• November 5, 2009

    Indigenous Guarani occupy FUNAI headquarters

    While Guarani communities in Brazil continue to reclaim their lands and face even more evictions—one leading to the disappearance of two indigenous teachers on Oct. 29—two days ago, more than 50 Guarani People occupied the headquarters of FUNAI, Brazil’s Federal Authority of Indigenous Affairs, in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.
    The move [...]

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  • November 2, 2009

    Underreported Struggles #31, October 2009

    In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Mexican Superior Court Orders Immediate Halt to Gold mine; Amazon mega-dams stoke new wave of Indian protests; Officer arrested over alleged killing of Awa Indians; Tahltan in Standoff over Hunting Rights; Police confront Indigenous peoples of the Didipio valley.
    Oct 31 – Mexican Superior Court Orders Immediate Halt to Gold mine [...]

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  • October 30, 2009

    Continued Aggression Leads to Mapuche Declaration of War

    Continued aggressions of the Chilean state has led the Arauco Malleco Coordinator of Mapuche Communities in Conflict (CAM), a radical indigenous Mapuche organization, to formally renounce their Chilean citizenship and declared war on the government.
    The declaration was issued on Oct. 20, the same day that two trucks belonging to the El Bosque forestry corporation were [...]

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October 27, 2009

Amazon natives move to evict U.S. Oil company

Some three hundred indigenous people from the Peruvian Amazon region of Madre de Dios are

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October 22, 2009

What Environmental stories should APTN cover?

The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is looking for ideas and suggestions on what stories

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October 19, 2009

Comments needed: Stop the Expansion of Peterborough Nukes!

Comments are urgently needed on the “Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) Screening Report” for GEHitachi’s nuclear

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Underreported Struggles

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Mexican Superior Court Orders Immediate Halt to Gold mine; Amazon mega-dams stoke new wave of Indian...

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