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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 rely on [...]
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 report in SPIEGEL Magazine: all of them “near vegetable [...]
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 – [...]
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 Yaeda [...]
Kenya: Brutal campaign of violence against indigenous Samburu villages
For more than three weeks now, the Kenyan government has been engaged in a brutal campaign of violence against the indigenous Samburu people in north central Kenya. According to Cultural Survival (CS), the government, who claims to be chasing after “cattle bandits”, has “strafed the unarmed villagers with machine guns” from the air and “used clubs [...]
Poison Fire: Gas and Oil Abuse in Nigeria
Poison Fire is a grassroots documentary that brings together video testimonies and evidence on the impacts of oil spills and gas flaring in the Niger Delta. Below you will find the film in it’s entirety. Synopsis from the film’s official website: The Niger Delta is an environmental disaster zone after fifty years of oil exploitation. [...]
Uranium Company Accused of “Killing Communities” in South Africa
The Toronto-based mining company, Uranium One—who’s “operations have been made possible with backing from the Canadian Embassy and CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) in South Africa”—stands accused of human rights abuses and the systemic violation of workers rights at the Dominion Reefs Uranium mine in South Africa. The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board also has [...]
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