January, 2007

• Dehcho, Chipewyan nations call for oilsands moratorium

  

  January 31, 2007  2,695 views 1 comment Share

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  From www.cbc.ca - Northern First Nations are calling for a halt to further development in Alberta's oilsands, saying the massive industrial growth is hurting their land, their water and their people. Dehcho First Nations Grand Chief Herb Norwegian told a news conference in Fort McMurray Tuesday the effect of the massive development can be felt [...]

  Filed Under business • declarations • Dehcho • Energy • moratorium • oil

• Recent NAFTA News

  

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  Here are a few recent stories regarding NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement), followed by some background information. NAFTA Toll-Highway Destroying Prime Agricultural Land excerpt from the article: The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is its official name. Critics call it the NAFTA Highway. The publicized TTC is being treated as a regional story because of [...]

  Filed Under America • Canada • Mexico • NAFTA

• Update on Algonquins of Barriere Lake

  

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  January 17, 2007 - Domtar Worker Attacks and Injures Algonquin Using a Timberjack The Algonquins have started to block a Domtar forestry operation at Lake Iskote off Highway 117 within the Trilateral Agreement Territory. Michel Thusky a community member was injured today when a French speaking operator of a timberjack called him and other Algonquins [...]

  Filed Under Barriere Lake • Indigenous Peoples

• Open Letter to CEO of Sky Resources

  

  January 30, 2007  3,672 views 2 comments Share

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  received via www.rightsaction.org: Please re-distribute this info all around. If you want on-off this e-list, or for more info about North American nickel and gold companies in Guatemala and Central America: info@rightsaction.org. For detailed background information on the recent evictions in Guatemala, please see this post Guatemala: Open Letter by Victoria Henderson to Ian Austin, [...]

  Filed Under accountability • Canada • Guatemala • Indigenous Peoples • sovereignty

• Amnesty International’s Track Record in Haiti

  

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  Even though I admire and respect non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International, I'm continuously compelled to point out that they have a number of responsibilities which extend far beyond their mandate, whatever it may be. Among others, this includes a social responsibility to act in the best interests of those effected by their actions; as well [...]

  Filed Under accountability • Haiti • reports

• Palm Island cop to be charged

  

  January 29, 2007  1,808 views 0 Comments Share

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  Brisbane, Australia - A major victory has been won by the Indigenous movement in Australia. The Queensland Attorney General’s Department has decided that Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley will be charged with manslaughter over the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee. Mulrunji, an aboriginal man, died in police custody on Palm Island, an aboriginal community, in 2004. The [...]

  Filed Under accountability • Australia • Indigenous Peoples • Palm Island

• 2 elders, both punished for doing good work.

  

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  Here are two separate stories, which I received at the same time, in my email. Both of these, I feel, exemplify how small and petty various governments and so-called authorities with special-interests are -- that they would arrest and seek to punish Grandmothers - Grandmothers! who did nothing but work for their People, and to [...]

  Filed Under accountability • elders • Indigenous Peoples