Land Rights

Mass Protests In Nicaragua, Canal Will ‘Sell Country To Chinese’

June 15, 2015 Alexander Ward, www.independent.co.uk Resist! Canal, Capitalism, China, Farmworkers, Land Rights, Nicaragua, Water

By Alexander Ward in The Independent - Thousands of locals in Nicaragua have demonstrated against plans to construct a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Mass protests in Nicaragua as farmers claim planned canal will 'sell country to the Chinese' The project, billed as longer and deeper than the Panama canal, will cost $50bn (£32bn) and is to be built by Chinese contractors. While the Nicaraguan government have said that the canal will bring vital investment to the country, demonstrators are concerned that it will have a dramatic effect on the environment. Protestors have also accused the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, of “selling the country to the Chinese,” although this has been refuted by authorities. According to various sources, the number of protestors gathered in Juigalpa is between 15,000 and 30,000. They believe that up to 120,000 people could be displaced by the project.

Summit Brings Together 25 Indigenous Nations For Resistance

June 11, 2015 Fionuala Cregan, www.intercontinentalcry.org Resist! Argentina, Indigenous People, Land Rights, Oil & Gas

By Fionuala Cregan in Intercontinental Cry - From May 27-29, 2014, Indigenous leaders from across Argentina’s 17 provinces met in Buenos Aires and presented dramatic testimonies of human rights violations and dispossession from their ancestral lands. In all corners of the country, these Indigenous Peoples have found themselves at the forefront of the battle against oil and gas exploration, fracking, mining, hydroelectric dams and deforestation for soy cultivation. As they defend the environment and their ancestral territories, many have suffered death threats, judicial harassment and other forms of persecution. Solidarity was expressed in particular with two emblematic cases – the Mapuche community Winkul Newen and the inter-ethnic organization QOPIWINI.

Green Economies Need Alliances B/W Labour & Indigenous People

June 5, 2015 Harsha Walia, www.ricochet.media Strategize! Capitalism, Environment, Imperialism, Indigenous People, Labor Unions, Land Rights, Public Health

By Harsha Walia in Ricochet.Media - The bold leadership of unions that revive principles of social unionism ensures that unions are not simply advocating mobility within capitalism and state structures, but are primary allies in the struggle against capitalism and imperialism. As Herman Rosenfeld, a former GM worker, writes, “Job security is key, but what kind of jobs? Is the job security strategy one that works against the interests of the rest of the working-class and First Nations peoples, or in partnership with them? Moving away from the narrow focus on the short-term sectoral interests of a relatively small group of workers, whose jobs are currently defined by their employers, is a critical way of building unions as fighters for the class as a whole, and for a different, sustainable, and hopefully anti-capitalist future.” Simply put, workers shouldn’t have to extract toxic sludge. Workers want and need clean air, clean water, and a more equitable future.

Landowners Form A Pipeline Rebellion In The Deep South

June 4, 2015 Jenny Jarvie, www.latimes.com Resist! Environment, Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Oil Pipeline, Texas

By Jenny Jarvie in LA Times - When the letter arrived from a Texas pipeline company asking permission to enter his land, Alan Zipperer refused to allow surveyors onto his property. But they came anyway, he said, traipsing through his corn fields and pine forests and sticking wooden stakes in the low-country land his family has owned since the 1700s. "I don't want a private company to build a gasoline pipeline in my front yard — or anywhere on my property," he said. Zipperer, 60, is one of many Southern landowners challenging the nation's largest energy infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan, as it plans to run a petroleum pipeline through 360 miles of bottom land, river forests and freshwater coastal wetlands across South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Okinawans Want Their Land Back. Is That So Hard To Understand?

May 30, 2015 Jon Letman, www.truth-out.org Resist! Imperialism, Japan, Land Rights, Wars and Militarism

Living in a country where people learn world geography through frequently fought overseas wars, Americans are accustomed to reading about places where we've fought wars - Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. But one formerly war-ravaged part of the world most Americans don't think much about is Okinawa. Once the independent kingdom of Ryukyu, Okinawa, was annexed by Japan in 1872. At the end of World War II, exactly 70 years ago, Okinawa was the site of one of the war's most ferocious battles. Caught between the armies of Japan and the United States, Okinawans suffered unspeakable horrors during the "typhoon of steel."

