dine' Photo Shannonlynn Chester

Remembering Klee, For The People

By Shannonlynn Chester, Censored News, June 13, 2024

French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8406

In February, a local publication ran a piece on Klee that said "RAGE. In Beauty". But sometimes the world didn't see him (or any of us associated with him) that way. His way of "raging in beauty" didn't fit into what society saw as normal or peaceful at all, but I'm reminded today that Klee saw beauty in everything. If it didn't exist in something, he did something about it, he spoke the truth on it. He was someone who lived and breathed beauty, love, kinship, respect ... he embodied hózhó -- we should all be like that.

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U.S. Appeals Court Hears Biden Genocide Case: Defense for Children International -- Palestine v. Biden

 

U.S. Appeals Court Hears Biden Genocide Case: Defense for Children International -- Palestine v. Biden

Watch recorded court session on YouTube:

Monday, 9 a.m. Pacific time, June 10,2024. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYyGKxrsjk&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ca9.uscourts.gov%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

For the first time, a sitting U.S. President and his appointees have been accused of genocide in U.S. federal court. An attorney told the U.S. Federal Appeals Court in northern California that Biden and appointees are aiding and abetting genocide in Palestine, and complicit in genocide.

Mohawk Nation News 'Trafficking of Indigenous Cultural Heritage'

New today at Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/06/15/trafficking-of-indigenous-cultural-heritage/

Mohawk Nation News 'McGill/SQI and Mohawk Mothers Clash in Appeal Court'

 New today at Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/06/15/mcgill-sqi-mohawk-mothers-clash-in-appeal-court/

Amnesty International to Attend Trial of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

Amnesty International to Attend Trial of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

By Amnesty International, June 14, 2024, Censored News

A delegation of Amnesty International representatives from France, Germany, the United States and Canada will attend the trials of criminalized land defenders from the Wet’suwet’en Nation in Smithers, British Columbia the week of 17 June. The delegates will be there to watch the criminal court proceedings and be in solidarity with the criminalized defenders, Sleydo’ Molly Wickham (Wet’suwet’en), Shaylynn Sampson (Gitxsan) and Corey Jayohcee Jocko (Mohawk).

The Birth of Dry River, and Homage to Frank Zappa

Dry River, Tucson, Arizona 2004 -- 2012

Things I’ve Seen Hate-Filled Far Left Deranged Lunatics Do

By Lang Gore, Censored News, June 14, 2024

In the spring of 2004 my partner and I went to an anti-war demonstration near the campus of the University of Arizona.  It was perfectly legal, “permitted,” so long as we stayed crowded onto the sidewalks by the cops, who seemed to outnumber us.  We were not permitted to step into the streets.  One of the speakers screamed at the cops for a very long time in a very shrill voice.  It was a demonstration, all right--a demonstration of impotence.

Someone gave us a flyer announcing a May Day march sponsored by anarchists.  We showed up on May Day at the specified park; after a few minutes everyone went into the streets, whereupon for the next few hours we walked through downtown Tucson with our banners and chants. "Whose streets? Our streets!"

American Indian Genocide Museum is Honoree of Center for Healing of Racism

"Sanitizing history was at the heart of residential boarding schools," said Steve Melendez, Paiute, President of the American Indian Genocide Museum. "The brainwashing that was encompassed in the motto, 'kill the Indian, save the man,'  ripped the children from the arms of their mothers, killed the pride self-esteem, and the very spirit of an entire generation of our people." Photo South by Southwest Expo in Austin, Texas, March 2023, Courtesy Photo AIGM, Censored News.

Federal Judge Sides with Interior on Fake Green Energy: Tosses out Lawsuit by Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations

Tohono O'odham said it is heartbreaking to see Interior Sec. Deb Haaland promoting SunZia's wind energy project. The ancestral lands of Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache are being bulldozed for transmission lines in the pristine San Pedro. Bulldozers are destroying ancient villages, burial places and medicine grounds. -- Censored News

Federal Judge Sides with Interior on Fake Green Energy: Tosses out Lawsuit by Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations

Clean Energy, the Dirty Lie

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 8, 2024

French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8400

A federal judge tossed out the lawsuit filed by the Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations, who filed for a restraining order on Interior Sec. Deb Haaland and an injunction to halt the bulldozers tearing through their ancient lands, destroying ancieant village sites, burial places and medicine grounds.

"American legacy prevail, broken treaties, waived protection laws and traitors scouting out loopholes," said Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham.

"Such is the so called tribal sovereignty. The land holds strong and strengthened only by real people who put down the cornmeal not politicians."