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Protest Energy Fuels Uranium Mines at La Sal, Utah, and Grand Canyon, Saturday, May 16, 2026

Protest Energy Fuels Uranium Mines at La Sal, Utah, and Grand Canyon, Saturday, May 16, 2026

Support the White Mesa Ute Community and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Protest Energy Fuels’ Uranium Mines at La Sal, Utah,  and near the Grand Canyon! Stop Energy Fuels’ Uranium Mill/Dump next to the White Mesa Ute Community!

SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2026 12 noon at LA SAL JUNCTION
(intersection of Highway 191 and 46 – about 20 miles south of Moab)

Censored News, May 15, 2026

Energy Fuels operates uranium mines near Moab in La Sal, and also operates the Pinyon Plain mine near the Grand Canyon. They also operate the uranium mill next to the White Mesa Ute Community in San Juan County which is turning into an international radioactive dump.

Law Enforcement's Secret Surveillance of Defenders at Thacker Pass, Peehee Mu'huh, Exposed by ProPublica and Nevada Independent

Myron Dewey, Paiute

Law Enforcement's Secret Surveillance of Defenders at Thacker Pass, Peehee Mu'huh

Lithium Americas of Canada plans huge man camp in Winnemucca

The BIA and BLM were part of 10 agencies in a joint terrorism task force stalking defenders of Peehee Mu-huh, Thacker Pass, new documents reveal. The surveillance intensified when Myron Dewey supported. The Nevada Sheriff said there could be "another Standing Rock," and called in a "spin master" to discredit Water Protectors, as he had done at Standing Rock. ProPublica and Nevada Independent expose the surveillance. Censored News tracks back on the timeline. Interior Sec. Deb Haaland's BIA was part of the joint terrorism task force targeting the defenders of Peehee Mu-huh.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated Aug. 12, 2025

THACKER PASS, Nevada -- While descendants of the survivors of the massacre of Paiutes at Peehee Mu'huh struggled to protect the sacred remains from the digging of a lithium mine, owned by Lithium Americas on Canada -- law enforcement had a spider web of surveillance.

The law enforcement surveillance of defenders of Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, began before Myron Dewey was killed, and continued afterwards.

ProPublica and Nevada Independent expose the spy trail of law enforcement and private security of Lithium Americas. The surveillance web of 10 agencies included the BIA, and a counter-terrorism task force.

AI, Artificial Intelligence, isn't intelligence at all -- it's stealing

AI, Artificial Intelligence, isn't intelligence at all -- it's stealing

Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X have taken all public posts, photos and comments and put it in their AI machines to be mixed and thrown back up in any way they choose. Most users were unaware of this. It is a violation of the public trust.

It's called "data scraping" and the new AI search chats have scraped all your public posts, comments and photos on social media, and dumped them in their money-making machines. Twitter/X's Grok, an AI search, confirms that it is using copy-righted news articles. Meanwhile, authors are in court, suing over the theft of their online books. There are hundreds of major lawsuits. And the AI, artificial intelligence, data centers are guzzling water and electricity, even in desert regions, and making the water in rivers too hot for the salmon. AI is not intelligence it is theft.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated July 23, 2025

For the billionaires, and the plagiarizers, stealing seems the easiest way to go.

Whether its lithium you're after for your sinking electric car business, or you're a stay-at-home 'reporter' stealing other peoples hard work, or engulfed in the hype of the new AI search engines, stealing seems to be the easy way.

"Everyone is doing it," says one editor, as he grabs others hard work to rewrite it.

Supai, Ute, Dine', Arapaho, and Lakota Testify on Uranium Exploitation before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Havasupai, Ute, Dine', Arapaho, and Lakota Testify on Uranium Exploitation before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Edith Hood, Dine' from Red Water Pond Road community (Live screenshot by Censored News)

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Translation into French by Christine Prat

WASHINGTON -- "There was no respect for the people living on these lands, and certainly no respect for Mother Earth," Edith Hood, Dine' from Red Water Pond Road community, told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

"The government was aware of the risks and the dangers but failed and neglected to inform our people," testified Hood, who lives down the road from Church Rock, New Mexico, the site of the worst radioactive spill in U.S. history.

