About Brenda Norrell

Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 31 years. She is publisher of Censored News, focusing on Indigenous Peoples, human rights and the US border. Now censored by the mainstream media, she previously was a staff reporter at numerous American Indian newspapers and a stringer for AP, USA Today and others. She lived on the Navajo Nation for 18 years, and then traveled with the Zapatistas. She covered the climate summits in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Cancun, Mexico, in 2010.

Brenda Norrell's Comments

The Art of Authentic Journalism According to Bill Conroy
May 23 2011 - 9:10pm
Chiapas Government Apologizes, Will Set Journalist Gianni Proiettis Free
Dec 25 2010 - 10:58am
Showdown: Will Obama recognize Indian Nation sovereignty and Haudenosaunee passports
Jul 22 2010 - 10:45am
Popcorn and beans, depleted uranium and Raytheon
Jul 6 2010 - 5:52am
Obama Appeases Tea-baggers But Upsets Leftists
Dec 5 2009 - 12:18pm

US Border Patrol in Arizona kills teen in Mexico

 

Derechos Humanos: US Border Patrol terrorizing border

By Brenda Norrell

Photo Remembering migrants in San Xavier on Tohono O'odham land by Brenda Norrell

Homeland Security targets Tohono O'odham land with massive US spy towers

 

Tohono O'odham government kept secret resolution for US spy towers, while O'odham human rights activists battle militarization and Border Patrol abuse

By Brenda Norrell

Photo US spy tower on Tohono O'odham Nation 2007

Leaked docs expose Interior scheme for Navajo water rights in Lame Duck Congress

Leaked documents: Interior Secretary schemes to modify Little Colorado River Settlement and sneak it through Lame Duck Congress

By Brenda Norrell

GAP halts sales of Manifest Destiny t-shirt after Native Americans protest genocide campaign

 

GAP halts sales of Manifest Destiny t-shirts, as Native Americans protest genocide campaign

Article by Brenda Norrell

Protest photo by Chase IronEyes, Last Real Indians

Arizona Border Patrol Agent's Murder Brings Chilling Questions

Photo Nicholas Ivie

Update Monday, Oct. 8, 2012

A new claim that Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie opened fire on the other two Border Patrol agents and was killed in the crossfire. The question remains: Why would Ivie open fire on fellow Border Patrol agents?

Censored: What the mainstream media doesn't want you to know today

 

By Brenda Norrell

Breaking News Update Oct. 4, 2012:

Actress Daryl Hannah arrested with landowner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, in tarsands pipeline protest. This is the same Keystone XL pipeline that Obama came to Oklahoma to promote. The blockade is 50 miles north of Tyler, Texas, north east of Dallas.

Censored from the Texas tarsands blockade to the Arizona and Palestine borders

TransCanada's Keystone pipeline seizing family farms in Texas, as corporate apartheid revealed in Arizona and Palestine

Oct. 4, 2012: 5 pm: Actress Daryl Hannah arrested with landowner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, in tarsands pipeline protest. This is the same Keystone XL pipeline that Obama came to Oklahoma to promote. The blockade is 50 miles north of Tyler, Texas, north east of Dallas.

US Border Patrol scheme exposed for massive complex on sovereign Tohono O'odham land

In a secret scheme, the US Border Patrol plans to expand the militarization of Tohono O'odham land with a new massive complex

Article and photo copyright Brenda Norrell

Photo Angie Ramon at the site where her son was run over and killed by the US Border Patrol.

Lakotas organize to halt new Keystone tarsands route

Lakotas organize teach in's to protect sacred water from Keystone and dirty tarsands oil

By Brenda Norrell

Photo Lakotas blockade tarsands trucks on Pine Ridge. Photo Carlin Red Blanket Sr.

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