Indigenous peoples and farmers faced multiple attacks in Guatemala last month; while in Brazil, the government began preparing to station military forces on indigenous lands circling the border. In Canada, the Takla Lake First Nation continued blocking access roads on their territory, and in Fafak, 46 West Papuans were arrested, beaten, and humiliated for holding [...]
For those of you who may not have had the chance to listen to the live online broadcast of the Border Summit, here's a good 20 hours of audio for you. A big thanks goes out to Earth Cycles for recording and making the audio available on their site. A few days ago, the 2nd [...]
Good News! The Indigenous Border Summit of the Americas, which starts tomorrow and will run until Saturday November 10, will once again be broadcast live on the internet! To listen in, you can click on this link. (clicking it should open the audio player on your computer. If it doesn't, you'll have to right click [...]
On Friday, the injunction was officially served against the Ardoch and Sharbot Obaadjiwan Algonquins, and all supporters at the site. There are no more updates right this second, but Robert Lovelace recently said that now movement will be restricted, which means no more food or people can come in or go out. Aswell, Police say [...]
Below, you will find several quote from various interviews and speeches from NT Traditional owners over the last few weeks, discussing the Australian Intervention. Audio Recordings of these and other speeches are available online at www.asen.org.au, or you can obtain them by contacting holly@asen.org.au. Two of the audio files can be found below. Thanks to [...]
Women Rising XI: International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers - from www.radioproject.org - March 7, 2007 Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. In this program, we visit with three eloquent members of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. The Council is [...]
From No One Is Illegal-Montreal Radio (February 2007) Part of CKUT's Open Conspiracy for Social Change - 90.3FM in Montreal. This interview is with Katienies, who was recently described as "lawless" by an official of the Canadian Border Services Agency. She is a member of the Akwesasne Community, part of the Mohawk Nation, and is [...]