Censored Blog Exclusive: US Spy tower maps Tohono O'odham tribal land

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Above: Spy tower in 2007, south of Sells, on Tohono O'odham Nation.
Update: In 2021, Israel's Elbit Systems has constructed spy towers, integrated fixed towers, on the Tohono O'odham Nation, which allows the U.S. Border Patrol to stalk the most vulnerable O'odham by way of the spy towers and agents' laptops. The US contract was issued during the Obama administration and the Tohono O'odham Nation government approved the current spy towers by Israel's Elbit Systems. Elbit is protested globally for human rights abuses with drones, in prisons and conducting surveillance for Israel in Palestine.

By Brenda Norrell 

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ 

September 2007

The maps of federal spy towers on the Tohono O'odham tribal land are now online for Censored Blog readers. (The links are below.) These maps, from the Secure Border Initiative Project 28, should be public, and not secret documents.

However, very few, if any, Tohono O'odham tribal members can find these maps. Few people have been able to locate the so-called environmental impact statements related to the proposed border wall and spy towers.

Censored Blog found these maps at the Arivaca library. Images sent from the nine spy tower cameras along the Arizona/Mexico border, including those on Tohono O'odham tribal land, will be viewed by agents at two monitoring stations.

One will be on Tohono O'odham land and the other in Tucson. Both tribal police and federal agents will have access to spy camera images, including images from residents' homes. O'odham residents are alarmed that tribal police could use these images to carry out personal or political vendettas.

Away from tribal land, in the community of Arivaca, residents are planning a lawsuit over privacy issues. Boeing says the spy towers are not functioning. However, Boeing has already dug up the graves of O'odham ancestors, Hohokam, for the border barrier in Arizona. Further, construction began on the Sasabe border wall in September, without public comment concerning tribal cultural areas from the Tohono O'odham Nation or wildlife impact from the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge.

Map of spy towers on Tohono O'odham land (please double click on maps to enlarge) in 2007: http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/spy-towers-on-tohono-oodham-land-map.html

Spy tower one on tribal land (in detail): http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/spy-tower-1-on-tohono-oodham-tribal.html

Spy tower two on tribal land (in detail): http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/spy-tower-2-on-tohono-oodham-tribal.htmlmloodham-tribal.html

Update: Follow Censored News coverage of the spy towers later constructed on the Tohono O'odham Nation by Israel's Elbit Systems.

UN adopts Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

UN adopts Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

It passed! But the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia voted against it

Campaign groups say native tribes are under more pressure than ever
BBC News

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples after 22 years of debate. The treaty sets down protections for the human rights of native peoples, and for their land and resources. It passed despite opposition from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. They said it was incompatible with their own laws. There are estimated to be 370 million indigenous people in the world. They include the Innu tribe in Canada, the Bushmen of Botswana and Australia's Aborigines.
'Important symbol'
The General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with 143 countries voting in favour and 11 abstaining. Four nations - Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States - each with large indigenous populations, voted against. A leader of a group representing Canada's native communities criticised his government's decision to oppose the declaration. "We're very disappointed... It's about the human rights of indigenous peoples throughout the world. It's an important symbol," said Phil Fontaine, leader of the Assembly of First Nations. The Canadian government said it supported the "spirit" of the declaration, but could not support it because it "contains provisions that are fundamentally incompatible with Canada's constitutional framework." "It also does not recognise Canada's need to balance indigenous rights to lands and resources with the rights of others," a joint statement from the Canadian ministries of Indian and Foreign Affairs said. Canada has 1.3 million indigenous peoples, among a total population of 32.7 million.

Border spy towers are a 'bust'

By Brenda Norrell
http://www.blogspot.com/

ARIVACA, Ariz. -- Boeing says it still can not make the spy towers at the Arizona border work. The company says it may have to go back to the drawing board and start all over. But what the heck, they've got plenty of taxpayer money to waste, billions of dollars to toy with. Besides, maybe they'll ask some ten-year-olds about the limitations of Wi-Fi in the desert mountains.
Maybe Boeing can find another foreign corporation to give them a hand. Already, the Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems, helping build the "Apartheid Wall" in Palestine, is on contract for Boeing's high tech security fence at the US/Mexico border.
Already, Wackenhut Transportation, owned by G4S, with corporate ownership in England and Denmark, has buses waiting at the Arizona border to deport migrants for profit.
Surely, there are other foreign corporations who would like to profiteer from the "false flag op" at the border, created by television news border hysteria, right wing spin and a healthy dose of secret Bush agenda.
It all happened while America was sleep walking to Wal-Mart. But psst, Americans are waking up.
Read the latest story on the non-functioning spy towers:
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37968&dcn=e_hsw
Photos: Arivaca spy tower; Wackenhut bus at Three Points, Ariz., near Tohono O'odham tribal land. Photos Brenda Norrell

More news articles by Brenda Norrell, from Google News:

