Originally published at Intercontinental Cry: BY TRACY BARNETT A contingent of at least 1,000 indigenous Wixárika (Huichol) people in the Western Sierra Madre are gearing up to take back their lands after a legal decision in a decade-long land dispute with...
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New Forest Subsidy in Chile, Nothing New or Noble
Sep 22, 2016
As Chile is still in the running for future GE tree plantations and will be hosting next years bi-annual IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference, I pass along this relevant article: A report on the evolution of forestry subsidies in Chile. This is an English translation...
India: Support Forest Dependent Communities Against Plantation Expansion
Sep 21, 2016
Via World Rainforest Movement: Please support the action by endorsing the letter to be sent to relevant Ministries in India rejecting the CAF Act. Send your name, organization and country no later than September 30 to the following email: india@wrm.org.uy. In July...
As Dakota Access Protests Escalated, Obama Admin OK’d Same Company for Two Pipelines to Mexico
Sep 20, 2016
Originally Published by DeSmogBlog: BY STEVE HORN On September 9, the Obama administration revoked authorization for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) on federally controlled lands and asked the pipeline's owners, led by Energy Transfer...
WATCH: Tribes From Across North America Converge on Standing Rock
Sep 19, 2016
PBS News Hour reported from the Dakota Access pipeline protests this weekend. Over 100 Native American tribes are gathered at Standing Rock Reservation, where PBS reporter William Branghan recapped a week of protests. Brangham explained one of the reasons for the...
SIGN ON: Stop Monoculture Tree Plantations Expansion in Mozambique
Sep 15, 2016
Via World Rainforest Movement: September 21st is the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations. Launched in 2004, this international day commemorates people's resistance and struggles in defense of territories and against the expansion of...
Pressure Mounts Against New Zealand’s Scion to Stop their GE Trees
Sep 15, 2016
GE Free New Zealand, a member of the Steering Committee of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, continues to denounce research on genetically engineered (GE) trees by Scion, New Zealand's Crown Research Institute specializing in forestry science. Despite some non-GE...
WATCH: Native American Activist Winona LaDuke Says It’s Time to Move On from Fossil Fuels
Sep 13, 2016
Via Democracy Now!: While Democracy Now! was covering the Standing Rock standoff earlier this month, we spoke to Winona LaDuke, longtime Native American activist and executive director of the group Honor the Earth. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in...
Peru: Forced Sterilization of 272,000 Indigenous Women ‘Not a Crime Against Humanity’
Sep 13, 2016
Previously published by IntercontinentalCry.org: By Shena Cavallo "A nurse put me on a stretcher and tied my hands and feet," said Sabina Huillca. "I asked them to bring me my little baby girl but instead they anesthetized me. When I woke up, the doctor was...
#NoDAPL: Dakota Access Pipeline Day of Action is Sept. 13
Sep 12, 2016
By now you've probably heard the incredible news that Native-led organizing forced the Obama administration to put a temporary halt to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that would cross through the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reservation and threaten their...