Simon Ortiz: The Power of Words and Sacred Spaces

Simon Ortiz: The Power of Words and Sacred Spaces

Today -- Simon Ortiz at Tucson Festival of Books

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, March 9. 2024

TUCSON, Arizona -- Simon Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo, is among the great poets and storytellers at this year's Tucson Festival of Books. The icons of Southwest poetry and literature join poets and authors from across the nation, today and Sunday.

Through the years here in Tucson, Simon's voice has sounded out the beauty and the struggles, and memories of the sacred spaces. At the Tucson Poetry Festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2007, the theme was home and Simon gave voice to the power of home.

International Uranium Film Festival on Navajo Nation 2024: Photos by Born for Bear Media

Norman Patrick Brown, Cleo Otero, Larry Foster, and Bobby Mason, at the International Uranium Film Festival in Window Rock, on the Navajo Nation, on Thursday. Photo by Born for Bear Media.

International Uranium Film Festival on Navajo Nation 2024 Photos by Born for Bear Media, Mason Photography

Day 1, Thursday, of the International Uranium Film Festival in Window Rock on the Navajo Nation, March 7 -- 8, 2024

Photographer Bobby Leonard Mason, actor Joseph Runningfox, his son Chaco and Director/Writer Lech Majewski of the film ‘Valley of the Gods.’ Photo by Born for Bear Media.

International Uranium Film Festival, Window Rock, Navajo Nation, March 7 --8, 2024

"Uranium has only meant death for our people and death for the land," Klee Benally, Dine', in athe video of the multi media project, 'Transmutations: Visualizing Matter | Materializing Vision.' Shown Thursday at the International Uranium Film Festival in Window Rock on the Navajo Nation.

Watch trailer https://vimeo.com/707093678

Watch the expanded film, 1 hour and 22 minutes, and a separate video interview with Klee on the project's website https://www.transmutationsproject.com/

Friday, at 4 pm, 'Downwind'

Full schedule

https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/files/2024_iuff_window_rock_program_-_web.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3-VliZ7sh-6jKaDfwJ1PnF3MlFEl2a21ZIW_CBPy2_ClzcFD6McEk-sbw

Oregon's Fusion Center Spied on Activists -- Violated Oregon's Law on Surveillance

Rogue Climate

Fusion Centers, where law enforcement agencies share information, have been secretly violating rights and laws. The first Native American Tribe to join a law enforcement Fusion Center was the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona, enabling it to share surveillance with state and federal agencies. The Fusion Center in North Dakota, during the resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline, secretly engaged in surveillance of water protectors. -- Censored News


Civil Liberties Defense Center Crosses Important Hurdle in Case Against Oregon Dept. of Justice

Government Overreach on Activist Surveillance Again

By Civil Liberties Defense Center, Censored News, March 8, 2024

After the events of September 11, 2001, a total of 79 Fusion Centers were created throughout the United States, with the purported goal of helping law enforcement agencies coordinate and share information with each other.

Global Mining Convention Protested in Toronto

Global Mining Convention Protested in Toronto

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Photos courtesy Mining Injustice Solidarity Network

Mining Injustice Solidarity Network said, "Hundreds out in Toronto to disrupt the gala for PDAC, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, the world’s biggest mining convention."

"We’re not going to let them give each other awards while we’re witnessing Canadian mining destroy, kill and colonize across Turtle Island and around the world."

U.S. Federal Court Grants Expedited Appeal in Biden Gaza Genocide Case

Today, March 5, Israel again opened fire on starving Palestinians going for flour.

On Eve of Israeli Assault on Rafah, Court Grants Expedited Appeal in Biden Gaza Genocide Case

By Center for Constitutional Rights, Censored News

Contact: press@ccrjustice.org

Lower Court Declared Israeli Assault Plausible Case of Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza; Meanwhile Mass Starvation Increases

SAN FRANCISCO February 28, 2024 – Late yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion to expedite the appeal of Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans suing U.S. officials for their failure to prevent – and complicity in – Israel’s genocide in Gaza.