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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 Lovelace and the six members of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (the KI6) after spending months in jail for defending their traditional lands against mining.

On the not-so-good side of things, armed Mexican marines and federal police confiscated 9 tons of …

Armed Mexican marines and federal police helped to confiscate 9 tons of gulf corvina from the Cucapa fishing community last weekend, reports Frontera NorteSur

Apparently, non-indigenous fisherman saw them catching the fish and told federal authorities, alleging they were violating a seasonal ban that started last week. It was later confirmed that the Cucapa were violating the ban.

The fishing community, however, maintains their right to harvest the Corvina, also known as the weakfish, because they depend on it for subsistence.

Frontera NorteSur quotes Hilda Hurtado, a Cucapa leader, “We’re surrounded by federal police and soldiers …

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, and our culture, principally our native tongues, and the destruction of the social fabric within our communities and our forms of internal organization.”

Their situation is getting to the point now, they added, where “we will …

Marcos and Comandantes arrive in Sonora
By Brenda Norrell (website)
April 10, 2007

MAGDALENA DE KINO, Sonora, Mexico - Subcomandante Marcos and 10 Comandantes from Chiapas were welcomed by O’odham and friends in the state of Sonora and departed Monday for the Cucapa Peace Camp to uphold Indigenous fishing rights.

Marcos discussed the Intercontinental Indigenous Conference, planned for northwest Mexico for the fall of 2007.

During an interview, Marcos said he hopes the Intercontinental gathering will “touch the hearts and recuperate the souls.”

“When Indigenous Peoples come together from all regions, they will realize that money means nothing …

Cucapa camp report: The first month
detodos-paratodos.blogspot.com
March 28, 2007

Constructing Spaces for Exchanges
Together with the adherent family to The Other Campaign and members of the community it was decided to construct a space for the camp as well as for use of the community.

We first leveled an area of 40 by 45 meters using a tractor that by it’s age and condition didn’t provide the results we anticipated but it was good enough to be able to finish the rest by hand and then add a layer of 4 – 6 inches of sand to provide a cushion for those camping …

Why Should we Be Part of the Cucapa Encampment?
from www.infoshop.org
March 20, 2007

1. The Cucapa Camp is an Essential Part of La Otra Campana: The aim of La Otra Campana is no more and no less than TO TAKE MEXICO BACK peacefully— through a democratic process of building a (trans) national horizontal network connecting up all the grassroots local struggles, together developing a new social agenda, social contract or constitution and at a strategic moment, in the near future, taking national coordinated action, like a national strike that is peaceful but massive. The ideal is that Chicanos and Mexicanos and …

Zapatista peace camps threatened
from ww4report.com
March 19, 2007

Chiapas state authorities have declared a “Huitepec-Alcanfores Natural Protected Area” in exactly the location where a “Zapatista Communitarian Ecological Reserve” had been declared weeks earlier. The Zapatistas say the Huitepec area, just outside the highland city of San Cristobal de Las Casas, is coveted by corporate interests for its resources—both its timber and its watershed, for a local Coca-Cola bottling plant. The local environmental group Maderas del Pueblo (Timber for the People) called the government’s move a “provocation.” (La Jornada, Frayba, March 14; Narco News, March 13)

Meanwhile,

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