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Ninth Circuit bias in San Francisco Peaks case mirrored in Arizona media
Posted by Brenda Norrell - February 9, 2012 at 10:25 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Photos: Navajos and other Native Americans locked down to heavy equipment in 2011 to halt the desecration of sacred San Francisco Peaks. Photos Youths of the Peaks.
Chumash: Awakening the stories that heal
Posted by Brenda Norrell - February 7, 2012 at 5:32 pmWhen the stories awaken, stories that heal
"Anthropologists have been at the service of colonialism." Chicana/Yaqui author Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez speaking at launch of Earth Wisdom: A California Chumash Woman.
Article by Brenda NorrellPhoto by Shelia Rocha/Red Ink
Arizona targeted as test site for private spy drones
Posted by Brenda Norrell - February 2, 2012 at 12:03 pmThe collapsed media in Arizona fuels human rights abuses around the world, while Arizona universities and an American Indian Nation are coopted in the production of deadly killing drones
By Brenda Norrell
Photo: The spy Predator drone over the Arizona border.
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All I can say is I feel like the Post Office ripped me off.
Posted by Dennes Longoria - February 2, 2012 at 2:19 amSupposedly the El Cajon California Main Post Office told us in a letter that there was going to be a price hike in the PO box fee, IF you read the letter. But who does that. On the envelope itself it said 6 months for 23 dollars, so you look at that first, then you go in the letter to look for the deadline and that’s it. So I made it in before the deadline, but the price hike had been like a week earlier. So I had to pay 38 dollars, while people that mailed them in and just went by the amount that was on the envelope only had to pay 23 dollars.
Out Here In The Field Redux
Posted by Lorie Cavin - February 1, 2012 at 9:35 amAs the Republican's "whop up" on each other via PAC fueled/funneled $upport, I have little time to listen to their bile. Why? I am too busy working with OfA and have been for years. Our Neighborhood Team is producing Volunteer Leaders that are working directly with OfA FieldFolk in ways that show how training, during the years that Obama has been President, is paying off. New Volunteers and Voters are working with their neighbors, some of whom have been around the OfA block from the start.
New Lead Surfaces in Cold “House of Death” Drug-War Case
Posted by Bill Conroy - January 30, 2012 at 9:17 pmMan on the Run From the “Cartel” Claims He Is a Witness to a Murder That Threatens the State
A new voice from the past has emerged in the House of Death mass-murder case — in which a US government informant is accused of assisting with up to a dozen murders, the bodies of the victims later found buried, covered in lime, in the backyard of a house in Juarez, Mexico.
Obama to Native Americans: The cost of access in the age of spying
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 30, 2012 at 8:05 amObama's campaign extracted a million dollars Friday from Native Americans, as the US continued to target American Indians with spying and false intelligence
By Brenda Norrell
While many Native Americans were cold and hungry this winter, President Obama charged $10,000 to $35,000 per ticket for American Indians to attend his political campaign fundraiser on Friday targeting the money of Native Americans. There was another charge of $10,000 to have one's photo taken with Obama.
New COINTELPRO: Same old tactics targeting American Indians
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 28, 2012 at 1:56 amNew COINTELPRO is same old targeting of American Indians and environmental groups
By Brenda Norrell
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Anonymous hacked the files of Stratfor global security firm, revealing that a photo of the 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee was a focus of US spies in November.
Navajo Louise Benally: Arizona's cultural genocide
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 27, 2012 at 8:13 amBy Brenda Norrell
Photo: Louise Benally, Navajo, confronts Salt River Project in Phoenix, during recent protest of the company that operates the Navajo Generating Station coal fired power plant on Navajoland. Photo Resist ALEC.
Banned Books: Tucson Middle School Students Become Heroes
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 26, 2012 at 11:11 pmMiddle School Students, Wakefield's Ninos Heroes, celebrate Mexican American Studies at the university, with talk by Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz
By Brenda Norrell
Photos by Roberto Rodriguez
If Drugs Were Legal, My Friend Would Be Alive Today
Posted by Benjamin Melançon - January 25, 2012 at 4:47 pmIf drugs were legal, my friend Andrew would not have died Sunday night.
This was not my first reaction. My first reaction was unfocused rage (which itself seems to be a coping method when faced with overwhelming sadness).
Arizona: 'Custer' Huppenthal's Last Big Lie over Seized Books
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 18, 2012 at 2:12 am
Tucson schools seizes Native and Chicano books from classrooms
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 17, 2012 at 5:09 pmBy Brenda Norrell
TUCSON -- High school students from the now-forbidden Mexican American Studies classes in Tucson spoke out during Martin Luther King Day here, protesting the school board and state of Arizona's decision to ban their classes and their culture.
Describing the seizure of books from his classrooms, one student said it was an attempt to "take away our power."
