Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

April 6, 2014

Moccasins on Ground Activist Training April 25 -- 27, 2014


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APRIL 25 @ 5 p.m. - April 26th &  27th All Day - Red Shirt Community on the Pine Ridge Homelands - Meals Provided - Bring Your Bedroll 

For more info on the Moccasins on the Ground Training Camp to Protect Sacred Water OR TO DONATE to the TRANSPORTATION FUND please visit www.oweakuinternational.org

The Moccasins on the Ground training developed by Owe Aku  focuses on skills, tactics, and techniques of nonviolent direct action in three day training camps.  The skills include blockades,  workshops on strategic media, street medic training, knowing your legal rights with respect to  civil disobedience, building solidarity and alliances, applicable international human rights and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Lakota sacred teachings on water, and many other topics under the umbrella of direct action.  For more info OR TO DONATE to the TRANSPORTATION FUND please visit www.oweakuinternational.org.  



Map from Pine Ridge Village to Red Shirt & from Rapid City to Red Shirt - Red Shirt is on Google Maps


Kent Lebsock
Owe Aku International Justice Project
Advocates for Lakota Treaties & Mother Earth
646-233-4406
646-395-1617 fax

April 5, 2014

Mohawk Nation News 'Quebec and Dekanawida'



QUEBEC and DEKANAWIDA


Please post and distribute. Nia:wen. 
MNN. Mar. 5, 2014. After forming the original Five Nations Confederacy, Dekanawida left for the Sky World. He told us this story about forthcoming events before he got into his stone canoe for the trip.

April 4, 2014

Celebrating the courage of those who exposed US torture as it happened

Political prisoners rally Denver 2008
Democratic National Convention
Celebrating the courage of those who exposed US torture as it happened, from Tucson and Denver to the Hague

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News
Dutch translation by NAIS

TUCSON -- In Tucson in 2007, there was a movement to expose US torture, while the mainstream media trembled and turned away. Human rights attorney Bill Quigley was in a Tucson courtroom seven years ago describing the same US torture that the US is currently attempting to conceal in its report to Congress.

Big Mountain Spring Training Camp 2014

BIG MOUNTAIN SPRING TRAINING CAMP


MAY 16th-23rd, 2014
BIG MOUNTAIN, DINEH NATION


“What we are trying to save—the Female Mountain—is alive. She is alive, she has blood flowing through her veins, which is the Navajo Aquifer, and the coal they are digging is Her liver. They are destroying Her.”–Marie Gladue, Big Mountain Relocation Resister
“We need to exercise our right to be human. To gather on the land and have our words be heard by the ground, the trees, and each other.”–Louise Benally, Big Mountain Relocation Resister