An Evening with Leonard Peltier and Angela Daivs -- Photos by Karen Rudolph and CURYJ

Photo copyright Karen Rudolph

An Evening with Leonard Peltier and Angela Davis

'Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Age of Fascism' in Oakland, California

Photos by Karen Rudolph, Censored News, Nov. 25, 2025

"What a night. Thank you CURYJ and George Galvis for making this happen. Jimi Simmons, John Trudell, Raul Salinas, Steve Robideau, Nilak Butler, Lenny Weinglass -- would be so happy to see Leonard out of prison. Finally." -- Karen Rudolph

Mohawk Nation News 'The Indigenous Plan!'

THE INDIGENOUS PLAN!

Posted on August 31, 2025 by Kan1enkehaka

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/

MNN. THE INDIGENOUS PLAN. Aug. 31, 2025. We don’t want more territory since creation placed us on almost 1/5th of the earth to care for and defend her and our people. 

'Ground Zero' Annual Ward Valley Spiritual Gathering Feb. 17, 2024

 

Zapatistas Arrive in France on Tour for Life

In Paris on Saturday, the Zapatistas Delegation was celebrated.
Tour for Life in Europe 
 .https://viajezapatista.eu/en/

'We Are Mauna Kea' Standing for Future Generations

Watch new video below

'We are Mauna Kea' new video reveals the vision and stance that brings thousands to stand and protect their sacred mountain, Mauna Kea

Video by On the Roam
Article by Brenda Norrell
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Anne White Hat -- 'Energy Transfer Partners tried to kill us in the Atchafalaya'

Anne White Hat --'Energy Transfer Partners tried to kill us in the Atchafalaya'

By Anne White Hat
Published with permission
Censored News

Talk about #BayousOfResistance!! 

(Oct. 17, 2018) The past 72 hours with our L’eau Est La Vie Crew have been nothing less than equal parts prayer, love, Ohitika, raw courage, and badassednessicity - to say the least. Those Energy Transfer Partners Bayou Bridge pipeline security #%!&@! tried to kill us out there in the Atchafalaya basin y’all, but they don’t understand that the swamp, she loves us more than all the hatred they have for us.

She resisted their hatred for her beloved Water Protectors, who love her so much. She reached her long willow branches out to us while our femme captains made life-saving maneuvers in the violent wake left by ETP’s Bayou Bridge security, her strong branches pulling us to shore as our boats sank into the swamp beneath our feet.

Even the gators with their glowing red eyes and the snakes, who hang over the bayou in the trees and those bigass - and I mean bigass, spiders made room for us. Except the armadillos, there were a lot of those guys who passed by at soon after the sun came up.

It was pitch black in the Atchafalaya when ETP tried to kill us. We deployed around 0:00 dark-thirty, with two national media crews on board, everyone coffeed-up, smudged-up and prayed-up. I had our prayer flags ziplocked and tucked away in my bag as we made our way into the darkness and the most spectacular ride through the swamp ever!! Honestly, I wish y’all were there to witness the magnificent beautiful swamplands that we’re protecting from ETP’s destruction.

At one point, we were the lead boat, I was on the bow of the boat, funky flashlight in hand (because I searched all over camp for a flashlight with batteries with George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars’ “Flashlight” in my mind lol) watching for red gator eyes, rougaroux and random branches or logs that might come across our path. The moon was just a sliver and the sky was filled with stars that reflected on the water, which was like glass at times, and an ever so light mist was coming up ahead hanging above the bayou. I had a feeling to bring out our prayer flags, and like they say, always listen to your intuition. So i pulled our prayer flags and waluta out of their waterproof ziplock bag as we moved through the misty bayou, through that powerful spiritual time, that darkness before the dawn, with all of Creation and the spirits of the Atchafalaya, holding the offerings of her Water Protectors for good health, help and protection.

Soon we could see the most obnoxious glow of lights from the Bayou Bridge pipeline construction site. I tucked our prayer flags safely away in my jacket pocket, knowing full well that our Ancestors had our backs.

Media crews were documenting the construction site along the bayou and soon a security patrol boat with a spotlight was coming towards us as we continued our way down the bayou. The ETP security patrol boat created a huge wake as he passed us by and within seconds waves nearly two feet high began crashing down into our boats. Yea y’all, that wreckless hater created life-threatening conditions which i’m sure violate all kinds of maritime law and could have killed a lot of people.

