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  1. US Department of Justice: Justice Department Expands Tribal Access Program to Improve the Exchange of Critical Data with Federally Recognized Tribes. “The Justice Department has selected seven additional federally recognized Tribes to participate in the continued expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP), a program that provides Tribal governments with means to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/22/us-department-of-justice-justice-department-expands-tribal-access-program-to-improve-the-exchange-of-critical-data-with-federally-recognized-tribes/
  2. US Department of Justice: Justice Department Expands Tribal Access Program to Improve the Exchange of Critical Data with Federally Recognized Tribes. “The Justice Department has selected seven additional federally recognized Tribes to participate in the continued expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP), a program that provides Tribal governments with means to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/22/us-department-of-justice-justice-department-expands-tribal-access-program-to-improve-the-exchange-of-critical-data-with-federally-recognized-tribes/
  3. US Department of Justice: Justice Department Expands Tribal Access Program to Improve the Exchange of Critical Data with Federally Recognized Tribes. “The Justice Department has selected seven additional federally recognized Tribes to participate in the continued expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP), a program that provides Tribal governments with means to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/22/us-department-of-justice-justice-department-expands-tribal-access-program-to-improve-the-exchange-of-critical-data-with-federally-recognized-tribes/
  4. US Department of Justice: Justice Department Expands Tribal Access Program to Improve the Exchange of Critical Data with Federally Recognized Tribes. “The Justice Department has selected seven additional federally recognized Tribes to participate in the continued expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP), a program that provides Tribal governments with means to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/22/us-department-of-justice-justice-department-expands-tribal-access-program-to-improve-the-exchange-of-critical-data-with-federally-recognized-tribes/
  5. US Department of Justice: Justice Department Expands Tribal Access Program to Improve the Exchange of Critical Data with Federally Recognized Tribes. “The Justice Department has selected seven additional federally recognized Tribes to participate in the continued expansion of the Tribal Access Program for National Crime Information (TAP), a program that provides Tribal governments with means to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/22/us-department-of-justice-justice-department-expands-tribal-access-program-to-improve-the-exchange-of-critical-data-with-federally-recognized-tribes/
  6. Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
    By Danielle Beurteaux

    The Canadian government has committed C$25m to try to rescue the caribou in the province – but there is no agreement on how best to save the keystone species

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Wildlife #Environment #Canada #Worldnews #Americas #Quebec #Endangeredspecies #Endangeredhabitats #Indigenouspeoples #Treesandforests #Animals #Conservation #TheGuardian #DanielleBeurteaux

  7. Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
    By Danielle Beurteaux

    The Canadian government has committed C$25m to try to rescue the caribou in the province – but there is no agreement on how best to save the keystone species

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Wildlife #Environment #Canada #Worldnews #Americas #Quebec #Endangeredspecies #Endangeredhabitats #Indigenouspeoples #Treesandforests #Animals #Conservation #TheGuardian #DanielleBeurteaux

  8. Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
    By Danielle Beurteaux

    The Canadian government has committed C$25m to try to rescue the caribou in the province – but there is no agreement on how best to save the keystone species

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #Wildlife #Environment #Canada #Worldnews #Americas #Quebec #Endangeredspecies #Endangeredhabitats #Indigenouspeoples #Treesandforests #Animals #Conservation #TheGuardian #DanielleBeurteaux

  9. ‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining
    By Tom Phillips in the Sararé Indigenous territory

    The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous land

    theguardian.com/world/2026/jul

    #Brazil #Americas #Mining #Amazonrainforest #Deforestation #Environment #Indigenouspeoples #Commodities #Gold #Conservation #LuizIncioLuladaSilva #JairBolsonaro #Worldnews #TheGuardian #TomPhillipsintheSararIndigenousterritory

  10. Are 'ordinary mums and dads' making 'bad apples' ?
    Caught up in tight-knit webs of hate

    “There was a range of grievances on display about perceived immigration rates on Sunday, but it was clear for many that the return to an imagined white Australia was a central theme...It’s not that white supremacy, which was present clearly yesterday, is something that the neo-Nazis in some evil, secretive fashion introduced into the political mainstream. It is something that has always been present in parts of the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    "The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it has been enabled by the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #mainstream #ImaginedCommunity #decline #ressentiment #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #EnablingSystems #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #RottenAppleTheory

