Censored News: Best of five years of publishing

Bolivian President Evo Morales; United Native
Americans at Occupy United Nations in San Francisco:
Bad Bear's photo of Peltier rally in Reno on Saturday.

Censored News passes its 1 million hits mark, with these incredible stories

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Censored News, now in its sixth year, has passed its 1 million hits mark. Today, we're sharing some of the best of the best, the most popular articles, with the most hits, over the past five years.

The all time top story at Censored News:

Wikileaks revealed US espionage of Indigenous Peoples
Best of the Best 2011 #1 Wikileaks revelations
"In the Censored News pick for the Best of the Best in 2011, Wikileaks claims first prize. Wikileaks exposed the US corporate schemes, espionage, promotion of mining and efforts globally to halt passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."
Censored News exposed a coalition of five countries promoting mining in Peru, as Indigenous Peoples died defending their lands, as exposed in the US cables. Further, Censored News, with research by publisher Brenda Norrell, published the US cables exposing spying on the Mohawks, Mapuche, Bolivian President Evo Morales, Indigenous activists in South America, and more.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/12/wikileaks-revealed-us-espionage-of.html

Number 2: Banning of Books signals revolution in Tucson
With a list of the books seized by Tucson schools, Censored News reporter Brenda Norrell and columnist, professor and banned book author Roberto Rodriguez, both in Tucson, provided breaking news on the banning of America's top Chicano and Native American authors by Tucson schools, after Mexican American Studies was forbidden in January. Even the lies of Tucson school officials to NPR couldn't halt the impact of this article and those that followed.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/01/banning-of-books-signals-revolution-in.html

Number 3: Wikileaks: Canada's unauthorized wiretaps of Mohawks:
Before the release of the trove of US cables, this revelation was the first of many cables exposing illegal spying by the US and Canada on Mohawks:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/08/wikileaks-canadas-unauthorized-wiretaps.html

Number Four: Locked Down: Protests halts destruction on sacred San Francisco Peaks
Thanks to the Save the Peaks youths, who sent photos as it happened, the lock down to heavy equipment by Navajos and other Native Americans, and their supporters, on sacred San Francisco Peaks, near Flagstaff, Ariz., was a hit with readers at Censored News in 2011. The lock down, and the protests that followed, were largely ignored by the local Arizona Daily Sun, which continued to promote the corporate development and destruction caused by Arizona Snowbowl. The Snowbowl plans to make snow from sewage water on the mountain, where Native medicine people hold ceremonies and gather healing plants for medicine. San Francisco Peaks is sacred to 13 area Indian Nations.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/06/locked-down-protest-halts-snowbowl.html

Number Five: Lakotas to Diane Sawyer: Let Lakotas tell their story
While some Native Americans said they appreciated Diane Sawyer's "Hidden America, Children of the Plains," others said it was pathetic and paternalistic. Readers of Censored News said Lakotas must tell their own stories, rather than allowing a corporation to spoon-feed a contrived program of sugar-coated sympathy that refuses to document US colonization.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/10/lakotas-to-diane-sawyer-let-lakotas.html

This week's top story: Bad Bear's photos of Leonard Peltier rally in Reno, Nevada:
Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone, shares photos from Saturday's rally for justice for Leonard Peltier in Reno, Nevada. Bad Bear walked across America twice in his twenties, on the Longest Walk northern route in 2008 and with the Renegade Walkers for Diabetes in 2011. Thanks to Bad Bear for sharing three years of his cellphoneography with Censored News.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/bad-bears-photos-reno-rally-for-leonard.html

FEB 8, 2012: Today's top story:
Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues: Feb. 27-29, 2012, Las Vegas
Speakers at the Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues, Feb. 27--29, include Margene Bullcreek, Goshute, who helped halt a toxic dump on Goshute land in Utah and Ian Zabarte, Western Shoshone, who is fighting the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump, while struggling to protect Western Shoshone lands from ongoing nuclear testing and desecration.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/native-american-forum-on-nuclear-issues.html

Also topping today's hot list at Censored News:
Anons hack white supremacist network:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/anons-hack-white-supremacist-network.html
AIM West urges support for Navajo Apache victim of hate crime:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/aim-west-urges-support-for-navajo.html
Inequality between rich and poor highlighted by UN panel
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/inequality-between-rich-and-poor.html
US spies freak out over 1973 Wounded Knee photo, as they spy on Occupy Austin and Deep Green Resistance:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-spies-focus-on-wounded-knee-1973.html
Video: Indigenous Resistance: Occupy the United Nations
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/video-occupy-united-nations-2012.html
The Launching: Chumash book is history and medicine
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/launching-chumash-book-is-history-and.html
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Brenda Norrell, a news reporter in Indian country for 30 years, created Censored News after she was censored, then terminated, by Indian Country Today, after serving as a longtime staff reporter. During the 18 years that she lived on the Navajo Nation, she was a news reporter for Navajo Times and a correspondent for AP, USA Today and other media. Today she is blacklisted by all the mainstream media and publishes Censored News without advertisements.
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AIM West urges support for Navajo Apache hate crime victim

AIM West urges support for Navajo/Apache hate crime victim

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

FRESNO, Calif. -- AIM West urges support for Patty Dawson, Navajo/Apache hate crime victim in Fresno, California. A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for Feb. 27 and an online petition calls for justice.