Meanwhile, hats off to our femme Captains who made split-second decisions, and I mean split-second, because we literally had about 3 or 4 seconds with 3-4 bigass waves, and they saved all of our lives out there - omg! I love them!

We’re all safe. No one was hurt. We’re still here to tell the story.

ok, stay tuned for more about how ETP tried to kill us in the Atchafalaya swamplands.

If y’all want to help us recover items we lost, that would be awesome. I, along with most of our crew lost our phones among many thousands of dollars worth of equipment, etc not to mention our camp boats.

I think i’m going to set up a personal gofundme effort. I had to replace my iPhone today which i totally can’t afford aaand I lost a lot of contacts and pretty much everything - except our prayer flags, they were with us the whole time.

#BayousOfResistance
#ProtectWhatYouLove
#StopETP
#NoBayouBridge
#LeauEstLaVie
#WaterIsLife
#MniWiconi

NOBBP.ORG

NO BAYOU BRIDGE

Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the very same company behind the notorious Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) , is trying to build a 162 mile crude oil pipeline across Louisiana called the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP).

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Leaked doc: New Mexico Oil and Gas Association fears homegrown environmental movements in New Mexico

New Mexico Oil and Gas Association clearly fears the homegrown resistance in New Mexico.
Photo credit: https://www.frackoffchaco.org/graphics

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The New Mexico Oil and Gas Association clearly fears the homegrown environmental justice movements in New Mexico

Article by Brenda Norrell
Censored News

A leaked transcript from the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association reveals that it fears the enormous impact of successful environmental activists in New Mexico -- ranging from those in the otherwise conservative county of Sandoval, to the activists in Santa Fe with their "Don't Frack Chaco" bumper stickers.

"Well you can't go anywhere in New Mexico without tripping over an activist group," said Ryan Flynn, executive director of the New Mexico OIl and Gas Association, at the annual meeting in Santa Fe in 2017.

"Look at Chaco Canyon. I'm sure if you drive around Santa Fe, or walk around, you will see a don't frack Chaco bumper sticker."

"In fact we have more activist organizations per capita in New Mexico, than any other state in the country," Flynn said.

"Our opposition is deeply embedded in local communities."

Flynn said the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association is especially concerned that children as young as middle school want to protect their environment, and protect their land and water.

The leaked transcript reveals how successful the movements against methane and fracking have been in New Mexico by local residents. Movements including 'Leave it in the Ground," and the environmental movements springing from the bedrock of local communities clearly have rattled the Association.

Flynn's address came as Native Americans rose up to protest the widespread pollution from coal mining and coal-burning power plants on the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners area. For decades, environmental justice campaigns have exposed the widespread cancers from uranium mining and scattered radioactive tailings that remain on both Navajo and Pueblo lands.

Local communities are also fighting new fracking in the Chaco Canyon region -- one of the world's foremost cultural areas -- and fracking in the pristine Chuska Mountains on the Navajo Nation.

Pueblos continue to protest the longtime atomic testing at Los Alamos. In southern New Mexico, the land and water is polluted from missile ranges. New oil and gas drilling is being battled throughout New Mexico.

The environmental justice campaigns are having a tremendous impact.

Flynn said at the meeting, "Their ability to mobilize is something we have to take seriously and combat," He also points out the power of local activists when they contact politicians with e-mail campaigns.

Flynn revealed the cozy relationship of the oil and gas industry with the Governor.

Flynn said he previously served as Secretary of the Environment under the current governor, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Republican.

Flynn said Gov. Martinez can be relied on to pass oil and gas legislation in favor of the oil and gas industry.

At the annual meeting, Flynn said, “Susana Martinez, my former boss, she’s embraced an all-of-the-above approach to energy policy. Probably the most consistent benefit to our industry over the last 7 years is that we don’t have to worry when we walk into each legislative session about a harmful piece of legislation getting signed into law."

Yes, Flynn is the former Secretary of Environment under Martinez.

