Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

January 31, 2024

Red Lake Chippewa Tribe Supports Palestine: Opposes Apartheid and Genocide

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Minnesota rally for Palestine.

Red Lake Chippewa Tribe Supports Palestine: Opposes Apartheid and Genocide

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, January 31, 2024

RED LAKE, Minnesota -- The Red Lake Band of Chippewa in Minnesota passed a resolution in support of Palestine, stating the parallel between the current slaughter of Palestinians, and the treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.

The Red Lake Tribal Council urged sanctions against Israel and a halt to the United States funds and weapons to Israel for apartheid and genocide.

Pointing out that sanctions were necessary to end Apartheid in South Africa, the Red Lake Tribal Council urged boycotts and sanctions against Israel to halt the genocide.

January 28, 2024

Kwanamii Spirit Run: Quechan Running to Save Sacred Land from Gold Mining



Kwanamii Spirit Run: Quechan Running to Save Sacred Land from Gold Mining

The Kwanamii Spirit Run honors today the resilient pride of the Quechan, as they run to Oro Cruz for no gold mining

By Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, Censored News, January 27, 2024

"The Oro Cruz gold mine is projected to begin mining on our Sacred Land. This will result in digging huge open pits, which would forever destroy our archaeological sites, contaminate water and contribute to the destruction of our vital ecosystems. Cyanide and mercury are regularly released into the environment." -- Quechan.


Photo by Bradley Angel, Greenaction




January 27, 2024

Mexico's Military used Israel's Pegasus Spyware to Spy on Yaqui in Sonora


Tomas Rojo, spokesman, of the Traditional Authority of Vicam Yaqui, was brutally assassinated. International Water Forum on Yoeme (Yaqui) ancestral land in Sonora, Mexico, by Brenda Norrell, Censored News.
 

Mexico's Military used Israel's Pegasus Spyware to Spy on Yaqui in Sonora, During the Years when Yaqui Water Defenders were Imprisoned, Disappeared and Assassinated

Update: December 2024: Democracy Now reports on Pegasus spying on cell phones

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/4/surveilled_documentary


By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, January 28, 2024

Mexico's military used Israel's Pegasus spyware to spy on Yaqui in Sonora, south of the Arizona border, according to leaked files. The Mexican military spied on Vicam Yaqui, during the years when many Vicam Yaqui were kidnapped and falsely imprisoned; disappeared; and brutally assassinated.

Before they were imprisoned and murdered, the Traditional Authority of Vicam Yaqui hosted International Water Forums, and highway blockades for years, to protect their Yaqui River water from being stolen by an aqueduct for the City of Hermosillo.

Tomas Rojo, spokesman for the Traditional Authority of Vicam Pueblo, was brutally assassinated on a morning walk in his community in May, 2021.

During our interview with Tomas in Vicam Pueblo, Tomas spoke of the struggle to recover what has been taken -- the land and the water -- over the past 500 years.

January 26, 2024

Live: Biden Genocide Case in Federal Court Oakland, California


Outside the federal court in Oakland, California the case is underway naming President Biden and cabinet members complicit with genocide. Photo AROC Free Palestine Twitter/X


Photo by San Francisco Chronicle. On the street as federal court was underway.


LIVE COVERAGE: In Federal Court in Oakland, California, U.S. Attorneys and Palestinians said today: Biden is Complicit in Genocide

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Jan. 26, 2024
Video of court hearing now available:

OAKLAND, California -- The final testimony concludes now in today's hearing of President Biden's complicity with genocide. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of Palestinians in U.S. federal court in Oakland, California.

The Center for Constitutional Rights said Biden has failed to uphold the Genocide Convention. "Not only has the U.S. failed to prevent, but has actively advanced the gravest of crimes."

Biden and cabinet members sought today to halt the case from moving forward in U.S. federal court. However, Senior District Judge Jeffrey S. White consistently overruled Biden's attorney and allowed the testimony today.

Dr. Barry Trachtenberg, Wake Forest University’s presidential chair of Jewish history in North Carolina, and a scholar on the Holocaust and genocide, testified for the plaintiffs as an expert scholar.

