http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvtBBt1OUnw
Politicians are not being honest about the Arizona Border and immigration. A recent report by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows the border to be one of the least violent areas of the nation.
This report found that, of the largest American cities, the four with the lowest violent crime rates are San Diego, Phoenix, Austin and El Paso, Tex. which is within walking distance of violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Politicians like Russell Pearce, Jan Brewer and Sheriff Arpaio are using immigration to create fear, control voters and increase their own popularity the same way George Bush did over WMD's. Additionally it is encouraging violence and hatred toward minorities.
September 16, 2010
Border Hysteria attracts Domestic Terrorists to Arizona Border
Lakota: US Justice Department Promise, Visit Pine Ridge and Listen
Cante Tenza Okolakiciye
Strong Heart Warrior Society
Free and Independent Lakota Nation
Box 512, Hill City, SD 57745
MEDIA RELEASE
Contact: Duane Martin Sr. 605-517-1547 or 605-454-0449
LAKOTA CALL ON U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PROMISE TO VISIT PINE RIDGE, LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE
Public Testimony of Traditional and Marginalized Lakota to Expose Graft, Bias and Corruption in BIA Tribal Government Practices
PINE RIDGE, S. D. – If the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) keeps their word, members of the Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota may be facing a historic meeting with the U.S. Government.
The DOJ promise to meet with the “poor people”, full-blooded Lakota and traditional people was sparked by the unexpected take over of the June 18th Section 611 Consultation in Rapid City, S.D., between United States officials and members of the U.S. created Oglala Lakota Government by the Lakota warrior society known as Cante Tenza (Strong Heart).
Cante Tenza took over the meeting on behalf of many Lakota who have watched for decades while the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) supported Oglala Tribal Government has squandered or stolen millions of dollars in U.S. support while alienating and even attacking full-blooded and traditional Lakota and the traditional Lakota systems of governance.
“The officials in tribal government don’t speak for the people, they don’t know how,” explained Cante Tenza headsman Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) who helped lead the June 18th take over. “This consultation is with a tribal government that people don’t trust, making systems that don’t even speak our language.”
While tribal council officials objected to the interruption and left the building, traditional warrior society members continued meeting with U.S. government agencies and secured a promise in writing that the Justice Department would visit Pine Ridge to meet with Lakota who have faced economic, social and physical attack by corrupt BIA governments for decades.
In a letter sent to Leslie Hagan, Native American Issues Coordinator for the United States Attorneys of the Department of Justice, Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) repeated the cause for the meeting, “It is long overdue for the Department of Justice and FBI to stop supporting the destruction of the Lakota people and our sacred way of life, and instead face-up to its continued support of an illegal and corrupt tribal government whose actions perpetuate injustice, misery and death in our nation. ”
Few people outside of Pine Ridge understand the history of the illegal tribal government that was imposed on the Oglala Lakota and its support of U.S. Government efforts to force assimilation and attack traditional and full-blooded people by keeping them away from their own language and culture. The famous 1973 takeover of Wounded Knee by native activists and Oglala tribal members was a reaction to this forced assimilation that continues today.
“This meeting is one step in healing these injustices and returning freedom and sovereignty to our noble people. Its time we step up to the pedestal and express our credibility,” Martin said.
Cante Tenza is waiting for confirmation from the Justice Department to schedule this public meeting as soon as possible. They ask any full-blooded and traditional Lakota to contact Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) at 605-517-1547 or 605-454-0449.
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Strong Heart Warrior Society
Free and Independent Lakota Nation
Box 512, Hill City, SD 57745
MEDIA RELEASE
Contact: Duane Martin Sr. 605-517-1547 or 605-454-0449
LAKOTA CALL ON U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PROMISE TO VISIT PINE RIDGE, LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE
Public Testimony of Traditional and Marginalized Lakota to Expose Graft, Bias and Corruption in BIA Tribal Government Practices
PINE RIDGE, S. D. – If the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) keeps their word, members of the Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota may be facing a historic meeting with the U.S. Government.
The DOJ promise to meet with the “poor people”, full-blooded Lakota and traditional people was sparked by the unexpected take over of the June 18th Section 611 Consultation in Rapid City, S.D., between United States officials and members of the U.S. created Oglala Lakota Government by the Lakota warrior society known as Cante Tenza (Strong Heart).
Cante Tenza took over the meeting on behalf of many Lakota who have watched for decades while the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) supported Oglala Tribal Government has squandered or stolen millions of dollars in U.S. support while alienating and even attacking full-blooded and traditional Lakota and the traditional Lakota systems of governance.
“The officials in tribal government don’t speak for the people, they don’t know how,” explained Cante Tenza headsman Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) who helped lead the June 18th take over. “This consultation is with a tribal government that people don’t trust, making systems that don’t even speak our language.”
While tribal council officials objected to the interruption and left the building, traditional warrior society members continued meeting with U.S. government agencies and secured a promise in writing that the Justice Department would visit Pine Ridge to meet with Lakota who have faced economic, social and physical attack by corrupt BIA governments for decades.
In a letter sent to Leslie Hagan, Native American Issues Coordinator for the United States Attorneys of the Department of Justice, Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) repeated the cause for the meeting, “It is long overdue for the Department of Justice and FBI to stop supporting the destruction of the Lakota people and our sacred way of life, and instead face-up to its continued support of an illegal and corrupt tribal government whose actions perpetuate injustice, misery and death in our nation. ”
Few people outside of Pine Ridge understand the history of the illegal tribal government that was imposed on the Oglala Lakota and its support of U.S. Government efforts to force assimilation and attack traditional and full-blooded people by keeping them away from their own language and culture. The famous 1973 takeover of Wounded Knee by native activists and Oglala tribal members was a reaction to this forced assimilation that continues today.
