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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Akwesasne8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Akwesasne8</span></a> DISMISSED. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewYorkPowerAuthority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkPowerAuthority</span></a> fails to produce documents necessary to move forward.</p><p>By Akwesasne 8, via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, Nov. 12, 2024</p><p>"The charges of Conspiracy to a Felony, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trespassing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trespassing</span></a> against the six of the Akwesasne 8, who appeared today, were dismissed today at Massena Town Court. The District Attorney stated that New York Power Authority (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYPA</span></a>) did not produce appropriate documents to move forward</p><p>"Researchers for the Akwesasne 8 had gone to the St. Lawrence County Office for Deeds and Records to find a Deed/Land Title showing NYPA ownership. There is no record. When discovery documents were offered to the Akwesasne 8, each asked whether the documents contained a Title to the land on which the Akwesasne 8 were arrested. The District Attorney implied such documents were not part of the discovery packets. </p><p>"In March 2022, Federal Judge Kahn of the Northern New York District of US Federal Court, ruled that New York State possession of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mohawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mohawk</span></a> land is a violation of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonintercourseAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonintercourseAct</span></a> which prohibits land transfer of Indian land to non-Indians without Congressional approval. </p><p>"On May 22, 2024 eight Kanienke’háka were arrested for Trespassing at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Niionenhiaseko%CC%81wahne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Niionenhiasekówahne</span></a> (Barnhart Island). Seven of the eight were charged with Conspiracy to a Felony. One person was charged with a Felony.<br>There is a long history of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Onkwehonwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Onkwehonwe</span></a> relations to Niionenhiasekowá:ne (Barnhart Island) - from the Dish With One Spoon Agreement, to Onkwehonwe families living on the island, and continue today through Kanienke’háka assertion of hunting, fishing, tree tapping, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MedicineGathering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedicineGathering</span></a> liberties. </p><p>"The Akwesasne Mohawk <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandClaimSettlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandClaimSettlement</span></a> agreement seeks to sever Onkwehonwe relationship to Niionenhiasekowá:ne, formally ceding the island's title to New York State for $70 million and subjecting our hunting and gathering rights to foreign governments.<br>The Onkwehonwe that began construction at Niionenhiasekowá:ne acted in assertion of Kanienke’háka inherent and original rights as well as the pre-existing governance of Kaienerekowa.</p><p>“'The Band Council, Tribe, state and federal governments are outside Kaienerekowa governance as younger governmental entities cannot and will not ostracize us from our lands and waters,' said one of the Akwesasne 8.</p><p>"'We are going back to Niionenhiasekowá:ne because it is Kanienke’háka land,' a group of the Akwesasne 8 stated."</p><p>Source: <a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/akwesasne-8-dismissed-new-york-power.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11</span><span class="invisible">/akwesasne-8-dismissed-new-york-power.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AkwesasneMohawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AkwesasneMohawk</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BarnhartIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BarnhartIsland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewYorkState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kanienkeha%CC%81ka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kanienkeháka</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Barnhart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barnhart</span></a>:<br>Contextualizing the Re-occupation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BarnhartIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BarnhartIsland</span></a> in Shared Legacies of Struggle</p><p>From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurtleIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TurtleIsland</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>, the struggle at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Akwesasne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Akwesasne</span></a> is rooted in the shared struggle of all <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OppressedPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OppressedPeoples</span></a> of the world who are opposing the illogic of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SettlerCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerCapitalism</span></a> and the endless violation of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lands</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/waters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waters</span></a> that our current economic system necessitates.</p><p>By Jennifer Lee<br>June 25, 2024</p><p>"On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien’kehá:ka (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mohawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mohawk</span></a>) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Niionenhiasekowa:ne (Barnhart Island). Certain individuals among the '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Akwesasne8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Akwesasne8</span></a>' had originally gone to Barnhart to exercise their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, in part to protest an ongoing land claim settlement that threatens to hand over Kanien’kehá:ka title to this island, among other traditionally held territories, to New York State. The settlement is being negotiated between New York entities and three Akwesasne government councils.</p><p>"Presently, the settlement negotiations would require the extinguishment of Mohawk title to Barnhart Island, which would be effectuated through an act of Congress. By asserting their right to the land, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Akwesasne8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Akwesasne8</span></a> have sent a clear message to both negotiating parties. Barnhart Island, like all other territories illegally stolen and swindled from their community, is not for sale—particularly not by collaborationist band and tribal council entities that purport to represent the full community but that were in fact historically imposed upon it at gunpoint.</p><p>"The fact that a group of eight community members was surrounded within just a few hours by approximately 35 police agents (including both border patrol agents and state troopers) is a clear indication of the strategic significance of this island to the interests of settler-capital. As Taiewennahawi (Marina Johnson-Zafiris), one of the eight arrestees, explains in her article 'Akwesasne and the History of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hydropower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hydropower</span></a>,' the Moses-Saunders <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hydrodam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hydrodam</span></a>, located at the east end of Barnhart Island, is one of the many dams along the St. Lawrence Seaway that has supplied 'cheap' electricity to an unending procession of heavily <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/polluting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polluting</span></a> factories since the 1950s. </p><p>"For decades, dirty plants like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alcoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alcoa</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneralMotors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralMotors</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReynoldsMetals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReynoldsMetals</span></a> harnessed the immense power of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kaniatarowanenneh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kaniatarowanenneh</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaintLawrenceRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaintLawrenceRiver</span></a>) at the Moses-Saunders dam to manufacture aluminum, a cheap, abundant, and malleable building material that requires vast amounts of power to extract and process. Not only was hydropower-fueled aluminum production critical to New York’s economic development, it was central to the national pride and independence of so-called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Qu%C3%A9bec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Québec</span></a>. Eager to assert its autonomy from Anglophone capital in the 1960s, the province began damming rivers on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> land in a frenzy of hydropower nationalism. </p><p>"Upstream on the St. Lawrence, the aluminum plants at Akwesasne used a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sludge</span></a> containing polychlorinated biphenyls (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PCBs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCBs</span></a>) as a hydraulic fluid during the production process. These PCBs were manufactured by the infamously litigious <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Monsanto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monsanto</span></a>, which continues to evade public <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> for discharging this known <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carcinogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carcinogen</span></a> into the St. Lawrence River and onto Kanien’kehá:ka soil. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carcinogenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carcinogenic</span></a> soup was left exposed on the very grounds where the children of Akwesasne played and where families grew their vegetables. Today, Akwesasne sits downstream and downwind of three heavily <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/polluted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polluted</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/superfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>superfund</span></a> sites, and residents of Akwesasne report that almost everyone they know has a friend or family member suffering from a rare <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MetabolicSyndrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MetabolicSyndrome</span></a>, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/autoimmune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autoimmune</span></a> disorder. Rare, life-threatening illnesses exist at Akwesasne at rates that the public would never consider normal or acceptable in any non-Indigenous community.</p><p>"Dana-Leigh Thompson, one of the Akwesasne 8, lived about 3,000 feet from the PCB <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dumpsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumpsite</span></a> of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneralMotors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralMotors</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GM</span></a>) factory for a decade. She calls what is happening to the community nothing short of an '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>.'"</p><p>Read more:</p><p><a href="https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/land-back-at-barnhart/#easy-footnote-15-16285" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">magazine.scienceforthepeople.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/online/land-back-at-barnhart/#easy-footnote-15-16285</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a></p>
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