"Knowledge is pow
Fast and Furious Is One Among Many Similar Drug-War Warts
Posted by Bill Conroy - January 16, 2012 at 5:02 pmTurf Wars, Agency Budgets and Case Stats Trump Lives in the Era of Prohibition
Ever since ATF’s Fast and Furious gun-running operation was catapulted into the national spotlight in early 2011, the focus has been on the politics influencing the police work and the manipulations behind intelligence operations, with little to no attention paid to the dysfunction of the drug-war bureaucracy.
Simon Ortiz: Shocked at banning of Native books in Arizona
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 16, 2012 at 11:57 amBy Brenda NorrellPhoto: Ethnic Studies students march in honor of Martin Luther King today, Monday, in Tucson, protesting the decision by Tucson schools to forbid Mexican American Studies and ban books by Chicano and Native American authors. Photo Brenda Norrell
Sterilizing Words: Media responsible for collapse in Arizona
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 15, 2012 at 5:25 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Photo by Alex Maldonado/Veterans for Peace: Tohono O'odham veteran protests outside Tucson school board meeting as Mexican American Studies was banned on Tuesday night.
Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 14, 2012 at 11:53 pmNative authors include Leslie Marmon Silko, Buffy Sainte Marie and Winona LaDuke
By Brenda Norrell
Dangerous Navajo power plant emissions documented in EPA interactive map
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 13, 2012 at 4:15 pmNavajo coal-fired power plants, oil and gas industry, poisoning Navajo atmosphere, major source of greenhouse gases
By Brenda NorrellEthnic Studies March: The Warrior Spirit
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 11, 2012 at 12:25 amEthnic Studies march and rally: In the spirit of survival and excellence
By Brenda Norrell
Native Americans rally at federal court to defend San Francisco Peaks
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 9, 2012 at 2:56 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Updated Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 6 pm
Photos: Navajos and other Native Americans gather outside the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco today. Photo Tony Gonzales. Jeneda Benally, Navajo, from Flagstaff, Ariz., speaks at the rally today, Jan. 9, outside federal court. Photo Dixie/Censored News
Project Gunrunner began in 2005 in Texas
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 8, 2012 at 8:15 pmBy Brenda Norrell
There are two documents that Congress, and news reporters covering Project Gunrunner, choose to ignore. The first is the US Attorney General's report stating that Project Gunrunner began in Laredo, Texas, in 2005. The document was published in Wikipedia. Excerpt:
The Untouchables: News in Indian Country
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 3, 2012 at 1:14 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Photo Navajo and Apache children in prison at Bosque Redondo, Fort Sumner, NM.
The most censored issues five years ago remain the most censored issues today. The issues censored by Indian Country Today, 2004-2006, remain censored today by both the mainstream media and the national Native media.
CBS News Poaches Narco News’ Drug War Coverage
Posted by Bill Conroy - January 2, 2012 at 5:34 pmNetwork Producer Also Concedes “Some Bloggers Were Out Ahead of Us” on the Fast and Furious Story But Were Given No Credit
Native America Calling featuring most censored Native American newsmakers
Posted by Brenda Norrell - December 29, 2011 at 2:50 amBy Brenda Norrell
More Fast and Furious — Did DEA Whistleblower Cele Castillo Call it?
Posted by Bill Conroy - December 17, 2011 at 4:16 pmNYC Radio Show Also Explores New Developments in the Alleged Ties Between US Law Enforcers and the Sinaloa “Cartel”
Indigenous Person of the Year: The Indigenous Woman
Posted by Brenda Norrell - December 15, 2011 at 9:19 pmBy Brenda Norrell
The Indigenous Person of the Year, selected by readers of Censored News, is the Indigenous Woman.
De-Occupy O'odham Lands: Free the land! Free the people!
Posted by Brenda Norrell - December 14, 2011 at 3:31 pmDr. Julian Kunnie: Anarchy and Democracy in America
Article and photos by Brenda Norrell
Photo: Author John Zerzan and Ofelia Rivas at De-Occupy O'odham Lands
Tucson Walkers March to ICE to Keep Families Together
Posted by Brenda Norrell - December 14, 2011 at 1:43 pmArticle and photos by Brenda Norrell
Watch video interview with attorney Margo Cowan: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/12/tucson-marchers-petition-ice-to-keep.html
The Billion Dollar Joke Arizona Spy Towers Coming Back
Posted by Brenda Norrell - December 12, 2011 at 9:25 amArticle and photos by Brenda Norrell
Zambada Niebla Case Exposes US Drug War Quid Pro Quo
Posted by Bill Conroy - December 10, 2011 at 3:16 pmProsecutor, DEA Agent Confirm Intel From Sinaloa Mafia Used to Undermine Juarez, Beltran Leyva Drug Organizations
U.S. government officials have long presented the drug war through the media as a type of "Dirty Harry” movie, in which hardscrabble cops are engaged in a pitched battle with hardened street criminals who threaten the very social fabric of life behind America’s gated communities.
