Today in Las Vegas: 'The Long Fight' at the International Uranium Film Festival

Today at the International Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, "The Long Fight"

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 23, 2025

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The radioactive uranium mill and dump has been poisoning the White Mesa Ute community for 40 years in southeastern Utah.

Now, the radioactive uranium haul trucks travel from the Havasupai's ancestral land in the Grand Canyon, from the Pinyon Plain uranium mine to the White Mesa mill, and endanger everyone on the haul route in Flagstaff and the Navajo and Hopi Nations. The deadly trucks are covered only with tarps.

Las Vegas 'Downwind' and More at the International Uranium Film Festival, Nov. 22, 2025

International Uranium Film Festival in Las Vegas.
Photos above and below, courtesy Ian Zabarte, Western Shoshone Principal Man.

INTERNATIONAL URANIUM FILM FESTIVAL
LAS VEGAS
Downtown Cinemas
November 21, 22 & 23
Entry free! www.uraniumfilmfestival.org / PROGRAM STARTS TODAY NOVEMBER 22 AT 1:30 PM !

Hydropower Developer No-Show Leaves Navajos with More Questions than Answers

HYDROPOWER DEVELOPER NO-SHOW AT KAYENTA CHAPTER, LEAVES IMPACTED COMMUNITIES WITH MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS

Chapter officials table hydropower resolution, ask for more community info sessions as FERC seeks to end a policy blocking permits on Tribal land absent Tribal support

by Herb Yazzie, Coal-Lease Area Resident, Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity, Censored News, Nov. 21, 2025

KAYENTA, Ariz— On a cloudy, rainy Wednesday afternoon, the Kayenta Chapter held its monthly meeting where a resolution by Nature and People First was first on the agenda. Impacted community members from the coal-lease area on Black Mesa (Dził Yíjiin) filled the chapter house to voice concern about the resolution. But before discussions could begin, Chapter officials tabled the resolution because the developers didn’t show up.

Honoring the True History of the Occupation of Alcatraz

Tipi on Alcatraz 1969. Photo courtesy Robert Free, Censored News

Honoring the True History of the Occupation of Alcatraz

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 19, 2025

Today, we are honoring the true history of the Occupation of Alcatraz. The tipi was brought here by Robert Free of Seattle, during the early days of the Occupation in 1969.

"The tipi was put up early during the Occupation of Alcatraz Island. It remained there until the U.S. government Marshals and the FBI removed everyone 19 months later," Robert told Censored News in an interview in 2019.

"It was a place most all visitors came to rest and enjoy. It had a sweat lodge, used as needed."

Remembering those times that are now a part of history, he said, "It was the only place on the island where prisoners were allowed to grow flowers and gardens, next to a cliff with seals at the bottom."