Nick Engelfried Tsleil-Waututh water protectors at Saturday’s rally in Whey-Ah-Whichen, now the site of Cates Park in North Vancouver. (WNV/Nick Engelfried) For thousands of years, Whey-Ah-Whichen has been a site of importance to the Tsleil-Waututh people. This hospitable flat peninsula in the Pacific Northwest was home to one of their major villages, standing in the…
Category: TERRITORIAL DEFENSE
Indigenous People Possess a Quarter of the Global Territory
A new study published by the journal Nature Sustainability shows that Indigenous people own or have tenure rights over at least a quarter of the global, inhabited land surface, reaffirming their important role in nature conservation and the fight against climate change. This might be the first study to aggregate and analyze spatial information on…
“We Demand that Peasants Rights are Guaranteed. Enough of FTAs, Enough Impunity for Corporations!”
LA VIA CAMPESINA (Harare, April 17th 2018) After two decades of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), being advanced in an attempt to recolonize and 22 years after the de Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in Brazil, La Via Campesina denounces the impunity with which these actions are carried out. The global peasant movement issues a call to…
Declaration on the Rights of Peasants, Challenging Neoliberal Globalization and Corporate Impunity
LA VIA CAMPESINA Translation by Internationalist 360° Presentation made in the Regional Consultation, Training and Meeting of La Vía Campesina Collective on Human Rights of East and East South Asia, March 27, 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia. On behalf of Focus on the Global South, let me begin by praising the hard work that has been…
Transnationals and Indigenous Peoples in Struggle
Magdalena Gómez Citizens in our country are living in campaign season, even without being members of any political party. The campaign that I refer to is not that of messages or promises that are expressed in speeches with few contrasts, or through social networks and the mass media, or what simulates paying attention to the…
Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras: 25 Years of Struggle and Revolution
Roberto Barra Translation by Internationalist 360° The beginning of the decade of the 1990s was marked by the ebb and flow of revolutionary struggles in the Central American region. This reflux not only meant the modification of the political situation in the region, with the legalization of the guerrilla forces as electoral parties, but also…
Conference of the Libyan Tribes and Cities Confirm Commitment to Saif Qaddafi, National Reconciliation
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…
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…
