Peltier's Clemency in Final UN Permanent Forum Report Just Released

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Peltier's Clemency in Final UN Permanent Forum Report Just Released

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, June 6, 2024

NEW YORK -- The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues published its final report from this year's session, which reiterates the call for the U.S. to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, and urges new safeguards in the battle against fake green energy projects, and more resources for Indigenous youths and women.

"The Permanent Forum reiterates the recommendation it made to the United States at its twenty-second session to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier," states the UN Permanent Forum's final report for the U.N. Economic and Social Council, published June 5, 2024.

A new Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Peoples was selected during the session, Suleiman Mamutov, an attorney from the Ukraine.

The fake green projects -- which are now killing children in cobalt mines in Africa and  digging into the Paiute Shoshone massacre site for lithium in Nevada -- are also addressed in the report.

Mohawk Warrior Society Flags Fly over Palestine

Mohawk Warrior Society Flag, also known as the Mohawk Unity Flag: "The flag of the Indigenous Kanien'kehá (Mohawk) nation in the mountains of Nablus city in the West Bank, Palestine, symbolizing a shared struggle against settler colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine."

"A Mohawk Warrior Society flag was photographed in Jenin today following an Israeli incursion and attack in the city. The flag was photographed alongside a sign for the Jenin Brigade, illustrating the joint struggle against settler colonialism by indigenous people everywhere." Photographed today at Jenin refugee camp in Palestine. June 1, 2024, via Twitter/X.

Mercury Justice for Grassy Narrows in Ontario

“Enough is enough. It is time for mercury justice for Grassy Narrows. I stand here for my children and grandchildren and the future generations.” - Judy Da Silva, Grassy Narrows grandmother and Environmental Health Coordinator (Image Free Grassy Twitter/X) June 4, 2024

BREAKING: Queens Park security denying access to Chief Turtle in the Ontario Legislative Assembly to serve statement of claim to Premier Doug Ford (Image Free Grassy, Twitter/X)

BREAKING: “Time and again the government has chosen to prioritize corporate profits at our expense.” - Grassy Narrows Chief Turtle Turtle is at Queen’s Park to serve his legal action on Premier Doug Ford Directly. (Image Free Grassy, Twitter/X)

CBC reports, "A First Nation in northwestern Ontario that has faced decades of mercury poisoning is suing the provincial and federal governments, arguing they've failed to protect its treaty rights.

Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek First Nation — known as Grassy Narrows — filed the lawsuit in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice on Tuesday morning."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/grassy-narrows-first-nation-lawsuit-1.7223442

(Images via Free Grassy on Twitter/X)

Diné John Redhouse 'Fifty Years Ago: Uprising and Resistance'

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Diné John Redhouse 'Fifty Years Ago: Uprising and Resistance'

By John Redhouse, Censored News May 24, 2024

On this Memorial Day weekend, we must also remember and honor the many native human rights warriors such as Larry Casuse and other brave indigenous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in fighting for the lives and future of red people and nations on Turtle Island and throughout the Western Hemisphere—the red quarter of Mother Earth.

In the course of our long, hard, and bloody struggle for survival, since 1492, we are here only because our ancestors fought for our right to live and exist as first people and nations in the Americas.