Longest Walk walks into Pennsylvania: Beauty of the Road photos by Bad Bear

Photos by Western Shoshone Longwalker Carl Bad Bear Sampson

"We're really tired and exhausted," Bad Bear said. "I myself am doing what I can to finish the last 230 miles strong. All is well and we're keeping the prayers movin'."

The camp site is Laurel Hill State Park for two more nights.

"We are starting the walk this morning from Monongahela, Pennsylvania," Bad Bear said.

July 8, 2019

Update on July 10: Walkers will be camping at Cowans Gap in Penn. for three more nights.

If you're nearby, please join them, with support, water or food, whatever you can share. -- Brenda, Censored News

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Congratulations to Bad Bear for this well deserved recognition from Earth Justice, 'On the Frontlines.'

https://earthjustice.org/features/photos-indigenous-people-from-the-frontlines?fbclid=IwAR0kAmZkd85uVeZs8vbMmuNrC28vVVo_cJYMh5yjPA0QFfoKSbhT4oh-w4I

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Appeals Court Blocks Trump's Border Wall in Arizona and New Mexico in National Emergency Challenge

Our friend the Sonoran Pronghorn on the
Arizona Border, whose migration route is now targeted by Trump's Border Wall.
The real national emergency is that the homeland of Indigenous People and wildlife is threatened by a xenophobic president. -- Censored News

July 3, 2019

CONTACT: Virginia Cramer
virginia.cramer@sierraclub.org
CourtneyBourgoin
courtney.bourgoin@sierraclub.org

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Border Wall in National Emergency Challenge

The Appeals Court decision includes halting Trump's priority plan for a border wall at Organ Pipe National Monument, near the western side of the Tohono Oodham Nation, on the Arizona border

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court today denied the government’s attempt to begin construction of President Trump’s border wall using funds unauthorized by Congress. The ruling upholds an earlier district court order that blocks the administration from building wall sections along the southern border in New Mexico and Arizona using illegally diverted military funds.

What if there was never a Snowden or Wikileaks. We would have never known ...

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

What if there had never been a Snowden or Wikileaks, or any of the whistleblowers?

I would have never known that Google, Facebook, my android phone and the others are all part of the massive spy network of the U.S., U.K. and others. I would have never known to cover my phone and computer camera lens with colored tape, and to take the battery out of my phone at times -- because it is a tracker, and can be turned on remotely as a listening and viewing device.

Longest Walk near West Virginia Border -- Photos by Bad Bear

Photos by Western Shoshone Longwalker Carl Bad Bear Sampson

Today the Longest Walk 2019 is in Ohio, near the West Virginia border. Join them on Highway 40, walking toward Wheeling, West Virginia. Walkers will walk through Wheeling on July 5.
July 3, 2019
Alcatraz to Washington D.C.

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DIVEST Child Detention Companies: Urgent Action Alert Calling All Protectors!

Children and workers are at a tent encampment in June near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Urgent Action Alert Calling All Protectors! 

Protect the Children! 

By Divest Invest Protect

Divest Geo Group and CoreCivic! 

Divest Child Detention Companies! 

#closethecamps

SHUT THEM DOWN!

Witnessing the brutality of child detention, the reality of concentration camps of immigrant/migrant communities shocks and paralyzes. Do not look away from what is happening.  As Native American/Indian people we know the lasting trauma state separation carries as many of our parents are survivors of forced separations into boarding schools and residential schools that ripped Indian children from their families placing them in facilities like Carlisle Indian School, PA, in order to “kill the Indian, and save the man.” The wide ranges of abuses continue to be uncovered with wounds that were never fully reconciled and healed. https://boardingschoolhealing.org/ 

Reports of deteriorating conditions comparing these child detention facilities to “torture facilities” continue to emerge.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doctor-compares-conditions-immigrant-holding-centers-torture-facilities/story?id=63879031 

To see such cruel depravity and feel hopeless is the goal. We have a responsibility to stop their detention.  The world has an urgent responsibility and moral obligation to act, to PROTECT them! 

Demand the government shut these facilities down! Organize!   

Divest Geo Group and CoreCivic for human rights violations of immigrant children, people, and families! Business cannot go on as usual when children are being viciously abused! 

Geo Group

https://www.facebook.com/GEOGroup/

m.me/GEOGroup

http://www.geogroup.com

See GEO Group Board of Directors: https://www.geogroup.com/board_of_directors

CoreCivic

https://www.facebook.com/CoreCivic/

10 Burton Hills Blvd

Nashville, Tennessee

m.me/CoreCivic

Call (615) 263-3000

See CoreCivic Board of Directors: http://www.corecivic.com/investors/board-of-directors

For more information read:

• https://www.npr.org/2019/06/30/736940431/under-siege-and-largely-secret-businesses-that-serve-immigration-detention?fbclid=IwAR3zqdhwucSzZktBdcd4wfQFYZmmGCkw3sP5R-5VodUTMmhBBV9sKVuM2yw
• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-wayfair/wayfair-workers-supporters-protest-furniture-sale-to-us-immigrant-camp-idUSKCN1TR27B
• https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/06/26/how-help-children-detained-us-border
• https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/07/236724/help-migrant-children-at-border-crisis

Join an Action Near You!

https://act.moveon.org/event/close-camps-now_attend/search/

Support Advocacy Organizations! 

RAICES: This Texas-based organization offers free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. Donate here and sign up as a volunteer here.

KIND (Kids In Need of Defense): The organization provides legal representation to migrant children and lobbies to ensure their rights are protected. Donate here.

Pueblo Sin Fronteras: This group provides humanitarian aid and shelter to migrants on their way to the U.S. Donate here.

Al Otro Lado: This bi-national organization provides legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S. Donate here.

The Florence Project: This Arizona-based organization offers free legal services to people in immigration custody. Donate here.

In the news:

U.S. Inspector releases photos Tuesday

https://www.apnews.com/6f4e4bc3d00541ceaf275e1ffbea64f5