Apache Rally On McCain’s Home Turf Over Land Grab

April 28, 2015 Noah Zuss, www.theblot.com Resist! indigenous, Land Rights, Mining

Members of Arizona’s San Carlos Apache Tribe are not giving in to a giant conglomerate that wants to take its ancestral land so it can be mined. This past weekend, the tribe held the Save Oak Flat Street Fair in Tucson, Ariz. — named for its ancestral and sacred land — to bring more attention to the project it believes will forever contaminate and harm the pristine and hallowed environment of the Tonto National Forest, about 90 miles northeast of Phoenix. “It was [Sen. John] McCain’s home turf there,” Tribal Elder Sandra Rambler said in a phone interview with TheBlot Magazine. “He was really blasted. It’s bringing more awareness. We’re not going away.” The campaign is called “Apache Stronghold” and provided information in pamphlets, posters, newsletters and other formats to residents. Members of San Carlos Apache and other tribes from Arizona and other states joined in the street fair event.

Michigan Sells Treaty-Protected, Public Land For Limestone Mine

April 25, 2015 Indian Country Today Media Network, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Educate! Indian, Land Rights, Mining

A group of American Indians in Michigan have lost their bid to block a land transfer of nearly 9,000 acres to a company proposing a limestone mine—the “largest single public land deal in Michigan history,” according to theDetroit Free Press. The attempted injunction was the last legal line of defense against the mine, which would cover as many as 13,000 acres, according to theDetroit Free Press. In the deal, which was approved in March, the state will sell 8,810 acres of “surface land or underground mineral rights” to Graymont, a Canadian mining company, for $4.53 million so it can build the limestone mine in the Upper Peninsula, the Detroit Free Press said. The group—comprised of members of several tribes—had filed suit in Grand Rapids trying to stop the Michigan Natural Resources Director Keith Creagh from transferring land to Graymont Mining Co., based on treaty rights.

Victory! Saskatchewan To Remain Nuclear Waste Free

April 20, 2015 Sandra Cuffe, www.intercontinentalcry.com Educate! Canada, Environment, indigenous, Land Rights, Nuclear Energy

Residents of northern Saskatchewan are celebrating an important victory this month after a four-year, hard-fought campaign to keep the province free of nuclear waste. On March 3, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announcedthat Creighton was no longer a contender in the organization’s siting process. It was the last of three Saskatchewan communities in the running to host a deep geological repository for the long term storage of spent fuel bundles from Canada’s nuclear reactors in Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick. “This announcement is the culmination of four years of research, sacrifice, networking and hard work by a group of dedicated people with one goal: to keep nuclear waste out of Saskatchewan,” said Candyce Paul, a founding member of the Committee for Future Generations.

Fears Grow For Indigenous People In Path Of Dam

April 18, 2015 Chalachew Tadesse, www.ipsnews.net Educate! Ethiopia, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Water

A United Nations mission is due to take place this month to assess the impact of Ethiopia’s massive Gilgel Gibe III hydroelectric power project on the Omo River which feeds Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake, lying mostly in northwest Kenya with its northern tip extending into Ethiopia. The report of the visit by a delegation from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) from Ethiopia’s state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) comes amid warnings by Survival International that the Kwegu people of southwest Ethiopia are facing severe hunger due to the destruction of surrounding forests and the drying up of the river on which their livelihoods depend. The UK-based group linked the Kwegu’s food crisis to the massive Gibe III Dam and large-scale irrigation taking place in the region, which are robbing the Kwegu of their water and fish supplies.

Squatters Invade Building To Become Luxury Hotel

April 9, 2015 Associated Press, www.theguardian.com Resist! Brazil, Land Rights

A vast Art Deco residential building in Rio de Janeiro that Brazil’s one-time richest man was supposed to transform into a luxury hotel ahead of the 2016 Olympicshas been invaded by squatters. Around 100 people moved into the building overnight Monday and Tuesday, slipping through a breach in the wrought-iron fence. The squatters, many recently evicted from another site in downtown Rio, said they were determined to remain in the building until city officials agreed to provide them housing. “We’re only leaving here with a house. If not, we’re staying right here,” said Alexandre Pereira da Silva, an unemployed father of three, one of several squatters who spoke to reporters across the iron fence, their faces shrouded from cameras by blankets.