Dine', Havasupai, Northern Arapaho, Oglala Lakota and White Mesa Ute testified on uranium exploitation by the United States on Wednesday, during the session, "Impacts of Uranium Exploitation on Indigenous Peoples' Rights."

The BIA, EPA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission praised themselves, and attempted to cover-up the legacy of death from uranium mining, strewn radioactive waste, and deadly uranium mills in Indian country.

Indigenous Peoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: From Peru to the Tohono O'odham Nation, murder with impunity

United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, UN Human Rights Council

Indigenous Peoples Under Attack by Militarized Forces: From Peru to the Tohono O'odham Nation, Murder with Impunity

Native Hawaiians and Indigenous in Guam want the US military out; Russian youths want an end to war


By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

July 17, updated July 29, 2023

GENEVA -- Native Hawaiians want the US military off their lands, and training exercises in the Pacific shut down. An aquifer has been poisoned in Honolulu, and unexploded ordinances left behind make lands inaccessible.

Christopher Edward said the U.S. military installation in Hawaii is the largest in the world, 200,000 acres, and has resulted in the displacement of Native Hawaiians from their traditional lands. Edward testified before the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Edward joined Indigenous from around the world in reporting human rights abuses, during the session, "The Impact of Militarization on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."

Inside the Files: TigerSwan's Target -- Standing Rock

Photo by Rob Wilson

Inside the Files: TigerSwan's Target -- Standing Rock

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

April 15, 2023

Updated April 17, 2023

With the release of 50,000 TigerSwan spy documents, the Intercept published its first article this week, revealing the details of how the mercenaries spied on Water Protectors at Standing Rock.

National Sheriffs' Association helped target LaDonna Brave Bull Allard

The TigerSwan spy files reveal that the mercenaries targeted individuals like LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, now in the Spirit World, who provided her home as the base of the Sacred Stone Camp when the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline began in 2016.

The Smithsonian is Missing -- The Racist Dark History of Collecting Native Remains is Silenced

The Smithsonian exploits Native American arts and culture, while covering up its history of robbing graves and refusing to return Native American remains.

Whitewashing History and Harboring Native Remains

The Smithsonian paid bounties for Native American skulls for racist studies resulting in grave robbing, executions of Native people and the Massacre at Sand Creek. Today, the Smithsonian refuses to make the facts public, and delays the return of Native American remains to their homelands for reburial.

Brenda Norrell
Censored News
January 13, 2023

In a new database showing institutions harboring Native American remains -- the Smithsonian is missing.

The Smithsonian is concealing from the public its collection of more than 10,000 Native remains, and the dark history of its racist skull collection -- for the purpose of intelligence studies based on race -- which led to grave robbing. It was one reason for the Massacre at Sand Creek.

'Water is Life' White Mesa Ute Spiritual March Against Uranium Mill

“This is our home and the home of our ancestors – we are the caretakers of this land and the waters beneath it," said Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Concerned Community.
"They dug up our ancestors who were buried there."
Describing the dangerous disposal of radioactive waste, Badback said, "We don't drink the tap water here, we go out and purchase our water."
Badback expressed her deep appreciation for the large crowd that came to walk with her. She said they are continuing this fight for the future generations.
"I don't want it to expand anymore," she said of the plans to bring in radioactive waste from more regions.
Badback said the Native medicine plants are no longer growing.
Badback's mother, Thelma Whiskers, who has spent her life here, thanked everyone for coming.

Water is Life
White Mesa Ute Spiritual March Against Uranium Mill

Article by Brenda Norrell

Photos by Grand Canyon Trust

French translation by Christine Prat

"The White Mesa uranium mill would not be allowed to operate near a wealthy white neighborhood in Salt Lake City, and San Juan County's Native American communities deserve the same treatment.” – Commissioner Kenneth Maryboy, Diné, San Juan County Commission. 

Live from Reno -- Western Mining Action Network

 https://youtu.be/ef80zhZMkss

Mexico's Government Spy Files on Yaqui and Zapatistas in Europe Leaked by Hacker Collective

Mexico's Secretary of Defense spy files include the photos shown above: Zapatistas in their communities; Zapatistas tour in Europe, and aerial images. Mexico's government spy files include profiles on Zapatistas and their supporters, Indigenous movement leaders, professors, farmers, and women leaders.

