Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

October 5, 2007

Hats off to Texas! Tribute to Texas activists, not its politicians

By Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

Texas offers the best of both worlds and both extremes. It offers us George Bush who claims he is from Texas, and it offers us activists who struggle for justice in a state that is, well, Texas.

So, today the Censored Blog honors the American Indian Genocide Museum in the Great State of Texas, for refusing to compromise or give up in its efforts to establish the facts of American Indian genocide and have those recorded in history. Today's honors go to Steve and Cheryl Melendez who carry out the museum's courageous work in Houston, Texas.

The Censored Blog also honors those tireless freedom fighters pressing to free the imprisoned children in Hutto prison, near Austin, Texas, where migrant and refugee infants and children are imprisoned.
Read more: http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/hats-off-to-texas-tribute-to-texas.html

Photo: Hutto protest 2007/Photo Jay Johnson-Castro

Cheryl Melendez: American Indian ancestors should be buried with respect
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/american-indian-ancestors-should-be.html

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