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By Brenda Norrell

Photo by Kent Lebsock: (L) Oglala President Bryan Brewer dismissing the gathering.

Native Americans shut down the US State Department’s consultation on the Keystone XL pipeline in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Thursday.

The Vultures of Dirty Coal

By Brenda Norrell

Photo Calvin Johnson, Navajo

Update: Gary Witherspoon:

By Brenda Norrell

The media, like the Navajo Nation Council, is responsible for the vote for more dirty coal energy from the Navajo Generating Station, extending the lease until 2044. The media has refused to tell the real story.

Yaqui in Sonora invite Obama for consultation and urge: Don't forget your promises to Indigenous Peoples

By Brenda Norrell

Photo by Brenda Norrell: International Forum on the Defense of Water, Vicam Pueblo

Mexico-based Private Security Firm’s Intelligence Shows Big Jump in Murders, Political Assassinations Since December 2012

The administration of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has made it a priority to divert the media’s focus from the drug war and toward his economic efforts to bring the Latin American nation in closer alignment with the international corporate agenda of assuring a cheap supply labor and nearly risk-free return on investment.

They Chose Instead to Strap Digital Visionary Aaron Swartz to Their Buzzsaw

Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet activist and the co-developer of popular web tools like RSS feeds and Reddit, ended his life earlier this year at the end of a long battle with federal prosecutors in Boston — who had accused him of engaging in digital piracy.

Boots-On-The-Ground Instruction Carried Out by US Military in Mexico City, Campeche and Chiapas — Home of the Zapatistas

US training of Mexican military forces spiked in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, coinciding with a sharp rise in drug-war homicides in Mexico, an analysis of records made public under the Foreign Assistance Act show.

Originally published by NACLA 11^th February 2013 https://nacla.org/news/2013/2/11/solidarity-brings-freedom-and-justice-zapatista-francisco-s%C3%A1ntiz-l%C3%B3pez

After 417 days of wrongful imprisonment, the Zapatista is freed.

Thanks to all the people and organizations throughout the world who campaigned for his liberation.

Unlike Wine, Old News Doesn’t Improve With Age

Earlier this week, the Washington Post and a series of other mainstream media outlets breathlessly reported that the Pentagon has set up a US-based special operations center that is focused on helping the Mexican government track down “cartels.”

The real nut-graph of the Post story, however, is buried at the end of the article:

Indigenous elders gather for prayers on Jan. 19 and sing the death song of the Dakota 38 who were hanged in Minnesota

By Brenda Norrell

UPDATE: Rail Blockades across Canada shut down traffic. New photos and video of Idle No More, Jan. 16, 2013. www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

First Nation Terrance Nelson discusses upcoming oil pipeline and rail blockades:

ATF Supervisor’s Questionable Gun Purchases Appear to Be Business As Usual

Two guns of interest were found in late November of last year near the scene of a gun battle in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The battle, waged between the Mexican military and alleged drug traffickers, left five people dead, including a Mexican soldier and a beauty queen named Maria Susana Flores Gamez.

Indigenous Heroes 2012 with Tribute to Russell Means



By Brenda Norrell

Photo Idle No More Mohawks Tyendinaga Rail Blockade

Russia announces meeting of US and Canadian Native leaders in Russia in January

By Brenda Norrell

Russia will meet with Native American and First Nation leaders in Russia in mid-January, in the first ever gathering of Indigenous Peoples from the three countries. Russia also announced that one of its officials will meet with "Sioux chiefs" this week.

Navajo President meeting with Israel’s Apartheid government

Update: Navajo women in solidarity with Palestine oppose Navajo president's visit to Israel: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/12/navajo-women-in-solidarity-with.html