[IPSM] Re: Underreported Struggles for November

[Ahni]

here you go...Ahni

>
> Underreported Struggles for November<http://intercontinentalcry.org/underreported-struggles-for-november/>Under
> the cloak of justice and benevolence,  ethnic violence heavily increased
> around the world last month, providing the backdrop for several emerging
> conflicts and the advancement of dozens more facing Indigenous and landless
> People.
>
> Propaganda continues to be utilized by both states and corporations, and
> indigenous leaders continue to be assassinated while innocent people are
> punished for standing up and defending themselves.
>
> On the bright side, Indigenous People around the world continued working
> to protect the land and defend their ways of life. De facto sovereignty is
> becoming more and more commonplace and the nature of struggle continues to
> evolve while new relationships and alliances are being forged on every land.
>
>
> May the work of Indigenous People continue to move forward like this. For
> the sake of future generations, it must.
>
> *November 30*
> Action needed to protect Mt. Tenabo<http://intercontinentalcry.org/action-needed-to-protect-mt-tenabo/>
> The Western Shoshone Defense Project (WSDP) posted an action alert
> yesterday, warning that Cortez Gold Mines (a subsidiary of Barrrick Gold)
> may soon be permitted to build a new gold mine on the slopes of Mt. Tenabo.
> The mountain and surrounding area is of extreme significance to the
> Spiritual and Cultural life of the Western Shoshone.
>
> *November 29*
> The Mapuche People's New Forms of Struggle<http://news.nacla.org/2007/11/29/the-mapuche-peoples-new-forms-of-struggle/>
> "A long hunger strike by five Mapuche political prisoners in Chile,
> sustained by a significant amount of solidarity, seems to be evidence of the
> deepening of a people's long struggle for the recovery of lands and control
> over territory."
>
> *November 28*
> Indigenous group moves to claim mining land<http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/28/2103627.htm?site=northandwest>
> An Aboriginal group in Australia says it has not approved mining ventures
> in their traditional territory
>
> Tibet: Vote Will Decide Tibetan Leadership<http://www.unpo.org/article.php?id=7363>
> To counter increasing Chinese interference, the Dalai Lama has called for
> a referendum to be held to decide the future of the Lama institution, which
> the steadfastly atheist communist authorities have angrily, and
> contradictorily, denounced as the destruction of Buddhist tradition.
>
> *November 26*
> Colombia: Urgent Action for Wayuu People<http://uriohau.blogspot.com/2007/11/colombia-urgent-action-for-wayuu-people.html>
> The following message is a request for action in support of the Wayuu
> People in the Alta Guajira region of Colombia. For more information, please
> visit organizacionwayuumunsurat.blogspot.com.
>
> Court between the devil and the deep blue sea<http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press1733.htm>
> It was a dream come true. Against all expectation, India's highest court
> last week told Vedanta Resources it couldn't mine Orissa's Nyamgiri hills -
> sacred to the Dongria Khonds. Within days, however, the truth had dawned.
> Although the notorious UK company has been officially banned from the
> project, the door is left wide open for a subsidiary to get straight back
> in.
>
> *November 25*
> Ethnic Indians on the Warpath<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40206>
> Malaysia's Hindus — mostly Tamil descendents of 19th century labourers —
> on Sunday ignored warnings by Prime Minister Abdul Badawi and braved tear
> gas and police batons to protest alleged official discrimination and demand
> a fair share of the national wealth. Commuters, shoppers and workers ran
> helter-skelter as teargas canisters rained on the protesters and filled the
> air with chemicals. Malaysiakini.com, an independent online news provider,
> put the number of protesters at 20,000, while other estimates said upto
> 50,000 people had turned up.
>
> *November 23*
> Big Trout Lake FN Will Resist drilling attempts without their consent<http://www.kitchenuhmaykoosib.com/>
> An aboriginal leader says the dispute between a Northwestern First Nation
> and an exploration company could get ugly if the province doesn't help
> mediate. Nishnawbe-Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy warns the dispute is
> heading toward "a major confrontation'' at big trout lake first nation. The
> community and Platinex are battling each other in the courts over plans to
> explore a potentially large platinum deposit about 40 kilometres from the
> reserve. Beardy says his people will offer significant resistance if police
> attempt to enforce a Platinex-held permit to drill in the area without band
> consent.
