Censored News Begins 9th Year!

With 3.5 million pageviews, we begin our 9th year!

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

We celebrate the beginning of the ninth year of Censored News!

In 2006, after being censored, then terminated, as a staff writer for Indian Country Today, I began Censored News to expose what is being censored, and as a platform for grassroots Indigenous Peoples. It was launched at the Indigenous Border Summit of the Americas on Tohono O'odham land.

Mohawks at the Border Summits in 2006 and 2007 -- outraged at the US cages, spy towers and abuse of Indigenous migrants on Tohono O'odham land -- were among the first strong voices, and an integral part, of Censored News.

Now, with 3.5 million pageviews, 6,198 posts -- all without advertising, grants or sponsors -- Censored News celebrates the road that brought us here.

The most viewed articles begin with the top all-time post: Bolivia's Rights of Nature, followed by articles of Lakota and Dakota resistance. The top articles include: Lakotas arrested while halting TransCanada tarsands megaloads; Wounded Knee photos; Lakota and Dakota protesting white supremacists in North Dakota; and a Lakota hospital patient who found KKK carved into his skin.

Censored News original articles, which includes six months of research of Wikileaks and Anonymous files and leaks, follows in the top articles. These reveal spying on Indian activists and leaders throughout the Americas, and the agenda of the United States and Canada of mining, destruction and genocide in the Americas.

Oil and gas drilling and fracking also top the most read articles, from the resistance in New Brunswick, Canada, to the crime and destruction resulting from drilling on Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara land in North Dakota. In the top ten most viewed articles is the blacklisting and censorship of Native American and Chicano books by Tucson Unified School District. These top 10 articles were viewed by more than 150,000 people and published here, on this free blog with no advertising.

Our live coverage has taken us across North America, from the border of Mexico and Guatemala in the Zapatista stronghold in the south, to gatherings with the Zapatistas in Sonora in the north of Mexico.

Along with Govinda at Earthcycles, Censored News cohosted the five-month live Long Talk Radio, on the Earthcycles bus on Long Walk 2 northern route in 2008. The voices of Native youth walkers, traditional elders, and the people we met along the way are recorded for future generations: Pomo, Paiute, Shoshone, Dine', Ute, Anishinaabe, Lakota, Arapaho, Mohawk, Choctaw, Yaqui, Maori and more.

This road also led us to other live broadcasts in the homelands of the Supai, Pueblos, Western Shoshone, Crow, and Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara. We also broadcast live from AIM West in San Francisco, O'odham Voice against the Wall; Indigenous Alliance without Borders in Tucson, the Peltier Indigenous Rights Tribunal in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and at climate summits in Cancun, Mexico and Cochabamba, Bolivia.

The courage of Native youths continues to inspire us all, including Indigenous Action Media and Outta Your Backpack media in Flagstaff, Arizona; Lakota youths at Owe Aku International; First Nations youths across Canada, and those throughout the Americas and the world.

There are still exclusive articles to be discovered. There is a rare interview about the remains of Geronimo and the Bush family's involvement with the Skull and Bones Society. There are exclusive photos of US spy towers on Tohono O'odham land, and other articles about the Israeli defense contractor Elbit that now has the US contract for those border spy towers. There is the leaked document of the former US Secretary of Interior while he was trying to steal Navajo and Hopi water rights.

The other media is ignoring this fact: The owners of the Indian news website www.indianz.com received an $80 million spy contract this year. Ho Chunk., Inc. of Nebraska, now has an office at the Pentagon for domestic and international spying.

Censored News now has French and Dutch translators in Europe. Thank you Christine Prat in France and Alice Holemans at the publication NAIS. We now have readers around the world, with Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Turkey, Romania, Poland and China topping the list. A special thanks goes out to Paul Rafferty at the UN Observer and International Report at the Hague who published censored news from Indian country when no one else would. We hope there will be a way for Paul to begin publishing again.

Thanks to each of you who shared your voice and stories, your photos and videos. A sincere thanks to each of you who offer encouragement for Censored News to continue.

Today, Censored News still has no advertising, grants or sponsors. What we do have is friends.

While cyber plagiarism has become an infection in national Indian country news, and deception and spin are the standard in the collapsed mainstream media, we continue searching out the truth and struggling to deliver authentic journalism.

Thank you our readers and contributors who speak and take action with honor and dignity.


--Brenda

brendanorrell@gmail.com

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Massive dumping of wastewater into aquifers shows Big Oil's power in California

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Massive dumping of wastewater into aquifers shows Big Oil's power in California 

Oil industry illegally injected nearly 3 billion gallons of wastewater 

by Dan Bacher 

Censored News

As the oil industry spent record amounts on lobbying in Sacramento and made record profits, documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity reveal that almost 3 billion gallons of oil industry wastewater were illegally dumped into Central California aquifers that supply drinking water and irrigation water for farms. 

The Center said the wastewater entered the aquifers through at least nine injection disposal wells used by the oil industry to dispose of waste contaminated with fracking (hydraulic fracturing) fluids and other pollutants. (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/california_fracking/pdfs/20140915_State_Board_UIC_well_list_Category_1a.pdf) 

Mohawk Nation News ANNIHILATION AGENDA

Posted on October 12, 2014

 ANNIHILATION AGENDA

Please post and distribute. Nia:wen.

MNN. Oct. 12, 2014. Genocide is planned! It’s predictable and preventable.

