A land reclamation in Colombia, an historic gathering Brazil, and two massive lawsuits filed by Indigenous Nations in Canada highlight this month’s roundup of Underreported Struggles. The Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) also tried more than 20 corporations in Peru; and to the surprise of many, the Ontario Court of Appeals unconditionally released Ardoch Algonquin [...]

The International Boreal Conservation Campaign (IBCC) has just released a report that reveals the entire array of potential (and ongoing) land conflicts that exist as a result of Canada’s outdated (colonial) “free entry” mining law.
The report is titled “Mining Exploration Conflicts in Canada’s Boreal Forest,” and you can download it at the IBCC website..
See [...]

Mines and Communities has made a rather useful resource guide available on their website. Among other things, it provides a database on mining companies, their projects, and the names of the funders…
Now I imagine I don’t have to tell you the significance of having such a resource, so let me just ask you to help [...]

~WOMEN SHARING OUR IMPRESSIONS, HOPES, DREAMS~
Thursday, April 10th 2008 @ Rhizome:
REPORT BACK: AFTER THE ZAPATISTA WOMEN’S GATHERING
Rhizome Café, 317 E. Broadway
Thursday, April 10th 2008
7:30pm
Everyone welcome.
**speakers, multi-media presentation & participatory group discussion**

Oil on Ice is a one-hour documentary that examines the issues surrounding the exploitation of oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
The US Government maintains the region is a barren wasteland, as if to say “how can we not take the oil? There’s nothing there but snow!”
However, the claim is no more than [...]