Land Rights

These Neighbors Got Together To Buy Vacant Buildings

March 5, 2015 Olivia LaVechhia, www.yesmagazine.org Create! Community, Housing, Land Rights

In 2011, a group of dedicated neighbors came together to change that. In November of that year, five of them, including Watson, became the founding board of the Northeast Investment Cooperative, a first-of-its-kind in the U.S. cooperative engaged in buying and developing real estate. NEIC created a structure where any Minnesota resident could join the co-op for $1,000, and invest more through the purchase of different classes of nonvoting stock. The group began spreading the word to prospective members, and started looking for a building to buy. One year later, NEIC had enough members to buy the two buildings on Central Avenue for cash. The co-op quickly sold one of the buildings to project partner Recovery Bike Shop, and after a gut renovation, which it funded with a 2 percent loan from the city and a loan from local Northeast Bank, it leased the other building to two young businesses that had struggled to find workable space elsewhere, Fair State Brewing Cooperative and Aki’s BreadHaus.

Indigenous Leaders Speak Out Against Maritime ‘Energy East’

March 3, 2015 Miles Howe, www.halifax.mediacoop.ca Resist! Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Pipelines

If Indigenous voices in the Maritimes had up until now been relatively silent in publicly opposing TransCanada's 'Energy East' pipeline, on Monday, February 23rd, a cross-sectional panel of Indigenous grassroots leaders spoke collectively, and firmly, against TransCanada's latest and largest proposed pipeline to date. Their message was simple and clear: The pipeline will not pass through the Maritimes, and they are prepared to name and out Indigenous collaborators with TransCanada. Ron Tremblay, a member of Negutkuk (Tobique) First Nation and a member of the Wolustuk (Malicete) Grand Council, likened the process in front of Indigenous grassroots leaders to turning over a large rock on a sunny day and watching the insects scatter from the sunlight.

Stop Theft Of Apache Land

February 28, 2015 Serene Fang, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Arizona, Energy, Land Rights, Mining

A place of great natural beauty, popular among rock climbers and campers, a part of Tonto National Forest known as Oak Flat has been under federal protection from mining since 1955, by special order of President Eisenhower. On the nearby San Carlos Apache reservation, many consider Oak Flat to be sacred, ancestral land – the home of one of their gods and the site of traditional Apache ceremonies. But Oak Flat also sits on top of one of the world’s largest deposits of copper ore. Resolution Copper Mining, a subsidiary of British-Australian mining conglomerate Rio Tinto, has sought ownership of the land for a decade, lobbying Congress to enact special legislation on its behalf more than a dozen times since 2005. Year after year the bills failed to pass. But in December, the legislation was was quietly passed into law as part of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act.

Native American Tribes Unite To Fight The Keystone Pipeline

February 27, 2015 Robert Boos, www.pri.org Resist! Environment, Indigenous Rights, Keystone XL, Land Rights, Water

The Keystone XL pipeline may have divided advocates and lawmakers in Washington, but the controversial project has also united a wide group of Native American tribes whose lands the pipes would cross. The proposed pipeline would run for 1,179 miles from southern Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico, crossing through six states and the territories of numerous tribes from the Dene and Creek Nations to the Omaha, Ho-chunk and Panka tribes. These tribal nations say the US government has failed to adequately consult and negotiate the matter with them, despite the direct effect the pipeline’s route would have on their lands “I think that a lot of tribes are really frustrated at the lack of inclusion in this process that's guaranteed through our treaty rights,” says Dallas Goldtooth of theIndigenous Environmental Network. Goldtooth says their primary concern is that the State Department’s permitting process has overlooked tribal treaties with the federal government.

