June, 2007

• Ecuador’s Black Plague

  

  June 30, 2007  2,232 views 1 comment Share

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  From 1964 to 1992 Texaco (now Chevron) built and operated oil exploration and production facilities in the northern region of the Ecuadorian Amazon, known as the "Oriente". When the oil company arrived in the region, an area of more than 400,000 hectares was pristine rainforest inhabited by indigenous communities living in the ancestral style, in [...]

  Filed Under accountability • business • Ecuador • Energy • Indigenous Peoples • land • oil • petition • toxins

• Oaxaca Documentary from 2006

  

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  Through personal testimonies, this 28 minute documentary examines the origin and transformation of the Teachers strike into into a popular Pacific Democratic insurgency in Oaxaca, Mexico. On May 22, 2006, Teachers in Oaxaca went on strike in protest low funding and to additionally call for the resignation of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. 3000 police were [...]

  Filed Under APPO • Mexico • Oaxaca • struggles • video

• Underreported Struggles #3, June 2007

  

  June 29, 2007  1,689 views 1 comment Share

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  With ongoing protests and blockades in Canada, Women and Children in Australia running to escape the invasion of Police and Military, and the Summit of the Peoples of the South coming to its end -- the month of June comes to a close with a reminder that for as long as there is land and [...]

  Filed Under business • Indigenous Peoples • justice • land • struggles • underreported

• The Chago and their right of return

  

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  Last month I posted an article about the Chago People, who were banished from their traditional land in 1973 by the British Government... Since then, the People have been struggling to return to their homes, in fact they've repeatedly won court cases which affirm their right to return must be respected. But the judgements have [...]

  Filed Under Britain • colonialism • displacement • evictions • Indigenous Peoples • land

• The need to do things differently – a growing consensus

  

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  A couple months ago I promised to post some articles that challenge conventional activism and point to the obvious need for us to do things a bit differently.... I've been waiting for the right moment to put them up, and thought now would be a good time. One thing I would like to contribute (which [...]

  Filed Under colonialism • decolonization • Indigenous Peoples • justice • Reading • struggles

• Summit of the People of the South – June 28 and 29

  

  June 28, 2007  934 views 0 Comments Share

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  The Summit of the People of the South Began today in Asuncion, Paraguay. A Live Radio Broadcast (in spanish) is available at sapukai.noblogs.org This year's Summit -- bringing together social groups, NGO's indigenous peoples, and others from around South America -- is focusing on continuing the debates discussed in previous summits (Chile 1998, Quebec 2001, [...]

  Filed Under business • events • Indigenous Peoples • movements • Paraguay

• Seri now face the inevitable march of development

  

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  Living on their Traditional lands along the Coast of the State of Sonora, Mexico -- the Seri are one of the few People who have managed to remain fundamentally separate of Mexican society. But there's a plan in the works now to carry forward a tourist development being likened to Cancun and Acapulco. Maybe it [...]

  Filed Under business • Indigenous Peoples • land • Mexico • struggles • tourism