Dakota and Lakota Runners: Protest Dakota Access Pipeline in DC Aug. 6, 2016

The Runners made it to DC on Thursday!

Updated coverage from DC on Censored News at: 

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/08/native-youth-runners-arrive-in-dc-no.html

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August 3, 2016. Listen to the good words of Jasilyn Charger, Cheyenne River Lakota, running for

the water, running for life, and running for all youths. (Above)

In the news -- Frederick, Maryland, welcomes Dakota and Lakota youth runners. "The Zlotaks will open their home to the group. 'My wife is organizing soups, pasta, water, Gatorade to give to them,' he said. 'We’ll have a bonfire, and hopefully educate friends and families about the situation. It’s a good sharing opportunity.'” Read news article:
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/public/rezpect-our-water-teens-run-for-clean-water/article_ddd7728d-1a97-5dc2-8598-7bc895894e51.html

"It's about our culture, our land, our water." News coverage from Columbus, Ohio, as Dakota and Lakota runners near D.C. Relay run from Cannonball, ND, to DC: "No Dakota Access pipeline."

http://nbc4i.com/2016/08/01/native-american-youths-stop-in-columbus-during-2000-mile-run-to-protest-pipeline/

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Watch news coverage in Dayton, Ohio: Dakota and Lakota youth runners, from Cannonball, ND, to DC: 'No Dakota Access Pipeline!" 

http://www.whio.com/videos/news/lakota-youth-stop-in-area-on-trek-to-fight-oil/vDq2rj/

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Join us in Washington D.C at Lafayette Square on August 6, 2016, at 1 p.m. to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline! WE ARE NOT GIVING UP!

Spread the word about our D.C protest:

In spite of months of campaigning, and 140,000 signatures demanding a stop to the Dakota Access Pipeline, on July 26th the Army Corps of Engineers granted a construction permit for the project. Join us at the White House for the culmination of a 2,000-mile long relay run, where we will be delivering your petition signatures and demanding that President Obama pressure the Corps to reverse its decision. 

This dangerous pipeline will stretch across four states, crossing the Missouri River just a mile away from the Standing Rock Reservation. When it leaks – as all pipelines do – it will poison our drinking water and threaten our health and safety. 

Join us on August 6th in D.C. to demand that our legislators "rezpect" our water and the concerns of those living along the pipeline's path. Bring your prayers, signs, and your energy. Hope to see you there!
www.facebook.com/events/148250738936652/

Intercept reporter turns down $200,000 bribe, while U.S. reporters lounge and plagiarize

Intercept reporter in Hong Kong turns down $200,000 bribe, while most reporters in the United States can't get out of their easy chairs

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, at NAIS


How many reporters would turn down a $200,000 bribe? 
How many reporters have this much integrity? 
Edward Snowden commented on Twitter about The Intercept reporter Elaine Yu, in Hong Kong, and Ethics in journalism. Snowden said, she "turned down a $200,000 bribe seeking to remove three points from her story." 
Meanwhile, currently in the United States, the majority of reporters now stay home and plagiarize, especially in Indian country. They steal the work of hard working reporters, and make a quick phone call interview to add to it, to disguise it. They do this to deceive readers into believing they are out covering the news.
Plagiarism now bottom-out standard in national Indian Country news
Don't be fooled by media like Indian Country Today that has relied on stay-at-home plagiarizers for most of the past 10 years. It has wealthy owners and could send reporters out to cover the news, instead of plagiarizing and rewriting others hard work. Indianz is a copy and paste operation. When done without permission, copying and pasting others work is plagiarism. When it is done for years, it is extensive fraud.
Ask the reporters if they go out and cover the news. Ask the reporters if they pay the hard working photographers for the photos they steal from the web. 
Ask the newspapers in Indian country how many of their reporters are Native American. There's only a few jobs and many Native American reporters are unemployed. Unfortunately, newspapers like Navajo Times continue to rely heavily on non-Indian reporters in 2016.
Facebook is Road Kill Journalism
Don't be fooled by the scams on Facebook that are stealing others work for ad dollars, like the so-called "Free Thought Project." 
Most of the news links now being posted on Facebook are either frauds (not true) or plagiarized from the hard work of real reporters. Look at all the ads on those scam websites.
On Facebook, the scammers steal the most controversial articles, including those articles on tragedies in Indian country.
Many use "click bait" revenue schemes. Each time you click on their scam news titles, they make money.
The parasites and profiteers in the media are no different from the corporate parasites and profiteers. They are opportunists and their goal is to deceive you.
They do it for the money and for the power.

Read more at The Intercept:
Meet the Chinese couple whose business spent $1.3 million trying to get Jeb Bush elected president. They offered the reporter the $200,000 bribe.
https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/chinese-couple-million-dollar-donation-jeb-bush-super-pac/

