Tohono O'odham Ofelia Rivas: The Pirates Who Stole My Words

Ofelia Rivas on her homeland. Photo by Jason Jaacks copyright, Censored News

Tohono O'odham Ofelia Rivas: The Pirates Who Stole My Words

White privilege and piracy permeates university professors and dissertation writers, says Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, pointing out that today more than 20 books use her words about O'odham and the border without her permission. The pirates range from the United Nations and book authors, to non-profits and corporate-paid activists.

By Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham, Censored News, August 13, 2024

Pirates

In 2003 the Elders from my fathers community and the ceremony Elders from my mothers community appointed me by consensus to be their voice.

Prior to 9-11 hundreds of heavily-armed border patrol soldiers invaded O'odham lands violently attacking O'odham in their yards, homes, communities, on reservation roads and state highways.

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

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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.

Music Video: Papago Warrior, Waila at O'odham Solidarity Project's Spring Gathering

Also Watch Papago Warrior, Video II, at the Spring Gathering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqOhEtqvCAA

Tohono O'odham children and youth video taping Papago Warrior.

PAPAGO WARRIOR!
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During the O'odham Solidarity Project's Spring Gathering 2013, O'odham children and youth videotaped the award-winning Waila band, Papago Warrior.
Papago Warrior, featured at the Native American Music Awards and winner of Mul-Chu-Tha Battle of the Bands, donated three hours of music for the spring gathering on the border.

VIDEO I: Voices from the Border Spring Gathering:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/oodham-solidarity-project-voices-on.html
VIDEO II: Voices from the Border
 http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/video-ii-voices-from-border-oodham.html
PHOTOS Spring Gathering
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/photos-oodham-solidarity-project-spring.html

Please consider making a donation to the O'odham Solidarity Project at their website:  http://www.solidarity-project.org/

VIDEO II Voices from the Border: O'odham Solidarity Project

Published on Apr 25, 2013  
VIDEO II Voices from the Border
During the O'odham Solidarity Project Spring Gathering at the border in 2013, supporters shared their feelings about the real story of the militarization of Tohono O'odham land by the US, and the continual abuse of O'odham by US Border Patrol agents. Video II, interview on the western portion of Tohono O'odham land in Arizona.
VIDEO I: Voices from the Border Spring Gathering:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/oodham-solidarity-project-voices-on.html
PHOTOS Spring Gathering
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/photos-oodham-solidarity-project-spring.html
WAILA Papago Warrior videos Spring Gathering
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/music-video-papago-warrior-waila-at.html
 

O'odham Solidarity Project website http://www.solidarity-project.org/
Video by Censored News www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Photos O'odham Solidarity Project Spring Gathering 2013

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O'odham Solidarity Project Spring Gathering 2013
The award-winning Waila band Papago Warrior, featured at the Native American Music Awards and winner of Mul-Chu-Tha Battle of the Bands, donated three hours of music for the spring gathering on the border.
O'odham youths, up and coming photographers and videographers, documented the band.
More:
VIDEO INTERVIEW with supporter, after learning of the militarization of the border, and constant abuse of O'odham by US Border Patrol agents:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/oodham-solidarity-project-voices-on.html
VIDEO II: Voices from the Border
 http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/video-ii-voices-from-border-oodham.html
PHOTOS Spring Gathering
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/photos-oodham-solidarity-project-spring.html
WAILA Papago Warrior videos Spring Gatheringhttp://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/music-video-papago-warrior-waila-at.html
O'odham Solidarity Project website, please consider making a donation!
http://www.solidarity-project.org/

O'odham Solidarity Project: Voices on the Border

O'odham Solidarity Project: Voices on the Border

A supporter of the O'odham Solidarity Project shares her feelings and insights after spending time with Tohono O'odham in their ancestral homeland. She describes the reality of the system in the United States and what it means here.
She reacts to learning of the militarization of O'odham homelands, the constant abuse of O'odham by US Border Patrol agents, and the ongoing power structure in the United States, which are among the most censored issues by the media.
The interview is on the western portion of Tohono O'odham land, near the so-called US/Mexico border in Arizona.

VIDEO II: Voices from the Border
 http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/video-ii-voices-from-border-oodham.html
PHOTOS Spring Gathering
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/photos-oodham-solidarity-project-spring.html
WAILA Papago Warrior videos Spring Gathering
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/04/music-video-papago-warrior-waila-at.html

O'odham Solidarity Project website, please consider making a donation!
http://www.solidarity-project.org/



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