Read the full written transcript of the leaked audio from the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association's annual meeting 2017:

http://www.wildearthguardians.org/site/DocServer/NMOGA_President_Transcript_2017.pdf?docID=17651
Also at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BqerYOiHj6_EwMRA7a5ChuAAxVLZOEhs/view?usp=sharing

Excerpt:

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Halliburton destroying the sacred Chaco region,
in Lybrook, New Mexico area, on Jan. 10, 2018

Article copyright Brenda Norrell, Censored News


Also see: Sandoval County residents protest oil and gas industry
http://krqe.com/2017/10/19/sandoval-county-commissioners-to-take-vote-on-oil-and-gas-ordinance/

Native Nations Protest Energy Transfer Pipelines in Dallas by Yolonda Bluehorse

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Stop Energy Transfer Partners National Campaign Rally at Pipeline Headquarters in Dallas

By Yolonda Bluehorse, Lakota
Society of Native Nations
Censored News

DALLAS -- On Friday Sept 8, 2017 members of the Society of Native Nations, an indigenous led, non-profit organization in Texas, organized a rally at Energy Transfer Partners in Dallas, Texas.
This event was created to stand in solidarity with the national campaign to Stop ETP, and events that were held on Sept 9, 2017, across the US.
Members of the Indigenous Environmental Network and representatives from other pipeline resistance that Energy Transfer Partners is building, came to show their support as well.
Native and Non Native communities came together to stand in solidarity against Energy Transfer Partners and all fossil fuel companies, to demand accountability to the destruction of our Mother Earth and their contribution to climate change.
We must make the changes necessary in order to protect the future by prioritizing and protecting the sacred Mother Earth, sacred land, sacred air, and sacred water now before it's too late.

Kelcy Warren's Energy Transfer Partners is owner of Dakota Access Pipeline. The crude oil now threatens the Missouri River and the drinking water of millions. The resistance to the pipeline at Standing Rock revealed thousands taking a prayerful stand against the pipeline, even though they were subjected to excessive force and brutality by police. Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, and their allies, were shot with rubber bullets and projectiles, gassed with tear gas, and jailed in dog kennels by Morton County, North Dakota, Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, with numbers written on their arm as was done by the Nazis.

BLACK MESA Impoundments Threatened: Human Rights Observers, Sheepherders Requested June 2017