"Patty was brutally beaten by a white woman, with two male accomplices, in June. The white woman now claims to be American Indian herself, in efforts to reduce the claim of a hate-crime," said Tony Gonzales of AIM West. "Keep the pressure up! If you haven’t signed the petition please do it now."

"On June 14, 2011. Jennifer Fraser and her two male accomplices pulled Patty out of her vehicle and beat her without any provocation from Patty," AIM West said.

AIM West asked these questions: "Jennifer Fraser we demand to know: Why did you and your friends do this? Was it a gang initiation? Why are you claiming that you are Native American? Why would you do this while pregnant with your child? Why are you protecting the two males involved in this incident?”

AIM West further told the Fresno County District Attorney, “We demand answers! Why wasn’t a proper investigation conducted? Why isn’t a hate crime being charged? Why weren’t the males involved in the crime charged? Why do you fail to properly document Hate Crimes in Fresno County?

To contact the Justice for Patty Committee : justice4dawson@yahoo.com

To learn more about the case and to sign the Justice for Patty Dawson online petition go to:

http://www.change.org type in Justice for Patty and tell all your friends, relatives to sign the petition!

Inequality between rich and poor highlighted by UN panel

Inequality between rich and poor highlighted by UN panel

6 February 2012

Ming Hwee Chong, pictured center, representative of the Baha'i

International Community to the United Nations, addresses

a panel discussion held at the UN as part of this year's session

of the Commission for Social Development. Pictured far left

is Jomo Kwame Sundaram, UN Assistant Secretary General

 for Economic Development.

By Baha'i World News Service

Baha'i International Community

http://news.bahai.org/story/886

UNITED NATIONS — While the economic crisis has led many to focus on inequalities at the national level, the extremes between rich and poor internationally have also grown to become a threat to global stability.

That was among the themes raised by a panel here, held as part of this year's session of the UN Commission for Social Development, which runs until Friday.

Focusing on the Commission's theme of poverty eradication, the discussion – organized by the Baha'i International Community and co-sponsored by ATD Fourth World – brought together top-level UN diplomats, officials from UN agencies, and representatives of non-governmental organizations.

In his remarks, Ambassador Jorge Valero – Permanent Representative for Venezuela to the UN and Chair of the Commission for Social Development – blamed growing inequality on the excesses of global capitalism.

"Inequality and poverty, climate change and the destruction of ecosystems are outstanding issues on the international agenda," said Ambassador Valero.

Among the top-level UN diplomats brought together for a discussion on Wednesday 1 February was Ambassador Jorge Valero, pictured left, Permanent Representative… »

"These calamities can only be effectively addressed by attacking the structural causes that generate them: a consumerist, selfish and predatory global system that is based on the commodification of man and nature."

Jomo Kwame Sundaram, UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, said that while the issue of inequality is often examined from the national viewpoint, two-thirds of global inequality stems from differences between countries.

International differences are "very, very stark," he said, noting that such inequalities have increased over the last three decades.

"The big promise of financial globalization was that if you ease restrictions, there will be a free flow of capital, and it will flow from rich to poor. This didn't happen. Capital flowed uphill, from the poor to the rich," said Dr. Sundaram.

Other participants in the panel – held on Wednesday 1 February – included: Isabel Ortiz, Associate Director of Policy and Practice at UNICEF; Christine Bockstal, Chief of the Technical Cooperation and Country Operations Group for the Social Security Department of the International Labour Organization; and Sara Burke, a Senior Policy Analyst at Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Dr. Ortiz reported that the top 20 percent of the world's population has more than 80 percent of the world's income – but the poorest 20 percent have less than one percent of the global income.

"National redistribution is not enough to address inequality," she said. "There is a strong link between high income inequality and social unrest and economic instability."

In his remarks, Ming Hwee Chong of the Baha'i International Community (BIC) drew attention to recent remarks made by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about income inequality at all levels increasing over the last 25 years, posing a serious barrier worldwide to poverty eradication and social integration.

Mr. Chong said it is time to ask some critical questions regarding the relationship between poverty eradication and the economic extremes that now exist in the world.

Read the statement here: http://news.bahai.org/sites/news.bahai.org/files/documentlibrary/886_BIC_Statement.pdf

Introducing a BIC statement prepared for the Commission, Mr. Chong noted that relationships of dominance – one nation over another, one race over another, or one class or gender over another – contribute to inequitable access to resources and knowledge.

The statement also expresses concern that a "materialistic worldview, which underpins much of modern economic thinking, reduces concepts of value, human purpose and human interactions to the self-interested pursuit of material wealth."

Mr. Chong said that – while much attention has been paid to the political, policy and transactional dimensions of the current crisis – the aim of the discussion was to collaborate on "creating a space to dig deeper in order to bring to the surface some of the underlying assumptions that shape our economic and social reality."

VIDEO: Occupy the United Nations 2012



Click arrows below to watch videos, Part I and II

Part 1 - Occupy the United Nations INDIGENOUS DAY OF RESISTANCE January 27, 2012
San Francisco - The Native American Community, with support from the Occupy Movement is taking action to demand President Obama to make law the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), to STOP the Home Foreclosures and to enforce a 30% Fair-Share Tax on millionaires. United Native Americans Inc. invited members of the press and community to join in the Indigenous Unity March to the United Nations Plaza where we presened an Indigenous Rights March and Forum on Friday, January 27, 2012. 

Recorded live on my iPad on 1/27/12 at 11:04 AM PST
PART II