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01
Sep

Haiti - the UNtold Story

In 2004, the United States, with the complicity of France and Canada, forcibly removed democratically-elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office, bringing Haiti’s 10 year experience with democracy to a brutal end.

After the coup, 6,000 United Nations Peacekeepers came to Haiti to legitimize the ‘regime change’, and to purportedly help restore peace and democracy in Haiti, in part, by hunting down members of Lavalas, the popular movement that swept Aristide into office.

Since 2004, thousands of Lavalas members, so-called bandits, have been killed or driven into hiding.

please be advised that some of the links below contain images of deceased persons

More to the point of the following video, to date the ‘peacekeepers’ have massacred people. killed children, raped women, and raided and occupied communities.

On top of that, the so-called Peacekeepers also protect and enable the Haitian Police (HNP) to repress and abuse the Haitian …

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September 1, 2007
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25
Aug

Taku: Our Land is Our Future

This is an abbreviated version of the film “Our Land is Our Future”, a documentary about the the Taku River Tlingit people’s relationship with their traditional territory and their struggle to honor their land, sovereignty, and way of life.

“The Taku is a land abundant with life. Within its 18,000 square kilometers/4.5 million acres, the watershed encompasses seven biogeoclimatic zones, enriching the region with stunning diversity. It is the traditional territory of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation (TRTFN), who maintain strong ties to this landscape. It is also home to globally significant populations of large mammals, including carnivores such as: grizzly bear, black bear, wolf, wolverine, and lynx; as well as ungulates including moose, mountain goat, sheep; and woodland caribou. Bald eagles and many species of migrating birds, including the Trumpeter swan, also populate the watershed. Without roads to …

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August 25, 2007
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18
Aug

Guerrero: La Ruta al Sol

Guerrero is best known for the Mexican beach resorts of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, but few know that it continues to be the site of the most blatant human and economic rights violations in the country. Although the Sierra Club and other international groups once made the persecution of environmental activists in Guerrero an international scandal, attention has waned as abuses continue.

Guerrero: La ruta al sol is a gritty plea from people in Guerrero for international pressure and solidarity to help stop human rights violations in Guerrero and throughout Mexico. Interviews with Mexican human rights workers, massacre and torture survivors, and campesinos are backed up with leaked police video of the Aguas Blancas Massacre which left 17 dead.

La ruta al sol was filmed by a delegation of volunteer human right observers from the Building Bridges Human Rights Project which has groups in Vancouver and Victoria. The documentary is fully bilingual …

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August 18, 2007
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18
Aug

Sweet Crude

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 become unsustainable—not just because of the 6,000 reported oil spills (less than 50% of which are cleaned) rampant gas flaring (2.5 billion cubic feet of gas per day) and several major pipeline explosions that have killed thousands of people—but also because the people are actively oppressed and murdered by the Nigerian military.

Since 1998, 23 villages have been wiped out and over 50,000 people have been killed in the Delta.

On top of that, poverty and starvation is a brutal constant. The People in the Niger …

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August 18, 2007
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11
Aug

British Columbia: Nigeria North?

Three years ago the BC government sold Shell Canada drilling rights to explore for coalbed methane within Tahltan Lands, located in what’s now known as British Columbia, Canada.

The Talthan were never truly consulted in this business deal, hadn’t been informed of the dangers connected to Coalbed Methane, and in fact didn’t even known where Shell was planning to drill until they bulldozed an access road through a Tahltan trapper’s camp in the Sacred Headwaters region.

Once Shell completed drilling some test wells (in 2005), questions started to be asked about the potential impacts on water, wildlife and other matters important to the Tahltan—questions that should have been raised before any sort of deal was made–But of course the Government of BC neglected its responsibilities with regard to the rights of the Tahltan, and afterwards Shell did little to inform …

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August 11, 2007
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11
Aug

The Land Owns Us

Between 1910 and 1970, a massive campaign of assimilation was carried out in Australia. Up to 100,000 Aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their homes and families, creating the Stolen Generation

One of those Children taken was Bob Randall, an Yankunytjatjara Elder and Traditional Owner/Representative of Uluru (Ayers Rock)

In the following clip Bob talks briefly out his experience, but focuses more on his Peoples Traditional Relationship with the Land, a relationship that’s inverted in Colonial Society.

Bob was the main subject for the 2006 documentary film Kanyini, which discusses the consequences of colonizing Australia, and explores what needs to be done for the People to move forward. You can see a clip about the film here

Uluru itself is considered to be a major tourist attraction by Australian Society—Last month, after John Howard and Mal Brough announced their plans to undermine and invade atleast 60 Indigenous communities in …

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August 11, 2007
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04
Aug

Our Land, Our Life

“The land is very important to us. It is very sacred to the Western Shoshone People. It represents life, and to take our land is to take our life. And I find it quote appauling that a country like the United States is legitimizing the theft of Western Shoshone land.“– Carrie Dann, Western Shoshone grandmother

 

The following 25 minute video focuses in on the struggles of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone Grandmothers who have since 1972 been working to protect their lands from the United States’ gradual encroachment and utter usurpation.

Their Nevada Territory—in fact two-thirds of the State of Nevada and small portions of California, Idaho and Utah are protected under the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, which was a treaty of Peace and Friendship that granted the US the right of safe passage. But the United States fraudulently nullified the treaty, and has since engaged in constant …

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August 4, 2007
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Eight Mayan Women

Eight Mayan Women is a story of continued resistance to the Canadian mining company Goldcorp.

For the past three years the company has been extracting gold and silver in the municipality of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, Guatemala. The people of San Miguel have been opposed the operation, primarily out of a concern that it is destroying the environment and draining the region of its water. Many also say they were deceived and forced into selling their lands, and that …


Underreported Struggles #20, November 2008

In the month’s Underreported Struggles: Talisman decides to ignore warning from the Achuar to “get out now”; A spontaneous tribal uprising forms in West Bengal; Vedanta Resources gets chased away by more than …


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 …


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