#indigenousrights — Public Fediverse posts

#News: Save Our Springs campaign by @GreeenpeaceNZ launches urgent petition to expand #Kahurangi National Park. The move aims to protect Sams Creek from #mining and safeguard the sacred Te Waikoropupū Springs. Sign the petition to protect our pristine waters! #Maori #IndigenousRights @palmoildetect #HumanRights 💧🌿
https://community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/expand-kahurangi-national-park?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#News: Save Our Springs campaign by @GreeenpeaceNZ launches urgent petition to expand #Kahurangi National Park. The move aims to protect Sams Creek from #mining and safeguard the sacred Te Waikoropupū Springs. Sign the petition to protect our pristine waters! #Maori #IndigenousRights @palmoildetect #HumanRights 💧🌿
https://community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/expand-kahurangi-national-park?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#News: Save Our Springs campaign by @GreeenpeaceNZ launches urgent petition to expand #Kahurangi National Park. The move aims to protect Sams Creek from #mining and safeguard the sacred Te Waikoropupū Springs. Sign the petition to protect our pristine waters! #Maori #IndigenousRights @palmoildetect #HumanRights 💧🌿
https://community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/expand-kahurangi-national-park?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#News: Save Our Springs campaign by @GreeenpeaceNZ launches urgent petition to expand #Kahurangi National Park. The move aims to protect Sams Creek from #mining and safeguard the sacred Te Waikoropupū Springs. Sign the petition to protect our pristine waters! #Maori #IndigenousRights @palmoildetect #HumanRights 💧🌿
https://community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/expand-kahurangi-national-park?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Denmark passes compensation bill for thousands of Inuit in Greenland forced to get IUDs

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/denmark-greenland-iuds-canada-indigenous-9.7330174

> Thousands of Inuit women in Greenland are now eligible for monetary compensation over a decades-long Danish birth-control program that forcibly implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs). The compensation has some Inuit women in Canada who faced the same treatment hopeful for an apology from their own federal government.

#dkpol #indigenousRights #Inuit #Greenland #eupol

Denmark passes compensation bill for thousands of Inuit in Greenland forced to get IUDs

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/denmark-greenland-iuds-canada-indigenous-9.7330174

> Thousands of Inuit women in Greenland are now eligible for monetary compensation over a decades-long Danish birth-control program that forcibly implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs). The compensation has some Inuit women in Canada who faced the same treatment hopeful for an apology from their own federal government.

#dkpol #indigenousRights #Inuit #Greenland #eupol

Denmark passes compensation bill for thousands of Inuit in Greenland forced to get IUDs

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/denmark-greenland-iuds-canada-indigenous-9.7330174

> Thousands of Inuit women in Greenland are now eligible for monetary compensation over a decades-long Danish birth-control program that forcibly implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs). The compensation has some Inuit women in Canada who faced the same treatment hopeful for an apology from their own federal government.

#dkpol #indigenousRights #Inuit #Greenland #eupol

Denmark passes compensation bill for thousands of Inuit in Greenland forced to get IUDs

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/denmark-greenland-iuds-canada-indigenous-9.7330174

> Thousands of Inuit women in Greenland are now eligible for monetary compensation over a decades-long Danish birth-control program that forcibly implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs). The compensation has some Inuit women in Canada who faced the same treatment hopeful for an apology from their own federal government.

#dkpol #indigenousRights #Inuit #Greenland #eupol

Denmark passes compensation bill for thousands of Inuit in Greenland forced to get IUDs

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/denmark-greenland-iuds-canada-indigenous-9.7330174

> Thousands of Inuit women in Greenland are now eligible for monetary compensation over a decades-long Danish birth-control program that forcibly implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs). The compensation has some Inuit women in Canada who faced the same treatment hopeful for an apology from their own federal government.

