Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts
June 21, 2025
Dine' John Redhouse's new book: A rare history of bordertown racism
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Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 20, 2025
John Redhouse's new book documents the horrific tragedies, and racism in the bordertown of Farmington, and it gives a detailed history of the resistance movement in the 1970s.During the march against the Gallup Ceremonial, John writes, "NIYC Executive Director Gerald Wilkinson (Cherokee) spoke for all when he said, “We were not meant to be tourist attractions for the master race.”
It is rare history, seldom written or told, as in the days following the murder of Larry Casuse in Gallup. John writes, "On the other side, there were some poorly disguised agent provocateurs—posing as instant Indian revolutionaries—who tried to recruit us to 'avenge' the death of Larry Casuse. Although it had a certain appeal, we had never seen any of them before and we didn’t trust them. It was obviously a COINTELPRO styled setup and we weren’t going to play into their hands."
And John shares the rich history of the KIVA Club at UNM in Albuquerque. "On a nomination from Zuni Pueblo-Navajo student activist Marley Shebala, I got elected to the Kiva Club Council (also known as Kiva Klub Kouncil or KKK) and began using the Native American Studies Center and its significant resources as a base for continuing my activist work."
Alongside John were so many who have passed to the Spirit World, like the soft-spoken Larry Emerson of Shiprock.
The Red Nation is launching a tour for the book in July.
Red Media is excited to announce our newest publication, Bordertown Clashes, Resource Wars, and Contested Territories: The Four Corners in the Turbulent 1970s by John Redhouse. The book hits the shelves on July 1, 2025.
“With extraordinary detail, precision, and humor, Redhouse testifies to the will and spirit of a movement at a pivotal time when there was no ‘I can’t,’ only ‘we must.’ Bordertown Clashes offers a roadmap for contemporary Red Power activists who must confront the present tense of struggle with the fortitude and versatility of their predecessors.”
– The Red Nation
July 1-5, 2025
Book Launch and Tour with author John Redhouse:
Join Red Media with author John Redhouse in person or online
July 1, 2025 – Pyramid Lake, Nevada Book talk and livestream at the Pyramid Lake Tribe Museum
July 3, 2025 – Albuquerque, New Mexico Book talk and livestream at Books on the Bosque bookstore July 4, 2025 – Farmington, New Mexico Book talk and livestream at Inspired Moments Event Center
July 5, 2025 – Gallup, New Mexico Book sale and author meet & greet at the Gallup Flea Market
The Red Nation Podcast is proud to provide live-streaming for the book launch tour.
Find links to the book, livestream, and event pages on the Red Media website: https://www.redmedia.press/events/
Pre-order, ships in July
November 2, 2024
O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town
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| Photo courtesy O'odham Solidarity, published with permission, Censored News |
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| Biden used the crimes committed against children in boarding schools to advance the political campaign at Gila River Indian Community. It backfired. -- Censored News |
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024
LAVEEN VILLAGE, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona -- In the Gila River Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to Native children who were victims of U.S. boarding schools. His glory campaign was short-lived.
LAVEEN VILLAGE, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona -- In the Gila River Indian Community today, Biden claimed to be issuing an apology to Native children who were victims of U.S. boarding schools. His glory campaign was short-lived.
As Biden spoke, an O'odham woman held up this sign: "There Are Still Babies in Mass Graves. Your Apology Means Nothing!! Land Back."
October 25, 2024
O'odham Solidarity with Palestine: 'NO! to Genocide Joe' on Gila River Today
Update: O'odham Woman Becomes Hero When Genocide Joe Comes to Town
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/oodham-woman-becomes-hero-when-genocide.html
By O'odham Solidarity, Censored News, Oct. 25, 2024
LAVEEN VILLAGE, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona -- An apology for genocide while actively causing a genocide is mind-blowing!
Show your presence on the outskirts of the reservation if you are NOT indigenous. We ask for respect for the O’odham first and foremost!
September 17, 2024
Protect Ha'Kamwe' Stop Big Sandy Lithium Mine Phoenix Courthouse Sept. 17, 2024
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| Zoe Perry, left, and Loveena Watahomiegie, right, as they join other members of the Hualapai Tribe while marching in front of U.S. District Court as they gathered to try to persuade a federal judge to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near tribal lands Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) |
PHOENIX (AP) — "Members of an Arizona tribe urged a federal judge Tuesday to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near lands they have used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries.
"The judge indicated she wouldn’t decide for more than a week whether to grant the tribe’s request or lift a temporary restraining order she issued last month."
