Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

January 25, 2021

Kumeyaay 'No Border Wall on Native Land'



Photos by John Clark-Dvorak, published with permission at Censored News

Article by Brenda Norrell 
Censored News
Updated Jan. 25, 2021

Video of Stan Rodriguez interview now on YouTube:

Kumeyaay gathered Sunday on both sides of the border to hold a ceremony, and bring attention to the environmental and cultural damage done by the border wall construction.


Standing Rock Thunderhawk Litigation Advances in Appeals Court against Morton County and TigerSwan

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Photo copyright Ryan Vizzions

Standing Rock Thunderhawk Litigation Advances in Appeals Court and in Discovery Toward Trial

Columbia Students Provide Critical Assistance in Civil Rights Lawsuit  

Thunderhawk v. County of Morton, North Dakota

By Columbia School of Law
Jan. 25, 2021
Censored News
 
NEW YORK — Advancing yet another step toward trial set for August 2021, the Standing Rock Thunderhawk litigation is now in discovery against Morton County and TigerSwan, LLC, and briefed on qualified immunity at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. 
 

January 23, 2021

Border Wall construction continuing defying Biden's executive order



The destruction by border wall contractors accelerates after President Biden's order to halt construction

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Border wall construction is continuing on the Arizona border, even though President Biden issued an executive order for it to halt on his first day in office.

Border wall contractors continued the destruction of blasting mountains and destroying critical habitat of endangered species this week after President Biden  ordered it halted.

January 22, 2021

Western Shoshone celebrating Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons






By Native Community Action Council

nativecommunityactioncouncil@gmail.com

January 22, 2021

French translation by Christine Prat

LAS VEGAS -- The Native Community Action Council is celebrating the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entry into force by gathering in Las Vegas at the Federal Courthouse to hold banners affirming the entry into force of the treaty.