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Emergency Support needed for the Ogiek
Unless the international community can pressure Kenya to respect Indigenous Rights, in the coming month (September) as many as 20,000 Ogiek People will be evicted from their traditional lands in the Mau Forest. AUGUST 14:Yesterday, President Kibaki ordered everyone to be arrested, telling MP's to "stop whining" about the eviction. "The government shall take action [...]
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Destruction of the Abatwa (Pygmy) Culture
"The Abatwa are an example of the phenomenon feared by Subcomandante Marcos and the indigenous communities of the Chiapas region of Mexico, that of being so marginalized as a people that you just don't matter any more." The Destruction of the Abatwa (Pygmie) Culture, produced for the 28-minute weekly cable public access program Indymedia Presents, [...]
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Underreported Struggles #26, May 2009
In this Month’s Underreported Struggles: 7,000 delegates gather in Peru for the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala; Hundreds of Tibetan villagers face off against armed police ; dozens of indigenous communities in Ecuador struggling after February oil spill; San Carlos Apache speak out against Land Exchange and proposed Copper mine May 30 - [...]
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Government renews assault on Bushmen: Survival
Botswana's government is once again threatening the Kgeikani Kweni, the First Peoples of the Kalahari. According to a report by Survival International, yesterday, the government sent truckloads of police and wildlife scouts to their territory in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) to confiscate all of their goats. This is quite serious since the Kgeikani [...]
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The Bhopal of West Africa
Under the cover of night, in August 2006, "a fleet of tanker trucks" filled with toxic chemical waste drove through the streets of Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast of West Africa, looking for a place to dump their cargo. They found at least 12 sites, according to a new report in SPIEGEL Magazine: all of [...]
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Underreported Struggles #25, April 2009
In this month's Underreported Struggles: Peruvian Indigenous Peoples Mobilize Across the Amazon; Barrick and Argentine Officials Assault Women at Roadblock; Attawapiskat First Nation prepares to evacuate 700 children; Mayans in Chiapas successfully resist eviction; Thousands of Indigenous Embera flee from armed conflict April 29 - One foot in the grave for Desert Rock power plant [...]
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For Want of Food: The Hadzabe Struggle for Life
The Hadzabe People may very well have the oldest genetic heritage of any other people on earth, but today they find themselves on the edge of extinction, with no land rights, and a food supply that's being "aimlessly" shot away by poachers. Speaking at a public meeting recently, three members from the Hadzabe community of [...]
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