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| Censored News originals by Brenda Norrell: Vicam Yaqui Mexico; Boliiva; Long Walk 2; Comcaac (Seri) coast Mexico |
February 4, 2014
Censored News Fundraising Appeal!
February 3, 2014
Film 'Gwich'in Women Speak'
"Gwich'in Women Speak" an inspiring and moving short documentary film by Miho Aida is now doing the film festival circuit and is available on DVD online at mihoaida.com/gwichin/dvd/.
The film has been screening worldwide and will be at the Alaska Forum for the Environment Film Festival this week in Anchorage at the Dena'ina Convention Center at 9:45am on Thursday, Feb.6th and 9:40am on Friday, Feb.7th.
The women of the Gwich'in Nation have been speaking out for over 25 years on this issue and so eloquently capture why the birthing grounds of the Porcupine Caribou Herd known to our communities as The Sacred Place Where Life Begins need to be protected for future generations.
Please write your US Senators and Representatives and urge them to sign on to S1695 or HR139
to designate the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as Wilderness
to protect this sacred place once and for all.
Please do share this powerful film with friends and family!
Hai' zhrii Diilak Naii! Thank you so much for your support of the Gwich'in Steering Committee!
ourarcticrefuge.org
The film has been screening worldwide and will be at the Alaska Forum for the Environment Film Festival this week in Anchorage at the Dena'ina Convention Center at 9:45am on Thursday, Feb.6th and 9:40am on Friday, Feb.7th.
The women of the Gwich'in Nation have been speaking out for over 25 years on this issue and so eloquently capture why the birthing grounds of the Porcupine Caribou Herd known to our communities as The Sacred Place Where Life Begins need to be protected for future generations.
Please write your US Senators and Representatives and urge them to sign on to S1695 or HR139
to designate the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as Wilderness
to protect this sacred place once and for all.
Please do share this powerful film with friends and family!
Hai' zhrii Diilak Naii! Thank you so much for your support of the Gwich'in Steering Committee!
ourarcticrefuge.org
VIDEO New Zealand's Tribute to Zapatistas 20 Years in Photos
Exhibition in New Zealand honours the Zapatista uprising and achievements
By Enlace Zapatista
Censored News
In New Zealand, The Wellington Zapatista Support Group has organised a photograph exhibition to commemorate to 20th anniversary of the EZLN uprising in Chiapas, to celebrate their achievements and honour their struggle, their sacrifices, and their dead.
The exhibition is being shown for one week in the Thistle Gallery, in the centre of the capital city of Wellington, between 27 January and 02 February 2014.
Featuring photographs by Frida Hartz, Efraim and Jorge Herrera, and Julie Webb-Pullman as well as including one each from the Chiapas Support Committee and Geraldo Villarroe, the exhibition covers 20 years of iconic and ordinary moments in the lives of the Zapatistas and the construction of their autonomous communities.
“We tried to get two photographs from each year,” said one of the organisers, “but as we were offered the gallery at very short notice, it was not possible in the available time. So we are already starting the search now for a 25th anniversary exhibition – because for sure, the Zapatistas will still be here!”
The photographs are interspersed with brief information on major events in each of the 20 years, providing both a written and photographic lesson for the public.
A professional artist who visited the gallery said she was very impressed with the exhibition. “I love the way it starts in black and white, with the armed uprising, and progresses through the years to very positive peaceful and constructive images in bright colours. It is almost like a trip from the darkness of the underworld into the light of life.”
Although the Wellington Zapatista Support Group does not expect the exhibition to raise a lot of money for the Zapatista communities, it has certainly raised a lot of awareness about their struggle.
“Most of the people who come in tell us they knew nothing, or very little, about the Zapatistas before they saw the exhibition. We feel as if we achieved something if we manage to educate even one person, but this week we have educated hundreds. So to us, it is a great success. We hope they will help us continue the struggle in New Zealand, to build a better world in which many worlds fit.”
Wellington Zapatista Support Group
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¡CONTRA EL DESPOJO Y LA REPRESIÓN: LA SOLIDARIDAD!
Red Contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad
Correo electrónico: redcontralarepresion@gmail.com
Teléfono: 55 78 07 75 y 55 78 47 11
Dirección: Dr. Carmona y Valle # 32, colonia Doctores, Del. Cuauhtémoc, México D. F. C.P. 06720February 2, 2014
Lakotas Owe Aku: NO! Black Snake tarsands pipeline: 'We have painted our faces'
By Owe Aku InternationalCensored News
Lakota are united with our relatives and allies up north. We must stop this kxl from entering the territory our ancestors loved, lived on for thousands of generations, and gave their greatest gift of all to defend, their lives. Our Creation stories teach us that this is our Home on Unci Maka, our homeland is part of our identity, we have our inherent birth right as Lakota Oyate. Our inherent birth right is a spiritual and human right, and we have treaty rights. We do not want kxl, we do not want tarsands in our lands, the tarsands must stay in the ground, the extraction and its aftermath is killing humans and all of life up there, and wasting precious water. The leaders of the world are looking at this, we need them to be good leaders and stand in the way of something bad coming toward us, all over the world, and here, in the big land, it is time for people to be clear to their leader. Now is a time when he can be a green revolutionary, and make decisions that can change the world.
Please take a moment to help get our words, thoughts, and prayers out to the world, all over Unci Maka, that Lakota People, and many other Red Nations people, we have painted our faces. Our allies up north have painted their faces. For sacred water, for Unci Maka, for our generations. As people of the earth, our coming generations have a right to sacred water, no policy, no corporation, no politics should be more important than that. Regional water shortages are befalling people all over the world, people are being displaced, the four legged, the winged nations are becoming endangered and extinct because the system in place honors a huge profit over the health of Unci Maka, prioritizes an unsustainable energy policy that is and that will continue to lead us closer to what is perhaps the most dangerous point in our lifetime, wars over war. We are in a time of prophecy, our collective action will be significant, with all the love in our hearts, we must all resist this destruction, and stand for sacred water and Unci Maka." -Owe Aku
Please share far and wide, time is drawing near and we must be ready.
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