Photo: O'odham protest Border Patrol desecration of O'odham ceremonies

TODAY: O'odham Voice against the Wall protested US Border Patrol desecration of ceremonies

Update:
The second protest against the US Border Patrol received support from those passing by on Friday, July 26, 2013. The third protest will be held in Why, Arizona, near the Border Patrol sttaion in the region of Ajo, on Aug. 2.

Article by Brenda Norrell

Photo copyright O'odham Voice against the Wall

CENSORED NEWS

July 16, 2013

SELLS, Arizona -- Tohono O'odham demanded an end to the desecration of their ceremonies, and the invasion and militarization of their homeland by the US Border Patrol during a protest today at the eastern edge of the Tohono O'odham Nation.

The protest was organized by the O'odham Voice against the wall. Founder Ofelia Rivas, O'odham, said, "Our message is that we as traditional O'odham are still here, carrying out the ceremonies and maintaining the balance. During this time of O'odham ceremonies, traditional O'odham are demanding a halt to the interference of O'odham ceremonies by US Border Patrol agents.

Rivas said traditional O'odham said there should be no US Border Patrol interference with the ceremonial O'odham deer hunt, including helicopter flyovers by the US Border Patrol and other immigration agents. O'odham are demanding a halt to the spotlighting by US Border Patrol agents during their ceremonies, Rivas told Censored News.

O'odham Voice against the Wall will protest the Border Patrol again on July 26, 2013.

Mohawk Nation News: Pipe Dreams

PIPE DREAMS

Mohawk Nation News

MNN. July 15, 2013. Railroads are needed for the New World Order regime. Troops will be brought in by rail to set up the fascist dictatorship for the bankers. These old boxcars  are like pressure cookers and might be used to take people to the FEMA death camps.

History repeats itself.

In 1881 the Corporation of Canada gave 22,500 kilometers of Indigenous land to the foreign bankers without our knowledge or consent. CP Rail then built railroads and sold the timber and resources. Troops and settlers were sent West. Our land was developed with tourist hotels, followed by steamships and airlines, all with our ever growing $340 trillion Indian Trust Fund. 
The settlers need us to fight for our land and to save them. We can stand up to the banker bullies.  Like their rulers, they are not native to Great Turtle Island. Yet, in the Great Peace of Montreal 1701 we agreed to help them survive but never to own any land or resources.

Easy oil and gas are depleted. They want resources that are harder to find, nastier to extract, and more complicated to ship. US Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway was carrying “fracked” shale oil from North Dakota. The lethal cargo was being illegally passed through Kahnawake to Lac-Mégantic, as part of a boom in dirty, unconventional energy. On July 6 It blew up like an atom bomb incinerating almost 100 people.
Fracking of gas is creating earthquakes that reverberate around the globe. Fluids are put into the ground which cause pressure that forces the earth’s faults to slide easier. 
A group of Canadian businessmen plan to build a 2,400-kilometre rail line and a pipe line to ship tar sands oil from Alberta to Alaska and elsewhere. They also plan to truck and barge it down our waterways.

Mortal garbage being thrown up by pipelines.

Pipe dreams are visions resulting from taking drugs or day dreaming. The oil and rail bankers are dreaming about creating profits, becoming confused with reality.Lac-Mégantic was a perfect storm of greed, deregulation and a final energy rush for the bankers to gamble with the environment and human life.

The corporate governments of Canada and elsewhere freed them from environmental, labor and safety standards and oversight rules. Cost-cutting, massive lay-offs, and speed-ups followed. Then companies and rail-lines were privatized for greater profit.
Munitions of all types are being shipped in dangerous substandard old rail cars. Last year Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway got permission to operate with just one engineer.
Soon we will deal directly with the band and tribal council control grid, that is accelerating the genocide of our people. These fake corporate accomplices are THE only ones who will set up their own people for a fall.

