April, 2007

• New Zealand – Ocupation Alert. Maori Reclamation

  

  April 17, 2007  2,986 views 2 comments Share

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  See the video news segment titled “Whakakoro Customary Ownership” in the News section of the Whangape site OUR BIRTHRIGHT We are occupying our ancestral Maunga Whakakoro to stop it from being alienated from the Hapu forever. WHAKAKORO It is the sacred Maunga of our ancestors Ueoneone and Reitu. All Ngapuhi whakapapa back to these Tupuna. It is the [...]

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• Land Action in Brazil (and a petition campaign)

  

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  As a part of International Peasant Struggle Day, as well as the National Day of the struggle for Agrarian Reform (established by the government in 2002) MST Brazil has initiated several large-scale protests and blockades, aswell as a Petition campaign (see below) From the WW4Report: Hundreds of rural workers occupied the offices of the National Agrarian [...]

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• Action on the International Day of Peasant Struggle

  

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  Today, April 17th, is the International Day of Peasant Struggle, as called for by la Via Campesina International — a day of action which commemorates the Massacre of Carajas on April 17, 1996 where 19 Peasants were killed and 69 injured while demanding land to live and work on. In Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Mozambique, Congo, Paraguay, [...]

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• Lake Cowal – Mine occupied, third warning to Barrick Gold

  

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  On April 8th, around 80 people gathered at a Barrick Gold mine at Lake Cowal in central New South Wales and entered the mine, the offices, and chaining themselves to the machinery – grinding mining operations to a halt. The next day, the police arrested 14 people at the site, charging them with entering “inclosed land”, [...]

  Filed Under Australia • business • campaigns • eviction notice • gold • indigenous • mining • protests • struggles

• Western Sahara: dueling proposals on territory’s future

  

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  Western Sahara: dueling proposals on territory future from the WW4Report April 11, 2007 Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement have both turned proposals for the future status of Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara over to the UN. The Moroccan proposal calls for regional autonomy for the region under Morocco’s sovereignty. The Polisario proposal calls for a referendum with three [...]

  Filed Under colonialism • indigenous • sovereignty • struggles • Western Sahara

• Justice for murdered Nahuatl Elder

  

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  Justice for Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, Nahua, from Soledad Atzompa, Sierra de Zongolica, Veracruz! (from http://tashunkawitkobrigade.blogspot.com/) JUSTICE FOR ERNESTINA – JUSTICIA PARA ERNESTINA We demand that the Mexican federal government, Mexican authorities, and the many institutions to which this concerns, fulfill the recommendations put forward by Amnesty International (AI) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), in relation to [...]

  Filed Under accountability • indigenous • justice • Mexico • women

• To All those who oppose the Desert Rock Energy Project

  

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  To: All those who oppose the Desert Rock Energy Project From: Dooda Desert Rock Camp Date: April 9, 2007 This is an URGENT CALL for support from the headquarters of Dooda Desert Rock. We would appreciate a large presence of physical bodies and a variety of posters and images on April 16, 2007 at 9 am [...]

  Filed Under Desert Rock • indigenous • Navajo • protests • struggles