Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

May 30, 2023

Oglala Commemoration: Leonard Peltier Day


 International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
FREEDOM RUN, 9 am at Camp Justice White Clay, rez border
PRAYER VIGIL -- 12 pm at Little’s Family Cemetery
WALK FOR JUSTICE -- 1 pm at Little’s Family Cemetery
MEMORIALS -- 2 pm at Jumping Bull Land
COMMUNITY DINNER -- 5 pm at Bro Renee Hall, Oglala South Dakota

Civil Air Patrol Surveilled Area of Border Patrol Protest -- Tohono O'odham Demand Justice for Raymond Mattia



Civil Air Patrol, a volunteer auxiliary of the U.S. Airforce, monitored the region where Tohono O'odham protested the U.S. Border Patrol at the Ajo station on Saturday. The surveillance began as supporters were traveling to the protest. They called for justice for Raymond Mattia, murdered by the U.S. Border Patrol.  A second Civil Air Patrol plane surveilled the area where Raymond lived and was murdered, on Sunday morning. Live radar screenshots by Censored News.

Civil Air Patrol Surveilled Area of Border Patrol Protest --  Tohono O'odham Demand Justice for Raymond Mattia

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

AJO, Arizona -- The Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the U.S. Airforce manned by volunteers, surveilled the area where Tohono O'odham protested the U.S. Border Patrol at Ajo on Saturday morning. The aerial surveillance included the western portion of the Tohono O'odham Nation where Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, was murdered by the Border Patrol.

Paiute Massacre Site -- Urgent Need for Attorneys to Fight Restraining Orders

 


Paiute Shoshone defenders of the unmarked burial places at the Massacre Site are in urgent need of attorneys as they must now battle Lithium Americas, a foreign corporation, that is digging into the land for lithium with permits from Biden and the Interior Department in northern Nevada. Biden calls this "green energy."

By Ox Sam Camp
oxsamcamp@proton.me
Censored News

We have 4 DAYS to meet the needs of our Request For Attorney(s):
Licensed in Nevada State - Criminal Defense Attorney
To represent 4 Land / Water Defenders opposing Thacker Pass Lithium Mine
To contest ex parte Temporary Protection Orders obtained by Lithium Nevada in Humboldt County, Winnemucca, Nevada.

One of the restrained parties being local Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone Matriarch Dorece (Sam) Antonio, descendant of Ox Sam who survived the 1865 massacre at the site of the lithium mine and for whom Ox Sam Camp is named. Dorece and other Paiute Shoshone elders are defending the sacred site (Nipple Rock) and the human remains of their massacred ancestors still laying on the ground within the project area of Lithium Nevada.

Although we have non-Nevada lawyers supporting, we need more Native Legal Organizations support and other national and int’l lawyers who can assist our Ceremonial Land Defense stand, most urgently we need a lawyer licensed in Nevada to file and make appearances on behalf of the 4 protectors.

It is very likely that the exaggerated accusations listed within the 4 TROs will be substantiated and filed onto their record by default if we fail to challenge, records that could later be used to inflate future charges / civil actions pressed by Lithium America and other institutions upholding the corporations' interests.



May 29, 2023

Drugs and Weapons: Newspaper Spin Hides the United States Crimes at the Border


Saguaro cactus recklessly destroyed to build the border wall at Ajo, Arizona. Photo by Laiken Jordahl

     

The United States crimes at the southern border are concealed by the collapsed media, bolstered by government spin, and upheld by the federal courts

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

One of the most censored issues is the fact that the U.S. Border Patrol is running drugs at the border.

Raymond Mattia, Tohono O'odham, murdered by U.S. Border Patrol agents, was outspoken about this. Ten years ago, Raymond told me that he had videotaped U.S. Border Patrol agents locally working with the cartels and drug running. When he submitted this video evidence as a complaint, the video disappeared.

On the night he was murdered by the U.S. Border Patrol, at his home on the western side of the Tohono O'odham Nation, Raymond was on the phone with his sister when the Border Patrol agents arrived. He said he would go outside and talk to them.

They murdered Raymond as he came out the door, on his front steps. Three officers fired their weapons. They told the family at the scene that they shot him 38 times. The Border Patrol left Raymond there for seven hours. The Border Patrol has not released its body cam footage.