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Indigenous Ecuadorians March Against Canadian Copper Mine
QUITO, Ecuador, March 8, 2012 (ENS) – Several hundred members of the largest Ecuadorian indigenous organization today began marching to the capital, Quito, to protest new mining in their territory. They expect to arrive in Quito on March 22. The indigenous march started from Yantzaza in Zamora Chinchipe province southern Ecuador, where …

Mayan People’s Movement Defeats Monsanto Law in Guatemala

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September 11, 2014, upsidedownworld.org | “On September 4th, after ten days of widespread street protests against the biotech giant Monsanto’s expansion into Guatemalan territory, groups of indigenous people joined by social movements, trade unions and farmer and women’s organizations won a victory when congress finally repealed the legislation that had been approved in June.”

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September 14 at 1:22am ·
YES!! Keep it going….
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Rarest Native Animals Find Haven on Tribal Lands

August 25, 2014, mobile.nytimes.com | ” In the employee directory of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Bronc Speak Thunder’s title is buffalo wrangler.In 2012, Mr. Speak Thunder drove a livestock trailer in a convoy from Yellowstone National Park that returned genetically pure bison to tribal land in northeastern Montana for the first time in 140 years.”

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Rarest Native Animals Find Haven on Tribal Lands
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A growing number of younger Native Americans are helping to restore native animals to the Northern Great Plains, providing new homes for the animals and a connection to the past.

 

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Native Americans Launch ‘Love Water Not Oil’ Ride to Protest Fracking Pipeline

August 24, 2014, www.nationofchange.org | “Winona LaDuke, executive director of Native environmental group Honor the Earth, launched the “Love Water Not Oil” horse ride this week to draw attention to the group’s continued opposition to the Enbridge Sandpiper pipeline. It would carry fracked oil from North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil fields through the Sandy Lake and Rice Lake watersheds in northern Minnesota. The area is not only rich in recreational fishing facilities but it is also home to vast fields of wild rice or manoomim, a Native American staple.”

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Winona LaDuke, executive director of Native environmental group Honor the Earth, launched the “Love Water Not Oil”…
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Feds to Release Water for Klamath and Trinity Salmon; Farm Districts Protest

(Dan Brekke/KQED)August 22, 2014, blogs.kqed.org | “The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced Friday that it will release water over the next several weeks to aid chinook salmon on the Klamath and Trinity rivers — a move that native tribes on the river have lobbied for to prevent a repeat of a catastrophic die-off that killed tens of thousands of fish headed upstream to spawn in 2002.”

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BUREAUCRAT STANDS UP FOR SALMON
A big shout out to David Murillo, Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director, for his openness to new information about the risk of a disastrous fish kill in the Klamath River, and his courage to reverse his earlier decision to withhold water, knowing that he would now be immediately challenged in court.
Given the choice between a massive fish kill vs. a bit more irrigation water for the Central Valley, he made the right call. Bureaucrats who stand up to big money need our support, so let’s give it to him! Call his office at 916-978-5000 during business hours, Monday-Friday.
Photo: BUREAUCRAT STANDS UP FOR SALMON A big shout out to David Murillo, Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director, for his openness to new information about the risk of a disastrous fish kill in the Klamath River, and his courage to reverse his earlier decision to withhold water, knowing that he would now be immediately challenged in court. Given the choice between a massive fish kill vs. a bit more irrigation water for the Central Valley, he made the right call. Bureaucrats who stand up to big money need our support, so let's give it to him! Call his office at 916-978-5000 during business hours, Monday-Friday.
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TransCanada Faces United Front in South Dakota: Tribes and Landowners Say NO KXL

Rosebud Sioux Tribe Spirit Camp to oppose Keystone XL pipeline near Ideal, South Dakota.August 21, 2014, nativenewsonline.net | “TransCanada faces yet another hurdle in its effort to build the Keystone XL pipeline. A coalition of long­existing pipeline fighters in South Dakota have come together to extend their share division of protecting the land, the water and the peoples of the area. An alliance of Protect the Sacred Movement of the Ihanktonwan/Yankton; the Bridger Spiritual Camp, Pte Ospaye; the Lower Brule Spiritual Camp, Wiconi Un Tipi; the Rosebud Spiritual Camp, Oyate Wahacanka Woecun; Dakota Rural Action; and the Indigenous Environmental Network are launching No KXL Dakota, a united effort to fight the Keystone XL pipeline.”

