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9/7/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Special Rapporteur reports on San Francisco Peaks to UN Human Rights Council
9/7/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Special Rapporteur reports on San Francisco Peaks to UN Human Rights Council By Brenda Norrell 
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council stating alleged human rights violations of indigenous peoples around the world. In the US, the report includes the plan to violate sacred San Francisco Peaks with snow made from wastewater. The report also includes the case of imprisoned Leonard Peltier and the protection of sacred Sogorea Te (Glen Cove in Calif.) The international cases of human rights abuses include the Wixarika (Huicholes) in Mexico struggling to protect their sacred lands from mining, along with cases from indigenous peoples in Guatemala, Chile, Israel, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Malaysia and Thailand, in Anaya’s Aug. 22 report.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Water
Tagged Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Glen Cove, Hopi, Indigenous peoples, James Anaya, Leonard Peltier, navajo, protection of sacred sites, reclaimed wastewater, sacred mountain, San Francisco Peaks, Snowbowl, Special Rapporteur, UN Human Rights Council, violation religious freedom, wastewater
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9/7/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Rigoberta Menchu and Nobel Peace Laureates: Halt tar sands
9/7/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Rigoberta Menchu and Nobel Peace Laureates: Halt tar sands: Nobel Peace Laureates Dalai Lama, Rigoberta Menchu and Desmund Tutu among nine urging: Halt tar sands by Brenda Norrell: 
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Laureates Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala and Archbishop Desmund Tutu of South Africa, joined six other Nobel Peace Laureates urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, an environmental disaster in the making.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability
Tagged Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Alberta, Archbishop Desmund tutu, Betty Williams, Canada, Censored News, Dalai Lama, gulf coast, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Indigenous Environmental Network, Jody Williams, Jose Ramos-Horta, Keystone XL pipeline, Naomi Klein, Nobel Peace Laureates, oil pipeline, President Obama, Rigoberta Menchu, Shirin Ebadi, Tar Sands, Texas, White House
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9/9/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Peru: New Indigenous Law as Wikileaks Exposes US Spying and Paranoia
9/9/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Peru: New Indigenous Law as Wikileaks Exposes US Spying and Paranoia – Peru passes new indigenous law, as an unredacted cable released by Wikileaks reveals US spying and US paranoia in Peru By Brenda Norrell: 
Photo by Sofia Jarrin: Miguel Palacin Quispe, Coordinador, CAO, on left. Peru’s new indigenous law will ensure “free, prior and informed consent,” as stated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The law was signed this week by Peru’s president as Wikileaks published unredacted versions of US diplomatic cables. Those cables reveal the US spying on Indigenous activists in Peru and that the US feared Indigenous Peoples reclaiming their lands and halting mining. ... Read More
9/8/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Wikileaks: US feared Indigenous self-rule and land claims with UN Declaration
9/8/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Wikileaks: US feared Indigenous self-rule and land claims with UN Declaration: The United States feared, and fought, passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples By Brenda Norrell 
Photo by Michelle Cook, Navajo/Cochabamba, Bolivia, Climate Conference 2010 Wikileaks has exposed a US diplomatic cable revealing why the United States feared, and fought, the passage and implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The US reveals in this cable that its fears Indigenous Peoples will use the UN Declaration to expand self-government, sovereign rule, and initiate new land claims to ancestral lands. Further, the US is alarmed over the potential for Indigenous Peoples gaining control of renewable and non-renewable resources.... Read More
Posted in cancer, Climate Change, coal mining, drought, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, Water, water rights
Tagged Bolivia, Brenda Norrell, Canada, Censored News, Climate conference 2010, land claims, President Evo Morales, self-rule, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Un General Assembly, US Ambassador Phillip Goldberg, US feared Indigenous self-rule and land claims, Wikileaks
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8/27/2011 CENSORED NEWS: New Wikileaks: Forced Exiles of Native Americans and Palestinians
8/27/2011 CENSORED NEWS: New Wikileaks: Forced Exiles of Native Americans and Palestinians: While the US media censored the truth, the world was watching By Brenda Norrell: The release of thousands of Wikileaks cables includes the comparison of how the colonial United States government forcibly drove Native Americans from their homes, while Israel forcibly expels Palestinians from their homes. The new Wikileaks cables reveal that while the US media was censoring the truth, the world was watching. In a diplomatic cable from the US Embassy in Kuwait released Friday, dated June 21, 2004, the US Embassy in Kuwait provides this quote from the media:... Read More