Mohawk Nation News 'Contested Sovereignties RVH/McGILL University"


New today at Mohawk Nation News:

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/01/26/contested-sovereignties-rvh-mcgill-university/

 

LIVE Decision in South Africa v. Israel Genocide Case at the Hague


THE HAGUE: Live from the International Court of Justice at The Hague on United Nations WebTV:
January 26, 2024

Live on Al Jazeera

The International Court of Justice ruled today:
The Intercept reports now: “Israel must take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” the court said. It also ordered Israel to halt and punish incitement to genocide, to preserve any evidence of violations of the Genocide Convention by its forces or personnel, and to submit a report on its compliance with the court’s orders within one month.

FEDERAL COURT OAKLAND, Calif.
Later this morning: Biden faces lawsuit for genocide in federal court in Oakland, California.
Live at Center for Constitutional Rights

January 22, 2024

Double Exposure: Genocide in Residential Schools, as Biden Genocide Case Begins in U.S. Federal Court

Blue Quills Indian Residential School


Double Exposure: Genocide in Residential Schools, as Biden Genocide Case Heads to US Federal Court

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated Jan. 21, 2024

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada released new records from residential schools, which were essentially prisoner-of-war camps where Native children were victims of genocide. At the same time, the Center for Constitutional Rights in the United States announced its case filed against President Biden for genocide in Palestine begins in federal court in northern California on Friday.

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation said the Oblates are transferring all outstanding records to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. The first group of residential school records is now on its public website.

GILA RIVER: O'odham Solidarity with Palestine


O'odham Solidarity with Palestine, Saturday, January 20, at Wild Horse Pass Hotel, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona. Photo courtesy O'odham Solidarity with Palestine.

GILA RIVER: O'odham Solidarity with Palestine

O'odham demand a permanent ceasefire, resistance to colonial occupation, and acknowledgment of the genocide

By O'odham Solidarity with Palestine, Censored News

GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, Arizona -- Outside of the Gila River Indian Community tribal Inauguration, consisting of Tohono O’odham and Akimel O’odham tribal governments, along with the state governor, politicians -- and we still held it down in prayer. Informing people that our lands are being exploited and heavily militarized by Israeli-trained police, Israeli-trained border patrol, Israeli-partnered facilities and Israeli surveillance towers that keep community members from coming back home. Had to remind the mi:ligan cops and employees where they’re at after poor attempts to dispute with us.

January 17, 2024

Fort McDermitt Tribal Leader Choked Youth During Lithium Americas Community Meeting


Former Fort McDermitt tribal chairman Arlo Crutcher is shown on video as he approaches a tribal youth before choking him during a meeting with Lithium Americas. Screenshot of Young Warrior video by Censored News.

Fort McDermitt Tribal Leader Choked Youth During Lithium Americas Community Meeting

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News
Video by Young Warrior

A Fort McDermitt tribal leader attacked a minor and choked him. The youth was videotaping a public community meeting being held about financial benefits from lithium mining by Lithium Americas, now digging into the Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada.

The incident was broadcast on KPFK Los Angeles. It occurred during the quarterly meeting with Lithium Americas and Fort McDermitt Tribal Council, on Monday, Jan. 8.

During the meeting, Arlo Crutcher, former chairman of Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone, walked across the conference room where tribal youth Jimmy, a minor, was videotaping. 

Dorece Sam, Jimmy's mother, "It was a quarterly meeting, the community was never advised of this meeting."


Havasupai Water and Existence Threatened by New Uranium Mining on Sacred Land at Grand Canyon



Havasupai Water and Existence Threatened by New Uranium Mining on Sacred Land at Grand Canyon

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated Jan. 17, 2024

Havasupai said their worst fears have come true, and now Energy Fuels is extracting toxic uranium, violating their sacred place, threatening their water, and jeopardizing their existence.

The Havasuapai Tribal Council said, "It is with heavy hearts that we must acknowledge that our greatest fear has come true."

