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 Indigenous Border Summit came to an end in the San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation.

The Summit brought together delegates and traditional authorities of 19 Indigenous Nations to exchange experiences and information about how the …

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 it with your mouse and choose “save as” from the menu. Then, open the file.) If for some reason the link doesn’t work, head over to http://www.earthcycles.net/ for an alternative link.

Speakers at the …

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 non-aboriginal people who have been bringing medicine and food may now be arrested for “aiding in illegal movement.”

Updates will be posted as I come across them.

Secondly, here’s a radio interview with Robert Lovelace on Healing the Earth Radio. Robert, a retired chief of …

Here are some quotes from interviews and speeches from NT Traditional owners over the last few weeks on the intervention/invasion. Audio Recordings of these and other speeches or available at 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 Holly for putting all this together, and Anne for sharing it with me. It is greatly appreciated.

See here for what you can do to support the Indigenous People and to help make sure this intervention is not legislated. The Senate is voting tomorrow

Voices of Resistance - …

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 a global alliance of elder women healers who represent more than 900 years of collective wisdom and traditions. The women come together to speak in one voice, with one very simple, yet urgent message: we must take care of our Mother, the Earth, for the next …

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 currently wanted on an arrest warrant, from the Superior Court of Justice in Cornwall, Ontario, for refusing to appear on customs and border violations.

Katienies refuses to recognize the authority of the Canadian courts, or any colonial courts and border officials, until they have clearly …

Civil War in Burma, Karen Women in Exile
From: Making Contact
January 24, 2007

Burma is a country run by one of the strictest military juntas in the world. For nearly 60 years, the country has been embroiled in civil war. More than 1 million people have been displaced and hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities have fled to refugee camps in neighboring Thailand escaping forced labor, rapes, killings and imprisonment. The situation has deteriorated so badly that last September the U.N. Security Counsel added Burma to its formal agenda.

The Karen tribe is the largest ethnic minority in Burma. They continue to …

The audio on this page was part of a special 12-hour New Year’s Day broadcast on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal. The shows combined are a look back at the resistance of local and global social justice movements in 2006, and a look ahead to the struggles to come in 2007.

In the audio player to the right you can listen to 16 of the 28 shows. If you want to listen to the rest, please head over to this page on the CKUT blog

Thanks to Jaggi for sending this out.

A …

Brisbane, Australia:The Queensland Dept of Public Prosecution’s disgusting decision to ignore the Deputy Coroner’s findings that the Qld police killed Mulrinji,an indigenous man, in November 2004 while he was in police custody –has been met with community disbelief. The DPP wants us to believe that Mulrinji “fell” (getting 4 broken ribs and a liver split in two through the “fall”)and that the cop who arrested him — the 6?7? tall Chris Hurley — played no role in his death.

(1) Messages of support
(2) On line petition
(3) Background resources on the murder

(1) Messages of support to the local Murri community can be …

December 2, 2006 marked a historic day for activist working to stop the spread of nuclear proliferation it all its forms with a declaration that will stand the test of time. The Declaration of the World Uranium Summit has resonated to all four directions of the earth. Spread this message far and wide.

Here are the links for audio and video from the World Indigenous Uranium Summit held November 29, thru December 2, in Window Rock, AZ.

1 Manny Pino, a board member of the Indigenous Environmental Network reading the declaration (video version)

2. Speech by Joe Shirley

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