Mexico's Government Spy Files on Yaqui and Zapatistas in Europe Leaked by Hacker Collective

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

A hacker collective leaked the spy files of Mexico's Ministry of Defense, revealing spying on the Zapatistas and their supporters during the Journey for Life in Europe in 2021. The spy files include Mexico's targeting of both powerful Indigenous women and Indigenous movement leaders in Mexico.

The files were released by the hacktivists Guacamaya.

The leaked files reveal the Mexican government spying on the Yaqui Traditional Authority in Vicam, Sonora, where Vicam Yaqui spokesmen have been kidnapped, imprisoned, and assassinated.

Vicam Yaqui protested the theft of their water for an aqueduct taking Yaqui River water to the city of Hermosillo. Vicam Yaqui have maintained highway blockades for years in defense of their water on a major highway, slowing down the flow of commercial trucks to the U.S. and elsewhere.

Top photo: Vicam Yaqui Spokesperson Tomas Rojo, a soft-spoken agricultural engineer, was kidnapped and brutally murdered in 2021. Tomas was found buried in the desert outside the village. Photo 2: International Water Forum hosted by Vicam Yaqui Traditional Authority in Vicam, Sonora in 2012. Photo by Brenda Norrell, Censored News. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/11/video-yaqui-foro-internacional-del-agua.html

The new spy files of Mexico's Defense Department on Yaqui in Vicam are especially chilling since the exposure follows a series of assassinations of Vicam Yaqui.

Mohawk Nation News -- Aljazeera: 'Meet the Indigenous Activists Taking Quebec to Court'

ALJAZEERA: “MEET THE INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS TAKING QUEBEC TO COURT”

Posted on July 3, 2022

 

Please post & circulate.

MNN. Thahoketoteh, Mohawk Nation News court reporter: This is a republication of the Aljazeera article on the kahnistensera, Mohawk Mothers, May 31, 2022.  https://www.ajplus.net/stories/article-meet-the-indigenous-activists-taking-quebec-to-court

 

MEET THE INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS TAKING QUEBEC TO COURT

Article

May 31, 2022

Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. [Lydia Yakonowsky/National Trust for Canada]

By Theo Malhotra

In recent years, more North American colleges have begun to perform land acknowledgements, which recognize the Indigenous people on whose unceded land their campuses were built centuries ago. But recent events show that talk is cheap.

A group of Mohawk women from the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation outside Montreal has taken legal action to prevent the expansion of two McGill University buildings on historically Mohawk land. This is also the site where the CIA’s MK-Ultra psychological experiments took place, in which unwilling test subjects were used in dystopian brainwashing and mind control experiments. The Mohawk group claims that the unmarked graves of children – victims of these experiments – lie beneath both the Royal Victoria Hospital and Allan Memorial Institute.

The Kanien’kehá:ka kahnistensera, or Mohawk Mothers, presented their case to the Quebec Superior Court on May 30. They’re demanding a thorough investigation of the sites to collect evidence of unmarked graves. We spoke with Mother, activist and Mohawk Nation News founder kahentinetha about McGill’s refusal to return stolen Iroquois funds and why Canada’s “whole system will fall” when the Mothers’ case is heard in court.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

WHO ARE THE MOHAWK MOTHERS?

Uranium leave it in the ground! Global online launch of first Uranium Atlas with Western Shoshone, Navajo and more

The first atomic bomb blast in July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico,

The international guests participating in this event are: Makoma Lekalakala (Earthlife Africa, South Africa), Ian Zabarte (Western Shoshone Nation, USA), Sascha Hach (Nuclear Free Future Foundation, Germany) and Anna Rondon (New Mexico Social Justice and Equity Institute, Navajo Nation, USA). There will be additional recorded statements from Tina Cordova (Trinity Downwinders, USA) and Larry King (Navajo Nation, USA).

Leave uranium in the ground!

Global Online Launch of the first Uranium Atlas

Watch online at 1 pm Eastern time, July 16, 2020.

