Oil industry sycophants, with their dollar store logic, are quick to tell us that oil spills are one of those 'unfortunate facts of life', like taxes in a market economy or Geraldo Rivera becoming a journalist. They're tragedies that we're just supposed to live with, they tell us. After all, 'We're only human. We all [...]
At an historic assembly in Ecuador two weeks ago, roughly 1000 Kichwas "overwhelmingly" agreed to mobilize against the Calgary-based oil company Ivanhoe Energy. The government of Ecuador recently gave Ivanhoe drilling rights on the Kichwa's traditional land within the UNESCO Sumaco Biosphere Reserve in western Ecuador. The biosphere reserve, located near the Yasuni National Park, [...]
A heartfelt message from Amazon rainforest communities in Ecuador to the new Chairman and CEO of Chevron: "We don't want to continue dying of cancer." Over the course of three decades in Ecuador, Chevron dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic waste water and spilled roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil. "Surpassing the [...]
A violent police confrontation has ended with three reported deaths and dozens more injured in the Shuar region of Morona Santiago, Ecuador, on Sept. 30, 2009. Indigenous communities had gathered in Morona Santiago three days ago, on Sept. 28, as part of the "Mobilization in Defense of Water and Life," which was called on by [...]
A National, inclusive, non-discriminatory and peaceful effort, the "Mobilization to defend the Water" (Movilización Nacional para defender el Agua) officially began this morning in Ecuador, at 12:00am (0500 GMT). At this point, several roadblocks have reportedly been set up, involving rocks, trees and burning tires, on several sections along the Panamerican highway and at various [...]
In this Month’s Underreported Struggles: 7,000 delegates gather in Peru for the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala; Hundreds of Tibetan villagers face off against armed police ; dozens of indigenous communities in Ecuador struggling after February oil spill; San Carlos Apache speak out against Land Exchange and proposed Copper mine May 30 - [...]
Below, a Press Release from Tonatierra discussing the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala, which began three days ago in Puno, amidst the ongoing Mobilization of Indigenous Peoples of Peru. The Summit, which comes to a close on May 31st, has brought together more than seven thousand indigenous delegates from Continental Abya Yala (Americas) [...]