Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

August 18, 2015

Dan Bacher 'Documents reveal state plans for seizure of Delta farms to build tunnels'

Photo of the Sacramento River near Clarksburg by Dan Bacher
Documents reveal state plans for seizure of Delta farms to build tunnels/Big Oil spent $6.2 million lobbying California officials in year's first six months

by Dan Bacher
Censored News
Governor Jerry Brown's Delta tunnels plan hasn't been approved yet by the permitting agencies, but documents obtained from the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California reveal that the state and tunnels proponents have identified 300 parcels in the Delta they intend to take through eminent domain.

The newly released documents obtained through Public Records actions demonstrate that water exporters and the "Delta Design Construction Enterprise," housed within the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), have already developed plans to “acquire” family farms and "right of way" in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta through eminent domain, according to a joint statement from Restore the Delta, Delta landowners and the Southern California Watershed Alliance.

Grassroots Indigenous prepare for UN Climate Summit Paris

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By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English with Dutch translation

The UN climate summit will be in Paris this year, in late November and December. Although many world leaders will just waste time and money there -- there will also be grassroots Indigenous delegations focused on the land, water and air. During the UN climate summit in Cancun, there was non-stop action, learning and speakers at the La Via Campesina camp and pavilion. Bolivia President Evo Morales was among the speakers beneath the canopy. It meant that all of us without credentials, or who just wanted to be with grassroots people, had a powerful and happy time -- outside and beyond UN COP and its military forces. So, Paris isn't exactly Cochabamba, but great grassroots Indigenous are planning to be there. 

In the news today, the Obama administration gives Shell final approval for drilling in Arctic:
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/18/obama_gives_shell_final_approval_to

US EPA sends Navajo farmers contaminated water after Gold King mine spill in Animas River:
http://kunm.org/post/navajo-farmers-epa-sent-us-more-contaminated-water#stream/0

Dine' chase Arizona Sen. McCain off the Navajo Nation: Days of stealing land and water rights for corporations are over

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/dine-protesters-chase-john-mccain-off.html

The first statement to arrive at Censored News is from Istanbul. It is the Muslim Declaration on Climate Change.
Islamic Climate Declaration calls for fossil fuel phase out Istanbul, Turkey 
(August 18, 2015) Islamic leaders from 20 countries today launched a bold Climate Change Declaration to engage the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims on the issue of our time. Adopted by the 60 participants at the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium, (Istanbul, 17-18 August) the Declaration urges governments to deliver a strong, new international climate agreement in Paris this December that signals the end of the road for polluting fossil fuels by creating architecture that will give us a chance of limiting global warming above pre-industrial levels to 2, or preferably 1.5, degrees Celsius.
Read more:
 https://s.bsd.net/ourvoicesnet/main/page/file/3c0511c6ca4f366d66_r2m6bx8nf.pdf
Thanks to OurVoices Press Officer Vanya for shairng with Censored News.

UN Conference on Climate Change COP 21
http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en

Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS Gazette, thank you!

* Grassroots inheemsen maken zich klaar voor de VN klimaattop in Parijs
Vertaald door NAIS (with permission from Brenda Norrell): www.denaisgazet.be
De VN klimaattop zal in Parijs plaatshebben op het einde van november-
december.
Alhoewel veel wereldleiders enkel maar geld en tijd zullen verspillen zullen er ook grassroots inheemse delegaties aanwezig zijn voor het land, het water en de lucht.
Tijdens de klimaattop in Cancun 2010 werden aan het La Via Campensina non-stop acties, en lezingen gehouden.
President Evo Morales was een der sprekers onder de huif. Dat wil zeggen dat ieder van ons zonder geloofsbrieven, of iedereen die gewoon samen wou zijn met grassroots een geweldige tijd had- achter en uit het zicht van UN COP en zijn militaire strijdmacht.
Parijs is nu niet bepaald Cochabamba, maar aanzienlijke grassroots inheemsen maken zich klaar om erbij te zijn.