  11. Are 'ordinary mums and dads' making 'bad apples' ?
    Caught up in tight-knit webs of hate

    “There was a range of grievances on display about perceived immigration rates on Sunday, but it was clear for many that the return to an imagined white Australia was a central theme...It’s not that white supremacy, which was present clearly yesterday, is something that the neo-Nazis in some evil, secretive fashion introduced into the political mainstream. It is something that has always been present in parts of the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    "The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it has been enabled by the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #mainstream #ImaginedCommunity #decline #ressentiment #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #EnablingSystems #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #RottenAppleTheory

  12. Are 'ordinary mums and dads' making 'bad apples' ?
    Caught up in tight-knit webs of hate

    “There was a range of grievances on display about perceived immigration rates on Sunday, but it was clear for many that the return to an imagined white Australia was a central theme...It’s not that white supremacy, which was present clearly yesterday, is something that the neo-Nazis in some evil, secretive fashion introduced into the political mainstream. It is something that has always been present in parts of the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    "The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it has been enabled by the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #mainstream #ImaginedCommunity #decline #ressentiment #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #EnablingSystems #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #RottenAppleTheory

  13. Are 'ordinary mums and dads' making 'bad apples' ?
    Caught up in tight-knit webs of hate

    “There was a range of grievances on display about perceived immigration rates on Sunday, but it was clear for many that the return to an imagined white Australia was a central theme...It’s not that white supremacy, which was present clearly yesterday, is something that the neo-Nazis in some evil, secretive fashion introduced into the political mainstream. It is something that has always been present in parts of the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    "The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it has been enabled by the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #mainstream #ImaginedCommunity #decline #ressentiment #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #EnablingSystems #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #RottenAppleTheory

  14. Are 'ordinary mums and dads' making 'bad apples' ?
    Caught up in tight-knit webs of hate

    “There was a range of grievances on display about perceived immigration rates on Sunday, but it was clear for many that the return to an imagined white Australia was a central theme...It’s not that white supremacy, which was present clearly yesterday, is something that the neo-Nazis in some evil, secretive fashion introduced into the political mainstream. It is something that has always been present in parts of the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    "The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it has been enabled by the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #mainstream #ImaginedCommunity #decline #ressentiment #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #EnablingSystems #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #RottenAppleTheory

  15. "Indigenous leaders have called for Sunday's attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty to be investigated as a hate crime."

    "Counterterrorism police will help investigate the attack, according to the Victorian government. About 40 men dressed in black, some armed with flagpoles and sticks and led by known Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, violently attacked Camp Sovereignty following Sunday's anti-immigration March for Australia rally. "
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-09-02/iat
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #ressentiment

  16. "Indigenous leaders have called for Sunday's attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty to be investigated as a hate crime."

    "Counterterrorism police will help investigate the attack, according to the Victorian government. About 40 men dressed in black, some armed with flagpoles and sticks and led by known Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, violently attacked Camp Sovereignty following Sunday's anti-immigration March for Australia rally. "
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-09-02/iat
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #ressentiment

  17. "Indigenous leaders have called for Sunday's attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty to be investigated as a hate crime."

    "Counterterrorism police will help investigate the attack, according to the Victorian government. About 40 men dressed in black, some armed with flagpoles and sticks and led by known Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, violently attacked Camp Sovereignty following Sunday's anti-immigration March for Australia rally. "
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-09-02/iat
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #ressentiment

  18. "Indigenous leaders have called for Sunday's attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty to be investigated as a hate crime."

    "Counterterrorism police will help investigate the attack, according to the Victorian government. About 40 men dressed in black, some armed with flagpoles and sticks and led by known Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, violently attacked Camp Sovereignty following Sunday's anti-immigration March for Australia rally. "
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-09-02/iat
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #ressentiment

  19. "Indigenous leaders have called for Sunday's attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty to be investigated as a hate crime."

    "Counterterrorism police will help investigate the attack, according to the Victorian government. About 40 men dressed in black, some armed with flagpoles and sticks and led by known Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, violently attacked Camp Sovereignty following Sunday's anti-immigration March for Australia rally. "
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-09-02/iat
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #ressentiment

  20. One era ends (#FirstVoicesRadio), and another begins...

    Launching Live '#RadioFreeSimnasho' in #WarmSprings

    By #Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, July 3, 2025

    "The local team at Radio Free #Simnasho in Warm Springs will be working on a play list and schedule this month.

    "SIMNASHO, #WarmSpringsIndianNation -- Radio Free Simnasho launched today, bringing grassroots voices online, and honoring the #AmericanIndianMovement.

