Hoopa Valley Tribe intervenes for salmon on Trinity River

Westlands files lawsuit against Trinity water release 

Hoopa Valley Tribe intervenes, urges increased release of water 

"A die-off of Trinity River salmon, if it were to occur again this year, would be very harmful to the many Hoopa tribal members who rely upon these fish." -- Hoopa Valley Chair Danielle Vigil-Masten

by Dan Bacher 

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The Westlands Water District and San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority filed a lawsuit in federal court in Fresno on Wednesday, August 7 in an attempt to stop increased flows on the Trinity River set to begin on August 13. 

The lawsuit alleges that the Bureau of Reclamation's planned releases from Trinity Reservoir to protect salmon in the lower Klamath River would be unlawful and would further cut water available for the growers, causing them "significant and irreparable harm." 

Megaload Blockade Organizing: More Megaloads Headed to Northwest!

Nez Perce megaload blockade

Anti-megaload activists from Northern Rockies Rising Tide are sending out an alert calling on all West Coast/Columbia River activists. 

Breaking news from Northern Rockies Rising Tide (12:22 am Tuesday): "Thirty people just blocked the megaload for about five minutes. No arrests. Lots of cops, not much patience. Lots of good material. 

By Wild Idaho Rising Tide

Dear Comrades,
Wild Idaho Rising Tide (WIRT) offers its humble gratitude for all of the courageous Nez Perce tribal members and regional supporters who so successfully blockaded and scuttled the Omega Morgan plan to move a 644,000-pound evaporator to Alberta tar sands operations through the wild rivers, forests, and canyons of the Nez Perce homeland.  After crossing Idaho over four nights and meeting the most passionate resistance ever witnessed by such an industrial convoy, the megaload reached Highway 12 milepost 4, just over Lolo Pass in Montana, at 5:30 am on Friday morning, August 8.  Ideally, the Idaho Rivers United/Nez Perce injunction requested on Thursday may take effect this week for the Lochsa-Clearwater wild and scenic river corridor in Idaho.  We have heard that another eight loads are now headed down the Washington coast toward the Port of Wilma, so we are calling on all West Coast/Columbia River activists to report their observations of these shipments.

According to the Montana Department of Transportation and its issued megaload permit, the module cannot travel in the state on Fridays or Saturdays and will move from its current location to the Bonner truck stop on Monday night, August 12.  Northern Rockies Rising Tide (NRRT), No Shipments Network, All Against the Haul, and other anti-megaload activists sent an alert and are organizing a Monday night solidarity protest.  They coordinated an action planning meeting on Saturday afternoon and are asking that, if you can help with organizing or participating in the Monday action, please contact NRRT as soon as possible by email at northernrockiesrisingtide@gmail.com or through the phone number posted in the contact section of the NRRT website.

Thanks to everyone in Idaho and Montana for your ongoing climate, tar sands, and indigenous rights activism.  We urge brave, fellow activists in Montana to rise up against this escalating Big Oil invasion.  WIRT will send you megaload issue updates as timely as possible from the road.

Wild Idaho Rising Tide

P.O. Box 9817, Moscow, Idaho 83843

WildIdahoRisingTide.org & on facebook and Twitter

208-301-8039

US Border Patrol Impunity Must End! Border Patrol Getting Away with Murder!

Border Patrol Impunity Must End!

Mother Demands Justice

Carlos La Madrid loved to play soccer and guitar and was learning to work with solar energy. Image credit: Border Action Network.

By Derechos Humanos

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Tucson -- Guadalupe Guerrero, mother of Carlos La Madrid, was informed this past Friday, August 9th, that the murderer of her son, Border Patrol Agent Lucas Tidwell, will not face any criminal charges for the shooting death of Carlos. On March 21, 2011, 19 year-old Carlos Lamadrid was killed by Agent Tidwell in broad daylight. Despite the fact that Carlos had his back to the agent and was halfway up a ladder at the time, Tidwell opened fire, hitting Carlos four times in the back. After being shot, Carlos, still alive, was handcuffed and dragged by Border Patrol agents. It took more than 45 minutes for any medical aid to arrive, and Carlos La Madrid died as a result.

