Sovereignty

Honduran Campesino Leader Explains The ZEDEs

October 26, 2021 Kawsachun News. Educate! Honduras, Neoliberalism, Sovereignty, ZEDES

A wide range of sectors in Honduras are continuing to mobilize against the Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs) with the general election now one month away. Campesino, indigenous and Afro-descendant movements and communities say the large scale territorial concessions amount to a flagrant violation of national sovereignty and will result in mass displacement. Frequent protests against the legislation, like the one held by the National Lawyers Association of Honduras, have called for the repeal of Decree 120/2013, due to its unconstitutionality, and communities are declaring their lands ZEDES free territories. Despite strong opposition, the Honduran state continues to make concessions to transnational capital, surrendering not only land, but also political sovereignty to foreign companies.

Land Acknowledgements To Honor Indigenous People Often Do Opposite

October 14, 2021 Elisa J. Sobo, Michael Lambert, And Valerie Lambert, The Conversation. Educate! Colonialism, Indigenous People, Land Acknowledgement, Sovereignty

Many events these days begin with land acknowledgments: earnest statements acknowledging that activities are taking place, or institutions, businesses and even homes are built, on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples. And many organizations now call on employees to incorporate such statements not only at events but in email signatures, videos, syllabuses and so on. Organizations provide resources to facilitate these efforts, including pronunciation guides and video examples. Some land acknowledgments are carefully constructed in partnership with the dispossessed. The Burke Museum at the University of Washington in Seattle describes this process: “Tribal elders and leaders are the experts and knowledge-bearers who generously shared their perspectives and guidance with the Burke. Through this consultation, we co-created the Burke’s land acknowledgement.”

Texas, Big Oil Target Indian Children In Bid To End Tribal Sovereignty

September 22, 2021 Sarah Rose Harper and Jesse Phelps, Lakota People's Law Project. Resist! ICWA, Indigenous Peoples, Sovereignty, US Supreme Court

If the Supreme Court overturns the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) — a federal law that keeps Native children with Native families — tribal sovereignty could soon be a thing of the past in the U.S. Should the Supreme Court rule in the plaintiffs’ favor in the case of Brackeen v. Haaland, we could quickly see a return to blatant, pre-1978 genocidal practices — when Native babies were legally stripped of their families, culture, and identities. It’s critical that every one of us take immediate action. Before you do anything else today, sign our petition telling President Biden and the Department of Justice to defend ICWA, Secretary Haaland, and tribal sovereignty with every available means. In this landmark case, the Brackeens — the white, adoptive parents of a Diné child in Texas — seek to overturn ICWA by claiming reverse racism.

Corporate Media Oppose Afghan Control Of Afghanistan

May 15, 2021 Joshua Cho, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Afghanistan War, Media, Sovereignty

When President Joe Biden announced the “withdrawal” of US troops from Afghanistan after almost 20 years of occupying the country in violation of international law, corporate media not only misled their audiences on what the US is actually planning to do in Afghanistan, but also somehow made it seem as if withdrawing from the longest overseas war in US history would be premature (FAIR.org, 9/11/19). Establishment reporting over the future of Afghanistan after Biden’s announcement also demonstrated the imperialist mindset of corporate journalists, who presented Afghans controlling their own country as an unacceptable outcome.

A Private Government In Honduras Moves Forward

February 25, 2021 Beth Geglia and Andrea Nuila, NACLA. Educate! Corporatism, Governance, Honduras, Sovereignty

“It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 years old. “She was the one who fought for us to have the road, the school, water, all of the basic projects… the government has never given us anything that we didn’t fight for. She gave everything for this community. She’s the reason me and my family are so firm.” Venessa’s community is located between two tourism projects—Pristine Bay and Palmetto Bay—on the Honduran island of Roatán, where she serves as vice-president of the patronato, the community governing council.

Lessons To Be Learned From Washington’s Lethal War Against The World

December 15, 2020 Carlos Martinez, Morningstar Online. Educate! International Law, Sovereignty, US Foreign Bases, US Foreign Policy

The latest book from Indian Marxist Vijay Prashad is a passionate critique of the “US-led liberal international order,” in which Washington has fired — and still fires — its bullets at the peoples of the Global South and the socialist world. In Guatemala, Congo, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, Haiti, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Yemen, Sudan, Grenada, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Angola and so many other countries, Washington’s bullets have been deployed in the pursuance of regime change, the protection of US hegemony and opposition to the emergence of truly sovereign post-colonial nations, all in flagrant violation of international law.

First Nation Chief Tells Mayors To Butt Out

December 10, 2020 Binny Paul, Cowichan Valley Citizen. Resist! Canada, First Nations, Salmon, Sovereignty

A Vancouver Island First Nation chief schooled four North Island mayors on how Aboriginal Rights work in response to them asking to be let in on Discovery Island fish farm consultations with the federal government. Last month in a letter addressed to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bernadette Jordan, mayors of Campbell River, Port Hardy, Port McNeill and Gold River asked to be a part of the ongoing consultation process between the minister’s office and seven First Nations with regards to the transitional plight of 18 fish farms in the Discovery Islands.