#dkpol #indigenousRights #Inuit #Greenland #eupol

#News: The #Indigenous #Dayak Benuaq in #Borneo are forming human barricades as an #RSPO-certified #palmoil company bulldozes their #forest home. Violent evictions prove that "sustainable palm oil" is pure greenwash. Protect #Indigenousrights. #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🚜🔥 @palmoildetectives
https://eia-international.org/news/palm-oil-firm-fails-to-act-as-clearing-and-evictions-re-start-in-indigenous-lands-in-borneo/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Trump’s ‘renaming’ of Lake Ontario is emblematic of centuries of colonial erasure
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Métis #HaidaGwaii #Canada #IndigenousRights #Colonialism
#Trump #LakeOntario #Ontario #Geography #SettlerColonialism #Decolonization #Politics #UNDRIP
https://the-14.com/trumps-renaming-of-lake-ontario-is-emblematic-of-centuries-of-colonial-erasure/

https://www.europesays.com/africa/400117/ UN Urges Tanzania to End Maasai Evictions and Protect Ancestral Land Rights #AncestralLands #CERD #conservation #ForcedEvictions #HumanRights #IndigenousCommunities #IndigenousRights #LandRights #Loliondo #maasai #MaasaiIndigenousPeoples #Ngorongoro #Tanzania #tourism #UnitedNations

#News: Over 1,500 #Indigenous #OrangAsli march in #Malaysia for an end to #palmoil #landgrabbing! ✊🏽🌳 Thugs demolished 20 Jakun homes to make way for palm oil. Stand with Indigenous land defenders! 🛑🔥 #IndigenousRights #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetectives
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO2606/S00329/enough-is-enough-more-than-1500-orang-asli-mobilization-in-malaysia-vs-land-grabbing-and-imperialist-plunder.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#News: Over 1,500 #Indigenous #OrangAsli march in #Malaysia for an end to #palmoil #landgrabbing! ✊🏽🌳 Thugs demolished 20 Jakun homes to make way for palm oil. Sand with Indigenous land defenders! 🛑🔥 #IndigenousRights #BoycottPalmOil @[email protected]
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO26...

#News: #Indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya fight #palmoil giant Ocho Sur's 🌴💥 alleged violent #landgrabbing and #humanrights abues. Communities have strong evidence. 🛑🇵🇪 #IndigenousRights #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetectives https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/peru-indigenous-community-reportedly-fragmented-and-facing-challenges-due-to-the-operations-of-the-palm-oil-company-ocho-sur/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

"This is a zombie economy, sustained by extraction and speculation rather than a progressive vision for #Canada’s future." https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-new-rules-of-carneys-carve-out-economy

#CarneyCons #neoliberalism #corporateCapture #cdnpoli #IndigenousRights #environment #justice

#News: Indonesian #palmoil workers reveal industry practices they liken to #colonial exploitation, including #landgrabbing and poor labor conditions. #HumanRights #IndigenousRights #BoycottPalmOil 🌴⛔️ @palmoildetectives https://wp.me/pcFhgU-9Pm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#News: Exhibition highlights vanishing of West Papua’s UNESCO recognised #noken weaving for #palmoil and #sugarcane in #WestPapua. Reject corporate #landgrabbing for palm oil in when you shop! #BoycottPalmOil #HumanRights #IndigenousRights @palmoildetectives
https://wp.me/pcFhgU-bmj?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

https://www.europesays.com/africa/194016/ UN Experts Urge Tanzania to Release Ngorongoro Reports Amid Rising Concerns Over Indigenous Rights #conservation #ForcedDisplacement #HumanRights #IndigenousRights #maasai #NgorongoroConservationArea #RelocationPolicy #Tanzania #UNExperts #UnescoWorldHeritage

Critical minerals collide with #tourism in B.C. resort town.

A #Calgary based mining company called West High Yield Resources wants to extract #magnesium ore from Record Ridge, about seven kilometres outside of town, and ship it overseas.

West High Yield holds mineral claims over 8,972 hectares at the site — an area 4.6 times bigger than the city of Victoria. In October 2025, the #BCgovernment approved the company’s #mining permit.

Several #Rossland residents say they have been confounded by what they see as abnormalities in the siting and permitting of the mine. Many have united under the banner of the non-profit Save Record Ridge Action Society ( #SRRAC ).

At one point, WHY Resources sought to remove up to 200,000 tonnes of ore a year, but later reduced that to 63,500 tonnes per year — below the 70,000-tonne limit that often triggers an environmental assessment.

In a May 2025 letter to the province, the #Ktunaxa Nation Council argued alongside SRRAC that the mine footprint only dropped by 5.7 per cent, despite a 68 per cent cut in proposed production.

The stated lower production capacity “masks and understates its true capacity” and environmental footprint, added the nation, arguing it’s designed to avoid initial regulatory hurdles and be scaled up later.

SRRAC requested that Ottawa carry out an environmental review of the Record Ridge mine project.

