Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 4, 2014

Censored News Fundraising Appeal!






Censored News will not be able to continue providing authentic news without support. Anyone who donates now will receive a unique postcard from the road from Censored News coverage! Censored News is in its 8th year, with 2.9 million views, and no advertising.

Censored News originals by Brenda Norrell: Vicam Yaqui Mexico; Boliiva; Long Walk 2; Comcaac (Seri) coast Mexico

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February 3, 2014

Film 'Gwich'in Women Speak'

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"Gwich'in Women Speak" an inspiring and moving short documentary film by Miho Aida is now doing the film festival circuit and is available on DVD online at mihoaida.com/gwichin/dvd/.

The film has been screening worldwide and will be at the Alaska Forum for the Environment Film Festival this week in Anchorage at the Dena'ina Convention Center at 9:45am on Thursday, Feb.6th and 9:40am on Friday, Feb.7th.

The women of the Gwich'in Nation have been speaking out for over 25 years on this issue and so eloquently capture why the birthing grounds of the Porcupine Caribou Herd known to our communities as The Sacred Place Where Life Begins need to be protected for future generations.

Please write your US Senators and Representatives and urge them to sign on to S1695 or HR139
to designate the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as Wilderness
to protect this sacred place once and for all.

Please do share this powerful film with friends and family!

Hai' zhrii Diilak Naii!  Thank you so much for your support of the Gwich'in Steering Committee!

ourarcticrefuge.org
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VIDEO New Zealand's Tribute to Zapatistas 20 Years in Photos




Exhibition in New Zealand honours the Zapatista uprising and achievements

By Enlace Zapatista
Censored News

In New Zealand, The Wellington Zapatista Support Group has organised a photograph exhibition to commemorate to 20th anniversary of the EZLN uprising in Chiapas, to celebrate their achievements and honour their struggle, their sacrifices, and their dead.
The exhibition is being shown for one week in the Thistle Gallery, in the centre of the capital city of Wellington, between 27 January and 02 February 2014.
Featuring photographs by Frida Hartz, Efraim and Jorge Herrera, and Julie Webb-Pullman as well as including one each from the Chiapas Support Committee and Geraldo Villarroe, the exhibition covers 20 years of iconic and ordinary moments in the lives of the Zapatistas and the construction of their autonomous communities.
“We tried to get two photographs from each year,” said one of the organisers, “but as we were offered the gallery at very short notice, it was not possible in the available time. So we are already starting the search now for a 25th anniversary exhibition – because for sure, the Zapatistas will still be here!”
The photographs are interspersed with brief information on major events in each of the 20 years, providing both a written and photographic lesson for the public.
A professional artist who visited the gallery said she was very impressed with the exhibition. “I love the way it starts in black and white, with the armed uprising, and progresses through the years to very positive peaceful and constructive images in bright colours. It is almost like a trip from the darkness of the underworld into the light of life.”
Although the Wellington Zapatista Support Group does not expect the exhibition to raise a lot of money for the Zapatista communities, it has certainly raised a lot of awareness about their struggle.
“Most of the people who come in tell us they knew nothing, or very little, about the Zapatistas before they saw the exhibition. We feel as if we achieved something if we manage to educate even one person, but this week we have educated hundreds. So to us, it is a great success. We hope they will help us continue the struggle in New Zealand, to build a better world in which many worlds fit.”
Wellington Zapatista Support Group
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¡CONTRA EL DESPOJO Y LA REPRESIÓN: LA SOLIDARIDAD!
Red Contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad
Correo electrónico: redcontralarepresion@gmail.com
Teléfono: 55 78 07 75 y 55 78 47 11
Dirección: Dr. Carmona y Valle # 32, colonia Doctores, Del. Cuauhtémoc, México D. F. C.P. 06720
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February 2, 2014

Lakotas Owe Aku: NO! Black Snake tarsands pipeline: 'We have painted our faces'

