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• Demand a Full Investigation of Dole Food Company

  

  June 3, 2009  3,102 views 1 comment Share

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  In recent weeks, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Dole Food Company on behalf of 73 people---survivors of murdered trade unionists and campesinos throughout the region of Dole's Magdalena banana plantations in northern Colombia. The lawsuit, filed by the Florida law firm Conrad and Scherer LLP, accuses the company of funding the right-wing paramilitary [...]

  Filed Under America • business • Colombia • displacement • petition • testimony • violence

• Akwesasne Alert — blockade established by police

  

  June 1, 2009  3,235 views 30 comments Share

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  June 2, 2009 - A great deal has happened since the initial post of this article. Most critically, the police blockade was lifted and the bridge has been re-opened to the community... In addition to the links below, you may want to keep an eye on the Six Nations Reclamation forum for future updates. June [...]

  Filed Under America • border • Canada • haudenosaunee • Jay Treaty • jurisdiction • Mohawks • Ontario • protests

• Underreported Struggles #26, May 2009

  

  May 31, 2009  3,088 views 4 comments Share

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  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 - [...]

  Filed Under Africa • America • Apache • Arawak • Awa • Bhopal • Botswana • Brazil • Burma • Canada • China • displacement • Dongria Kondh • Ecuador • gas • gold • haudenosaunee • India • Indigenous Peoples • Jharkhand • Karen • Kgeikani Kweni • land • Malaysia • Mexico • Mohawks • Oaxaca • oil • Orissa • Peru • reports • sovereignty • Tanzania • Tibet • Traditions • uncontacted • underreported • unity • uranium • Western Sahara • women

• Continental Indigenous Summit focused on Unity

  

  May 30, 2009  1,650 views 3 comments Share

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  Below, a Press Release from Tonatierra discussing the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala, which began three days ago in Puno, amidst the ongoing Mobilization of Indigenous Peoples of Peru. The Summit, which comes to a close on May 31st, has brought together more than seven thousand indigenous delegates from Continental Abya Yala (Americas) [...]

  Filed Under America • Canada • decolonization • Ecuador • Indigenous Peoples • Mexico • NAFTA • United Nations • unity

• Grants Available for Mining-Impacted Indigenous Communities

  

  May 20, 2009  2,835 views 4 comments Share

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  The Indigenous Environmental Network and Western Mining Action Network have grants available for mining-impacted Indigenous communities in North America. Applications have to be in before June 1, 2009, so you'll have to move quick if you want to apply. Otherwise, you'll have to wait until the next grant cycle in October, 2009. Please see below [...]

  Filed Under America • Canada • Indigenous Peoples • Successes

• Underreported Struggles #25, April 2009

  

  April 30, 2009  1,656 views 0 Comments Share

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  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 [...]

  Filed Under Africa • America • Argentina • Australia • Bangladesh • Brazil • Canada • China • Colombia • Honduras • Indigenous Peoples • New Zealand • Peru • underreported

• The future of Alaska depends on our efforts

  

  April 10, 2009  1,547 views 1 comment Share

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  Three years after the Atlantic-Richfield Company discovered oil at Prudhoe Bay in 1968, the United States government enacted the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). It was one of the biggest land grabs in American history. In one fell swoop, collective land-title rights were extinguished and the entire Indigenous population of Alaska went from being [...]

  Filed Under alaska • Aleut • America • Athabascan • Energy • Haida • Indigenous Peoples • Inupiat • oil • Tlingit • Tsimpshian • water • Yup'ik