Lakota Youths in Solidarity with Palestine Screen 'Spaces of Exception'

 

Lakota Youths showed 'Spaces of Exception,' a film revealing the truths of the lands of Native people and Palestinians, Native lands, here in the Lakota community on the Oglala Lakota Nation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, where the film series originated. Photo by Mato White Plume.

Lakota Youths in Solidarity with Palestine Screen 'Spaces of Exception'

In the Lakota community where the film series began, the film reveals the shared truths in the lands of Native People and Palestinians.

By Mato White Plume and Natalie Hand

Oglala Lakota Nation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota

Censored News, Nov. 23, 2025

Mato White Plume said, "A lasting impression this film left was the shared themes of systemic confinement, and the resistance against it. Seeing these two histories laid side by side like that, it clicks. It makes the regimes of control and displacement undeniable. It was for sure heavy, but the kind of heavy that fuels the flame for liberation."

"The most powerful was witnessing the raw acts of resistance," said Mato White Plume, Organizer for Moccasins On The Move.

Cree Dene Mskwaasin Agnew to Join Freedom Flotilla 'Letter on the Siege on Gaza'

"This Warrior Flag was actually at Standing Rock," said Mskwaasin Agnew, Cree Dene on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza today. This flag also flew at the Wet'suwet'en's Gidimt'en Checkpoint. The women also brought an Anishinaabe flag that flew at 1492 Land Back Lane at Six Nations. Remembering the photos of the Warrior flag in Jabalia in Gaza, she said, "This is a symbol of Global Indigenous Solidarity, and Global Indigenous Solidarity means that none of us are free until all of us are free." Agnew said, "I have joined the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to break the siege on Gaza with Dr. Suzanne Shoush and fellow comrades from Turtle Island. Break the siege on Gaza NOW! Solidarity to the global Indigenous resistance."

Indigenous Women Join Freedom Flotilla to Deliver Aid to Gaza

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"We are the Indigenous delegation of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. We gathered in front of the boats of our comrades the Thousand Madleens to send good blessings on their way. From the Great Lakes, to the Ice Caps, to the Sea, Palestine will be free!!!" -- Danmark boat now sailing to Gaza.

Brave Hearts to the Front

Indigenous Women Join Freedom Flotilla to Deliver Aid to Gaza

The International Indigenous Youth Council announced today solidarity with two Indigenous women from Turtle Island joining  the Freedom Flotilla bringing aid to Gaza.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated Sept. 19, 2025

Dr. Suzanne Shoush, St'atl'imx/Sudanese, and Mskwaasin Agnew, Cree/Dene Salt River First Nation

Indigenous women joined the flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza, where the horror of starvation and genocide is ongoing. The flotilla boats were hit twice by explosives during drone attacks in Tunisia.

The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail today from Italy, Tunisia and Greece to unite in International waters, the flotilla said Sunday morning, at noon New York time. Boats from Spain had already set sail, among 44 countries sending delegations and boats from around the world.

Dr. Suzanne Shoush, St'atl'imx/Sudanese, and Mskwaasin Agnew, Cree/Dene Salt River First Nation, are joining the Freedom Flotilla Coalition Women's boat to Break the Siege on Gaza.

K'É Infoshop: Dine' Palestinian Liberation Rally

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K'É Infoshop: Dine' Palestinian Liberation Rally

K'É Infoshop: Dine' Palestinian Liberation Rally

Palestinians and Dine' are Bound in a Common Struggle

Live today on Facebook. Watch recorded video: Marley Shebala Livestream

https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 3, 2025

WINDOW ROCK, Navajo Nation -- "We share this common struggle with Palestine!" a Dine' voice rang out during today's K'É Infoshop: Dine' Palestinian Liberation Rally.

"Are our children not sacred anymore?"

