Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

May 25, 2008

A tribute to the runners, Longest Walk Northern Route


Running near the Indiana and Ohio border, Craig, Aislyn and Harry, on the northern route. Photos Brita Brookes. The Longest Walk Cultural Survival Summit is planned for July 8 -- 11, before the walkers from the northern and southern routes march into Washington D.C. on July 11.
Northern Route drum song (Cahokia Mounds Longest Walk Powwow) from Longest Walk Talk Radio http://www.earthcycles.net/

Tyendinaga: Resisting mega jail

TYENDINAGA RESISTANCE CONTINUES: O.P.P. THREATENS TO PLANT MEGA POLICE & JAIL COMPLEX IN COMMUNITY

Mohawk Nation News
May 25, 2008. The Mohawk Men released a statement about their continuing resistance to the newly purchased $2 million O.P.P state-of-the-art police facility, complete with helipad, jail cells and surveillance towers. Why is such a medieval fortress needed? Tyendinaga is where Dekanawida, the man who helped to unite the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy under the Great Law, came from. Today this is a community of 2,200 people where everyone knows who’s going to fall in love with whom before they know it themselves. Our ancestors have been living together forever. We don’t need a jail! This is a federal initiative. The colonial band council used almost one million dollars of community money without consulting us or getting a valid consent.
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Traditional Squamish Chief removed by taser-armed RCMP in Vancouver

Squamish Nation territory ("Vancouver, Canada")
May 24, 2008

A force of twenty taser-armed RCMP officers and band council police forced Chief Kiapilano off his own land yesterday during a peaceful occupation of the Squamish band council office by Kiapilano and his supporters.
Posted by Mohawk Nation News
On Friday morning, May 23rd, Hereditary Squamish Chief Kiapilano and a dozen supporters had swiftly occupied the offices of the state-funded "Squamish Band Council" in North Vancouver, and ordered the eviction of the entire band council.
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May 23, 2008

Listen to Jay Johnson-Castro

Longest Walk Talk Radio's coverage includes news from the US/Mexico border

Listen to Jay Johnson Castro, organizer of the Citizens Walk for Human Dignity from Tucson to Phoenix, discuss the walk, Endgame and migrant prisons for US profits. Listen on Earthcycles, Longest Walk Talk Radio: 2008-05-12_jayjohson.mp3 Time: 34:1715.7 Mb
Longest Walk Talk Radio has nearly 400 interviews and drum songs since the Longest Walk departed from Alcatraz:
US imprisoning migrants in private prisons for profit
Immigration Police State Sucks Up Children, Citizens AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USAThe immigration detention system has proven a cash cow for companies likeHalliburton, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group....<http://www.alternet.org/immigration/86043/>
.Nationwide Rallies Highlight Failure of War on ImmigrantsAlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA... deployment of 6000 national guard troops to the border, billions ofdollars in government contracts to military-industrial companies likeHalliburton, ...<http://www.alternet.org/rights/84296/>
One Nation Under Surveillance:
The Last Roundup: Are You on the List?Pacific Free Press - Victoria,BC, CanadaMore such facilities were commissioned in 2006, when Kellogg Brown &Root—then a subsidiary of Halliburton—was handed a $385 millioncontract to establish ...<http://pacificfreepress.com/content/view/2623/1/
WaPo To Run Explosive Series On Immigrant Detention Program Huffington Post - New York,NY,USAIn February 2006, the New York Times reported that a subsidiary ofHalliburton had been awarded a $385 million contract to build "temporaryimmigration ...<