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‘Genocide of His People Is Complete’: Last Member of Isolated Brazilian Tribe Found Dead

The CNCL Team — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 01:51:40 +0000

"For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth," said one Indigenous rights campaigner.

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More Than 200 Environmental Activists and Land Defenders Murdered in 2019

The CNCL Team — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 01:54:44 +0000

At least 212 environmental campaigners and land defenders, 40 percent of them from indigenous communities, were killed last year as they sought to protect their territories from incursions by mining interests, agribusiness, timber companies, and oil and gas corporations.

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Cheyenne River Sioux Chair Offers to Rip Down Mount Rushmore—”Free of Charge… By Myself If I Must”

The CNCL Team — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 03:01:07 +0000

Describing the iconic South Dakota mountain carving that depicts the heads of famous U.S presidents as nothing but a monument to "our molesters," the chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation this week said he would willingly tear down Mount Rushmore if given the chance—with or without help—and pay for its destruction personally.

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16 Essential Books About Environmental Justice, Racism and Activism [The Revelator]

The CNCL Team — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:20:17 +0000

These books provide insight into the problems that plague people and the planet, while also offering solutions for a more just future.

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Chris Hedges & Ray Saurez Discuss “A People’s History of the USA”

The CNCL Team — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:15:20 +0000

Chris Hedges discusses the importance of historian Howard Zinn for a fuller understanding of American history, with journalist Ray Suarez, author of 'Truth has a Power of its Own: A Conversation about A People’s History with Howard Zinn.'

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3 Activists Share Indigenous Wisdom for Facing Today’s Challenges

The CNCL Team — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 20:17:04 +0000

Indigenous Peoples are often on the frontlines of environmental justice movements. As original caretakers of the land, these communities have not only sought to protect their own livelihoods, but also to preserve humanity’s harmony with the Earth.

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The Murders of Indigenous Activists in the Amazon Continue to Rise

The CNCL Team — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 22:04:33 +0000

Ten indigenous people have been murdered so far in Brazil in 2019, including seven tribal leaders — the highest number of indigenous leaders killed in two decades.

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More on the U.S.-Backed Bolivia Coup: Stealing Bolivia’s Lithium?

cncladmin — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 00:55:46 +0000

Bolivia’s president Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before being forced into exile by a miltary coup November 10, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring economic and social democracy to his long-exploited country. Bolivia has suffered a series of coups, often conducted by the military and the oligarchy on behalf of transnational mining companies. Initially, these were tin firms, but now the main target is its massive deposits of lithium, crucial for the electric car.

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Protecting Indigenous Rights Will Safeguard Future of Amazon Forest, Advise Colombian Tribal Leaders

The CNCL Team — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 03:55:23 +0000

A key way to safeguard the Amazon is by placing more land under protection, including indigenous reserves, backed up by government policy that monitors illegal logging, enforces laws and respects land rights in those areas, green groups say.

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Yanomami Amazon Reserve Invaded by 20,000 Miners; Bolsonaro Fails to Act

The CNCL Team — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 05:05:57 +0000

Thousands of goldminers (garimpeiros) have illegally invaded Yanomami Park, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous territories. An incursion of this scale has not occurred for many years, bringing back memories among indigenous elders of the terrible period in the late 1980s, when some 40,000 goldminers moved onto their land and about a fifth of the indigenous population died in just seven years due to violence, malaria, malnutrition, mercury poisoning and other causes.

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Indigenous Tribes on Front Line of Amazon Rainforest Fires Vow to Resist Bolsonaro’s “Destruction of Mother Nature”

The CNCL Team — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:52:22 +0000

Indigenous tribes whose land and livelihoods are being directly harmed by the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest vowed Tuesday to do everything in their power to resist Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's "destruction of Mother Nature" and called on the rest of the world to join them.

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Israel Is Disappearing the Proof That It Oppresses Palestinians

The CNCL Team — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 05:48:03 +0000

Hagar Shezaf at the Israeli newspaper of record, Haaretz [“The Land”], reveals that a secretive Israeli agency has been systematically going through the country’s archives, including local repositories, and removing and classifying documents having to do with repressive and embarrassing Israeli actions toward Palestinians and Palestinian-Israelis.

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