Intercontinental Cry

Drowned Forests and Damned Lives

Ahni — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:26:40 +0000

Drowned Forests and Damned Lives is a 32-minute video report that explores the Orang Asli’s struggle against the Kelau Dam project in Pahang state, Malaysia. Said to be an irrational project, the project will be placed on the Kelau river in Pahang, flooding approximately 1,540 hectares of vegetation within the Lakum Forest Reserve. A ...

Government Seizes Control of Pine Creek Reservation

Ahni — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:37:21 +0000

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) has reportedly ‘taken control’ of Pine Creek First Nation in western Manitoba, placing the reserve under third-party management. According to an article in Saturday’s Winnipeg Free Press, INAC decided to get rid of the Band Council last July, because of what they saw as ‘a total breakdown in band ...

Penan mount blockade against Interhill group

Ahni — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:51:21 +0000

Penan communities from the Middle Baram area of Sarawak (East Malaysia) have mounted a blockade against the logging company Interhill in order to stop them from destroying what remains of the age-old Sarawak rainforest. The blockade, which was organized after negotiations with Interhill fell apart, is being led jointly “by representatives from the Penan communities of ...

“Days of action” campaign is over

Ahni — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:17:38 +0000

The “days of action” campaign, which was directed at two enbridge pipeline projects in southern and northern Saskatchewan, came to an end a few days ago. On Friday, October 4th, Chiefs from Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 First Nation communities met with representatives from Enbridge Pipelines Inc. to form what the Chiefs are calling “a new ...

Second Int’l Congress of Indigenous People of America

Ahni — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:57:56 +0000

The Second International Congress of Indigenous People of the Americas (Abya Yala) began on Wednesday, October 8, in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. The multi-national event, which concludes on October 12, will discuss a range issues, perhaps the most urgent being the matter of strengthening Indigenous peoples sovereignty throughout the hemisphere. “One hundred international delegations and over ...

Chiapas: Police attack Indigenous farmers, killing six

Ahni — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:35:33 +0000

Five days ago, on October 3, 2008, federal and state police in Chiapas, Mexico, carried out a violent operation that left six people dead, 17 injured, and 36 more detained, almost all of whom were inhabitants of the ejido (communally held land) of Miguel Hidalgo, located in the municipality of La Trinitaria, Chiapas. Leading up to ...

Riot Police Target Algonquin Blockade

Ahni — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:16:07 +0000

Monday morning, families from the Algonquin community of Barriere Lake set up a blockade on highway 117 in northern Quebec to demand that the Federal and Quebec governments uphold the agreements they signed with the community, and for Canada to appoint an observer to witness a leadership reselection in the community, and then respects its ...

Voices from the Niyamgiri Hills

Ahni — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:29:55 +0000

In this eight-minute video, you will hear members of the Dongria Kondh, the custodians of the Niyamrigi hills in Orissa, India, speaking out against Vedanta resources and the hardships they have had to endure as a result of the company’s aluminum refinery. Placed at the foot of the hills, Vedanta manipulated and then drove out at ...

Colombia: National call for mobilization and struggle

Ahni — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:05:12 +0000

On October 1, 2008, the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), which represents Colombia’s 800,000 Indigenous People, declared October to be a month of social protest “against the genocide of Indigenous Peoples and the criminalization of social movements” in Colombia. Below you can find ONIC’s full call to action, translated to English. You can read the ...

Judge bars construction near Comanche sacred site

Ahni — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:46:40 +0000

An Oklahoma federal district court has barred the construction of a military training facility near Medicine Bluffs, a site held sacred by the Comanche Nation Following a temporary restraining order issued last August, U.S. District Judge Timothy D. DeGuisti has granted a preliminary injunction against the construction of a military training facility at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. ...