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Showing posts with label Indigenous. Show all posts
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12.03.2013

BREAKING NEWS from Native Voices United Radio: 3 Women Hit By Fracker's Trucks, Injunction Extended, and Highway 11 Burns!

BREAKING NEWS from Native Voices United Radio:

3 Women Hit By SWN Trucks, Injunction Extended, and Highway 11 Burns!

DEC 2- Today along highway 11 things got rough. RCMP blocked off the road, arrests were made, there were reports of police dogs chasing people in the woods, and an SWN security vehicle hit 3 women. An ambulance was called and 2 women were sent to the hospital; meanwhile the RCMP did nothing.

In the court house, the Judge dismissed arguments made by Melissa Augustine of behalf of all Jane Does named in the injunction, as well as arguments of other defendants, calling them "opinions". SWN's injunction was thus extended until December 17. Protestors outside of the courthouse reacted by putting blue tape over their mouths and linking arms.

Footage emerges from the road of women being assaulted and arrested by RCMP. Soon after, highway 11 was set ablaze with flaming tires as protestors enacted their own permanent blockade. They now ask for support, people, and supplies. The burning tires have been called "smoke signals".

Cop cars are still reported accumulating. The Elsipogtog people & Mik'Maq warriors need support! Solidarity rallies, media coverage, funds and supplies to the blockade.

Photo: Jonathan Augustine http://ow.ly/i/3Uwv5

‪#‎elsipogtog‬ ‪#‎elsipogtogsolidarity‬ ‪#‎shutdowncanada‬ ‪#‎nb‬

For more info and videos, go to Native Voices United's FB page

Indigenous Canadian anti-fracking protesters refuse to back down | Al Jazeera America america.aljazeera.com

CANADA - "Non-Native support growing" as standoff against fracking by American company SWN continues in New Brunswick

12.01.2013

Stand with the Canadian Elsipogtog as they are standing up against brutal police repression, and continued theft of Indigenous lands and ongoing colonization. Show them they are not alone! Tomorrow, December 2nd...

This picture is happening right now as the Elsipogtog community defends their sovereign territory from the scourge of fracking. They are standing up against brutal police repression, and continued theft of Indigenous lands and ongoing colonization. Show them they are not alone! Tomorrow, December 2nd HWY 11 Land Defenders are asking you to show your solidarity by taking action in your community. Where possible, highway shutdowns are encouraged however any action of support, such as banner drops, are welcome. The 3rd encampment in Mi’kmaq Territory, at HWY 11, which saw standoffs between the Mi’kmaq peoples protecting the water and RCMP protecting corporate interests, is requesting widespread global support. Read the call for solidarity in English, español, and français: http://reclaimturtleisland.com/2013/11/29/emergency-day-of-action-solidarity-for-elsipogtog/ ‪#‎ShutDownCanada‬

Students stand in support of indigenous in British Columbia

"Students from the UBC Social Justice Centre are calling on EVERYONE to stand in solidarity with the land defenders in Elsipogtog. An injunction has been issued by the New Brunswick provincial court which effectively denies Elsipogtog and their supporters their right as Canadian citizens to protest. The RCMP are being used to protect private interests, using force to silence peaceful protests".
Shannon Hecker's photo.
Monday, December 2 at 5:00pm in PST
165 people are going

11.30.2013

link. Large parts of Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been opened up for the controversial practice of 'fracking'.

INDIA - Dongria Kondh people of India fight against mining on their traditional land

Earth Tribe - Activist News posted 2 updates.
INDIA - Dongria Kondh people of India fight against mining on their traditional land
‘We are free, we do not depend on anybody for our food, shelter or daily needs. Townspeople depend on the market for everything. A bottle of drinking water costs fifteen or twenty rupees, a shit costs five rupees, bathing in a bucket or two of water costs ten rupees, eating half a bellyful of food costs fifty! Such is the freedom of an urbanite.’ - member of Dongria Kondh people of India, who are fighting back against proposed bauxite (the precursor to aluminum) strip mining projects in their homeland. Indigenous land-based peoples have the capacity to live in a good way on this planet. We invite you to take the time to consider for yourself - how are you enslaved by the city? How can you fight against that enslavement? Our strategy can be found in the book and at our website: www.deepgreenresistance.org

8.15.2013

***** see link: "You, dear Start Loving, you are the quintessential "Indigen" and your sacrifice slowly moves into the collective meme so that maybe more will come to see ourselves as Indigenous not to one region or another or to any particular virgin native ground but to the entire Earth itself."

 Have I ever received a more important complement?  From

Dave Warren 

You, dear Start Loving, you are the quintessential "Indigen" and your sacrifice slowly moves into the collective meme so that maybe more will come to see ourselves as Indigenous not to one region or another or to any particular virgin native ground but to the entire Earth itself.

....

May I live up to what Dave says.  It is the entirety of what I want, what I will, what I owe you all.

Makes me cry.

Nothing less from me will do.  Nothing less from me is acceptable.

Nor, from you, now.

Loving.  Sakihiwew. 

ps:  If the Creator gave me the option to be reborn (after my work here is done), and gave me a choice, for PERSONAL reasons - I'd choose America - 100 years before Columbus landed.  Well, ok, I'd choose to be with Jesus, 0 C.E. or so, but America, 100 years before Columbus would be my 2nd choice.

pps:  https://www.facebook.com/notes/dave-warren/ode-to-the-tar-sands-blockaders/10151142496983859

8.12.2013

To my indigenous brothers and sisters, what made Indigenous Americans Great was not their customs, clothes, meals, pottery.... It was their Heart - Courage, Reverence for Life... it was their ACTIONS on behalf of Creation - Respect, Caring, Protection.... So far, all I'm seeing is the unimportant stuff. I say this by way of a plea. I've told you from the beginning - if you guys don't get it right, who will? I've probably offended you. I'm sorry for that. But it is too important to not speak the Truth. Sakihiwew

To my indigenous brothers and sisters, what made Indigenous Americans Great was not their customs, clothes, meals, pottery.... It was their Heart - Courage, Reverence for Life... it was their ACTIONS on behalf of Creation - Respect, Caring, Protection.... So far, all I'm seeing is the unimportant stuff. I say this by way of a plea. I've told you from the beginning - if you guys don't get it right, who will? I've probably offended you. I'm sorry for that. But it is too important to not speak the Truth. Sakihiwew