When the casinos bought the news in Indian country
When non-Indians began their schemes to profit from casinos in Indian country, they first changed the name "gambling" to "gaming." 
Then the casino industry took control of the national Indian media. By taking control of the national Indian media, the casino industry avoided exposure in Indian country. Two of those forbidden subjects for reporters were the facts on how non-Indian lobbyists became millionaires and billionaires. The movie Casino Jack tells the real life story of this. The other subject forbidden by casino controlled media in Indian country is how gambling addictions are destroying families in Indian country.
Recently, Jacqueline Keeler, Native reporter fired by Indian Country Today, revealed that today Indian Country Today is controlled by a non-Indian editor, a former editor at Playboy magazine.
Keeler's ethics led to her termination. 
Today, non-Indian casino lobbyists working for Indian Nations continue to be paid millions, and billions, to sway Congress. 
In 2015, Gila River Indian Community in Arizona paid the most to casino lobbyists, $2.9 million, while the Tohono O'odham Nation was close behind, paying lobbyists $2.6 million in 2015. Both sought control of casino dollars south of Phoenix.
Meanwhile at home, Tohono O'odham continue to live desperate for food, roads, housing and even clean water. Besides millions being paid to non-Indian lobbyists by the Tohono O'odham Nation, millions are paid to non-Indian casino firms, non-Indian charities, non-Indian attorneys, and the State of Arizona, which gets a large percentage of Indian casino revenues in the state. All of this money flows out from the tribe's casinos while Tohono O'odham live in need.
See the full list of casino lobbyists in the U.S. paid by Indian Nations to sway Congress at: 
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/lobbying.php?cycle=2016&ind=G6550

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Brenda Norrell has been a reporter in Indian country for 34 years. She began at the Navajo Times, and served as a stringer for AP and USA Today, during the 18 years that she lived on the Navajo Nation. After serving as a longtime staff reporter for Indian Country Today in the Southwest, she was censored and terminated by Indian Country Today in 2006. As a result, she began Censored News, now in its 10th year with no advertising, grants or sponsors. Norrell has provided live coverage with Govinda at Earthcycles, from Bolivia and across the western U.S. They were live on web radio for the five month Longest Walk northern route across the U.S. in 2008.

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Secwepemc Resistance Gathering, Mount Polley Mine Site: Aug. 4, 2016

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SECWEPEMC PLAN RESISTANCE ANNIVERSARY GATHERING AT MOUNT POLLEY MINE SITE

Breaking News Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016

Blockade underway

Read more at:

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/08/bc-secwepemc-blockade-mount-polley-mine.html

By Kanahus Freedom, kanahusmanuel@gmail.com

Andy Stepanian, andy@sparrowmedia.net

Censored News

Secwepemc activists have launched a call to action against Imperial Metals Mount Polley mine on the two-year anniversary of the devastating tailings pond spill.
Kanahus Freedom, a member of the Secwepemc Women's Warrior Society and one of the organizers of the action says that they will be letting the government of British Columbia know they are outraged at the fact that the government has issued a new operating permit to the mine.

“The province has no jurisdiction to be issuing permits to companies illegally operating on our Sovereign Territories without the free, prior, informed consent of the Secwepemc Tribal Peoples.”

The August 4, 2014, Mount Polley spill is the largest environmental disaster in British Columbia's history. The mine's tailings pond dam breached and unleashed 2.5 billion gallons of contaminated water and 4.5 million cubic metres of metals-laden silt into Hazeltine Creek, Polley Lake and Quesnel Lake on the way to the Fraser River Watershed.

Despite government and industry promises at the time of the spill, very little in the way of site remediation has been done to clean up the toxic spill. BC Auditor General Carol Bellringer released a report in May 2016, finding that the "monitoring and inspections of mines were inadequate to ensure mine operators complied with requirements.”

“Imperial Metal's failure to fulfill its promises to clean up is a wakeup call for all of us when we hear the same type of meaningless promises coming from Kinder Morgan and other pipeline companies. We cannot rely on governments or companies to protect our lands — and the BC Auditor General has confirmed this. As long as Imperial Metals and the government that backs them continue to devastate our lands with no accountability, they can expect an escalation in resistance, solidarity, and pressure against their corporate interests,” further states Kanahus Freedom.

The Mount Polley commemoration will begin in Vancouver on August 1 at 17h30 with a dinner and presentation on the Mount Polley mine and other mining and land use issues including Grand Chief Stewart Phillip (UBCIC). On August 3, a bus and convoy of private vehicles will travel to a camp set up at the Mount Polley mine entrance for the August 4 commemoration.

Contacts:

Kanahus Freedom, kanahusmanuel@gmail.com

Andy Stepanian, andy@sparrowmedia.net

To Secwepemc the Water is Sacred, the Salmon are Sacred. The massive Mount Polley mining disaster that happened at Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe, unceded Secwepemc Territory (near Likely, BC) will continue to impact both the water and salmon for thousands of years. Imperial Metals Mount Polley tailings dam failure unleashed billions of gallons of toxic mine tailings and slurry into pristine water ways and salmon spawning grounds. The government of bc has issued a "restart permit" without the consent of the Indigenous Peoples and no sufficient clean up. Secwepemc join with others worldwide to resist and fight back against mining and the re-opening of this illegal and destructive mine, that is backed by government. 

The footage taken was from several site visits to Ground Zero of the Mount Polley Disaster.

Beats by Maroly Tut, Belize

Gwich’in Nation Calls for Urgent Arctic Refuge Protection and Climate Action

Gwich’in Nation Calls for Urgent Arctic Refuge Protection and Climate Action

By Bernadette Demientieff and Sarah James

The Gwich’in Nation renewed their urgent call to Congress and the President to permanently protect the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as Wilderness for the caribou and the Gwich’in way of life. Read article at: https://medium.com/@WeAreTheArctic/gwichin-nation-calls-for-urgent-arctic-refuge-protection-and-climate-action-e491ae09cca4#.9thr1wf4c