A report issued last month from the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada rejected that request. It found the mine project did not require federal designation, and that existing laws were enough to manage the potential impacts on fish, migratory birds and Indigenous rights.

https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/critical-minerals-collide-with-tourism-in-bc-resort-town-12068777

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #StopEcocide #Environmental #Climate #EcoJustice #UNDRIP #IndigenousRights #ProtectTheWild #biodiversity #EcologicalHealth #OneEarth #BritishColumbia #AbolishCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #NoSubsidiesForMining

https://www.europesays.com/africa/140079/ Maasai displacement fears grow as Tanzania moves to reshape Ngorongoro #conservation #IndigenousRights #maasai #Ngorongoro #Tanzania

This #ecosystem that is #sacred and #ceremonial to the #local #Indigenous people is in #danger of being #destroyed. Raise your #voice to #protect it! #environment #biodiversity #BiodiversityCrisis #culture #bipoc #IndigenousRights #IndigenousSoverignty
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-the-us-forest-service-take-back-permit-for-drilling-at-sacred-place-pesla-in-the-black-hills-national-forest/?link_id=3&can_id=aa47064a7d4d123f7d91c07720acdb80&source=email-re-urgent-sacred-site-in-danger&email_referrer=email_3134004&email_subject=re-urgent-sacred-site-in-danger&&

In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism. Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history — and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation.

APTN Investigates: Dismantling Denialism | By Christopher Read

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Pv8-99Sp4&list=WL&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQB

#APTNInvestigates #APTN #ShortDocs #HotDocs #CDNpoli #KKKanada #Colonialism #Documentary #DocFilm #Racism #Indigenous #ResidentialSchool #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ColonialAbuses #ColonialCrimes #Injustices #ChildAbuse #IndigenousGenocide #NativeCanada #TruthAndJustice #Whitewashing #CrimesAgainstHumanity #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #Denialism #SystematicAbuse #SystemicRacism #EthnicCleansing #DecolonizeYourMind #Decolonization #BelieveVictims #SupportVictims

Gaddi Community’s Demand for Inclusion in Land Records to Trigger Assembly Siege.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/hp_gaddi_community_demand_inclusion_land_records

#himachal #himachalpradesh #india #news #press #Gaddi #GaddiCommunity #LandRecords #TribalRights #Kangra #AssemblySiege #SocialJustice #IndigenousRights

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

@thenarwhal
I pull this #meme out often, regarding the government's partnership with ecocidal corporations to exploit more unceded Indigenous lands. It's how #Canada really puts the #RECON in #reconciliation.

#BCpol #CDNpoli #CSIS #Colonialism #Capitalism #WhitewashingThieves #GreenwashingThugs #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #Ecocide #EcoJustice #IndigenousRights #UNDRIP #Landback #NativeLand #Unceded #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #Corruption #Bribery #DirtyDeals #BackroomBribes #PublicTransparency #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #CrimesAgainstHumanity #RCMP #CIRG #FederalDomesticTerrorists #Inhumane #RemoveQualifiedImmunity #neoliberals #ColonizersLieCheatSteal #ColonialCriminals #StopTheWhitewash #KKKanada

New on our blog!

Mining the Green Deal

In January 2023, the mining company LKAB announced the discovery of Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth elements in Kiruna, northern Sweden. LKAB’s CEO described this as
good news, not only for LKAB, the region and the Swedish people, but also for Europe and the climate. This is the largest known deposit of rare earth elemen

#CriticalRawMaterialsAct #GreenTransition #IndigenousRights

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/mining-the-green-deal/

Another shining example of what happens when money talks and First Nations culture walks. Andrew Forrest is once again trying to bend the sacred Ashburton River in the Pilbara to his private gain, seeking to build a cluster of weirs and irrigation works along a stretch of water deemed spiritual country by the Buurabalayji Thalanyji Aboriginal Corporation.
This isn’t about “regional sustainability” or “closing the water-gap” as the gloss might suggest: the tribunal previously found that the primary beneficiary of the project would be Forrest’s own pastoral-and-mining interests, not the wider community. Meanwhile the Thalanyji people are forced into court-rooms fighting for respect of their heritage, forced to watch their river, their serpent spirit Warnamankura’s home, become fodder for corporate ambition.
This is a vivid illustration of how the wealthy and well-connected continue to appropriate land and culture for private enrichment—while Indigenous custodians bear the cost. If we are truly serious about justice, we should be calling out not just miners drilling into deserts but billionaires bending rivers and courts to suit their balance-sheet.