By Owe Aku International
Censored News

 Lakota are united with our relatives and allies up north. We must stop this kxl from entering the territory our ancestors loved, lived on for thousands of generations, and gave their greatest gift of all to defend, their lives. Our Creation stories teach us that this is our Home on Unci Maka, our homeland is part of our identity, we have our inherent birth right as Lakota Oyate. Our inherent birth right is a spiritual and human right, and we have treaty rights. We do not want kxl, we do not want tarsands in our lands, the tarsands must stay in the ground, the extraction and its aftermath is killing humans and all of life up there, and wasting precious water. The leaders of the world are looking at this, we need them to be good leaders and stand in the way of something bad coming toward us, all over the world, and here, in the big land, it is time for people to be clear to their leader. Now is a time when he can be a green revolutionary, and make decisions that can change the world.
Please take a moment to help get our words, thoughts, and prayers out to the world, all over Unci Maka, that Lakota People, and many other Red Nations people, we have painted our faces. Our allies up north have painted their faces. For sacred water, for Unci Maka, for our generations. As people of the earth, our coming generations have a right to sacred water, no policy, no corporation, no politics should be more important than that. Regional water shortages are befalling people all over the world, people are being displaced, the four legged, the winged nations are becoming endangered and extinct because the system in place honors a huge profit over the health of Unci Maka, prioritizes an unsustainable energy policy that is and that will continue to lead us closer to what is perhaps the most dangerous point in our lifetime, wars over war. We are in a time of prophecy, our collective action will be significant, with all the love in our hearts, we must all resist this destruction, and stand for sacred water and Unci Maka." -Owe Aku
Please share far and wide, time is drawing near and we must be ready.
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February 1, 2014

Censored News: Our top stories

Tarsands and Megaloads Resistance
US Mexico border spy towers, tarsands resistance, Keith and Floyd
In case you missed these, our top stories 

 By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

 In case you missed it, Censored News has provided original breaking news over the past eight years, since it was created in 2006. Recently, Censored News published news of a photo exhibit, revealing Australian Aboriginals were spied on by Australian intelligence. After it was posted, an Australian editor said he had heard nothing of the photo exhibit in Australia and wanted to follow up with a story.

 Thanks to our news sources, Censored News has provided exclusive coverage of US spy towers on the sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation and elsewhere along the US Mexico border. Those spy towers are pointed at residents homes, not at the border. Censored News was among the first to point out that one of the US spy contractors on the Arizona border is Elbit Systems, the same Israeli defense contractor responsible for Apartheid military systems surrounding Palestine.

 While most of the media in Indian country has avoided coverage of the internment camps in Indian country, Censored News provided coverage of the war prison camps where many Aleut suffered and died during World War II

 Although most media in Indian country avoids coverage of the US government's forced sterilization of American Indian women, Censored News provided a video interview with Dine' Jean Whitehorse at AIM West in November.

 While most of the media in Indian country publishes press releases and spin about "water rights settlements," in Arizona, Censored News exposed a leaked document revealing Interior Sec. Ken Salazar, and Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, planned to sneak a Navajo Hopi water rights settlement through a Lame Duck Congress. Salazar resigned after the exposure. Few reporters have bothered to explain the importance of the Winter's Doctrine as states and the US seize Indian water rights and dupe reporters. Further, Censored News exposed the truth of Navajo relocation by Peabody Coal, and the dirty coal industry on Navajoland.

 Just after it was created, Censored News provided exclusive coverage of the Zapatistas in Sonora. Marcos and the Commandantes met with O'odham, Yaqui, Mayo and other Indigenous twice, just south of the Arizona border.

 Our all time, most viewed article, was coverage of Lakota on Pine Ridge halting the tarsands trucks in 2012. Our most viewed coverage includes the lockdowns by Native youths to protect sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona; Lakota and Dakota protests of white supremacists in North Dakota; Mi'kmaq resistance to fracking in New Brunswick; and our original coverage of Indigenous Peoples targeted by US surveillance as revealed in the Wikileaks files and Anonymous exposures. 

 With special thanks to photojournalist Western Shoshone Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, photos from the Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz, and Longest Walk 3, were among the readers favorites.
Along with Govinda at Earthcycles, Censored News has provided live coverage from AIM West in San Francisco; environmental action gatherings of Havasupai in Arizona, Pueblos in New Mexico, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara in North Dakota; the Indigenous Peoples Border Summits in Arizona, and the five month broadcast across America on the Longest Walk 2 in 2008. 

 Censored News provided live coverage from the Mother Earth Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and mountain feast and soccer game of President Evo Morales, along with the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico. Censored News also provided live reporting as-it-happened from the Peltier Tribunal on Indigenous Rights in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in Oct.