Indigenous Peoples’ Victory: Largest Dam Removal In The World

November 23, 2020 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Dams, Indigenous Resistance, Sovereignty, Water Protectors

After nearly two decades, Indigenous Peoples win an agreement for the largest dam removal in the world. Four of the six dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon will be taken down, allowing the water to flow freely again and the salmon to spawn. This is a powerful story of how four tribes put aside their past conflicts to work together and environmental groups participated in an indigenous-led campaign that took on two of the wealthiest men in the world, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. And this is an example of why, if we want to succeed in restoring our relationship with the earth, Indigenous Peoples must be at the forefront.

America Has No Allies, Only Hostages

October 21, 2020 Caitlin Johnstone. Educate! International Solidarity, Multipolar World, Sovereignty, US Empire

The new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news agency EFE that he intends to restore the nation's relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran. This reverses the policies of the US-backed coup regime which immediately began closing embassies, kicking out doctors and severing relations with those nations after illegally seizing power last year. Arce also spoke of warm relations with Russia and China. “We are going to reestablish all relations," he told EFE. "This government has acted very ideologically, depriving the Bolivian people of access to Cuban medicine, to Russian medicine, to advances in China.

Nicaragua Attacked For Using Same US Policies Against Foreign Meddling

October 15, 2020 John Perry, Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Educate! Nicaragua, Regime Change, Sovereignty, United States

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched another attack on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government last month, accusing President Daniel Ortega of being a “dictator” who is “doubling down on repression and refusing to honor the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan people.”[1] The State Department openly supports what it calls “a return to democracy in Nicaragua”, saying that “the people of Nicaragua rose up peacefully to call for change.”[2] Pompeo’s accusations came in a month in which Nicaragua’s National Assembly made three new legislative proposals

When Confronted By Hungry Bellies, Us Imperialists Reach For Their Guns

October 10, 2020 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! colonization, Ghana, Imperialism, Sovereignty

In 1965, Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah published a bold book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. In this book, Nkrumah documented in great detail the way in which European and North American multinational firms – in close collaboration with their governments – continued to smother the aspirations of the new nations of Africa. As an example, Nkrumah took up his own country, Ghana, which had been known by the colonial name ‘the Gold Coast’ until 1957. One of the old colonial companies, Ashanti Goldfields (a British company) continued to make fabulous profits from the hard labour of Ghana’s gold miners; when Nkrumah’s government tried to raise the taxes on the firm, London newspapers screamed in outrage.

‘We Have To Be Ever More Vigilant’ About The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples

September 21, 2020 Joaqlin Estus, Indian Country Today. Educate! Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty, United Nations

The agreement took some 25 years of diplomacy, negotiations back and forth, defining words, until finally a document was produced that 144 of the world’s nations agreed to sign on September 13, 2007. That is except the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Those four nations considered the declaration for a few more years. The United States gave its agreement in December 2010 under the Obama administration. The challenge of any international standard is implementation. Experts (when they are generous) call that a work in progress.

On Its 27th Anniversary: Defeat Oslo, Confront Normalization, Escalate BDS

September 15, 2020 Samidoun. Resist! Israeli Apartheid, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Sovereignty

The agreement signed on the White House lawn and the famous handshake of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat was falsely billed as a promise of peace and hope for Palestinians, denied both for decades upon decades, but was in reality a program for continued and intensified colonization and the suppression of the Palestinian liberation struggle. The entire project of Oslo was always intended to intensify the repression, division and fragmentation of the Palestinian people, while imposing a Palestinian “security” framework over the Palestinian people struggling for their rights, for return and liberation.

China Backs Venezuela’s Right To Safeguard Sovereignty

September 7, 2020 Telesur English. Resist! China, COVID-19, Sovereignty, Venezuela

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China and Venezuela share basically similar views on safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests, jointly supporting multilateralism, and improving global governance. China stands with the Venezuelan people in their fight against COVID-19 and upholds the Venezuelan government's right to safeguard national sovereignty, and national dignity and development, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday. Wang made the remarks while holding talks with his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza via video link.

Solidarity With Tribal Nations Exercising Sovereignty And Protecting Citizens

May 17, 2020 NDN Collective, Indianz.com. Resist! COVID-19, Indigenous Rights, Pandemic, Sovereignty

Rapid City, SD– As an Indigenous organization dedicated to supporting Indigenous self-determination and building Indigenous power, the NDN Collective stands in unwavering solidarity with the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes in their efforts to protect their people and to assert their rights as sovereign Nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the novel Coronavirus spreads its reach to vulnerable Indigenous communities, Tribal Nations across the country have taken measures to protect their people, their knowledge-keepers, and their cultures. In South Dakota, checkpoints have been established at the borders of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, home to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, ensuring that all who enter are vetted, screened, and practicing safe measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

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