Sovereignty

Victory For BC First Nation Logging Blockade

January 1, 2014 James Keller, www.vancouversun.com Resist! Indigenous Rights, Logging, Sovereignty

The British Columbia government didn’t properly consult with a northern First Nation community about forestry activity and then failed to warn a logging contractor about an imminent blockade, according to a court judgement that orders the province pay the company $1.75 million. One lawyer involved in the case says the judgment, which follows several years of legal proceedings that included a trip to the Supreme Court of Canada, should serve as a yet another warning to the provincial government about the need to meaningfully consult with First Nations over resource development.

Celebrating 20 Years Of Indigenous Strategies For Self-Defense, – Determination

January 1, 2014 Simon Sedillo, www.soaw.org Strategize! Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty, Zapatistas

The Escuelita model is the latest of the Zapatista strategies to counter a military political economy that has systematically devalued and excluded Mexico’s indigenous people from a peaceful life with liberty, dignity, and justice. Throughout the Americas, public education models have not only excluded indigenous communities from access but, even more damaging, they have excluded indigenous world views and methods of politics and economics from entering the debate about sustainable public development. Indigenous women are the primary carriers of this traditional knowledge. In the face of the neoliberal military political economy entire sectors of society are treated as disposable variables in an equation for profit where workers, students, peasants, young people, women, people of color, poor people, indigenous communities and in particular indigenous women are militarily targeted for exclusion.

Day Of Rage: Prawer Plan Protests Met With Extreme Brutality

December 1, 2013 Staff, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Sovereignty

Clashes between protestors and police took place during a Day of Rage against the Prawer Plan that will displace over 40,000 Bedouins from their villages at El Naqab (Negev) area at the south of Israel in the largest ethnic cleansing since 1948. Resistors, including children and teens, in El Naqeb (Negev) were met with extreme brutality from riot police. Hundreds of Israeli shielded cops using tear gas, rubber bullets, water canons and stun grenades, clashed with Bedouin activists and supporters near & inside the town of Hura. Over 25 protesters were detained. For facts-and-figures about Prawer Plan read here: http://prawerwontpass.wordpress.com/facts-and-figures/

Israeli Police Attack Large Anti-Prawer Protests In Haifa

November 30, 2013 Staff, www.maannews.net Resist! Israel, Palestine, Sovereignty

Hundreds of protestors participated in a large demonstration in Haifa on Saturday against the Prawer Plan as part of a global "Day of Rage." Many protesters were detained as Israeli police violently dispersed the crowds in the northern Israeli city, and clashes continued into the evening. Protests took place on both sides of the Green Line as well as worldwide, as Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals protested in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and in at least 14 other countries in Europe and the Arab World against the plan to forcibly relocate tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins. Israeli forces dispersed protesters in Haifa with water cannons and detained many others after Israeli police claimed that protesters threw rocks at them.

Masked RCMP Continue To Enforce Violation Of Treaties

November 30, 2013 Derrick, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty

The RCMP turned out in full force again friday to protect SWN Resources corporate interests, stopping traffic on Highway 11 near Rexton due to the ongoing anti-shale gas protest. One person asked, Is this Canada? where cops protect the corporations that the government is literally paying to steal our resources and put the people who are standing up for their land…..native and non-native in jail. Is this the Canada our grandparents and great grandparents fought for? And why are the RCMP wearing masks when it’s illegal for demonstrators to do same? This man was arrested after standing on the side of the road with his sign that reads, Dear government Alward, you are allowing the children of Kent-North be used as laboratory rats. Have you no shame?

The Prawer Plan: Ethnic Cleansing In The Negev

November 30, 2013 the Institute for Middle East Understanding, www.imeu.net Educate! Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Sovereignty

In 2011, Yaron Ben Ezra, the director of the settlement division of the World Zionist Organization (WZO) stated that the purpose of building new Jewish communities in the Negev is "to prevent the continued invasion of state lands by the Bedouin and to prevent the creation of Bedouin or Arab [territorial] contiguity." (The Bedouin are effectively regarded as foreign invaders by Israeli officials even though they lived on their ancestral lands in the Negev for centuries before the creation of the state of Israel.) Along with the Jewish National Fund (JNF), the quasi-governmental WZO plays an important role in government efforts to “Judaize” the Negev and other parts of Israel.

