Mohawk Nation News 'Canada's Extinction Plan. Part 1'

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Lisa DeVille -- North Dakota Bill is Fear Mongering by Oil Cronies

Standing Rock Photo Rob Wilson

Letter to Editor

By Lisa DeVille, Mandaree, North Dakota

March 1, 2019

North Dakota Senate Bill 2044 is Coordinated Effort by Oil Cronies to take away Constitutional Rights

A bill intending to chill protest and rob citizens of their freedom of speech has been introduced in the North Dakota Senate this legislative session. 

On the surface ND Senate Bill 2044 appears to be in the interest of keeping critical infrastructure safe and sound, but in reality there are already sufficient laws in place for that. 

In reality this legislation is fear mongering in its nature, imposing excessive consequences on people and organizations involved in protest, even if it is lawful and peaceful. The vague and ambiguous language used to outline the circumstances punishable by law in this legislation is left up to interpretation of the law, and aims to intimidate people out of their constitutional right of free speech and assembly. 

We should treat our land, air, and water as critical infrastructure rather than pandering to industries that have temporary interest in our land and people. 

There has been look-alike legislation proposed in several states including Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Ohio. I implore you to contact your ND legislator in the House and urge them to vote no on ND Senate Bill 2044, let's keep our constitutional rights safe and sound.

Walking the Loneliest Road, Hwy 50 Nevada, Photos by Bad Bear 2019

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Photos by Western Shoshone Longwalker  Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Longest Walk 2019, Carson City to Fallon, Nevada.

Walkers are now in Fallon.

When the Era of 'Plagiarism-for-Profit' Ends, What Then for Journalism?

Censored News photos spanning 13 years, from the southern border to Oneida, Wisconsin Boarding School Summit to Bolivia. Photos by Brenda Norrell.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

What will be the future of journalism. What will young journalists find as solutions to an industry that has crashed and burned, with some excellence remaining in the ashes.
Advertising, grants and non-profit dollars  sway news content and helped the bankrupt print industry die.
This is why Censored News has none of these. There are no advertising or grants. Censored News is not part of any non-profit. This was the only way to keep the focus clear. 

But our good-hearted writers and photographers don't get paid. 

It takes a great deal of money for journalists to travel. There are car expenses, flights, food, lodging and equipment.

The ugly remedy to this problem has been for online news publications to steal the hard work of those who sacrifice and are present, covering the news and often risking their lives.

Plagiarism, rewriting the work of others, and then deceiving readers about it, is not the answer for authentic journalism.

"Everybody is doing it," a well-known publisher told me recently. 

No, not everyone is doing it, plagiarizing, deceiving and profiteering from others work without permission.

Censored News celebrates those who honor the work of journalism and love truth and justice.

We celebrate the integrity and honesty of those who do their own work, far from the maddening crowd of the complacent and the conventional.

They keep authentic journalism alive.

About the author

Brenda Norrell has been a journalist in Indian country for 37 years, beginning at Navajo Times during the 18 years she lived on the Navajo Nation. She was a stringer for AP, USA Today and others. After serving as a longtime staff reporter for Indian Country Today, she was censored and terminated in 2006. After creating Censored News in 2006, she traveled with the  Zapatistas, joined Bolivian President Evo Morales in his mountain homeland and reported from the west, the border, and from across America on the Longest Walk northern route in 2008. Censored News is now a collective, with 19 million page views spanning 13 years.