>
> *November 22*
> Eviction of Tatars may lead to violence rivaling the Gaza Strip<http://intercontinentalcry.org/eviction-of-tatars-may-lead-to-violence-rivaling-the-gaza-strip/>
> In recent months, ethnic tensions have been rising in the Crimean State of
> the Ukraine "laying the ground work for a bloodbath that will rival Bosnia
> and the Gaza Strip." The Tatars have been literally reclaiming their
> lands–but State authorities and various others label them as illegal
> squatters and have been moving to evict them–or perhaps more accurately, to
> protect their business interests
>
> Have the Birhor Vanished?<http://www.peacefulsocieties.org/NAR07/071122birh.html>
> "Apparently the Indian state of Jharkhand has forgotten the existence of
> the Birhor people. While other states around the world have hassled their
> peaceful societies, expelled them from their lands, removed them from their
> villages, and desecrated their sacred places, completely forgetting about
> them is remarkable."
>
> *November 20*
> 'We Want No Invader on Our Land'<http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8896/1/>
> Kayapó Indian leader Raoni has delivered a letter to Brazil's President
> Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, telling him, "We will not accept mining on
> indigenous land." The letter, signed by Indians from the Kayapó, Panará,
> Tapajuna and Yudjá tribes, was prompted by a bill currently being debated in
> the Brazilian parliament. If approved the new legislation would open up
> indigenous territories to large scale mining.
>
> Invitation to help spread Zapatista knowledge in the USA<http://la-nueva-raza.blogspot.com/2007/11/invitation-to-zapatista-collectives-in.html>
> This is an invitation to participate in a campaign that starts in 2008.
> It's dedicated to spreading material throughout America to inform and
> educate people about the Zapatista struggle, and the movement founded in
> community that continues to inspire millions around the world.
>
> *November 19*
> Chile: Indigenous Group Besieged By Salmon Industry<http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1008/34/>
> Fighting for years to preserve the last, tiny plot of land it has left
> following years of state and more recently industrial encroachment, a small
> Mapuche-Huilliche indigenous community near Puerto Montt, Region X is now
> resting all of its hopes on a group of strangers in far-away Washington, DC…
>
> *November 18*
> Homeland Security preparing to seize Apache lands<http://intercontinentalcry.org/urgent-homeland-security-preparing-to-seize-apache-lands/>
> Margo Tamez recently sent out a call for support, explaining the Army
> Corps of Engineers, Border Patrol and National Security Agency teams have
> been tracking down and enclosing upon the Apache in el Calaboz, Texas;
> saying the people have no choice but to give up their lands for a fence.
> Once built, they will have to travel a distance of 3 miles to go through
> checkpoints, to walk, recreate, and to farm and herd goats and cattle ON
> THEIR OWN LANDS.
>
> *November16*
> Salween on a precipice <http://salween-watch2.livejournal.com/20488.html>
> During a lull in construction preparations, villagers whose ancestral
> lands face oblivion from a proposed series of dams on the Salween River are
> eager to make the public aware of the fragile beauty of the riverine system
>
> *November 15*
> Report-back on the Indigenous Border Summit<http://intercontinentalcry.org/report-back-on-the-indigenous-border-summit/>
> For those of you who may not have had the chance to listen to the live
> online broadcast of the Indigenous Border Summit, here's a good 20 hours of
> audio for you, along with an overview of the summit.
>
> UBCIC Challenges Kamloops Gold Mine Decision<http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/News_Releases/UBCICNews11150702.htm>
> UBCIC President Grand Chief Stewart Phillip today called on the BC
> Minister of Mines, Kevin Krueger, to reverse a recent provincial decision
> granting a mining permit for a gold mine near Kamloops, citing the
> government's failure to accommodate the aboriginal interests of local
> Shuswap Nation Bands.
>
> Land-grabbers attack adivasis<http://www.newagebd.com/2007/nov/16/nov16/xtra_inner2.html>
> At 7:00am on November 5, a neighbourhood of the indigenous Oraon community
> in Uttar Kazipara village of Patnitala Upazilla of Naogaon district woke up
> to a violent assault by local hoodlums who set fire on 16 thatched mud
> houses, broke them, looted goods, and burnt the rest that could not bagged.
