Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

March 2, 2016

PARIS: Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier to be Honored with Frantz Fanon Award March 6, 2016

New! Poster in French for March 6, 2016 event in Paris.

PARIS: Leonard Peltier receiving Frantz Fanon Revolutionary Thinking Award

By Christine Prat
Censored News
English, French and Dutch

PARIS -- The Frantz Fanon Foundation is awarding the Frantz Fanon Prize to Leonard Peltier. The prize, which honors revolutionary thinkers and their service to mankind, will be presented to Lenny Foster, Diné, a member of the American Indian Movement, and an advisor to Peltier. Foster will accept the award on behalf of Peltier, who remains incarcerated in the United States.

The award will be presented by Frantz Fanon’s daughter on March 6, 2016.
Frantz Fanon

The prize was awarded to Peltier based on a proposal from the network, Reseau ‘Sortir du Colonialisme.' The Support Committee for American Indians, CSIA, worked in support of the proposal to recognize Peltier with the award.

Peltier's supporters, pressing for clemency for Peltier, hope the prize will attract the attention of President Obama. Earlier, Obama voiced his admiration for Fanon.

Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary thinker from Martinique, was a psychiatrist and worked in a hospital in Algiers during the Algerian Uprising (1954-1962.) He sided with the Algerians. Fanon's most famous book is ‘The Wretched of the Earth’. He died very young of leukemia before the end of the Algerian War, in 1961. He has always been a major symbol of anti-colonialism and resistance of Indigenous People.

More info on Leonard Peltier: http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
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French translation below by Christine Prat, thank you from Censored News

LEONARD PELTIER: 40 ANS D’INCARCERATION. IL RECEVRA LE PRIX DE LA FONDATION FRANTZ FANON

On February 6, 2016, in Leonard Peltier, by Chris P
6 février 2016 [In English, Zie Nederlandse vertaling]
PosterPeltier40yrsLEONARD PELTIER ENTRE AUJOURD’HUI DANS SA 40ème ANNEE D’INCARCERATION. Il fut accusé d’avoir tué deux agents du FBI, cependant il a été démontré depuis longtemps – et admis par la Justice – qu’il ne pouvait pas être le tireur. Les autorités ont cependant toujours refusé de rouvrir le dossier, prétendant que s’il n’était pas l’auteur des coups de feu, il devait être complice! Aucun Président n’a accepté de le grâcier jusqu’à maintenant.
Il est actuellement très malade et ne reçoit pas les soins nécessaires.
LA FONDATION FRANTZ FANON A DECIDE DE LUI ATTRIBUER LE PRIX FRANTZ FANON CETTE ANNÉE. Le prix sera remis au cours du Salon Anticolonial organisé à la Bellevilloise, dans le cadre de la Semaine Anticoloniale, initiée par le Réseau ‘Sortir du Colonialisme’.
Ce prix peut se révéler très important car les soutiens de Leonard Peltier pensent qu’une grâce de Barak Obama est la dernière chance de faire libérer Leonard, et Obama a dit avoir été très inspiré par Frantz Fanon.
Frantz Fanon est né en 1925 à Fort-de-France, Martinique. Il était psychiatre et a travaillé dans un hôpital d’Alger pendant la guerre d’Algérie. Il devint membre du FLN (Front de Libération Nationale Algérien). Il a toujours soutenu les opprimés et combattu le racisme et le colonialisme. Il mourut en 1961 de leucémie. Depuis, il a toujours été considéré comme un symbole de la lutte contre le colonialisme et l’oppression. Son ouvrage le plus connu est “Les Damnés de la Terre”.
Depuis 2011, la Fondation Frantz Fanon décerne son prix a une personne ayant mené une action exemplaire contre le racisme, la discrimination et la xénophobie, la domination et le colonialisme. Cette année le prix sera décerné le 6 mars au cours du Salon Anticolonial, en présence de la fille de Frantz Fanon. Lenny Foster, Navajo, membre de l’AIM et proche de Leonard Peltier, recevra le prix au nom de Leonard.
Christine Prat
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Dutch translation below by Alice Holemans, NAIS, thank you from Censored News!
http://www.denaisgazet.be/free-leonard-peltier/frantz-fanon-foundation-prijs-voor-leonard-peltier-parijs