"Despite decades of active and tireless opposition, Energy Fuels, a foreign for-profit mining company, has acted in its own self-serving interest and extracted toxic uranium at the Pinyon Plain Mine (formerly the Canyon Mine), desecrating one of our most sacred sites and jeopardizing the existence of the Havasupai Tribe."

January 15, 2024

The Octopus of Genocide: Biden and Corporations with Tentacles in Indian Country Responsible

Solidarity around the world on Saturday. Photo in Athens, Greece, more photos at AlJazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/1/13/hundreds-of-thousands-rally-globally-for-gaza-on-eve-of-100-days-of-war

The Octopus of Genocide: Biden and Corporations with Tentacles in Indian Country Responsible 

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Jan. 15, 2024

Starvation and bombs are weapons of genocide being used by Israel on Palestinians. Biden, and U.S. corporations with tentacles in Indian country, are now responsible for war crimes and genocide being carried out by Israel. Israel said the cyber technology provided by U.S. corporations is being used by Israel to precision target Palestinians for death.

The Corporate Octopus

Actionists at the London Stock Exchange were arrested after an undercover journalist using a false identity reported them to police.

The action follows the London Stock Exchange's support for Israel, including investor support for Elbit Systems and Rafael.

Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense contractor, built the spy towers on the Tohono O'odham Nation and provides weaponized drones and surveillance to Israel to target Palestinians for arrest, torture, imprisonment and death.

January 10, 2024

U.N. Web TV: South Africa Invokes Genocide Convention




U.N. Web TV: South Africa Invokes Genocide Convention 

South Africa's case of genocide by Israel in Palestine begins on Thursday, at the International Court of Justice at The Hague

Verbatim testimony by South Africa

https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240112-ora-01-00-bi.pdf

Watch now

 https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11/k11gf661b3


South Africa states Israel has engaged in starvation and the killing of innocent women and children, describing life now as "hell on earth," with the killing of babies, women undergoing caesareans without anesthesia, men kidnapped and stripped, people dying slow deaths beneath the rubble of bombing, the lack of water, food, and electricity as famine nears. The killing of ambulance teams, doctors, and journalists. The bombing of universities and targeted killing of professors and scholars. Assassinations of Palestinians, whose bodies have been left unburied. Famine and infectious diseases are now as great a threat as bombing. South Africa points out that parties to the Geneva Convention have a duty not just to halt genocide, but to prevent it. -- Censored News.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1745390647085805763

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The murder of journalists and ambulance medical teams continued in Palestine the day before the session began at The Hague, Jan. 10, 2024

In Memory of Alfred Bone Shirt: Chasing Away Lewis and Clark Pretenders

Carter Camp, Russell Means, Alex White Plume, Floyd Hand, Alfred Bone Shirt, and Vic Camp, chasing away the Lewis and Clark pretenders in Chamberlain, South Dakota.


In Memory of Alfred Bone Shirt: Chasing Away Lewis and Clark Pretenders 

Alfred Bone Shirt, Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud, passed to the Spirit World on Jan. 3, 2204. We share his words in memory when AIM chased off the Lewis and Clark pretenders. Wishing you a beautiful journey, fly high our friend.

By Brenda Norrell
UN Observer and International Report

CHAMBERLAIN, S.D. (Sept. 18, 2004) -- The American Lie of Lewis and
Clark unraveled as Lakota, Ponca, Kiowa and Dine' told re-enactors to
turn back downriver or face the consequences.

Alfred Bone Shirt of Rosebud told the expedition, "This is disgusting.
This is a slap in the face."

January 7, 2024

Celebration of the Life of Klee Benally at the Orpheum Theater



Jones Benally and family. Photo by Mason Bobby Leonard

Celebration of the Life of Klee Benally at the Orpheum Theater
Flagstaff, Arizona, January 6, 2024

Klee's family. Photo by Dawn Dyer

January 5, 2024

Frontline Warriors on Native America Calling: Most Censored in Indian Country


Klee Benally locked down to protect Sacred San Francisco Peaks from the destruction
and sewage water snow of the tourist resort Arizona Snowbowl. Photo Save the Peaks 2011.


