April, 2007

• Tell Barrick to Stop Mining on Sacred Grounds

  

  April 25, 2007  1,293 views 1 comment Share

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  ALERT!! Please help protect Western Shoshone spiritual areas from Gold Mining - Sign the attached petition and forward to your friends and family. Tell Barrick to Stop Mining on Sacred Grounds What would you do if someone came onto your land and started drilling for gold? It's happening right now to the Western Shoshone people [...]

  Filed Under business • encroachment • gold • land • mining • petition • Sacred Sites • Shoshone

• Protecting Shipibo Territory

  

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  Here is a story from Village Earth which focuses on the work of the Shipibo People in Peru to defend the rainforest and their own communities -- as well as a project to aid in the defense and protection of Shipibo territory, by creating GIS layered maps of the region. From the article "an aggressive [...]

  Filed Under business • campaigns • Energy • Indigenous Peoples • land • oil • Peru • Shipibo • struggles

• Encroachment of Semai Land

  

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  "Government policies pay scant attention to the long-term welfare of not only the Semai people but all indigenous people in the country. To them golf courses, housing development and theme parks are more important than the welfare of the original people of the land." Last week I put together a post about the Indigenous People [...]

  Filed Under business • encroachment • Indigenous Peoples • Malaysia • struggles

• Zapatistas Announce Intercontinental Summit

  

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  Zapatistas Announce Intercontinental Summit To be hosted by the Yaqui of Vicam in Sonora, Mexico Oct. 11 -- 14, 2007 By Brenda Norrell - RANCHO EL PENASCO, Sonora, Mexico – Indigenous Peoples from Mexico and the United States met with Subcomandante Marcos and Zapatista Comandantes to establish the Indigenous Intercontinental Conference for 2007. The Intercontinental [...]

  Filed Under accountability • conferences • events • Indigenous Peoples • Traditions • unity • Zapatista

• “Popular Court” judges Oaxaca repression

  

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  From the WW4Report, April 21 -- The Popular People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) has joined with members of the Union of Mexican Jurists in a "Popular Court" to judge the repression and rights violations in southern Mexico's Oaxaca state over the last year of social conflict. The Popular Court is to collect evidence on "crimes [...]

  Filed Under APPO • hearings and tribunals • Indigenous Peoples • justice • Mexico • Oaxaca

• Latin American and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum, October 2007

  

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  Here's an upcoming event in Melbourne, Australia. Thanks Anna for posting this on Toske. For anyone wanting more info, see http://humanrightsinfo.net or the contact info at the bottom of this post October 11-14, 2007, Melbourne - Australia Fighting and organising globally against neoliberalism! A global call for participation We call on all activists, organisations and [...]

  Filed Under Alternatives • Australia • events • Indigenous Peoples • movements • neoliberalism • unity • Venezuela

• Aim for solidarity unites Asian indigenous youth

  

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  From Nordis BAGUIO CITY (Apr. 18) - "Long live international solidarity!" hailed more than 70 delegates from 10 countries including the Philippines, as they gathered for the opening program of the founding conference of the Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN). The delegates, mostly youth from Japan, India, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Russia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, [...]

  Filed Under events • Indigenous Peoples • Traditions • unity