Marcos Opens 'Resistance and Rebellion' in Chiapas

Marcos Opens 'Resistance and Rebellion' in Chiapas

Capitan Marcos photo by Alejandro Melendez

Marcos describes the system collapse, and inspires with his poetic words the Zapatistas vision of solidarity and global organizing

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, December 28, 2024

"Our word survives in Palestine, although it is small, because it comes from the heart," Capitan Marcos said, speaking on the genocide in Palestine, the rubble of hospitals, deaths of infants and media, and the blood that runs through social media.

Marcos said the system has made a victim of humanity.

"In the war against the earth, the destruction of nature spreads, the atrocious crime is against humanity and the planet. The increase in domination has led to a civilization crisis."

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.

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.

Mohawk Warrior Society Flags Fly over Palestine

Mohawk Warrior Society Flag, also known as the Mohawk Unity Flag: "The flag of the Indigenous Kanien'kehá (Mohawk) nation in the mountains of Nablus city in the West Bank, Palestine, symbolizing a shared struggle against settler colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine."

"A Mohawk Warrior Society flag was photographed in Jenin today following an Israeli incursion and attack in the city. The flag was photographed alongside a sign for the Jenin Brigade, illustrating the joint struggle against settler colonialism by indigenous people everywhere." Photographed today at Jenin refugee camp in Palestine. June 1, 2024, via Twitter/X.

Native American Tribes are Partnered with Corporations Responsible for War Crimes in Palestine

Police violently attacked pro-Palestine protesters at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who are opposing genocide. University of Arizona's Tech Park is home to the Salish and Kootenai's International Towers, a partnership with Israel's Elbit Systems, and Raytheon Missiles which produces missile parts on the Navajo Nation. (Image KTAR)

Three Native American Tribes are doing business with corporations responsible for war crimes in Palestine:  Israel's Elbit Systems, and the U.S. Corporations of Raytheon Missiles, General Dynamics and Caterpillar

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 28, 2024

TUCSON -- Native American Tribes are partnered with corporations responsible for war crimes in Palestine. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe of Montana is in a partnership with Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons producer. Salish and Kootenai own International Towers, and in partnership with Elbit, built spy towers, known as integrated fixed towers, on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

Caterpillar, being used for the destruction of Palestinian homes, has a facility located on the Tohono O'odham Nation's Tech Park in the San Xavier District near Tucson.

Raytheon Dine' Facility, is located on the Navajo Nation south of Farmington, New Mexico, and produces missile parts for Raytheon, among the top war profiteers in Palestine.

Raytheon, and International Towers, are tenants at the University of Arizona Tech Park in Tucson.

Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, lives in the western portion of the Tohono O'odham Nation, where the Salish and Kootenai tribal enterprise constructed the spy towers. Rivas describes the militarized partnership.

'In Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the Global Crackdown on Climate Protest' by Drilled

In Backlash to Campus Pro-Palestine Protests, Echoes of Standing Rock and the Global Crackdown on Climate Protest

The use of militarized police and “antiterrorism” laws against activists is not new in the U.S.

by Alleen Brown, Drilled

This story is co-published with the Center for Media and Democracy.

As soon as a single Palestinian activist showed up at an anti-Dakota Access Pipeline camp on the edge of the Standing Rock reservation in 2016, intelligence analysts for the mercenary security firm TigerSwan were on alert."

"El-Zabri, the Palestinian activist surveilled at Standing Rock, was among 79 people arrested this week while protesting at the University of Texas at Austin. “It really felt like the same as Standing Rock, when we were facing the police,” he said. “There was a whole army that looked like it was at war in riot gear. They eventually used tear gas and pepper spray.”

“They're afraid of what we have to say and the people that we can touch,” said Cornell senior Yanenowi Logan, who is Deer Clan from the Seneca Nation and has been negotiating with campus administrators.

"Logan said that by standing up for Gazans, she and other Native organizers are also standing up for themselves. “We want to be able to show them that, hey, we're still here,” she said. “You can try to kill us. You can burn our crops. You can do whatever you want to do, but we're still going to persist.”