* Frantz Fanon Foundation prijs voor Leonard Peltier- Parijs


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Parijs- De Frantz Fanon Foundation kent de Frantz Fanon prijs toe aan Leonard Peltier.
De prijs die een eerbetoon is aan revolutionaire denkers in dienst van de mensheid, zal op 6 februari 2016, verjaardag van Leonard’ s 40 jarige onrechtmatige opsluiting overhandigt worden aan Lenny Foster, Dine’, lid van de American Indian Movement (AIM), en spirituele raadgever van Peltier.
De prijs zal overhandigd worden door de dochter van Frantz Manon.
Het steuncomité voor Amerikaanse indianen (CSIA) en andere organisaties in Frankrijk hadden de Frantz Fanon Foundation opgeroepen om Peltier te erkennen.
Peltier activisten hopen dat de prijs onder de aandacht van Obama komt. Obama heeft zijn bewondering voor Frantz Fanon vroeger reeds geuit.

Frantz Fanon, een revolutionaire denker uit Martinique, was een psychiater en werkzaam in een hospitaal in Algiers tijdens de Algerijnse opstand (1954-1962.) Hij koos de kant van de Algerijnen. Zijn bekendste boek is “The Wretched of the Earth”.
Hij stierf zeer jong aan de gevolgen van Leukemie, nog voor het einde van de Algerijnse oorlog, in 1961. Hij is altijd een belangrijk symbool geweest van anti- kolonialisme en het verzet van inheemse volken.
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-- Christine Prat in France

Copyright Christine Prat, Censored News

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February 29, 2016

Galeano (Marcos) 'And in the Zapatista Communities?'

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And in the Zapatista Communities?
Zapatista Army for National Liberation
Mexico
To the compañer@s of the Sixth:
To whom it may concern:
Compañeroas, compañeros and compañeras:
Now we are going to tell you a little bit about the Zapatista communities, where the bases of support resist and struggle.
What we are going to share with you now comes from reports by the Zapatista compañeras and compañerosin the communities who are coordinators for their commissions (for example, health, education, young people, etc), autonomous authorities, or other organizational coordinators. But along with the compas of theComité [CCRI] we checked to make sure this information wasn’t a lie, that things hadn’t been altered so that the good things would appear and bad things would remain hidden. The work of these writings is not to lie to our compas of the Sixth nor to those who support us and are in their solidarity. We won’t lie to you, to them, nor to anyone else.
If things are going badly we will tell you so clearly, but not so that you feel even more sad on top of everything that is happening in your own geographies and calendars. We tell you because it is our way of being accountable, of letting you know what’s happening and so that you know if we are on the path we said we were on or if we have wandered off that path, perhaps repeating the same vices we criticize.
But if we are on the right track, well we want you to know that too in order to bring joy to the collective heart that we are.

McCarthyism: The new face of journalism

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News


The McCarthyism that destroyed careers and lives of filmmakers, writers and journalists, is the same as what is happening today, just in a different form. 
The truth-tellers are being silenced. Whether it is done with an economic torch, forcing journalists into unemployment and poverty, or whether it is done by billionaires or the casino industry purchasing and controlling the media that once gave them a voice, the truth tellers are vanishing.
On Facebook, the financial profiteers are scamming readers by seizing real journalists content and placing it on webpages loaded with advertising. This violates copyrights and is illegal profiteering from others hard work. It is part of the dissolving of real journalism and the diluting of truth.
The pullout of Al-Jazeera America, which was broadcasting some good coverage in Indian country, was said to be for financial reasons. Well, for whatever reasons the plug was pulled, it was one of the few media outlets that was actually showing up in Indian country, instead of staying home and plagiarizing.
Casino-funded media has proven to be the death of real journalism in Indian country.
Corporate billionaires have proven they can take control of any existing media.
Where does this leave us all? Looking for a new form, a new way for truth telling.