Britons Protest Over Israel Plan To Remove 70,000 Palestinian Bedouins

November 30, 2013 Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com Educate! Human Rights, Israel, Sovereignty

More than 50 public figures in Britain, including high-profile artists, musicians and writers, have put their names to a letter opposing an Israeli plan to forcibly remove up to 70,000 Palestinian Bedouins from their historic desert land – an act condemned by critics as ethnic cleansing. The letter, published in the Guardian, is part of a day of protest on Saturday in Israel, Palestine and two dozen other countries over an Israeli parliamentary bill that is expected to get final approval by the end of this year. The eviction and destruction of about 35 "unrecognised" villages in the Negev desert will, the letter says, "mean the forced displacement of Palestinians from their homes and land, and systematic discrimination and separation".

Indigenous Nationhood Movement Has Arrived Online

November 6, 2013 Staff, www.warriorpublications.wordpress.com Create! Environment, Government, Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty

A new website is calling for Aboriginal nations to move away from the Indian Act and towards autonomy and traditional governments. Siku Allooloo is part Haitian, part Inuk, and now living in New York. She was part of a group of Native and non-Native people that drafted principles for the Indigenous Nationhood movement that were released this morning. “To be able to see how far and wide the movement stretches, I find it affirming,” Allooloo says. “When you can see the amount of collective support… and that’s what I hope people get out of this site.”

Heavy-Handed Response To Elsipogtog Blockade In NB

October 20, 2013 Peter Raaymakers, www.ottawacitizen.com Educate! Corporatism, Environment, Fracking, Government, Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty

The Mi’kmaq people of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, including the Elsipogtog First Nation, have never signed a treaty relinquishing authority to the land on which the Route 134 blockade stands today, or that on which SWN Resources is conducting exploratory testing. They signed a Peace and Friendship Treaty in 1761, which was re-affirmed in 1982 with Canada’s Constitution Act and then again in a 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision, but that agreement included no mention of the surrender of any lands. Although the federal and New Brunswick governments are currently engaged in exploratory discussions to address issues of land ownership, rights, and sovereignty, there has been no agreement yet.

Time To Recognize National Sovereignty, Human Rights Of Native Indians

October 10, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.truthout.org Educate! Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty

We often think of US Empire acting on the global stage through occupations and wars abroad, but the longest-running manifestation of US imperialism is the illegal occupation of portions of the United States and denial of the sovereignty of Native Indians, which continues today. The brutal history of this occupation and the fact that it is ongoing are largely ignored by most Americans, but awareness and the need for a peaceful resolution are imperative if we are to evolve into a cooperative and just society. In the past century, efforts by Native Indian nations to achieve recognition of signed treaties have been thwarted. When attempts to use domestic law failed, Native Indian Nations joined with other indigenous nations from around the world to gain recognition under international law. This effort, which took the form of a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations, was sabotaged by the United States, Canada and some of their allies.

VIDEO: October 7: International Day To Proclaim Indigenous Sovereignty

September 28, 2013 Clayton Thomas-Muller, www.idlenomore.ca Create! Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty

#Oct7Proclaim October 7, 1763, marked the signing of the British Royal Proclamation, an historic document that legally mandated Canada to recognize Indigenous land rights. 250 years later, on October 7, 2013... Idle No More calls on all peoples to raise (y)our voices and take action in support of: Our Land Our Water Our Bodies Our Stories Our Future Indigenous Sovereignty Stand up and be heard this October 7, 2013! Organize an action or event in your community! And make sure to use the #Oct7Proclaim tag in your event title or description!http://www.idlenomore.ca/events

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