Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #landdefenders, aggregated by home.social.
HT @igd_news
" #LandDefenders have re-established a tree sit on the Mexican side of the border in #Lochiel, Arizona / #LaNoria, Sonora, blocking wall construction after #DHS killed the #GrandmotherTree yesterday."
https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/tree-sit-back-up-in-mexico-border
#BorderPatrol #GrandmotherCottonwood #GrandmotherCamp #IndigenousSovereignty #TohonoOodhamNation #LochielAZ #Sonora #DefundDHS #NoBorderwall #Resistance
People protecting nature and land set up self-defence units amid threat of murder https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/16/nature-land-defenders-self-defence-murder-organised-crime #Indigenous #LandProtectors #LandDefenders #violence #murder
124 land defenders killed in 2025. 43% Indigenous. 85% in Latin America. Colombia 39, fourth year running.
Same calendar year: global development aid fell 23%, the steepest drop ever recorded, and Colombia's human rights office let nearly half its staff go.
#HumanRights #ClimateJustice #Indigenous #LandDefenders #News #Journalism #Solidarity https://thistleandmoss.com/p/count-the-motherfuckers-back-a-stolen-election-1-6-million-photographs-and-124-graves#what-did-we-do-to-the-mother-today?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
2,375 Earth and Nature defenders killed since 2012 — and Global Witness prints in every report that its own number is an undercount.
Toby Hill led this year's: 124 dead in 2025, 43% of them Indigenous.
#Journalism #HumanRights #ClimateJustice #Indigenous #LandDefenders #News #Solidarity #Resist #Accountability
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
To donate - [email protected] via PayPal. Link to donations page:
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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
Masked and Armed U.S. #BorderPatrol Agents Threaten #LandDefenders in #Lochiel Again Today
#CensoredNews , August 29, 2026
LOCHIEL, Arizona -- "U.S. Border Patrol Agents swarmed the Tree Sit at Lochiel, threatening land defenders who shut down border wall construction this week in a bi-national and peaceful protest of construction of the border wall east of #NogalesAZ .
"Land Defenders said, 'Another big show of force from masked Border Patrol this morning.'
" 'We are facing extreme harassment, but we remain resilient and committed.'
" 'Camp is ongoing, and we need your support. The tree sit holds strong and will not be intimidated,' land defenders said today, Saturday, as they protect a Grandmother cottonwood tree from destruction for the border wall."
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/masked-and-armed-us-border-patrol.html
Protect Lochiel
"Help us stop them from destroying ancient cottonwood trees and cultural sites at the border"
Support Grandmother Camp:
https://givebutter.com/stop-destruction-in-lochiel-oxsxdp
#USPol #LochielAZ #GrandmotherCamp #GrandmotherTree #CottonwoodTrees #ProtectTheSacred #NoBorderWall #TohonoOodhamNation #NoBorders #TreeSitters #Cottonwoods #Resistance #MutualAid #MurderPatrol #CulturalPreservation
The fight isn't over to #ProtectTheSacred!
"#NDNCollective, a Rapid City-based nonprofit that advocates for #IndigenousRights, is among the lawsuit plaintiffs.
" 'From the #LandDefenders who occupied two active drill pads for a week, to fighting in the courts through multiple lawsuits and a temporary restraining order, today’s win is multi-faceted and offers a blueprint for future #LandDefense fights,' NDN said Friday in a press release.
"Future fights include one scheduled for the week of May 18. The state Board of Minerals and Environment is scheduled to conduct a hearing in Hot Springs on a proposal to conduct exploratory drilling for #uranium in the southern #BlackHills.
"That project would be near #CravenCanyon, where the rock walls are carved with Native American petroglyphs believed to be thousands of years old."
