Iakohakowa: ‘Ole Man Pete Never Quits Trying to Flood out Indigenous’

Border, Seaway & industrial pollution run through Mohawk territory in Akwesasne. Photo: Sandra Cuffe
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Ole Man Pete Never Quits Trying to Flood out Indigenous
by Iakohakowa, July 22, 2009
from the Eagle Watch listserv: eaglewatch@npogroups.org
Ole Man Pete aka F. Pierre Gingras never seems to quit.  One of the head
technical and economic engineers behind the James Bay Hydro Projects [...]

Toronto, April 26: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CANADIAN MINING INDUSTRY

WHAT: 1 day conference about mining issues within Canada and abroad
WHEN: Sunday, April 26, 2009, 10:00am – 7:30pm
WHERE: Earth Sciences, Room 1050 (ES 1050), University of Toronto, 5 Bancroft Avenue
Moderated by Judy Rebick
$10 (sliding scale) to cover cost of meals; free for students. No registration required. Donations gladly accepted (available seating for 400 in auditorium).
Hosts: [...]

LOVE,EARTH?!: Global Response denounces Wal-Mart’s false claims of “sustainable” gold jewelry

CONTACT: Visit www.globalresponse.org; www.gbrw.org; www.wsdp.org
Paula Palmer, Global Response, 303 444-0306 ext 103, paula@globalresponse.org
Dan Randolph, Great Basin Resource Watch, 775.348.1986, dan@gbrw.org
Larson Bill, Western Shoshone Defense Project, 775.744-2565, wsdp@igc.org

Groups Charge Wal-Mart with “Greenwashing”
“Love,Earth” Gold is Tarnished

Boulder, CO: Environmental watchdog group Global Response announced today that it filed complaints with Consumers Union and the Federal Trade Commission, [...]

PERU: Indigenous Occupations End with Victory in Congress

On August 22nd, the Peruvian Congress repealed two legislative decrees at the root of the indigenous demonstrations that paralyzed various roads and energy installations from August 9th through 20th. The indigenous movement of the Amazon, home to 65 different indigenous nations, declared victory.
[note: several of the hyperlinks are to articles and websites in Spanish.]
Background
Peruvian President [...]

THE ROAD BEGINS AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FEET: The Longest Walk 2 Speaks Out for Mother Earth

The Road Begins at the Bottom of Your Feet:

The Longest Walk 2 Speaks Out for Mother Earth

by Sandra Cuffe, http://thistidehasnoheartbeat.wordpress.com
Cherokee Territory, June 18, 2008.

“Being here, at this very moment – it’s going to be a moment in your history that you’re going to remember for all time,” American Indian Movement (AIM) [...]