Read the article at Drilled
https://drilled.media/news/gaza-standingrock-tigerswan

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New today: TigerSwan spy files from September 24, 2006 on Red Warrior Camp, American Indian Movement, and aerial photos of camp. Posted by Drilled, with article by Alleen Brown. The documents were released after a court battle after TigerSwan was found to be operating without a license in North Dakota. See more of this file at https://drilled.media/documents/1ed15ccd-a1cf-4f20-aaff-483b4714ab57/f4bb0d85-4da2-413a-83b8-ae1bfa63c01d

UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla’s humanitarian mission to Gaza

Ready to sail for Gaza with aid, but Israel is putting up new barriers.

"South African politician Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson, has joined the Freedom Flotilla taking aid to Gaza, announcing that 'I am a living example of what international solidarity can achieve, we defeated the apartheid government.' Mandela said Israel's planned blockade of the aid ship would be a breach of international law, and that the flotilla activists were determined to break Israel's blockade and siege of Gaza." https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240424-south-african-solidarity-mandelas-grandson-joins-gaza-aid-flotilla/

A flotilla of three ships, carrying some 5,000 tonnes of food, drinking water & medical aid, is about to depart from Turkey |

@GazaFFlotilla

UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla’s humanitarian mission to Gaza

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GENEVA (26 April 2024) – UN experts today demanded safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, whose ships departing Türkiye will be carrying 5,500 tonnes of humanitarian aid and hundreds of international humanitarian observers to the besieged Gaza Strip. “As the Freedom Flotilla approaches Palestinian territorial waters off Gaza, Israel must adhere to international law, including recent orders from the International Court of Justice to ensure unimpeded access for humanitarian aid,” the experts said.

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.

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:

https://www.uscourts.gov/cameras-courts/defense-children-international-palestine-v-biden

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.

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.

'Race, Liberation and Palestine' Rutgers Refuses to Shut Down Event after Congressman's Demand

'Race, Liberation and Palestine' Rutgers Refuses to Shut Down Event after Congressman's Demand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQXuQwYmO8

'Race, Liberation and Palestine' Rutgers Refuses to Shut Down Event after Congressman's Demand

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 8, 2023

Update Dec. 13, 2023
Rutgers University has suspended Students for Justice in Palestine, after the Biden administration announced a civil rights investigation. The U.S. Office of Civil Rights has now published a list of schools 'under investigation.'

Students for Justice in Palestine at Rutgers responded and said it was censorship aimed at silencing voices for Palestine. "This attempt to conflate protected speech with violence is dangerous," said the student group Wednesday. "The administration’s letter contributes to the perception of Arab and Palestinian students on campus as terrorist threats, a racist and unacceptable caricature. These allegations lodged against our group, with no due process, are attempts to silence Palestinian voices." Read the statement here.

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey -- The threats, pressure from a U.S. Congressman, and 12,000 e-mails, didn't shut down the event, "Race, Liberation and Palestine," at Rutgers University.

Nick Estes, Lakota, Lower Brule in South Dakota, said the U.S. had more than 400 federal institutions dedicated to removing Native children from their families, all across the United States, and in Alaska and the Pacific.

Look at the headstones at Carlisle Barracks, where there are more than 200 headstones, Estes said.

U.S. War Crimes Result in Hate Crimes

Three friends taking a walk before having a meal with one of the young men's grandmothers -- were shot in Vermont. One of the college students remains in critical condition Monday morning. A suspect, Jason J. Eaton, 48, a neighbor was arrested and a pistol was seized from his apartment as evidence on Sunday, PBS reports. See the joint statement from the families below.

Palestinian Students Shot in Vermont -- U.S. War Crimes Result in Hate Crimes

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 27, 2023

While the United States continues to provide weapons for war crimes and genocide in Palestine, hate crimes toward Palestinians have increased in the United States. Three Palestinians were shot Saturday night in Vermont. This comes after a former US State Department was arrested for a racist vulgar rant, and charged with a hate crime, after verbally assaulting a food vendor in New York City.

