Alert! Dakota Access Pipeline Begins Digging, Support Resistance

Support resistance at Sacred Stone Camp on Standing Rock in Cannonball, North Dakota.

Dakota Access Pipeline has started digging -- without a permit.

Sacred Stone Camp, Dakota, Lakota and Nakota, are calling on warriors to join them in the resistance. Protect sacred water.

Breaking news article at Lakota Voice

http://www.lakotavoice.com/2016/05/20/dakotalakota-oyate-vow-to-stand-against-dakota-access-pipeline/

URGENT Pipeline Construction in Progress! Call-Out for

Support of Resistance

No Dakota Access in Treaty Territory - Camp of the Sacred Stones at Standing Rock Reservation is calling on you! 

"We will be training to stop this pipeline and have dozens of warriors already on the way. We need tents, tarps, diapers/baby wipes/formula, gas cards, food donations, and money for other logistics. We've received a small amount of grant money to start constructing support structures, but the grassroots community members do not have the resources to supply the rapid influx of people to camp.


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CampoftheSacredStone/
Camp Phone: (701) 301-2238

Sacred Stone Camp

Zapatistas Statement on Aggression Against Alvaro Obregon, Oaxaca

It should come as no surprise that once the exploiters, the profiteers, saw the profits that would come from solar and wind energy -- that the corporations would continue their exploitation, beatings, murders and rapes under the guise of 'clean energy." -- Censored News

JOINT COMMUNIQUE BY THE CNI AND EZLN ON AGGRESSION AGAINST THE COMMUNITY OF ÁLVARO OBREGÓN, OAXACA

NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS

ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION

To the media

To the solidarity organizations

To the Human Rights organizations

To the dignified Binizza community of Álvaro Obregón, Juchitán, Oaxaca

Sisters and Brothers

Our peoples, tribes, communities, organizations, and neighborhoods see with rage and indignation how the bad government boasts its total lack of shame, through its political parties of every color, as it continues to attack our peoples and its political parties continue trying to divide our communities. Our voice will not tire of denouncing and shouting, Enough!

Independent Film 'Power Lines' Premieres May 21 in Flagstaff, Arizona

Independent Film 'Power Lines' Premieres May 21 in Flagstaff, Arizona

Powerlines: A Diné Relocation Refugee Coming of Age Story

By Klee Benally, writer and director
indigenousaction@gmail.com
www.powerlinesmovie.com
French translation by Christine Prat at:
http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=2655
Censored News
May 9, 2016

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Independent feature film Power Lines will premiere Saturday, May 21 in Flagstaff at the Orpheum Theatre located at 15 W Aspen Ave, Flagstaff, Arizona. Written and directed by Klee Benally, Power Lines is a coming of age story about a young Diné (Navajo) poet who runs away and finds home.

Doors for the premiere screening open 7:30pm, the event will begin at 8:00pm and will be followed by a Q&A session with cast and crew members as well as a panel discussion on current impacts of coal mining and forced relocation. Poetry and music will also be shared by Sage Bond and slam champion Rowie Shebala.

Tickets for the event are $11 and can be purchased in advance at Rainbow's End, Animas Trading Company and online at orpheumflagstaff.com as well as at the door night of show. A portion of the proceeds from the screenings will go directly to Black Mesa families impacted by recent livestock confiscations.

Halee (Nezbahe Ragdoll) is a 16 year old Diné relocation refugee who uses poetry to escape from her painful past and present. When Halee's abusive father (Tony Skrelunas) crosses a line, her best friend Selma (Kayla Dailey) helps her runaway. Their journey to Halee's homeland takes a turn when she discovers her father has been hiding a secret that has the power to change Halee's life forever.

Power Lines is written, directed, edited, and scored by Klee Benally and filmed with the talents of Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBM) mentors Shelby Ray, Steven Toya esq., Hillary Abe, and Keemara Bahe. OYBM is a Flagstaff based non-profit that offers free filmmaking workshops to Indigenous youth. The film features local Flagstaff actors Nezbahe Ragdoll, Kayla Daily, Tony Skrelunas, Belinda Ayze, Sam Minkler and poetry from by Rowie Shebala and Layla June Johnston.
Power Lines was filmed partially in Las Vegas and throughout Northern Arizona on a limited budget that was completely crowd-funded.

"The social impacts of forced relocation at Black Mesa on the Diné Nation have not been addressed in a feature dramatic narrative before." states filmmaker Klee Benally, "I wanted to share a fictional story that focused on social and cultural impacts that are often ignored."

Benally has produced documentaries including the award winning feature, "The Snowbowl Effect" which addressed ski area desecration of the San Francisco Peaks, which are held sacred by more than 13 Indigenous Nations. Power Lines is his first feature narrative.