It was the sort of in-your-face act that people love. As a final revolutionary act, when Sac and Fox radio host Harlan McKosato left the national radio show Native America Calling, he asked for interviews with Censored News, aimed at giving voice to those that the radio station was most likely to want to silence. Klee Benally joined a great panel from the frontline and Harlan, now in the Spirit World, went out with a bang. -- Brenda, Censored News. 

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, 
Dec. 30, 2011
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Great show on Native America Calling today, which revealed the most censored Native Americans and issues of 2011.

From the Tarsands threat to the Ogallala aquifer and arrests at the White House to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, to the lockdowns to protect San Francisco Peaks and the abuse by the US Border Patrol, Native Americans spoke out on actions largely ignored by the media this year.

Debra White Plume of Owe Aku, Bring Back the Way, spoke on the Tarsands and its threat to the land and water of Lakotas. White Plume is a longtime activist and grandmother who has also led the fight against uranium mining on Lakota Lands.

Warrior Klee Benally Never Surrendered: A Life of Revolutionary Love, Resounding 'Regain Your Power'


Rally for Palestine, Flagstaff, Arizona. Nov. 2023. Photo courtesy Klee Benally

Warrior Klee Benally Never Surrendered: A Life of Revolutionary Love, Resounding 'Regain Your Power'

The celebration of Klee's life will be on January 6, at 2 p.m., at the Orpheum Theatre in Flagstaff, Arizona.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, January 2, 2023

Our hearts are broken by the sudden passing of our friend Klee Benally. Reflecting on Klee's life, we remember the words of Che Guevara that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Klee never surrendered, he never surrendered to capitalism, the media, or the forces of conformity that sought to change who he was.

January 4, 2024

Klee Benally Challenges Genocide Denier in Paris, Auctioning Dine' and Hopi Sacred Items in 2014

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Klee Benally in Paris. Photo by Christine Prat


Saturday, July 12, 2014

VIDEO Klee Benally challenges genocide denier in Paris auctioning Dine' and Hopi sacred items

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Video by Christine Prat
Chilling video of genocide denier in Paris who is auctioning off sacred items of Hopi and Navajos

A photo of some of us protesting at the auction office. Photo by J. Bach


Article by Brenda Norrell

Exclusive video
Coverage in French by Christine Prat in France

PARIS -- The EVE Auction in Paris continued the auction of Hopi and Navajo sacred items for the fourth year on June 27, 2014. This video reveals the genocide denier responsible for auctioning off sacred items of Hopi and Navajo. As Alan Leroy rips the posters from the wall, Klee Benally, Dine', tells the profiteer he is committing genocide.

Benally challenges the auctions.

Responding with racism and hostility, Leroy tells Benally, "You were never killed by anybody."

Benally says the items were stolen. "The burden of proof is on you. You are committing cultural genocide."

January 3, 2024

South Africa Invokes Genocide Convention at International Court of Justice at The Hague

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The majority of those killed by Israel in Palestine are women and children.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1206282283/gaza-aid-israel-hamas-biden-visit


Photo credit Al Jazeera

South Africa Invokes Genocide Convention at International Court of Justice at The Hague

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Jan. 5, 2024

South Africa has invoked the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The appointees of President Biden, including those who callously allow lithium mining into the Paiute massacre site, are now part of a regime responsible for war crimes and genocide in Palestine.

The Washington Post documented that the white phosphorus being used by Israel in bombs came from the U.S. It is a war crime.

January 2, 2024

Lithium in America Land and Waters –The Director's Cut






Lithium in America Land and Waters –The Director's Cut

 Hi-Resolution may be viewed and downloaded here: https://vimeo.com/890938277 
Watch and share on YouTube.

Jan 2, 2024

Director's Cut. Directed by Robert Lundahl.

Lithium in America tells the not unfamiliar story of industry and government pushing huge energy projects forward with market-driven exuberance despite local opposition and failure to consult with tribes. The film shines a light on these questionable practices as we interview leaders and members from 5 tribes with respect to 4 major projects in 3 states that are bellwethers of policy today, and which represent a common mindset and set of practices, however misguided.