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In this 10 minute video, Clayton Thomas-Mueller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba, talks about the Alberta Tar Sands industrial project, its effect on the health of indigenous communities, and the industry’s role in continuing Canada’s exploitative colonial legacy.

[...T]he government [of India] has committed itself to economically rehabilitate Bhopal’s chemical disaster survivors, remediate the disaster site, and pursue legal action against Union Carbide and Dow Chemical.

A little over a week before British Colombia’s Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Neilson ruled in favor of the Gitanyow First Nation, over the Forestry Ministry’s failure to adequately consult them when they leased out sections of the Gitanyow’s traditional territory, Shell Canada moved to suspend drilling in B.C.’s Klappan Valley for the remainder of 2008.
Interior News, one of th

With a handful of legal victories highlighting the month of August, the divide between Indigenous Peoples and the world’s corporate bodies seemed to increase with each passing day.
If protests weren’t being held against oppressive development schemes, such as in Papua New Guinea, Peru, Sudan, the Phillipines, and India, then there were violent attacks against indigenous people, court d

“The Crown’s obligation to reasonably consult is not fulfilled simply by providing a process within which to exchange and discuss information”, states B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Neilson in her final ruling on the Crown’s consultation obligations to Indigenous People.
The case, Wii’litswx v. British Columbia, was centered around the B.C.

Pipes carrying uranium tailings in the eastern state of Jharkhand, India, burst on the 16th of August, “spewing the village of Dungridih with radioactive waste,” according to a recent report by Sanhati
It’s the latest in a series of uranium spills that have taken place over the last two years:

Incident 1: December 2006
In the first instance of tailing pipe leakage in Dec 2006, t

Ethnicity and Local Governance Cambodia (ELGC), a research project that analyzes state-minority relations in Cambodia, has published a report on the World Bank’s involvement and complicity in the destruction of Indigenous Peoples rights in Cambodia.
Titled, “Money Now, Compliance Later: Worldbank-Support to Decentralization in Cambodia and Indigenous Peoples,” the detailed report

Leaving Fear Behind (in Tibetan, Jigdrel) is a documentary film shot by Tibetans from inside Tibet, who longed to bring Tibetan voices to the Beijing Olympic Games.

The first of eleven Supreme Court Judges cast his vote in the landmark case that will decide the future of Raposa-Serra do Sol, a legally-recognized Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian state of Roraima.
“Magistrate Carlos Ayres de Britto, the first and only judge to have voted so far, used the Portuguese word ‘esbulho’ (dispossession or unlawful possession) to describe the occ

Following last weeks attack on Venezuela’s Indigenous Yukpa community — and the worrisome lack of support by the government to ensure their safety — President Hugo Chavez pledged on Sunday to come to the aid of the Yukpa.
“Nobody should have any doubts: Between the large estate owners and the indians, this government is with the indians,” proclaimed Chavez on his wee

While searching through the Treasury Board of Canada’s ‘Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory’ database last week, pollution researcher John H.W.

The Yukpa, an indigenous community in the northwestern region of Venezuela, were attacked last week by hundreds of armed aggressors.
“According to the Yukpa, the aggressors were hired by elite landowners to evict the indigenous population from the vast, largely idle pastures in the region known as the Sierra de Perijá near Venezuela’s northwestern border with Colombia,” writes

Anywhere up to 1,000 police officers in Ecuador were sent last week to evict 300 Kichwa, Shuar and Huaorani families from a 70-hectare lot of land which the Indigenous People had reclaimed early last year.
The officers used force to remove the families after they refused to leave on their own.

This video was taken about a week before the racist suppression at Minnesota’s Sesquicentennial on May 18 of this year.

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