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Native Americans create authentic websites to counter collapsed media
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 22, 2012 at 1:03 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Native Americans and First Nations -- Mohawk, Navajo, Hopi, O’odham and Lakota -- have created their own news websites, with authentic Native voices and their own photos, videos and articles, to counter the plague of collapsed media.
Indigenous protecting Arctic expose Shell as corporate criminal
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 17, 2012 at 1:49 pmIndigenous launch campaign in London to protect the Arctic and expose Shell as a corporate criminal
Update: Read new report Shell Risking Ruin:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/05/indigenous-peoples-new-report-shell.html
TSA Drug-Running Scandal Betrays Drug War’s Pretense
Posted by Bill Conroy - May 13, 2012 at 12:53 amThe Cost of Bribing US Border and Airport Security Personnel Is Chump Change in the Narco-Trafficking Business
In late April, four current and former Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) employees at Los Angeles International Airport were arrested on charges of allowing a total of some 190 pounds of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine, with an estimated street value approaching $1.8 million, to pass through airport security scanners in five separate “pass-through” incidents.
Arizona book ban leads to new edition of Mohawk poetry book
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 11, 2012 at 10:01 amBy Brenda Norrell
TUCSON -- The banning of award-winning Native American authors by Tucson public schools and the State of Arizona, and the forbidding of Mexican American Studies, has led a publisher to release a new edition of a Mohawk's book of poetry.
The magic came in the mail.
Arizona ignored threat of white supremacist border militia
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 7, 2012 at 8:46 amBy Brenda Norrell
Photo: JT Ready at Occupy Phoenix 2011 (Sara Steffan/Downtown Devil online media)
TUCSON -- Anonymous' Lulzsec hacktivists exposed Arizona police files last summer, revealing white supremacists and border militia were widespread, dangerous and heavily armed in southern Arizona.
Lakota, Navajo, Supai to UN Rapporteur: Halt genocide and eco-cide of the people and earth
Posted by Brenda Norrell - May 2, 2012 at 11:59 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Photo credits: Arizona Forgotten People; South Dakota Vi Waln
Clues Put FBI Informant at the Apex of Fast and Furious Scandal
Posted by Bill Conroy - April 29, 2012 at 1:56 pmUS Weapons “Walked” Into Mexico Under ATF Operation Supplied Firepower for Juarez Bloodbath
A top enforcer for the Sinaloa drug organization and his army of assassins in Juarez, Mexico — responsible for a surge in violence in that city that has led to thousands of deaths in recent years — may well have been supplied hundreds, if not thousands, of weapons through an ill-fated US law-enforcement operation known as Fast and Furious.
Human Rights Defender Kerry Kennedy Detained, Threatened by Mexican Military
Posted by Bill Conroy - April 13, 2012 at 1:55 amRobert F. Kennedy's Daughter Nearly Meets Tragic Fate at Drug-War Checkpoint
A squad of heavily armed Mexican soldiers this past weekend accosted Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, while she and her 14-year-old daughter were traveling in southwestern Mexico to attend Easter Sunday mass.
Navajo government hires firm to push through theft of Navajo Hopi water rights
Posted by Brenda Norrell - April 12, 2012 at 6:01 pmBy Brenda Norrell
The Navajo Nation has hired an aggressive pro-mining firm to push through the theft of Navajo and Hopi water rights for the benefit of non-Indians and corporations in Arizona. The firm was hired over the protests of the Navajo people. The scheme would rob Navajos and Hopis of water rights to the Little Colorado River.
Collapse of journalism magnified in Tuba City
Posted by Brenda Norrell - April 12, 2012 at 12:03 pmCollapse of journalism magnified in Tuba City
Article by Brenda Norrell
Photo by Outta Your Backpack Media: Navajo police guard politicians in Tuba City, Ariz.
Rights of Mother Earth Gatherings, from Bolivia to Kansas
Posted by Brenda Norrell - April 12, 2012 at 11:06 amRights of Mother Earth Gathering at Haskell continues efforts of Bolivia President Evo Morales in Cochabamba
Article by Brenda Norrell
Photo by Loren White, Jr.
The Movement for Peace Marches On Against the Drug War
Posted by Bill Conroy - April 9, 2012 at 11:14 pmThe Goal Is Clear: Peace With Justice and Dignity
The one-year anniversary of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a grassroots groundswell against the drug war, played out March 28 in a small plaza in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City — absent the cameras and pens of the mainstream media.
Navajos and Hopis protest Kyl and McCain water theft scheme
Posted by Brenda Norrell - April 5, 2012 at 2:41 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Photo by Outta Your Backpack Media
Media in Indian country responsible for border rights abuses
Posted by Brenda Norrell - March 31, 2012 at 2:24 amBy Brenda Norrell
Photo of officer approaching to arrest Ofelia Rivas, O'odham human rights activist and founder of O'odham VOICE against the WALL. Photo Ofelia Rivas published with permission.
The Reality of the millions of Trayvon Martin
Posted by Miguel Contreras - March 28, 2012 at 6:52 amYuma, AZ - having been a city police officer in the late 1970's in Lansing Michigan and 30 years as a federal law enforcement, few years in Detroit, Michigan I would like to offer my own opinion on this brutal murder of Travon Martin by a "wanted be police officer" George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunter commander authorized to carrie a pistol, and make arrests.