Occupy Oak Flat Protest Against Resolution Copper

February 25, 2015 Miriam Wasser, www.blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com Resist! Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining

Leaders of Occupy Oak Flat say they won't give up until the U.S. government repeals the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange. The San Carlos Apache Tribe, leading a three-week protest at the Oak Flat Campground, vows to remain there until the federal government bends. The controversial exchange gave Australian-British mining company Resolution Copper (a subsidiary of the largest mining company in the world, Rio Tinto) access to a vast underground copper reserve under Oak Flat. The deal trades 2,400 acres of previously federally protected land for 5,300 acres of company property. The land exchange was attached to the 2015 United States National Defense Authorization Act as a midnight rider after it failed to pass as a stand-alone bill multiple times during the last decade.

County Man Makes His Case At Dominion Lawsuit Hearing

February 21, 2015 Calvin Trice, www.newsleader.com Resist! Dominion, Energy, Environment, Land Rights, Oil & Gas

If Dominion asks a landowner for permission to survey property for a pipeline route and the homeowner says "no," can the company come onto the land anyway? Churchville homeowners William and Wendy Little believe their "no" means no. Dominion's representatives say the company still has the right to survey the couple's 5 acres. The Littles' lawyer argued in a hearing for their federal lawsuit Thursday that the state law that grants natural gas companies the right to study private land without the owner's permission doesn't speak to the Littles' case. Virginia's statute allows such private property entry and doesn't count it as trespass if the company asks to study the land and doesn't receive permission.

Pipeline Proposal Meets Opposition In Schuylkill County

February 18, 2015 Mark Gilger Jr., www.republicanherald.com Resist! Environment, Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

Jack Zerbe II was about 10 years old when the Sunoco pipeline was built through his family’s farm in Washington Township, but he remembers that it took 15 to 20 years for production on that land to return to where it was before construction. As three generations of Zerbes continue to oppose the proposed construction of The Williams Companies pipeline through their portion of the county, they received a letter Jan. 26 from another company looking to put another pipeline through their property. “We were like, ‘You have got to be kidding me,’ ” Leah Zerbe, Jack’s daughter, who also lives on the farm, said Thursday. The Williams Companies Inc., an energy company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has plans to expand its Transco pipeline to connect the natural gas fields in northern Pennsylvania to markets in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern states by 2017.

81 Year Old Says She Will Fight Pipeline Through Her Farm

February 18, 2015 Duncan Adams, www.roanoke.com Resist! Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

An acquaintance told Louise Garman to accept the inevitable — that there’s little she can do to stop a buried natural gas pipeline from traveling through her family’s farm in the Catawba Valley if the powers that be ultimately decide that’s the anointed route. But Garman, 81, said she still has enough fight to object to an alternative route that could bring the 42-inch-diameter interstate pipeline through the property of family members, friends and neighbors. “People can’t be expected to just lie down,” Garman said Monday. Mountain Valley Pipeline confirmed earlier this month that it is considering alternatives to a previously disclosed route for the proposed pipeline but has declined to date to provide more specifics.

Hawaiian Activists Block Illegal Construction On Sacred Mountain

February 16, 2015 Christina Rose, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Resist! Hawaii, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights

On Tuesday, October 7, at the base of Mauna Kea, the world's tallest mountain, close to 200 activists joined in prayer, to preserve Hawai’i’ s most sacred place. The groundbreaking ceremony came to a dead halt when Joshua Lanakila Mangauil, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner, and other supporters made their way to the top of the mountain. Mangauil, who can be seen in the video below, stormed the ceremony unexpectedly and denounced the actions taking place. Mangauil’s impassioned pleas, among others, halted the events. Later, Mangauil said he wished it had gone differently. “It got to a boiling point that led to shutting the whole thing down. I hope we did the right thing, there were a lot of words,” he said.

