Above Photo: Freshwater City SWD 01 injection well site in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. (David Levy). As billions in federal funds start flowing to state orphan well programs, a DeSmog investigation raises questions about whether oil-friendly states will put industry interests ahead of the environment. If you had ventured down a dirt road running through remote marshland along the Gulf Coast in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, at just the right time back in late February, you might have come across a pit of gray muck. Down in that pit, you’d find a contractor welding a steel cap about the size of a dinner […]
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Above Photo: Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. David Berkowitz / Flickr. Biodiversity conservation in Africa is a pretext to dispossess indigenous communities for imperialist primitive accumulation. To preserve biodiversity, protected area lands should be returned to African indigenous communities who play an essential role in conservation. Amid the unprecedented global ecological crisis, Africa still supports one quarter of the world’s biodiversity and the largest assemblages of megafauna. Indigenous Africans of the rangelands, desert, and forests have always protected their fauna and flora. Land where they exercise traditional rights has proven to be central for global biodiversity conservation. But today they are facing the threat of […]
Above Photo: Sbongile Tabhethe works in the food garden at eKhenana land occupation in Cato Manor, Durban, 9 June 2020. (New Frame / Mlungisi Mbele). In March 2022, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres warned of a ‘hurricane of hunger’ due to the war in Ukraine. Forty-five developing countries, most of them on the African continent, he said, ‘import at least a third of their wheat from Ukraine or Russia, with 18 of those import[ing] at least 50 percent’. Russia and Ukraine export 33% of global barley stocks, 29% of wheat, 17% of corn, and nearly 80% of the world’s supply of sunflower oil. […]
Above Photo: Painting of Sierra Miwok at the Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley by Albert Bierstadt. Albert Bierstadt / Wikimedia Commons. In a May 2021 article in The Atlantic magazine entitled “Return the National Parks to the Tribes,” Native American author and activist David Treuer details the genocidal violence through which Native American tribes were expelled from some of the US’s earliest and most famous national parks. He begins with the story of the Mariposa Battalion, a white militia composed largely of miners who came upon the Yosemite Valley in 1851 during an expedition to hunt and kill members of California’s Miwok tribes. The […]
Above Photo: Orientalreview.org. Ten months before Russian troops poured into Ukraine, that country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill into law authorizing the private sale of farmland, reversing a moratorium that had been in place since 2001. An earlier administration in Ukraine had instituted the moratorium in order to halt further privatization of The Commons and small farms, which were being bought up by oligarchs and concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. As documented in a series of critical reports over ten years by the Oakland Institute based in California*,* the moratorium on land sales in Ukraine aimed to prevent the acquisition and consolidation […]
The following report, submitted anonymously, details how a bulldozer, accompanied by off-duty police, destroyed part of a Dekalb County park, before being pushed out by land defenders. On Monday, May 9, around 9:15am, people inhabiting the Atlanta Forest witnessed a bulldozer accompanied by two Dekalb County cops bulldozing a path in Intrenchment Creek Park – a public Dekalb County park directly adjacent to the Old Atlanta Prison Farm. . The joint projects of “Cop City” and Blackhall Studios soundstage expansion threaten hundreds of acres of the largest contiguous piece of the Atlanta Forest, located in Southwest Dekalb. Often called “the lungs of Atlanta,” the land […]
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) & səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories/ Vancouver, BC – Before a courtroom packed with supporters, Tsleil-Waututh Land Defender Will George was sentenced to 28 days in jail for breaching the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline injunction and was immediately taken into custody. BC Supreme Court Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick deferred to the Crown’s recommended sentence and all but ignored arguments from defence counsel for why George should instead be sentenced to community service hours and probation. Today was Day 2 of George’s sentencing hearing. Yesterday, Justice Fitzpatrick stated in the morning that she had not read George’s 16-page Gladue report, which […]
Above Photo: The Tunk Creek Valley in Okanogan County, Washington. Justin Haug. Its Original Stewards. In Washington state, nestled in a habitat corridor linking the Cascades to the Rockies, in the heart of the Tunk Creek Valley, there’s a conservation story that is closely tied to the peoples connected to this land—and continues to breathe with the transfer of Indigenous lands back to the original stewards. It takes place on a large ranch, owned by the Figlenski family for over four generations, who have their own stories connected to the valley. As generations of the Figlenski family began to pass away, […]