Defending Native water rights: A call to honor
Posted by Brenda Norrell - March 25, 2012 at 10:39 pm
By Brenda Norrell
TUCSON -- Lakota Debra White Plume joined Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz, O’odham Ofelia Rivas, Dr. Karletta Chief, hydrologist and other Native Americans speaking on the preciousness of water, climate change and the destruction of Mother Earth at the Native Nations Water Rights Symposium hosted by Red Ink magazine on Saturday.
Obama isolates dissent in Cushing, Oklahoma
Posted by Brenda Norrell - March 22, 2012 at 11:13 pmObama's coyote shift: Promoting Keystone XL in Cushing, Oklahoma
By Brenda Norrell
Photos by Charity Chapman and Justin Hayden
Native Americans protest Obama pipeline support in Oklahoma
Posted by Brenda Norrell - March 21, 2012 at 11:17 pmNative American say they are being forced to protest in a cage
By Brenda Norrell
Photo: Marty Cobenais, Red Lake Ojibwe, arrested at the White House protesting Keystone XL pipeline. Photo Shadia Fayne Wood.
Navajo Louise Benally at Occupy Midwest: 'No' to Peabody Coal and Indian water rights theft
Posted by Brenda Norrell - March 18, 2012 at 1:57 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Photo: Louise Benally during recent protest of Navajo Generating Station and Salt River Project in Phoenix. Photo Resist ALEC.
Bin Laden is the Second Coming
Posted by Dennes Longoria - March 13, 2012 at 5:43 amAmerica had been attacked previous to 9/11 but somehow we always got over it. After 9/11 our whole world was turned upside down and now we’re the hunted and not the hunters. We have to be careful of what we do, or what we say, We have to be nice to everybody or they might turn into the next 9/11. We’re forever looking over our shoulder and we sacrificed our freedom for security. We’d rather be safe and robotic than free but having to walk in a zig-zag fashion so bullets from a sniper won’t hit us.
Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year
Posted by Bill Conroy - March 10, 2012 at 8:01 pmHowever, Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn’t Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs
The number of people murdered in the drug war inside the United States between 2006 and 2010 exceeds the US-troop death toll in the Iraq War since it was launched in 2003, according to a Narco News analysis of FBI crime statistics.
Five Lakotas arrested at blockade of tarsands megaloads
Posted by Brenda Norrell - March 6, 2012 at 3:26 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Photo: Debra White Plume, on far left, blocking tarsands trucks. Photo by Andrew Iron Shell.
Lakotas arrested halting pipeline trucks
Posted by Brenda Norrell - March 5, 2012 at 7:05 pmArticle by Brenda NorrellPhoto 1 by Andrew Iron Shell. Photo 2: Courtesy photo.
PINE RIDGE, S.D.Tucson protesters lockdown at G4S border profiteers
Posted by Brenda Norrell - March 1, 2012 at 12:20 pmBy Brenda Norrell
Photo: After protesters blocked the entrance to G4S, workers of G4S removed their own fence to let the buses out.The Stratfor Files: Flawed global intelligence, the rotten root of war
Posted by Brenda Norrell - February 28, 2012 at 7:02 am
By Brenda NorrellPhoto: Cochabamba climate summit by Ben Powless, Mohawk
The Stratfor e-mails exposed by Anonymous and Wikileaks reveal the rotten root of global intelligence: Flawed global intelligence by a profiteering private security company that fuels global divisions and wars with misinformation.
People of California v. Cole Joseph Dotson
Posted by Miguel Contreras - February 22, 2012 at 10:54 amPeople of the State of California v. Cole Joseph Dotson
Heber, CA, a small town situated between Calexico, CA and El Centro, CA; it’s a town not very hard to remember, as I did two tours of duty with the U.S. Customs Service’s Offices of Investigations and Internal Affairs.
The car came speeding out of the Imperial County desert night, and Cynthia Cruz watched as it hurtled toward the intersection just a few hundred feet ahead of her.
“Oh, my God. It’s not going to stop!” she said.
PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA v. COLE JOSEPH DOTSON
Posted by Miguel Contreras - February 22, 2012 at 10:33 amPeople of the State of California v. Cole Joseph Dotson
Heber, CA, a small town situated between Calexico, CA and El Centro, CA; it’s a town not very hard to remember, as I did two tours of duty with the U.S. Customs Service’s Offices of Investigations and Internal Affairs.
The car came speeding out of the Imperial County desert night, and Cynthia Cruz watched as it hurtled toward the intersection just a few hundred feet ahead of her.
“Oh, my God. It’s not going to stop!” she said.
US Troops May Now Be Coping with Fast and Furious Fallout
Posted by Bill Conroy - February 20, 2012 at 6:30 pmReported US Military Ramp-up on the Border Follows Years of ATF-Sanctioned Gun Running
U.S. troops deployed to the US/Mexican border last week may well be there, in part, to deal with the blowback from ATF's botched Fast and Furious gambit.
Hacked e-mails reveal Mexico manipulating climate change facts, destroying Indian sacred lands
Posted by Brenda Norrell - February 17, 2012 at 1:15 pmHacked e-mails reveal Mexico manipulating climate change facts, destroying Indian sacred lands
By Brenda Norrell
Arizona Senators water rights theft would be 'death sentence' for Navajos
Posted by Brenda Norrell - February 17, 2012 at 12:49 amBy Brenda Norrell
Photo Sierra Club
Updated Friday, Feb. 17, 2012: Grassroots Navajos go to court to stop Peabody on Black Mesa
