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  • Ecuador: Kichwas Preparing to Defend Their Land Against Canadian Drilling

    May 4, 2010  595 views 8 comments Share
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    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, [...]

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  • 100 Communities opposed to oil exploration in Peru

    March 13, 2009  1,682 views 0 Comments Share
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    As many as 100 indigenous communities in Peru have said they will oppose attempts by the Brazilian state-owned company Petrobras to explore for oil in their territories. Peru has reportedly given the company permission to begin exploration activities in the Amazon region, along the northern border with Ecuador and Colombia. "Those potentially affected include thousands [...]

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  • I Am A Defender of the Rainforest

    November 1, 2008  4,399 views 0 Comments Share
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    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 community, living in the autonomous region of Sarayaku, organized themselves and confronted the Argentinian oil [...]

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  • Ximena on Mapuche on Hunger Strike over Chile’s Militancy:

    "Nuestras vidas están en manos del Gran Espíritu. Estamos decididos a defender nuestras tierras, y si es su voluntad, queremos dejar a nuestros huesos en ellos. " - Tecumseh en Fort Walden, septiembre 1813

  • Carey Conway on China is Manipulating Canada’s First Nations:

    It is the way of our First Nations People to, initially, accept the stranger, to believe, at the outset, the words of the new-comer,untill they have reason to do otherwise. Because this is so, the Vikings were well recived in the 12th century, as was Columbus in the 15th, and both Cartier and Cabot in the 16th century. Open, welcoming, and willing to share not just food, but lessons on survival, crops and the ways of the fish and animals, these FN People, throughout the centuries, and even, toda

  • Jamie Kneen on China is Manipulating Canada’s First Nations:

    Go back further and check South Africa's apartheid state use of some FNs to legitimate itself, even more cynical to tell Mulroney, "you're doing it, why shouldn't we?" etc.

  • Ganan on Bangladesh military opens fire on Indigenous Jumma People:

    Les Nomades et les immigrés qui ont cru la promesse des insurgés ils font une fausse route. Car tous les habitants du monde fonctionne dans le système de l'ONU maintenant. On n'est plus l'époque de la colonisation la richesse des autres. Les Nomades n'ont aucun droit de piller la propriété des Jumma et leurs héritages. Ils peuvent travailler et vivre en respectant les Jumma.Car il faut toujours méfiait la parole des autres non confirmé vrai ou faut ou c'est une magouille. Donc il faut stoper la

  • Thunderbeing on China is Manipulating Canada’s First Nations:

    I have personally intervened for the people of Tibet and will continue to do so until our brothers and sisters in Tibet get treated with respect and dignity.Their were many war crimes in Gaza a few years back so much so that i went on a hunger strike for 8 days and 7 nights to end that war,while the whole world came together to end it also.I would of died for the people of Palastine and i will do the same for the people of Tibet.They remind me of us and our plight here on our own land in which w

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