    "Welcoming listeners, Quiltman and Govinda shared the sounds of John Trudell this morning. They'll be working on the solar panels to power the grassroots radio station."

    Source:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06

    Live Now!
    radiofreesimnasho.ismyradio.co (Click on Play)

    #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #IndigenousVoices #IndependentRadio

  21. One era ends (#FirstVoicesRadio), and another begins...

    Launching Live '#RadioFreeSimnasho' in #WarmSprings

    By #Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, July 3, 2025

    "The local team at Radio Free #Simnasho in Warm Springs will be working on a play list and schedule this month.

    "SIMNASHO, #WarmSpringsIndianNation -- Radio Free Simnasho launched today, bringing grassroots voices online, and honoring the #AmericanIndianMovement.

    "Welcoming listeners, Quiltman and Govinda shared the sounds of John Trudell this morning. They'll be working on the solar panels to power the grassroots radio station."

    Source:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06

    Live Now!
    radiofreesimnasho.ismyradio.co (Click on Play)

    #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #IndigenousVoices #IndependentRadio

  22. One era ends (#FirstVoicesRadio), and another begins...

    Launching Live '#RadioFreeSimnasho' in #WarmSprings

    By #Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, July 3, 2025

    "The local team at Radio Free #Simnasho in Warm Springs will be working on a play list and schedule this month.

    "SIMNASHO, #WarmSpringsIndianNation -- Radio Free Simnasho launched today, bringing grassroots voices online, and honoring the #AmericanIndianMovement.

    "Welcoming listeners, Quiltman and Govinda shared the sounds of John Trudell this morning. They'll be working on the solar panels to power the grassroots radio station."

    Source:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06

    Live Now!
    radiofreesimnasho.ismyradio.co (Click on Play)

    #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #IndigenousVoices #IndependentRadio

  23. One era ends (#FirstVoicesRadio), and another begins...

    Launching Live '#RadioFreeSimnasho' in #WarmSprings

    By #Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, July 3, 2025

    "The local team at Radio Free #Simnasho in Warm Springs will be working on a play list and schedule this month.

    "SIMNASHO, #WarmSpringsIndianNation -- Radio Free Simnasho launched today, bringing grassroots voices online, and honoring the #AmericanIndianMovement.

    "Welcoming listeners, Quiltman and Govinda shared the sounds of John Trudell this morning. They'll be working on the solar panels to power the grassroots radio station."

    Source:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06

    Live Now!
    radiofreesimnasho.ismyradio.co (Click on Play)

    #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #IndigenousVoices #IndependentRadio

  24. One era ends (#FirstVoicesRadio), and another begins...

    Launching Live '#RadioFreeSimnasho' in #WarmSprings

    By #Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, July 3, 2025

    "The local team at Radio Free #Simnasho in Warm Springs will be working on a play list and schedule this month.

    "SIMNASHO, #WarmSpringsIndianNation -- Radio Free Simnasho launched today, bringing grassroots voices online, and honoring the #AmericanIndianMovement.

    "Welcoming listeners, Quiltman and Govinda shared the sounds of John Trudell this morning. They'll be working on the solar panels to power the grassroots radio station."

    Source:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06

    Live Now!
    radiofreesimnasho.ismyradio.co (Click on Play)

    #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #IndigenousVoices #IndependentRadio

  25. Ecocide and Genocide Escalates in West Papua

    "Some people, women and children, are going to their gardens and suddenly, the Indonesian army are stopping them and searching them because they are suspicious they are freedom fighters."

    "The deforestation is massive, and the military are involved...Our forest is our survival. But they are destroying it. That is why I say that ecocide and genocide is happening in West Papua."

    "When Indonesia is bombing, they’re using modern weapons...There is nowhere to go."
    >>
    sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/b
    #WestPapua #deforestation #displacement #IndigenousPeoples #violence #Puncak #Australia #Bali

  26. Ecocide and Genocide Escalates in West Papua

    "Some people, women and children, are going to their gardens and suddenly, the Indonesian army are stopping them and searching them because they are suspicious they are freedom fighters."

    "The deforestation is massive, and the military are involved...Our forest is our survival. But they are destroying it. That is why I say that ecocide and genocide is happening in West Papua."