Wisconsin Weasel: “Welcome to the Commission on legalizing genocide!”

Victims are divided into haves and have-nots. The Vatican played a major role in the eradication of Indigenous in the Western Hemisphere. Today states make corporate Injuns into millionaires and the rest languish in designed poverty. Corrupt tyrants are set up and paid off to abuse their own people. To prevent genocide, the people must unite and reinforce our inherent identity as the sovereigns.

People are dehumanized and labeled. Men are called “warriors”. Women are “disappeared” and called “street workers”. The media reinforces hatred against us. We are equated with vermin and diseases to help the masses overcome their revulsion against hating and murdering us. Admiralty laws don’t protect us. Corporate leaders encourage hate speeches, false propaganda, crimes against humanity and atrocities against us.

Commissioner, Sri Lanka: “Tell me everything that happened to you in residential school!”

Third world corporate minions meet to learn from US and Canada, the masters of genocide, about annihilation of Indigenous people. Militias or terrorist groups are organized, armed and trained to kill innocent and unarmed Indigenous people. These militias and state units should be disbanded, outlawed, disarmed and held accountable. Their feet should be put to the fire for the crime of genocide.

Extremists are trained to drive the people apart. Hate groups dominate the airwaves. Moderates are silenced rather than protected.

Victims are categorized and listed. Their rights and property are compromised. They are segregated into mental and then physical ghettoes. At this point a state of emergency is declared. The people must prepare to defend themselves from harassment and death.

Turmoil is enhanced. Extermination begins. Mass killing called genocide becomes legalized. The state sponsored mercenaries have been brainwashed to see their victims as not fully human. Factions within carry out revenge killings. The people then demand outside armed intervention and allow martial law to be declared. Safe areas such as reservations and FEMA camps are created to imprison us. Evidence, witnesses, testimonies will be destroyed to whitewash genocide. Alliances must be established between all our people to protect each other.

The final stage is denial so that more genocide will occur. Mass graves are dug up, bodies burned to cover it up and scare witnesses. The victims and witnesses are blamed. Investigations are blocked. The corporate band and tribal councils who assist Canada and US implement the genocide agenda, carry on until driven from power. They move up the corporate ladder, eg. Ovide Mercredi, protected by their corporate benefactors. The people and their communities and territories must put their feet to the fire. All evidence must be collected and kept.

Canada and US set up tribunals. The victims are invited to tell commissioners to testify on their experiences. Then the evidence is destroyed to keep it out of International Court of Arbitration. Unification of the people is where the power is, according to the Great Peace. We have to continually stand up to them. They are cowards with power.

The power is the people, not money or war. In 2000 The Indigenous of Bolivia protested against multinational corporation Bechtel and the IMF for stealing their water, even the rain! The police and the military eventually joined the people to kick them out. Together they took back their water. See video: Cochabomba war for water 2000. See: Even the Rain. Netflix.

Thahoketoteh reminds us that: “The power is the people not the money or the war. Let’s raise our voices so they can hear us, let them roar. No more killing of our own family, lets give peace a birth. We’re all in this together; We the people of Mother Earth” Power is the People.

MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go towww.mohawknationnews.com  More stories at MNN Archives.  Address:  Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L thahoketoteh@hotmail.comfor original Mohawk music visit thahoketoteh.ws

Read: 8 stages of genocide.

GLENDALE, Ariz: Protest Racist NFL Team Name Oct. 12, 2014

Battle Over Racist NFL Team Name Comes to Glendale, Arizona
Indigenous Organizations to Hold March, News Conference and Rally for Respect

                 

PHOENIX, AZ – A march, news conference an rally for respectful representation of Indigenous Peoples will be held in Glendale, Arizona on Sunday, October 12, 2014. The events will coincide with an NFL game at University of Phoenix Stadium where the controversial Washington team will play against the Phoenix Cardinals.

Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, a sponsor of the demonstrations, has issued a call for support of Native Americans, human rights activists, and others who believe Native Americans deserve the right to determine how our culture and identity is represented in media and who are concerned for the future of Native American youth. The Arizona protests are part of a series of nationwide actions at NFL games to “Change the Name & Change the Mascot!” that will be held in Texas, Minnesota, California, & Maryland. The actions in Arizona have special significance as October 13 is recognized by some as “Columbus Day”.

What: March, rally, news conference, & for respectful representation of Indigenous Peoples.

The protest and news conference will coincide with the controversial Washington NFL team’s game versus Phoenix Cardinals.

When: Sunday, October 12, 2014

9:00am - March
11:00am - Rally & News Conference

Where: University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona.

1 Cardinals Dr, Glendale, AZ 85305

Rally & news conference to be held directly north of University of Phoenix Stadium corner. March start location & route to be announced.

Who: Sponsored by Arizona to Rally Against Native Mascots, Eradicating Offensive Native  

Mascotry, and Indigenous Action Media.
Speakers at the news conference will include:

Amanda Blackhorse, Diné, lead plaintiff in Blackhorse v. Pro-Football, Inc. Simon Ortiz, Acoma poet, writer, & professor.
Amay Tadits (Kenrick Escalanti), Fort Yuma Quechan Tribal Member. President, Kwatsan Media, Inc.
Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst, Hunkpapa Sioux/Diné, Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, doctoral student of public administration & policy
Native Youth United
More TBA

More information: www.facebook.com/eonmaim

Contact:
Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst

Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry

Email: Nicholet@mac.com