Vandaag in het nieuws, Obama geeft Shell de definitieve goedkeuring voor boringen in Arctica:

US EPA zendt Navajo boeren besmet water na Gold King Spill in Animas Rivier: http://kunm.org/post/navajo-farmers-epa-sent-us-more-contaminated-water#stream/0



De eerste verklaring die Censored News bereikte komt van Istambul.
Het is de Moslim Verklaring over klimaatverandering.
Islamic Climate Declaration calls for fossil fuel phase out Istanbul, Turkey
18 augustus, 2015-08-19
Islamitische leiders uit meer dan 20 landen hebben vandaag een krachtdadige klimaatverandering verklaring gelanceerd om de 1.6 miljard Moslims van over de hele wereld te betrekken op de problemen van onze tijd.
60 deelnemers aan het ‘International Islamic Climate Change Symposium’ (Istanbul 17-18 augustus) hebben de verklaring aangenomen.
In de verklaring manen zij de regeringen aan dat zij in Parijs tot een nieuw internationale klimaat overeenkomst moeten komen die een einde maakt aan de vervuilende fossiele brandstoffen.
Read more:
Thanks to OurVoices Press Officer Vanya for shairng with Censored News.

UN Conference on Climate Change COP 21


Climate express, Belgium
Move the Climate
De klimaattop is hét moment om massaal op straat te komen en de wereld te eisen waarvan we weten dat ze binnen ons bereik ligt: een wereld met een economie die werkt voor mens en planeet.
Wij geven het startschot met een gigantische klimaatmars en sluiten de top af met een straf staaltje creatief verzet.
Met de trein, de fiets en de bus brengen we minstens 10.000 Belgen naar Parijs!
Voor meer info: www.climate-express.eu

Mohawk Nation News 'Being Curious'

BEING CURIOUS

http://caid.ca/IndAdvAct1884.pdf
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Please post & distribute. Nia:wen.
MNN. Aug. 17, 2015. To get a good education we are told to always ask “why?” and “can you prove it?” about everything. In 1884, Canada, a corporate franchise of Europe, illegally passed the Indian Advancement Act.  [http://caid.ca/IndAdvAct1884.pdf] In 1924 all of our communities were turned into POW camps administered by the military. Kahnawake is #IR 14. Today, violating our sovereignty, illegal secret structures and businesses are flooding kahnawake, without our knowledge or consent. Complaints unheeded.
Chief Joe Norton lost 3 casino referenda.
Get rich quick by scamming your people: Joke Norton.
Get rich quick by scamming your people” by Joke Norton.
It seems he purchased our land to build a casino anyway, using our sovereignty and funds to make himself and his foreign investors rich. A road off the bridge from Montreal leads to a locked gate with the sign “L.A. Hebert” [commercial & industrial projects, possibly military. 450-632-7973].
what's being weighed?
The road leads into the bush to a weigh scale and then to a 300-acre cleared landfill. Along the road are empty poles. Further on electric boxes are attached to the poles with heavy black covered wiring buried into the ground. Further along stands a large empty square structure about the size of a 3-storey Wal-Mart, without windows.
Joke casino in the bush. Ha ha ha!
Ol’ Joke casino in the bush. Ha ha ha!
A 13 ft. high fence with barbed wire at the top surrounds the entire property to keep people out, not in. 10 large cooling systems are on the roof. The property could be a casino, a military installation or a prison/holding pen/labor camp. Warning notices abound. The only security was a monitor on a table inside the front door. Further down the road is a 300-foot tower with huge thick black wires coming from it. 350 Wal-Marts closed.