November 14, 2022
Indigenous Protest at UN Climate Summit: Natives Protesting Biden have Credentials Removed
The actions of powerful Indigenous women at COP27, led by Ponca and Anishinaabe, under the heavy oppression of Egypt. Indigenous grandmothers and leaders held a water ceremony and marched through COP27 in Egypt calling for respect and protection of water and lands.Photo and video courtesy Adrien Salazar on Twitter. Listen to the prayer song.
Four activists, Natives and youths from the U.S., have credentials removed after a war cry, and holding up a banner, during Biden's talk at COP27
November 13, 2022
Indigenous fight for Indigenous children: Shut down law office as Supreme Court hears case
Indigenous Organizers and Allies Fight for Indian Child Welfare Act: Shutting Gibson Dunn's Washington D.C. Law Office
Censored News
Nov. 9, 2022
WASHINGTON D.C -- This morning Indigenous organizers and allies shut down the lobby of the Gibson Dunn law firm in Washington D.C, protesting their involvement in trying to strike down the Indian Child Welfare Act for their big oil client, Energy Transfer.
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on Brackeen V. Haaland today and will decide if they will gut ICWA in 2023, which will further weaken tribal sovereignty. Organizers entered the lobby with a drum singing prayer songs before security removed them from the building.
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October 21, 2022
White Mesa Ute Oppose Radioactive Mill -- Rally, Protest, and Walk Oct. 22, 2022
White Mesa Ute Protest and Spiritual Walk to Oppose White Mesa Uranium Mill
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French translation by Christine Prat
White Mesa Ute in southeastern Utah will protest the White Mesa uranium mill during their spiritual walk to protect the White Mesa Ute. Struggling to protect their sacred places and homeland, White Mesa Ute oppose the mill endangering the community and oppose it becoming an international dumping ground for radioactive waste.
White Mesa Ute are concerned for their community’s health, water, air, land, culture, and welcome others to join them on Saturday, October 22, 2022, 11 am Mountain time for their rally. The rally will be followed by spiritual protest walk to the White Mesa uranium mill.
Yolanda Badback, White Mesa Concerned Community said, "They are bringing toxic waste, radioactive waste, from places all across the United States to the mill in White Mesa. In the past, some has spilled."
April 19, 2022
National Sacrifice Zone: Dine' Protest as Navajo Council Continues Era of Neglect and Abuse of Dine'
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| The banner 'National Sacrifice Zone' outside the Navajo Nation Council on Monday, as Council began its spring session. |
Navajo council delegates are among the co-opted players in this roulette of cash, greed and genocide.
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Dine' farmers brought this message: "Navajo hemp growers are not criminals or drug dealers. Most were elderly," said one Dine', referring to the Navajo police raid on Dine' hemp farmers.
Navajo elderly were refused entry to the springs session of the Navajo Nation Council today. Dine' protesters opposed new helium mining on the sacred Beautiful Mountain. While Navajos are in need of water and help to haul water, the Navajo Council plans to give a half-million-dollar gift to a private Christian school. Dine' lined up outside the tribal finance building in desperate need of funds. The Navajo government received $2.1 billion in federal virus relief funds from ARPA, but the Navajo government has failed to distribute those. Now, 1,741 Navajos have died of COVID-19.
Outside the Navajo Nation Council Chambers in Window Rock, Dine' are opposing new helium mining on sacred Beautiful Mountain at Sanostee.
The Navajo Nation Council plans to give a half-million dollars to a private Christian school. It will be discussed this week during the Council's spring session.
Below, Navajo Council resolution:
Norrell has a master's degree in international health, focused on water, nutrition and infectious diseases. Since 2006, she has been blacklisted by the media as a news reporter.
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April 19, 2022
NAVAJO NATION CAPITOL -- National Sacrifice Zone, the banner reads, outside the Navajo Nation Council, as the Council begins its spring session. The sacrifice zone is the Navajo Nation. The Four Corners region and Black Mesa, and all of the Navajo Nation, have been the United States' sacrifice zone.
Dine' -- and their land, water, and air -- were poisoned by the U.S. government and its corporations, for uranium mining during the Cold War, and coal-fired power plants to produce electricity for distant cities in the Southwest.
Uranium mining, coal mining, coal-fired power plants, fracking, and oil and gas wells, have left behind strewn radioactive debris from uranium mining, scarred land cut and gouged by mining, poisoned water from dumping and runoff, dried up springs from Peabody Coal's mining, and a long genocidal trail of cancer and respiratory disease.
The U.S. Sacrifice Zone continues in the Four Corners region.
Navajo council delegates are among the co-opted players in this roulette of cash, greed and genocide.