#australia #indigenousrights #environment #corporatepower #auspol #olygarchy #greed #Twiggy #pissofftwiggy #fuckofftwiggy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/andrew-forrest-traditional-owners-in-sat-ashburton-river-plan/105966594

Ottawa must heed Northern voices on Arctic strategy
#IndigenousPeoples #Canada #NorthernCanada #Nunavut #NorthwestTerritories #Yukon #Arctic #Sovereignty #IndigenousRights #IndigenousLeadership #Arctic #Politics #ArcticSecurity #ArcticStrategy #The14
https://the-14.com/ottawa-must-heed-northern-voices-on-arctic-strategy/

@cbcbc_mirror #BCNDP & federal Liberals don't care about respecting #IndigenousRights. They have blown millions of tax dollars to sue Indigenous peoples in BC & they sic RCMP on native land defenders. #Colonizers never really changed & are still abusive/exploitive. They never planned to fully implement #UNDRIP.

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCgovernment #CoastSalish #ColvilleTribes #NativeAmericans #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #UncededLand #NativeLand #Sinixt #FirstNations #IndigenousSovereignty #Landback #Colonization #LandTheft #NoConsent #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Lawsuit #Legal

In the fall of 1985, a small group of #Haida people stood on a muddy #logging road on #LyellIsland —and refused to move. What followed was a landmark act of peaceful #resistance that helped spark a nationwide reckoning around land, #sovereignty and #environmental #justice. Drawing from over a hundred hours of electrifying #archival footage, The Stand immerses us in the tension, #courage and quiet #humanity of that moment.

Directed by Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time), the film honours the #Elders , #activists and supernatural spirits who helped shape a new future for the #HaidaNation — and for all of #Canada.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/the-stand/

#BCForestryReform #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BClogging #IndigenousLand #IndigenousRights #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #CDNpoli #FirstNations #IndigenousSovereignty #Landback #Documentary #CanadianFilm #NFB

President Lula’s administration has embraced the project, supporting major soy operators like Cargill, Bunge, and Amaggi. The railway’s studies and designs are included in the federal government’s Growth Acceleration Program (PAC), with a concession auction expected in 2026

https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/0719-soy-dictates-the-path-how-ferrograo-is-reshaping-life-in-the-amazon?mc_cid=8e32b01366&mc_eid=10b0b28643

#Ecocide #IndigenousRights #RespectIndigenousRights #LandGrab #ChemicalWarfare #Pesticides #DrowningInPesticides #Semiocide #NoGmos #StopSoy #Colonialism

Read @kosuradio article, "Tribal nations left with few options to resist Oklahoma's Westwin Elements due to complex history" by Sarah Liese

https://www.kosu.org/energy-environment/2025-07-29/tribal-nations-left-with-few-options-to-resist-oklahomas-westwin-elements-due-to-complex-history

#lawton #lawtonOK #lawtonfortsill #oklahoma #OklahomaState #WestwinResistance #TheLawtonResistance #kosu #npr #greencolonialism #peopleoverprofits #IndigenousPeople #indigenouspeoples #indigenous #IndigenousSovereignty #indigenousrights #indigenousland #Indigenousresistance #indigenoussoverignty

@RadicalAnthro "A hybrid moa created through genetic engineering, she adds, would not be “a taonga [treasured] species, and it does not revive ancestral relationships with the moa just because it kind of resembles one.” Tech bros mi/billionaires have no idea what biosemiotics is but if they do they probably don't care
#Ecocide #Semiocide #NoGMOs #IndigenousRights #IndigenousKnowledge

#Wetsuweten will be in court on August 21, 2025 as #Canada has filed a #MotionToStrike against their #climate #litigation case. Sound familiar? That’s because in July 2020, Canada filed a Motion to Strike against the Misdzi Yikh Charter challenge. Several years and an appeal hearing (that ended with the Federal Court of Appeal deciding that the section 7 of the Charter challenge was justiciable) later, Canada has filed for another Motion to Strike. Keep a lookout on RAVEN’s channels as we get closer to the hearing, we’ll be sharing lots of educational materials and actions to take to support Wet’suwet’en. Learn more about the #CharterCase and #donate to support the #legal action here.

https://raventrust.com/campaigns/wetsuweten/

#IndigenousRights #NativeRights #Law #CDNpoli #BCpoli #StopEcocide #Injustice #colonialism #capitalism #IndigenousLand #BritishColumbia #UNDRIP #FirstNations

#Landback includes #Hawaii & all those other places where so many people like to go on sunny vacations at & where many non-residents buy properties from colonial land thieves.

