Poisoned Water and Oppression: Breaking the Silence in Russia, Amazon and Okinawa

Russia's Indigenous Speaking at the U.N. in Geneva on Monday. Screenshot Censored News.

Breaking the Silence -- Indigenous in Russia, Amazon and Okinawa Tell U.N. of Poisoned Water, Dying Reindeer and Oppression as Illegal Mining Brings Disease and Death

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 15, 2025

GENEVA -- Indigenous Peoples are silenced when they speak out about mining in Russia, while drug trafficking, logging and illegal mining are forcing isolated Indigenous Peoples from their homelands in the Amazon. In Okinawa, Japan refuses to recognize Indigenous Peoples, and they suffer from the toxic dumping left behind by the U.S. military.

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.

Speaking for the Water -- Indigenous Water Protectors Speak for the Children and Rivers

Indigenous at COP27: Speaking out for climate Justice 

Emem Okun of Kebetkache women and member of Grassroots Global Justice's delegation to COP 27 shares her experiences enduring polluted water in her community in the Niger Delta in Nigeria on a panel of Indigenous leaders.

Speaking for the Water -- Indigenous Water Protectors Speak for the Children and Rivers

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Video of Panel

Translated into French by Christine Prat at:

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7545

Ponca children have asthma and are using inhalers because of the oil and gas industry in Oklahoma, which is now a massive crime scene. In Kenya, children dig for water before going to school. In Nigeria, the water is poisoned by oil and gas wells and fracking and women and children are suffering. 

Speaking during a panel at the United Nations Climate Summit in Egypt, Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, said she lives in the Occupied Territory of Oklahoma.

"Mass murderers called fossil fuel industries are there to kill us and nothing more," Casey said during an Indigenous Climate Action Panel, after leading a Water Ceremony in the morning.

Beautiful Video: Canoes 2 Paris Indigenous Flotilla

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                                                Ta'Kaiya SIerra Blaney photo by Kandi Mossett

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 A short film on the ‪‎Canoes2Paris‬ Action! ‪‎COP21‬ ‪IndigenousRising‬ ‪‎Keepitintheground‬ ‪NoREDD‬ ‪DefendProtectRenew‬ Share widely! Copyleft: Sophie Gergaud/De la Plume à l'Ecran

The launching of a declaration calling on world leaders to keep fossil fuels in the ground, led by Indigenous peoples and signed by over 150 organizations. The signing announcement from Indigenous women leaders from North and South America of a treaty to protect Mother Earth. Presentation of the Kawsak Sacha “Living Forest” proposal from the Amazon rainforest by the Kichwa Indigenous people of Sarayaku. Indigenous flotilla on the Bassin de la Villette, including Sarayaku’s “Canoe of Life” which has traveled 6000 miles to Paris with a message from the Amazon.  - See more at: http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2015-12-indigenous-press-conference-demanding-true-climate-solutions-at-cop-21#sthash.OufMYJQZ.dpuf