By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
While the US is kicking and screaming about Wikileaks posting data, no one pays attention to the documents already posted by the US Army itself, including the Special Operations manual that describes the extensive support to guerrillas (terrorists) by US military special operations to carry out violence. Among the US goals is to destabilize governments and keep wars going.
Wikileaks exposed the fact that the US has been paying the Taliban and resistance forces.
Already online, posted by the US Army itself, is: "A Leader's Handbook to Unconventional Warfare." It describes in detail how the US military supports guerrilla movements (terrorists): http://www.soc.mil/swcs/swmag/Assets/SWCS%20Publications/Leaders%20Guide%20Final.pdf
Among the legal and moral questions this raises: Where did the weapons and ammunition come from that were recently used to murder volunteer doctors in Afghanistan?
How many US, British and others have been killed because of the US support given to the Taliban and others?
Under the guise of the drug war in the south, how many Americans have been killed and tortured as a result of the training at the US School of the Americas and the US weapons provided?
Why isn't the media asking the questions.
August 26, 2010
Murdered Migrants near the Border: Incovenient Truth for the US
By Brenda Norrell
Narcosphere
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2010/08/murdered-migrants-near-border-inconvenient-truth-us
Photo: California border by Brenda Norrell.
The 72 people murdered at a ranch in Tamaulipas State, about 100 miles south of Brownsville, Texas, were migrants. A survivor from Ecuador, shot in the neck, said those murdered were migrants from Ecuador, Brazil, Honduras and El Salvador. The bodies of 58 men and 14 women were found in a one room.
Most migrants are Indigenous Peoples from Central and South America. They have nothing and are walking north through Mexico trying to survive. They are often kidnapped and help for ransom. Those who have no way of paying the kidnappers are shot, one by one, or tortured in front of the others. They are asked to give a phone number of a person in the US that can pay the ransom, if they have no one, they are killed. This is revealed in the new documentary "The Invisibles," which just premiered in Tucson.
The US news media fails to point out that the most vicious killers in Mexico, the Zetas running the drug trafficking, were trained by the United States as Special Forces at the US School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Ga. The US Army Rangers Special Forces were part of this training. It was after this training that they became the Zetas and began their torturing and murdering rampage through Mexico.
The other fact that the US fails to admit is this: It is the US appetite for drugs that creates the drug war in Mexico.
No one tells this part of the story.
The US media fails to tell another story. It is the truth of the displacement of Indigenous Peoples, primarily corn farmers in Central and South America, from their homelands by NAFTA and other trade agreements. The corporate takeovers of their lands for dams, energy development and corporate enterprises, using military and paramilitary units, have created homelessness for masses of Indigenous Peoples.
US corporations, including Chiquita Bananas in Colombia, have admitted in US court that they use hired assassins to eliminate Indigenous Peoples and poor farmers from their land.
Those who walk north are desperate people trying to survive.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2010/08/murdered-migrants-near-border-inconvenient-truth-us
Photo: California border by Brenda Norrell.
The 72 people murdered at a ranch in Tamaulipas State, about 100 miles south of Brownsville, Texas, were migrants. A survivor from Ecuador, shot in the neck, said those murdered were migrants from Ecuador, Brazil, Honduras and El Salvador. The bodies of 58 men and 14 women were found in a one room.
Most migrants are Indigenous Peoples from Central and South America. They have nothing and are walking north through Mexico trying to survive. They are often kidnapped and help for ransom. Those who have no way of paying the kidnappers are shot, one by one, or tortured in front of the others. They are asked to give a phone number of a person in the US that can pay the ransom, if they have no one, they are killed. This is revealed in the new documentary "The Invisibles," which just premiered in Tucson.
The US news media fails to point out that the most vicious killers in Mexico, the Zetas running the drug trafficking, were trained by the United States as Special Forces at the US School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Ga. The US Army Rangers Special Forces were part of this training. It was after this training that they became the Zetas and began their torturing and murdering rampage through Mexico.
The other fact that the US fails to admit is this: It is the US appetite for drugs that creates the drug war in Mexico.
No one tells this part of the story.
The US media fails to tell another story. It is the truth of the displacement of Indigenous Peoples, primarily corn farmers in Central and South America, from their homelands by NAFTA and other trade agreements. The corporate takeovers of their lands for dams, energy development and corporate enterprises, using military and paramilitary units, have created homelessness for masses of Indigenous Peoples.
US corporations, including Chiquita Bananas in Colombia, have admitted in US court that they use hired assassins to eliminate Indigenous Peoples and poor farmers from their land.
Those who walk north are desperate people trying to survive.
UPDATE: On Friday, the lead investigator and a police officer were missing following the ranch massacre of 72 migrants. Two car bombs exploded, one at a police station and another at a television station.
August 25, 2010
Support Indigenous Independent Media in Flagstaff, Arizona
Support Indigenous Independent Media in Flagstaff!
Taala Hooghan Infoshop
A benefit open mike for Taala Hooghan!
Join us Sunday, August 29th at 6:30PM
$3 donation – performers free.