 Further, Censored News exposed the scheme to put a controversial drone factory on Indian land. After it was rejected by Pascua Yaqui, the drone factory was established on Tohono O'odham land in San Xavier in Arizona. Then, Censored News exposed a plan by the US to dump toxic and hazardous waste on O'odham land south of the border on sacred land in Quitovac, which was halted.

 Censored News has been one of the few to reveal that hundreds of US Border Patrol and ICE agents have been arrested for drug smuggling on the border. US Border Patrol agents continue to be arrested for "spotting" for the cartels who are bringing drug loads across the Arizona border.

Further, nearly 100 US soldiers, high school recruiters, and police officers were arrested in a sting operation running cocaine from Nogales to Phoenix. Further, we reported on the fact that US Border Patrol agents are getting away with murder on the border, as evidenced in the shooting deaths of migrants, including a teenager shot repeatedly through the border in Mexico.

 Censored News was among the first to point out that the ATF's Project Gunrunner -- providing assault weapons to drug cartels in Mexico -- did not begin in recent years in Arizona. The operation actually began in Laredo, Texas in 2005, according to a report of the US Dept. of Justice, and the deadly violence continues in that region.

 These are just a few of the important breaking news articles that Censored News has shared since it was created in 2006. We send a special message of thanks to Christine Prat for French translations, and Alice Holemans/NAIS for Dutch translations.

 Now in its eighth year with no advertising, grants or sponsors, Censored News has 2.9 million views. Our only source of travel funds for live coverage is from reader donations.

 We look forward to sharing more news of justice from the front lines, more columns from Native Americans, First Nations and other Indigenous Peoples, and more news leaks from grassroots people.

 Thanks for reading and sharing, Brenda Norrell
brendanorrell@gmail.com

PHOTOS
Photo credits by Brenda Norrell: Photo US spy tower at Arivaca, Arizona; Photo Keith Secola and Floyd Westerman at Indigenous Border Summit San Xavier, Tohono O'odham; Louise Benally of Big Mountain; Sonora Indigenous dancers; Sarah James, Gwich'in, with banner in Cancun, Mexico climate summit; US Border Patrol agent confronted with abuses of migrants, Tucson, Ariz.

Courtesy photos: US Border Patrol spying on Tohono O'odham home; Neil Young joins tarsands battle; Bolivia Mother Earth Conference; Keystone tarsands arrests at White House.

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Censored News Photos above: Photo 1: Vicam Yaqui by Brenda Norrell: Neil Young supports tarsands battle courtesy photo; Ofelia Rivas in Sonora by Brenda Norrell; Sand Creek documentary courtesy photo; Long Walk 4 by Bad Bear; Long Walk 4 by Bad Bear; Clyde Bellecourt arrest courtesy photo; AIM West 2013 unthanksgiving feast San Francisco by Brenda Norrell; Marcos in Sonora by Brenda Norrell; Mi'kmaq resistance by APTN; Wackenhut bus profiteering from migrant transport by Brenda Norrell; Western Shoshone Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson on Longest Walk 3 courtesy photo.
Keystone XL Tarsands Pipeline and Megaload Protests: Lakotas on Pine Ridge, Umatilla in Oregon and Native Americans arrested at the White House. Courtesy photos by IEN, Debra White Plume, Deep Green Resistance and Tarsands Resistance.

Native American protests and lockdowns to protect sacred San Francsico Peaks from sewage water snow for tourists at Arizona Snowbowl. Photos by Protect the Peaks and Youths of the Peaks.

Papago Warrior Waila Music: Our number one on YouTube
Censored News has covered a wide array of breaking news since 2006, but our most popular, most viewed, video on YouTube is Papago Warrior Waila music, recorded live on the border. The music videos were recorded by O'odham children at the O'odham Solidarity Project's spring gathering in 2013 hosted by Ofelia Rivas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqOhEtqvCAA#allposts
References

Australia spy agency stalked Aboriginals, photos:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/01/australia-spy-photos-australia-stalked.html

Leaked document: Salazar and Kyl plan to sneak water rights through Lame Duck Congress
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/11/leaked-documents-mainstream-media.html

Censored News video: Dine' Jean Whitehorse on US sterilization of Indian women
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/12/dine-jean-whitehorse-bias-and.html

US Attorney General report: Project Gunrunner began in 2005
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/OIG_report.pdf


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