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• Mapuche on Hunger Strike over Chile’s Militancy

  

  August 4, 2010  495 views 7 comments Share

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  For the past three weeks, more than 20 Mapuche Political Prisoners have been on a hunger strike across southern Chile to demand the immediate release of all Mapuche Political Prisoners, the Abolition of Military Courts and the dissolution of the country's Pinochet-era Anti-Terrorism Law. The hunger strike began on July 12th, 2010, with five Mapuche [...]

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• Mapuche political prisoners go on hunger strike

  

  August 20, 2009  1,285 views 1 comment Share

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  As Chilean military policeman Miguel Jara sits in custody for murdering a Mapuche land rights defender on August 12, during one of several land reclamation efforts led by the Mapuche---a group of Mapuche political prisoners announce that they have begun an indefinite hunger strike. "Unto the repression, the injustices, and the judicial and political arbitrations, [...]

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• 43 Lepchas arrested after dam site agitation

  

  February 20, 2009  2,589 views 0 Comments Share

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  Fourty three Lepchas were arrested last week in connection to an 'agitation' carried out on the controversial Panan hydel power project in the Dzongu region of Sikkim, India. The Affected Citizens of Teetsa (ACT) held a peaceful rally at the dam site on Feb. 7 to mark day 600 of their ongoing relay hunger strike [...]

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• The People of Bhopal Lead the Way to Justice

  

  September 5, 2008  2,195 views 0 Comments Share

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  Some important news came out of India last month that didn't get much play here in the West, and perhaps for good reason. On August 8, the People of Bhopal won a major victory when the Indian government agreed to meet the full set of demands issued by the 'Walk Your Talk' campaign for justice [...]

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• Chiapas Government Frees 30 Political Prisoners

  

  April 7, 2008  1,438 views 0 Comments Share

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  Kristin Bricker (mywordismyweapon.blogspot.com) reports that on Tuesday, April 1, "the Chiapas government freed thirty political prisoners in response to years of protests for their freedom, but not before giving some of them one last thorough beating." According to the recently released, while they were en route to a government press conference "the police beat them... [...]

  Filed Under Chiapas • hunger strike • Indigenous Peoples • Mexico • struggles • Successes

• Protesting against the Sardar Sarovar dam

  

  October 17, 2007  1,909 views 0 Comments Share

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  For the past two weeks, more than 30 tribal people effected by the Sardar Sarovar dam, the largest of 3000 dams planned for the Narmada River in India, have been staging an ongoing protest because the government has yet to compensate them for the lands they've lost to flooding. In response to the protest, yesterday [...]

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• Day 37 of Hunger strike for Lepcha Youth

  

  July 26, 2007  1,680 views 0 Comments Share

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  For 37 days now Members of the Lepcha tribe of Sikkim, mostly youth, have been on an indefinite fast (satyagraha) demanding the immediate scrapping of atleast 6 of the seven hydro dams proposed for development in the region of Dzongu--- the homeland of the Lepcha people. The Lepcha say these projects will "devastate the region [...]

  Filed Under business • Energy • hunger strike • hydro dams • India • land • Lepcha • petition • struggles • youth