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ICE’s Corruption, Fraud, Waste, Abuse, Mismanagement, Discrimination, and Retaliation

I reviewed with amusement a story first published by our local newspaper about one of our local resident, insurance agent Mr. Marci Rios and allegedly an active member of our Yuma’s Democratic Party. 

The International Indian Treaty Council and Longest Walk's human right forum

EDWARDSVILLE, Illinois – The International Indian Treaty Council and the Longest Walk focused on human rights as inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples, as the walkers arrived for prayers at Cahokia Mounds and the St. Louis Arch, the gateway to the west.

Less than a year after it began, the Zapatistas and the Other Campaign suspended their campaign against the Jungle Ejido Union (UES in its Spanish initials) and its partner and distributor Cafe La Selva. The Zapatista Good Government Council in La Realidad decided to end the boycott and protests against the coffee companies after UES members withdrew from 24 de Diciembre, the Zapatista community it terrorized for one year and nine months.

The House of Death at 3633 Parsioneros in Ciudad Juarez, located just south of El Paso, Texas, became part of a macabre parade of homes earlier this year when two additional houses in the Mexican border city grabbed headlines due to their similar landscaping features.

Like the Parsioneros house, where 12 bodies were found buried in the backyard, these latest homes also boast backyards that doubled as graveyards.

Two years ago, on May 3-4, 2006, federal, state, and municipal police violently invaded San Salvador Atenco, leaving two people dead and 218 people imprisoned. To date, only a handful of police have been prosecuted for very minor crimes, and many of those convicted have since been exonerated. However, sixteen activists remain imprisoned, some with life sentences.

La Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana se celebra desde 1999 alrededor de todo el mundo, en simultáneo, el primer fin de semana de mayo. Los motivos principales del evento se centran en: hacer evidente la cantidad de consumidores para terminar con la discriminación, la persecución y la criminalización, reclamar por la despenalización de la tenencia para consumo, los usos medicinales y el autocultivo.

Pending the fulfillment of an agreement reached with school authorities on April 15, CCH Vallejo students and their community radio station, Regeneracion Radio, ended a six-day occupation of the CCH Vallejo director's office.

Police from the South Dakota State Police and Charles Mix County Sheriff's Department illegally arrested 40 Yankton peacefully protecting their sovereign land from the construction of a disease-producing large-scale hog farm in the heart of their community, one-half mile from the Yankton Head Start.

While women, children and young men stood in peaceful protest, more than 50 police patrol units arrived and sharpshooters were stationed on a rooftop.

Thanks to everyone for having patience with us as we worked through all the problems that come along when changing to a new system. Now, I'm glad to say that we've worked through the major issues (knock on wood) and are now ready to introduce our copublishers and readers to some new features of the Narcosphere.

All readers will notice the new style to the Narcosphere as well as the improved readability and organization of our content.

Police, Armed Civilians Choked, Threatened to Shoot the Women

Contrary to preliminary reports, six men were detained during the April 27 police invasion of the Cruzton community. However, women from the community faced down police threats and liberated the detainees. The Cruzton community sent the following communique explaining the situation.

Police Previously Promised They Wouldn't Raid the Chiapas Town

By Brenda Norrell

Indigenous Peoples are under assault throughout the Americas, with represssive police actions of Mohawks in Canada, Lakota in South Dakota and Zapatistas in Chiapas.

Mohawks in Tyendinaga are asking for support, following the arrest of five persons defending their land on Friday. Yankton Sioux are also defending their sovereign land from an assault and occupation by South Dakota State Police. Police arrested more than a dozen people protesting a hog farm on Indian land.

I have reviewed with some special interest the rethoric behind the Florida State Legislature attempting to pass a resolution about creating a new personalized vehicle license plate with a Christian Cross and the words "I believe." I consider myself an average 52 year-old retired Mexican-American who spent 30 years working with our government (26 years with the feds and 4 years with the locals as a law enforcement officer). I strongly believe in our Freedom of Speech rights outlined in our U.S.

Yesterday afternoon, without prior notice, the government transferred Zapatista political prisoners Angel Concepción Pérez Gutiérrez and Francisco Pérez Vázquez from the Tacotalpa, Tabasco, prison where they've been incarcerated for almost twelve years to a hospital in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas.

The Other Campaign in Veracruz immediately condemned the transfer as a disappearance because the government did not announce where or why it was transferring the two hunger striking prisoners.

April 25 Update: The Other Campaign in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, reports that "el Lobo," the police squad specializing in prison transfers, arrived last night in the Cereso 5 "Los Llanos" prison. The brutalized prisoners are still isolated from the general prison population, and the arrival of el Lobo reinforces their fears that they will be transferred.

As previously announced, on April 21 two Zapatista political prisoners, Ángel Concepción Pérez Gutiérrez and his father Francisco Pérez Vázquez, went on hunger strike in the Tacotalpa, Tabasco, prison where they're incarcerated. Originally announced as a fast that would last "for three days or as long as necessary," the prisoners sent a letter to Other Campaign adherents on April 22 confirming that they are on hunger strike for an "indefinite period of time."

