January, 2009

• Underreported Struggles #22, January 2009

  

  January 31, 2009  1,662 views 0 Comments Share

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  In the month’s Underreported Struggles: Researchers discover Pharmaceutical dumping ground in India; 300,000 indigenous Kenyans threatened by new dam; Cusco Government Slams the Door on Biopirates; Embera warns company to leave their land; and 17 other stories that you probably didn't hear about. January 29 - Tribe forms human chain to keep British company off [...]

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• Women’s Power: Mother-Right Cultures

  

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  Few of us spend time reflecting upon the traditional role of women in our societies, or on the importance of that role in restoring health to our Families, Communities and Nations. It's understandable. After all, the disparate vision of colonial man has laid siege to our minds, distracting us from what really matters, and obscuring [...]

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• Nigeria: Where Tires Grow on Stolen Land

  

  January 30, 2009  2,038 views 3 comments Share

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  In May 2007, the transnational company Michelin, the world's second largest producer of tires, was granted rights to more than 3,500 hectares of land in Nigeria's Iguobazuwa Forest Reserve. "[The] Iguobazuwa Forest Reserve has been described in time past as one of the forest and biodiversity-rich regions of Nigeria. Around Iguobazuwa, more than 20,000 agrarian [...]

  Filed Under Africa • business • food • land • Nigeria • unity • women

• India’s Waterways Used as Dumping Grounds for Big Pharma

  

  January 27, 2009  1,153 views 0 Comments Share

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  Researchers have discovered "the highest levels of pharmaceuticals ever detected in the environment" -- a veritable toxic stew of pharmaceutical ingredients used in ailments that range from heart disease to depression, gonorrhea, ulcers, and bacterial infections. If you haven't already guessed it, it's in the water. Analyzing vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant [...]

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• Court Denies Injunction to Protect Mt. Tenabo

  

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  A federal judge has denied the Injunction sought by the Western Shoshone and four other plaintiffs to halt Barrick Gold's construction of the largest open pit cyanide heap leach gold mine in the United States, the Cortez Hills Expansion Project on Mt. Tenabo. Judge Larry Hicks ruled on Monday that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate [...]

  Filed Under America • business • Canada • court rulings • gold • land • mining • Shoshone

• Cusco Government Slams the Door on Biopirates

  

  January 25, 2009  1,954 views 0 Comments Share

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  Indigenous people in Peru are celebrating a major victory in their long-time struggle to protect the land from outsiders hoping to exploit it. On January 14, the Regional Government of Cusco enacted a law that bans the practice of biopiracy, or "the appropriation and monopolization of traditional population's knowledge and biological resources." "Worldwide, national governments [...]

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• Canada’s Mine Tailings Secret Heads to Court

  

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  The Canadian mining industry's failure to report on the hundreds of millions of kilograms of toxic waste it generates each year, is currently being examined in Canada's Federal Court. According to the non-profit legal group Ecojustice, who filed a lawsuit on behalf of MiningWatch Canada and Great Lakes United, the Minister of the Environment illegally [...]

  Filed Under Canada • environment • Indigenous Peoples • justice • mercury • mining • toxins • water