SOA Watch 'End Police Violence, Militarization at Home and Abroad

From Mexico to Ferguson:  End Police Violence & Militarization at Home and Abroad The militarized "solutions" taught at the School of the Americas (SOA/ WHINSEC) are also being applied to communities within the US. We need to end the racist system of state violence and militarization at home and abroad. They thought they would just be arrested. But something else awaited them On September 26, 43 students who were protesting discriminatory hiring practices for teachers in Mexico disappeared at the hands of the Mexican police and are feared to have been handed  over by the police to drug cartels or criminal gangs to be executed. Mass graves have been found on the outskirts of Iguala in the Mexican state of Guerrero, where the students were protesting. The bodies have yet to be identified. Six students were also murdered as the police shot at the students during the protest and then detained others, including the 43 who have been forcefully disappeared. This police massacre is just another example of murder, kidnapping, and brutality by the Mexican police and military that often go unpunished despite the fact that the collaboration between the police, drug cartels, and organized crime is well known. The US continues to fund and train the Mexican security forces at the School of the Americas and other sites under the umbrella of fighting the failed drug war, while Mexican civilians and activists continue to be killed. Click here for more information.

A quienes escuchen en este México de sangre y de dolor (Blood and Pain in Mexico)

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The Blood and Pain in Mexico
(Computer translation excerpt) Enrique Peña Nieto and those behind him operate with the old style of dictatorships and the new discourse of "democracy", that is, with the best and most perfect style of Mexican political wickedness, being made to build a country that crime is a state policy, that is where everything is available for the right price, where the cost-benefit any life is expendable. We live under a system where the political cost is outsourced, meaning that those in power use to other political figures to assume the responsibility of horror, and these in turn outsource the political cost and the legal consequences to others, until at end, when the entire political class has been achieved demarcate the slaughter, when the system is safe, "get to the end to do justice" meaning that mess just a few of the cops-assassins who shot to jail ( and that in the best case). In Ayotzinapa, as in many other parts of Mexico, the groups in power will do everything possible to be the responsibility of a few people "expendable" for the system of impunity and violence to continue their brutal way. Mexico's political system is corrupt, corruption is the political system of Mexico. Translator

A quienes escuchen en este México de sangre y de dolor.Nodo de Derechos Humanos
Les trois passants
Comisión Takachiualis de Derechos Humanos
Proyecto de Animación y Desarrollo

¿Cómo se puede empezar a escribir una carta pensando en Ayotzinapa sin formular muchas preguntas? El terror y la falta de palabras para describir el sentimiento tan profundo y terrible provocan muchas dudas, inquietudes, corajes y desgarrados pensamientos. 

¿Qué nos están diciendo?

Funder of Hawaiian telescope is same for Native rights violator in Calif

Photo of protest at Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation offices on October 7 in solidarity with protests to stop the building of a giant telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Photo courtesy of Santa Cruz Indigenous Solidarity.

MLPA Initiative Funder pledged $250 million for Mauna Kea telescope 

Protesters rally in Palo Alto against desecration of sacred mountain 

by Dan Bacher 

Censored News

What do a plan to build a huge telescope on a sacred mountain, Mauna Kea, in Hawaii and a privately funded process to create alleged "marine protected areas in California have to do with one another?

Answer: both received major funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the foundation that was established by Intel founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty.

In the news today: Navajo Times

Photo by Robyn Jackson, Dine', Censored News
Rolling Stone featured this scene in its top photos, is Navajo Times censoring it?

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

Why does Navajo Times have this article, 'Groundbreaking, Hawaiian blessing for telescope' -- instead of an article about the Native Hawaiian protest over the telescope desecrating the sacred mountain Mauna Kea? http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/10/native-hawaiians-protest-telescope-on.html

Navajo Times posted an AP article on this serious issue of desecrating the sacred mountain. As usual, AP is promoting the government and corporate interests instead of Indigenous rights and protection of Mauna Kea. By reposting AP's US and corporate spin, Navajo Times becomes part of the violation of the sacred mountain.

I was looking at Navajo Times to see if they covered the Dine' women who were featured in Rolling Stone and on Democracy Now at Flood Wall Street in New York. I don't see anything about Navajos at Flood Wall Street or the Climate March in New York. But I do see that Navajo Times has a non-Indian reporter covering the Longest Walk and prison camp, 'Hwéeldi at 150.' 

Why is this? There are so many unemployed Navajo and Native American reporters, why does Navajo Times continue to employ non-Indian reporters? Besides the ethics of this, it is a violation of Navajo Preference in Employment law.

The Dine' women at Flood Wall Street and the Climate March in New York in September took a bold stand against the dirty coal industry and the violators in their homeland: Peabody Coal and dirty coal-fired power plants.

Is Navajo Times censoring the fact that the Navajo Generating Station, on the Navajo Nation, is one of the top polluters in the world? It is easy to fill a newspaper with political turmoil, a good way to distract readers from what is really happening as a result of the dirty coal power plants on the Navajo Nation.

Update: Protesters halt telescope groundbreaking

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20141007_Groundbreaking_delayed_for_Hawaii_telescope.html

Brenda Norrell is publisher of Censored News and served as a staff writer at Navajo Times and stringer for AP in the 1980s. She lived on the Navajo Nation for 18 years and has been a news reporter for 32 years.