Until we take direction from the kohtihon'tia:kwenio
Until we take direction from the kohtihon’tia:kwenio.
Strangely no one in Kahnawake seems to know when this structure was built in the center of our territory. Just like in 1994 Joke Norton bought a Jesus toast  for $1.2 million of our funds without our knowledge.
Looks a bit like Joe.
Looks a bit like Joe.
According to Wampum 44 of the Great Peace the kohtihon’tia:kwenio, women titleholders, are responsible for all land and community issues. Each woman has the duty to bring all issues regarding our land before the people. Using Admiralty law to set up corporate businesses and structures on our land is illegal. The colony of Canada and their corporate puppets must immediately cease and desist their violations of our authority. They must deal only deal with us as required under both our law and international law. Anyone wishing to discuss any issues must provide full information through proper diplomatic channels, the Governor General.
Joe's off-shore casino on the S.S. Concordia!
Another option: off-shore casino on Lachine Rapids.
We, the kohtihon’tia:kwennio, of the rotino’shonni:onwe, maintain that violations of our inherent rights and laws, by Canada and its corporations and agents, like the MCK, cannot be tolerated. They violate the Great Peace and Two Row, the first laws of ono’ware:geh. The women titleholders of Kahnawake have full rights to seize all of these structures and businesses that have been illegally built in our community. Govern yourselves accordingly.
Due to the immense secrecy, we are speculating and entitled to full transparency. Alice Cooper sees the CROWN’s role in this Admiralty matrix . the band councillors help the CROWN spin its web: “I’m your lover. I’m your brother. I’m your killer. I’m your friend. I’m your teacher. I’m Your preacher. I’m the reaper. In the end. I am the spider.” 


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CROWN agents plan takeover.
CROWN agents MCK plan takeover of Kahnawake.

August 16, 2015

Dine' Protesters Chase John McCain off Navajo Nation



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Dine': No more allowing state or federal politicians and the corporations they represent entrance into our homelands

By Nihigaal bee Iina
Censored News
August 14, 2015
English with Dutch translation


Diné taking action in Window Rock to address John McCain's ecocidal and genocidal policies. This morning at the Navajo Nation Museum, members of various Indigenous nations joined together in collective solidarity around water security, resistance against resource extraction, and closed-door negotiation.

Senator John McCain's meeting had to be moved to the auditorium while outside protesters made their intentions known through protest and song.

"We will rise up as the new leaders of our Nations, in solidarity with our Indigenous Brothers and Sisters, and we start by saying NO MORE ALLOWING state or federal politicians and the corporations they represent entrance into our homelands. Those who are responsible for our people being poisoned, starved, kept in poverty and removed from our sacred territories, are not welcomed here!! We will take back our power and restore our homelands, take care of our water, protect our people and our sacred sites, and mentor a new generation of youth who will change this paradigm of exploitation and greed!" (Collective voice of those united in solidarity)



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Adriano Tsinigine said, "Showing my support from the Navajo Nation. Met Mr. McCain, and asked for a photo, then I pulled out my 'Protect Oak Flat' card and when he saw it, he looked me right in the eye and said 'Get out of here, now!' Haha, this ma'ii is just afraid of us, because of how powerful we are."
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Above: Screen capture of video: 'Chasing John McCain off the Rez'

Dine' chase Arizona Sen. John McCain off the Navajo Nation, yelling at him that the days of stealing Navajo land and water rights for corporations are over


By Brenda Norrell

Dine’ chased Arizona Sen. John McCain off the Navajo Nation on Friday, yelling at him that the days of coming on the Navajo Nation to steal land and water rights, and carry out ecocide and genocide, are over.

Dine’ (Navajo) protesters blocked McCain's speech and chased after his car, yelling at him that neither him nor the corporations he represents are welcome here.

Dine' protesters posted photos and video on the Internet of chasing McCain's car off the Navajo Nation Capitol of Window Rock, Arizona. Watch video of Dine' chasing after McCain's car and see more photos:

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/dine-protesters-chase-john-mccain-off.html

Nihigaal bee lina, Journey of Existence, are Dine’ walkers who have been walking to the Four Sacred Mountains. They are speaking out for the land, air and water that they are defending for future generations.

They posted a collective statement by the protesters.

“Diné taking action in Window Rock to address John McCain's ecocidal and genocidal policies. This morning at the Navajo Nation Museum, members of various Indigenous nations joined together in collective solidarity around water security, resistance against resource extraction, and closed-door negotiation.

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“Senator John McCain's meeting had to be moved to the auditorium while outside protesters made their intentions known through protest and song.