    "When Indonesia is bombing, they’re using modern weapons...There is nowhere to go."
    >>
    sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/b
    #WestPapua #deforestation #displacement #IndigenousPeoples #violence #Puncak #Australia #Bali

  27. Ecocide and Genocide Escalates in West Papua

    "Some people, women and children, are going to their gardens and suddenly, the Indonesian army are stopping them and searching them because they are suspicious they are freedom fighters."

    "The deforestation is massive, and the military are involved...Our forest is our survival. But they are destroying it. That is why I say that ecocide and genocide is happening in West Papua."

    "When Indonesia is bombing, they’re using modern weapons...There is nowhere to go."
    >>
    sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/b
    #WestPapua #deforestation #displacement #IndigenousPeoples #violence #Puncak #Australia #Bali

  28. Ecocide and Genocide Escalates in West Papua

    "Some people, women and children, are going to their gardens and suddenly, the Indonesian army are stopping them and searching them because they are suspicious they are freedom fighters."

    "The deforestation is massive, and the military are involved...Our forest is our survival. But they are destroying it. That is why I say that ecocide and genocide is happening in West Papua."

    "When Indonesia is bombing, they’re using modern weapons...There is nowhere to go."
    >>
    sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/b
    #WestPapua #deforestation #displacement #IndigenousPeoples #violence #Puncak #Australia #Bali

  29. Ecocide and Genocide Escalates in West Papua

    "Some people, women and children, are going to their gardens and suddenly, the Indonesian army are stopping them and searching them because they are suspicious they are freedom fighters."

    "The deforestation is massive, and the military are involved...Our forest is our survival. But they are destroying it. That is why I say that ecocide and genocide is happening in West Papua."

    "When Indonesia is bombing, they’re using modern weapons...There is nowhere to go."
    >>
    sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/b
    #WestPapua #deforestation #displacement #IndigenousPeoples #violence #Puncak #Australia #Bali

  30. From the Bretton Woods Project: Focus on #MegaProjects

    "The [#WorldBank] ’s shift towards leveraging private sector finance for development (see Governance above), which has gained momentum since 2015, includes a particular emphasis on promoting ‘infrastructure as an asset class’, in order to crowd in institutional #investors. This policy initiative is highly dependent on mega-infrastructure projects – and, as noted by a letter sent by concerned economists in October 2018, currently lacks a framework for aligning such mega-projects with the Paris Climate Agreement or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    "This is of major concern, given that many planned ‘mega-corridors’ in developing regions are predicated on building a new generation of carbon-intensive infrastructure. In many cases, the Bank continues to support such projects that, while not ‘fossil fuel investments’ per se, are part of such carbon-intensive mega-corridors (see Observer Autumn 2018)."

    Paper: Infrastructure Megaprojects as World Erasers: Cultural Survival in the Context of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

    Author: Susanne Hofmann, November 8, 2024

    "This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec (CIIT) infrastructure project for the cultural survival
    of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice. The CIIT is being promoted as a multimodal road and rail transport corridor that will link the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, speed up global trade and benefit local residents. Based on interviews with affected residents in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, this research found that there is a strong desire for the continuity of existing, collective life
    projects, Indigenous languages, cultural identities, beliefs, spirituality, established political and legal systems, and solidarity economy. De facto, the CIIT infrastructure project functions
    as a technology of erasure of other lifeworlds, imposing integration into the One-World World (Escobar, 2016) and assimilation of Indigenous peoples and Afrodescendant communities.
    Contemporary legal frameworks are not sufficient to guarantee alterlivability (Hamraie, 2020). Therefore, infrastructural megaprojects based on modern/colonial-extractivist-
    developmentalist premises continue to threaten the futurity of Indigenous and
    Afrodescendant life projects.

    [...]

    "An increasing number of infrastructure corridors, such as the Corredor Interoceánico, are currently being built across the globe (e.g. the Belt and Road Initiative/China, Corredor Bioceánico/Paraguay; Corredor Interoceánico/Chile-Bolivia-Brazil; The Northern Transport Corridor in East Africa/Kenya-Ethiopia-South Sudan – just to name a few). These projects are directed at reducing ‘economic distance’ –i.e. speeding up the transport of goods across
    geographical distance whilst lowering the cost (Hildyard, 2016: 20). In the process, infrastructure megacorridors restructure whole regions into purpose-specific zones for export, logistics, transit, housing development, resource extraction, manufacturing etc.