Read more:
https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2026/05/08/company-withdraws-from-controversial-black-hills-exploratory-drilling-project/
#ProtectTheSacred #IndigenousResistance #LakotaYouths
#BlackHillsCleanWaterAlliance
#Indigenous #landdefenders are being killed, and #AI is scraping their knowledge https://ictnews.org/news/indigenous-land-defenders-are-being-killed-and-ai-is-scraping-their-knowledge/
#IndigenousPeoples #Gender #Ecosystems #WaterisLife #CapitalismKills #racism #CorporateGreed
"While neglecting their demands, the government has repeatedly responded to #Indigenous protests against the violation of their land rights with heavy crackdowns. Its repression of communities that resisted the #InteroceanicCorridor has ranged from setting fishermen’s houses on fire in Oaxaca to evicting and arresting Ayuujk indigenous protesters there."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/03/12/we-think-theyll-kill-someone-environmental-defenders-mexico/
https://archive.ph/FNSsB
#Mexico #NativeAmericans #LandDefenders #megaprojects #colonialViolence
《 Ils reprochent en outre à #Québec d’avoir violé sa propre Loi sur l’aménagement durable du territoire forestier en ne consultant pas «les communautés #Autochtones d’une manière distinct» avant de délivrer des permis. 》
https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/environnement/957771/nouvelle-fronde-premieres-nations-contre-forestieres
#PremièresNations #polQC #Indigenous #défenseursDeLaTerre #défenseursDuTerritoire #landDefenders #fôret #forêtQC #industrieForestière
International "development" banks: Your money financed an assassination. A report links your funds to the murder of #BertaCáceres
👉 https://wp.me/pdD3iE-vEG 🐝
+ AVISPA.ORG
#humanrightsdefenders #landdefenders #cop30 #sustainabledevelopment #honduras #climatechange #sustainablefarming #latinamericanart #resistence
‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/26/colombia-amazon-rainforest-cocaine-gold-crime-farc-cattle-cartels #Colombia #AmazonRainforest #RainforestDeforestation #criminals #LandDefenders #crime #Indigenous
Víctor Colindres, a well-known defender of the territory, was killed with a firearm today in his community of San Antonio Sejá in the city of Livingston, Izabal in Guatemala. He participated in numerous rallies against an excessive issuing of mining licenses in the country throughout the year.
Assassinated Amazonian Rubber Tapper Chico Mendes Tried to Save the Rainforest. Meet His Daughter http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/25/chico_mendes #Brazil #Indigenous #murder #assasination #ChicoMendes #AmazonRainforest #LandDefenders #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
"We Need to Be Heard": Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on COP30 Protest https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/21/indigenous_leader_alessandra_korap_munduruku #COP30 #Indigenous #BanFossilFuelLobbyists #MakePollutersPay #LandDefenders #ClimateActionNOW #ClimateChange
‘It’s like arguing with robots’: negotiators on the state of Cop30 talks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/21/cop30-climate-summit-brazil-negotiators-talks-developing-countries #COP30 #BanFossilFuelLobbyists #ClimateActionNOW #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Indigenous #LandDefenders
Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/15/indigenous-lands-must-be-recognised-as-part-of-climate-policy-says-brazilian-minister #COP30 #Brazil #Indigenous #ClimateActionNow #UNDRIP #LandDefenders #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
'Fed up' Mi’kmaw allies to stand shoulder to shoulder for treaty rights rally Saturday
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #MiKmaq #Halifax #NovaScotia #Canada #IndigenousRights #TreatyRights #EnvironmentalJustice #LandDefenders #FedUp
#ClimateAction #The14
https://the-14.com/fed-up-mikmaw-allies-to-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder-for-treaty-rights-rally-saturday/
‘We are willing to fight. We are not scared’: A new resistance to LNG unfolds in northern ‘B.C.’
https://indiginews.com/features/a-new-resistance-to-lng-unfolds-in-northern-b-c/
As construction of the PRGT pipeline begins on Nisg̱a'a lands, their Gitanyow neighbours set up a blockade
#Canada #Ingigenous #Pipeline #Blockaid #BillionaireProfits #ForeignInterests #LandDefenders #ClimateCrisis
‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/13/climate-defenders-mary-lawlor-human-rights #uspoli #UK #Canada #activism #CriminalizingActivists #ClimateChange #LandDefenders #HumanRights #ClimateCrisis #Indigenous
‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/13/climate-defenders-mary-lawlor-human-rights #uspoli #UK #Canada #activism #CriminalizingActivists #ClimateChange #LandDefenders #HumanRights #ClimateCrisis
"Shilpi Chhotray sits down with #NickTilsen—Oglala Lakota land defender and CEO of #NDNCollective—to unpack the meaning of #LandBack, the historic fight for the Black Hills, the release of political prisoner Leonard Peltier, and the deep ties between #IndigenousStruggles and #PalestinianResistance."
https://www.thenation.com/podcast/environment/peoplesclimate-10112025/
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #LandDefenders #decolonialStruggles #environmentalJustice #climateJustice #USpol
New 'Thought Policing' Bill May Let #Rubio Strip #Passports from #USCitizens Over Political Speech | Common Dreams
Stephen Prager
Sep 13, 2025
"#FreeSpeech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State #MarcoRubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech.
