How Can We Protect Land Defenders from Increasing Violence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muqMeAjLvOo&ab_channel=QNAbyNolanMoore

Safeguarding Land Defenders: Taking Action to Stop Violence • Stop Violence: Protecting Land Defenders • Learn how to protect land defenders from increasing violence and make a difference in creating safer environments. Discover the crucial steps to raise awareness, involve local authorities, support organizations, petition governments, and leverage social media. Join the fight for a better, sustainable world!

#jointhefight #protect #landdefenders #violence #profitmotive #directaction #getinvolved #learnhow

Filmmaker chronicles Lakota fight to regain Black Hills: ‘How can you sell a piece of yourself?’ (video)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/filmmaker-chronicles-lakota-fight-regain-black-hills-sell/story?id=101715823

A new documentary, “Lakota Nation vs. United States,” chronicles the promises broken by the U.S. and the Lakota fight to regain their sacred lands.

#colonialism #indigenous #brokenpromises #lakota #USA #landdefenders

On Indonesia’s Seram Island, a massive oil find lies beneath sacred land. Uncertainty and fear now walks with the Bati Indigenous.

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/on-indonesias-seram-island-a-massive-oil-find-lies-beneath-sacred-land/

SERAM ISLAND, Indonesia — Zainudin Kelsaba traversed across the eastern Seram highland and stopped at an ancient outcrop grown over by trees and scrub. “The mountain is our home,” Zainudin told Mongabay Indonesia. “The trees and rocks are part of our life.”…

#indigenous #sacredlands #threatened #bigoil #climatecrisis #landdefenders #outnumbered #PTBalamEnergy #resourcetheft #violence

#Yaqui Released from Prison after 7 years: Fighting the #GasPipeline in #Sonora

July 17, 2023, via #CensoredNews

Indigenous Yaqui leader Fidencio Aldama is free after 7 years in prison and
has been found not guilty of homicide! He vows to continue to oppose the gas pipeline from the
company #IEnova, a subsidiary of the transnational U.S. company #sempraenergy

"Fidencio Aldama Perez is an #Indigenous Yaqui #LandDefender and #PoliticalPrisoner from the
northern Mexican state of Sonora. He was arrested on October 27, 2016, and later sentenced to
fifteen years and six months in prison on trumped-up charges related to a death in the community
of Loma de Bácum, Sonora."
Read more: https://fidencioaldama.org/en/news/
La Jornada San Luis reports
Cristina Gómez Lima, correspondent

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/yaqui-released-from-prison-after-7.html

#IndigenousNews #LandDefenders #Mexico

Wet'suwet'en Testify on Police Brutality, Imprisonment, at Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 10, 2023

"Wet’suwet’en described their struggle to defend their land, waters, and rights to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in a virtual hearing. Joined by Amnesty International, representatives from the Nation described the ongoing unjust #criminalization and #harassment of #LandDefenders opposing the construction of the #CoastalGasLink (#CGL) pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. The Canadian government responded to the testimony of the Wet’suwet’en delegation. The testimony described the attacks on the Nation’s rights, including the right to free, prior and nformed consent to resource-extraction projects affecting their territory, as upheld in the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/wetsuweten-testify-on-police-brutality.html

#PoliceBrutality #Canada #ACAB
#Wetsuweten #FirstNations #IndigenousNews
#UN #DeclarationOfRights of #IndigenousPeoples
#CulturalGenocide #Pipelines

Report on threats faced by earth defenders and their data, and implications for tech development
https://www.digital-democracy.org/blog/security-report #landdefenders #security #technology

Despite all Land Defenders holding a valid proxy, RBC executives would not allow them to enter the main room and instead had their security guards lay hands on Indigenous elders in an attempt to bar them from participation. In the end, Land Defenders were forced to participate from a secondary room. Show your support for #landdefenders and sign this letter. #extinctionrebellion #rbc #banking #IndigenousLeaders
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbBh-Dj6xCNQTh2CzqoFPIp-dnT3DDZMdYx5_E2SNDSnXvXw/viewform

One journalist in article is a friend/former colleague of mine.
We need folks to understand that not only are #Indigenous #LandDefenders & hereditary leadership & their non-native citizen supporters treated unjustly - multiple #media #journalists are also #arrested & blocked from doing their job by #RCMP 😠

In #BritishColumbia - #BCNDP knew their #CorporateMercenaries were #BreakingTheLaw & still gave them more #TaxpayersMoney to raid & #harass #FirstNations on #UncededNativeLand in #Canada 🤬

Bracken, alongside #environmental outlet #TheNarwhal are suing #RCMP for #violating their #CharterRights when Bracken was #arrested & #detained while #OnAssignment in November of 2021. Bracken had been #embedded with #Wetsuweten #LandDefenders at a #CoastalGasLink #pipeline #ResistanceCamp in Northern #BritishColumbia. She was arrested alongside #filmmaker #MichaelToledano — on assignment for #CBC
https://ricochet.media/en/3949/photojournalist-takes-on-rcmp-in-fight-for-press-freedom

#Indigenous #PressFreedom #HumanRights #BCNDP #lawsuit #PNW #NativeRights

Example of protestor who knows her rights & stands up for them. I had similar encounter w/VicPD last Spring - they sent 26 cops to deal w/me. I chained myself up to front doors of Hudson building RBC & sat in chair, with Solidarity signs supporting #Wetsuweten #LandDefenders around me. Crown dropped charges despite fact I told cops I want my day in court to speak up on why I did that. Lead detective didn't like me being friendly w/his boys & said I'm too 'likeable' to be processed inside office😂

Murder Inc. of #IndigenousPeoples in #Mexico & Repudiating the #DoctrineOfDiscovery: #LandBack?