    "Thereby, they fragment geographic space, generating a distinctive reterritorialisation of the space to develop sites of capitalist growth. Megacorridors connect what Lerner (2010) called 'sacrifice zones' – geographic areas where processes of natural resource extraction cause permanent environmental damage – to global circuits of capital. Across Latin America the social and environmental impacts of extractive megaprojects and resistance against them has
    been widely documented (Aguilar Rivero & Echavarría Cango, 2019; Domínguez, 2015, 2017;
    Domínguez & Corona, 2016; Ibarra García & Talledos Sánchez, 2016; Pérez Negrete, 2017; Rodríguez Wallenius, 2015). This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the CIIT project for the cultural survival of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice."

    Original paper:
    journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1

    PDF version:
    eprints.lse.ac.uk/120254/1/SHo

    #MegaInfrastructureProjects #CarbonIntensive #MegaCorridors #SDGs #CIIT #GulfOfMexico #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #DeGrowth #IMFLoanSharks #SacrificeZones #CulturalGenocide #CulturalErasism #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalDamage #Capitalism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalSurvival #IsthmusOfTehuantepec #OntologicalJustice #Tehuantepec #ExtractiveIndustries #Oaxaca #Veracruz #CorredorInteroceánico #BeltAndRoadInitiative #CorredorBioceánico #NorthernTransportCorridor #China, #Paraguay; Corredor #Chile #Bolivia #Brazil #EastAfrica #Kenya #Ethiopia #SouthSudan #IndigenousCulture #AfrodescendantCulture

  31. From the Bretton Woods Project: Focus on #MegaProjects

    "The [#WorldBank] ’s shift towards leveraging private sector finance for development (see Governance above), which has gained momentum since 2015, includes a particular emphasis on promoting ‘infrastructure as an asset class’, in order to crowd in institutional #investors. This policy initiative is highly dependent on mega-infrastructure projects – and, as noted by a letter sent by concerned economists in October 2018, currently lacks a framework for aligning such mega-projects with the Paris Climate Agreement or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    "This is of major concern, given that many planned ‘mega-corridors’ in developing regions are predicated on building a new generation of carbon-intensive infrastructure. In many cases, the Bank continues to support such projects that, while not ‘fossil fuel investments’ per se, are part of such carbon-intensive mega-corridors (see Observer Autumn 2018)."

    Paper: Infrastructure Megaprojects as World Erasers: Cultural Survival in the Context of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

    Author: Susanne Hofmann, November 8, 2024

    "This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec (CIIT) infrastructure project for the cultural survival
    of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice. The CIIT is being promoted as a multimodal road and rail transport corridor that will link the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, speed up global trade and benefit local residents. Based on interviews with affected residents in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, this research found that there is a strong desire for the continuity of existing, collective life
    projects, Indigenous languages, cultural identities, beliefs, spirituality, established political and legal systems, and solidarity economy. De facto, the CIIT infrastructure project functions
    as a technology of erasure of other lifeworlds, imposing integration into the One-World World (Escobar, 2016) and assimilation of Indigenous peoples and Afrodescendant communities.
    Contemporary legal frameworks are not sufficient to guarantee alterlivability (Hamraie, 2020). Therefore, infrastructural megaprojects based on modern/colonial-extractivist-
    developmentalist premises continue to threaten the futurity of Indigenous and
    Afrodescendant life projects.

    [...]

    "An increasing number of infrastructure corridors, such as the Corredor Interoceánico, are currently being built across the globe (e.g. the Belt and Road Initiative/China, Corredor Bioceánico/Paraguay; Corredor Interoceánico/Chile-Bolivia-Brazil; The Northern Transport Corridor in East Africa/Kenya-Ethiopia-South Sudan – just to name a few). These projects are directed at reducing ‘economic distance’ –i.e. speeding up the transport of goods across
    geographical distance whilst lowering the cost (Hildyard, 2016: 20). In the process, infrastructure megacorridors restructure whole regions into purpose-specific zones for export, logistics, transit, housing development, resource extraction, manufacturing etc.

    "Thereby, they fragment geographic space, generating a distinctive reterritorialisation of the space to develop sites of capitalist growth. Megacorridors connect what Lerner (2010) called 'sacrifice zones' – geographic areas where processes of natural resource extraction cause permanent environmental damage – to global circuits of capital. Across Latin America the social and environmental impacts of extractive megaprojects and resistance against them has
    been widely documented (Aguilar Rivero & Echavarría Cango, 2019; Domínguez, 2015, 2017;
    Domínguez & Corona, 2016; Ibarra García & Talledos Sánchez, 2016; Pérez Negrete, 2017; Rodríguez Wallenius, 2015). This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the CIIT project for the cultural survival of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice."

