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• Underreported Struggles #41, August 2010

  

  August 31, 2010  102 views 0 Comments Share

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  In this month's Underreported Struggles: Chile Court says it's OK to force feed Mapuche political prisoners; More than 1,000 Indigenous people arrested for mobilizing in Nepal; Women from San Juan Copala announce third peace caravan; Enbridge gets a final notice of trespass from Wet'suweten Hereditary Chiefs. Nicaragua became the 21st Nation State to ratify the [...]

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• Apples and Indians

  

  August 28, 2010  1,612 views 4 comments Share

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  Apples and Indians is a whimsical and profound 5-minute ride that sees Lorne Olson speeding through decades in search of his true identity. When Lorne Olson was a young boy, growing up on the Broken Head Reserve in Manitoba, a teacher told him that "Indians are like apples. They may be red on the outside [...]

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• India rejects controversial mine project on Sacred Mountain

  

  August 26, 2010  87 views 1 comment Share

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  After eight long years of protests and legal battles, India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has rejected Vedanta Resources' controversial plan to mine for Bauxite on the Dongria Kondh's Sacred Mountain in Orissa, India. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced on August 24 that the proposal was being dropped was because the UK-based company and their [...]

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• Grassy Narrows Clan Mothers block MNR enforcement team

  

  August 24, 2010  186 views 2 comments Share

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  A group of Clan Mothers and other members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation have returned to the site of their high profile logging blockade to stop the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) from interfering with road repairs on their traditional territory. The First Nation is attempting to fix a network of back-roads near Ball [...]

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• Models of Resilience and Regeneration

  

  August 22, 2010  125 views 0 Comments Share

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  An informative and noteworthy introduction to ecovillages in the Copenhagen context by Permaculture Activist, Author and Co-founder of the Global Ecovillage Network, Albert K. Bates. Divide here into three segments, this talk was delivered at the 2009 Conference on Michigan's Future: Energy, Economy and Environment. As described by the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), "Ecovillages are [...]

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• Indian Affairs imposes new Chief and Council on Barriere Lake

  

  August 18, 2010  370 views 5 comments Share

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  Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) went ahead this week with its draconian drive to impose a new Chief and Council in the Algonquin community of Barriere Lake. According to Barriere Lake Solidarity, the government received somewhere between six and ten nomination mail-in ballots from a community of more than 450 people. In effect, less [...]

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• Reclaiming Land and Dignity on Easter Island

  

  August 14, 2010  462 views 5 comments Share

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  For the past two weeks, 500 Indigenous Peoples in Rapa Nui--a place more commonly known as Easter Island--have been occupying more than two dozen buildings over a land dispute that dates back to 1888. In 1888, the remote island, known around the world for its monumental statues, called Moai, was annexed by a naval Officer, [...]

  Filed Under ALERT • Chile • Easter Island • protests • Rapa Nui • secession