3 Days Of Protest At The Mackinac Bridge

March 30, 2015 Martin Reinhardt, www.facebook.com Resist! Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Water

Beginning on Friday, March 27 at 9:00am, everyone who cares about the future ecological health of the UP is invited to join us in protest against the proposed Graymont mine near Rexton, Michigan and other concerns like the Enbridge pipeline that is in disrepair under the Mackinac Bridge, and the proposed Eagle mine road (County Road 595) that would cut through a fragile ecosystem near Marquette, Michigan. It is time for us to stand up and speak loudly about these serious issues that are impacting our communities now and in the future. We will meet at the rest stop on the UP side of the bridge at 9am each day for three consecutive days to symbolizeour deep concern about these issues. Dr. Martin Reinhardt, a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and an assistant professor of Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University, initiated this demonstration to cast a light on how the State of Michigan is violating the treaty rights of Michigan tribes.

Maine Told To Tighten Tribal Land Water Rules

March 21, 2015 Collin Woodard, www.pressherald.com Resist! Land Rights, Maine, Water

The federal government has ordered Maine to tighten its water quality standards for rivers and lakes on tribal lands to ensure fish taken there are safe to eat in large quantities. Tribal leaders hailed the move as a historic assertion of federal oversight of Maine’s relationship with federally recognized tribes here. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled Monday that clean water standards proposed by the state Department of Environmental Protection are inadequate to protect sustenance fishermen – those who fish as a primary means of feeding their families – on the reservations from certain toxins, because they eat much greater volumes of fish than the average Mainer.

Rural India Fights For Its Rights

March 18, 2015 Saif Khalid, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Food and Agriculture, India, Land Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

It took eight days of walking for 80-year-old Dhanmatya Mumat to reach New Delhi. Like thousands of other farmers from rural India, Mumat - from the state of Bihar - made the 1,000km-long trip to the Indian capital to protest proposed changes to a little known land law that he said would destroy his life. "We came with the hope that our land will be saved, if the government takes away our land, we will die of poverty," Mumat told Al Jazeera. "I request the politicians of the country to kill me rather than taking away my bread and butter." Organisers say some 7,000 people arrived by foot to demonstrate in New Delhi to coincide with a parliamentary session on Wednesday that will decide on proposed changes to the land act - revisions that have raised the ire of many rural Indians.

Indigenous Nations Rally For Sacred Site Protection

March 13, 2015 Protect Medicine Lake, www.protectmedicinelake.org Resist! Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

Today the Pit River Tribe, Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Highlands Defense, Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, Save Medicine Lake Coalition, Medicine Lake Citizens for Quality Environment, with their attorney Deborah A. Sivas of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic and supporters, optimistically exited the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today following oral arguments in Pit River Tribe vs. US Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, & Calpine Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. Today the Pit River Tribe, Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Highlands Defense, Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, Save Medicine Lake Coalition, Medicine Lake Citizens for Quality Environment, with their attorney Deborah A. Sivas of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic and supporters, optimistically exited the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today following oral arguments in Pit River Tribe vs. US Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, & Calpine Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. Screen Shot 2015-03-13 at 10.39.16 AM“Medicine Lake is a sacred place and it needs to be protected at all costs,” said Pit River Tribal Chairman Mickey Gemmill.

The Apache Way: The March To Oak Flat

March 5, 2015 Roger Hill, www.truth-out.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Women, Land Rights

For years, Standing Fox and a dedicated core group of Apache activists have joined with a coalition of national tribes, environmentalists and concerned retired miners to oppose the land exchange transfer of the Oak Flat region to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, a mining company headquartered in London. Over the past decade, Arizona Republicans have attempted unsuccessfully to pass the land exchange legislation - twice in 2013 failing to get enough votes to bring it to the floor of the House of Representatives. The land exchange also violates a 1955 executive order by President Eisenhower that explicitly puts the Oak Flat Campground land off limits to future mining activity. Standing Fox joins us in the car to give us a quick tour of San Carlos.

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