Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

November 15, 2024

Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Saturate U.N. Climate Summit in Azerbaijan


Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca Nation, and WECAN at U.N. Climate Summit today in Azerbaijan.

Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Saturate U.N. Climate Summit COP29 in Azerbaijan

By WECAN International, Censored News, Nov. 15, 2024

BAKU, Azerbaijan -- Fossil fuel lobbyists continue to saturate every corner of COP 29.

At least 1,773 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the COP29 summit in Baku— one of the largest delegations this year.

November 14, 2024

Watch: Maori Haka erupts in New Zealand Parliament

https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/11/14/watch-haka-erupts-in-parliament-before-treaty-principles-bill-passes-first-reading/
Te Ao Maori News

Watch: Haka erupts in Parliament before Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading

With the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti only halfway to Parliament, ACT leader David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill has gone through its first reading.

During the count of votes for and against the bill, Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke stood up from her seat starting a haka directed at Seymour, which her colleagues and MPs from the Greens and Labour joined. When people in the public gallery above joined in loudly, Speaker Gerry Brownlee suspended Parliament for an hour until the gallery was cleared.

November 12, 2024

Akwesasne 8 Dismissed: New York Power Authority Fails to Produce Documents




Akwesasne 8 DISMISSED. New York Power Authority fails to produce documents necessary to move forward.

Breaking News

By Akwesasne 8, Censored News, Nov. 12, 2024

The charges of Conspiracy to a Felony, and Trespassing against the six of the Akwesasne 8, who appeared today, were dismissed today at Massena Town Court. The District Attorney stated that New York Power Authority (NYPA) did not produce appropriate documents to move forward.

Mohawk Nation News 'Akwesasne 8 Dismissed: NY Power Has No Documents'


 Breaking News! Read the article at Mohawk Nation News

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/11/12/akwesasne-8-dismissed-ny-power-has-no-documents/

November 11, 2024

Paul Chiyokten Wagner: Protectors of the Waters, From the Salish Sea to Standing Rock



Paul Chiyokten Wagner

Paul Chiyokten Wagner: Protectors of the Waters, From the Salish Sea to Standing Rock

Protectors of the Waters: Paul Chiyokten Wagner speaks on carrying forward the sacred way of life, from the Salish Sea to Standing Rock

"Our people hold the road map to paradise. Our people have that memory within us."

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 11, 2024

SEATTLE -- The Protectors of the Salish Sea baked camas on their ancestral island for the first time in one-hundred years, occupied the Washington State Capitol, and  journeyed to Standing Rock to build warm structures for the elders to brace against the blizzards, said Paul Chiyokten Wagner, WSANEĆ (Saanich) sharing the history from the Salish Sea to Standing Rock and beyond.

November 9, 2024

Coast Salish Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle


Coast Salish Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News at Indybay, Nov. 8, 2024
Watch 'The Extraordinary Salish Sea' video introduction
SEATTLE -- The powerful Salish Sea Assembly magnified the voices of the Coast Salish Water Warriors, the struggle to shut down the Trans Mountain Pipeline, and the flow of dirty oil from the Alberta tar sands to the Salish Sea. It was censored by all major media.
"We are not just activists, we are revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years," said Kanahus Manuel, Secwepemc and Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline in British Columbia.