Brenda Norrell: Wheels of Justice, Peace in Iraq and Palestine U.N. OBSERVER & International Report - 22 hours ago 2007-09-12 TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Wheels of Justice rolled into Tucson this week, with a mighty message of peace in Palestine and Iraq, pointing out that it ...
Bush Klansmen close in on Navajos for Desert Rock Infoshop News - Sep 8, 2007 By Brenda Norrell The Skull and Bones corporation Sithe Global has entered into a pact with the disaster profiteer Fluor corporation to begin building the Desert Rock power plant on the Navajo Nation ...
Most Censored 2007 award to Indigenous Peoples The NarcoSphere, NY - Sep 5, 2007 By Brenda Norrell, By Brenda Norrell The "Project Censored 2007" awards are out and most of what was censored in Indian country was ignored. ...
Indigenous Border Summit of the Americas 2007 The NarcoSphere, NY - Sep 1, 2007 By Brenda Norrell, The Indigenous Border Summit of the Americas will be held at San Xavier District on the Tohono O'odham Nation near Tucson, opposing the militarization of the border and upholding Indigenous rights. The summit, Nov. 7 -- 10, 2007, begins with a Sunrise Ceremony and includes daily speakers, testimony and border tour ...
Zapatistas arise for North American Summit The NarcoSphere, NY - Aug 29, 2007 By Brenda Norrell, RANCHO EL PENASCO, Sonora, Mexico – Indigenous Peoples from Canada, the United States and Northern Mexico are asked to ...
Privatizing misery, deporting and imprisoning migrants for profit Infoshop News - Aug 26, 2007 By Brenda Norrell SASABE, Ariz. -- Deporting migrants for profit: Wackenhut Transportation is owned by G4S, a corporation based in England and Denmark. The migrant deportation, once carried out by the Border Patrol, was privatized ...
Indians, Border Biometrics and Migrating Corporations Bush's House ... "Bush's House of Snakes" CounterPunch, CA - Aug 23, 2007 By BRENDA NORRELL It should come as no surprise that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, George Bush's twin viper, has been meeting with American Indian tribes on the northern border as Bush worked his agenda in Canada ...
Arizona residents chase away Minutemen with shotguns The NarcoSphere, NY - Aug 22, 2007 By Brenda Norrell, Arizona residents are sick of the self-proclaimed Minutemen vigilantes. Arizona businessmen armed with shotguns near Nogales, Arizona, ...
Brenda Norrell: Smelling the Trilateral Rat U.N. OBSERVER & International Report - Aug 20, 2007 The new trilateral partnership, Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, is now being protested by First Nations and others in Canada. ...
Yaqui and O'odham unite to plan Zapatistas' summits The NarcoSphere, NY - Aug 19, 2007 By Brenda Norrell, Zapatistas from Vicam Pueblo and O'odham met in Sonora, Mexico on Friday to support one another's efforts and plan Zapatista summits for ...

Truth and justice: Iraq, Palestine and September 11th

MORE PHOTOS:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/photos-truth-and-justice-sept-11-in.html
Wheels of Justice creates chalk art at protest in downtown Tucson on Sept. 11, 2001/Photo Brenda Norrell

Wheels of Justice, peace in Iraq and Palestine

By Brenda Norrell

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Wheels of Justice rolled into Tucson this week, with a mighty message of peace in Palestine and Iraq, pointing out that it is the flow of oil that the United States wants to control, especially the flow of oil to China.

Further, speakers pointed out that Saddam Hussein was early-on an agent of the CIA and carried out atrocities against humanity for the Agency.

Speakers pointed to the border in Palestine, which brought reflections on how the same tactics were used in both Palestine and on American Indian lands in the United States, including Big Mountain on Black Mesa, to seize the land, limit construction and progress for the people living on the land and control the resources.

Further, the border wall of Palestine now has an intimate relationship with the US/Mexico border wall, since the Israeli defense contractor of Elbit Systems is working on the security at the "Apartheid Wall" in Palestine and the high tech border wall in Arizona.

Speaking in a Southside Church that long gave shelter to Indigenous Peoples fleeing torture in Central and South America, the Wheels of Justice speakers put a human face on the families in Iraq and Palestine who just want to survive in peace. Those families have birthday parties, play soccer and have hopes for the future.

Iraq is no better off today, with families living in tents outside of Baghdad and others sweltering in 130 degree temperatures without the needed electricity to even run a ceiling fan. It is the women and children who suffer the most. They are the ones hiding in the so-called "safe houses" where the bombs fall from above. It is the women and children who suffer most often from rape, kidnapping and malnutrition.

Those imprisoned at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq under Saddam Hussein said the torture and abuse of prisoners was worse under the control of U.S. forces.

Speaking of the "War of Lies," the Wheels of Justice called for an immediate pull out of troops in Iraq. Speakers included a student from Colorado, studying at Princeton, who stayed with a family in Palestine and painted murals. Another speaker, an Iraqi woman who grew up in Iraq and the United States, shared her journey home.

One member of the audience pointed out that the media has censored one point: The fact that the United States Treasury took over control of the currency in Iraq after the bombing of Iraq.

Another person said that after being involved in the killing of innocent people in Vietnam from the air and with Napalm, he sees the pattern of deception repeating itself in Iraq. Further, US soldiers receive pay cuts and the wounded soldiers suffer without necessary medical care.

Wheels of Justice continues its national tour to educate people in the United States about the truth of the war and occupations in Iraq and Palestine.

Read more: Wheels of Justice: http://justicewheels.org/

http://www.liberatethis.com/

911 Truth: http://www.911truth.org/

Note: Personal names have been intentionally omitted from the photo captions and article.

US 'martial law exercise' Oct. 15 -- 20, 2007

US: "Exercise VIGILANT SHIELD Activities: Primary exercise event venues are in Oregon and Arizona, as well as the Territory of Guam, which is within U.S."

Northcom's five day martial law exercise
by Blacklisted News
"The exercise is simply a test case scenario for the implementation of martial law."
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4185
Read more:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/us-martial-law-exercise-oct-15-20-2007.html

News from Big Noise Films, home from Iraq

News from Big Noise Films:
We are just back from Iraq, where we spent a month and a half criss-crossing the country, embedded with the major militias. Our first report from Iraq just went online, and we will be on Democracy Now tomorrow to talk about it. It was shot in the refugee camps on the edge of Baghdad and with America's militia allies among the date palms of Taji:
Read more:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/big-noise-films-back-from-iraq.html