Celebrating Native Women's Voices on International Women's Day

Buffy Sainte Marie, Sarah James, Joye Braun and Amalia Astorga.

Celebrating Native Women's Voices on International Women's Day

By Brenda Norrell

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On International Women's Day, we celebrate the writers, photographers and voices of the women who have made a difference at Censored News. We begin with Margene Bullcreek, Goshute Shoshone, who passed to the Spirit World on March

Zapatistas Bulletin Board: Events March -- August, 2015

Photo: Zapatistas with Tohono O'odham in Sonora
by Brenda Norrell, Censored News


On the Bulletin Board

The Concierge

ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION.

March 2015.

Early morning in reality.

Just here, as usual: watching and listening. The crack in the wall is barely visible from the other side. On our side it expands with persistence.

In the classrooms and in the huts of the

Video: Margene Bullcreek and Native Icons of the Environmental Movement

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Originally posted on April 6, 2010, it is reposted today in Memory of Margene Bullcreek
Margene Bullcreek, Goshute, points out Indian Nations continue to be targeted with nuclear waste dumping. �We�ve been targeted with environmental racism and genocide long enough.�

Video by Seventh Generation Fund
Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News
Listen and watch the Native American

Authentic Journalism: The Toughest Job of Narco News

Thank you to Narco News for 15 years of the toughest unpaid job in America




By Brenda Norrell

Censored News



For journalists, there are few jobs that require more courage than reporting on the so-called drug war in Mexico. Journalists in Mexico are continually murdered and disappeared as the United States� ATF (Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) is exposed running assault weapons to the

Grand Canyon Tram Scam: Notes on NBC News Story

Grand Canyon Tram Scam: Notes on NBC News� story


Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma: "These landscapes and the canyon and the confluence today are still very, very important to the Hopi people and we'll never let that go. We're not going to give up on being good stewards of these lands. Never."






by Roger Clark, Grand Canyon Program Director

Photo credit Kristen M. Caldon

Navajo President

Behind the Story: FBI repression of anti-fossil fuel activists

Letter to Censored News



Hi Brenda,
"My name is Sasha, and I am a co-founding moderator of the EF! Newswire.
Last month I published a story through the Defending Dissent Foundation about state repression of anti-fossil fuel activists in Cascadia:

http://www.defendingdissent.org/now/news/why-is-the-fbi-harassing-activists-in-cascadia/
The story was immediately posted in The Ecologist,

Why Is The FBI Harassing Activists in Cascadia?

Why Is The FBI Harassing Activists In Cascadia?







Thanks to Defending Dissent Foundation and Earth First! Journal for permission for Censored News to publish this original work!

Dissent News Wire

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Alexander Reid Ross , January 5, 2015, In : Analysis & Opinion



Editor�s note: this story has recently been picked up by The Statesman and AP� but you heard about it here first!

'Stand Strong Against Racism' Rapid City Feb. 10, 2015

Censored News: Rapid City Journal victimizing victims:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/02/rapid-city-journal-victimizing-victims.html

Rapid City Journal Victimizing Victims with Bordertown Racism

Rapid City Journal's bordertown racism exposed after Lakota students attacked at hockey game

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS
Feb. 1, 2015
Updated Feb. 2, 3 and 4, 2015

The Rapid City Journal has victimized Lakota students after these students were assaulted at a hockey game in Rapid City, South Dakota.