You can't be totally serious about #decolonization & the related landback issues - if you don't include Hawaii & other sunny holiday hotspots. That's just a selective, fragmented, unethical & immoral colonial mindset.

Decolonization & related landback issues aren't restricted to Turtle Island (North & South Americas) or Australia or Palestine. It's global.

#IndigenousRights #NativeLand #IndigenousLand #NativeMastodon #TruthBeforeReconcilation #Justice

#Canada votes on Monday, 28 April, 2025

#REMINDER This is what you are voting on:

VOTE FOR THE #BANKER, NOT THE WANKER.

#CdnPoli #VOTE #ABC #Elxn45 #Election
#Citizenship #Passports #CriminalLaw #Currency #FederalTaxes #Fisheries #Oceans #ForeignAffairs #Trade #IndigenousLands #IndigenousRights #NationalDefence #OfficialLanguages #PostalServices #VeteransAffairs #Immigration #Agriculture #Transportation #Environment #Federal #ON #QC #NS #NB #MB #BC #PEI #SK #AB #NL #NT #YT #NU

HT @TheWildHuntNews

"Historic #HumanRights Ruling: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that Ecuador violated the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoples by permitting #OilDrilling in their territories. The ruling reinforces #IndigenousSovereignty, mandates environmental protections, and sets a legal precedent for Indigenous rights."

https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/historic-human-rights-ruling-court-orders-ecuador-to-protect-uncontacted-indigenous-peoples-from-oil-industry-encroachment.html
#IndigenousRights #InteramericanCourtOfHumanRights
#IndigenousAmericans
#AmazonForest #Ecuador #IndigenousLand
#IACtHR #rainforest

#Peru's #Indigenous leaders raise concerns over #OilAndGas projects

The leaders presented evidence of the impact of oil and gas exploration at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights

Steven Grattan, Associated Press
March 7, 2025

BOGOTA, #Colombia — "Indigenous leaders from the #PeruvianAmazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights body on Tuesday.

"The leaders presented evidence of the impact of oil and gas exploration at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. They said the projects violate #IndigenousRights by threatening their #land, #health and #FoodSecurity and are in breach of international obligations that require Indigenous groups to be consulted.

"The Indigenous leaders are represented by the Interethnic Association for the Development of the #PeruvianRainforest, or #AIDESEP. The group argues that the projects also pose risks to #UncontactedIndigenous groups and also noted specific impact on Indigenous women.

"During the meeting, the Peruvian government said it is a democratic state which respects law and guarantees human rights to all its citizens and that it is committed to strengthening it.

"But #JulioCusurichiPalacios, a member of AIDESEP’s Board of Directors from the Madre de Dios region of the Amazon said the government 'have stated things that are not in accordance with what is happening in reality.'

"'The rights of Indigenous peoples are not being respected, the contamination of our rivers and territories continues, there are threats to #uncontacted Indigenous Peoples, more regulations that make environmental standards more flexible, and oil and gas lots continue to be promoted,' he told The Associated Press after the hearing.

"The government denied most of the claims made by the Indigenous groups and did not reply to AP’s requests for comment."

Source:
https://ictnews.org/news/perus-indigenous-leaders-raise-concerns-over-oil-and-gas-projects
#BigOilAndGas #IndigenousRights #LeaveItInTheGround #WaterIsLife #AmazonRainforest #IndigenousNews #IndigenousPeoples

#RespectTheLand

#Landback #MonochromeMonday #activism #IndigenousRights #EcoJustice #Environmentalists #NatureFirst #WildFirst #OneEarth

#RecommendedReading for #Decolonial #Education. #Free #OpenAccess report.

About Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.

Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to [email protected] .

http://murderbydecree.com/

#CDNpoli #IndigenousRights #ColonialViolence #CoverUp #KKKanada #FirstNations #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #NativeRights #UNDRIP #Injustices #ColonialCrimes #TruthBeforeReconciliation

Leading the fish farms out of BC waters flotilla:
#Laichwiltach hereditary Chief Tsahaukuse (George Quocksister Jr.).
https://www.nationalobserver.com/podcast/salmon-people/occupation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laich-kwil-tach

Chiefs who came to support:
#Homalco Hereditary & Council Chief Darren Blaney (Married to MP Rachel Blaney).
https://www.homalco.com/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-landslide-science-tsunami-earthquake-1.6075933

Bill Wilson(Kwak'wala name, Puglaas) hereditary Chief of the #Musgamgw #Tsawataineuk & part of Laich-kwil-tach, which are part of the #Kwagiulth & #Kwakwakawakw First Peoples. Married to 2nd wife, Bev Sellars, a Chief of the #Xatsull First Nation. Father of Jody Wilson-Raybould, lawyer & former MP. Bill was the first Indigenous BC Chief to travel to Ottawa to meet Prime Minister Trudeau (Pierre) to negotiate & draft 1st & only amendment to Canada's constitution in 1982(Section 35).
He helped found BC First Nations Congress, which led to creation of BC Treaty Commission (signed by Wilson, Harcourt & Mulroney).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wilson_(chief)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakw

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsawataineuk_First_Nation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jody-wilson-raybould-reconciling-history-1.7364336

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #IndigenousSovereignty #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCTreatyCommission #BrokenPromises #BrokenTreaties #IndigenousRights #DemandMPAs

#CensoredNews: United Nations #COP16 #Biodiversity Conference in Colombia

October 22, 2024

"#CaseyCampHorinek, #Ponca, is at COP16 in Cali, Colombia today. "The Ponca Nation is on the ground here at COP16 in Colombia, trying to raise up the issue of #FalseSolutions to the climate conference, like #CarbonCredits and #BiodiversityCredits that are killing #nature.' She said #FossilFuels must be phased out.

"The #PoncaNation is among the nations of the world that have followed #Ecuador's lead and recognized the #RightsOfNature by law.
Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, spoke today on false solutions, including carbon credits which allow #corporations to continue and #pollute. 'Don't give them permission to murder.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/live-from-united-nations-cop16.html

#RightsofNature #Biodiversity #PeaceWithNature #IndigenousRights #ClimateAction #COP16 #WECAN #ProtectOurPlanet #GBF #KMGBF #BiodiversityProtection #UNBiodiversity

Unfortunately, the #ShundahaiNetwork's website is no longer maintained by the group. #CorbinHarney founded the group years ago. I managed to find it on the #InternetArchive. Here's a snapshot from 2002. I had a link to their website from the now-defunct What? Magazine Online back when I first heard about Shundahai back in 1998/1999.

"Shundahai Network was formed at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site in 1994, by a council of long-term nuclear disarmament activists, at the request of #CorbinHarney, a #WesternShoshone Spiritual Leader. We have evolved into an international network of activists and organizations bridging the gap between the environmental, peace and justice and indigenous land rights communities.

"Shundahai Network opposes all nuclear weapons research, development, testing and production. We actively seek to close down the Nevada Test Site to all nuclear weapons programs except for radioactive contamination containment and cleanup. Shundahai Network also opposes all nuclear waste dumping on indigenous peoples lands. We are fighting to halt the proposed high-level nuclear waste dumps at #YuccaMountain and #SkullValleyReservation. We work to educate about the dangers of #RadioactiveWaste transportation and promote a safe and sane energy policy based on conservation and #renewable resources. To this end, Shundahai Network organizes and participates in nonviolent direct actions, demonstrations, workshops and conferences.

"Shundahai Network Mission Statement

"Shundahai Network, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to breaking the nuclear chain by building alliances with #indigenous communities and #environmental, #peace and #HumanRights movements. We seek to abolish all #NuclearWeapons and an end to #NuclearTesting. We advocate phasing out #NuclearEnergy and ending the transportation and dumping of #NuclearWaste. We promote the principles of #EnvironmentalJustice and strive to insure that indigenous voices are heard in the movement to influence U.S. Nuclear and environmental policies. All of our campaigns and events incorporate the values of community building, education, spiritual ceremonies and nonviolent #DirectAction.

"Our staff and volunteers work on a wide range of community outreach, education and public action campaigns. Through our events and campaigns, Shundahai Network helps train activists in community organizing and the use of nonviolent direct action to generate public awareness and apply political pressure on nuclear and #IndigenousRights issues."