We will end reliance on oil, not soon but now. For those who never knew the victims of Lac-Mégantic, there could be no better way to honor them. 
The argument is about stopping the mad pursuit of infinite Indigenous resources. “Wrecking ball” corporations that are smashing up Mother Earth will be shackled. All transport of war materials by any means will be stopped. All resources will be directed into the Keshe/Tesla free energy technology. Oil will be left buried in the ground for all time as the Council of the Great Peace instructs. The people standing up to the madness will be the wrecking ball that Bruce Springsteen sings about: “Yeah, we know that come tomorrow, none of this will be here/So hold tight on your anger, don’t fall to your fears”. Wrecking Ball
Enbridge pipeline contaminates
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Honduras Lenca Indigenous leader killed by Army

By Real World Radio

On Monday July 15th, while the Lenca community of Rio Blanco, in Honduras, marked 106 days of resistance to the building of Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam, the Army indiscriminately shot at the demonstrators killing one of the leaders of the resistance, Tomas Garcia, and seriously injuring his son.

Tomas was a Lenca indigenous leader who was part of his community’s Indigenous and Auxiliary Council and of the National Council of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). Read more:

http://intercontinentalcry.org/honduran-army-kills-indigenous-leader-of-copinh-who-resisted-dam-in-rio-blanco/

Yakama/Umatilla fishing rights activist threatened with arrest for traditional cultural camp

Sid Mills at Occupation of Wounded Knee/Photo Owen Luck

Hundreds prepare to go to jail to establish Meadow Creek Indian Camp

By Censored News

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/07/yakamaumatilla-fishing-rights-activist.html

Sid Mills, Yakama/Umatilla tribes, long time frontline fishing rights and other indigenous sovereignty movement leader was harassed and threatened by US Forest cops with arrest on Saturday July 13, 2013.

Sid is notable as one of the frontline activists who fought with the Franks Landing Indian Community, which was recently noted by President Obama in his speech at the December 2012 meeting with tribal leaders at the White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/12/06/president-obama-hosts-nations-tribal-leaders . (The activist of Franks Landing!)

Sid was threatened with jail for trying to reestablish a traditional cultural camp in the Indian Heaven Wilderness Area surrounded by the US Gifford National Forest in Washington State.  The camp is called Meadow Creek Indian Camp and is within the Handshake Treaty area.

www.fs.usda.gov/main/giffordpinchot/workingtogether/tribalrelations

The traditional huckleberry picking area of many northwest tribes in it is located between 4 volcanoes, Mt Rainer, Mt St Helene, Mt Hood and Mt Adams. On Saturday 7/13/13 there was a bust by Forest Service cops who also called county Sheriffs, threatened to take Sid to jail for reestablishing traditional and cultural camp without a permit.  

As president of the Native American Church for the Washington state area, he and 20 others were preparing for the yearly gathering for ceremonies in the mountains. This yearly event brings  hundreds of indigenous people from all over the Northwest and as far as Mexico to practice and exercise cultural and spiritual ways at the end of July.

Now hundreds are preparing to attend the ceremonies and are also preparing to go to jail to exercise the spiritual and cultural rights in the usual and accustomed sites. Pictures to follow. Sid Mills is a decorated Vietnam veteran and is over 80% disabled from being blown up by mortar fire, which left him with one lung. Now impaired further with diabetes, he and others are preparing to once again exercise human/indigenous rights to practice cultural and spiritual ways at all costs. Sid fought as an Indigenous man in the armed forces only to be denied his own rights. The cops realized after threatening to take all 50 Indians to jail, that this was not going to happen, as they were all ready to call them on it. So citations to appear in Federal court for destruction of federal property and being there without a permit were handed to him. A tree was cut and hole dug in the ground.

Sid had attempted to get assistance from the US Forest Service, after President Obama issued the MOU to protect sacred sites and access to the top Federal agencies (http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/federal-agencies-announce-action-plan-to-guide-protection-of-indian-sacred-sites.cfm) by holding a meeting with the supervisor of the US Forest service for the northwest. But the supervisor undermined his efforts and compared them to the Rainbow family gathering in the US Forests, and further added that Indians had no special rights because they were also immigrants to the land. Never once did she acknowledge the President's MOU, which had been provided to them, as well as a list of other congressional and international acts regarding cultural and spiritual rights of indigenous people. While the President might make a nice written MOU, it’s the white folks in agencies like the US Forest Service that maintain ignorance and racism. Of all the people the supervisor could have brought to the meeting, like a cultural liaison, she choose to bring the head cop for the Forest service, breaking the spirit of her boss President Obama's MOU.