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• Canadian company linked to Indigenous murders in Colombia

  

  December 15, 2009  2,921 views 3 comments Share

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  While Canada’s Parliament weighs in on Bill C-300, and Blackfire Exploration reels over the shut down of their mine in Chiapas, Mexico — another Canadian company, Cosigo Resources, finds itself implicated in a surge of recent murders in southeast Colombia. The Social & Climate Justice Caravan reports. 7 December 2009 – Canada: Human Rights Hypocrites Legislation [...]

  Filed Under Canada • Colombia • free trade • indigenous

• NAFTA Tribunal defends Quechan sacred site

  

  June 12, 2009  1,535 views 0 Comments Share

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  NAFTA. It’s known as a “death sentence” to the Zapatista and to millions of farmers in Mexico who find themselves in a desperate state as their livelihoods are taken from right out under them and they are left with nothing. It’s something that most us can agree on. NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, is [...]

  Filed Under America • Canada • free trade • gold • indigenous • Mexico • mining • NAFTA • Sacred Grounds

• Democracy Now Reports on Bagua Massacre

  

  June 8, 2009  3,879 views 11 comments Share

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  Democracy Now reports on the Bagua Massacre of June 5, 2009, which has left anywhere up to 100 people dead according to latest reports. Watch this video on Blip.tv or Democracynow.orgALAN GARCIA MUST RESIGN: criminal poised to continue Indigenous slaughter and disintegrate Peru By Carlos A. Quiroz, http://peruanista.blogspot.com/ Tragedy in Peru. Let us honor all the [...]

  Filed Under free trade • indigenous • land • Peru • racism • report • video • violence

• CAFTA blocked for ignoring indigenous rights

  

  September 15, 2008  1,757 views 0 Comments Share

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  Last week, Costa Rica’s highest court overturned an intellectual property law the United states demands for the enactment of the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement, commonly referred to as “CAFTA.” The court said that the law – which included provisions on biodiversity – was improperly passed because the government failed “…to consult the indigenous people, [...]

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• Indigenous Peruvians Launch State-wide Protest

  

  August 13, 2008  1,632 views 0 Comments Share

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  Marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, on Saturday, August 9th, Indigenous Peruvians launched an indefinite, state-wide protest against a set of new government policies that threaten their collective land rights. “In the southern Amazonian province of Cusco, hundreds of indigenous protesters occupied Lot 56 of the controversial Camisea gas field, forcing [...]

  Filed Under free trade • indigenous • Peru • protests • struggles

• On The Edge: Femicide in Ciudad Juarez

  

  January 12, 2008  3,518 views 2 comments Share

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  For more than a decade, the cities of Chihuahua and Juarez, near the US-Mexico border, have been killing fields for young women. More than 400 women have been murdered and another 4000 more have gone missing since 1993. A significant number of these women worked in the maquiladora sector – “sweatshops that produce for [...]

  Filed Under border • free trade • genocide • Mexico • video • women

• Harper wants to Save Latin America.

  

  July 18, 2007  1,434 views 0 Comments Share

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  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is currently on a mission in Latin America, pushing forward a “Canadian-made” free trade model which he wants applied throughout the region. Harper has also been going to incredible lengths to improve Canada’s image in the South, making impressive statements claiming that Canada the perfect, Canada the majestic, Canada [...]

  Filed Under business • Canada • Chile • Colombia • free trade • Haiti • World Bank