Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

August 29, 2021

O'odham Voice Against the Wall releases new report exposing violations of Elbit spy towers



Elbit spy tower surveillance on Tohono O'odham Nation. Photo by Ophelia Rivas


Elbit spy destruction on Tohono O'odham Nation. Photos by Ophelia Rivas


Elbit spy tower destruction on Tohono O'odham Nation. Photo by Ophelia Rivas

New report details violations of human rights by Elbit Systems

Article by Brenda Norrell
Photos by Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham
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O'odham Voice Against the Wall demands a halt to the destruction and surveillance underway by Israel's Elbit Systems on the Tohono O'odham Nation and an end to the militarization by the U.S. Border Patrol, in a new 81-page report released to the world today.

Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham and founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall, describes the militarization on her homeland and the devastating impact of Elbit System's integrated fixed towers.

August 26, 2021

Ophelia Rivas: In solidarity with Yoeme and Zapatistas: Words to Indigenous Peoples Conference in France


Ophelia Rivas photo by Jason Jaacks
Ophelia Rivas: In solidarity with Yoeme and Zapatistas: Words to Indigenous Peoples Conference in France

Ophelia Rivas, exposing the abuse of the U.S. Border Patrol and Israel's Elbit Systems surveillance towers on her homeland, the Tohono O'odham Nation, told the Indigenous Peoples program in Nantes, France, on Wednesday, she stands in solidarity with the Yoeme (Yaqui) warriors in Sonora, who have been kidnapped and assassinated, and the Zapatistas. Speaking by teleconference with the gathering, Ophelia said the construction of the spy towers disrupted burial places.

By Ophelia Rivas
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O'odham means people, Tohono means desert, we are desert people. Our vast homelands became occupied by the Republic of Mexico and the United States of America. The International boundary displaced O'odham in the two countries.

The foreigners imposed a census, to count and number each person, they imposed education that removed children from their families, they imposed family separation to try and dismantle our culture.

Now they impose immigration laws on the first peoples, physical violence, detainment, arrests and deportation.

The O'odham VOICE Against the WALL started as an organization when it witnessed the armed military called the border patrol force my elders, all from ages 60 to 80-years-old,  were forced to their knees with heavy weapons pointed at them, and asked to produce proof of citizenship in a language the Elders did not understand.

Water Protectors Block Line 3 with Aerial Structure Never Before Used in Western Hemisphere




Water Protectors Block Line 3 Pump Station with Aerial Structure Never Before Used in Western Hemisphere

By Giniw Collective
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August 25, 2021
Contact: giniw@protonmail.com

SWATARA, Minnesota -- This morning, Water Protectors erected an aerial blockade in front of a Line 3 pump station, the kind of good trouble that has inspired over 700 people to be arrested standing up for Mother Earth in northern Minnesota.

August 25, 2021

Mohawk Nation News 'Total Defeat of U.S., Canada, NATO'

TOTAL DEFEAT OF U.S.,CANADA, NATO Audio

 

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AUDIO: Listen at MNN: https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2021/08/25/the-total-defeat-of-u-s-canada-nato-audio-audio/

MNN. Aug. 25, 2021. Summation: The Taliban fought off the entire colonial world. Justin Trudeau goes into election sidestepping the elephant in the room, the just found unmarked graves of indigenous children. Indian elite traitors are happy with Trudeau. Millions of orange t-shirts everywhere, one for each found and unfound native child genocided and murdered by Canada.