May, 2007
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Australia: Eviction Notice served to protect forest
On May 23, sixteen traditional land owners of the Yuin people served an eviction notice on Forests NSW, demanding the immediate cessation of logging in the Bodalla State Forest. Spokesperson and traditional landowner Arthur Ridgeway said: “We have taken this act to signal our protest at the cultural damage that will be created by any [...]
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Australia: Genocide it is
At a recent function marking the 40th anniversary of the referendum "that handed indigenous Australians the right to be counted in the Census," John Howard was accused of genocide.... and he didn't disagree... From the Australian - Mr Howard told the gathering of about 400 people, which included original referendum campaigners, the way to true [...]
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Queen of Thailand Takes the Land of the Akha People
Here are two videos about an ongoing situation which began in 2003, when the Queen of Thailand seized all the land of Hooh Yoh Akha, displacing the Akha and forcing them to work on their own lands. From the Ahka Heritage Foundation website For years we have been protesting how the Queen of Thailand and [...]
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Burma: In the Name of Development
The enslavement, torture, displacement, and genocide of people in Burma continues From the Asia Tribune: According to the Free Burma Rangers, a relief organisation working in the area, soldiers from Light Infantry Battalions 542 and 544 attacked Ber Ka Lay Ko village, northern Toungoo District in north-western Karen State on 12 May. They reportedly captured, [...]
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Gold, Skin and Bones: Goldcorp’s adventure in Honduras
Gold, Skin and Bones: Goldcorp’s adventure in Honduras - by Dawn Paley, March 1, 2007 “We’ve been here for seven years,” explains Pedro Rodolfo Arteaga, gesturing at a scattering of plain houses lining a dirt road “and we never thought we would find ourselves in this situation.” A resident of Palo Ralo, in the Siria [...]
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Chago win right to return home, for the third time
In 1966, the British Government leased Diego Garcia and the Chagossian Islands to the US Government, for a strategic military base. But the US government wanted a land free of people, and so in that same year until 1973, the British government secretly and systematically removed the entire population, some 2000 people off the islands. [...]
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Canada in the Congo War
The following article, written by Gwalgen Geordie Dent, was published on May 14 at the Dominion Canada in the Congo War Role of mining, resource extraction has been neglected Even for those who follow world events, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is little known in Canada. The DRC holds two major distinctions. First, it [...]
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