Artist Acquitted After Being Charged for Facebook Post Supporting Line 3 Water Protectors

Matteson supporters stage support at the Aitkin courthouse today against the “Bogus Charges” brought against her (photo: Keri Pickett) 

Artist Acquitted After Charge for Facebook Post Supporting Line 3 Water Protectors
Shanai Matteson Acquitted – Judge Metzen Tosses Case Moments before Jury Trial Begins

It is clear from the evidence that the defendant did not commit a crime”— Judge Metzen

By Cheryl BarndsHonor the EarthJuly 14, 2022
AITKIN, MINN – This morning at the Aitkin County Courthouse, District 9 Judge Leslie Mae Metzen acquitted Line 3 Water Protector, Shanai Matteson, of Gross Misdemeanor Aiding and Abetting Trespass on Critical Public Service Facilities, essentially finding Matteson Not Guilty before the case was presented to the jury of six selected yesterday.
The fifth-generation resident of Palisade, Minn., cultural organizer, artist and mother of two young children faced up to one year in jail and thousands of dollars in fines.

Matteson was charged – by mail – after police surveilled her personal Facebook page where she made comments about opposing Line 3 construction and supporting protesters along the tar sands oil pipeline.

Winter-Run Salmon Eggs Returned to Winnemem Waywacket River

Winter-Run Chinook Salmon Eggs Returned To McCloud River: Drought Action Moves Endangered Salmon Back Into Their Historical Habitat For First Time Since Construction Of Shasta Dam

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“We put down that song so they have a fighting chance.” -- Chief Caleen Sisk, Winnemem Wintu.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Salmon have been missing from the waters of Winnemem's Waywacket River for eighty years.

“We are asking that the river receive these eggs. We are asking that the old-time ways continue and that they grow in that way,” said Winnemem Wintu Chief and Spiritual Leader Caleen Sisk, during the ceremony that preceded the eggs’ return to the river.

“We put down that song so they have a fighting chance.”

There was a celebration, as endangered winter-run Chinook salmon eggs returned to the McCloud River upstream of Shasta Reservoir on Monday. The salmon are returning for the first time since the construction of the Shasta Dam in the 1940s.

"Salmon eggs were placed in an incubation tank beside the stream at a historical village site of the Winnemem Wintu people," said Run4Salmon, that is underway throughout July.

"This historic event is one step in the journey that was launched in 2010, when Winnemem tribal members went to Aotearoa (New Zealand) to sing and dance for their salmon relatives that have been waiting for 100 years to return to their home waters."

Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration July 16, 2022

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Photo courtesy Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment

Uranium Tailings Spill Legacy Commemoration July 16, 2022

 

By Kirena Tsosie

Chris Shuey Southwest Research and Information Center 

French translation by Christine Prat for Censored News

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7231

Every year at this time, the Red Water Pond Road Community Association (RWPRCA) of the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico gathers to remember the impacts of the largest release of radioactive waste, by volume, in U.S. history. An estimated 94 million gallons of toxic uranium mill tailings wastewater spilled into the Puerco River from a breach in a dam at the United Nuclear Corp. (UNC) uranium mill on July 16, 1979.

Sacred Mount Graham Run Begins as Vatican Continues Decades-Long Occupation of Apache Holy Land

31st Annual Sacred Mount Graham Run Begins as Vatican Continues Decades-Long Occupation of Apache Holy Land

Sacred Run to Dzil Nchaa Si’an (MT. Graham) 2019 Photo by Steve Pavey

By Apache Stronghold
Censored News
July 14, 2022

Next week, July 21-24, Western Apaches and their supporters will gather in eastern Arizona to honor Apache holy places by participating in the 31st Annual Mount Graham Sacred Run.

The event was started in 1991 by Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr., former San Carlos Apache Tribal Chairman and leader of the nonprofit Apache Stronghold. The four-day-long run and prayer will begin at the Old San Carlos Monument (http://apache-stronghold.com/maps.html ) and will end atop Mount Graham (Dził Nchaa Si An, in the Apache language), a Sky Island oasis surrounded by a “sea” of Sonoran desert.