VIDEO: Dine' Louise Benally responds to Navajo Attorney General on Coal Fired Power Plants

CENSORED NEWS VIDEO
Dine' Louise Benally: No to coal fired power plants!

Louise Benally responds to Navajo Attorney General in DC this week attempting to halt US EPA air pollution standards on Navajoland
'Dismiss these Navajo leaders who don't care about nature or the people'

Narcosphere article translated in French:
Traduction française de l'article "Louise Benally, Arizona's Cultural Genocide" on www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=638"

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Louise Benally, Dine' from Big Mountain, resisting relocation on Black Mesa, describes the destruction caused from Peabody Coal's coal mining on Black Mesa and the Navajo Generating Station in nearby Page, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. It is now poisoning Navajoland, the Grand Canyon region and the Southwest.
On the video, Louise responds after Navajo Attorney General Harrison Tsosie spoke to a House committee in Washington this week, attempting to halt US EPA regulations. Tsosie said the standards, which would lower mercury emissions, were "too harsh."
Benally responded and said the Navajo Attorney General went to Washington to “beg” to keep the Navajo Generating Station open.
Benally describes the pollution to the land, water, air and people. “He doesn’t seem to see all the bad problems people are living with each day.”
She said Navajos on Black Mesa are without water and have to haul water. In some cases, Navajos on Black Mesa have to drive 80 miles a day to haul water in barrels.
She describes the air pollution, depletion of the aquifer, and the water scheme underway by Arizona Senator Jon Kyl for more theft of Navajo water.
As for Navajo Attorney General Harrison Tsosie, Benally said he is not looking at the arsenic and mercury released into the air and how this impacts climate change.
“There are plants dying. There is no rain, no snow, it makes things worse than usual. The drought is very intense and it is going to get worse as time goes on.”
Benally described the harm being done by the current Navajo elected leaders.
“These so called leaders of the Navajo Nation are totally uneducated and they just totally don’t care about the environment, all in the name of profit. And that is a danger.
“I think we need to dismiss these leaders and replace them with leaders who do care about nature and the survival of the people," Benally told Censored News.
The Navajo Generating Station, one of three corporate owned coal fired power plants on the Navajo Nation, is one of the top producers of greenhouse gases in the US.
While the electricity goes to distant Southwest cities, many Navajos live without running water and electricity, suffering from respiratory problems and other illnesses.
Interview recorded by Brenda Norrell/Censored News, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012


ALSO LISTEN to Louise Benally, on First Voices Indigenous Radio, WBIA New York and broadcast nationwide. Louise was the guest of show host Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota: http://www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/program_archives

In the Vortex: Calexico and Charles Bowden in 'Flor de Muertos'

  Flor de Muertos, hot new Calexico music video and border documentary, in the vortex of the borderzone

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

 

TUCSON -- Flor de Muertos screened tonight, a hot new music video of Calexico, mixed with the sights, sounds and taste of living and dying in the borderzone.

So, who will love this hot new film?

Those who love Calexico’s music and anyone who wants to look for their friends in the All Souls Procession in Tucson (and at those great acrobats in the sky) will love it. Who else will love it: Anyone who want to look for their friends on the streets of Nogales, and anyone who wants to get really mad at Charles Bowden.

In my scribbled notes tonight, I wrote, “Finally a rock video about the border.” Then, I spent the rest of the night trying to figure out what Calexico music is. Is it Tex Mex? Definitely not. Whatever, it infuses the spirit of Tucson/Nogales/Sonora, that linear and circular path of fast music and fast cars, mixed with the food and culture of this land, where the desert meets the sea.

Most of the film is a music video of Calexico, and the rest is sure to lead to heated discussions, especially for those who want to get really mad at Charles Bowden.

At the screening at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona tonight, the first question from the audience focused on, well, who else.

"Why Bowden?"

Bowden, who made his home in Tucson for years, makes powerful, and controversial, observations in the film, like this one: There are no drug cartels in Mexico.

“There are no cartels. That is a lie of the US government.”

Bowden, longtime news reporter and book author, points out there is a drug industry, an industry that is now leaving the border strewn with dead bodies. Bowden goes on to say that the drug industry is a mainstay of the Mexican economy, producing $30 to $50 billion each year.

Bowden, author of two dozen books, also ventures off to reveal something of himself. He says he has no interest in crime or drugs, and would rather be writing about plants and animals. Further, he says he never got up a morning in his life and thought he would “go look” for a story. He makes it clear that the stories beckon everywhere in life, and that a person would have to be morally dead to have the need to look for a story.

Which brings us to the point of the film about the ceremonies and pageantry that surround living and dying on the US Mexico border.

The film, with short pieces of documentary combined with Calexico in concert, reveals the truth of the border. In the neighborhoods of Nogales and elsewhere, the drug kingpins are known, but the people are now too afraid of being killed to speak out and bring an end to the nightmare.

The lyrics of one song in this film reveal more of the truth: The drug kingpins give law enforcement the choice of violence or payoffs. Bowden points out that people are not even going to claim bodies anymore. Then, there is migration, and immigration.

But as one filmgoer pointed out tonight, the real story of immigration is not just about people from the south coming to the US in search of jobs. For instance, from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico where the filmgoer once lived, people have come to the US for generations to work, then returned home again. And they returned through the years back to the US to visit their families here. Well, until now, because the laws have halted this natural flow of life for migrant workers, of migration and visiting families.