> More astonishingly, the attack was launched upon the women of the community
> as most of the men had gone to work.
>
> *November 14*
> A week of violence in Nandigram births 'a new dawn?'<http://intercontinentalcry.org/a-week-of-violence-in-nandigram-births-a-new-dawn/>
> The situation has quited now, but for the past week violence has gripped
> the Nandigram region of West Bengal, India. Under the guise of "cleansing"
> the area of political rivalry, cadres said to be hired by the Communist
> Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) began entering village after village; burning
> houses, forcibly occupying land, and destroying crops. Dozens if not
> hundreds of people were attacked, killed and even raped.
>
> *November 9*
> Iban leader arrested over oil palm dispute<http://www.survival-international.org/news/2591>
> Police in Sarawak, Malaysia, have arrested an Iban indigenous community
> leader. Rajang anak Sengalang was arrested from his longhouse on Wednesday.
> The local Iban organisation believes that the arrest was due to a conflict
> with an oil palm plantation company operating on Iban land.
>
> *November 7*
> Grassroots Resistance to the Plan Puebla Panama<http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=59&ItemID=14212>
> The government of Mexico, in conjunction with multinational corporations,
> the Inter American Development Bank and World Bank, has undertaken a massive
> windmill building project in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca. The
> construction of these wind farms – known in Spanish as parques eolicos – is
> being increasingly resisted by local communities, such as La Venta and La
> Ventosa, which are in and around Juchitan of southern Oaxaca.
>
> *November 6*
> Argentine indigenous in protest<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7082190.stm>
> Indigenous people from northern Argentina have lodged a legal complaint
> against the government after more than 20 of them died of hunger. They came
> to the capital, Buenos Aires, to air their grievances at a public hearing in
> the Supreme Court. But they are not confident their voices will be heard.
> The situation is worst in the northern Argentina province of Chaco, where
> several people have died and many more are suffering from malnutrition.
>
> *November 5*
> In Defense of Fishing in Mar del Plata<http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/rmr/?q=en/node/24098>
> Grito del Caladero, an assembly which works since 2005, gathers
> neighbours, fish filleters and fishermen of Mar del Plata, Argentina. Its
> members aim at raising awareness on the conflicts of fishing and they
> organize debates to study this issue. They also have publications in which
> they give a local, national and international approach to the problems. In
> addition, they produce communitary short-films. Real World Radio
> correspondants, Raquel Schrott and Ezequiel Miodownik talked to Veronica,
> member of Grito del Caladero who talked about the assembly and the fishing
> problems.
>
> *November 1*
> Indigenous Bukindnon farmers on 1,700-km trek for land<http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view_article.php?article_id=98192>
> A group of lumad farmers in Bukidnon province reached Leyte as they
> continue a 1,700-kilometer protest march to press the government to return
> their ancestral land. The journey of the 55-farmer group will end in Manila
> on December. 10
>
>
> *Videos of the Month*
>
> Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide<http://intercontinentalcry.org/sexual-violence-and-american-indian-genocide/>
> In the following video, you will hear Indigenous scholar and activist
> Andrea Smith give a lecture on the topic of her book, "Conquest: Sexual
> Violence and American Indian Genocide." The lecture took place in Grand
> Rapids, Michigan on February 7, 2006.
>
> Teardrops Of Karnaphuli<http://intercontinentalcry.org/teardrops-of-karnaphuli/>
> Teardrops Of Karnaphuli (Karnaphuli Kanna) tells the story of a dam that
> was constructed in the Karnaphuli region of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and
> the resulting impoverishment and suffering that was brought on to local
> inhabitants. About 100,000 people were evicted from their land during
> 1959-1962. This is but one of perhaps thousands of stories about the
> struggles of the Jumma People
>
> "India: The Broken People"<http://ridwanlaher.blogspot.com/2007/11/indiathe-broken-people.html>
> Reporter Ramita Navai and producer Siobhan Sinnerton travel through India
> exposing the horrific plight of the country's 170 million Dalits: literally
> "the broken people", and previously called "the untouchables"; who are at
> the bottom of India's caste system and are some of the most oppressed people
> on Earth.
>

*Underreported struggles is a monthly overview of news regarding the
struggles of indigenous and landless people throughout the world. To view
previous reports, please see:
http://intercontinentalcry.org/tags/underreported*
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