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Good News! The Indigenous Border Summit of the Americas, which starts tomorrow and will run until Saturday November 10, will once again be broadcast live on the internet!

To listen in, you can click on this link. (clicking it should open the audio player on your computer. If it doesn’t, you’ll have to right click it with your mouse and choose “save as” from the menu. Then, open the file.) If for some reason the link doesn’t work, head over to http://www.earthcycles.net/ for an alternative link.

Speakers at the …

close up shot of 97 protesters holding up the recommendations from the ‘Little Children are Sacred’ report - recommendations which have been ignored in the Federal government’s heavy handed response. more photos here

On November 17, there is an international Day of Action for the Indigenous People in the Northern Territory of Australia, who have since June been the subjects of a thoroughly-planned-out draconian scheme that has undermined indigenous rights, done away with the …

This past weekend, 80 Representatives of communities effected by environmental conflicts met in Cobquecura, Chile, for the first of four meetings (noted on the map) to take place by the end of this year.

Summoned by the Action Network for Environmental and Social Justice (RAJAS), the meetings are being held “For the Resistance and Mobilization Against Looting;” all of which are aimed at discussing and organizing a consolidated strategy against the problems they commonly face–namely, those presented by socio-territorial mining projects, hydroelectric, urban and forest plantations and the cellulose industry.

According …

Under the theme “Building an Indigenous Communications Agenda,” the 2nd Seminar for Indigenous Communicators began in Mexico yesterday, bringing together 60 communicators from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Mexico, Russia and Nicaragua.

The seminar aims to discuss indigenous communicators issues and technology (community radio, film and video, the Internet); government policies and indigenous Peoples right to information and communication, and access to the media.

Aswell, perhaps most importantly, they are also working to develop strategies and coordinate action on issues of common interest., …

Next month, the Tohono O’odham will be hosting the 2nd Indigenous Peoples’ Border Summit of the Americas. It will run from November 7-10 at the San Xavier Community Center, 2018 W. San Xavier Rd, Tohono O’odham Nation.

Hopefully this years Summit will be once again broadcast live on the net. (It was broadcast last year, I believe thanks to www.earthcycles.net)

Below you will find the open invasion (oops, I meant invitation) and provisional agenda, courtesy of treatycouncil.org

“Indigenous Peoples’ Border Summit of the Americas II”
INVITATION AND ANNOUNCEMENT

We are honored and pleased to invite you to the “Indigenous Peoples’ …

Here’s a recent communique from the EZLN which discusses the goals and locations of the upcoming Intercontinental Encuentro - as well as the four introductory meetings that precede it.

Communiqué from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation, Mexico

September 16, 2007

To the People of Mexico:

To the Adherents of the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign:

Brothers and Sisters:

Compañeros and Compañeras:

On this new anniversary of the struggle for the first independence of Mexico, the EZLN communicates the following:

About the Encounter of the Indigenous Peoples of …

With many signs emerging that the right wing in Bolivia is slowly preparing to destabilize the country and overthrow Evo Morales—along with him, the hopes and dreams of millions of indigenous and non-indigenous people throughout South America—On September 10th, more than 10,000 people gathered in Sucre to attend a Social Summit ‘for dialogue and defense of the Constituent Assembly’.

During the Summit, the social organizations resolved to “defend, including with our lives, the constituent assembly and this process of irreversible profound change being driven forward by the historic forces …