Posted in coal mining, government accountability, Navajo Generating Station, Peabody Coal Company
Tagged Big Mountain, Black Mesa, Bosque Redondo, Censored News, coal mining, forced exile of Native Americans, forced relocation, Indian Country Today, Iraq, Isreal, Kuwait, Louise Benally, navajo, Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, New Wikileaks, Palestinians, turkey, US Calvary, US Embassy in Kuwait, US govenrment, Wikileaks
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8/27/2011 CENSORED NEWS New Wikileaks: UN: China scolded US treatment of Native Americans
8/27/2011 CENSORED NEWS New Wikileaks: UN: China scolded US treatment of Native Americans: US human rights abuses exposed by world leaders at the UN, previously censored, are revealed in new Wikileaks cable By Brenda Norrell: 
A new Wikileaks cable provides the scope of US human rights abuses in testimony by world leaders before the United Nations in 2007. Much of the information was censored by the US media at the time. World leaders described the human rights abuses of the United States, including secret torture centers, targeted assassinations, “people hunting” on the Mexican border and the use of biological weapons in Vietnam. China described the racism and xenophobia on the rise in the United States and the US violations of the rights of Native Americans and ethnic groups.... Read More
8/22/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Hopi file lawsuit over recycled wastewater on San Francisco Peaks
8/22/2011 CENSORED NEWS: Hopi File Lawsuit over Sewage Effluent Contract By Hopi Tribe: The Hopi Tribe Initiates Litigation against the City of Flagstaff to Enjoin the Illegal Contract for the Sale of Reclaimed Wastewater to the Snowbowl. KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. – On Friday, August 19, 2011, the Hopi Tribe filed a lawsuit against the City of Flagstaff in Arizona Superior Court in Coconino County challenging the City’s decision in September 2010 not to amend or cancel the contract for the sale of reclaimed wastewater to the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort (“Snowbowl”) for snowmaking.... Read More
8/14/2011 CENSORED NEWS: New at Censored News: Snowbowl, Mohawk Nation Youth Riots, Fracking
8/14/2011 CENSORED NEWS News at Censored NewsSpecial thanks goes out to the courageous ones who continue to risk their lives for truth and justice, and the Native American youths providing breaking news with cellphones, cameras and video. Here are the breaking news stories from Censored News: Photos: Klee Benally locks down to Snowbowl equipment Photos by Youths of the Peaks as the events unfold, with Klee Benally chained to Snowbowl excavator and two arrests, Peaks police liaison Rudy Preston and author Mary Sojourner. Native American youths in action providing instant coverage, sending photos by cellphone to Censored News: ... Read More
CENSORED NEWS: Arizona Daily Sun’s pitiful explanation for censorship
CENSORED NEWS: Arizona Daily Sun’s pitiful explanation for censorship By Brenda Norrell: Today, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff makes a pitiful explanation for its censorship of news coverage of the protests of Protect the Peaks and the 19 arrests in the past nine days. First the Arizona Daily Sun whines about not having enough reporters, but of course the reporters they do have are out covering other stories. Then, the Arizona Daily Sun attempts to defame Native Americans struggling to protect their sacred San Francisco Peaks, and insults them.... Read More
8/12/2011 EPA allows Chevron access to sensitive data on Navajo Nation – Chevron gains access to sensitive data on Navajo soil and water
8/12/2011 CENSORED NEWS: EPA allows Chevron access to sensitive data on Navajo Nation – Chevron gains access to sensitive data on Navajo soil and water: 
By Brenda Norrell: MARIANO LAKE, N.M. — The US EPA is allowing Chevron USA Inc., access to sensitive data on the Navajo Nation, by allowing Chevron to investigate uranium contamination. Chevron is one of the world’s primary exploiters and spoilers of Indigenous lands. Navajo President Ben Shelly, however, said allowing Chevron to carry out the investigation on the Navajo Nation is a good thing. President Shelly said, “On behalf of the communities in and around Mariano Lake, I extend my sincere appreciation for the agreement today between the U.S. EPA and Chevron. I look forward to the data that will be generated in this investigation, and I respectfully request U.S. EPA to understand our desires for the most protective clean up plans that will help restore harmony in our communities and homes.”... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, radioactive waste, skyline mine, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water
Tagged Censored News, Chevron, contamination, EOA allows Chevron access to sensitive data on Navajo Nation, Mariano Lake mine, Navajo Nation, President Shelly, radium-contaminated soil, sensitive data, uranium mining, US EPA, USA
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