The Uranium Atlas tells the global story of uranium through maps, graphics and narratives covering every phase of the uranium fuel chain. The raw material of the Atomic Age was or is mostly mined in African countries, Australia, Kazakhstan and Canada, and the consequences for the inhabitants of these mining areas have been fatal from the very beginning. The victims of global nuclear colonialism are mostly Indigenous peoples whose voices remain unheard.

July 16 is seared in the memory of New Mexicans: On July 16, 1945, at 5:30 in the morning, scientists from Los Alamos detonated Trinity, the first atomic bomb, in the White Sands desert. On July 16, 1979, at 5:30 in the morning, the tailings dam of the Church Rock uranium mill broke, contaminating the drinking water of the Diné (Navajo) people.

We dedicate the launch of the Uranium Atlas to all the victims of July 16.

Runners arrive on Hopiland honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous People

Photos by Western Shoshone Photojournalist Carl Bad Bear Sampson, as runners arrived on Hopi Nation.

On Monday morning, Jan. 20, 2020 runners passed First Mesa. MMIP Sunrise Prayer Run, Flagstaff to Window Rock on the Navajo and Hopi Nations.

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On the run in Cameron

Photos copyright Carl Sampson, Censored News

Hawai'i Rising at The Capitol Jan. 15, 2020

Kanaeokana
Censored News

Come to the capitol on January 15, 2020, and join in the ‘aha and protocols at 8 am, noon, and 4:30pm. If you think that Hawaiian cultural views and voices should be valued by decision-makers, if you believe aloha ‘āina should be given higher priority at the capitol and in our communities, if you want to add your leo and mana to ensure that this happens, come and join the movement at Hawai’i Rising. Together we can shift the political landscape and shape a new future rooted in aloha ‘āina.
Kumu Hula who will be participating at Hawaiʻi Rising include:

• Shelsea Apana and Olana Ai
• Kimo Alama
• Maile Beamer Loo
• Snowbird Bento
• Maelia Carter
• Pua Case
• Robert Uluwehi Cazimero
• Sonny Ching
• Keola Dalire
• Tatiana Fox
• Tehani Gonzado
• Kapiʻolani Haʻo
• Niui‘i Heine
• Pua Kanakaʻole-Kanahele
• Keano Kaupu
• Nalani Keale
• Mary Kupau
• Chinky Mahoe
• Hokulani Holt-Padilla
• Lono Padilla
• Kealiʻi Reichel
• Kaleo Trinidad
• Hiwa Vaughn
• And more...
Capitol
415 S Beretania St.
Wednesday, January 15
8:00a - 5:00p

Send a message to the power brokers in Hawai’i that aloha ʻāina supporters are organized, engaged, and rising like a mighty wave. Come and join in
• Protocol
• Puʻuhuluhulu University classes
• Mele lāhui
• Kuʻi ʻai
• Political organizing

For general information, maps, schedules, and a list of Pu‘uhuluhulu University Classes, please visit: hawaiirising.org/event

'Apaches Standing Strong to Defend Sacred Oak Flat from Mining' by Sandra Rambler

Photo by Sandra Rambler, San Carlos Apache

'Apaches Standing Strong to Defend Sacred Oak Flat from Mining' by Sandra Rambler

by Sandra Rambler, San Carlos Apache

Traditionally Speaking

Censored News

Chi’Chil’Bilda’Goteel (Oak Flat) -- How do you respond to a White Man whose name is Paul Gosar, an Arizona Congressman who recently said, “You’re still wards of the government.”

And then he continues and says, “One of the federal government’s dirty little secrets is that Native American tribes are not fully sovereign nations in today’s society.”

Tohono O'odham Toy Drive for Southern O'odham 2019 by O'odham VOICE Against the Wall

Photo: Last year's toy drive, 2018. Thank you so much for everyone who helped!

O'odham VOICE Against the WALL
Please call to donate items, or donate at PayPal:
Ophelia Rivas: 520-308-9904
4oodhamrights@gmail.com
PO Box 1835
Sells, Arizona

Read about last year's party and dinner with the community, south of the international border on O'odham lands:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2018/12/sonora-oodham-voice-against-wall-oodham.html
         At last year's party for the children and family, Ofelia Rivas, on left, with Cynthia Piestewa