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| Dine' from Black Mesa outside the Navajo Nation Council on Monday, in solidarity with Dine' opposing new helium mining, planned by the Council, on sacred Beautiful Mountain at Sanostee. -- Censored News. |
"We came all the way from Black Mesa. We just want our council delegates to do their jobs."
That is the voice of Dine' outside the Navajo Nation Council chambers on Monday. On Black Mesa, Dine' said they have no running water, are using outhouses, and their roads are in bad condition.
During the protest outside the Navajo Council on Monday, Dine' urged real solutions to climate change, and a halt to the dependence on fossil fuels, mining and extraction.
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| Dine' outside the council chambers on Monday included Dine' hemp farmers who said their voices are not being heard. Dine' hemp farmers said their story, of what they went through after a Navajo police raid, is not being heard. |
Dine' are speaking out for real solutions to climate change and voicing urgency for support for sexual assault victims and new efforts in search for missing and murdered Dine'.
“We stand for protecting our precious Mother Earth; we do not want Mother Earth to be destroyed with more pollution from emissions and the potential of destroying the water supply," Dine' organizers of today's march and protest said in a written statement.
An elderly Dine', shown above, was turned away at the door of the Navajo Nation Council spring session today.
During her live coverage, Dine'/Zuni reporter Marley Shebala, was also turned away at the Council door, and told she "was not on the list." Shebala has been a reporter in the Navajo capitol for 40 years.
The Council's spring session began today. The agenda includes a half-million-dollar gift to a private Christian school.
(Photo above) Reporting live outside the Navajo Finance building, reporter Marley Shebala shows Dine' lined up in need of assistance.
The Navajo government received the American Rescue Plan Act, federal virus relief funds, nearly a year ago, but has not distributed the $2.1 billion in funds.
Now, 1,741 Dine' have died from the COVID-19. Many Dine' are in need of help hauling water and are not receiving help getting water from the Navajo government.
Navajo Council plans half million for private Christian school
Dine'/Zuni Pueblo reporter Marley Shebala questions what Native children are being taught at the school. Shebala writes, "When I attended Rehoboth, I was told that my Dine’ and Zuni ceremonies/prayers were devil worship."
During the pandemic, in August of 2020, the Navajo Council gave $24 million of its federal virus relief funds, from the CARES Act, to its casinos. The Council secretly planned to buy the bankrupt Remington Arms for $300 million during the pandemic, for the second time, in June of 2020, but it was purchased by others for far less.
Now, in April of 2022, reporter Marley Shebala reports on the Navajo Council's plan to fund Rehoboth, east of Gallup, New Mexico. Shebala questions what is the position of Rehoboth on teaching the Dine' traditions and ceremonies.
The spread of the coronavirus has come in waves on the Navajo Nation over the past two years. The coronavirus spread began at gatherings of the Nazarene Christian Church on the Navajo Nation.
Shebala writes: "I attended Rehoboth & I saw how my friends were taught to be ashamed of their parents if they were not Christians or if they were traditional Dine’. Rehoboth was a Christian Boarding School. Why hasn’t the Navajo Council called for an Investigation of Rehoboth, instead of handing over more of our Funds. AND Rehoboth Christian School charges Tuition Fees & Other Fees."
"WHAT IS REHOBOTH'S POSITION ON DINE’ TEACHINGS, CEREMONIES, PRAYERS, ART, MATH, HERBS, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, DINE’ TRADITIONAL CLOTHING. When I attended Rehoboth, I was told that my Dine’ and Zuni ceremonies/prayers were devil worship," Shebala writes.
Read Shebala's column at:
TODAY: Watch Marley Shebala's live coverage, and recorded videos:
Screenshots by Censored News from Marley Shebala's video coverage that is underway.
Listen to Dine' voices on the video coverage of reporter Marley Shebala. Navajo elderly and Shebala, Dine'/Zuni Pueblo, a reporter here for 40 years, were denied entry into the Council on Monday by the Navajo Nation Council.
Watch Shebala's video here:
About the author
Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 40 years. She began at the Navajo Times during the 18 years that she lived on the Navajo Nation. She was a correspondent for Associated Press and USA Today, covering the Navajo Nation and federal courts. After serving as a longtime staff reporter for Indian Country Today, she was censored and fired in 2006. Norrell created Censored News to reveal what was being censored in Indian country. She traveled with the Zapatistas and to Bolivia for live coverage. Today Censored News is a collective, with 21 million views. Now in its 15th year, it has no ads, grants, salaries or revenues.Norrell has a master's degree in international health, focused on water, nutrition and infectious diseases. Since 2006, she has been blacklisted by the media as a news reporter.