"The bill, introduced by Rep. #BrianMast (R-Fla.), will come up for a hearing on Wednesday. According to The Intercept:
:Mast’s new bill claims to target a narrow set of people. One section grants the secretary of state the power to revoke or refuse to issue passports for people who have been convicted—or merely charged—of material support for terrorism...
"The other section sidesteps the legal process entirely. Rather, the secretary of state would be able to deny passports to people whom they determine 'has knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to an organization the Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.'
"Rubio has previously boasted of stripping the visas and green cards from several immigrants based purely on their peaceful expression of #ProPalestine views, describing them as '#Hamas supporters.'
"These include Columbia protest leader #MahmoudKhalil, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) after Rubio voided his green card; and #RumeysaOzturk, the Tufts student whose visa Rubio revoked after she co-wrote an op-ed calling for her school to divest from #Israel.
"Mast—a former soldier for the #IsraelDefenseForces who once stated that babies were 'not innocent Palestinian civilians' — has previously called for 'kicking terrorist sympathizers out of our country,' speaking about the Trump administration’s attempts to deport Khalil, who was never convicted or even charged with support for a terrorist group.
"Critics have argued that the bill has little reason to exist other than to allow the Secretary of State to unilaterally strip passports from people without them actually having been convicted of a crime."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rubio-thought-policing-bill
#ThoughtPolice #Orwellian #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #FreeMahmoud #FreeRumeysa #WaterProtectors #FreePalestine #LandDefenders #SilencingDissent #Fasicsm #Authoritarianism
"You'll be lyin' in the sand, boy, I'll die for my land
Man, real talk
Look, I stand with the warriors
This land is who we are, we can't let you destroy us"
#StandWithStandingRock #WaterIsLife #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors #EnoughIsEnough #Resistance #IndigenousResistance
#LawEnforcement's #SecretSurveillance of Defenders at #ThackerPass, Peehee Mu'huh
#LithiumAmericas of Canada plans huge man camp in Winnemucca
By @bsnorrell.blogspot.com , #CensoredNews, Updated Aug. 12, 2025
"The #BIA and #BLM were part of 10 agencies in a joint #terrorism task force stalking defenders of Peehee Mu-huh, Thacker Pass, new documents reveal. The surveillance intensified when #MyronDewey supported. The Nevada Sheriff said there could be 'another #StandingRock,' and called in a 'spin master' to discredit #WaterProtectors, as he had done at Standing Rock.
"#ProPublica and #NevadaIndependent expose the surveillance. Censored News tracks back on the timeline. Interior Sec. #DebHaaland's BIA was part of the joint terrorism task force targeting the defenders of Peehee Mu-huh."
Original story:
THACKER PASS, Nevada -- "While descendants of the survivors of the massacre of Paiutes at #PeeheeMuhuh struggled to protect the sacred remains from the digging of a lithium mine, owned by Lithium Americas on Canada -- law enforcement had a spider web of surveillance. The law enforcement surveillance of defenders of Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, began before
Myron Dewey was killed, and continued afterwards.
"ProPublica and Nevada Independent expose the spy trail of law enforcement and private security of Lithium Americas. The surveillance web of 10 agencies included the BIA, and a counter-terrorism task force.
"During a meeting in April of 2021, the sheriff met with a spinmaster who linked the resistance to Standing Rock. This was six months before Myron Dewey was killed when a truck driven by a mining
engineer [an employee of #LithiumAmericas] hit Myron head on.
