August, 2006

• Navajo Nation, Cuba negotiate trade agreement

  

  August 31, 2006  1,274 views 0 Comments Share

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  by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today HAVANA - The general manager of Navajo Agricultural Products Industries, a member of the first trade delegation to Cuba since Fidel Castro temporarily stepped down, has signed a letter of intent to sell food products to Cuba. ''We are honored that our products will help feed the Cuban [...]

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• EZLN: We Are Preparing Our Next Steps

  

  August 29, 2006  951 views 0 Comments Share

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  Words of the Sixth Comission of the EZLN for the Second Indigenous Gathering of the Yucatan Peninsula By Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, The Other Mexico SECOND PENINSULAR INDIGENOUS REUNION Candelaria, Campeche, Mexico August 2006 Compañeras and compañeros: We thank the Peninsular Indigenous Coordination and the National Indigenous Congress, who have given us a space for this [...]

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• Postpone the passage of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act Bill

  

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  (contributed by Derek Lane) I found another article at ENIAR - http://www.eniar.org/news/hreoc11.html which is admittedly old (before the legislation was passed) but by a bloke who seems to know the reality and puts it quite well... 11 August 2006 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma has grave concerns about the [...]

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• Oglala Sioux President Alex White Plume sees the old ways as better

  

  August 28, 2006  1,225 views 1 comment Share

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  Posted: August 28, 2006 by: David Melmer / Indian Country Today STURGIS, S.D. - Alex White Plume, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and a traditional Lakota, has a history of doing things differently, or rather, doing things the traditional way. White Plume focuses on his tiospaye, extended family, and works to create a solid [...]

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• Argentina: Chaco indigenous win accord

  

  August 27, 2006  1,386 views 0 Comments Share

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  On Aug. 22, the government of Chaco province in northeastern Argentina signed a broad accord with representatives of the Chaco Indigenous Institute (IdACH) on land and budget issues in an effort to end a nearly three-month-old indigenous protest. Since June 6, some 500 indigenous people from rural areas of the province have been camped out [...]

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• Coca Cola asked to leave India

  

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  Major Protest to Shut Down Coca-Cola and Pepsi in India For Immediate Release August 22, 2006 Jaipur, India: Over a thousand people marched and rallied in the north Indian state of Rajasthan to demand the shut down of Coca-Cola and Pepsico bottling plants in the state. Accusing the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Kala Dera of [...]

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• Canada preposterously refuses to negotiate with Lubicons

  

  August 24, 2006  1,143 views 0 Comments Share

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  Rebuttal to federal government's preposterous arguments for refusing to negotiate with the Lubicons August 24, 2006 http://www.tao.ca/~fol http://www.lubiconsolidarity.ca/ http://www.lubicon.ca/ Attached for your information are copies of a letter to Canadian Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice from a Belgian support group, a copy of Mr. Prentice’s July 28th reply; and a copy of the Belgian group’s [...]

  Filed Under Canada • Cree • INAC • Lubicon • oil