JANA NEWS, CAIRO APPROXIMATE TRANSLATION The General Conference of the Libyan tribes and cities confirmed its commitment to Dr. Saif al-Islam Qaddafi to lead the national reconciliation and lead the country to safety. In a statement, the conference called for all the “free and honorable” parties to join ranks in order to liberate the country…
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The Legacy of Dennis Banks
Interview with Russell Mean’s brother and AIM co-founder Bill Means, following Banks’ passing… Dennis J Bernstein Noted civil rights activist Dennis J. Banks, who co-founded the American Indian Movement and championed indigenous rights in the face of continuing oppression of Native Americans, died on Oct. 29 in his native Minnesota. He was 80 years old….
COPINH: “Heaven and Earth Don’t Belong to Multinationals”
By Pascuala Vásquez and Beverly Bell “Berta didn’t die. She multiplied,” is an oft-heard chant in Honduras. The significance of the life of Berta Cáceres, warrior for indigenous peoples and the sanctity of Mother Earth, continues growing. So, too, does the significance of her assassination in March 2016, as more evidence emerges about the role…
Zapatistas Urge Scientists to Join in Building a Better World
‘With all the damage that the capitalists have done to the people through their misuse of science, can you create a science that is truly human? Can we work collectively to defend life and humanity?’ In December and January, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN, Zapatista National Liberation Army, commonly called the Zapatistas) held a…
Remarks by H.E. Evo Morales Ayma to the United Nations General Assembly
Published on Apr 25, 2017 Remarks by H.E. Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, at the High-level event to mark the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (English). The Convocation by the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the “World Conference of…
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance: The Anti-Colonial Struggle in Canada
By Urooba Jamal The crowd’s sporadic banter wound down to hushed murmurs, then to pin drop silence. A woman dressed in a feather crown and armed with a round drum had stepped into the middle of the group. Eying the crowd, she declared emphatically that this land was the unceded territory of the Coast Salish…
Standing Rock: Snipers and Infiltrators Quashing Protests
By Joshua Frank The inner-workings and cost of the government’s militant and violent crackdown on peaceful Standing Rock protesters have been trickling in these past few months, yet it hasn’t received the headlines it all deserves. In March, MUCKROCK was provided with an unredacted look at Indiana’s Department of Homeland Security’s EMAC (Emergency Management Assistance Compact) operation at…
Chile’s Mapuche: ‘Our People Are Unstoppable’
Temuco, home to one of Chile’s largest Mapuche communities, has been the site of rising conflict between Indigenous resistance and police. Recently-jailed members of Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche community released a statement Saturday celebrating ongoing campaigns against police terror and land privatization. Slamming the Chilean government, which they claim is “servile to the interests of transnational…
Honoring Berta Cáceres, Honduran Land Defenders Continue the Struggle
One year after Berta Cáceres’ murder, indigenous peoples are in revolt, fighting for their rights to exist in a system that has no part for them to play. Michael Phoenix Let us wake up! Let us wake up, humankind! We’re out of time. We must shake our conscience free of the rapacious capitalism, racism and…
Another Indigenous Human Rights Activist Killed in Colombia
Alicia Lopez Guisao, a leader of Colombia’s Asokinchas community, helped distribute food to Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. Colombian Indigenous and campesino leader Alicia Lopez Guisao was killed in Medellin on Thursday, adding to the growing list of recently murdered human rights activists in the South American country. The number of social and human rights defenders…
The Vision and Legacy of Berta Cáceres
Beverly Bell Above photo: Berta Zuniga Cáceres, Laura Zuniga Cáceres, and Gustavo Castro Soto presenting on “the Revolutions of Berta Cáceres” at the opening session of the international Forum on Emancipatory Paradigms. Havana, January 10, 2017. Credit: Beverly Bell] Note this week the Guardian reported that court papers show her murder was a well planned military operation…
Native History: AIM Occupation of Wounded Knee Begins
Robert Onco with his AK47 during the occupation of Wounded Knee, 1973. In this March 3, 1973 file photo, a U.S. flag flies upside down outside a church occupied by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), background, on the site of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, S.D. AIM’s occupation of Wounded Knee triggered…