"Myron was well known for his reporting and drone coverage at Standing Rock 2016--2017. Myron was livestreaming the day before he was killed near his home in #YombaNevada, Sept. 26, 2021. Myron was fighting the #USMilitary's expansion of the bombing range on his #Paiute homeland."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/07/law-enforcements-secret-surveillance-of.html
#JusticeForMyronDewey #PoliceState
#SecretSurveillance #ACAB
#IndigenousLand #IndigenousNews
#LandDefenders #StandWithStandingRock
#ProtectPeeHeeMuhuh
#DefendTheSacred #NoLithiumMining
#StopThackerPass #LithiumAmericas
#LithiumAmericasCanada
#LithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ReaderSupportedNews
Law Enforcement's Secret Surveillance of Defenders at #ThackerPass, #PeeheeMuhuh, Exposed by #ProPublica and #NevadaIndependent
#LithiumAmerica of Canada plans huge #ManCamp in #Winnemucca
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Updated July 31, 2025
THACKER PASS, #Nevada -- "While descendants of the survivors of the massacre of #Paiutes at Peehee Mu'huh struggled to protect the sacred remains from the digging of a #LithiumMine, owned by Lithium Americas on Canada -- law enforcement had a spider web of surveillance.
"The law enforcement surveillance of defenders of Peehee Mu'huh, Thacker Pass, began before #MyronDewey was killed, and continued afterwards.
"ProPublica and Nevada Independent expose the spy trail of law enforcement and private security of Lithium Americas. The surveillance web of 10 agencies included the #BIA, and a #CounterTerrorism task force.
"During a meeting in April of 2021, the sheriff met with a spinmaster who linked the resistance to #StandingRock. This was six months before Myron Dewey was killed when a truck driven by a mining
engineer hit Myron head on.
"Myron was well known for his #reporting and #drone coverage at Standing Rock 2016--2017. Myron was livestreaming the day before he was killed near his home in #YombaNevada, Sept. 26, 2021. Myron was fighting the U.S. military's expansion of the bombing range on his #Paiute homeland. The Nevada legislators were pushing hard for the expansion, which Biden signed into law. Myron had also been delivering supplies to Thacker Pass in the months before he was killed."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/07/law-enforcements-secret-surveillance-of.html
#PoliceState #SecretSurveillance #ACAB #IndigenousLand #IndigenousNews #LandDefenders #JusticeForMyronDewey #StandWithStandingRock #ProtectPeeHeeMuhuh #DefendTheSacred #NoLithiumMining #StopThackerPass #LithiumAmericas #LithiumAmericasCanada #LithiumMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ReaderSupportedNews
@cbcnews @british-columbia-cbcnews Canada operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. A message to #MarkCarney.
#cdnpoli #BillC5 #landDefenders #WaterProtectors #IndigenousRights
🌍 Join us on July 17 at 13:00 UTC for a webinar where land defenders share their stories on holistic security!
Register here: https://www.digitaldefenders.org/land-defenders-share-their-experiences-with-holistic-security-and-documenting-digital-attacks/
"They treat us like shit’: Northern #Ontario #FirstNations prepare blockades to fight laws fast-tracking resource extraction." https://ricochet.media/indigenous/they-treat-us-like-shit-northern-ontario-first-nations-prepare-for-blockades-to-protest-laws-fast-tracking-resource-extraction/
#onpoli #cdnpoli #colonialism #settlerColonialism #IndigenousPeoples #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors
Now Showing Online! #BigMountain Film Featured at Tokyo Global Film Festival
By NaBahii Keediniihii, via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com, May 28, 2:33 PM
"Greetings All.
I hope your late Spring is going well.
The ONLY film festival so far that
selected the Big Mountain Film is Tokyo Liff Off Global Film Festival.
Big Mountain feature documentary will end streaming on June 1st which is night time Saturday in the U.S., 5/31.
https://liftoff.network/tokyo-lift-off-film-festival-2025/
Sorry that you have to purchase a Ticket (cost is $12), in order to Vote. GO DOWN TO THE 'FEATURES' Category. Find the title: "BIG MOUNTAIN LEGACY, LAST STORIES OF DÍNEH." More Votes = More Exposure about Big Mountain Legacy!!
Let's hope that other Film Fests judge to select this Big Mountain Legacy film.
What more can I say, this documentary is not about myself. Understand that I am only the MessenJah.
Thank you, again.
Sincerely,
Kat Bahe"
Watch the film trailer
https://vimeo.com/848932137
Big Mountain Legacy Film: SYNOPSIS / Re-enactments / A Dream of a Man
Director: Bahe (Naabaahii) Katenay (Keediniihii), October 2023 (75 minute featured documentary)
Background:
"In the 1970s, Dineh (Navajo) families around Big Mountain were notified that their communities would be uprooted and that they may never see their ancestral homelands ever again. Now 50 years later, less than 20 home sites remain and the once strong #resistance leaders like #PaulineWhitesinger, #HaastinNiizBegay, #JohnKatenay, and #RobertaBlackgoat (#KleeBenally's grandmother) have all passed on.