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TransCanada Faces United Front in South Dakota: Tribes and Landowners Say NO KXL
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Lummi Nation joins South Dakota pipeline fighters August 22 for launch of No KXL Dakota IHANKTONWAN, SOUTH…

 

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Navajo Nation Slams Door on Deal That Would Have Allowed Uranium Mining Read more at

August 1, 2014, indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com | “The Navajo Nation has blocked a backdoor deal that would have allowed uranium mining to restart, despite lingering waste from past mining and a reservation-wide ban that’s been in place since 2005.”

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Navajo Nation Slams Door on Deal That Would Have Allowed Uranium Mining
The Navajo Nation has blocked a backdoor deal that would have allowed uranium mining to restart, despite lingering waste from past mining.
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Gitxsan First Nation evicting rail, logging, sport fishing interests

The Gitxsan First Nation has issued eviction notices to rail , logging and fishing interests claiming their concerns are being ingored by the B.C. government.

July 11, 2014, www.cbc.ca | “British Columbia First Nations are wasting no time in enforcing their claim on traditional lands in light of a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision recognizing aboriginal land title.  The hereditary chiefs of the Gitxsan First Nations served notice Thursday to CN Rail, logging companies and sport fishermen to leave their territory along the Skeena River in a dispute with the federal and provincial governments over treaty talks.”

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Gitxsan First Nation evicting rail, logging, fishing interests
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British Columbia First Nations are wasting no time in enforcing their claim on traditional lands in light of a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision recognizing aboriginal land title.”
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Indigenous Rights & Rights of Nature

July 10, 2014, www.pachamama.org | “We work with our indigenous partners in Ecuador, and other organizations, to stand for the rights of indigenous people and Nature, safeguarding the rainforest and working in the industrialized world to shift the culture of overconsumption that threatens their Amazonian home and communities.”

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“Our Accomplishments in the Amazon
For 16 years, in partnership with Fundación Pachamama, our work with our indigenous partners has resulted in the historic inclusion of Rights of Nature in the 2008 Ecuadorian Constitution, support of the i…
Oil Free Amazon and other projects by Pachamama Alliance
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We work with our indigenous partners in Ecuador, and other organizations, to stand for the rights of indigenous people and Nature, safeguarding the rainforest and working in the industrialized world to shift the culture of overconsumption that…
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First Nations Take Their Last March Through Canada’s Dystopian Tar Sands

2014 Tar Sands Healing Walk

July 9, 2014, www.yesmagazine.org | “The fifth and final Tar Sands Healing Walk took place on June 28 in Fort McMurray, Canada. Hundreds of people joined First Nations leaders in a prayer-filled walk around the refineries and “land reclamation” projects operated by the oil company Syncrude.”

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“Hundreds of people joined First Nations leaders in a prayer-filled walk around the refineries and “land reclamation” projects operated by the oil company Syncrude. This isn’t protest or a rally,” organizer Crystal Lameman told the particip…
First Nations in Canada March Against Tar Sands
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Organizers agreed that the annual marches have helped raise awareness about the mining project. But their work is far from done.
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Group recovers riverbank reserve

Green fingers: A reforestation team member carrying the native tree seedlings along the Kinabatangan river.

 

June 5, 2014, www.thestar.com.my | “A community-based group has ‘recovered and restored’ an 8ha stretch of riverbank reserve along the Kinabatangan river that was encroached on by an oil palm reserve by planting it with native trees.  The community eco-tourism cooperative known as Kopel took two weeks to uproot some 400 oil palm trees and replace them with 4,600 native trees after the Sabah government gave it the green light to take the land back.”

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KOTA KINABALU: A community-based group has “recovered and restored” an 8ha stretch of riverbank reserve along the Kinabatangan river that was encroached on by an oil palm…

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