Cheyenne River Lakotas Force Keystone XL Trucks off Lakota Land

Resisting, Chairman Frazier thanks Lakotas for standing up and turning this Keystone XL pipeline truck around!

By Brenda Norrell

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EAGLE BUTTE, South Dakota -- Cheyenne River Lakotas blocked this Keystone XL truck and forced it off their land on Monday. Tribal police escorted the truck off Lakota land. Thanking those who blocked the truck, Chairman Harold Frazier said anyone working with Keystone XL is not welcome here. Chairman Frazier said unlike the United States, free speech and standing up for the law are welcome here.

Chairman Frazier said, “Any vehicles or personnel working on the Keystone XL pipeline are not welcome on this reservation. Unlike the United States we welcome free speech and concerned citizens standing up for the law. This is Sioux Territory, we will not stand for more encroachments and defilement of our land. I would like to thank the tribal members who brought this to our attention and stand with them in our opposition to the KXL pipeline.”

Taco John's guy under the truck

One of the workers from Taco John's rushed out, got under the truck to stop it, and then went back to work.

When the cops were trying to turn the truck around, the guy was still under the truck, said one of those present.

"So the dude moved from under the truck, when they said it had to turn around."

"The Taco John's guy went right back into work after he got up."

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Grandmothers Walking -- Longest Walk on the Road to Illinois -- Photos by Bad Bear 2019

Michael Lane said, "This woman Saundi is amazing on the Longest Walk: We Shall Continue 2019. At 60 years she walks and runs 5 miles heading towards St Louis, Missouri. Thank you and Megwich!"

Bad Bear

Photos by Western Shoshone Long Walker Carl Bad Bear Sampson on the Longest Walk.

Our friend Sharon Heta, Maori from New Zealand, top photo, is among three grandmothers now walking from Cahokia Mounds to Indiana and Illinois. Sharon Heta and her husband Michael Lane and their daughters walked on the Longest Walk northern route in 2008. In the past few weeks, there were nearby tornadoes in Kansas, but the walkers kept on walking. Michael Lane said walkers were welcomed by the Prairie Band Potawatamie Nation and met with Council. Walkers appreciated the support there, and in Kansas City and St. Louis areas. Thank you Bad Bear for sharing your photos, and walking and running, one more time across this land they call America. Longest Walk, Alcatraz to Washington D.C.
-- Brenda, Censored News

Tucson jury refuses to criminalize humanitarian aid -- Judge announces hung jury in Scott Warren trial

Tucson jury refuses to criminalize humanitarian aid

By Brenda Norrell
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TUCSON -- Dr. Scott Warren thanked his family, supporters and attorneys after the judge announced a hung jury in his case on Tuesday. Warren urged support for migrants and refugees, as communities continue to face militarization in border communities.
"I love you all," Warren said, after the jury did not convict him.

Migrant Aid Workers Targeted by Border Agents in Retaliation, Unicorn Riot Exposes Documents

UPDATE: Judge Declares Hung Jury in Case of Scott Warren

TUCSON — The jury in the felony trial against Scott Warren, a humanitarian-aid volunteer charged with harboring two undocumented immigrants in southwestern Arizona, was unable to reach a verdict in the high-profile case.  After bringing the 12-person jury into the Tucson courtroom, U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins declared a hung jury. He dismissed the jury after each member told him that additional time would not result in a verdict. Read more:

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2019/06/11/scott-warren-verdict-aiding-undocumented-immigrants-on-us-mexico-border-no-more-deaths/1387036001/

Volunteers walk to water drops in the desert – Photo by Carrot Quinn

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agents Used Racial Slurs in Messages with U.S. Border Patrol Agents

By Unicorn Riot

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TUCSON -- The racial slurs of federal agents on the US Mexico border are exposed in court documents in the court case against Dr. Scott Warren, and even go so far as to the provide the location of one humanitarian aid worker's home, Unicorn Riot exposed today.

In this set of documents, the targeting of humanitarian workers began in 2017.

"Court documents expose text messages between multiple federal officers using racist slurs when referring to migrants and at one point even going as far as to share the location of a humanitarian aid workers’ home," Unicorn Riot reports.

" 80-pages of court documents highlight a conversation between Border Patrol and Fish and  Wildlife Officers which reveals the racist nature of federal officers involved in tracking the human rights volunteers. In one text message, Officer Marquez asks Officer Bissel to let them know if “anymore bean droppers come around.” In another text, Officer Burns tells two other federal agents that he sees “2 toncs at the house”, referring to individuals he assumes have entered the country illegally."

"The documents detail text messages between multiple federal agents about a report on the local nightly news exposing Border Patrol 'vandalism to their water drop sites.' In recent years, federal agents have been exposed sabotaging water drops multiple times by cameras hidden by humanitarian group, No More Deaths."

Read article at Unicorn Riot

https://unicornriot.ninja/2019/migrant-aid-workers-targeted-by-border-agencies-in-retaliation-documents-suggest

Volunteers say the US Border Patrol targeted humanitarian aid workers after this video of US Border Patrol agents pouring out life saving water, was placed online.