November, 2007

• Action needed to protect Mt. Tenabo

  

  November 30, 2007  1,877 views 1 comment Share

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  The Western Shoshone Defense Project (WSDP) posted an action alert yesterday, warning that Cortez Gold Mines (a subsidiary of Barrrick Gold) may soon be permitted to build a new gold mine on the slopes of Mt. Tenabo. The mountain and surrounding area is of extreme significance to the Spiritual and Cultural life of the Western [...]

  Filed Under business • campaigns • environment • land • mining • petition • Sacred Sites • Shoshone • Traditions • treaties

• Trial of “Goldcorp 7″ continues in Guatemala

  

  November 28, 2007  2,254 views 0 Comments Share

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  photo courtesy of www.paqg.org/ Rights Action sent out a reminder today about the ongoing legal case against the group of Mayan Farmers known as the GoldCorp 7. If you're not familiar with the case---in January, 2007, residents of the communities neighboring Goldcorp's open pit, cyanide-leeching mine in San Marcos set up a blockade in an [...]

  Filed Under business • Canada • gold • Guatemala • justice • Maya • Mayan • prison • struggles

• Colombia – Urgent Action for Wayuu People

  

  November 26, 2007  2,660 views 1 comment Share

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  The following message is a request for action in support of the Wayuu People in the Alta Guajira region of Colombia. For more information, please visit organizacionwayuumunsurat.blogspot.com. Thanks to Ana for posting this on her blog URGENT SUPPORT FOR THE WAYÙU INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN COLOMBIA The displaced community of Bahìa Portete found in the Alta [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • business • Colombia • Indigenous Peoples • land • struggles • Wayuu

• Australia’s racist government is ousted

  

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  Do you believe in Magic? I don't. But I do believe in People--and I'm proud to say that Australia's Voters did a fine job in the election, by voting against Aboriginal Affairs Minister Mal Brough and long-time Prime Minister John Howard. That's right, They're done! These two gentlemen were of course the principle driving force [...]

  Filed Under Australia • Indigenous Peoples • land • NT Intervention

• In the Name of Mining

  

  November 24, 2007  1,893 views 0 Comments Share

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  The following video clip is from "Sa Ngalan ng Mina?" (In the Name of Mining) a film that shows how politicians in the Philippines have been selling the country's natural resources to foreign mining companies, and how those companies are impacting the environment and the cultures and livelihoods of Indigenous People. This particular clip focuses [...]

  Filed Under Indigenous Peoples • land • Philippines • Sacred Sites • struggles • Subanen • video

• Eviction of Tatars may lead to violence rivaling the Gaza Strip

  

  November 22, 2007  1,506 views 0 Comments Share

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  The Crimean Tatars are Turkic people who inhabited the Crimean peninsula, now a part of Ukraine, for over seven centuries. During World War II, the entire Tatar population was unjustly accused of being Nazi collaborators and deported en masse to Central Asia and other lands in the Soviet Union. In 1967 a Soviet decree removed [...]

  Filed Under business • Crimea • displacement • evictions • Indigenous Peoples • struggles • Tatars • Ukraine

• The need to redefine “Genocide”

  

  November 21, 2007  2,067 views 0 Comments Share

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  In 2002, Siswo Pramono authored the paper "An Account of the Theory of Genocide (pdf), revealing several critical flaws in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. For one, the paper shows how the Convention was designed to "allow an exit strategy for those planning a future policy of genocide;" [...]

  Filed Under genocide • Indigenous Peoples • Reading