August, 2007

• Chiapas – Peasants forcefully evicted and kidnapped

  

  August 22, 2007  2,098 views 0 Comments Share

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  Yesterday, the Good Governance Board for Hope, which based in Montes Azules, Chiapas, Mexico---reported that on August 18th more than 30 men, women, and children were kidnapped by military. Arriving in six helicopters, the military accused the people in the towns of San Manuel and Buen Samaritano (Good Samaritan) of destroying an ecologic reserve mountain. [...]

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• Aug 21 Speech delivered to Law Society of Upper Canada

  

  August 21, 2007  1,940 views 0 Comments Share

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  Courtesy of Mohawk Nation News, here is the full speech delivered earlier today at the rally in front of the Law Society of Upper Canada. This was delivered by Janie Jamieson, Spokesperson of the Six Nations of the Grand River. Thanks to MNN for sending this out... August 21, 2007 Throughout the past year and [...]

  Filed Under Canada • land • Reading • Six Nations • sovereignty

• Time for NZ Govnerment to walk its talk

  

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  The United Nations released a report that focuses in on the rights of Maori and the conduct of the New Zealand Government towards them. Among several issues raised, the UN expressed concerns over a bill that aims to remove references to all principles of the Treaty of Waitangi, and also calls for the government to [...]

  Filed Under Indigenous Peoples • Maori • New Zealand • reports • sovereignty • treaties • United Nations

• Maine tribes lose authority to regulate water on tribal lands

  

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  August 9th, a 1st Circuit Court of Appeals panel eliminated the rights of the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Nations to regulate water pollutants in their treaty territory. The court claims the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 (and its accompanying implementation act) removed all their sovereignty and immunity except when it comes to matters such [...]

  Filed Under America • court rulings • Indigenous Peoples • land • sovereignty • treaties

• Sharbot Lake Update: August 17

  

  August 19, 2007  1,489 views 0 Comments Share

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  As of August 17, The Ardoch Algonquin First Nations and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations were given two working days to remove themselves (and anything they brought with them) from the protest site on Hwy #509. This is the injunction that Frontenac has been pursuing, but as I understand it the injunction was not formally served.... [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • environment • Indigenous Peoples • land • moratorium • Ontario • protests • toxins • uranium

• Yaqui and O’odham unite to plan Zapatista summits

  

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  Here's some news from Brenda Norrell regarding the Zapatistas' regional and international summits. There are to be four regional summits, followed by the Intercontinental Indigenous Summit. See below for details and contact information. Yaqui and O'odham unite to plan Zapatista summits By Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ . RANCHO EL PENASCO, Sonora, Mexico -- Yaqui Zapatistas from [...]

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• Guerrero: La Ruta al Sol

  

  August 18, 2007  1,942 views 2 comments Share

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  Guerrero is best known for the Mexican beach resorts of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, but few know that it continues to be the site of the most blatant human and economic rights violations in the country. Although the Sierra Club and other international groups once made the persecution of environmental activists in Guerrero an international scandal, [...]

  Filed Under Indigenous Peoples • justice • Mexico • struggles • video