Alaska Tribal Coalition fights chemical dispersant oil spill response enforcement

“We Watched Our Friends Die”

Alaska Tribal Coalition Vows to Fight Chemical Dispersant Oil Spill Response Enforcement

Press statement

The words of an Alaskan tribal elder, “We watched our family and friends die,” represent the feelings of many about the use of chemical dispersants in their waters. Thirty plus years after Exxon Valdez and three years after the BP Gulf oil spill, numerous scientific studies consistently reveal long-term, lethal effects of chemical dispersants used in oil spill response[i].  The toxic tolls on human health and sensitive ecosystems continue to mount--yet the use of chemical dispersants is still given preferential treatment by EPA and Coast Guard officials.  

Tohono O’odham and Arizona police stalk human rights activists

Tohono O’odham and Arizona police stalk human rights activists

Facebook, and undercover police in Occupy Movement, stalked activists in Phoenix and Tucson, including Tohono O'odham and Navajos

By Brenda Norrell

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TUCSON -- While the ATF was smuggling AK47s to the cartels in Mexico, violent crime soared, and Tucson schools were closing for lack of funds, Tucson police were spending enormous sums of money stalking human rights activists, according to a new report. 

Tohono O’odham Police assisted Arizona police spying on Tohono O’odham and Navajo activists. For Tohono O’odham police, this is the latest in exposures of how the police department stalks human rights activists in an attempt to oppress and silence them.

Phoenix police used an online police analyst, Brenda Dowhan, to stalk activists on Facebook and social media, according to the report, Dissent or Terrorism, How the Nation’s Counter Terrorism Apparatus, in Partnership with Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.

The year-long study reveals that millions of dollars flowed into Tucson and Phoenix police departments for intelligence gathering.

While violent crime was rampant, police focused on the Occupy Movement, essentially a handful of people camping.

Phoenix police obsessed with Rev. Jesse Jackson 

The absurdity of this police stalking is obvious, as the report exposes the Phoenix Police Department’s obsession when Rev. Jesse Jackson came to town, and joined Occupy Phoenix for a march.

The report reveals that activists, never charged with any crime, were stalked online by Dowhan and other police.

When Occupy campers were given warning citations in Arizona, their home addresses were sent throughout the intelligence community.  When activists traveled to Flagstaff for Christmas, police were spying on them by way of their Facebook accounts.

Saul the infiltrator, busted 

An undercover police officer infiltrated Occupy Phoenix and posed as a “homeless Mexican.” However, Saul Delara’s cover was eventfully blown by a Starbucks barrister who recognized him as a cop. He had claimed to be from Juarez.

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Corporations buy influence, police pepper spray activists 

There is a lengthy report on the protests of ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) in Arizona, Nov. 28 – Dec. 2, 2011, when Native Americans were among those pepper sprayed and an O’odham was hospitalized. The protests focused on how private businesses purchase legislation by way of ALEC. The report reveals how police were hired as off duty security guards.

Among the corporate energy monsters protested by Navajo and O’odham was the Salt River Project in Tempe, Arizona. The Salt River Project is the operator of the dirty coal fired power plant on Navajoland, Navajo Generating Station, fueled by the coal mined on Black Mesa by Peabody Coal. 

SRP provides water and electricity to Arizona’s unsustainable, wasteful cities, while Navajos suffer from the pollution and destruction in northern Arizona.
SRP diverted water from traditional farm lands of O’odham in southern Arizona, halting traditional farming in many areas.
The oppression of O'odham human rights activists is one means that the Tohono O'odham tribal government uses to maintain the corruption, along with the lack of a tribal law ensuring freedom of the press. Tohono O'odham police and US Border Patrol agents stalk and threaten news reporters. Before the media cheerleads for another Tohono O'odham casino, reporters  should actually drive across Tohono O'odham land and see that those casino millions are not going to the O'odham people.

Tucson police buy online robot 
 

The new report describes the extent that Tucson wasted huge amounts of money to stalk human rights activists, including the purchase of a cyber robot to accumulate and process online user data.

Tucson law enforcement purchased OpenMIND that processes vast amounts of information from Facebook and open sources.  OpenMIND uses “customized collection robots’ to collect user data (see page 25.) Tucson police also purchased a Stingray II to track and locate cell phone users.

The report ‘Dissent or Terrorism’ covers the Occupy movement nationwide, from Boston to Portland, Oregon.

