Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 16, 2018

Leonard Peltier Day San Francisco, June 26, 2018


Leonard Peltier Day San Francisco
On the 50th anniversary of AIM!
(1968-2018)

By AIM West
Censored News
Leonard is innocent!
Yet he languishes in federal prison (now in Coleman Penitentiary near Orlando, Florida) for over 43 years for a crime he did not commit!
AIM-WEST is hosting this event Tuesday, June 26th in solidarity with Pine Ridge Tribal Council resolution declaring “Leonard Peltier Day.”
The Department of Justice (DoJ) continues to withhold tens of thousands of pages as evidence for Leonard’s defense, and federal prosecutors said in court to Judge Haney they don’t know who did the shooting of the two FBI agents on that fateful day June 26, 1975, nor what role Leonard played in it! That should be enough to exonerate Leonard! ‘The bullet doesn’t match the gun (rifle).’
The drawing is by Comrade Emory Douglas, former Black Panther Minister of Culture, in solidarity with AIM.
We have posters to raffle! A Potluck, film, solidarity speakers and vendors! Please share and the public is welcome! Let’s not forget this Human Rights Defender!
Aho! All my relations!
Tony Gonzales
AIM-WEST

June 15, 2018

Video Exposes Border Patrol Running Over Tohono O'odham in Topawa Today

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Video exposes U.S. Border Patrol agent intentionally run over young Tohono O'odham man in Topawa community on the Tohono O'odham Nation on Thursday, June 14, 2018.
The Border Patrol agent fled the scene in this hit and run, and the O'odham victim was treated at the hospital.

Watch video on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/MissSalcidoXIII/videos/10155575421518030/?hc_ref=ARTVSnFfMCjLT7YPDAScvDIv1KuPRoxsFxhpRK7GZqATAuaPBqWrBqZ7B1tlkk-o3Yc

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O'odham in Mexico on Facebook post:
Esto paso en la comunidad de Topawa. El joven oodham empiezo de grabar cuando miro un agente de aduanas y protección fronteriza parkeado en la casa abandonada de su abuela. Esto paso ayer a las 630pm.
This happened yesterday at 630pm in the Topawa community.
This happened in the community of Topawa. Young O'odham starts recording when I look at a customs agent and border protection parked at his grandmother's abandoned house. This happened yesterday at 6:30 pm.
This happened yesterday at 6:30pm in the Topawa community.

Click on image below to view video:

Apache Stronghold: Prayer for the Water, Gold King Mine Spill


By Steve Pavey
Censored News
June 15, 2018

The Stronghold Sacred Journey stops to pray at the Animas river on its way to Pueblo, CO. In 2015 the Gold King Mine Spill poisoned the Animas and San Juan rivers with heavy metals and other toxins that affected up to 2,000 Navajo farmers crops and cattle. The EPA took responsibility but paid no damages claiming Sovereign Immunity. This sacred journey is about exposing through the Poor People’s Campaign this country’s priority of corporate interests and profit over the interests of the earth and sacred life. 

Apache Stronghold Spiritual Journey -- The Myth of Santa Fe

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By Steve Pavey
Censored News

Apache Spiritual Stronghold stops at the plaza in Sante Fe to talk and pray. This monument to “the heroes who have fallen in the various battles with (Savages - which has been scratched off) Indians ...” stands in the middle.
As a part of the Poor Peoples Campaign this sacred journey is for healing to confront the deception of the birth of America - its first chapter that is far too often ignored.