US Border Patrol Agent Arrested for Smuggling Drugs on to Tohono O'odham Nation

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

SASABE, Arizona -- A US Border Patrol agent was arrested for smuggling cocaine on to the Tohono O'odham Nation at the US Mexico border.
US Border Patrol Agent Ramon Antonio Monreal was stationed at Three Points, Arizona, which is at the entrance to the Tohono O'odham Nation when driving out from Tucson.
Most of the crimes committed were at the remote US Mexico border crossing of Sasabe, and at Topawa, on the Tohono O'odham Nation.
Monreal is among a large number of border agents, both US Border Patrol agents and ICE agents, arrested in recent years for drug smuggling and serving as "spotters" for cartels to bring loads across into the U.S.
Still the agents continue to get away with murder by shooting and running over innocent people.
US Border Patrol agents continue to get away with raping migrant women and girls along the border.
On the Tohono O'odham Nation, US Border Patrol agents recklessly endanger lives,  stalk traditional women and beat O'odham.

Read article on Monreal's indictment by Arizona Daily Star:
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This is the fancy US Border Crossing Station at Sasabe, Arizona, rarely used and remote. Along with the US Border Patrol drug smugglers, the area between Sasabe and Three Points has been used for campsites by Minutemen, armed 'Patriots,'

 and militia.' -- Censored News

Notes: Sasabe area also had some worthless US spy towers, which caused me to investigate some years ago. The United States government seems to have forgotten that it wasted $1 billion on border spy towers by Boeing. The spy towers did not work. We could have told them the WiFi- - towers to Border Patrol laptop system -- in the desert mountains wouldn't work, but they didn't ask.

Now the Apartheid security corporation of Israel, Elbit Systems, is planning spy towers on the Tohono O'odham Nation in traditional communities. Elbit is known for its drones, human rights abuses and Apartheid in Palestine.

Boeing's 1 billion dollar spy tower boondoggle, by Censored News

.https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=ddaa2027c96f3944a325426c6877b35a&tab=core&_cview=1

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Longest Walk 2019 through Paiute Snake Country, on the Cold Lonely Hwy 50 Nevada

(Above) Photos by Long Walker Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Western Shoshone, on Longest Walk 2019, near Austin, Nevada, as walkers walk through Northern Paiute country into Western Shoshone lands.

(Below) Photos courtesy Wesley Dick, Northern Paiute.

"A good day to be with my relatives," Wesley Dick said, after joining walkers in 'Snake Country.' 

Warrior Women National Broadcast Tonight! March 4, 2019

NATIONAL BROADCAST  WARRIOR WOMEN PREMIERES ON WORLD CHANNEL MARCH 4, 2019 8 PM EASTERN TIME In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation and survival as a community of extended families. Warrior Women is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children - including her daughter Marcy - into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother daughter. Today, with Marcy now a mother herself, both are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the environmental devastation of the Dakota Access Pipeline and for Indigenous cultural values. Through a circular Indigenous style of storytelling, this film explores what it means to navigate a movement and motherhood and how activist legacies are passed down and transformed from generation to generation in the context of colonizing government that meets Native resistance with violence. Stream Warrior Women Online Check Local Listings MEET THE TEAM L to R: Activist organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk co-director Elizabeth A. Castle producer Anna Marie Pitman co-director Christina D. King and activist and organizer Marcella Gilbert. Elizabeth "Beth" Castle is a scholar/activist/filmmaker who began interviewing women of the Red Power Movement almost 20 years ago for a dissertation. She wrote the book, Women  were the Backbone, Men were the Jawbone: Native Women's Activism in the Red Power Movement on the subject which was based on The Warrior Women Oral History Project collection. Castle is a committed anti-racist ally and descended from the Pekowi band of the Shawnee in Ohio - both  shape how she engages with community-based scholarship and organizing. Christina D. King is a producer and filmmaker whose work spans broadcast news, commercials, documentary, film, and television with a focus on human rights issues, civic engagement through storytelling, and democratizing filmmaker opportunities for marginalized voices. Her most recent film We the Animals debuted at Sundance 2018 to critical acclaim. She is from Oklahoma and of the Seminole, Creek and Sac & Fox Nations and is currently living in the unceded Lenape Nation in New York. Anna Pitman is a producer working in a crosssection of formats and genres; documentaries, commercials, and narrative films. Moved to action by the frustration of witnessing similar indigenous struggles in her home country of Australia, Anna is committed to documentary storytelling through socially-conscious, community-based projects that have taken her all around the world.  Visit Our Website

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