How should the future remember the legacies of such wise teachers? What gave their community the will to defy U.S.
Congressional Legislations that were nothing but anti-Indian which was forcing them to give up hundreds of years of cultural existence?
The Congress of the United States passed Public Law 93-531 in 1974 and it was signed by the President. It is an Executive Order, a declaration to exterminate, a declaration of war. The justification for this law was to “resolve” a supposed “land-dispute” among the Hopis and Dineh, and the lands were divided.
The 2023 Video Documentary:
The original impetus for resisting the federal mandate was the sacredness of the lands, ancestral ties and natural features which were dwelling places of Deities. The elder interviewees knew the future will not be the same way as they had lived and the same childhood experience. The video put aside much of the effective resistance against the most powerful, #capitalistic country in the world, instead the video presents stories about their ancestors’ teachings. A Dineh ritual existence which was basically daily living, ceremonies and nutrition. An indigenous atmosphere long before the Europeans’ arrival with its brutal conquest. The video narrowly touches on a 400-year history of cultural survival and maintaining identity. And how that history overlaps with so-called modern America.
One grandmother’s story become an intense chapter, and it is about her direct clan ancestry facing near annihilation as one little girl survives which resulted in re-establishing a Clan at Big Mountain.
"This story comes from a massacre site with two mass graves. Then stories about decades of intense state of fear and which lead into the US’s late 1800s war policy of random killing, starvation and captivity. The modern times the 1920s and 30s when these story tellers were born, a different state of fear had re-emerged, and then again at their elderhood in the late 1900s. All the stories in this documentary program are messages for the future because, as these elders have predicted, the lands maybe empty of indigenous culture which once thrived for centuries."
Continue reading at: Sheep Dog Nation Media
https://sheepdognationmediarockswisdom.blogspot.com/
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/now-showing-online-big-mountain-film.html
#BigMountainResistance #Activism
#Dineh #Dineteh #Hopi #JohnMcCain #PeabodyCoal #BigCoal #PeabodyEnergy #Resistance #WaterIsLife #CorporateColonialism #HumanRights #LandDefenders #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #DirectAction #DefendTheSacred #IndigenousAction
3 ways #Trump's #immigration #crackdown could hit #USCitizens
Brittany Gibson, Apr 23, 2025
"#Trump administration officials are suggesting their immigration crackdown could expand to include deporting convicted U.S. citizens and charging anyone — not just immigrants — who criticizes Trump's policies.
"Why it matters: Such moves — described by officials in recent days — would show how U.S. citizens could be impacted by the growing number of tactics President Trump is using to, in his view, improve national security.
"They'd also be certain to ignite new legal battles over how far Trump's team can go in fighting illegal immigration and responding to #dissenters.
"Zoom in: Here are three tactics the administration has teased that legal analysts say would challenge Americans' rights:
1. Sending convicted U.S. citizens to prisons abroad.
This has been floated as a spinoff of Trump's deal with El Salvador, where a high-security prison is holding about 300 U.S. immigration detainees that the administration says are suspected criminals and gang members.
"Homegrowns are next," Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele last week, referring to sending Americans convicted of crimes to serve time in foreign prisons.
"We always have to obey the laws," Trump said, "but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies over the head ... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country."
Trump's suggestion — echoing a similar proposal Bukele made to Secretary of State Marco Rubio in February — drew a storm of criticism from legal advocates, who called it unconstitutional.
2. Putting critics of the administration's policies in jeopardy.
Some officials say U.S. citizens who #criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes, based on the notion that they're aiding terrorists and criminals.
"You have to ask yourself, are they technically aiding and abetting them, because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime," White House senior director for counterterrorism Seb Gorka said in an interview with Newsmax.
Trump's team also has questioned the legality of civic groups providing #immigrants with "#KnowYourRights" trainings on how to respond to federal agents. Border czar Tom Homan suggested that such seminars help people evade law enforcement.
"They're trying to use terrorism laws to attack people for their speech and for their political activism, and that's an authoritarian effort," said Kerri Talbot, co-executive director of the Immigration Hub, an immigration advocacy group.
