April, 2007

• Indonesia – Special Autonomy has Failed.

  

  April 29, 2007  1,965 views 0 Comments Share

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  SPECIAL AUTONOMY HAS FAILED, THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT MUST CARRY OUT RESPECTFUL DIALOGUE WITH PAPUA From adnki.com - More than 1,500 students on Friday gathered in front of the governors palace in Jayapura, the capital of the Indonesian province of Papua, demanding an end to the province's special autonomy status, which they say does not work. [...]

  Filed Under encroachment • Indigenous Peoples • Indonesia • justice • Papua • protests • sovereignty • struggles • West Papua

• Declaration of Durugubuti

  

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  [translated for RA by Rosalind Gil. Links added by me. See here for the Declaration in Spanish] Declaration of Durugubuti Garífuna, Lenca and Vía Campesina representatives have come together as part of the Foro de Biodiversidad: Territorio y Cultura (Forum on Biodiversity: Lands and Culture) to declare that we honour the spirits of our ancestors [...]

  Filed Under Alternatives • declarations • environment • free trade • Indigenous Peoples • moratorium • neoliberalism • struggles

• Honduras – More repression against Garifuna people

  

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  The following is some news, as sent out by www.rightsaction.org AMBUSH OF GARIFUNA YOUTH FROM COMMUNITY OF SAN JUAN TELA This past April 14 in the entry to the community of San Juan Tela, Durugubuti, young women, Keydi Jorleny Marin, Yerli Isolina Ellis, Yanaira Briyed Lambert, Eusebia Guillen, Joselyn Lizet Rivas were ambushed. The last [...]

  Filed Under Honduras • Indigenous Peoples • justice • land • struggles • tourism

• The Oneidas For Democracy

  

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  Several years ago now, Ray Halbritter, CEO of TurningStone Casino and Indian Country Today -- unilaterally assumed power over what's often called the "Oneida Nation of New York", betraying the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the customary ways of the Oneida People, for isntance, by creating a non-native police force and instituting a Men's Council which was [...]

  Filed Under accountability • Indigenous Peoples • Oneidas • Six Nations • struggles • Traditions

• El Enemigo Comun

  

  April 28, 2007  1,626 views 0 Comments Share

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  El Enemigo Comun (the common enemy) scratches beneath the surface of neoliberalism, at some of the its most hidden atrocities in recent North American history. The film documents instances of paramilitary activity against indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico from 2002 through 2005 while including scenes from an international human rights movement in 2003, in Miami [...]

  Filed Under free trade • Indigenous Peoples • neoliberalism • Oaxaca • struggles • video • WTO

• Ngati Tamaahuroa Haapu Reclamation

  

  April 27, 2007  1,288 views 0 Comments Share

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  There's a fair amount of spin being put on this, but it's interesting to see how the New Zealand Government has responded (allegedly, because it would take too long to take another course - like forced removal...) From Whenua, Fenua, Enua, Vanua: Maori involved in the illegal occupation of two schools, including alleged vandalism and [...]

  Filed Under Indigenous Peoples • land • Maori • New Zealand • reclamation

• Oaxaca Civil Unrest Grows as Another Group Begins Voicing its Discontent

  

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  From NarcoNews, April 26 - The bureaucrats did what the APPO didn’t: On Wednesday, April 25 they broke the police barricades and entered the Oaxaca zócalo. More than 2,000 delegates from the Sindicato de Burócratas, which I interpret to mean the office workers and administrators’ union, in a rage over the new Social Security law [...]

  Filed Under Mexico • Oaxaca