Copyright Brenda Norrell, Censored News
Read more at Navajo Times
Navajo Times journalist Rima Krisst reports -- "With $1.07 billion in American Rescue Plan Act funds idle because the Navajo Nation Council and president’s office are divided over how to spend it, members of the Dzil Yijiin Regional Council marched on the first day of spring session Monday to express concern. Marcus Tulley, president of the regional council, said the protest was to demand Navajo Nation leaders to 'do their job' and approve ARPA spending."
Navajo Times journalist Rima Krisst reports -- "With $1.07 billion in American Rescue Plan Act funds idle because the Navajo Nation Council and president’s office are divided over how to spend it, members of the Dzil Yijiin Regional Council marched on the first day of spring session Monday to express concern. Marcus Tulley, president of the regional council, said the protest was to demand Navajo Nation leaders to 'do their job' and approve ARPA spending."
“The people that are suffering are the chapter people,” said Tulley. “They need to stop playing games with these funds and sit down together and iron things out.” The Dzil Yijiin region includes Hardrock, Black Mesa, Forest Lake, Pinon, Whippoorwill, Blue Gap and Low Mountain chapters.
Read the article at Navajo Times.
December 28, 2020
Water Protector ascends tripod blocks Enbridge pipeline
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| LIVE! Emma risking her wellbeing for future generations, as Minnesota law enforcement protects a Canadian multinational corporation. Emma Harrison was arrested today after her bold stance for the water. "I'm doing this because Line 3 embodies everything wrong with the world. Profits for a few over the well-being of communities near and far, present and future. Stopping Line 3 is a tangible way to fight for the world I want to live in." |
September 3, 2019
Tohono O'odham Protest Against Border Wall and Israeli Spy Towers on Arizona Border
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| Tohono O'odham protested the border wall being constructed in the fragile Sonoran Desert on Saturday, and the Israeli spy towers now targeting the Tohono O'odham Naiton. Photos copyright Ofelia Rivas. |
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| (Photo above) U.S. military surveillance helicopter over Gu-Vo community this morning on Tohono O'odham Nation. Below: in Gu-Vo community today.  |
Photos by Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham
Article by Brenda Norrell
Censored News copyright
Sat., Aug. 31, 2019
AJO, Arizona -- As Trump's bulldozers destroy the pristine Sonoran Desert at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument nearby, Tohono O'odham and Arizona residents are protesting the inhumane destruction.
Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham who lives on the border, told Censored News, "Beautiful day in the O'odham homeland, united group of people came to be a voice for the lands and nature against genocidal policies of an inhumane government system attacking all life."
"The Society of these stolen lands should legally charge these inhumane crimes against this disgraceful person."
"The group will continue to be a voice for the honor of the bees, the endangered sacred animals, plants and the entire land and people," Rivas said.
All endangered species laws and all laws protecting sacred Native American places have been smashed. The border wall construction is already using a vast amount of water in the desert here for concrete.
These defenders are also protesting the Israeli spy towers now targeting the Tohono O'odham Nation. The Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems plans to construct these spy towers and destroy sacred burial places and ceremonial places on the Tohono O'odham Nation. The tribal government approved these spy towers in March, but Gu-Vo District continues to oppose this oppression and destruction. Elbit already carries out Apartheid security in Palestine.
Ofelia Rivas is the founder of O'odham Voice against the Wall, and has spent her life battling the abuses of the U.S. Border Patrol. Ofelia lives on the border on the Tohono O'odham Nation and is a voice for human rights.
Donate to Ofelia on her website, for gas funds for her work, at:
http://tiamatpublications.com/
Photos copyright Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham.
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May not be used without permission.
More: Trump's bulldozers destroying the pristine Sonoran Desert and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument! Photos and video:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2019/08/trumps-monster-bulldozers-now-ripping.html
April 8, 2018
Live from Coast Salish Land at Kinder Morgan Pipeline Gates April 7, 2018
Breaking News Update -- Sunday, April 8, 2018
Trans Mountain Pipeline Suspends Work
AP TORONTO — Trans Mountain Pipeline Suspending Work! "Kinder Morgan said Sunday it is suspending all non-essential activities and related spending on its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that would nearly triple the flow of oil from Canada’s oil sands to the Pacific Coast. The company said its decision is based on the British Columbia government’s opposition to the project, which has also been the focus of sustained protests at Kinder Morgan’s marine terminal in Burnaby, British Columbia." Here's the live coverage from Saturday, with Chiefs on the frontline at Burnaby Mountain.