I was headed to Ciudad Juarez, despite the U.S. State Department warnings urging U.S. citizens to avoid this Mexican border town because it is too dangerous.

In recent months, Juarez has been engulfed in bloodshed due, according to mainstream media reports, to a violent turf war being waged by narco-traffickers. The bloodshed in recent months has been so extreme (some 200-plus murders since the beginning of the year) that Mexican president Felipe Calderon recently deployed hundreds of federal police and military troopers to the city.

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Narco News to hold 8th Anniversary Benefit Party to support The Fund for Authentic Journalism this Friday, April 25th, 2008 from 6 – 9PM at Waid's Haitian Lounge, 1212 Jefferson Street in Seattle, Washington.

For reservations: http://www.authenticjournalism.org

The text of the press release appears below the jump, plus a downloadable copy you can print out.

April 20, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

If elected our next President of this great country of us, what steps would you take to remove the “cancerous tumors” at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement, (ICE) Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other DHS’ agencies?  Of course we, tax-payers know that incidents of corruption, mismanagement, waste, fraud and abuse are not isolated to only one particular agency.  However, under the banner of fighting “terrorism” and “illegal immigration” under our “national security” our U.S. Constitutional and Bill of Rights have been radically “trashed” by our “Imperial Lords” president George W. Bush and Michael Chertoff.

A friendly reminder to Copublsihers to check your email you have registered with us. We've recently sent you an important email regarding the Narcosphere.

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The horror of the genocide in Canada's Indian Residential Schools became public, as the locations of 28 mass graves of Indian children were revealed.

An unknown number of Indian children died in captivity at Indian Residential Schools in Canada.

The murders included children killed in electric chairs. Some of the bodies were incinerated in the school furnaces, while others were buried in mass graves.

Eyewitness Sylvester Greene described how he helped bury a young Inuit boy at the United Church's Edmonton residential school in 1953.

Kumiai (Kumeyaay) in Baja, Mexico, host a reunion with the National Indigenous Congress, in Juntas de Neji, Baja, Mexico, on May 3 and 4, 2008

Invitation from organizers: CONVOCATORIA

Tercera Reunión del CNI Noroeste,
Comunidad Indígena Kumiai de Juntas de Nejí, Baja California, México,
3 y 4 de mayo del 2008.

GREENSBURG, Kansas -- The Longest Walk Northern Route offered a grand feast for the community of Greensburg, Kansas, where a two-mile wide tornado wiped out 95 percent of the town on May 4, 2007.


As Longest Walk cooks, including Marie, Toby and Daniel and others prepared the feast, community members and volunteers shared their stories on the Longest Walk Talk Radio broadcasts throughout the day. It was a day of sharing for the Longest Walk, who used their donated food items to prepare a feast for the community, including Indian tacos, stew, salads, hot dogs and more.

On April 14, 2008, the Washington Post published a news story titled: 'OUT-OF-TOUCH' DEMOCRATS - Obama Reinforcing Stereotypes, Clinton Asserts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic

le/2008/04/13/AR2008041302461.html

On April 14, 2008, the Washington Post published a news story titled: 'OUT-OF-TOUCH' DEMOCRATS - Obama Reinforcing Stereotypes, Clinton Asserts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic

le/2008/04/13/AR2008041302461.html

Federal Aviation Administration records obtained recently by Narco News offer some razor sharp evidence that a fat line of connections in the ongoing cocaine plane mystery leads right back to the nose of the U.S. government.

At the time a Gulfstream II jet, packed with nearly four tons of cocaine, crashed in Mexico’s Yucatan on Sept. 24 of last year, the owners of that jet were Clyde O’Connor and Greg Smith — both pilots who hail from Florida.

SAND CREEK, Colo. – The word "massacre" is too mild for what happened here to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe babies, children, women and men murdered here by the Colorado Militia.

Over the weekend, the Longest Walk came here with respect to offer prayers for the victims of US genocide.

Marty Chase Alone, Oglala, representing the Red Cloud people and a Tiospaye of the Big Road Band, led ceremonies at the Sand Creek Massacre site to release the spirits and wipe the tears.

Chase Alone's relatives were descendants of White Antelope and Yellow Wolf, murdered at Sand Creek. Chase Alone said the ceremonies were held to let the ancestors know that they could go on now.

Before first light on Saturday, April 5, the Longest Walk arrived. Some of the walkers had seen the spirit women dancing and clapping during the women’s walk toward Sand Creek.

I link to news stories from NarcoNews frequently on the Care2 News Network.

But I can't stand campaign spam. Two recent articles by Al Giordano about Colombia, one about the Uribe regime reaching pariah status and the other about Colombia spending aid money on lobbying, would have been perfect if they had only concentrated on the story hooks instead of the candidates.