Nebraska Judge Rules “No Eminent Domain For Keystone”

February 13, 2015 Chip Northrup, www.nofrackingway.us Educate! Keystone XL, Land Rights, Law, Nebraska

Nebraska judge issues temporary injunction, halts eminent domain against landowners while case proceeds back to NE Supreme Court. TransCanada agrees to halt all eminent domain cases in the state. Nebraska judge rules in favor of landowners on Keystone XL eminent domain. A Nebraska district court judge has temporarily halted the ability of a Canadian company to acquire right-of-way for the Keystone XL pipeline. Holt County District Judge Mark Kozisek granted a temporary injunction Thursday to landowners who challenged the ability of TransCanada to use eminent domain to acquire land for the controversial pipeline.

Taking From Indians Is An American Tradition

February 12, 2015 Tara Houska, www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com Educate! Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining

So just what is the state of Indian affairs today? Congress is again poised to significantly and negatively impact tribal lands via must-pass legislation. The Oceti Sakowin are unified against taking tribal lands that were never ceded to the United States, against a project that will bring increased violence, potential environmental destruction, and many other harms to their communities. Although the decision to attach Keystone XL to must-pass legislation likely won’t be made behind closed doors as it was with the Apache Land Grab, the end result will be the same: tribal people dispossessed of tribal lands to benefit extractive industries.

Over 2,500 Landless Families Occupy 6 Properties In Brazil

February 9, 2015 EFE, www.latino.foxnews.com Resist! Brazil, Housing, Land Rights, Poverty

More than 2,500 families are occupying six properties in Brazil's Federal District as part of a protest organized by the MTST Homeless Workers Movement, the organization said Sunday. The coordinated occupation was carried out peacefully in Brazlandia, Ceilandia, Planaltina, Recanto das Emas, Samambaia and Taguatinga, all of them cities in the Brasilia metropolitan area. The protesters plan to occupy the properties until an agreement is reached with the regional government, the MTST said. "We are going to stay here until there is an agreement with the government (of the Federal District). We spoke with them on Saturday and we set a new meeting for Tuesday," the MTST coordinator in Brasilia, Edson Silva, told Efe.

Can Energy Company Go On Private Land Without Permission?

February 7, 2015 Rachel Smith, www.newsadvance.com Resist! Corporatism, Land Rights, Law

The fate of a lawsuit filed by five Nelson County residents against Dominion Transmission remains unknown after a Thursday morning hearing in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg. The lawsuit, filed in September, asks the court to declare unconstitutional a Virginia statute relevant to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Section 56-49.01 of the Virginia Code allows natural gas companies to survey private property as long as previous notification has been served. Dominion asked the court in November to dismiss the suit, and that request is what Thursday's arguments focused on. On one side of the court room sat mostly Dominion representatives scattered in the pews, on the opposite side sat Nelson County residents who filled every inch of the section.

Apache Leader: Unite To Fight Proposed Copper Mine

February 2, 2015 Emily Bregel, www.redpowermedia.wordpress.com Resist! Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Mining

Apache leader Wendsler Nosie issued a call for solidarity in the fight against Congress’ recent decision to give sacred Native American land to a foreign mining company. Speaking to a crowd of about 75 gathered Friday in South Tucson, Nosie invited people of of all races, religions and political affiliations to stand up against what he calls the “dirty” way in which legislators approved the land swap in December. He invited everyone to a spiritual gathering and protest at Oak Flat, about 100 miles north of Tucson, next Saturday. “This is not just our fight. This is an American battle,” said Nosie, former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe. The reservation’s border is just east of the proposed copper mine at Oak Flat, sacred to Western Apache and Yavapai people.

CALLOUT To #ShutDownCanada Friday, February 13th

February 2, 2015 Mike Roy, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Canada, First Nations, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Women, Land Rights

CALL OUT for communities across Canada to blockade their local railway, port or highway on February 13th. Don’t buy, don’t fly, no work and keep the kids home from school. A diversity of tactics is highly recommended! Get everyone involved” (#ShutDownCanada). The ShutDownCanada callout was made by a group called In Solidarity with all Land Defenders who describe themselves as “a collective of indigenous and settler grassroots organizers/activists based out of so called Vancouver(xʷməθkwəy̓əm(Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) land)”.

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