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Mexican Campesinos Tricked into Leasing Their Land
Hundreds of Indigenous campesinos have been tricked into giving away their lands for a wind farm project on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. The non-Spanish speaking agrarians signed tena...
UN ‘clean development’ money sought for dam that threatens Indigenous People
The US company Allied Energy Systems (AES) is trying to get funding from the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for the Chan 75, a hydro project in Panama that threatens to displace more than 1,...
Vedanta says no mining without tribe’s ‘permission’
Following-up last week’s story about Vedanta and the Dongria Kondh, the company recently held it’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in London, where it assured shareholders and the attending K...
The people of Nigeria versus Shell
The people of Nigeria versus Shell is a short 5 minute video that discusses a new legal effort against Royal Dutch Shell. On May 15th 2008, Friends of the Earth Netherlands, her Nigerian sister organi...
Tribal group refuses to abandon homes for Vedanta mine
The Indian Supreme Court has postponed its judgment on whether or not Vedanta’s controversial mining project in Orissa can go ahead. The court announced its decision last Friday, July 25, foll...
Penusah Tana: The Forgotten Struggle
Penusah Tana: The Forgotten Struggle, is the story of the forest-dwelling Penan tribe of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. Historically, the Penan maintained a harmonious relationship with the rainfo...
Mexican Farmers say mine will destroy grazing land
Farmers from the Huizopa ejido (cooperative) in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua held a press conference last week, over concerns that a new gold mine will destroy 1,200 hectares (2,962 acres) ...
Anglogold refutes cyanide leak at Ghana mine
Urgent concerns have been raised by communities in the Wassa district of Ghana over a possible cyanide spill at a nearby mine. According to a July 21 report by Public Agenda, the communities, who are...
China’s Colonizing Africa, While We Talk Charity
“From Nigeria in the north, to Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Angola in the west, across Chad and Sudan in the east, and south through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique,” writes Andrew Malone,...
Cops Surround Six Nations People in Brantford
Mohawk Nation News sent out the following media alert about 10 minutes ago… UREGNT! COPS SURROUND 6 NATIONS PEOPLE FOR TRYING TO SHUT DOWN ILLEGAL DEVELOPMENT OF “KINGSPAN OF IRELAND” ON HA...
Indigenous Bolivians Declare Emergency Over Brazil Dams
Indigenous People, local communities and labour groups in Bolivia and Brazil have declared an emergency in response to the Madeira River Hydroelectric Complex, a series of four dams along the Madeira ...
Guatamelan Campesinos Face Kidaps, Multiple Attacks
Rights Action has sent a media alert concerning the safety of members belonging to the National Committee of CUC (the Campesino Unity Committee) and more than 100 Maya Keqchi families from the Alta Ve...
Indigenous Communities Oppose Deep Sea Mining
During the last week of June, indigenous representatives from the Bismark Sea region of Papua New Guinea held a three day gathering to discuss deep sea mining and what dangers they may face as a resul...
Takla Lake Escalates Blockade
In response to the governments continued refusal to deal with their concerns, the Takla Lake First Nation has blockaded a second access road to their traditional territory. “The situation is urg...
Mi’kmaq and Maliseet Say NO to Uranium mining
With Canada’s Uranium boom in overdrive, more and more indigenous peoples are being threatened by the scourge that is the uranium industry. The latest threat, according to Ruth Levi, President ...
Mayans Denounce Violence Against Women, Children
Earlier this month, the Mayan community of San Miguel Ixtahuacán issued a public statement denouncing the recent actions of Guatemala’s National Civil Police. Acting on behalf of the Canadian-...
US Moves to Clean Up Uranium on Navajo Land
After more than forty years, the U.S. government is finally moving to clean up the uranium waste on Navajo lands. On June 13, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a five-year plan to...
Cree remove roadblock after drivers “blast through”
Members of the Kelly Lake Cree Nation (KLCN) took down a roadblock on Saturday because “angry and dangerous drivers” began blasting through, almost running over four people in separate inc...
Judge Refuses to Stop Hog Farm on Sioux Land
A federal judge ruled last week that the Longview industrial hog farm in South Dakota is not within the Treaty lands of the Ihanktunwan People (Yankton Sioux). In April, three Tribal members represent...
Stop Canadian Lakes from Becoming Mine Waste Dumps!
According to a recent report by the CBC, the Federal Government is set to ‘reclassify’ 16 lakes across the country as toxic waste dumps for the mining industry. Under the Fisheries Act, co...
Takla Lake First Nation Roadblock to Protect Territory
The Takla Lake First Nation set up a roadblock yesterday, formally suspending the use of Driftwood Forest Service Road for industrial activities. In a statement (see below) the Takla say their land is...
Malaysian Indigenous People Facing Arrests at Blockade
More than a hundred indigenous Kenyah peoples from Sarawak, Malaysia are currently facing arrests. For the last month, the group has maintained a logging blockade to stop the operations of Samling T...
Mount Taylor’s Safety Assured for One Year
Over the weekend, New Mexico’s state Cultural Properties Review Committee voted 4-2 in favour of giving Mount Taylor emergency protection as a cultural property. Held Sacred by the Navajo, Hopi...
Dene Sues Alberta Over Tarsands Project
Following the massive lawsuit filed by the Beaver Lake Cree Nation last month (and the one filed by the Woodland Cree last year), the Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation came forward on June 4th to fi...
Commission Promised for Bhopal Victims
After protesting for a solid three months, victims of the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster have gained some important victories. On May 29th, the Prime Minister of India agreed to some of their key dema...
Mexican Mine Battle Comes To Toronto (June 17)
The Frente Amplio Opositor (FAO, Spanish for Broad Opposition Front), an anti-mining movement based in Mexico and Montreal, is urgently seeking organizers and solidarity activists to help spread the w...
Canada’s TVI Pacific Faces Tribal Justice
The Canadian mining company TVI Pacific, who operates a gold mine in the Southern Philippines, has been found guilty of numerous crimes by the traditional justice authority of the Subanon People - th...