July, 2007

• Underreported Struggles #4, July 2007

  

  July 31, 2007  1,997 views 0 Comments Share

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  July seems to have been a heavy-handed month. Several governments brutally attacked protesters. Some corporations, perhaps for the first time finding a purpose for courts---began efforts to criminalize and silence their opposition, an effort supported by governments. And throughout this month, the world's American Military Body has begun expanding considerably. On the Other hand, the [...]

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• Huu-ay-aht Votes in Favour of Final Agreement

  

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  On Saturday, the Huu-ay-aht voted over whether or not to support the ratification of the Maa-nulth Treaty, one of several treaties being shoved forward in the West Coast of Canada. At the end of the day, 90% voted YES, 10% NO. That's pretty surprising---and also cause for great concern, even if this so-called Treaty still [...]

  Filed Under BC treaties • business • Canada • colonialism • Indigenous Peoples • land

• Tupinikim and Guarani begin campaign to reclaim land

  

  July 30, 2007  2,202 views 2 comments Share

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  A few days ago I posted an article about the Brazilian company Aracruz Cellulose and their efforts to invalidate, undermine, and steal from the Tupinikim and Guarani Indigenous People. Well, it turns out that on July 24 the Tupinikim and Guarani began a campaign to reclaim their land... Much thanks to Robert J. Miller for [...]

  Filed Under Brazil • business • Guarani • Indigenous Peoples • land • reclamation • sovereignty • struggles

• May all humanity hear itself in our Cry

  

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  “the most important thing is to unite our struggles and thoughts against the capitalist system that continues to steal our labor. Our voice and our struggle is one that as we walk we learn and as we walk we teach… so that we can recuperate what the system has stolen from us.” --- Ofelia, member [...]

  Filed Under Indigenous Peoples • land • Mexico • struggles • unity • Zapatista

• The inter-governmental effort to prohibit democracy

  

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  The criminalization of activism seems to have become a trend this month. Governments all around the world are increasingly criminalizing democracy, prohibiting the pursuit of Justice, and preventing any real chance of Corporate and Governmental Responsibility. This trend of course, comes as a heavy-handed bureaucratic response to activists and indigenous peoples increased efforts to protect [...]

  Filed Under accountability • business • colonialism • Indigenous Peoples • justice • land

• Opposition to mining in Ecuador receiving death threats

  

  July 28, 2007  1,406 views 0 Comments Share

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  This week, Amnesty International released an alert on behalf of activsts in Ecuador who are opposed to a local mining operation headed by Canada's own Accendant Copper. According to the Press Release: "community leader Jaime Polivio Pérez Lucero has been threatened and activist Mercy Catalina Torres Terán has been attacked, as a result of their [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • business • Canada • Ecuador • Indigenous Peoples • land • struggles

• Standing Silent Nation

  

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  When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family glimpsed a brighter future. Having researched hemp as a sustainable crop that would grow in the inhospitable soil of the South Dakota Badlands, the White Plumes envisioned a new economy that would impact [...]

  Filed Under Indigenous Peoples • Sioux • sovereignty • struggles