Long Walk 4 in Richmond, Indiana

Day 28: Long Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz

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Photos by Aki Zaagi, thank you for sharing with Censored News!

"Day 28 - interesting day on Richmond, Indiana. Had a Pipe Ceremony by the Courthouse and a few people walked with us from there. Having a feast at the Townsend Center in a bit. We are hoping to go to the place where St. Clair, leading the first standing US army in 1791 got crushed which is nearby tomorrow after walking. Thank you to Mary and Jean for hosting us." -- Michael Lane, Long Walk 4 Return to Alcatrazwww.returntoalcatraz.com

Cushing, Okla: Undercover agents infiltrated Tarsands Resistance Camp

Photos by Laura Borealis/Tar Sand BlockadeAccording to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, investigators from the Bryan County
Sherriff's Department had been spying on a Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance training camp
that took place from March 18 to March 22 and which brought together local landowners,
Indigenous communities, and environmental groups opposed to the pipeline.

Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break up Planned Protest

BY ADAM FEDERMAN
AUGUST 12, 2013 
Earth Island Journal

TransCanada and Department of Homeland Security keep close eye on activists, FOIA documents reveal After a week of careful planning, environmentalists attending a tar sands resistance action camp in Oklahoma thought they had the element of surprise — but they would soon learn that their moves were being closely watched by law enforcement officials and TransCanada, the very company they were targeting.

On the morning of March 22 activists had planned to block the gates at the company’s strategic oil reserves in Cushing, Oklahoma as part of the larger protest movement against TransCanada’s tar sands pipeline. But when they showed up in the early morning hours and began unloading equipment from their vehicles they were confronted by police officers. Stefan Warner, an organizer with Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, says some of the vehicles en route to the protest site were pulled over even before they had reached Cushing. He estimates that roughly 50 people would have participated— either risking arrest or providing support. The act of nonviolent civil disobedience, weeks in the planning, was called off.
Read more:
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/undercover_agents_infiltrated_tar_sands_resistance_camp_to_break_up_planned

Dakota Unity Riders meet US Calvary

Photo: Historic meeting in Newtown, Conn., with the last remaining Calvary connected with the Battle of Little Big Horn, the 7th Calvary. At the same time the Governor of Conn. deputized the Dakota Unity riders, and returned the flag !

“The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples”

Grand Chief Murray Clearsky

Southern Chiefs Organization

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I wish to extend acknowledgement and wishes of well-being to all Indigenous people on Turtle Island. On this day in 1994, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples to be celebrated every year by all United Nation member states during the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (1995-2004).

In 2004, the Assembly proclaimed a second international decade, from 2005 – 2014, with the theme of "A Decade for Action and Dignity." The focus of this year's International Day is "Indigenous peoples building alliances: Honouring treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements."

The theme aims to highlight the importance of honouring arrangements between States, their citizens and indigenous peoples that were designed to recognize indigenous peoples' rights to their lands and establish a framework for living in proximity and entering into economic relationships. Agreements also outline a political vision of different sovereign peoples living together on the same land, according to the principles of friendship, cooperation and peace.

It is disappointing that the Canadian government has not issued a formal statement of acknowledgment and recognition for the Indigenous peoples of Canada and our huge contributions which have made this nation the most peaceful and richest country on Mother Earth.

It is very disappointing that the focus of this year’s International Day is not even remotely on the radar of the Stephen Harper government. The ongoing expansion of natural resource extraction projects while ignoring the internationally recognized Treaties which created this country and are ongoing colonial constitutional obligations are a demonstration of the ongoing colonization and assimilationist agenda of the Government of Canada.

I call upon the Stephen Harper government to step up to the plate and truly begin to meet your constitutional and international obligations by honouring the treaties and embark on a true nation to nation partnership with the Indigenous Treaty holding nations of Canada so we can thrive off the bounties of our ancestral homeland and make this nation stronger and more successful than ever before. For as long as the sun shines, the grasses grow and the waters flow, we will remain the true and original Indigenous peoples of this land commonly known as Canada.

Grand Chief Murray Clearsky

Southern Chiefs Organization