Here's the URL:
https://web.archive.org/web/20021122082933/http://www.shundahai.org/

#Kayapó #ForestDefenders Urge #UnitedNations to Help Halt Illegal #GoldMining in #Brazil

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
July 23, 2024

GENEVA -- "#Indigenous from Brazil urged the United Nations to join them and demand Brazil halt illegal gold mining, and its #mercury #contamination, now destroying the ancestral homelands of #Kayapó, #Yanomami and #Munduruku Peoples, during the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"Doto Takak Ire, Mebêngôkre, said, 'The Kayapó are still warriors and we will always be defenders of the forests.'

"'We do not want any kind of #exploitation of #NaturalResources in our territories. We want the #Amazon protected, so that our children and all the children of the world can grow up healthy.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07/kayapo-forest-defenders-urge-united.html

#NoGoldMining #NoMining #NoMiningWithoutConsent #ProtectTheForest #ProtectTheAmazon #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #CulturalGenocide #WaterIsLife #Pollution

LAm orgs denounce Bayer to the OECD for damage caused by glyphosate
Contamination of Avá-Guarani indigenous people in Brazil with the use of the pesticide makes up the content of the complaint. The complaint was filed virtually, but a symbolic act was held on Thursday (25) in front of the German Ministry of Economy. In Pt
https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2024/04/25/em-acao-inedita-organizacoes-da-america-latina-denunciam-bayer-a-ocde-por-danos-causados-pelo-glifosato
#IndigenousRights #Agrichemicals #NoGMOs

The massive #CopperMine that could test the limits of religious freedom

Story by Taylar Dawn Stagner

"Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to stop the construction of a copper mine in #Arizona on land sacred to the #SanCarlosApache Tribe as well as other Indigenous nations. Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, also known as #OakFlat, sits atop the third largest copper deposit on the planet and is essential to green energy projects. The operation, which will be run by #ResolutionCopper, a subsidiary of mining companies #RioTinto and #BHP, will leave a crater nearly 1,000 feet deep and 2 miles wide.

"'Oak Flat is like #MountSinai to us — our most sacred site where we connect with our Creator, our faith, our families and our land,' said Wendsler Noise of #ApacheStronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area. 'We vow to appeal to the Supreme Court.'

"Over the years, Oak Flat has developed a storied history. In 2014, Oak Flat was a part of a #MilitarySpending bill that would allow the government to 'swap' the area with other land in Arizona. In 2016, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in an attempt to protect it, and in 2021 the Apache Stronghold sued the government, arguing that the land was reserved for the #WesternApaches in an 1852 treaty. Then, in 2023, #Apache Stronghold made the case that the land transfer would keep them from exercising their religion. The court disagreed.

"The issue before the court illustrates a battle between religion, #IndigenousRights, and potential solutions to the climate crisis. For tribal nations like the San Carlos Apache who practice what are known as 'land-based religions' — #ceremonial practices that are inextricably tied to areas Indigenous peoples have relationships with — preserving those lands with religious significance is paramount to the survival, and transmission, of both culture and values to the next generation.

"But for developers, the proposed mine would support a few thousand jobs for the surrounding community, inject $61 billion into the local economy, and provide a critical supply of copper for everything from electric vehicles to energy storage systems. By 2031, the world will need almost 37 million metric tons of copper to continue the process of green-energy electrification. Resolution Copper said that Oak Flat could provide a quarter of U.S. copper production.

"At the heart of Apache Stronghold’s legal case is something called 'substantial burden' — there must be proof that the government has interfered with an individual’s right to practice their religious beliefs. Substantial burden protects U.S. citizens from government interference, unless the government has a really good reason. That means Apache Stronghold’s claim needs to be justified with a high level of scrutiny. "

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-massive-copper-mine-that-could-test-the-limits-of-religious-freedom/ar-BB1k8Vhn

#SaveOakFlat #RecycleCopper #NoCopperMiningOnSacredLand #CulturalGenocide #LandBack #RespectTheTreaties

[Photos] Global #Mining Convention Protested in #Toronto

“Get out of our land, stay out of our land, And once again we say ‘no means no!’” - #ChiefRudyTurtle of #GrassyNarrows #FirstNation.

March 6, 2024
By Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
Photos courtesy #MiningInjustice Solidarity Network

"We’re not going to let them give each other awards while we’re witnessing #CanadianMining destroy, kill and colonize across Turtle Island and around the world."