    Original paper:
    journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1

    PDF version:
    eprints.lse.ac.uk/120254/1/SHo

    #MegaInfrastructureProjects #CarbonIntensive #MegaCorridors #SDGs #CIIT #GulfOfMexico #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #DeGrowth #IMFLoanSharks #SacrificeZones #CulturalGenocide #CulturalErasism #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalDamage #Capitalism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalSurvival #IsthmusOfTehuantepec #OntologicalJustice #Tehuantepec #ExtractiveIndustries #Oaxaca #Veracruz #CorredorInteroceánico #BeltAndRoadInitiative #CorredorBioceánico #NorthernTransportCorridor #China, #Paraguay; Corredor #Chile #Bolivia #Brazil #EastAfrica #Kenya #Ethiopia #SouthSudan #IndigenousCulture #AfrodescendantCulture

  32. From the Bretton Woods Project: Focus on #MegaProjects

    "The [#WorldBank] ’s shift towards leveraging private sector finance for development (see Governance above), which has gained momentum since 2015, includes a particular emphasis on promoting ‘infrastructure as an asset class’, in order to crowd in institutional #investors. This policy initiative is highly dependent on mega-infrastructure projects – and, as noted by a letter sent by concerned economists in October 2018, currently lacks a framework for aligning such mega-projects with the Paris Climate Agreement or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    "This is of major concern, given that many planned ‘mega-corridors’ in developing regions are predicated on building a new generation of carbon-intensive infrastructure. In many cases, the Bank continues to support such projects that, while not ‘fossil fuel investments’ per se, are part of such carbon-intensive mega-corridors (see Observer Autumn 2018)."

    Paper: Infrastructure Megaprojects as World Erasers: Cultural Survival in the Context of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

    Author: Susanne Hofmann, November 8, 2024

    "This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec (CIIT) infrastructure project for the cultural survival
    of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice. The CIIT is being promoted as a multimodal road and rail transport corridor that will link the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, speed up global trade and benefit local residents. Based on interviews with affected residents in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, this research found that there is a strong desire for the continuity of existing, collective life
    projects, Indigenous languages, cultural identities, beliefs, spirituality, established political and legal systems, and solidarity economy. De facto, the CIIT infrastructure project functions
    as a technology of erasure of other lifeworlds, imposing integration into the One-World World (Escobar, 2016) and assimilation of Indigenous peoples and Afrodescendant communities.
    Contemporary legal frameworks are not sufficient to guarantee alterlivability (Hamraie, 2020). Therefore, infrastructural megaprojects based on modern/colonial-extractivist-
    developmentalist premises continue to threaten the futurity of Indigenous and
    Afrodescendant life projects.

    [...]

    "An increasing number of infrastructure corridors, such as the Corredor Interoceánico, are currently being built across the globe (e.g. the Belt and Road Initiative/China, Corredor Bioceánico/Paraguay; Corredor Interoceánico/Chile-Bolivia-Brazil; The Northern Transport Corridor in East Africa/Kenya-Ethiopia-South Sudan – just to name a few). These projects are directed at reducing ‘economic distance’ –i.e. speeding up the transport of goods across
    geographical distance whilst lowering the cost (Hildyard, 2016: 20). In the process, infrastructure megacorridors restructure whole regions into purpose-specific zones for export, logistics, transit, housing development, resource extraction, manufacturing etc.

    "Thereby, they fragment geographic space, generating a distinctive reterritorialisation of the space to develop sites of capitalist growth. Megacorridors connect what Lerner (2010) called 'sacrifice zones' – geographic areas where processes of natural resource extraction cause permanent environmental damage – to global circuits of capital. Across Latin America the social and environmental impacts of extractive megaprojects and resistance against them has
    been widely documented (Aguilar Rivero & Echavarría Cango, 2019; Domínguez, 2015, 2017;
    Domínguez & Corona, 2016; Ibarra García & Talledos Sánchez, 2016; Pérez Negrete, 2017; Rodríguez Wallenius, 2015). This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the CIIT project for the cultural survival of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice."

