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All heil the rabbit-proof vest
Two obvious truths have been at the forefront of our minds ever since the government of Australia enacted the "Northern Territory Emergency Response" legislation two years ago -- and, in no uncertain terms, began molesting the inhabitants of some 73 indigenous communities: The so-called intervention is racist; and, the government is a coward for enacting [...]
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Lawsuit filed against Canadian Mining Firm in Ecuador
An important, and hopefully precedent-setting lawsuit has been filed in Canada, which aims to hold Copper Mesa Mining Corporation and the Toronto Stock Exchange accountable for human right abuses connected to an open-pit copper mine in the valley of Intag, Ecuador. "Financing being raised in Canada is traveling across borders to do harm," says Murray [...]
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Toronto Conference on the Extractive Industry, March 5-7, 2009
The Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), along with the Extractive Industries Research Group (EIRG) at York University are hosting a conference next month in Toronto, titled Rethinking Extractive Industry: Regulation, Dispossession, and Emerging Claims. Organized in response to the growing need for public debate surrounding the mining and petroleum industries [...]
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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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Chiapas: Police attack Indigenous farmers, killing six
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 [...]
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Displaced village exposed to Uranium in Jadugoda, India
Pipes carrying uranium tailings in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India, burst on the 16th of August, "spewing the village of Dungridih with radioactive waste," according to a recent report by Sanhati It's the latest in a series of uranium spills that have taken place over the last two years: Incident 1: December 2006 In [...]
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Venezuala’s Yukpa attacked by armed “agressors”
The Yukpa, an indigenous community in the northwestern region of Venezuela, were attacked last week by hundreds of armed aggressors. "According to the Yukpa, the aggressors were hired by elite landowners to evict the indigenous population from the vast, largely idle pastures in the region known as the Sierra de Perijá near Venezuela's northwestern border [...]
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