3. Questioning the authority of court orders.
The administration's resistance to returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia — who was legally in the U.S. with an order not to be deported back to El Salvador, but deported to the prison there anyway — has raised questions about how far Trump's team can go in trying to skirt court orders.
The White House says the decision to return #AbregoGarcia rests with El Salvador because the U.S. Supreme Court told the administration only to "facilitate" his return, not "effectuate" it.
Advocates worry the resulting confusion has laid the groundwork for Trump's team to send a #USCitizen to a foreign prison, then claim that person couldn't be returned.
A federal judge raised this concern in Abrego Garcia's case.
"If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" wrote Judge Harvie Wilkinson III.
"And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?"
What they're saying: Michelle Brané, former executive director of the Biden administration's Family Reunification Task Force, echoed Wilkinson.
"If they can send a noncitizen to a prison in El Salvador without due process ... why would a U.S. citizen be safer?"
The White House didn't respond to a request for comment. But officials have argued that they have an electoral mandate for stricter immigration enforcement, and that opposition to their policies is against the will of voters.
Trump's handling of immigration polls well in public surveys.
But sending immigrants to El Salvador's prison without criminal convictions or due process does not — about 60% were opposed in a recent YouGov survey.
Between the lines: U.S. citizens have been mistakenly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) before, including cases this month in Arizona and Florida.
"People are realizing that this is going to impact all communities," Talbot said, "and that if one citizen can be picked up, then any of us can be picked up and put into proceedings, or labeled a #terrorist, or removed to a foreign prison."
Original article:
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-immigration-crackdown-us-citizens
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/wUUdG
#SilencingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #CriminalizingDissent #USPol #DontQuestionBigBrother #Fascism #Authoritarianism #MemoryHoled #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime #WaterDefenders #LandDefenders #Resisters #HumanRightsDefenders #IhrePapiereBitte #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Nazis #SecretPolice
#Disappeared #USCitizens #ICEDetention
#IllegalDeportations #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Deportations #Disappeared #MemoryHoled #NineteenEightyFour #DoublePlusUngood
#Diné Coalition Opposes #Navajo President's Push for #CoalMining and #Uranium Transport
Dine' Coalition Press Statement, #CensoredNews, April 17, 2025
WINDOW ROCK, Arizona -- "A coalition of grassroots groups released a statement in response to recent announcements and actions by #NavajoNation President #BuuNygren regarding coal development, carbon market deals, and potential new mining projects.
"The coalition will host a Press Conference from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (MDT) on Monday, April 21, 2025, outside the Navajo Nation Council Chambers during the first day of the Navajo Nation Council’s Spring Session. Please bring a folding chair, water, hats, and sunscreen, and dress appropriately for the weather to keep yourself safe and comfortable during the Press Conference.
"Summary of full statement:
● We call on the Navajo Nation President to stop making deals that degrade our land, water, and future.
● We urge tribal leaders not to repeat historical mistakes with respect to uranium extraction: Leave this Nayee’, Łeetso, in the ground. The cleanup and remediation of hundreds of abandoned mines must be completed, prioritizing public health safety and ecosystem health.
● We stand against the transport of uranium ore across the Navajo Nation because it is inconsistent with the intent of the Navajo Radioactive and Related Substances, Equipment, Persons and Materials Transportation Act of 2012, regardless of jurisdictional limits on our highways and roads.
● We steadfastly OPPOSE coal development, which negatively impacts the lands, water, and health of the Navajo people and contributes to #ClimateChange.
● We stand in protection of our water, health, traditional lifeways, Earth bundles (#Jish), and #MotherEarth.
"We call on all Diné #LandDefenders, #WaterProtectors, healers, young leaders, #matriarchs and warriors to stand together at WINDOW ROCK on APRIL 21, 2025. Together, we will make our voices heard and remind our Navajo Nation government that they are entrusted to make decisions that protect our People and protect our sacred homelands.
Statement from Diné Coalition of Grassroots Organizers in response to Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren’s recent statements and actions regarding uranium, carbon markets, coal, and
other harmful extractive processes.
We are a coalition of Diné organizers, land defenders, water protectors, traditional knowledge holders, matriarchs, and young leaders. We are calling on our Diné people to stand united in protecting Mother Earth and our sacred homelands and waterways.
