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14
Jul

Families in Honduras face imminent removal

In Los Limones, Honduras there are 74 Peasant families, members of the Tierra Nusetra Peasant movement, who are currently faced with an imminent forced removal from their homes. Since 2005, Tela Railroad Company (A subsidiary of Chiquita) has wanted to remove the families so they can plant Afican Palms.

Tierra Nusetra has so far resisted the forced removal — suffering all kinds of intimidation, violence, and murders by the private security forces hired by the company.

From fian.org - The “Los Limones” community has been living since 1951 on the land - 21 hectares situated in the confines of the banana growing farms of the Tela Railroad Company. The members of the community have lived there all their lives, as they have been workers of the banana company or are descendents of persons employed by the company. Some of …

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July 14, 2007
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05
Jul

Violence, evictions, and extrajudicial killings lead in the Pan Am Games 07

The Pan Am Games, set to begin in Rio de Janeiro next week, is expected to bring an increase of violence—particularly against the people living in the slums of Rio. Since the beginning of the year, military/police violence has dramatically increased, with the support of a National Security Force that’s been employed specifically for the games.

One recent incident occured on June 27, when an armed police force ordered “not to take any prisoners,” executed 19 people. There is also a further concern that, since this recent “operation” was officially sanctioned, that it will become a standard…

According to an article on midiaindependente.org, the next slaughtering already has a date: “according to the Security Secretary, Jose Mariano Beltrame, Rocinha and another four slums will have similar operations. More information .

During the games, some 7000 troops aided by 18,000 …

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July 5, 2007
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02
Jul

25th Day of indefinite fast continues in Bhopal

June 30 - Today is the 25th day of the dharna (indefinite fast) which began on June 6th, in protest to the mass displacement caused by the Indira Sagar dam and Omkareshwar dam in India. Nine people are currently fasting, with about half of those displaced (5000 people) sitting with them.
Click here to sign a petition in solidarity.

From Friends of the Narmada - More than 10,000 people affected by the Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar dam continue in their struggle by shifting their dharna from Khandwa to the Capital city, Bhopal. The 25th day of the indefinite fast that began on June 6th continues in Bhopal. The dismissal of the petition of NHDC by the High Court yesterday strengthens the demand of the displaced people.

Today, thousands of people affected by the Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar Project took out a …

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July 2, 2007
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29
Jun

The Chago and their right of return

Last month I posted an article about the Chago People, who were banished from their traditional land in 1973 by the British Government… Since then, the People have been struggling to return to their homes, in fact they’ve repeatedly won court cases which affirm their right to return must be respected. But the judgements have all been appealed, and so the Chago’s have not been allowed to return.

The most recent Judgement, once again reaffirming the Chago’s right of return, took it one step further by preventing anyone from appealing the decision… but guess what?

From Afrol News - Last month, the expelled people of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago claimed by Mauritius, thought they had achieved a breakthrough in their four-decade fight to return to the land that taken from them. The London High Court ruled that the …

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June 29, 2007
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10
Jun

Development-induced Displacement

The following is the concluding section of a paper titled “Development-induced Displacement,’ from the Center for Education and Documentation (CED) website. I think it is particularly useful in reference to my recent post about the Olympics.

Conclusion
Right to development as a human right was declared in 1986,123 however, was acknowledged in the Second UN World Conference on Human Rights in 1993 in Vienna integrating the economic social and cultural rights with the civil and political rights; it articulated an amalgamation of the two sets of human rights as an essential fore condition for the `right to opportunities for development’ to take effect.124

Nonetheless, Development remains a mere hollow emotional assertion in the absence of Participatory Democracy; where one has no say in determination of policies and decisions that affect him, rather the system in place is marred with fundamental follies in the very policy formulation; where despite the …

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June 10, 2007
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09
Jun

Yamuna Gently Weeps

“No mother wants to nurture her child in a slum. Families do not live in a slum out of choice; it is a matter of survival.”

from The Official Website: Yumana Gently Weeps is the story of one of the biggest and oldest slums in Delhi and in India, called Yamuna Pushta. A slum that gave shelter to 1,50,000 people and which nurtured more than 40,000 homes. A world within a world existed in Yamuna Pushta.

Schools, medical and healthcare centres, self-help groups, shops, restaurants, creches, small businesses and various social organizations, worked closely with the community, bringing about immense positive change in the lives of the residents. This massive township was demolished in a few weeks.

40,000 homes were razed to the ground and more than 1,20,000 people were left to the mercy of the cruel streets. Just twenty percent of the families whose homes were demolished, were in the guise …

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June 9, 2007
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08
Jun

Deal with Royals threatens Tanzanian indigenous

The Hadzabe indigenous people of northern Tanzania are facing a serious threat today. Royals from the United Arab Emirates, along with UAE Safari are actively purchasing Hadzabe lands for a fishing and sport hunting enterprise.

From www.afrol.com - Last year, the Lower Yaida area in Mbulu District- around 200 kilometres west of Arusha - was ceded to an Abu Dhabi-based hunting company known as Tanzania UAE Safari Ltd. A second application was submitted to attain the remaining part of the Lake Eyasi basin in Karatu District. In end-May this year, the Karatu District Council rejected the deal, citing concerns over the well-being of the Hadzabe people. However, a new round of negotiating appears to have stronger government support. {…}

The Hadzabe hunter and gatherer community, whose population ranges between 2,500 and 10,000, has organised its resistance to the concession of their …

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June 8, 2007
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Video activism and the Chiapas Media Project

In the following presentation, Claudia Magallanes-Blanco from the University of Western Sydney talks about the role of video activism as a world-wide tool for empowerment and the Chiapas Media Project, a collaborative effort based in Mexico that provides indigenous Zapatistas in Chiapas and peasants in Guerrero with training and equipment to produce their own videos.

Since forming in 1998, CMP has distributed over 6000 videos, including: Zapata’s Garden, a film that looks at the society the Zapatista’s are building; …


I Am A Defender of the Rainforest

Known as ‘Soy defensor de la selva’ in Spanish, I am a Defender of the Rainforest is an award-winning documentary that was filmed, edited, and directed by members of the Sarayaku community in southern Ecuador.

The film shows how the …


Underreported Struggles #19, October 2008

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: 400,000 Guatemalans Reject Development Model, Philippines Indigenous People Unite for the Land, Riot Police Target Algonquin Blockade, Chagos Islanders Denied the Right of Return, and 17 other stories …


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