Trans Mountain Pipeline Suspends Work
AP TORONTO — Trans Mountain Pipeline Suspending Work! "Kinder Morgan said Sunday it is suspending all non-essential activities and related spending on its controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project that would nearly triple the flow of oil from Canada’s oil sands to the Pacific Coast. The company said its decision is based on the British Columbia government’s opposition to the project, which has also been the focus of sustained protests at Kinder Morgan’s marine terminal in Burnaby, British Columbia." Here's the live coverage from Saturday, with Chiefs on the frontline at Burnaby Mountain.
Article by Coast Protectors
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A full-day blockade at Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby construction site today was led by Tsleil-Waututh Elder Ta'ah Amy George and the full executive of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, which represents more than half the nations, tribes and bands in BC.Grand Chief Stewart Phillip (Penticton Indian Band), Chief Bob Chamberlin (Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation) and Chief Judy Wilson (Neskonlith First Nation in Secwepemc territory) were joined by hundreds of supporters in pouring rain, shutting down work at the facility for the day. A long rolling clap of thunder struck at the same moment as the drummers began the gathering, prompting cheers from the large crowd of supporters. After hours of blocking both gates to the tanker farm and after it was clear that Kinder Morgan was finished work for the day, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip declared victory:
“Clearly Kinder Morgan is intimidated and fearful of a strong, unified front between Indigenous leaders and our allies. Kinder Morgan was forced not to issue a prerequisite complaint to the RCMP to enable arrests. Without question, Kinder Morgan backed down today. We were here and we will be back. There is absolutely no way that we are letting Kinder Morgan expand its archaic and dangerous fossil fuel extraction. Today we proudly stood with land defenders to send a strong message to Kinder Morgan, its investors, and Trudeau — we will not stand down and we will remain united in our opposition.”
Indigenous leaders and people across Canada and the U.S. have promised escalating action to stop Kinder Morgan's pipeline and tanker project from moving forward. International opposition to the tar sands project is on the rise, and opponents have promised to make sure Alberta Premier Rachel Notley hears that opposition when she promotes Kinder Morgan’s pipeline in New York and Toronto next week.
We're not giving up. We're not going away. This pipeline will never be built.
https://www.coastprotectors.ca/indigenous_leaders_shut_down_kinder_morgan
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Above, on Friday:
“That’s a lie, Justin Trudeau you are a weak leader. This pipeline is not happening. The youth will stand up and stop you”. My son Cedar George-Parker calls out Justin Trudeau at his fundraiser dinner in Vancouver. I am so proud of my son. He is fearless, standing with conviction. -- Rueben George
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Watch now live:
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/982729439300612096
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At the gates of Kinder Morgan with land defenders on Coast Salish territory.
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| Watch live now, Saturday, April 7, 2018 https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/982728831839584256 |
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/982729439300612096
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At the gates of Kinder Morgan with land defenders on Coast Salish territory.
Above, on Friday:
“That’s a lie, Justin Trudeau you are a weak leader. This pipeline is not happening. The youth will stand up and stop you”. My son Cedar George-Parker calls out Justin Trudeau at his fundraiser dinner in Vancouver. I am so proud of my son. He is fearless, standing with conviction. -- Rueben George
February 7, 2018
PHOTOS: SALEM RALLY AGAINST OFF-SHORE DRILLING
WATER IS LIFE and DRILLING IS KILLING
February 6, 2018. Salem, Oregon.
Photos and article by Lloyd Vivola
Censored News
Environmental activists were joined by concerned citizens, First Nations, elected officials and government commissioners on the steps of the State Capitol Building here to rally in opposition to the Trump Administration's plan to open the Outer Continental Shelf of the United States to unprecedented oil and gas development.
The Oil and Gas Leasing Plan, as proposed in January by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, would make 90% of the American OCS available for fossil fuel exploration and extraction beginning in 2019. Currently, some 94% of the OCS is off-limits to fossil fuel development, including OCS territory that extends from Oregon coastal waters, a marine environment considered by many to be among the world's most biologically sound.
Speakers at the rally underscored a long list of economic and environmental concerns regarding any introduction of future fossil fuel development in this area, not least among them the risk of catastrophic oil spills. They also voiced outrage that the policy flies in the face of ever more evident climate disruption and the need to develop renewable energy sources.
After the rally, many protesters attended a well-orchestrated information fair – billed as a public meeting – that was held at the nearby Red Lion Hotel and presented by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. As part of administrative protocol regarding the off-shore leasing proposal, BOEM is currently accepting public comments online and by mail.
To learn more, visit Surfrider at:
Story and Photos by Lloyd Vivola
Copyright Lloyd Vivola, Censored News
October 18, 2017
World Climate Protest at COP 23 Bonn, Germany Nov. 11, 2017
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World Climate Conference Bonn
Mass Demonstration on World Climate Action Day
Saturday, November 11, 2017
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