Standing Rock Women's Delegation -- Photos from Norway

Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation at the Norwegian Parliament.

"We are calling for the guidelines and standards of the Oil Fund to change. It needs to become the Clean Energy Fund -- no more fossil fuel extraction. Respect for Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty, Human Rights, Rights of Mother Earth. Amazing women speaking out!" said Osprey Orielle Lake, WECAN International and delegation organizer. Delegation -- Michelle Cook, Dine', Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, Oglala Lakota and Mdewakantonwan Dakota from Standing Rock, Tara Houska, Anishinaabe, Waste Win Young, Ihunktowanna/Hunkpapa from Standing Rock, and Autumn Chacon, Dine'.

Indigenous Women from the frontlines of Standing Rock meeting with members of Norway's Parliament. Photo Osprey Orielle Lake. "Delegation with Norway Parliament member, Audun Lysbakken. Water is life! Implement Indigenous human rights in all investments by Norway's oil fund! We need Indigenous rights included in the oil fund's ethical guidelines!" said Michelle Cook, Dine', founding member of the of the Water Protector Legal Collective at Standing Rock

"The President of Sami Parliament stayed with us all day. Her name is Vibeke Larsen," said Waste Win Young, Ihunktowanna/Hunkpapa from Standing Rock and frontline resister to Dakota Access Pipeline, shown in center. Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, Mdewakantonwan Dakota, medical doctor living and working on Standing Rock Nation, on right. Photo by Michelle Cook, Dine'.

Photo courtesy Tara Zhaabowekwe Houska, Anishinaabetribal attorney, National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth (shown lower right.)

"Incredibly magical and renewing day at the Sognsvann (Myth/Song) Lake with our Delegation guided by wonderful new friend and ally, Charlotte from Norway," said Osprey Orielle Lake, today in Norway. Photo by Osprey Orielle Lake.

Autumn Chacon, Dine' performance artist, with Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, Mdewakantonwan Dakota medical doctor from Standing Rock.

Video: Indigenous women's divestment delegation to Norway and experiences of Standing Rock. Video courtesy Tanyette Colon.

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, and 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 a founding member of the of the Water Protector Legal Collective at Standing Rock). [Full spokes-women biographies available here]

Update:
Because of the success in Norway, the women's delegation was invited to Switzerland. They arrived in Switzerland on Sunday.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/04/standing-rock-womens-divestment.html

Read more:
Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation to Norway, from the frontlines of Standing Rock, in Norway through April 2, 2017.

Indigenous Women's Delegation speaks out about DNB divestment:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/standing-rock-indigenous-womens.html

Read more about the Native American women on the delegation:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/norway-women-of-standing-rock-to-speak.html

More photos from the delegation in Norway
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/native-womens-divestment-delegation.html

Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado -- Long Walk 5 Photos by Bad Bear

Thank you Western Shoshone photojournalist Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, for sharing your photos with Censored News on Long Walk 2, 3, 4 and now 5.

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Map of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado

Photos copyright Carl Sampson, Censored News.

Native Women's Divestment Delegation from Standing Rock Speaks with Norway's Parliament

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Thursday, March 30, 2017: "Delegation with Norway Parliament member, Audun Lysbakken. Water is life! Implement Indigenous human rights in all investments by Norway's oil fund! We need Indigenous rights included in the oil fund's ethical guidelines!" said Michelle Cook, Dine'.

Michelle Cook, at Parliament in Norway

Tanyette Colon was live.

Video above: Indigenous women's divestment delegation to Norway and experiences of Standing Rock.

Dinner with Sami sisters. Photo courtesy Waste Win Young.

Video: Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, Lakota of Standing Rock, at the Parliament of Norway.

Update:

Because of the success in Norway, the women's delegation was invited to Switzerland. They arrived in Switzerland on Sunday.

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/04/standing-rock-womens-divestment.html

Read more about the Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation to Norway, from the frontlines of Standing Rock, in Norway through April 2, 2017.

