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Honoring the #Movements and People who Inspire us. #Warriors, #Writers and #Dreamers -- A Thread Runs Through Them. #CensoredNews 20th Anniversary.

'Know who you are, and never let anyone take your power from you.'

By #BrendaNorrell, Censored News, August 30, 2026

"We're coming up on our 20th anniversary at Censored News, and we are honoring the warriors, leaders, writers and dreamers who make Censored News possible.

When the Mohawks came for the border summit in 2006 and 2007, it was, as they say in the movie Casablanca, the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Along with the Mohawks, leaders, writers and dreamers through the years became a sort of collective which makes Censored News what it is, a service to #IndigenousPeople and #HumanRights.

We lost many of our best, #Lakota Warrior Woman #DebWhitePlume, our longtime friend #KleeBenally, our French translator #ChristinePrat, and many more. But thanks to those who keep sharing their work, we keep Censored News going. This summer our page views increased by millions, thanks to their labors of love.

Today, we celebrate the movements and people who inspire us, as we celebrate our 20 Year Anniversary at Censored News."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/honoring-movements-and-people-who.html

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#IndigenousNews #ReaderSupportedNews #MicheleCook #OfeliaRivas #FloydWesterman #TohonoOodhamNation #BorderPatrol #Diné #Navajo #IndigenousActivists #LandDefenders #WaterDefenders #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #MniWiconi #Marcos #Mexico #Chiapas #Maori #Aotearoa #IndigenousResistance #NoBorders #LeaveItInTheGround #StandWithStandingRock #StandingRock

Some of my heroes are ghosts... (Word play on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here").

#KarlWallinger #SineadOConnor #KleeBenally #TheRevolutionLivesOn

Some of my heroes are ghosts... (Word play on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here").

#KarlWallinger #SineadOConnor #KleeBenally #TheRevolutionLivesOn

Some of my heroes are ghosts... (Word play on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here").

#KarlWallinger #SineadOConnor #KleeBenally #TheRevolutionLivesOn

Some of my heroes are ghosts... (Word play on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here").

#KarlWallinger #SineadOConnor #KleeBenally #TheRevolutionLivesOn

Some of my heroes are ghosts... (Word play on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here").

#KarlWallinger #SineadOConnor #KleeBenally #TheRevolutionLivesOn

via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com

#NavajoNation Targeted Again for Sacrifice Zone: '#Energy Companies Preying on the People'

#Diné ask: Why is the Navajo Nation allowing energy companies to prey on communities and individuals?

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 23, 2024

"Dine' on the Navajo Nation are now targeted with a push to revitalize dirty coal energy, and a hydropower project that would pump precious water from their aquifer. Dine' question why the Navajo Nation government is allowing energy companies to prey on the communities and individuals.

"#LouiseBenally of #BigMountain [#KleeBenally's aunt] said the bottom line is greed. 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'

"The new stampede of parasitic energy companies to the Navajo Nation comes at the same time that #radioactive #uranium trucks, covered only with tarps, are traveling across the Navajo Nation, from the #GrandCanyon uranium mine to the mill in the #WhiteMesaUte community in Utah.

"At the same time, more than 500 #UraniumMines, and scattered radioactive debris, remain on the Navajo Nation, and was never cleaned up by the U.S. government. Dirty coal mines and power plants left the legacy of death and #ForcedRelocation.

Navajo Council Plans Meeting on Revitalizing Coal Industry

"Citing #Trump's push for new #CoalMining, the #NavajoNationCouncil plans to hold a public hearing on
revitalizing the coal industry.

"The Navajo Nation Council announced the public hearing, stating that on April 8 President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order entitled, 'Reinvigorating America’s #BeautifulCleanCoal Industry
and Amending Executive Order 14241' aimed at reversing past federal policies, to boost the coal industry and to strengthen the country’s national energy security, according to the White House.

"The public hearing is scheduled in Forest Lake Chapter on Friday, May 30. Louise Benally and her family spent their lives battling #PeabodyCoal and resisting forced relocation at Big Mountain on #BlackMesa. She said what Trump is doing is another chapter in the assault on the land and people.

" 'Pl 93-531 is a law created by #BarryGoldwater to target our rights to water and land base to be taken away. He developed that law so, with what Trump is trying to do is no different.'

" 'They want to eat up everything but, don't know that even their lives depend on it too. Poisoning the natural cycle will come back and destroy them too.'

" 'The American political system is not our government as traditional people which is where all our modern day problems come from in the form of an endless greed to keep eating up the earth and the natural resources.'

"Louise questioned Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren's support of Trump and coal mining in Washington, and Nygren's agreement for uranium trucks to cross the Navajo Nation. 'The Navajo Nation government is at a crossroads. Buu has been taken by Trump, and the people he is supposed to be responsible for are in question.'

" 'He has been taken into the bag of greed -- uranium and coal yet, there is no water. We want accountability.' "

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/navajo-nation-targeted-again-for.html

#Diné #Dineh #BuuNygrenSoldOutHisPeople
#WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #EnergyFuels
#Dineteh #NukingTheNavajo
#Havasupai #UraniumMines
#EnvironmentalRacism #WhiteMesaMill #NukingTheNavajo #NukingTheUte #Ute #Paiute #Hopi #BidiiRoots #DineCARE #Havasupai #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #UraniumTransport #RadioactiveDust #RememberKleeBenally #BigCoal #DishonoringTheMemoryOfKleeBenally
#HaulNo #NoMiningWithoutConsent

I'm not feeling very celebratory tonight. Losing #KarlWallinger in 2024 (and #KleeBenally right before 2024 started) kinda made it a year of reflection -- and determination to keep both of their dreams alive, and fight for #MotherEarth. As for 2025 -- well, #Project2025 is making that feel dystopian before the clock strikes midnight. Be safe, be ready, be connected to like-minded others. It's the only way we'll get through these coming #WickedDays...

I'm not feeling very celebratory tonight. Losing #KarlWallinger in 2024 (and #KleeBenally right before 2024 started) kinda made it a year of reflection -- and determination to keep both of their dreams alive, and fight for #MotherEarth. As for 2025 -- well, #Project2025 is making that feel dystopian before the clock strikes midnight. Be safe, be ready, be connected to like-minded others. It's the only way we'll get through these coming #WickedDays...

I'm not feeling very celebratory tonight. Losing #KarlWallinger in 2024 (and #KleeBenally right before 2024 started) kinda made it a year of reflection -- and determination to keep both of their dreams alive, and fight for #MotherEarth. As for 2025 -- well, #Project2025 is making that feel dystopian before the clock strikes midnight. Be safe, be ready, be connected to like-minded others. It's the only way we'll get through these coming #WickedDays...

I'm not feeling very celebratory tonight. Losing #KarlWallinger in 2024 (and #KleeBenally right before 2024 started) kinda made it a year of reflection -- and determination to keep both of their dreams alive, and fight for #MotherEarth. As for 2025 -- well, #Project2025 is making that feel dystopian before the clock strikes midnight. Be safe, be ready, be connected to like-minded others. It's the only way we'll get through these coming #WickedDays...

I'm not feeling very celebratory tonight. Losing #KarlWallinger in 2024 (and #KleeBenally right before 2024 started) kinda made it a year of reflection -- and determination to keep both of their dreams alive, and fight for #MotherEarth. As for 2025 -- well, #Project2025 is making that feel dystopian before the clock strikes midnight. Be safe, be ready, be connected to like-minded others. It's the only way we'll get through these coming #WickedDays...