Red Warrior Society 'Solidarity with Palestinians' -- From the Banks of Wounded Knee Creek

All Out For Palestine Teach-In & Art Build, hosted by Ama's Freedom School on November 19. Image credit Lakota Media Project

Red Warrior Society 'Solidarity with Palestinians' -- From the Banks of Wounded Knee Creek

By Red Warrior Society

Censored News

French translation by Christine Prat

As Lakota people of the Oceti Sakowin we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We know too well the struggle for self-determination and the fight to retain lands that have long been connected to our way of life, language, ceremonies and the blood of our people.

'Spaces of Exception' Film Exposes Atrocities and Genocide of Native People and Palestinians

'Spaces of Exception' film: Standing Rock, Oceti Sakowin Camp 2016

Photo: Debra White Plume, Oglala Lakota, in the film, "We Love Being Lakota," which evolved into the film, "Spaces of Exception." 


Spaces of Exception Film Exposes Atrocities and Genocide of Native People and Palestinians

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, November 17, 2023

MONTREAL -- The film Spaces of Exception revealing the atrocities and genocide of Native people -- Lakota, Navajo, and Mohawk -- and of Palestinians -- was shown in Montreal at McGill University. It is here at McGill that Mohawk Mothers have an ongoing court battle to search for graves of Native children at the hospital where the CIA conducted MK-Ultra torture experiments.

Partnering with the Israeli Weapons Maker: University of Arizona and Navajo Nation

Photo: A rally was held on Thursday in support of Palestine at the University of Arizona after an earlier rally was canceled when the university president spoke out against it. Defense for Children said today that 1,873 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and shelling in the Gaza Strip since October 7. More than 4,600 children are injured as hospitals run out of fuel, electricity, and medical supplies.

Partnering with the Israeli Weapons Maker: University of Arizona and Navajo Nation

Photo: Rally for Palestine in downtown Tucson, Monday, Oct. 17, 2023 KOVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt72UoX72UE

The University of Arizona president spoke out against support for Palestine and a rally was canceled. The university brags about its partnership with Raytheon Missile in Tucson, which provides weapons to Israel.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

TUCSON, Arizona -- A Pro-Palestinian rally was canceled after the University of Arizona's president spoke out against it. The university in Tucson brags about its partnership with local Raytheon Missiles, now named RTX Corp., a provider of weapons to Israel. The university not only partners with the weapons maker, but it has a manufacturing plant on the Navajo Nation, where commercial crops are grown.

Raytheon's missile plant on the Navajo Nation was so censored by Indian Country Today, when I was a staff reporter there, that the editors told me not to even research it.

It all happened this way.

Corrupt Media in U.S. and U.K. Fuel Endless Wars, Profiteering for War Manufacturers

Palestinian Ambassador to the UK, highlights the hypocrisy present in Western and Israeli media. “I refuse to answer the question because I refuse its premise," Husam Zomlot, Ambassador, told BBC. Zomlot is Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, former Head of the PLO Mission to the US, and Strategic Affairs Advisor to the President of Palestine. https://twitter.com/i/status/1711143225493234113

Corrupt Media in the U.S. and U.K. Fuel Endless Wars, Profiteering for War Manufacturers

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

Today the BBC, and the New York Times, are called out for their bias in news reporting, supporting Apartheid and war crimes. The endless wars, which benefit war manufacturers, of the U.S. and U.K. have resulted in endless wars, killing millions of innocent people -- women, children and elderly -- around the globe.

Today in the news, Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Harsam Zarlos told the BBC, "I refuse to answer the question because I refuse its premise."

Raytheon Missiles in Tucson is among the warmakers benefitting from U.S. government contracts, and manufacturing weapons for Israel. Raytheon formed a partnership with the Israeli defense company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.