Indigenous Women's Delegation speaks out about DNB divestment:

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/standing-rock-indigenous-womens.html

Read more about the Native American women on the delegation:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/norway-women-of-standing-rock-to-speak.html


Members of the press are encouraged to reach out with questions and media requests for spokeswomen - 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, and 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 a founding member of the of the Water Protector Legal Collective at Standing Rock). [Full spokes-women biographies available here]

Media Contact:

General requests - Emily Arasim, +1(505) 920-0153, emily@wecaninternational.org

Urgent requests in Norway - Osprey Orielle Lake, +1(415) 722-2104, osprey@wecaninternational.org

Gathering Strength at Fort Duchesne, Long Walk 5

Photos and Videos by Western Shoshone Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson

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The Ute community of Fort Duchesne walked with the Longest Walk 5 this morning.




Drum at Fort Duchesne.

The Long Walk 5 gained strength during the walkers stay on Ute land at Fort Duchesne, Utah.
The community shared hospitality and joined walkers as they departed this morning, March 30, 2017. Western Shoshone photojournalist Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson said he was joined on the walk by his father Buck Sampson, Paiute, and mother Rozina Bobb Sampson, Western Shoshone (shown in photos above.)
Bad Bear said runners are running hard to cover the miles. The camp stay place for Long Walk 5 is now Hayden, Colorado. -- Brenda, Censored News

Zapatistas 'The First of Several' Coffee and the Wall

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The First of Several

Zapatista Army for National Liberation

Mexico

March, 2017

To the Sixth all over the world:
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Compas:

We had told you we wanted to find a way to support you so that you in turn could support the resistance and rebellion of those who are persecuted and separated by walls. Well, we have some small progress to report in that regard.

The first ton of Zapatista coffee is ready for the campaign “In the Face of Capital’s Walls: Resistance, Rebellion, Solidarity, and the Support of those Below and to the Left.”

The coffee is 100% Zapatista. It was cultivated in Zapatista lands by Zapatista hands; harvested by Zapatistas, dried under the Zapatista sun; ground in Zapatista machines; paused when the Zapatista machine was broken by Zapatistas and later repaired by Zapatistas (with a non-Zapatista ball bearing); then packaged by Zapatistas, labeled by Zapatistas, and transported by Zapatistas.

This first ton was collected through participation from all 5 caracoles, with their Juntas de Buen Gobierno [Good Government Councils], their MAREZ [Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities in Rebellion], and their community collectives, and is now at the CIDECI-UniTierra in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, rebellious Mexico.

This Zapatistas coffee is even more delicious if you drink it in the struggle. We’re including here below a short video that the Tercios Compas [Zapatista media] made where you can see the whole process, from the coffee field to the warehouse.

We are also categorizing and packaging the art works made by Zapatistas for the last CompArte, which we will also send to you to support your activities.

We hope we can give these things to you during the April event so that you can transport them to the different corners of the world where the Sixth exists, that is, where there is resistance and rebellion.

We hope that with this first bit of support you can begin or continue your work in support of all those who are persecuted and discriminated against throughout the world.

Perhaps you are asking yourselves how you’re going to get this stuff to your corners of the earth. Well, via the same method it was produced—through organization.

That is, we are asking you not only to organize yourselves on this matter, but also and above all to carry out activities in support of all those people who are today pursued and persecuted simply because of the color of their skin, their culture, their faith, their origin, their history, their life.

And that’s not all: remember that we must resist, we must rebel, we must struggle, we must organize.

Oh, and we asked how to say this message we wanted to communicate, in a way it will be understood:

Fuck Trump!

(and while we’re at it, all the rest of them too—that is, the Peña Nietos, the Macris, the Temers, the Rajoys, the Putins, the Merkels, the Mays, the Le Pens, the Berlusconis, the Jinpings, the Netanyahus, the al-Ásads, and go ahead and add whatever name they give that wall that will have to be knocked down, and knocked down in such a way that all the walls get the message).

(In other words, this is the first of many tons to come and the first of multiple curses to be made.)

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano

Mexico, March of 2017
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Here is the video by the Tercios Compas that accompanies the communique. The soundtrack is “Somos sur,” lyrics and music by Ana Tijoux, accompanied by Shadia Mansour.

