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12
May

A Plea from the Marshall Islands

Saludos desde Mayaguez, Puerto Rico — During our struggle to get the US Navy to stop bombing our island municipality of Vieques, people from all over the world gave us their solidarity. A Land is Life Conference took place in Vieques. People from Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, Guam and the Philippines came to share their experiences and show solidarity for our struggle. The US no longer bombs Vieques. But it has left its toxic wastes there to continue contaminating the land. Its clean up operations are not careful of the islands eco system nor do they use the best technology avalable to minimize the contamination.

The people of the Marshall Islands are the victims of 67 atomic bombs which were “tested” there by the US Government. The “testing” took place while the Marshalls was …

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May 12, 2007
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05
May

LA-Based Oil Giant’s Conduct Leads to Legal Liability in the US

From Amazon Watch - Los Angeles, CA – A report released today (link below), on the eve of Occidental Petroleum’s (Oxy) annual general meeting (AGM), reveals that the LA-based oil giant deliberately ignored industry standards and employed out-of-date practices for 30 years, resulting in severe cadmium and lead poisoning among indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon.

According to the report, based on information gathered by a team of experts in May 2006 – including a doctor, nurse, lawyers, soil scientist, agronomist, environmental engineer, and chemist – children from five Achuar communities in the Corrientes River basin of the Peruvian Amazon now have unusually high concentrations of lead and cadmium in their blood, at levels known to cause developmental problems.

Andrés Sandi Mucushua, President of the Federation of Native Communities of the Corrientes River (FECONACO), said: “My people have suffered for 35 …

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May 5, 2007
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29
Apr

Indonesia - Special Autonomy has Failed.

Special Autonomy has Failed

SPECIAL AUTONOMY HAS FAILED, THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT MUST CARRY OUT RESPECTFUL DIALOGUE WITH PAPUA

From adnki.com - More than 1,500 students on Friday gathered in front of the governors palace in Jayapura, the capital of the Indonesian province of Papua, demanding an end to the province’s special autonomy status, which they say does not work. The protestors called instead for dialogue with the government to decided the future of the province. “We want a three-way dialogue, involving Jakarta, a delegation from Papua and a representative from a neutral organisation,” said Buchtar Tabuni, 28, one of the organisers of the protest in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI).

Papua, which is in the far east of the Indonesian archipelago, was annexed by Jakarta with a controversial referendum in 1969. (source, view more pictures from …

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April 29, 2007
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29
Apr

Honduras - More repression against Garifuna people

The following is some news, as sent out by www.rightsaction.org

AMBUSH OF GARIFUNA YOUTH FROM COMMUNITY OF SAN JUAN TELA

This past April 14 in the entry to the community of San Juan Tela, Durugubuti, young women, Keydi Jorleny Marin, Yerli Isolina Ellis, Yanaira Briyed Lambert, Eusebia Guillen, Joselyn Lizet Rivas were ambushed. The last mentioned is the daughter Jessica Garcia, President of the Patronata (development committee) of the community of Durugubuti, who has been constantly threatened for her position in the defense of her community’s territory.

According to the Preventative Police report relating to the incident, the situation was classified as an attempted homicide, in which various hit men who fired on the vehicle (taxi) in which the five young women traveled to their community.

TOURISM DOLLARS versus INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES

The community of San Juan Tela has been struggling during the last …

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April 29, 2007
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23
Apr

“Popular Court” judges Oaxaca repression

From the WW4Report, April 21 — The Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) has joined with members of the Union of Mexican Jurists in a “Popular Court” to judge the repression and rights violations in southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state over the last year of social conflict. The Popular Court is to collect evidence on “crimes against humanity perpetrated against the people,” and submit the findings to national and international legal bodies. APPO Spokesman Florentino Lopez said that over the course of the conflict, police violence has claimed 27 lives, while 43 activists remain in prison-including APPO leader Flavio Sosa, held in isolation at El Altiplano maximum security prison 23 hours a day. (Prensa Latina, April 21)

The Popular Court’s opening statement charged that in Oaxaca there is a state of impunity for the “ruling PRI-PAN oligarchy.” Federal deputy Antonio Almazan Gonzalez added that “Oaxaca has been a laboratory for …

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April 23, 2007
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17
Apr

Action on the International Day of Peasant Struggle

Today, April 17th, is the International Day of Peasant Struggle, as called for by la Via Campesina International — a day of action which commemorates the Massacre of Carajas on April 17, 1996 where 19 Peasants were killed and 69 injured while demanding land to live and work on.

In Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Mozambique, Congo, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Cameroon, Thailand, Colombia, Bangladesh, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada , Bolivia, and France - Peasants and small farmers have organized events for this day.

From a Via Campesina Press Release:
This year, the African organisations will mainly protest against the EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) that are threatening their economies by pushing further trade liberalisation. As a result, cheap import of food products will keep destroying local livelihoods. Many African organisations will also join the global day of action against the EPAs on the 19th of April.

In Latin America, Agrarian Reform will be at …

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April 17, 2007
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14
Apr

Justice for murdered Nahuatl Elder

Justice for Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, Nahua, from Soledad Atzompa, Sierra de Zongolica, Veracruz!
(from http://tashunkawitkobrigade.blogspot.com/)

JUSTICE FOR ERNESTINA - JUSTICIA PARA ERNESTINA

We demand that the Mexican federal government, Mexican authorities, and the many institutions to which this concerns, fulfill the recommendations put forward by Amnesty International (AI) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), in relation to the repeated rape, injuries, murder and whatever will become of Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, our indigenous compatriot, at the hands of presumed Mexican military personnel.

Based on the second autopsy that reiterates that she was raped, we categorically reject Felipe Calderon Hinojosa’s assertion seeking to exonerate the rapist and murderous military soldiers.

We express our profound concern at the exculpatory manifestations expressed by local and federal authorities, as well as by those who are supposedly bound, ethically and legally, to defend human rights, as is the case of the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) and its …

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April 14, 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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