'Dissent or Terrorism' Report: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/05/government-surveillance-of-occupy.htmlhttp://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/05/government-surveillance-of-occupy.html

Government Surveillance of Occupy Movement: Year long investigation

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Article update, see:  Tohono O'odham and Arizona police stalk human rights activists
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/05/tohono-oodham-and-arizona-police-stalk.html
 
Tohono O'odham Police, Tucson Police and Homeland Security spied on Tohono O'odham and Navajo activists in Phoenix and Tucson. Native activists were spied on at the protest at Salt River Project and in the Occupy Movements in Phoenix and Tucson (see page 20.) 
A Phoenix police officer, Saul, was placed as an infiltrator in Occupy Phoenix. 
Brenda Dowhan, an analyst for Phoenix police, tracked activists, never charged with a crime, primarily through Facebook and social media.
Dowhan is the "Terrorism Liaison All-Hazards Analyst" at the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC) whose job was to monitor Occupy Phoenix and other activists-- primarily through the monitoring of social media. 
Tohono O'odham Police were among the agencies tracking activists, according to the report: http://www.prwatch.org/files/Dissent%20or%20Terror%20FINAL.pdf



The U.S. counter terrorism apparatus was used to monitor the Occupy Movement nationwide.
Click here to read CMD's special report, based on a year-long investigation.

Government Surveillance of Occupy Movement

 http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Government_Surveillance_of_Occupy_Movement

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Special Report by Center for Media and Democracy and DBA Press

- by Beau Hodai, CMD/DBA
On May 20, 2013, DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy 
released the results of a year-long investigation: "Dissent or Terror:
 How the Nation's Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With 
Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.”

 The report, a distillation of thousands of pages of records obtained
 from counter terrorism/law enforcement agencies, details how
 state/regional "fusion center" personnel monitored the Occupy Wall
 Street movement over the course of 2011 and 2012.
The report also examines how fusion centers and other counter terrorism entities that 
have emerged since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have
 worked to benefit numerous corporations engaged in public-private
 intelligence sharing partnerships. 

While the report examines many instances of fusion center monitoring
 of Occupy activists nationwide, the bulk of the report 
details how counter terrorism personnel engaged in the Arizona Counter
 Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC, commonly known as the "Arizona fusion center") monitored and otherwise surveilled citizens active in
 Occupy Phoenix, and how this surveillance benefited a number of 
corporations and banks that were subjects of Occupy Phoenix protest 
activity.

While small glimpses into the governmental monitoring of the Occupy Wall Street movement have emerged in the past, there has not been any reporting -- until now -- that details the breadth and depth with which the nation's post-September 11, 2001 counter terrorism apparatus has been applied to politically engaged citizens exercising their Constitutionally-protected First Amendment rights.
REPORT Dissent or Terror: How the Nation's 'Counter Terrorism' Apparatus, in Partnership with Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street
REPORT APPENDIX open records materials cited in report.
PRESS RELEASE "New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide"
SOURCE MATERIALS almost 10,000 pages of open records materials are archived on DBA Press.
PRWATCH ARTICLE "Dissent or Terror: How Arizona's Counter Terrorism Apparatus, in Partnership with Corporate Interests, Turned on Occupy Phoenix"

Key Findings

Key findings of this report include:

• How law enforcement agencies active in the Arizona fusion
 center dispatched an undercover officer to infiltrate activist groups
 organizing both protests of the American Legislative Exchange Council 
(ALEC) and the launch of Occupy Phoenix and how the work of this 
undercover officer benefited ALEC and the private corporations that
 were the subjects of these demonstrations.



• How fusion centers, funded in large part by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, expended countless hours and tax dollars in the monitoring of 
Occupy Wall Street and other activist groups.

   

• How the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has financed
 social media "data mining" programs at local law enforcement agencies engaged in fusion centers.



• How counter terrorism government employees applied facial
 recognition technology, drawing from a state database of driver's
 license photos, to photographs found on Facebook in the effort to 
profile citizens believed to be associated with activist groups.

   

• How corporations have become part of the homeland security “information sharing environment” with law enforcement/intelligence agencies through various public-private intelligence sharing partnerships. The report examines multiple instances in which the counter terrorism/homeland security apparatus was used to gather intelligence relating to activists for the benefit of corporate interests that were the subject of protests. 

