By John Ahni Schertow Six Mapuche women have taken the risk of putting their bodies on the line to stop the drilling rigs from further endangering their community. Indigenous women are central to the continent-wide resistance against extractivism, and the story of...
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We Denounce and Resist the Green Economy’s Impacts on Women and Forests
Declaration by the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), March 2016 To Berta Cáceres and the Lenca People, the struggle continues! In March, the world commemorates two important dates: International Women's Day (March 8) and International Day of Forests (March 21). Women...
Indigenous Knowledge Fighting Drought in South Africa
Indian Country Today reports that Indigenous knowledge and modern software are being used in tandem to fight the extensive drought in Southern Africa. The drought has affected large parts of southern Africa including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique,...
Protecting the Seas to Save the Land
Author: John Ahni Schertow Originally published at IntercontinentalCry.org. “Speaking generally I seen oil on the water, oil of some kind, almost every day of my travels. I took very few trips upon which I did not see oil spots or oil glaze on the waters of Terrebonne...
BARAM DAM STOPPED! A VICTORY FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
by Sarah Bardeen, International RiversMarch 24, 2016 A little over two years ago, in October 2013, hundreds of indigenous villagers from the little-known Baram region in Sarawak state, Malaysian Borneo, took a courageous – and some might say foolhardy – stand. In...
Interview with Berta Cáceres: ‘To Fight Against Repression in Honduras is to Fight for Our Whole Continent’
Below is a never-before-published interview with international social movement leader and Honduran indigenous organizer Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated on March 3, 2016. The interview was taken in Havana on September 4, 2009, two months after Honduran President...
WATCH: World Rainforest Movement Asks, “Where Is The Water?”
From World Rainforest Movement: On the occasion of March 21st, International Day of Forests, the FAO launched a spot that addresses the importance of forests for water. The video maintains that “forests are vital for our water supply”and it urges us to take care of...
Gustavo Castro Soto and the Rigged Investigation into Berta Cáceres’ Assassination
By Beverly Bell Originally published on Other Worlds The sole eyewitness to Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres’ assassination on March 3, 2016 has gone from being wounded victim to, effectively, political prisoner. Now Gustavo Castro Soto may also be framed...
Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites
Excerpted from IntercontinentalCry.org: In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q’eqchi’ Mayan communities surrounding the site. On February...
Stop the destruction of the Ekuri people’s rainforest in Nigeria!
Via Rainforest-Rescue.org: For generations, the Ekuri people have relied completely on their ancestral forest for all of their needs. It provides not only fruits, vegetables and other forest products but also their medicines and shapes their unique culture, language...