"We will rise up as the new leaders of our Nations, in solidarity with our Indigenous Brothers and Sisters, and we start by saying NO MORE ALLOWING state or federal politicians and the corporations they represent entrance into our homelands. Those who are responsible for our people being poisoned, starved, kept in poverty and removed from our sacred territories, are not welcomed here!! We will take back our power and restore our homelands, take care of our water, protect our people and our sacred sites, and mentor a new generation of youth who will change this paradigm of exploitation and greed!"

Adriano Tsinigine said he posed for a
photo with McCain, then pulled out his card supporting Apaches at Oak Flat. Apaches are defending sacred land from McCain's copper mine that he sneaked through in the defense bill.

Tsinigine compared McCain to a ma'ii, coyote.

"Showing my support from the Navajo Nation, met 
Mr. McCain, and asked for a photo. Then I pulled out my 'Protect Oak Flat' card and when he saw it, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'Get out of here, now!' Haha, this ma'ii is just afraid of us, because of how powerful we are."

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Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS Gazette



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*Dine’ activisten verjagen John McCain, senator van Arizona, van de Navajo Nation terwijl ze hem toeschreeuwen dat de dagen van diefstal van Navajo land en waterrechten voor corporaties nu geteld zijn!






Dine’ laten de staats of federale politiekers en de corporaties die zij vertegenwoordigen niet meer binnen in hun thuislanden.
Door Brenda Norrell, Censored News: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.be/2015/08/dine-protesters-chase-john-mccain-off.html

Vertaald door NAIS with permission from Brenda Norrell: www.denaisgazet.be
Diné’ riepen onomwonden naar Sen. John McCain, terwijl ze hem van hun grond verjaagden, dat de dagen van diefstal van land en waterrechten, en het uitvoeren van eccocide en genocide nu echt voorbij zijn.
Dine’ ( Navajo) activisten verhinderden McCain’s speech en achtervolgden McCain’s auto terwijl ze hem toeriepen dat noch hij, noch de corporaties die hij vertegenwoordigd hier welkom zijn.
Dine’ activisten hebben foto’s en video op het internet verspreid
Zie meer foto’s http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/dine-protesters-chase-john-mccain-off.html


Nihigaal bee lina, de ‘reis van het bestaan’, zijn Dine’ walkers die de Four Sacred Mountains afgestapt hebben. Zij spraken zich uit voor het land, lucht en water dat zij beschermen voor toekomstige generaties.


Door Nihigaal bee lina


Dine’s voeren actie in Window Rock tegen John McCain’s ‘ecocidal’ en ‘genocidal’ beleid.
Vandaag (14 augustus 2015) verzamelden leden van verschillende inheemse naties zich in het Navajo Nation Museum, in collectieve solidariteit rond de bescherming van het water, verzet tegen de extractie van hun bronnen en gesloten deur overeenkomsten.
De meeting van Senator John McCain moest verplaatst worden naar het auditorium terwijl buiten demonstranten hun bedoelingen duidelijk kenbaar maakten met hun protest en liederen.
“ Wij staan op als de nieuwe leiders van onze volken, in solidariteit met onze inheemse broeders en zusters, en we beginnen alvast met staat en federale politiekers en hun corporate vrienden de toegang tot onze thuislanden te weigeren. Zij die er verantwoordelijk voor zijn dat ons volk vergiftigd en uitgehongerd wordt, in armoede worden gehouden en gedwongen worden om weg te trekken uit onze sacrale gebieden, zijn niet welkom hier!! Wij zullen onze macht teruggrijpen en onze thuislanden herstellen, wij zullen zorg dragen voor ons water, onze mensen en onze sacrale sites beschermen, en een nieuwe generatie van jongeren opleiden die dit model van uitbuiting en hebzucht zal veranderen.” (collectieve stem van hen die verenigd zijn in solidariteit)













Adriano Tsinigine zei: “ Mijn solidariteitactie met de Navajo Nation. Ik heb mr. McCain ontmoet en vroeg of hij met me op de foto wou staan. Toen haalde ik mijn ‘Protect Oak Flat’ kaart uit mijn zak en toen hij die zag keek hij me recht in de ogen en zei”Maak dat je hier weg komt, Nu!”. Haha, deze ma’li (Coyote) heeft duidelijk schrik van ons.”













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