November, 2008
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Underreported Struggles #20, November 2008
In the month's Underreported Struggles: Talisman decides to ignore warning from the Achuar to "get out now"; A spontaneous tribal uprising forms in West Bengal; Vedanta Resources gets chased away by more than 500 villagers; an indigenous movement takes shape in Canada; and 17 other stories... November 28 - Western Shoshone protest Barrick Gold on [...]
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Eight Mayan Women
Eight Mayan Women is a story of continued resistance to the Canadian mining company Goldcorp. For the past three years the company has been extracting gold and silver in the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala. The people of San Miguel have been opposed the operation, primarily out of a concern that it is destroying [...]
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Canada Post Blocks Health Canada Advisory to Indigenous Community
November 28: The following article has had a significant update. For details, see the section "Response from Canada Post" A Canada Post employee has apparently refused to allow the distribution of a Health Canada advisory that warns of serious health concerns regarding the "Build All" open pit asphalt plant located near the Mohawk Territory of [...]
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Shoshone Grandmothers Plan to Resist Proposed Mine Site
The Western Shoshone Defense Project has sent out an update on Barrick Gold's Cortez Hills Expansion Project and the effort to stop it. The company has indeed begun 'construction', ripping out trees at a reported rate of 30 acres per day. On Monday, attorneys for several Western Shoshone tribes and indigenous and environmental organizations filed [...]
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Kainai First Nation: We will hold them accountable
Members of the Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta, and especially the Kainai First Nation Elders Association, are tired of having an irresponsible Band Council. They want leadership that can be held accountable for its actions, and who treats the community with respect. Right now the Chief and Council handles them as if they're low-level [...]
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Colombia: The Minga has a life of its own
The Minga LIVES, may the MINGA LIVE! We call for a Colombia of the people without owners; all the wisdom, all the pain, all the experience, all the words, all our grandmothers and our memories guide us. We are going to live because we are forever tired of the pain, death and greed of those [...]
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10,000 Indigenous People Mobilize in Ecuador
In Ecuador, more than 10,000 indigenous people mobilized last week to protest a new water law introduced by government of President Rafael Correa, which they say could lead to privatization, pollution and depletion of this most precious resource. The protest took place on November 19, "two days after thousands of campesinos and coastal fishers staged [...]
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