"Working in narrative fiction is liberating but also an incredible challenge." states Benally, "Our production team worked hard to to apply a mix of media justice with the rawness of punk rock and a strong independent Do It Yourself ethic. This story and filmmaking process is at once a collective and political journey, and I hope that comes across in an entertaining, challenging, and activating way."

More info and trailer: www.powerlinesmovie.com

*****

Production Company: Indigenous Action Media, Outta Your Backpack Media
Cast: Nezbahe Ragdoll, Kayla Daily, Tony Skrelunas, Belinda Ayze, Sam Minkler

Director-Screenwriter, Editor, Music: Klee Benally

Executive Producers: Princess Benally, Crystal Zevon

Cinematography: Shelby Ray, Hillary Abe, Steven Toya, esq., Klee Benally, Taylor Hall

Sound recordist: Steven Toya, esq.

Production Assistant, Set Design, Catering: Roland Begay

No rating, 75 minutes (Parents please be advised that there is explicit language)
*****

Photos
1. powerlines-PROMO.jpg (left Nezbahe Ragdoll, right Kayla Daily) - credit Klee Benally
2. Powerlines-still1.jpg (left Nezbahe Ragdoll, right Kayla Daily) - credit Steven Toya esq.
3. cast-director.jpg (left to right: Kayla Daily, Sam Minkler, Nezbahe Ragdoll, Belinda Ayze, Tony Skrelunas, Klee Benally - credit Princess Benally

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Indigenous denouce United Nation's REDD and false Green Economy

Carbon Offsets cause Conflict and Colonialism Indigenous Peoples denounce at United Nations; Demand Cancellation of REDD+

By Indigenous Environmental Network
Censored News

May 18, 2016

NEW YORK -- A false solution to climate change known as REDD+ causes conflict and is a new form of colonialism and must be immediately canceled, Indigenous Peoples denounced at the United Nations. REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) is a carbon offset mechanism that uses Nature as a sponge for greenhouse gas pollution instead of cutting emissions at source.

“The sacred air we breathe is being sold to the highest bidder. We implore the UN to have compassion for humanity and Mother Earth by immediately canceling carbon trading, carbon offsets, and REDD+ projects in or near Indigenous Peoples’ lands and territories,” said Calfin Lafkenche of the Mapuche Nation in Chile.

“We are here today in the UN to stop the offensive of the Green Economy and its market systems of carbon trading, carbon offsets, the Clean Development Mechanism, and REDD+, which constitute a new form of colonialism and have caused conflicts, forced relocation, threats to the cultural survival and violations of the rights of Indigenous peoples, especially the rights to life, to lands and territories, and to free, prior and informed consent,” said the Mapuche leader.

Over 1,500 native leaders are attending the 15th session of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is addressing conflict and climate today. 

“For centuries, Indigenous Peoples have suffered from colonialism and genocide. Now the United Nations itself is promoting false solutions to climate change that imperil the very survival of our peoples and Mother Earth. We are on the frontlines of protracted conflicts with governments and extractive industries that want to steal our land, territories and resources. We are also on the frontlines of climate change and the false solutions to climate change like REDD.  As Guardians of Mother Earth we should be protected and honored not persecuted and threatened with new forms of genocide,” said Tom BK Goldtooth, Executive Director, of Indigenous Environmental Network.

“To really address the issues of conflict, the UN needs to heal its relation with Mother Earth and stop promoting false solutions to climate change that threaten the survival not only of our peoples but of all of humanity.  The UN’s Paris Agreement on climate does not cut emissions at the source and treats Nature as capital with no real nor effective safeguard mechanisms that could guarantee the prevention of land grabs and the protection of the rights of Indigenous peoples. The Paris Agreement is a crime against humanity and Mother Earth.”

“The Paris Agreement is a trade agreement, nothing more. It promises to privatize, commodify, and sell forest and agriculture lands as carbon offsets in fraudulent schemes such as REDD+. These offset scams provide financial laundering mechanisms for developed countries to launder their carbon pollution in the Global South. Case-in-point, the United States’ climate change plan includes 250 million megatons to be absorbed by oceans and forest offset markets. Essentially, those responsible for the climate crisis not only get to buy their way out of compliance but they also get to profit from it as well,” says Alberto Saldamando, human and Indigenous rights expert and attorney with the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Contact: 
Tom BK Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, + 1 218 760 0442, ien@igc.org 
Alberto Saldamando, human rights lawyer, + 1 415 656 9198 (English/Spanish)
Juan Antonio Correa Calfin, Mapuche leader, Chile  juanantoniocorreacalfin@gmail.com (Español)