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• Mass Tribal Uprising in West Bengal

  

  November 18, 2008  1,719 views 0 Comments Share

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  What we are witnessing in the tribal belt of West Bengal is [an] historical moment. A long oppressed people have risen up and are daring to confront their oppressors and question the logic of “development” that destroys their lives and livelihoods.”In what started out as a protest against police brutality, on November 7 more [...]

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• Protests escalating against dams in Panama

  

  January 11, 2008  2,500 views 1 comment Share

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  Earlier this week, there were confrontations between police officers and indigenous People in Panama who are opposed to the development of a hydroelectric dam on the Cobre River. On Saturday, about 250 demonstrators closed the Pan-American highway, but were suppressed half an hour later and attacked with tear gas by the National Police. This was to-be-expected, [...]

  Filed Under business • campaigns • Energy • hydro dams • indigenous • movements • Naso • Ngobe • Panama • petition • protests • report

• The Need and Fear of Change in Boliva

  

  September 17, 2007  1,373 views 0 Comments Share

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  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 [...]

  Filed Under Bolivia • colonialism • events • indigenous • movements • struggles

• Yaqui and O’odham unite to plan Zapatista summits

  

  August 19, 2007  2,202 views 0 Comments Share

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  Here’s some news from Brenda Norrell regarding the Zapatistas’ regional and international summits. There are to be four regional summits, followed by the Intercontinental Indigenous Summit. See below for details and contact information. Yaqui and O’odham unite to plan Zapatista summits By Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ . RANCHO EL PENASCO, Sonora, Mexico — Yaqui Zapatistas from Vicam Pueblo met with [...]

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• Sweet Crude

  

  August 18, 2007  1,782 views 0 Comments Share

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  Sweet Crude, a documentary now in post-production, tells the story of Nigeria’s Niger Delta and the struggle of the People in the region. For 50 years, the people in the region known as the ’south-south’ have lived a life of hopelessness and desperation as they watch the land become devastated, and their own lives [...]

  Filed Under Africa • business • Energy • justice • movements • Niger Delta • oil • video

• Mexican Peasants Said ‘No’ to La Parota Dam

  

  August 15, 2007  1,284 views 0 Comments Share

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  This past Sunday an assembly was held in the Acapulco municipality of Guerrero, Mexico to decide upon the fate of La Parota Dam…. This occurred a little over a week after Senator Felix Salgado Macedonio said the People who would be effected by the completion of La Parota must be allowed to do just that: [...]

  Filed Under displacement • Energy • hydro dams • indigenous • land • Mexico • movements • struggles

• The End of La Parota?

  

  August 6, 2007  1,252 views 0 Comments Share

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  Yesterday, Senator Felix Salgado Macedonio announced that the Campesinos and Indigenous People who would be displaced by the completion of La Parota Dam in Guerrero State, Mexico—must be allowed to decide the fate of La Parota Dam. This announcement comes the same day Amnesty International released its report “Human Rights at Risk in La Parota Dam [...]

  Filed Under blockades • displacement • indigenous • land • Mexico • movements • struggles