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• Barriere Lake Algonquins set up peaceful blockade

  

  July 22, 2010  378 views 8 comments Share

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  Early this morning, a group of Barriere Lake Algonquins set up a peaceful blockade on the access road leading to their reserve, about 300 km north of Ottawa. The defensive action was aimed at stopping a government-appointed electoral officer from holding a nomination meeting on the reserve for the government's highly-controversial imposed Band Council Election. [...]

  Filed Under Algonquins • Barriere Lake • blockades • Indigenous Peoples

• Innu block access to mining projects on their territory

  

  June 14, 2010  1,014 views 15 comments Share

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  Innu communities are blocking access to two mining projects in northeastern Quebec and western Labrador in an attempt to protect their Indigenous rights and ensure no mining can proceed on their territory without their prior consent. At the moment, roughly 100 Innu from the communities of Matimekush-Lac John and Uashat mak Mani-Utenam are attending the [...]

  Filed Under blockades • Canada • Indigenous Peoples • Innu • mining

• Brazil: Kayapo blockade heads into second month

  

  May 23, 2010  177 views 1 comment Share

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  It's been exactly one month to the day since a group of Kayapo set up a ferry blockade across the Xingu River in an ongoing protest against the controversial Belo Monte hydro dam. The Kayapo were dispatched to the site on April 22, the same day Brazil's government granted out rights to build the dam [...]

  Filed Under blockades • Brazil • hydro dams • Indigenous Peoples • Kayapo • water

• Indigenous People take over mining firm in the wake of Climate Change conference

  

  April 19, 2010  524 views 8 comments Share

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  With the Global People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth set to begin in Cochabamba, Bolivia, a group of Indigenous people have occupied the offices of a mining firm in the southeastern province of Potosi near the Chilean border. The occupation began several days ago, on April 12, with roughly [...]

  Filed Under blockades • Bolivia • climate change • conferences • Indigenous Peoples • Qulla

• Wet’suwe’ten Blockade Against Logging

  

  March 27, 2010  222 views 1 comment Share

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  The Vancouver Media Co-op interviews Richard Sam, a member of the Wet'suwe'ten Nation and one of two people maintaining a road blockade against the Canadian logging company Canfor in central British Columbia For nearly five months now, a Wet'suwe'ten family in central BC has maintained a road blockade within their House territory. The Canadian logging [...]

  Filed Under blockades • Canada • forestry • Indigenous Peoples • interviews • video • Wetsuweten

• Halalt First Nation holding blockade for the water

  

  March 10, 2010  344 views 1 comment Share

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  For more than two weeks now, members of the Halalt First Nation, near the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, have held onto their own "protective blockade" in defense of the Chemainus River. The blockade officially went up on February 25, just two days after the Okanagan Band launched their blockade to defend [...]

  Filed Under blockades • Canada • Halalt • Indigenous Peoples • water

• Okanagan Band launches road block to protect their water supply

  

  February 23, 2010  702 views 16 comments Share

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  The Okanagan Indian Band (OIB) launched a "protective blockade" this morning, February 23, at the Okanagan campsite near Bouleau Lake in southern British Colombia. A member of the greater Okanagan Nation, the OIB say they have been left with no choice but to stop the logging company Tolko Industries from endangering their water supply. “This [...]

  Filed Under blockades • Canada • forestry • Indigenous Peoples • moratorium • Okanagan • water