“This meeting is one step in healing these injustices and returning freedom and sovereignty to our noble people. Its time we step up to the pedestal and express our credibility,” Martin said.
Cante Tenza is waiting for confirmation from the Justice Department to schedule this public meeting as soon as possible. They ask any full-blooded and traditional Lakota to contact Canupa Gluha Mani (Duane Martin Sr.) at 605-517-1547 or 605-454-0449.
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September 14, 2010
Photos: Akwesasne Police Assault Victim
Akwesasne police followed a young man who had been out hunting, then smashed his car window, maced and beat the victim, during this assault.
Censored News
Article by N. Thompson and Leadhorse Choctaw
Published with permission
Eyewitness accounts:
The young man was going home and it was just before dark Monday evening, he was hunting with a friend and the tribal police followed him. Then the border patrol was there and working with the tribal police!
The young man was maced and pulled out of his van window on the driver side. When we arrived the young man was bloody and handcuffed with a red face from the mace and he could not see and was in a lot of pain when the ambulance arrived.
The young man was going home and it was just before dark Monday evening, he was hunting with a friend and the tribal police followed him. Then the border patrol was there and working with the tribal police!
The young man was maced and pulled out of his van window on the driver side. When we arrived the young man was bloody and handcuffed with a red face from the mace and he could not see and was in a lot of pain when the ambulance arrived.
Second eyewitness: Tribal police busted the window, maced him and he said the beat him. When we were there one of the cops wanted to mace him again.
We told them they are following white laws and we are standing on our own land. They just didn't understand how wrong it is. He even told them to call their chief to get out there and their supervisor, but they didn't call them, wrong wrong, wrong in so many ways.
We told them they are following white laws and we are standing on our own land. They just didn't understand how wrong it is. He even told them to call their chief to get out there and their supervisor, but they didn't call them, wrong wrong, wrong in so many ways.
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AKWESASNE: This assault took place on the so-called US side of the territory not to far from the so-called Canadian side. TO US ITS ALL KANIENKAHAKA TERRITORY! The non-native people would say off of route 37, which is the main road through the the Territory on Cook Road. At about 7 pm on September 13, 2010, the victim of the police assault was released on $1000 bail, 8 hours later.
UN: Too late to comment on US human rights abuses
Native Americans who were never informed, or ignored, will have to wait another four years to report US human rights abuses to UN in Periodic Report .
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Photo: Navajos remember the 1979 Church Rock NM uranium spill and legacy of death from uranium mining on Navajo Nation. Photo 2010: Garrett Brennan Stewart, Navajo.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council says it is too late to comment on the United States' human rights record, as presented in the US State Department's Periodic Review.
In a response today to Censored News, the UN says the deadline has passed. All of those Native American individuals and organizations, who were never informed, or who were ignored in the Listening Sessions in the final report, will have no chance to offer testimony on US human rights abuses.
This reveals that the process, undertaken by the US State Department, was a human rights abuse in itself.
The next report will be in four years.
Although the US State Department held "Listening Sessions," around the country, almost all of the Native American testimony was ignored in the final 29-page Universal Periodic Review Report to the UN.
The US State Department held a Listening Conference in Window Rock, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. However, in its final report, there is no mention of Navajos, Navajo deaths from uranium mining, respiratory diseases resulting from decades of coal mining and power plants on the Navajo Nation,or the relocation of 14,000 Navajos from their homes to make way for Peabody Coal mining on Black Mesa.
Some important statements were included in a separate human rights report. Those organizations connected with the US Human Rights Network were able to submit statements as members of the "civil society" in a 423-page report.
However, other Native people were either never informed, or ignored in the Listening Conferences. Indigenous Peoples at the southern and northern borders, struggling for their rights of passage, battling Border Patrol abuse, and the human rights abuses carried out by their own elected tribal governments, are among those who were left out of the process.
The US State Department's watered-down summaries of those Listening Conferences, which are posted online but not included in the final report, are a dismal effort that ignores key names and issues. These summaries expose the United States' lack of concern with the human rights of Native Americans in the US.
--Brenda Norrell, Censored News
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From: Secretariat of the Human Rights Council
UPRsubmissions@ohchr.org
Dear Mrs. Norrell,
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights wants to inform your office that the deadline for submissions of stakeholders in relation to countries scheduled to be reviewed at the 9th session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group (November / 2010) has now passed. The Summary of stakeholders information has been finished and posted in our web page. Consequently, please note that we can not accept any other submission for the 9th session.
For information regarding the Universal Periodic Review mechanism, please kindly refer to http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/upr/index.htm
I would also ask you to check in the following web page the reports for the United States UPR: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/PAGES/USSession9.aspx
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To: Secretariat of the Human Rights Council
From: brenda norrell
07.09.2010 19:19 ToUPRsubmissions@ohchr.org, civilsocietyunit@ohchr.org, ccastaneda@ohchr.org
Subject Indigenous submissions for US Periodic Review
Indigenous individuals and organizations who have not had the opportunity
to comment on the US Human Rights record, would like to do so before
the November session.
Please let me know how they can submit their statements.
Also, please note that many of the comments at the Listening Conferences from
Native Americans were not included in the US State Department's Periodic Review.
Sincerely, Brenda Norrell
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Also see:
US State Department's watered-down 29-page Universal Periodic Review Report
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/146379.pdf
US Human Rights Network's 423 page full report:
http://www.ushrnetwork.org/sites/default/files/ushr_Final_for_print.pdf
The US State Dept.'s pathetic summaries:
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/upr/summaries/index.htm
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