The students and staff from American Horse School

Leonard Peltier's Written Statement to Boarding School Tribunal

BOARDING SCHOOL STATEMENT BY LEONARD PELTIER TO BE READ INTO THE RECORD SPECIFICALLY FOR THE BLUE SKIES FOUNDATION TRIBUNAL HELD IN ONEIDA WISCONSIN ON OCTOBER 22-25th 2014



By Leonard Peltier


Censored News

Dutch translation by Alice Holemans

French translation by Christine Prat





In the fall of 1953 I was living with my widowed Grand mother Mary Dubois Peltier (originally from

Velocity of Movement: Civil Rights Movement, American Indian Movement and the Zapatistas

Velocity of Movement: Civil Rights Movement, American Indian Movement and the Zapatistas




By Brenda Norrell

Censored News
Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS



The Civil Rights Movement and the American Indian Movement had this in common: They survived the attempts by the US government's COINTELPRO and other secret ops to eradicate them. They survived the attempts by the media to

VIDEO: Northern Paiute Wesley Dick: Traditional Tule Violations Dismissed

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Thank you to Northern Paiute Wesley Dick for sharing his story of winning his federal case of traditional tule gathering for ancestral crafts.
On the Longest Walk northern route, the Earthcycles/Censored News Long Talk Radio, interviewed Wesley, descendant of Wovoka's family, at home in 2008.
Now, with Wesley's creation of this new video, he shares this struggle. Wesley said of winning

Yaqui Water Rights Defenders Imprisoned

Yaqui water rights spokesmen imprisoned, as Mexico steals Rio Yaqui water

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English and Dutch

Yaqui water rights defenders battling the theft of their water by the Mexican government have been imprisoned. The National Indigenous Congress, Zapatistas, and Amnesty International have demanded the release of the Yaqui spokesmen for the Traditional Authority in Vicam,

Border Drones are Big Flop, audit says

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English and Dutch

TUCSON -- The border drones are a big flop, says a new audit. As homeless children sleep on the streets of America on freezing nights, the US is spending millions on worthless drones and spy towers that do not work. But that doesn't discourage the United States government from wasting more money, now billions, on drones and spy towers for the

UK 'Royal Family' linked to pedophile ring as Anonymous exposes elite

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English and Dutch

The media in the United Kingdom is exposing the alleged involvement of members and staff of the so-called Royal Family in an international pedophile ring for the elite, which involved raping and murdering minors.

Anonymous, on Twitter, began exposing the pedophiles weeks ago, in the operation #OpDeathEaters online.

In recent years, the roles

Zapatistas attacked enroute home from Resistance Conference

Breaking news Monday, Jan. 5, 2015


By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

National Indigenous Congress delegates now enroute home from the Zapatistas gathering have been attacked by police and paramilitary. The trucks and buses attacked are transporting Yaqui and other leaders from northern Mexico.
Indigenous enroute to Puebla and Mexico City were also attacked late Sunday, Jan
4, 2015.
The Global

McCain's new mode of genocide: Theft of Apache sacred land for copper mining

Photo by Sandra Rambler, San Carlos Apache"We need the water for our beloved children and grandchildren and all those who are yet to be born."

Once again, John McCain is the darling of the coyotes and snakes





By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Sen. John McCain's new mode of genocide is no where more obvious than in the slick theft of Apache sacred lands for the benefit of a foreign

Failure of Indian country news is crime against humanity

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

It should be considered a crime against humanity for salaried reporters, supposedly covering national Indian news, to stay home and plagiarize instead of being present in DC.

Those reporters are failing as watchdogs to prevent the theft of Indian water rights, and Indian land rights. Real reporters in Indian country could do a great deal to protect land and

Bolivia's Nuclear Power Plant is Disturbing News to Native Americans

Native Americans alarmed by Bolivia President Evo Morales announcement of building a nuclear power plant

By Brenda Norrell



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Dutch
French

The announcement by Bolivia President Evo Morales that Bolivia would build a nuclear power plant came as troubling news to those who attended the Climate Change and Protection of Mother Earth Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2010.

Ethics concerns over 'Native American Encyclopedia'

Ethics and copyright concerns over 'Native American Encyclopedia' online

Letter to the Editor


Ethics concerns over
Native American Encyclopedia

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I'm hoping you might be able to help.

I have some serious concerns about a web site called "Native American Encyclopedia" (NAE) http://nativeamericanencyclopedia.com/

1. It is pulling in an increasing amount of visitors who are