    Original paper:
    journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1

    PDF version:
    eprints.lse.ac.uk/120254/1/SHo

    #MegaInfrastructureProjects #CarbonIntensive #MegaCorridors #SDGs #CIIT #GulfOfMexico #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #DeGrowth #IMFLoanSharks #SacrificeZones #CulturalGenocide #CulturalErasism #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalDamage #Capitalism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalSurvival #IsthmusOfTehuantepec #OntologicalJustice #Tehuantepec #ExtractiveIndustries #Oaxaca #Veracruz #CorredorInteroceánico #BeltAndRoadInitiative #CorredorBioceánico #NorthernTransportCorridor #China, #Paraguay; Corredor #Chile #Bolivia #Brazil #EastAfrica #Kenya #Ethiopia #SouthSudan #IndigenousCulture #AfrodescendantCulture

  33. From the Bretton Woods Project: Focus on #MegaProjects

    "The [#WorldBank] ’s shift towards leveraging private sector finance for development (see Governance above), which has gained momentum since 2015, includes a particular emphasis on promoting ‘infrastructure as an asset class’, in order to crowd in institutional #investors. This policy initiative is highly dependent on mega-infrastructure projects – and, as noted by a letter sent by concerned economists in October 2018, currently lacks a framework for aligning such mega-projects with the Paris Climate Agreement or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    "This is of major concern, given that many planned ‘mega-corridors’ in developing regions are predicated on building a new generation of carbon-intensive infrastructure. In many cases, the Bank continues to support such projects that, while not ‘fossil fuel investments’ per se, are part of such carbon-intensive mega-corridors (see Observer Autumn 2018)."

    Paper: Infrastructure Megaprojects as World Erasers: Cultural Survival in the Context of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

    Author: Susanne Hofmann, November 8, 2024

    "This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec (CIIT) infrastructure project for the cultural survival
    of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice. The CIIT is being promoted as a multimodal road and rail transport corridor that will link the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, speed up global trade and benefit local residents. Based on interviews with affected residents in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, this research found that there is a strong desire for the continuity of existing, collective life
    projects, Indigenous languages, cultural identities, beliefs, spirituality, established political and legal systems, and solidarity economy. De facto, the CIIT infrastructure project functions
    as a technology of erasure of other lifeworlds, imposing integration into the One-World World (Escobar, 2016) and assimilation of Indigenous peoples and Afrodescendant communities.
    Contemporary legal frameworks are not sufficient to guarantee alterlivability (Hamraie, 2020). Therefore, infrastructural megaprojects based on modern/colonial-extractivist-
    developmentalist premises continue to threaten the futurity of Indigenous and
    Afrodescendant life projects.

    [...]

    "An increasing number of infrastructure corridors, such as the Corredor Interoceánico, are currently being built across the globe (e.g. the Belt and Road Initiative/China, Corredor Bioceánico/Paraguay; Corredor Interoceánico/Chile-Bolivia-Brazil; The Northern Transport Corridor in East Africa/Kenya-Ethiopia-South Sudan – just to name a few). These projects are directed at reducing ‘economic distance’ –i.e. speeding up the transport of goods across
    geographical distance whilst lowering the cost (Hildyard, 2016: 20). In the process, infrastructure megacorridors restructure whole regions into purpose-specific zones for export, logistics, transit, housing development, resource extraction, manufacturing etc.

    "Thereby, they fragment geographic space, generating a distinctive reterritorialisation of the space to develop sites of capitalist growth. Megacorridors connect what Lerner (2010) called 'sacrifice zones' – geographic areas where processes of natural resource extraction cause permanent environmental damage – to global circuits of capital. Across Latin America the social and environmental impacts of extractive megaprojects and resistance against them has
    been widely documented (Aguilar Rivero & Echavarría Cango, 2019; Domínguez, 2015, 2017;
    Domínguez & Corona, 2016; Ibarra García & Talledos Sánchez, 2016; Pérez Negrete, 2017; Rodríguez Wallenius, 2015). This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the CIIT project for the cultural survival of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice."

