October, 2008

• A new season of soya, a new season of conflict

  

  October 31, 2008  2,152 views 0 Comments Share

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  Tension and conflict is growing hand in hand with the start of the new soya season in Paparaguay. Peasant organizations have begun to increase pressure on the government for land reforms, food sovereignty, and the end to pesticide use which gravely impacts their communities. In turn, the farmers have been repeatedly met with violence: Numerous [...]

  Filed Under biofuel • Energy • environment • Indigenous Peoples • land • Paraguay • protests • Soya • struggles • toxins • video • violence

• Underreported Struggles #19, October 2008

  

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  In this month's Underreported Struggles: 400,000 Guatemalans Reject Development Model, Philippines Indigenous People Unite for the Land, Riot Police Target Algonquin Blockade, Chagos Islanders Denied the Right of Return, and 17 other stories that you probably haven't heard about... October 30 - De Beers withdrawal from Kalahari Reserve - Following their return to the Central [...]

  Filed Under Asia • Brazil • Canada • Chile • Energy • environment • Guatemala • India • Indigenous Peoples • Kgeikani Kweni • Lubicon • Mexico • oil • struggles • Tibet • Tupinamba • underreported

• De Beers withdrawal from Kalahari Reserve

  

  October 30, 2008  1,352 views 0 Comments Share

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  Following their return to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve last month, the diamond company De Beers has announced that it will no longer pursue mining or exploration activities in the region. The announcement comes just a couple weeks after Survival International found out that the company had returned to the reserve in Botswana, and relaunched [...]

  Filed Under Botswana • business • diamonds • Indigenous Peoples • Kgeikani Kweni • mining • Successes • water

• Brazil: Tupinamba Community Assaulted by Police

  

  October 29, 2008  1,830 views 1 comment Share

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  On the morning of October 21, a group of 120 heavily armed police attacked the Tupinamba community of Sierra Padeiro in the Brazilian state of Bahia. According to an open letter from the community, the police marched into their territory a day earlier. The Tupinamba immediately requested a meeting with FUNAI, Brazil's department of Indian [...]

  Filed Under Brazil • evictions • Indigenous Peoples • land • Statements • Tupinamba • violence

• Chagos Islanders Denied the Right of Return

  

  October 28, 2008  1,412 views 0 Comments Share

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  The British House of Lords has overturned a 2007 high court ruling that allowed the original inhabitants of the Chagos Islands to return to their homes in the Indian Ocean archipelago. "There are a lot of Chagossian people in front of the court today (Oct. 22) and we are very sad about this decision," said [...]

  Filed Under Chagos • colonialism • court rulings

• Indigenous Man ‘Guilty’ for alleged role in Palm Island Uprising

  

  October 25, 2008  1,826 views 3 comments Share

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  In Australia, an all-white jury has found Aboriginal man Lex Wotton 'guilty' for his alleged role in the 2004 Palm Island uprising. Sick of the commonplace racism and injustice, on November 26, 2004, an estimated 400 people, many of them youths, rose up after they learned that Cameron Doomadgee, now known as Mulrunji, sustained multiple [...]

  Filed Under Australia • court rulings • Indigenous Peoples • Palm Island • racism • video

• Democracy Now: Report on Colombian Uprising

  

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  Here's an October 23rd report from Democracy Now on the Indigenous and popular mobilization in Colombia. 10,000-strong, the movement of indigenous people, campesinos, sugar cane workers, Afro-Colombian communities, and others who demand the transformation of Colombia, have been marching down the Pan-American Highway since Tuesday. They are headed to the city of Cali, where they [...]

  Filed Under Colombia • Indigenous Peoples • video