First Voices Radio: Sacred Ground, Standing Rock, O'odham Border

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This Week on “First Voices Radio” Hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota—Listen Thursday, March 30, 9 to 10 a.m. EDT on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City

By Liz Hill, Red Lake Ojibwe, Producer, “First Voices Radio”

Censored News

Listen now at WBAI archive http://www.wbai.org/archive.php

Ofelia Rivas, elder and activist from Tohono O’odham Nation, was a featured guest on this week’s edition of “First Voices Radio,” which aired on Tuesday, March 28, on WPKN 89.5 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. “First Voices Radio” (formerly “First Voices Indigenous Radio”) is a weekly live hourlong broadcast hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota. The show airs every Tuesday from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern Time (www.wpkn.org).

This week’s show will be repeated on Thursday, March 30, 9 to 10 a.m. on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City (streaming at www.wbai.org and WBAI-FM on Tune In).

Tiokasin, who in addition to being the host is also the show’s founder and executive producer, announced an auspicious anniversary. It was on March 28, 2002 at the full moon when Tiokasin began his broadcasts in the northeast. Now exactly 15 years after the first northeast broadcast—this time at the new moon—and 25 years after the original broadcast on the west coast, “First Voices Radio” is heard on 70 other public and community radio stations in the U.S. and Canada.

On this week’s show, Tiokasin talked with three guests—filmmaker Toby McLeod, water protector Cheryl Angel, Lakota, and Tohono O’odham elder and activist Ofelia Rivas. Tiokasin’s first guest Toby McLeod circled the globe for five years filming the “Standing on Sacred Ground” series. He founded the Sacred Land Film Project in 1984 to make high-impact documentary films relevant to Indigenous communities and modern audiences. Toby produced and directed In the Light of Reverence (P.O.V., 2001) and other award-winning documentary films: Downwind/Downstream, and NOVA: Poison in the Rockies. In 1990, he produced Voices of the Land as a 20-minute preview of “Standing on Sacred Ground.”  This week Toby is presenting two of his films in the “Standing on Sacred Ground Series” at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Tiokasin will be a featured speaker at the Thursday, March 30, program, the screening of Toby’s film “Pilgrims and Tourists.” More information can be found at www.sacredland.org, www.standingonsacredground.org.

Tiokasin’s second guest Cheryl Angel is a lifelong, devoted water protector who has been part of the Standing Rock Camp since April 2016 and was vital in helping stop the Keystone XL Pipeline. Cheryl's voice among the water protectors is one of integrating deep prayer with direct action, guiding two women-led actions at Standing Rock. She moves from a deep space of non-violence and love, as guided by her ancestors, Lakota traditions and ways of being. This week, Cheryl is speaking on a panel at the opening of the exhibition “Killing the Black Snake—Resistance at Standing Rock (Oct. 30-Dec. 6, 2016): Photographs by Stephanie Keith.” The event is taking place at the Hemispheric Institute (NYU) in New York City on Thursday, March 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/hemispheric-new-york-events.

Tiokasin’s third guest Ofelia Rivas is Founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall. Tiokasin and Ofelia discussed the March 25, 2017 article by Brenda Norrell in Censored News, “Traditional O’odham in Sonora, Mexico, Protest Trump’s Border Wall on O’odham Land”: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/traditional-oodham-in-mexico-protest.html

Tiokasin, who is also the show’s music curator, featured two compelling musical selections during the show:  “He” by Consolidated (CD: Play More Music, 1992; Label: Nettwerk) and “Burning Times” by Rumors of the Big Wave (CD: Burning Times, 1993; Label: Earth Beat).

A note to listeners: An archived version of the original Tuesday, March 28, broadcast is available now in the archive of WPKN-FM (www.wpkn.org). On Thursday, March 30, another archived version of the show will also be available as a download in the WBAI archive immediately following the replay after 10 a.m. Eastern Time. www.wbai.org

More information about “First Voices Radio”: www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org. Join the “First Voices Radio” Facebook group page at www.facebook.com/FirstVoicesIndigenousRadio.

(Photos courtesy “First Voices Radio”)