At Taala Hooghan Infoshop
1704 N. 2nd St. East Flagstaff, AZ
http://www.taalahooghan.org/
Benefit Open Mike!
Join us Sunday, August 29th at 6:30PM
$3 donation – performers free.
At Taala Hooghan Infoshop
1704 N. 2nd St. East Flagstaff, AZ
http://www.taalahooghan.org/
Benefit Open Mike!
Greetings,
We have a few more events before we wrap up our August calendar.
We are also putting together September's calendar so if you have any events you want hosted and posted, let us know!
Some news:
- We updated our website: http://www.taalahooghan.org/. Check it out & leave us some comment love!
- We have a new Free Box! Its packed full of great stuffs right now, there's always room for more.
- We have a little article in the Navajo-Hopi Observer: http://www.navajohopiobserver.com/main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=547&ArticleID=12793
- We've also partnered with the Impact Center, a fitness/boxing group that offers classes for youth empowerment and substance abuse prevention. They are operating in the garage space, come by and check it out!
As always we are in need of donations for next months rent/bills. Either stop by and help us out or send us an email if you'd like to help keep this community space alive.
Check out these upcoming August events:
Fri. 27th – Volunteer Meeting/Anartea – 6:30PM
Come learn more about the community space and what you can do to be part of it! All while sharing some good tea. :)
SUNDAY: A benefit open mike for Taala Hooghan!
Join us Sunday, August 29th at 6:30PM
$3 donation – performers free.
MONDAY: SAVE THE PEAKS! NO DRINKING WATER FOR SNOWMAKING!
On August 30th Flagstaff City Council will decide whether or not to sell Flagstaff's precious drinking water to a single private business for recreation.
As City water prices go up and Flagstaff is threatened to run out of water by 2050, Arizona Snowbowl Ski Business has been offered $11 million tax payer dollars by the USDA to subsidize their plan to make fake snow. This amounts to a corporate bailout for a business located outside of city limits. Visit www.truesnow.org for more info.
We have a chance to stand for our future and respect.
IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING:
When: August 30th at 5:30PM
Where: Sinagua High School
Located at 3950 East Butler Avenue Flagstaff, AZ.
PRAYER VIGIL & RALLY BEFORE:
4PM at Fox Glenn Park (4200 E. Butler Ave)
TAKE ACTION NOW!
Urge Flagstaff City Council to VOTE NO DRINKING WATER FOR SNOWMAKING!
Contact members of the City Council:
To email all: council@flagstaffaz.gov
Leave an audio comment: (928) 779-7600
Mayor Sara Presler spresler@flagstaffaz.gov
Vice Mayor Celia Barotz cbarotz@flagstaffaz.gov
Councilmember Art Babbott ababbott@flagstaffaz.gov
Councilmember Karla Brewster kbrewster@flagstaffaz.gov
Councilmember Coral Evans cevans@flagstaffaz.gov
Councilmember Scott Overton soverton@flagstaffaz.gov
Councilmember Al White awhite@flagstaffaz.gov
To make an appointment with the Mayor or a Councilmember call (928) 779-7600.
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August 24, 2010
Grassroots Indigenous Delegation seeks sponsors to Cancun Climate Summit
Grassroots Indigenous Delegate seeks sponsor to Cancun Climate Summit
Ofelia Rivas, founder of the O'odham Voice Against the Wall, served as cochair of the important Working Group on Indigenous Peoples at the Bolivia Climate Summit in Cochabamba in April. Ofelia lives on Tohono O'odham land near the US/Mexico border and is a constant voice of human rights as a traditional, ceremonial O'odham. She is one of two women receiving the 2010 Borderlinks Women on the Border Award and advocates for the right of Indigenous Peoples to travel in their own territories without harassment. She is a supporter of the Zapatistas and the struggle for autonomy and dignity in Mexico. (Photo Ofelia Rivas, center, at Bolivia Climate Summit by Ben Powless, Mohawk.) 
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Ofelia Rivas, founder of the O'odham Voice Against the Wall, served as cochair of the important Working Group on Indigenous Peoples at the Bolivia Climate Summit in Cochabamba in April. Ofelia lives on Tohono O'odham land near the US/Mexico border and is a constant voice of human rights as a traditional, ceremonial O'odham. She is one of two women receiving the 2010 Borderlinks Women on the Border Award and advocates for the right of Indigenous Peoples to travel in their own territories without harassment. She is a supporter of the Zapatistas and the struggle for autonomy and dignity in Mexico. (Photo Ofelia Rivas, center, at Bolivia Climate Summit by Ben Powless, Mohawk.) 
Censored news publisher Brenda Norrell, http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ also seeks a sponsor, in order to provide independent online radio and print media coverage of the Cancun Climate Summit. (Photo: Govinda in his solar-powered radio bus, at the end of the 5-month Longest Walk Talk Radio across America in 2008. Photo by Lenny Foster in DC.)
UPDATE: Govinda/Earthcycles is now in Cancun, and has funding for his stay there! Govinda will be webcasting live for the Indigenous Environmental Network's Red Road Cancun.
To become a sponsor please contact: brendanorrell@gmail.com
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