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First Nation “Days of action” campaign begins
Centered on ushering in "a new era of first nations relations with the Crown," the "days of action" campaign is now officially underway. On Sunday, "protesters representing Treaty 4 First Nations brought traffic on Highway 1 east of Regina to a crawl and barricaded the road leading into a pipeline construction compound," reports the Saskatchewan [...]
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Underreported Struggles #14, May 2008
A land reclamation in Colombia, an historic gathering Brazil, and two massive lawsuits filed by Indigenous Nations in Canada highlight this month's roundup of Underreported Struggles. The Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) also tried more than 20 corporations in Peru; and to the surprise of many, the Ontario Court of Appeals unconditionally released Ardoch Algonquin Bob [...]
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Roseau River oil pipelines: Wake Up America!
Roseau River First Nation has just started a video campaign to raise awareness about the issue of oil, poverty, land theft, and violence against indigenous People in Canada - compared to that of what happened to Iraqis when economic sanctions were imposed on them some ten years ago. Below you will find a Press Release [...]
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Urgent: US Plans More Nuclear Weapons on Shoshone Land
The Western Shoshone Defense Project (WSDP) informs us that a public comment period will close next week, April 10th, on a proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy to increase nuclear weapons development at the Nevada Test Site, said to be 'the most heavily-nuked region on the planet.' The Test Site is located within the [...]
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Project of Autonomy and Self-Determination for Kumiai and Cucapa
Last month, the Cucapa and Kumiai Indigenous Communities of Baja California, Mexico, announced a multilateral project dedicated to making themselves autonomous, self-sufficient, traditionally-governed Peoples. As explained in a project overview (see below), years of colonial policies on part of the Mexican government have produced "the almost complete loss of our autonomy, of our natural resources, [...]
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News and Video Roundup on Tibetan Uprising
With Tibet exiles attempting to return home, the Chinese government is in the midst of conducting a "people's war" of violence and propaganda against Tibetan Buddhists and anyone who supports the Dalai Lama. Since this began, about one week ago, anywhere up to 300 demonstrators have died and hundreds more have been detained. By the [...]
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Stop the Ilisu Dam Project in Southeast Turkey
Around 100 villagers gathered in front of the German, Austrian and Swiss embassies on Tuesday to protest against the construction of the Ilisu Dam on the River Tigris. Once completed, the controversial project would submerge the ancient town of Hasankeyf (it's 12,000 years old) along with 200 nearby villages, displacing up to 78,000 people. The [...]
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