"The Nygren Administration’s recent statements and actions do not reflect the
will of the Diné People, and we call on our Navajo Nation Council to ensure that such actions are not taken in violation of our Free, Prior, and Informed Consent.
"With the Trump administration’s announced intent to ramp up production of 'mission-critical' uranium,
the private energy offenders are again targeting Diné lands with no intention of ensuring public health, safety, or environmental health. Diné land and water protectors understand that energy offenders operate through systematic #racism that does not adhere to
#PinyonPlain uranium mine,
radioactive haul trucks, in #GrandCanyon."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/dine-coalition-opposes-navajo.html
#WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #Dineteh #NukingTheNavajo #Havasupai #UraniumMines #EnvironmentalRacism #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #AirIsLife #UraniumMine #NoMiningWithoutConsent
#DontNukeTheGrandCanyon #DontNukeThePlanet #WeAreTheFuture #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #DontNukeTheFuture #ReaderSupportedNews
On the Frontline of Land Defense in the Amazon in Brazil
"Defending Land Rights in the Amazon in #Brazil. The land defenders say they will remain mobilized until their rights are guaranteed. “We will not leave. We left our homes, we have children, young people and the elderly here. This is to resist."
Read more:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-frontline-of-land-defense-in-amazon.html
#IndigenousNews #IndigenousPeoples #LandDefenders #TheAmazon #IndigenousActivists #Resistance #ReaderSupportedNews #CensoredNews
Defenders in #Appalachia Against #MountainValleyPipeline Avoided #FelonyCharges
"Initially we were charged with #conspiracy. The real conspiracy is between the #prosecutors and the #judges, between the #cops and the #corporations."
By #AppalachiansAgainstPipelines, #CensoredNews, March 3, 2025
"Last Tuesday, 12 pipeline fighters had court in Giles County for charges resulting from three different actions against the Mountain Valley Pipeline in 2023 and 2024 in and around the #JeffersonNationalForest, including one site where #MVP was drilling through the mountain under the #AppalachianTrail.
"Eleven of the defendants accepted non-cooperating plea deals -- all of them were facing absurd felony charges, including
felony abduction and felony 'unauthorized use of a vehicle.' In the end, they plead to misdemeanor charges and there were NO felony convictions. They were sentenced to community service, probation, and to pay restitution. The court room was PACKED all day long with supporters!"
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/defenders-in-appalachia-against.html
#ReaderSupportedNews #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors #MountainProtectors #CriminalizingDissent #SilencingDissent #JeffersonNationalForest #AppalachianTrail #CorporateColonialism #AppalachiansAgainstPipelines #SLAPPs #WaterIsLife #NoPipelines #MountainValleyPipelineLLC #Virginia #WestVirginia #NorthCarolina #ACAB #CorporateGreed #ComplicitGovernment
#MountainValleyPipeline #LandDefenders Appear in Court: Images by Dr. Michelle Cook, #Dine'
via #CensoredNews
GILES COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - "Around twelve people charged in connection to protests of the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline appeared in court Tuesday.
"Dozens of people from Monroe County, #WestVirginia to Roanoke County packed a Giles County district courtroom in support of their friends and neighbors facing charges related to the $8 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline.
"The charges range from misdemeanors to non-violent felonies, all related to #protestors' efforts to halt #pipeline construction or prevent #drilling."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/02/mountain-valley-pipeline-land-defenders.html
#ReaderSupportedNews #LandDefenders #WaterProtectors #MountainProtectors #CriminalizingDissent #SilencingDissent #JeffersonNationalForest #AppalachianTrail #AppalachiansAgainstPipelines #SLAPPs #WaterIsLife #NoPipelines #MountainValleyPipelineLLC #Virginia #WestVirginia #NorthCarolina #CorporateGreed #ComplicitGovernment
Dammit! I hate to say, "I told you so," but I TOLD YOU SO!
#Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’
The group, led by #Blackwater veteran #ErikPrince, has close Trump ties.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/documents-military-contractors-mass-deportations-022648
#ErikPrinceColonialism #SilencingDissent #PrivateArmy #Russia #Spetsnaz #NightWolves #authoritarianism #NoDAPL #PutinsArmy #Fascism #Academi #TripleCanopy #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal #CorporateColonialism #CorporateInterests #WaterIsLife #WaterDefenders #StandWithStandingRock #LandDefenders #BigOilAndGas
