Uncensored News and courageous acts

By Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Special thanks to Victor Rocha at Pechanga Net for rising above the censorship of other media this week. As always, Pechanga Net has published a story that others have censored and attacked: The outrage of the Mohawk delegation over the treatment of Indigenous Peoples walking to a better life and dying on Tohono O'odham Nation land. http://www.pechanga.net/ If you look on the Google Breaking News, you will see that the Atlantic Free Press in the Netherlands has picked up four stories from the Indigenous Peoples' Border Summit of the Americas 2007, including "US Apartheid Wall on the Tohono O'odham Native Land," and "End of Game ..." You will also see that the UN OBSERVER & International Report at the Hague and Narco News provided coverage of the Indigenous Peoples' Border Summit of the Americas 2007. Mohawk Nation News' publisher Kahentinetha Horn was not just a Border Summit participant, but a driving force at the US/Mexico border action on Tohono O'odham land, asking the tough questions and ready to intervene on behalf of Mayan brothers and sisters. Although the local media in Tucson was invited to the Indigenous Border Summit, KXCI Radio was one of the few to attend. Special thanks to KXCI news director Amanda Shauger. Now, thanks to Govinda at Earthcycles.net those who were not able to attend can listen to the powerful testimony and reports. Audio downloads at: http://www.earthcycles.net/ Another "thank you" goes out to Jay Johnson-Castro of Del Rio, Texas, who traveled to the Indigenous Border Summit at his own expense to share the information on the imprisonment of migrant infants and children at T. Don Hutto Detention Center near Austin. As for heroes, words can never express the thanks to the delegation of Mohawks who attended the Indigenous Border Summit, also at their own expense, to provide the strength and fortitude to change perceptions of Indigenous brothers and sisters walking and dying at the border. Thanks to each of you for your personal sacrifices to attend, including the Yaqui from Sonora, Mexico, Chris George from the Oneida Nation (in what others call Canada) and the Indigenous women whose homeland is what is known as the Texas border.

 A special recognition from the Censored Blog also goes out to those courageous heroes who will participate in the vigil against U.S. torture in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, this weekend and the lovers of privacy and freedom in Arivaca, Arizona, who will picnic around the US spy tower on Sunday. The Censored Blog honors the peaceful protesters attacked and savagely beaten by the US Border Patrol in Calexico, Calif., and the peaceful protesters beaten by police in Berkeley, Calif. Thanks to all of you who are struggling to fight oppression, manipulation of truth and the McCarthyism of the mainstream media. It doesn't take a lot of people to make a difference heard around the world. Thanks to all of you. --Brenda

Fort Huachuca: Vigil in opposition to U.S. torture

The Ft. Huachuca Witness
'No' to Extreme Interrogation and 'No' to Torture Training at Ft. Huachuca

November 17, Teach-in Against Torture, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ
November 18, Vigil & Action at the Main Gate of Fort Huachuca, Sierra Vista, AZ

The Southwest Witness, along with Veterans for Peace and other concerned citizens, are joining together to stop coercive interrogation and torture training by the U.S. Army.
To call for the end of torture and torture training, Southwest Witness will hold a "Weekend of Witness" in Tucson and Sierra Vista, AZ on November 17 and 18.
Planned events include a "Teach-In Against Torture" from 9 to 4 on Saturday the 17th at Pima Community College Downtown Campus, the showing of "The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" followed by a procession and all-night vigil, and a peaceful, legally permitted demonstration at the Main Gate of Ft. Huachuca in Sierra Vista from 11 to 3 on Sunday, November 18.
Complete information regarding these events is posted on our website at http://www.southwestwitness.org/
Southwest Witness is calling for a Congressional investigation into torture training and practice in the US government. We call for the establishment of a national independent oversight commission to oversee and report on interrogation training and practice at the US Army National Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, and all other places related to the US government, where interrogation practices are taught.We insist the US government respect its legal, moral, and treaty obligations as defined by the Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention Against Torture, and the historic human rights values of our nation.Torture and torture training is wrong. Torture is ineffective. Torture is a crime. Citizens have both a moral and legal obligation to be certain that torture is never employed by our government.
For complete information: http://www.southwestwitness.org/

Party down at the Arivaca spy tower Sunday!

No one protests a US spy tower like the good folks at Arivaca, Arizona!

ARIVACA NET: http://www.arivaca.net/
Join us on the hilltop next to the Project 28 SBInet Tower! Bring your friends, bring your family, bring your dancing shoes. Bring a dish to share, bring your ideas on how to bring the tower down, legally of course. On Sunday, November 18th there will be a gathering beginning at 1:00 pm. We will have a concert, a potluck, and a jam session/drumming, all interspersed with reports and announcements about Homeland Security's latest invasive boondoggles.
ABOUT THE TOWERS AND THE VIRTUAL FENCE
They're still not working, and it's not looking good for Boeing!
Read the latest here.
Read about the Homeland Security, Border Patrol, Boeing Corporation, SBInet Project 28 Towers and the "virtual fence"!
Click here for links to articles about the "virtual fence" and Arivaca

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The Arivaca spy tower is one of a network, including at least one on the Tohono O'odham Nation located next to the migrant "cage" jail cell. The spy towers are not yet working. The Arivaca spy tower has no view of the border, only of the Arivaca residents' homes.

Photo: Erect dysfunctional spy tower at Arivaca/Photo Brenda Norrell

Fighting Apartheid at the borders of Arizona and Palestine

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

SAN XAVIER, TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION (Arizona) -- Michelle Cook, Navajo activist, and Aida Khan, bringing support from a coalition for Palestine, at the Indigenous Peoples' Border Summit of the Americas 2007. During the summit, a delegation of Mohawks joined Native people to the so-called US/Mexico border, where they witnessed the US Apartheid Wall under construction. The lead contractor Boeing subcontracted Elbit Systems, the Israeli Defense Contractor, which is constructing security at both borders, the US Apartheid Wall at the US/Mexico Border and the Palestine/Israeli Apartheid Wall.

Although the US border spy towers on O'odham land and elsewhere on the US border are still not functioning, the border wall is under construction on Tohono O'odham Nation lands. The border wall construction has already caused Boeing to dig up the ancestors of the O'odham. It will also be a barrier to the O'odham ceremonial procession. While the Tohono O'odham Nation government promotes the wall, individual O'odham are calling out to Indigenous Peoples everywhere to support their fight against Apartheid.


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