Guest: #RichardStahlerSholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of #Chiapas

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/murder-inc-of-indigenous-peoples-in-mexico-repudiating-the-doctrine-of-discovery-land-back

#NativeAmericans #Vatican #Zapatistas #EZLN #IndigenousPeople #megaprojects #Maya #LandDefenders #FirstNations

#AmericanIndianAirwaves

Murder Inc. of #IndigenousPeople|s in #Mexico & Repudiating the #DoctrineOfDiscovery: #LandBack?

Guest: #RichardStahlerSholk, a retired Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University, and community activist involved with the School of #Chiapas

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/murder-inc-of-indigenous-peoples-in-mexico-repudiating-the-doctrine-of-discovery-land-back

#NativeAmericans #Vatican #Zapatistas #EZLN #megaprojects #Maya #LandDefenders #FirstNations

#AmericanIndianAirwaves

The #RCMP are once again attacking #LandDefenders in #Wetsuweten territory and have arrested several folks. Click the link to find out how you can help secure their release.

https://actionnetwork.org/call_campaigns/demand-the-immediate-release-of-land-defenders/

📣 #AlertaAlertaAntifascista 📣

Call BC NDP and RCMP to demand release of Land Defenders!

This page has an automated system you can use:
https://actionnetwork.org/call_campaigns/demand-the-immediate-release-of-land-defenders

From the call out:
✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
The RCMP’s Community Industry Response Group (C-IRG) is raiding Wet’suwet’en territory RIGHT NOW and have arrested 5 land defenders.

The RCMP’s Community Industry Response Group (C-IRG) is raiding Wet’suwet’en territory RIGHT NOW and have arrested 5 land defenders.

#WetsuwetenStong #LandDefenders #FuckTheRCMP #RCMPoffTheYintah #LandBack

Got 3 minutes to make a call?
The #Gidem'ten checkpoint on #Wet'suwet'en territory has been raided by an #RCMP squad formed & funded to harass public protesters, in this case #LandDefenders trying to stop illegal industry fracking projects from destroying their land and our environment. Please join the phone campaign to get the Land Defenders released.
https://actionnetwork.org/call_campaigns/demand-the-immediate-release-of-land-defenders

From the declaration:

A junior lawyer, who wished to remain anonymous, said:

“Young lawyers are being placed in an impossible position. We’re being told by our firms and regulators it’s a professional obligation to act for fossil fuel projects, knowing that doing so will poison our own future and all of life on earth. That’s wrong on every level. It’s indefensible. If the profession doesn’t look out for my generation, how does it expect to survive?"

Lawyers in #Canada need to take similar action. What if they also refused to prosecute #landdefenders like the #Wetsuweten hereditary chiefs and their allies?

via @breadandcircuses

https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/110083690717163656

Residents & #HumanRights groups say that #mining boom #threatens #farmers #LandRights & #harms #environment in areas such as #Wawonii in #ResourceRich #Sulawesi region, which is home to black #macaques , #maleo #birds & #tarsier #primates .

Facing prospect of losing their land & livelihood, about a dozen Wawonii #villagers take turns #KeepingWatch from a hut surrounded by clove trees, waiting for #trespassers as machinery roars below.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2023/03/19/2003796328

#AsianMastodon #LandDefenders

Outrageous and shameful that a judge can deny genocide at a residential school and then jail an Indigenous land defender who is also a residential school survivor.

#Kamloops #Tkemlups #Indigenous #StopTMX #LandDefenders

https://indiginews.com/news/there-are-no-bodies-judges-comments-shock-kirs-survivor-as-land-defenders-given-jail-time

Please sign this petition created by the Indigenous Land Defenders who are trying to stop old growth logging in British Columbia

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4277

#environment #climate #OldGrowthLogging #SaveTheForests #Gitxsan #StandWithWetsuweten #IndigenousLandDefenders #Indigenous #LandDefenders

Important update from Grassy Narrows area First Nations, located in the central part of so called "Canada". This action and resistance has been ongoing for over 30 years! First the local people were poisoned by dumping of mercury. Their forests were being clear-cut and now the mining companies are claiming rights to their land. Please take the time to read about these heroic #landdefenders and their call for #Landback.
https://mailchi.mp/3353156980aa/grassy-narrows-hosts-strategic-alliance-to-protect-land-water?e=0604532378