JUNE 2017 Urgent call for volunteer sheepherders at Black Mesa New impoundment threats issued Over this past week, law enforcement and Hopi land management officers entered Sovereign Dineh Nation territories at Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona with orders to count Dineh livestock. They issues 5-day notices to Dineh families, threatening to impound so-called "trespassing" sheep, goats, and cattle. "In times like these it's hard for me to eat or sleep," stated elder matriarch Glenna Begay. "I lay up at night worried for my animals. The sheep are my children. The horses too are relatives. They have been with us since the beginning." Families and elders resisting forced relocation policies on their ancestral homelands are urgently requesting volunteers to assist with maintaining the daily struggle. This primarily involves herding sheep throughout the day and doing basic chores. In this time of escalated police activity, supporters are also asked to be observant and record police or government actions. Livestock-related harassment by law enforcement is an annual occurrence that families resisting federal relocation policies endure, however, harassment and livestock impoundments have intensified in recent years. Armed officers conducted raids against families in 2014 and 2016.  These actions serve as painful reminders of the long history of US genocidal campaigns against the Dineh people. Public Law 93-531, the Navajo-Hopi Resettlement Act of 1974 remains in effect, despite four decades of indigenous resistance and international petition for repeal. It has always been clear to the Dineh people of Big Mountain/Black Mesa that the relocation policy is not about a so-called Navajo-Hopi Land dispute, but rather, is about natural resource development. Peabody Coal has been "carving out Mother Earth's organs" since 1966 on northern Black Mesa. "When we first walked on Black Mesa, there was abundance of life," explains elder matriarch Rena Babbitt Lane. "This land was never meant to be mined for coal. The Holy People walked here. But the coal company took the water and gave us sickness. That is what Washington gave us back, sickness." Today, relocation is administered through Ordinance 43, which among other atrocities, authorizes US Bureau of Indian Affairs deputized officers from the Hopi Office of Range and Land Management to enforce harsh and alien grazing controls on Dineh families refusing to relocate.  Animals considered to be trespassing are impounded, large fees are charged, and animals may never be allowed to return. Dineh families depend on their livestock for subsistence and the continuation of their traditional lifeway. Earlier this year, the majority owner of the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station announced it would be closing the plant by 2019. A closure of the generating station would also mean closure of Peabody's Kayenta Mine at Black Mesa. As revenue-hungry government officials seek ways to keep the generation station and mine operating, Dineh residents of Black Mesa continue to voice their support for a final and complete shutdown of coal operations. By taking care of livestock and chores at homesites, volunteer sheepherders can support elders and families' participation in meetings and demonstrations. At this time we, the international communities beyond the natural boundaries of Dineh territory, are being asked to do something bigger than ourselves. Many families are urgently requesting your support. Please consider a journey to Big Mountain/ Black Mesa to be a sheepherder and human rights observer, whether for a week or a month. To offer to volunteer your time, or with questions, please contact: blackmesais@gmail.com / 928-773-8086 or Jake: 937-479-4214 If you haven't come out to the land before, please read and fill out the cultural sensitivity guide and preparedness form: https://supportblackmesa.org/2008/10/cultural-sensitivity-preparedness-guidebook-registration-form/ Other related announcements: * Dineh Grandmothers to Speak in Los Angeles A delegation of Diné grandmothers from Big Mountain/Black Mesa will be visiting the LA area from July 20-August 2, bringing their traditionally-made handwoven rugs and jewelry. There will be 2-3 events where the LA community will be able to purchase these items, connect with the grandmothers and learn how to stand in solidarity with their resistance to coal mining and cultural genocide. To find out more about this tour please visit http://www.sonela.org or e-mail Tanya at wemoonwitch@gmail.com. * Funds needed to finish house for Big Mountain relocation resister Creighton Dailey, who grew up nearby on the Navajo Nation in Pinon, is renovating an old stone cabin with his grassroots group Carpenters for a Cause, which will be the primary residence for a lifelong relocation resister at Big Mountain. Additional funds are needed to complete this project, please donate if you are able: https://www.gofundme.com/CFAC3 * Funds requested to repair Black Mesa elder's solar system A group of supporters is helping Black Mesa elder Rena Babbit-Lane and her family to raise the $3000 needed to purchase a new bank of batteries for their photovoltaic solar power system. For more information, and to donate, visit: https://www.blackmesautility.com/ For more background on the Big Mountain/Black Mesa struggle: http://supportblackmesa.org/ http://sheepdognationrocks.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-fight-to-protect-altar-black-mesa.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZ7pPNISyc For more information on the closure of the Navajo Generating Station: https://www.navajoenergyfuture.org/ Copyright © 2017 Black Mesa Indigenous Support, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have expressed interest in the work of BMIS. Our mailing address is: Black Mesa Indigenous Support P.O. Box 23501 Flagstaff, AZ 86002

Water Protectors Awaken Global Movement of Pipeline Resistance and Divestment

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ARKANSAS DIAMOND PIPELINE LOCKDOWN MONDAY

Water protector Tyler Hamilton was arrested Monday. Tyler is being held without bail in the Pope County jail in Russellville, Arkansas. Tyler is being charged with 3 misdemeanors and one felony (criminal mischief in the second degree). The arresting officer stated that this class D felony charge is being pursued by the prosecuting attorney as a direct result of time and money lost by Diamond Pipeline.

Water Protectors Inspire New Resistance Camps, Global Divestment in Dakota Access Pipeline

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Because of the water protectors who stood on the frontlines and were shot with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons in freezing weather, who locked down and went to jail and were abused in jail, the movement is now a rallying point for the world.

Divestment in the banks funding the Dakota Access Pipeline is one of the victories of the water protectors who camped at Standing Rock.

An Indigenous Women's Delegation to Norway was announced today, carrying the voices of the water protectors at Standing Rock to Europe, and urging divestment in Dakota Access Pipeline.

