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#Punkrock’s rebellious anger aimed at the forces of #economic and #political #oppression and its #lofi, #DIY aesthetic are among the reasons the genre took hold with some #Indigenous musicians. It’s a connection that continues to resonate with both players and audiences. Kristen Martinez (#Yaqui and #Mexican) is both a #punk performer and a graduate student researching the #history of the Indigenous contributions to the legacy of punk, one short, loud, and angry song at a time.
Ok so season 3 of “#DarkWinds” has arrived. One of my favorite #tv shows. It features a lot of #Diné/#Navajo language, and the season premiere had some #Yaqui and #Mixtec as well. Lots of work for the subtitlers right? Well not really. They’re content to write “[speaking Mixtec]”. Not enough money to transliterate, let alone translate. Some characters are diglossic so they’re using two languages in the same sentence like “No way that [speaks Diné] ever stood a chance”. I hate it.
'The Death Trap' Dangerous Jet #CombatTraining Dramatically Increases Over #TohonoOodham Nation
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 17, 2024
SELLS, Arizona -- "The #USMilitary has dramatically increased its dangerous jet combat fighting over the heart of the Tohono O'odham Nation, with combat jets, a private #corporation and a plane labeled as "the death trap," due to safety violations.
"Tohono O'odham who live below say the #SonicBlasts are breaking the plaster in their traditional homes. Dangerous flares endanger all life below, including the #EndangeredSpecies of #SonoranPronghorn and more. With the risk of deadly crashes, Tohono O'odham are at risk below, including those in the community of #Pisinemo this week.
"The U.S. Air Force now plans to expand its dangerous use of the #airspace over Tohono O'odham, #Apache and #Yaqui communities in #Arizona. #SacredPlaces including #BaboquivariPeak on the Tohono O'odham Nation are among those at risk.
"The enormous #Goldwater#ange -- 1.9 million acres in the #SonoranDesert west of the Tohono O'odham Nation -- was set aside for U.S. military training, yet the military is consistently using Tohono O'odham Nation airspace.
The #USAirForce wants to authorize more #supersonic blasts training at lower altitudes. The dangerous expansion includes airspace over #NativeAmericanNations, and scenic regions of Arizona and western #NewMexico."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-death-trap-dangerous-jet-combat.html
bsnorrell.blogspot.com'The Death Trap' Dangerous Jet Combat Training Dramatically Increases Over Tohono O'odham NationCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
In other news... WTF!
Dangerous Low Flying Jets Target More #Tohono #Oodham, #Apache and #Yaqui Communities
via #CensoredNews, Oct 5, 2024
Wild Earth Guardians:
"The Threat: The U.S. Air Force is proposing low-level fighter jet maneuvers and supersonic flights over White Mountains, Organ Pipe Cactus National Park, and more. It will affect the Tohono O’odham Nation, #WhiteMountain and #SanCarlosApache Nations, and #PascuaYaqui Tribe.
Wilderness and Sacred Places at Risk
The Wilderness areas at risk include the Gila and Blue Range Wildernesses in New Mexico, plus the following Wildernesses in Arizona: Superstition, Salt River Canyon, White Canyon, Needles Eye, Aravaipa Canyon, Galiuro, Santa Teresa, Fishhooks, Bear Wallow, Escudilla, Mount Baldy, Chiracahua, Arrastra Mountains, Tres Alamos, Rawhide Mountains, Harcuvar Mountains, Swansea, East Cactus Plain, Harquahala Mountains, Aubrey Peak, Upper Burro Creek, Hummingbird Springs, Organ Pipe Cactus, Cabeza Prieta, Coyote Mountains, Big Horn Mountains, Baboquivari Peak, and Pajarita Wildernesses. In addition to these 30 designated Wildernesses, this proposal also threatens the Blue Range Primitive Area as well as many Wilderness Study Areas.
Eighteen of these Wildernesses were designated by the 1990 Arizona Desert Wilderness Act, which unfortunately contained a bad special provision that allows military overflights. But that doesn’t mean the proposed action won’t damage those Wildernesses, nor does that 1990 law give the Air Force a free pass to damage the other Wildernesses.
