April, 2008

• No Toxic Dump on O’odham Land!

  

  April 29, 2008  2,439 views 1 comment Share

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  On March 29, Traditional O’odham leaders and International Supporters gathered in the small village of Quitovac in Sonora, Mexico, to organize against a toxic waste dump that threatens one of the O’odham's most sacred Ceremonial sites. "The gathering in Quitovac represented yet another chapter in the fight to stop the building of the toxic dump [...]

  Filed Under Indigenous Peoples • jurisdiction • Mexico • Oodham • petition • Sacred Sites • struggles • toxins

• Tim Wise: On White Privilege

  

  April 26, 2008  2,514 views 0 Comments Share

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  Courtesy of the Angry Indian, who featured this on his website last week, here is a ten minute excerpt from a lecture given earlier this year by Tim Wise, author of "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son." The lecture was aptly titled The Pathology of Privilege: Racism, White Denial & the [...]

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• State Troopers illegally Occupying Sioux Lands

  

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  Presently, State troopers from South Dakota are illegally occupying Yankton Sioux Lands. They began doing so on April 15, after Yankton Sioux Tribal Members began protesting a Hog Farm being constructed on their territory without their consent. According to the Atlantic Free Press, the Sioux Protesters were "met immediately with illegal law enforcement presence and [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • America • business • Indigenous Peoples • jurisdiction • Sioux • struggles

• Urgent Help Needed: Mohawks surrounded by OPP

  

  April 25, 2008  3,263 views 12 comments Share

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  The message below was sent out by MNN at 4:50 pm (April 25). Several updates have been added to the comments: May 1st A report-back from the solidarity action in Vancouver, and a few videos April 30th The OPP offensive is over now, and the blockade of Highway 6 has been taken down. Three Mohawks [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • blockades • Canada • Mohawks • Ontario • Six Nations • struggles

• Mohawks Succeed Where Canada Fails

  

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  On Tuesday morning, nearly 1000 troops swarmed an encampment set up by the Mohawks to resist an illegal housing development project on Mohawk land. Fortunately, by the time the troops arrived, there were no Mohawks to be found. The OPP are now looking for people to charge and fine like they did with Shawn Brant, [...]

  Filed Under blockades • INAC • Indigenous Peoples • Mohawks • Six Nations • Traditions

• Settlers attack Jumma in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

  

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  On April 20th, hundreds of illegal settlers attacked seven Jumma communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) of Bangladesh. Over 500 houses are reported to have been burned, and an unknown number of Jumma were assaulted, raped, and looted during the attack. According to a recent report by the Asia Centre for Human Rights (ACHR), [...]

  Filed Under Bangladesh • displacement • Indigenous Peoples • Jumma • jurisdiction • struggles • violence

• No Such Thing As Responsible Soy

  

  April 23, 2008  1,055 views 0 Comments Share

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  Over 200 organizations released a joint statement late last month, condemning the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS). Made up of representatives from ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Shell, ABN Amro and the WWF, among others, the RTRS is currently gathered in Buenos Aries to develop policies that encourage "responsible soy," a prospect they consider while ignoring "the [...]

  Filed Under agriculture • biofuel • business • Energy • Indigenous Peoples • pesticides • Soya • Statements