    Original paper:
    journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1

    PDF version:
    eprints.lse.ac.uk/120254/1/SHo

    #MegaInfrastructureProjects #CarbonIntensive #MegaCorridors #SDGs #CIIT #GulfOfMexico #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #DeGrowth #IMFLoanSharks #SacrificeZones #CulturalGenocide #CulturalErasism #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalDamage #Capitalism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalSurvival #IsthmusOfTehuantepec #OntologicalJustice #Tehuantepec #ExtractiveIndustries #Oaxaca #Veracruz #CorredorInteroceánico #BeltAndRoadInitiative #CorredorBioceánico #NorthernTransportCorridor #China, #Paraguay; Corredor #Chile #Bolivia #Brazil #EastAfrica #Kenya #Ethiopia #SouthSudan #IndigenousCulture #AfrodescendantCulture

  34. From the Bretton Woods Project: Focus on #MegaProjects

    "The [#WorldBank] ’s shift towards leveraging private sector finance for development (see Governance above), which has gained momentum since 2015, includes a particular emphasis on promoting ‘infrastructure as an asset class’, in order to crowd in institutional #investors. This policy initiative is highly dependent on mega-infrastructure projects – and, as noted by a letter sent by concerned economists in October 2018, currently lacks a framework for aligning such mega-projects with the Paris Climate Agreement or the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    "This is of major concern, given that many planned ‘mega-corridors’ in developing regions are predicated on building a new generation of carbon-intensive infrastructure. In many cases, the Bank continues to support such projects that, while not ‘fossil fuel investments’ per se, are part of such carbon-intensive mega-corridors (see Observer Autumn 2018)."

    Paper: Infrastructure Megaprojects as World Erasers: Cultural Survival in the Context of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

    Author: Susanne Hofmann, November 8, 2024

    "This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the Corredor Interoceánico del Istmo de Tehuantepec (CIIT) infrastructure project for the cultural survival
    of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice. The CIIT is being promoted as a multimodal road and rail transport corridor that will link the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, speed up global trade and benefit local residents. Based on interviews with affected residents in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, this research found that there is a strong desire for the continuity of existing, collective life
    projects, Indigenous languages, cultural identities, beliefs, spirituality, established political and legal systems, and solidarity economy. De facto, the CIIT infrastructure project functions
    as a technology of erasure of other lifeworlds, imposing integration into the One-World World (Escobar, 2016) and assimilation of Indigenous peoples and Afrodescendant communities.
    Contemporary legal frameworks are not sufficient to guarantee alterlivability (Hamraie, 2020). Therefore, infrastructural megaprojects based on modern/colonial-extractivist-
    developmentalist premises continue to threaten the futurity of Indigenous and
    Afrodescendant life projects.

    [...]

    "An increasing number of infrastructure corridors, such as the Corredor Interoceánico, are currently being built across the globe (e.g. the Belt and Road Initiative/China, Corredor Bioceánico/Paraguay; Corredor Interoceánico/Chile-Bolivia-Brazil; The Northern Transport Corridor in East Africa/Kenya-Ethiopia-South Sudan – just to name a few). These projects are directed at reducing ‘economic distance’ –i.e. speeding up the transport of goods across
    geographical distance whilst lowering the cost (Hildyard, 2016: 20). In the process, infrastructure megacorridors restructure whole regions into purpose-specific zones for export, logistics, transit, housing development, resource extraction, manufacturing etc.

    "Thereby, they fragment geographic space, generating a distinctive reterritorialisation of the space to develop sites of capitalist growth. Megacorridors connect what Lerner (2010) called 'sacrifice zones' – geographic areas where processes of natural resource extraction cause permanent environmental damage – to global circuits of capital. Across Latin America the social and environmental impacts of extractive megaprojects and resistance against them has
    been widely documented (Aguilar Rivero & Echavarría Cango, 2019; Domínguez, 2015, 2017;
    Domínguez & Corona, 2016; Ibarra García & Talledos Sánchez, 2016; Pérez Negrete, 2017; Rodríguez Wallenius, 2015). This article explores the meaning of infrastructural changes resulting from the CIIT project for the cultural survival of Indigenous peoples resident in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec region through the lens of ontological justice."

    Original paper:
    journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1

    PDF version:
    eprints.lse.ac.uk/120254/1/SHo

    #MegaInfrastructureProjects #CarbonIntensive #MegaCorridors #SDGs #CIIT #GulfOfMexico #SustainableDevelopmentGoals #DeGrowth #IMFLoanSharks #SacrificeZones #CulturalGenocide #CulturalErasism #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalDamage #Capitalism #CorporateColonialism #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalSurvival #IsthmusOfTehuantepec #OntologicalJustice #Tehuantepec #ExtractiveIndustries #Oaxaca #Veracruz #CorredorInteroceánico #BeltAndRoadInitiative #CorredorBioceánico #NorthernTransportCorridor #China, #Paraguay; Corredor #Chile #Bolivia #Brazil #EastAfrica #Kenya #Ethiopia #SouthSudan #IndigenousCulture #AfrodescendantCulture