Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 15, 2013

Mohawk Nation News 'Nobody's Business'

Nobody’s Business

mnnlogo1MNN. June 14, 2013. The rulers are trying to build a giant computer that knows and runs everything. PRISM is the US National Security Agency program that gathers billions of private data on everyone in the world. In Canada it’s CSEC Communications Security Establishment Canada. It has a $400 million budget and 2000 employees. 
"Did you hear this one?... Pass it one."
“Did you hear this one?… Pass it on.”
Defense Minister Peter MacKay issued directives without Parliamentary oversight to swap ultra secret megadata from phone calls, internet activity, raw telephone data, phone numbers of all parties, time, duration, emails, audio, video, from everyone. Itamasses GPS information, emails, social media, banking and travel records and entire government databases. Credit card companies and internet service such as Micosoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple give the government direct access to data.  People can now be totally monitored. The information is stored away by the military. 
CSIS and RCMP have been spying since the establishment of both agencies. In 1997 the Federal Court dismissed an application by CSIS to target a general class of persons at its discretion. New ways were created to get around privacy laws. The US PRISM program passes their info through the Canadian internet. When it goes back the US takes Canadian info with it. And vice versa. The “Five Eyes ECHELON’ is a global network to intercept private and commercial communications in US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. 
It's old fashioned, but it works!
It’s old fashioned, but it works!
To control all interception worldwide the switch is placed in a few sites around the world. In Canada Canadian Forces Base at Leitrim in Ontario, is the satellite interception station. 
The U.S. government gathers daily more than a billion data, or 2.1 million gigabytes every hour“20 trillion transactions” are being tracked. A storage center was built in Utah to store 5 zettabytes of data. One zettabyte equals 62 billion stacked iPhones 5′s that stretches past the moon. Individualized searches can be done through target addresses, locations, countries, phone numbers, watch-listed names, keywords, and email phrases. 
"Prism. Ha. Ha. Ha. We're all such liars anyway".
“Prism. Ha. Ha. Ha. We’re all such liars anyway”.
U.S. Constitution, Article 4, has been violated, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” The top secret court order was issued in April 2013 within and between US and other countries, until a whistleblower released the information to the world. Edward Snowden hides out for his life.
The mainstream media tells us that the public is saying, “I don’t care as I have nothing to hide”. No “leader” condemns this violation of human rights. The rulers know there will be no complaints about their abuse from their bought-and-paid-for congressmen, senators and members of parliament. Utah  As Duran Duran sings in their “Bond” song; “Dance into the fire, that fatal kiss is all we need. Dance into the fire, when all we see is the view to a kill” A view to a kill
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Dine' youths' 'Doo'ko'oosliid' on Link TV

Doo'ko'oosliid
San Francisco Peaks 
The most viewed film today at the Green Film Festival, Culture Unplugged!
Watch online:
Camille Manybeads Tso
Director: Camille Manybeads Tso and Kira Butler | Producer: Rachel Tso
Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2011 | Story Teller's Country: United States
Synopsis: Dine' youth explore their, and their community's, relationship with Doo'ko'osliid, the San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona. Film made by Dine' youth during the Peace and Film 5 Day Peer Leadership Summer Camp. An example of Place-Based Media Arts.

June 14, 2013

VIDEO: Arrests at Sacred Fire in New Brunswick




Published on Jun 14, 2013
12 People arrested at Anti Shale Protest on Route 126 in Kent County

 

 Halifax Media Co-op audio:

"This is an infringement upon human rights."


Listuguj chief visits sacred fire encampment, pledges a bus load of support.


APTN: Arrests made at sacred fire in New Brunswick

Twelve people were arrested Friday morning by the RCMP at the site of a sacred fire as part of an on-going protest in New Brunswick over seismic testing in the area.

APTN article, with more video:

World Indigenous Conference 2014: Intervention by Indigenous Environmental Network

As a group in Norway planned an Indigenous World Conference for 2014, the Indigenous Environmental Network made an intervention. Will the gathering in 2014 uphold the Rights of Nature? The outcome remains to be seen. -- Censored News

IMG_4290Intervention by Indigenous Environmental Network, Tom Goldtooth 

"This green economy regime places a monetary price on Nature and creates new derivative markets that will only increase inequality and expedite the destruction of Nature – of Mother Earth." -- Tom Goldtooth, IEN

Jun 13, 2013
INDIVIDUAL INTERVENTION SESSION

11 June 2013
by Indigenous Environmental Network 
Intervention by Tom Goldtooth, on behalf of the Indigenous Environmental Network, delegate from the North America Caucus.
Mr. Chair, Bureau, Indigenous Peoples Delegates and Indigenous Peoples of the World;
This intervention is not on behalf of the North American Caucus, but on behalf of the Indigenous Environmental Network.
It is very important that the outcome document articulate the expression of Indigenous worldview that we all share, as Peoples of the Land, Waters, Oceans and noting our relatives of the Polar region – I will add the “Peoples’ of the Ice and Snow”.  The full recognition of our spirituality and cosmovision, as part of our culture, has consistently been under attack by States and their colonial bodies and within the implementation of their economic globalization and so-called sustainable development agenda. As Indigenous Peoples we are observing the UN, the World Bank, and other financial and private sectors, including energy and extractive industries that are pushing a “green” economy agenda. As Indigenous Peoples, we must articulate our voices in the Outcome Document on this UN and member States’ economic development agenda that is expanding the commodification, financialization and privatization of the functions of Nature. These functions of Nature are the life-giving cycles of Mother Earth.
This green economy regime places a monetary price on Nature and creates new derivative markets that will only increase inequality and expedite the destruction of Nature – of Mother Earth. We cannot put the future of Nature and humanity in the hands of financial speculative mechanisms like carbon trading, REDD, conservation and biodiversity offsets and payment for environmental and ecological services.
As Indigenous Peoples, we are the Guardians of Mother Earth and Father Sky.  We are the Peoples of Mother Earth. The rights of Indigenous Peoples and the rights of Mother Earth are not separate. We only have one Mother Earth – let’s take care of her and lift up her right for her natural laws to be recognized.
Thank you.


 
PHOTO: June 12, 2013 - Day 3, Afternoon Plenary session of the Preparatory Conference - at the Finnmark Hall in Alta, Norway. Photo: Ben Powless, Global Coordinating Group Media Team

More info on World Indigenous Conference 2014, including outcome document of Norway planning session:
 http://www.wcip2014.org/1310