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/global-mining-convention-protested-in.html

#CorporateColonialism #ClimateActivists #Activism #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #Mining #LandBack #WaterIsLife #IndigenousLands #IndigenousRights

BREAKING: Federal court greenlights destruction of #OakFlat

#ApacheStronghold vows to appeal decision to U.S. Supreme Court

By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, March 1, 2024

WASHINGTON – "A divided federal court (6-5) today refused to protect an ancient #NativeAmerican sacred site from destruction by a multinational #mining giant, putting the case on a fast track to the Supreme Court. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, a rare 'en banc' panel of eleven judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government can transfer the #SacredSite Oak Flat to #ResolutionCopper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever. (Watch the short video linked below to learn more).

"The decision was by a bare majority, with five judges vigorously disagreeing and writing that the majority 'tragically err[ed]' in allowing the government to 'obliterate[e] Oak Flat' and prevent the '#WesternApaches from ever again' engaging in their religious exercise. With the help of Becket, Apache Stronghold has vowed to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Since time immemorial, Western Apaches and other native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other harmful practices for decades. These protections were eliminated in 2014, when a last-minute provision was inserted into a must-pass #DefenseBill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the sacred site into a two- mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater. The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, recently sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old #indigenous rock shelters at one of #Australia’s most significant cultural sites.

"'Oak Flat is like #MountSinai to us—our most sacred site where we connect with our Creator, our faith, our families, and our land,” said Dr. Wendsler Nosie of Apache Stronghold. “Today’s ruling targets the spiritual lifeblood of my people, but it will not stop our struggle to save Oak Flat. We vow to appeal to the Supreme Court.'

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/federal-court-greenlights-destruction.html

Link to video:
https://youtu.be/Zh68xOn0B_8?si=428-0_7qDRrLgQm7

#SaveOakFlat #RioTinto
#CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #CopperMining #Mining #LandBack #WaterIsLife
#IndigenousLands #SacredSpaces #ReligiousFreedom #IndigenousRights

NOT #FederalLand -- #StolenLand !

#Gold, #silver and #lithium #mining on #FederalLand doesn’t bring in any royalties to the US Treasury – because of an 1872 law

Story by Sam Kalen, 2/25/2024

"Today, mining is a high-technology industry, but it is still governed by the Mining Law of 1872. As was true 150 years ago, companies can mine valuable mineral deposits from federal lands without paying any royalties to the U.S. Treasury.

"Even when lands that formerly were available for mining receive new protected status as national parks or monuments, the 1872 mining law protects existing mining claims on those lands. That’s why a company called Energy Fuels Inc. just started mining uranium in January 2024 at a site in Arizona 10 miles from the Grand Canyon and inside a new national monument.

[...]

"Reform advocates support adopting the type of traditional leasing model that is used for most other resources on public lands in the U.S. and elsewhere. As an example, for oil and gas production on federal lands and offshore in federal waters, agencies identify areas with development potential and hold competitive auctions to lease parcels for exploration and development.

"Reformists also favor tighter environmental safeguards that would address issues such as management and disposal of mining wastes. Finally, they argue that mining should be prohibited in areas that are ecologically sensitive or are important to Indigenous peoples or tribal nations."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/gold-silver-and-lithium-mining-on-federal-land-doesn-t-bring-in-any-royalties-to-the-us-treasury-because-of-an-1872-law/ar-BB1ik8FF

#LandBack #StolenLands #IndigenousRights #NoMining #EnvironmentalRacism #CulturalGenocide

Did #AvocadoCartels Kill the Butterfly King?

#HomeroGómezGonzález put himself between a threatened species and #Mexico’s #avocado and #timber industries. Then he disappeared.

by Matthew Bremner
July 23, 2021

"Gómez’s fight to preserve the forests had been tough, he’d told the international press. He said his work had been endangered by criminals, including illegal loggers and the cartel-infiltrated avocado trade. 'Gómez was probably hurting the interests of people illegally logging in the area,' Mayte Cardona, a spokeswoman for the State #HumanRights Commission of #Michoacán, told journalists shortly after his disappearance."

Original article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-23/did-the-avocado-cartel-kill-mexico-butterfly-king-homero-gomez-gonzalez

Internet Archive version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210731125329/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-23/did-the-avocado-cartel-kill-mexico-butterfly-king-homero-gomez-gonzalez

#ForestDefenders #JusticeForHomero #CriminalizingDissent #DefendTheForest #IndigenousRights #MonarchButterflies #Extinction #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice
#SilencingDissent
#CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists