Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

January 26, 2024

Live: Biden Genocide Case in Federal Court Oakland, California


Outside the federal court in Oakland, California the case is underway naming President Biden and cabinet members complicit with genocide. Photo AROC Free Palestine Twitter/X


Photo by San Francisco Chronicle. On the street as federal court was underway.


LIVE COVERAGE: In Federal Court in Oakland, California, U.S. Attorneys and Palestinians said today: Biden is Complicit in Genocide

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Jan. 26, 2024
Video of court hearing now available:

OAKLAND, California -- The final testimony concludes now in today's hearing of President Biden's complicity with genocide. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of Palestinians in U.S. federal court in Oakland, California.

The Center for Constitutional Rights said Biden has failed to uphold the Genocide Convention. "Not only has the U.S. failed to prevent, but has actively advanced the gravest of crimes."

Biden and cabinet members sought today to halt the case from moving forward in U.S. federal court. However, Senior District Judge Jeffrey S. White consistently overruled Biden's attorney and allowed the testimony today.

Dr. Barry Trachtenberg, Wake Forest University’s presidential chair of Jewish history in North Carolina, and a scholar on the Holocaust and genocide, testified for the plaintiffs as an expert scholar.

Mohawk Nation News 'Contested Sovereignties RVH/McGILL University"


New today at Mohawk Nation News:

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/01/26/contested-sovereignties-rvh-mcgill-university/

 

LIVE Decision in South Africa v. Israel Genocide Case at the Hague


THE HAGUE: Live from the International Court of Justice at The Hague on United Nations WebTV:
January 26, 2024

Live on Al Jazeera

The International Court of Justice ruled today:
The Intercept reports now: “Israel must take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” the court said. It also ordered Israel to halt and punish incitement to genocide, to preserve any evidence of violations of the Genocide Convention by its forces or personnel, and to submit a report on its compliance with the court’s orders within one month.

FEDERAL COURT OAKLAND, Calif.
Later this morning: Biden faces lawsuit for genocide in federal court in Oakland, California.
Live at Center for Constitutional Rights

January 22, 2024

Double Exposure: Genocide in Residential Schools, as Biden Genocide Case Begins in U.S. Federal Court

Blue Quills Indian Residential School


Double Exposure: Genocide in Residential Schools, as Biden Genocide Case Heads to US Federal Court

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Updated Jan. 21, 2024

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada released new records from residential schools, which were essentially prisoner-of-war camps where Native children were victims of genocide. At the same time, the Center for Constitutional Rights in the United States announced its case filed against President Biden for genocide in Palestine begins in federal court in northern California on Friday.

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation said the Oblates are transferring all outstanding records to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. The first group of residential school records is now on its public website.

GILA RIVER: O'odham Solidarity with Palestine


O'odham Solidarity with Palestine, Saturday, January 20, at Wild Horse Pass Hotel, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona. Photo courtesy O'odham Solidarity with Palestine.

GILA RIVER: O'odham Solidarity with Palestine

O'odham demand a permanent ceasefire, resistance to colonial occupation, and acknowledgment of the genocide

By O'odham Solidarity with Palestine, Censored News

GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, Arizona -- Outside of the Gila River Indian Community tribal Inauguration, consisting of Tohono O’odham and Akimel O’odham tribal governments, along with the state governor, politicians -- and we still held it down in prayer. Informing people that our lands are being exploited and heavily militarized by Israeli-trained police, Israeli-trained border patrol, Israeli-partnered facilities and Israeli surveillance towers that keep community members from coming back home. Had to remind the mi:ligan cops and employees where they’re at after poor attempts to dispute with us.

January 17, 2024

Fort McDermitt Tribal Leader Choked Youth During Lithium Americas Community Meeting


Former Fort McDermitt tribal chairman Arlo Crutcher is shown on video as he approaches a tribal youth before choking him during a meeting with Lithium Americas. Screenshot of Young Warrior video by Censored News.

Fort McDermitt Tribal Leader Choked Youth During Lithium Americas Community Meeting

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News
Video by Young Warrior

A Fort McDermitt tribal leader attacked a minor and choked him. The youth was videotaping a public community meeting being held about financial benefits from lithium mining by Lithium Americas, now digging into the Paiute Massacre Site in northern Nevada.

The incident was broadcast on KPFK Los Angeles. It occurred during the quarterly meeting with Lithium Americas and Fort McDermitt Tribal Council, on Monday, Jan. 8.

During the meeting, Arlo Crutcher, former chairman of Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone, walked across the conference room where tribal youth Jimmy, a minor, was videotaping. 

Dorece Sam, Jimmy's mother, "It was a quarterly meeting, the community was never advised of this meeting."