Producer Dougles Biggers wasn't troubled by the backlash tonight, in fact he seemed to expect it. Biggers said Bowden probably wouldn't want filmgoers to agree with everything he said.

In Flor de Muertos, from the sounds of the young and old musicians “playing the border,” as a musical instrument, to the images of lightening, low riders and saguaros, there is the flavor of the border, the visual taste of this land that has become both an epic center and vortex.

Artist Salvador Duran describes the greater truth found in death, the spiritual truth that is alive and raw in this reality.

Still, there is another reality, the long lines of Border Patrol cars, and the border wall, that signify these times.

With dramatic footage from the All Souls Procession of thousands, to the tender remembrance of one four-year-old’s last days of dress up for the photos for the event, the film offers a window into the life and hope that comes from living and dying in the borderzone.

More at http://www.flordemuertos.com

Katenay: Threats by US/BIA/Hopi to seize more Dineh property

THREATS BY U.S.-BIA HOPI POLICE AND RANGERS TO TAKE AWAY MORE DINEH PROPERTY

By Bahe Katenay
Sheep Dog Nation Rocks
http://sheepdognationrocks.blogspot.com/2012/02/big-mountain-update-alert-more-threats.html

Red Lake, Black Mesa – February 9, 2012 – It has been just over two weeks ago that these U.S. backed tactics of harassment and assault were committed by deputized Indian authorities. Back in late January and under the direction of the progressive and BIA supported Hopi tribal government, 75 animals were seized and taken for impoundment. This operation was done using new tactics by first marketing the potential number of animals for slaughter then carry out a deliberate stealing of animals.
Again, America and its modern Indians like the Navajo Nation government continue to stand by and watch these last traditional indigenous peoples lose their economic stability and securities by force.
Two traditional Dineh (Navajos) home sites were just informed that “all” animals ranging on their ancestral lands, which the U.S. government partitioned as “Hopi Lands” in 1977, will be confiscated. Elder matriarch, Rena Lane, lives by herself and is a long-time, sovereign resister who has lived with such intimidations and assaults, and now she may face the final assault. She broke a couple of fingers and dislocated her wrist about 12 years ago in a scuffle with the police while she was trying to protect her animals. The police only responded to the doctor’s claim of her injury by stating, “it was her own over reaction by jumping into the livestock trailer that caused her own self injury.” How would you react if you were at your own bank and saw the police literally withdrawing from your account?
READ MORE:
http://sheepdognationrocks.blogspot.com/2012/02/big-mountain-update-alert-more-threats.html

Mohawk Nation News: People of Pallor Strike Back

PEOPLE OF PALLOR STRIKE BACK

By Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com

MNN. Feb. 10, 2012. What is white culture? To steal everything the brown and blackpeople have and pretend it’s theirs? Should failed states and gluttonous culture continue to be forced onus?

Bankers and rulers see our population growth as dangerous to their security? Because they murdered so many of us and now we are coming back! What are their new plans?

Prince  Philip, leader of the World Wildlife Foundation said, “If I were reincarnated,I would return as a killer virus to lower the human population”. Be careful what you wish for, Phil. You’ll be returning to England. Celts will take care of you, you GoetheNazi.

Mark Steyn in America Alone said, “If you can’t out-breed them, cull them!”. As they sip their tea, “When will thegreat culling start, dahling?”.

Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood and the Eugenics Society in 1922 said, “Those whoshould never have been born should not be maintained”. The elites want to continue breeding with each other to create idiots who spout such stupidity.

They fear genocide and elimination of their genetic property, even though they still need cheap labor. Elites are whiteand ageing. Careful breeding will be needed to maintain their white ruling bloodline, like sperm banks to force mixed race couples to have white children!

Race problem is being solved by blacks, browns and yellows pouring into their states,where whites are being beiged out.

Whites have the least melanin in their genes. Other peoples, plants and animals have melanin and relate to each othernaturally. The whites may return to Europe to live among each other, which is becoming an Arctic-type wasteland.

They are crying about becoming victims, trying to make us feel guilty for them. They need to study REALvictimology.

Between2000 and 2010 only one out of 10 births in US were white. 90% were Indigenous, Black andAsian.

They claim Black men having sex with white women is sexual aggression. Why? Because they killed and raped us when they arrived?

They worry about what will happen to the world when they can’t keep an eye onthings. It will improve!

What happens to the bankers in London? US is unreliable and unstable economically. China is implementing a barter system with Iran and other countries, oil for Chinese products. The UN wants control because they’re losing money worldwide.

International investors are using other currencies. What happened to all those Ameros they sent to China six years ago? [http://thahoketoteh.ws/2008/12/amero/].

Peopleof pallor worship death. In the USpolitical system, as roads crumble, schools close, quality of life collapses, they focus on war and killing. They love it, are entranced by it, glory in it. The more horrible, the more orgasmic!

Their morbid fascination with death is fanatical. Leaders long for the Middle ages to make torture legal and offerour children as living blood sacrifices to their cult.

Indigenous always found native languages and stories provided an understanding of human behavior.

A common Indigenous story is that the brown, black and yellow people were made ofclay. The white race was made fromthe foam that washed upon the shores. It stayed a while, disappeared as the sunbeat down on it and then shrivelled away.

Nature purges what is out of balance.

We must get back to being real human beings, ongwehonwe, who have a normal relationship with the land.

Thewhite race is getting bored, losing their spark of life and withering away, rending us of the Procol Harum song: “That her face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale.”

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