Divesting From Big Oil
Sylvia Chi: Indigenous activists lead energy divestment movement
Direct divestments and lawsuits that began on the West Coast are spreading, with New York the latest city to pull its funding out of oil and coal.
INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE
Tribal lawsuit puts Donlin Gold project in question
Judge rules proposed Alaska mine doesn’t meet water quality standards
anti-oil propaganda
Canadian lobbyists attack Netflix children’s film for ‘anti-oil propaganda’
Canadian Energy Centre, funded by Alberta government, says Bigfoot Family ‘brainwashes’ youngsters and ‘peddles lies’
Upper Skagit Indian Tribe
‘The river was stolen from us’: a tribe’s battle to retake the Skagit River
The Upper Skagit Indian tribe are fighting Seattle to remove the Gorge Dam, and return the river to the section the city de-watered
More Coal Protest
Hunters have blockaded the airstrip and tote road to a Nunavut mine to express their concern that Inuit voices are not being heard in environmental hearings about a planned expansion to the Mary River mine.
Nunavut mine blockade to continue until concerns are addressed, say Inuit hunters | CBC News
Hunters have blockaded the airstrip and tote road to a Nunavut mine to express their concern that Inuit voices are not being heard in environmental hearings about a planned expansion to the Mary River mine.
Batteling Big Coal
For Indigenous people in the area, the battle to preserve the land represents the latest front in a long and seemingly endless war. “By protecting treaty rights, we are protecting the land, we are protecting the mountains, we are protecting the wildlife,” says Latasha Calf Robe, a community organiser with the Blood Tribe. “Because these fights never end. If it’s coal mines one day, it’s pipelines the next day, and then it’s logging.”
‘This land feeds our souls’: the battle to save the Rockies from big coal
Growing opposition to the lifting of mining protections in Alberta has forced the Canadian province to backtrack
Oppose Line 3
#stopline3
Opposition to Line 3 Mounts – UNICORN RIOT
Saint Paul, MN – Around 600 people gathered in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 29, calling on President Biden to revoke permits for the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline project. The protest billed as ‘Protect the Water, Revoke the Permits’ started at Kellogg Park and marched into downtown to the local Army Corps of […]
Lupita
Mexican indigenous resistance
Lupita: the powerful voice of one indigenous woman leading a movement
Film-maker Monica Wise talks about making her documentary about Mexican resistance
Back to its Native Protectors
After 250 years, Native American tribe regains ownership of Big Sur ancestral lands | CNN
A northern California Indian tribe’s sacred land is now back under their ownership, thanks to the help of a conservancy group.
“It is with great honor that our tribe has been called by our Ancestors to become stewards of these sacred indigenous lands once again,” Tom Little Bear Nason, Tribal Chairman of the ETMC, said in a statement in October.
“The old-growth redwoods on this property are genetically adaptive to the warmer dry climate of Big Sur,” Doroff said. “These trees will be important for the future effort to assist in redwood survival.”
“The old-growth redwoods on this property are genetically adaptive to the warmer dry climate of Big Sur,” Doroff said. “These trees will be important for the future effort to assist in redwood survival.”
The Little Sur River runs along one side of the property with a tributary jutting onto the land, which is a spawning ground for the South-Central California Coast Steelhead, said the WRC. Both these species are in dire need of conservation. The condor is listed as endangered and the steelhead as threaten on the Endangered Species Act.
Shoshone territory bombed
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2020/8/29/a-message-from-the-most-bombed-nation-on-earth/
More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone territory in the US. Residents still live with the consequences.
When the fallout came down, it killed the delicate flora and fauna, creating these huge vulnerabilities across thousands of square miles of Shoshone territory. The pine trees we use for food and heating were exposed, the plants we use for food and medicine were exposed, the animals we use for food were exposed. We were exposed.
In every other part of the world where there have been nuclear catastrophes or nuclear testing – such as Kazakhstan, Japan, even Chernobyl – there are health registries to monitor those who have been exposed, even if the numbers are kept artificially low in some places. We do not have that here in the US. We do not have that for Native American downwinders.
We continue to endure and we live with the understanding that the radiation is there on the ground, it is there in our plants, in our animals, and inside of our people.
Our custom is sharing, but when all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail, and that is what the US military has been doing, hammering the Shoshone with bombs.