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Argentina: Campesino land taken by force
Campesinos are demanding recognition of their rights and calling for an end to logging and violence after a family was violently evicted from their land, two weeks ago, in the Argenine Province of Juyjuy. According to a statement from the family, employees from the company KRAM SA, which is owned by a relative of the [...]
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Tierra Prometida – Journey of the Indigenous Toba
Tierra Prometida (Promised Land) chronicles the journey of a group of ethnic Toba People who were driven from their traditional territory in Argentina's dense El Impenetrable forest. For centuries the Toba resisted colonial encroachment and missionization, until the late 1800s, when the Argentine government began to occupy and divide El Impenetrable into concessions to exploit. [...]
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Mapuche seeking solidarity over “imminent eviction”
The Mapuche community of Lonko Purran may now be facing eviction after a peaceful confrontation last week with the US-based company Apache Oil. Apache tried to enter their oil concession, a part of Lonko Purran's territory in the Neuquen district of Argentina, on September 14. However, upon their arrival they encountered a roadblock setup by [...]
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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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Barrick and Argentine Officials Violently Assault Women at Roadblock
On April 14, a group of Argentine government officials and employees of Barrick Gold Corporation, carried out a violent assault against Women at the Famatina mining camp in the province of La Rioja, where a road blockade has stood for the past two years. When the officials arrived, a group of Women from the "Self-Organized [...]
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Underreported Struggles #24, March 2009
In this month's Underreported Struggles: Alarming levels of arsenic found near Goldcorp mine; 25,000 Indigenous people March in Oaxaca; Brazil court affirms Raposa Serra do Sol, orders withdrawal of non-indians; Uranium Company Accused of "Killing Communities" in South Africa. March 30 - Alarming levels of arsenic found in rivers near Goldcorp mine - A research [...]
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Mapuche Community prepared to resist eviction
A Mapuche community is preparing to resist eviction from their lands in the Aluminé municipality of Argentina's Neuquen province. The order to evict has not been officially handed down yet, but the community is expecting it either today or tomorrow. Whenever it comes, they have no intention of simply walking away. "We're waiting for the [...]
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