cross-posted from Indian Country By Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. One of the consequences of the conquest and settlement of North and South America by Europeans was the displacement and destruction of native biological and cultural diversity. The environmental historian Alfred Crosby has […]
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Flagstaff Community Members Begin Hunger Strike for Protection of the San Francisco Peaks
FLAGSTAFF, AZ – Two young Flagstaffians announced the beginning of a hunger strike to call attention to human rights violations sanctioned by the US Forest Service and perpetrated by Arizona Snowbowl and the City of Flagstaff on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at […]
Continue readingHappy Beltane! Merry May Day!
From Oakland to Asia, from Madrid to Moscow people are striking, and celebrating! Here in South Florida the Earth First! Journalistas are celebrating the completion of the Betane 2012 issue of the Journal! It is out of our hands and will be […]
Continue readingNgäbes protest hydroelectric dam
“It was not nice work, but given the pattern of the country’s development, it had to be done.” – John Steinbeck, East of Eden After an early February victory against proposed mining projects, the indigenous Ngäbes (pronounced naw-bey) continue to struggle to […]
Continue readingFive Lakota Arrested for Forming Blockade on Pine Ridge Reservation
Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges. PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION – Five Lakota were arrested Monday evening in Wanblee, South Dakota when they formed a blockade to halt a convoy of trucks going through the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. At issue was […]
Continue readingMalaysian Indigenous Communities Demand Referendum on Mega-Dams
cross posted from Environment News Service. MIRI, Sarawak, Malaysia, February 19, 2012 (ENS) – Malaysian communities are asking the government to stop all 12 planned mega-dam projects in the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo and to hold a referendum […]
Continue readingIn the Path of the Mining-Energy Locomotive–Resisting Colombia’s Quimbo Hydroelectric Project
By: Entre Aguas While the tone of Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, is much more diplomatic than his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe, the state policies of militarizing territories to facilitate resource extraction under the guise of economic development and counter-insurgent security have not […]
Continue readingJust Released: No REDD Papers, Vol I
Global Justice Ecology Project has just published the No REDD Papers, Volume 1. To download it, click on one of the links below. The first link will download the booklet with one page per sheet of paper; the second link will download […]
Continue readingThis Camera Fights Fascism: Photographs of migration and struggle
Art Exhibit: de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, California. Opening Thursday, September 22nd, 6PM. David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez have both followed in the tradition of Depression-era photographers such as Dorothea Lange, focusing their cameras on struggle, dissent, immigrants, and workers. […]
Continue readingBolivians march against development plan
Reposted from Al Jazeera [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwiYvwzPc-E&] Bolivian indigenous activists have started a long protest march from the Amazon plains to the country’s capital in against a government plan to build a 306km highway through a national park in indigenous territory. Bolivian President Evo […]
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