   

• How private groups and individuals, such as Charles Koch, 
Chase Koch (Charles' son and a Koch Industries executive), Koch 
Industries, and the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council 
have hired off-duty police officers -- sometimes still armed and in
 police uniforms -- to perform the private security functions of keeping
 undesirables (reporters and activists) at bay.

   

• How counter terrorism personnel monitored the protest
 activities of citizens opposed to the indefinite detention language
 contained in National Defense Authorization Act of 2012.

• How the FBI applied "Operation Tripwire," an initiative
 originally intended to apprehend domestic terrorists through the use
 of private sector informants, in their monitoring of Occupy Wall 
Street groups. [Note: this issue was reported on exclusively by DBA/CMD in December, 2012.]

Press

• The Progressive, "Spying on Occupy Activists", Matthew Rothschild

Zapatistas Conference May 22-23, 2013

Adherentes a la Sexta invitan a Jornadas zapatistas en la UPN, 22 y 23 de mayo

Posted at Enlace Zapatista: 

http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2013/05/19/adherentes-a-la-sexta-invitan-a-jornadas-zapatistas-en-la-upn-22-y-23-de-mayo/

Computer translation:

Adherents to the Sixth Conference invites Zapatistas:

The Faceless Collective adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle invites:
Zapatistas Conference at the National Pedagogical University to be held on Wednesday 22 and Thursday May 23, 2013.
Wednesday May 22
Outside the auditorium D
10 hours. Inauguration of photo exhibition daily life of the Zapatista and poster exhibition "Dignity is life, submission is death."
11 to 12 hrs. Music with Leon Chavez Teixeiro and Prófug @ s of Manikomio.
Auditorium D
12 to 14 hrs. Commission Report on the attacks on Zapatista Support Bases Network against Repression and for Solidarity.
16 to 18 hrs. Video projection: Zapatista Autonomy, San Marcos Avilés and Solidarity Caravan Commander Abel community.
Thursday, 23 May
Auditorium D
10-11 hrs. Presentation of issue 20 of the Journal EZLN Contrahistorias History: Roots of Dignity Rebelde.
11 to 13 hrs. Lecture of Dr. Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas "The new phase of the EZLN, proposals and perspectives."
13 to 14 hrs. Mexican folk music group La Mar.
16 to 18 hrs. Screening of short films about the Zapatista Autonomous Education.

El Colectivo Sin Rostro adherente a la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona invita a las:
Jornadas Zapatistas en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional a realizarse los días miércoles 22 y jueves 23 de mayo del 2013.
Miércoles 22 de mayo
Exterior del Auditorio D
10 hrs. Inauguración de Exposición fotográfica sobre la vida cotidiana de los pueblos zapatistas y exposición de carteles “La dignidad es la vida, la sumisión es la muerte.”
11-12 hrs. Música con León Chávez Teixeiro y los Prófug@s del Manikomio.
Auditorio D
12-14 hrs.  Comisión de Informe sobre las agresiones a las Bases de Apoyo Zapatistas de la Red contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad.
16-18 hrs. Proyección de videos: Autonomía Zapatista, San Marcos Avilés y Caravana de Solidaridad con la comunidad Comandante Abel.
Jueves 23 de mayo
Auditorio D
10-11 hrs. Presentación del número 20 de la Revista Contrahistorias Historia del EZLN: Raíces de la Dignidad Rebelde.
11-13 hrs. Conferencia del Dr. Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas “La nueva etapa del EZLN,  propuestas y perspectivas.”
13-14 hrs. Música popular mexicana con el grupo La Mar.
16-18 hrs. Proyección de cortometrajes sobre la Educación Autónoma Zapatista.

Photo: Solidarity Walk against Keystone XL in Rosebud, SD

Over 60 Rosebud Sioux Tribal citizens walked in solidarity in Rosebud to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline. Photo Rosebud Sioux Nation.

Mohawk Nation News 'Dirty Traitors'

DIRTY TRAITORS

Posted on May 20, 2013

MNN. May 20, 2013. Corporatism depends on the dirty traitors, the lowest of the low. Our sell-outs receive financial security, law enforcement and judicial protection from us, the “troublesome Indians”. German author, Gurdjieff, said, “My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.” Ordinary man, “natural man”, the “Indigenous man” is nothing but “a guardian for worms”. Aren’t we all?