The delegates to Norway include Dr. Sarah Jumping Eagle (Oglala Lakota and Mdewakantonwan Dakota living and working on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation); Wasté Win Young (Ihunktowanna/Hunkpapa of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Former Tribal Historic Preservation Officer); Tara Houska (Anishinaabe, tribal attorney, National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders); Autumn Chacon (Diné/Navajo writer and performance artist); and Michelle Cook (Diné/Navajo, human rights lawyer and founding member of the Water Protector Legal Collective at Standing Rock) - with the support of Delegate organizer Osprey Orielle Lake (Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network, WECAN) and Tanyette Colon (documentary filmmaker). Read more at Censored News http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/indigenous-womens-divestment-delegation.html

Now, throughout the United States new camps are fighting other pipelines and water protectors are rising with the same fortitude, dedication and courage to protect the water, rivers, land and sacred places.
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Photo courtesy Arkansas Rising

On Monday, Tyler Hamilton was arrested as he locked down to halt the Diamond pipeline in Arkansas. Water protectors on the border of Texas and Mexico are battling the Trans Pecos pipeline owned by Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer Partner owner Kelcy Warren.

In Oklahoma, a new camp is rising on Choctaw land. In Iowa, water protectors have created the Little Creek Camp. In Florida, water protectors are battling the Sabal Trail pipeline. New water protector camps are rising as the KXL pipeline from the dirty oil tarsands in Alberta, Canada, again threatens the Ogallala Aquifer and heartland.
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Sicangu Lakota youth Destiny Wilcuts locked down to halt Trans Pecos
pipeline on Texas border during January.

The movement is intensifying as farmers, ranchers and small families are now having their lands seized by eminent domain for private pipelines -- as President Trump pushes the agenda of big oil over people and their land rights.

Indigenous Sami Lead Way for Divestment

Sami with Water Protectors at Standing Rock Camp

"In an act of international solidarity between indigenous peoples, the Sami parliament in Norway has persuaded the country’s second largest pension fund to withdraw its money from companies linked to a controversial oil project backed by Donald Trump," The Guardian in London reports.
After lobbying by the Sami parliament, Norway’s local authority pension fund KLP announced it would sell of shares worth $58m in companies building the pipeline.

Seattle, Davis and Santa Monica withdrawing billions from Wells Fargo
Bloomberg reports Wells Fargo and Company shareholders will vote next month on whether to require the bank to adopt policies to help protect indigenous groups after protesters targeted its role in financing the Dakota Access pipeline.

On Feb. 7, Seattle severed its relationship with Wells Fargo, leading the way for other cities.

The Nation reports, "Now, inspired by the Seattle model, campaigners in cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Bellingham, Raleigh, Albuquerque, and even Berlin, are bringing DAPL divestment to their communities."

"As of late February, officials in two other California cities, Davis and Santa Monica, had also pledged to bail on future banking contracts with Wells Fargo. Davis will be withdrawing its $124 million account from the bank; Santa Monica plans to take its $1 billion elsewhere as well."

More:
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/17/sami-dakota-access-pipeline-norway-pension-fund-divest
Bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-15/wells-fargo-s-dakota-access-financing-prompts-a-shareholder-vote
The Nation:
https://www.thenation.com/article/these-cities-are-divesting-from-the-banks-that-support-the-dakota-access-pipeline/

Standing Rock Camp 'We Shall Remain' Photos by Michelle Cook

Photos by Michelle Cook, Dine' copyright

Standing Rock Camp 'No Dakota Access Pipeline'

Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016

'We shall remain' photos today by Michelle Cook

Clyde Bellecourt, cofounder American Indian Movement

A delegation of Amnesty International greets Joye Braun, Cheyenne River Lakota, one of the original organizers of Sacred Stones Camp

Money needed for camping

Directions for Human Rights Observers 

NOW: Message coming in from Buck Sampson, Paiute. 'We Natives are having big rally in Reno in support of our Tribesmen Standing Rock Sioux. We have some people from Standing Rock talking, the drum, Las Vegas Paiutes from Moapa, Pyramid Lake Tribe, Yerington Tribe, Schurz Tribe, Reno Spark Tribe, Lovelock Tribe, Fallon Tribe, Northern Paiute Tribes in Nevada, Susanville Tribe Paiute, Washoe, Maidu, Pit River. We got a few Lakotas here, 300 Natives. They did round dance and sang songs, lots of traditional songs. There was a TV crew here.' And back at camp today, photos, 'We shall remain,' by Michelle Cook, Dine'. Thank you all. http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/08/standing-rock-camp-we-shall-remain.html