"The Air Force wants to make changes to 10 #MilitaryOperationAreas (#MOAs) to enhance its airspace training capabilities. Specifically, the Air Force wants to lower the altitudes of existing MOAs to support low-altitude training (in some cases, as low as 500 feet above the ground, and in one case, The U.S. Air Force has released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that proposes a massive increase in low-level jet training flights in more than 1.2 million acres of designated Wilderness in Arizona and New Mexico. Such activity would shatter the area’s natural sounds, ruin the wilderness experience for visitors, and stress native wildlife.
"Your help is needed by October 9 to tell the Air Force to keep low-altitude jets, sonic booms, and supersonic flights out of these Wildernesses (link below).
"The Air Force also wants to authorize supersonic training at lower altitudes in more MOAs, lower the minimum release altitude for flares, and authorize use of chaff bundles containing up to 5 million #aluminum-coated silica fibers, which are used to obscure radar, and are designed to stay airborne as long as possible before they settle to the ground."
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/dangerous-low-flying-jets-target-more.html
Link to Submit Public Comments (#Arizona):
https://www.arizonaregionalairspaceeis.com/comments/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=3ae8a8ee-8716-4497-b5d2-cb08a9bd0157
bsnorrell.blogspot.comDangerous Low Flying Jets Target More Tohono O'odham, Apache and Yaqui CommunitiesCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
For now, we end this chapter as an active solidarity group. Yet we encourage you all to remain attentive to the case of Fidencio Aldama and to the struggles of the Yaqui people more generally.
https://itsgoingdown.org/eight-years-detention-fidencio-aldama/
It's Going Down · Eight Years Since the Detention of Fidencio AldamaA statement from the Fidencio Aldama Support Group announcing an end to its activities. La versión en español sigue a la versión en inglés This past October 27 marked eight years since the detention of the Yaqui ex-political prisoner Fidencio Aldama. This year we marked the date under a different set of circumstances, delighted by...
"From Prisoner to Political Pawn: Fidencio Aldama's Ongoing Struggle and the Mirage of Freedom" by taller ahuehuete
"On July 14, Fidencio was finally released from prison, presumably establishing that his freedom was absolute and that he had been declared innocent of the charges. However, on July 20, he received a notification from a sentencing enforcement court informing him that he was, in fact, still confined in a form of semi-liberty. This status requires him to return to prison every evening at 8 PM and compels him to spend the night in jail, only allowed to leave again at 8 AM the following day. This Sisyphean cycle –– scheduled to persist for the next seven years and three months — demonstrates how the remaining sentence (his original 14-year term) was not eliminated but prevails in a different form."
https://ahuehuete.substack.com/p/from-prisoner-to-political-pawn-fidencio
#Yaqui Activist Released from Prison after 7 years: Fighting the #GasPipeline in #Sonora, #Mexico
July 17, 2023, via #CensoredNews
"#Indigenous #Yaqui leader #FidencioAldama is free after 7 years in prison and has been found not guilty of homicide! He vows to continue to oppose the gas pipeline from the company #IEnova, a subsidiary of the transnational U.S. company #sempraenergy
"#FidencioAldamaPerez is an #Indigenous Yaqui #LandDefender and #PoliticalPrisoner from the northern Mexican state of Sonora. He was arrested on October 27, 2016, and later sentenced to fifteen years and six months in prison on trumped-up charges related to a death in the community of Loma de Bácum, Sonora."
Read more: https://fidencioaldama.org/en/news/
La Jornada San Luis reports
Cristina Gómez Lima, correspondent
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/yaqui-released-from-prison-after-7.html
It's Going Down · Eight Years Since the Detention of Fidencio AldamaA statement from the Fidencio Aldama Support Group announcing an end to its activities. La versión en español sigue a la versión en inglés This past October 27 marked eight years since the detention of the Yaqui ex-political prisoner Fidencio Aldama. This year we marked the date under a different set of circumstances, delighted by...