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Indigenous Communities Win Court Battle Against UK Mining Company
World  (tags: Idle No More, activism, indigenous rights, native rights, Canada, world, politics, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, news, society, media )

Cal
- 15 days ago - amnesty.org.au
Good news! The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that the Indigenous communities of Niyamgiri Hills have the right to decide whether or not they want a mine on their sacred land.
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Stand With the Maasai ACTION
World  (tags: humanrights, Maasai, wildlife, animalwelfare, indigenous rights, Tanzania )

Nancy
- 43 days ago - avaaz.org
We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa's oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards. The evictions are
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Stand With the Maasai - URGENT ACTION Needed
World  (tags: Africa, Tansania, Maassai, landgrab, indigenous rights, evictions, tourism, wildlife, preservation, humanrights )

Angelika
- 50 days ago - avaaz.org
Tansania Maasai say: Yesterday, the government announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot more lions and leopards.
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Belo Monte: Justice Now! ACTION
World  (tags: Belo Monte, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, indigenous rights, justice )

Nancy
- 64 days ago - amazonwatch.org
Join the worldwide chorus calling for justice by urging Brazil's Supreme Court to rule on lawsuits against the dam!
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Women's Work: Gender and the Global Food System
World  (tags: women, indigenous people, indigenous rights, food sovereignty, food production, global, subsistence farmers, agricultural wage laborers. Harvesting J, gender discrimination )

Brian
- 75 days ago - truth-out.org
"We, women from more than 40 countries, from different indigenous peoples of Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania, have gathered together to participate in the creation of a new right: the right to food sovereignty."
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Belo Monte: Justice Now! - ACTION
World  (tags: Belo Monte dam, Brazil, destruction, indigenous rights, rainforsts, habitat destruction, climat change )

Angelika
- 85 days ago - amazonwatch.org
While the courts hold off on ruling, construction continues on the Belo Monte Dam. Join the worldwide chorus calling for justice by urging Brazil's Supreme Court to rule on lawsuits against the dam!
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The Spiritual Side of Idle No More
World  (tags: Idle No More, activism, indigenous rights, native rights, Canada, world, politics, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, news, society, media )

Cal
- 88 days ago - theglobeandmail.com
Idle No More began as a social media call to action by four women in Saskatchewan. It has grown into an international social movement featuring grassroots protests, hunger strikes and blockades.
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OP-ED: The Decent Fix for Aboriginal Rights
World  (tags: Idle No More, activism, indigenous rights, native rights, Canada, world, politics, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, news, society, media )

Cal
- 103 days ago - www2.macleans.ca
Aboriginal peoples of Canada deserve justice, says Barbara Amiel, but negotiations will be complicated
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First Nations Protesters Gather for Global Day of Action as MPs Return to Work
World  (tags: Idle No More, activism, indigenous rights, native rights, Canada, world, politics, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, news, society, media )

Cal
- 109 days ago - torontosun.com
First Nations frustration, which centres around two government budget bills, was on display at peaceful protests across Canada Monday but Prime Minister Stephen Harper reiterated the feds are not going to change their approach to aboriginal affairs.
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Indigenous Of Chile: Why Discrimination Against Mapuches Still Runs So Deep
World  (tags: politics, news, government, society, world, indigenous rights, Chile, violence, humanrights, freedoms )

Cal
- 114 days ago - worldcrunch.com
Decades of economic growth have failed to overcome the social and racial inequalities that exist in Chile.
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Worldwide Day of Action Called By "Idle No More" Peace Movement on January 28
World  (tags: Idle No More, activism, indigenous rights, native rights, Canada, world, politics, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, news, society, media )

Cal
- 115 days ago - nativenewsnetwork.com
Idle No More grassroots founders and organizers from across Canada, in solidarity with Common Causes - a new initiative bringing together social justice, environmental, labour and other activist groups - are planning a national and worldwide day of action
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Idle No More: How An Indigenous Protest Movement Erupted in Canada and Spread to the World
World  (tags: Idle No More, activism, indigenous rights, native rights, Canada, world, politics, humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, news, society, media )

Cal
- 127 days ago - alternet.org
Idle No More has organized the largest mass mobilizations of indigenous people in recent history. What sparked it off and what's coming next
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Peru Indigenous Group Seeks to Halt Natgas Expansion
World  (tags: world, humanrights, environment, indigenous rights, politics, society, news )

Cal
- 156 days ago - trust.org
Peru's main indigenous group said on Wednesday it will ask the courts to halt an expansion of the country's largest natural gas field over concerns that new drilling will harm isolated tribes.
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BRAZIL: Declaration of War in Mato Grosso Do Sul
World  (tags: world, politics, indigenous rights, Brazil, news, conflict, death, freedoms, humanrights )

Cal
- 255 days ago - ipsnews.net
The land conflict between the Guaraní-Kaiowá indigenous people and large landowners in the southwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul is a powder keg ready to explode, say observers.
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Occupy the Dam: Brazil's Indigenous Uprising
World  (tags: world, politics, culture, indigenous rights, native rights, news, interesting, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', conflict, humanrights, government )

Cal
- 295 days ago - alternet.org
In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world's third-largest dam--by dismantling it.
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