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice and equality. – Malcolm X, Message to the Grassroots, November 10, 1963 While the land relationships that dominate this society have implications for every relation in society, the recent crisis of gentrification and forced removal in low income Black communities, along with the volatile boom-bust real estate cycles, has made the struggle for adequate housing the most pronounced battleground in an increasingly intense war over the vision for the future of how we relate, prioritize and manage access to land. The current regime of […]
Above photo: “This island belongs to us by right of re-discovery!” Land Back! is a popular slogan among Natives on social media in the form of memes, hashtags and posts advocating decolonization. It is spray painted on the sides of buildings and bronze statues of euroamerican colonizers (preferably in red), as well as appearing as a talking point on an episode of Reservation Dogs. Although the term has gained popularity via social media and perhaps viewed as a recent trend, Land Back! actions have been in effect since the Red Power movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. One of the more […]
‘Historic’ Aboriginal Land Title Trial To Begin In B.C. Supreme Court By Jason Proctor, CBC News. March 21, 2022 ‘Historic’ Aboriginal Land Title Trial To Begin In B.C. Supreme Court2022-03-212022-03-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220321-1.webp200px200px Above Photo: Members of the Nuchatlaht First Nation gather on the steps of B.C. Supreme Court on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 after filing a land title case which comes to trial this week. (Tristan Le Rudulier / CBC). Nuchatlaht Claim First To Go To Court Since B.C. Embraced U.N. Declaration On Indigenous Rights. When Captain James Cook encountered the ancestors of the Nuchatlaht people in 1778, the British explorer wrote in […]
Court Rules New York Illegally Took Mohawk Land In 1800s March 16, 2022 Court Rules New York Illegally Took Mohawk Land In 1800s2022-03-162022-03-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220316-1.jpg200px200px Akwesasne Territory – The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council is pleased to report that the decades-long dispute over the reservation boundary has been decided upon by the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. In a summary judgment ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Lawrence Kahn on Enniskó:wa/March 14, 2022, the court ruled that New York State’s purchase of reservation lands in the 1800s violated the federal Non-Intercourse Act. “To say that we are pleased is […]
Above Photo: Israeli security forces walk through the streets of Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem after the demolition of the family home of Palestinian militant Fadi Abu Shkhaidem, Feb. 1, 2022. Mahmoud Illean / AP. My Day In Palestine. Walking Through The Low Hills Of The Naqab As The Sun Sets And The Moon Comes Up Is An Experience That Allows Us To Imagine What Palestine Was Like Before It Was Torn Apart By Zionists And What Can Still Be Saved If We Act Fast. Jerusalem – The ruins of the Palestinian village of Sataf sit on the slope of a beautiful hill on […]
A B.C. Supreme Court judge invited CN to prosecute a Gitxsan hereditary chief when public prosecutors declined to do so. On the side of the road just past a bridge that crosses over the Canadian National Railway tracks in New Hazelton, B.C., sits a small tent structure. Inside, pensively warming his hands over a fire on a cold January day, sits Chief Spookw, hereditary chief of the Lax Gibuu (Wolf Clan) of the Gitxsan Nation. This is Lax Gibuu territory — ancient, unceded. The tent is symbolic, an assertion of Gitxsan sovereignty in the face of CN encroachment that started over […]
Orovada, NV — The Winnemucca Indian Colony filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuits against Lithium Americas Corporation’s planned Thacker Pass lithium mine on Friday, February 11th, stating that “to build that Thacker Pass lithium mine on lands held sacred to Colony members would be like raping the earth and their culture.” They are the third Native American Tribe to seek to join litigation against the proposed mine, along with the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and Burns Paiute Tribe. The tribes argue that Thacker Pass is a sacred and culturally significant site, and that the federal government failed to consult with […]
Above Photo: Ian Clotworthy. At the end of May 2021, I found myself behind a table in Tempelhof Field, Berlin’s largest public park, helping children print dandelions alongside the slogan Wir Bleiben Alle (We’re all staying) in multiple languages onto bright yellow paper. In the windswept park, papers blew away like dandelion seeds, crashing into the tables behind me where others were screen printing and spray painting Enteignen! (Expropriate!) onto T-shirts and purple and yellow flags. Nearby, speakers from diverse migrant movements gave multilingual testimonies interspersed with upbeat music and dance from social movements around the world. This joyous rally was organized by Right to the […]
Above Photo: LAPD. Mario Anzuoni / Reuters. A New Report from the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition: Automating Banishment. Surveillance is an integral part of policing in this country. The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition report, Automating Banishment: the Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land , details the history of these abuses in Los Angeles. The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is a community group rooted in the Skid Row community on Tongva/Gabrielino land, stolen territory known as Los Angeles. Over the past decade, we have been working to build power to abolish LAPD surveillance. This report grew out of that organizing and examines the relationships of policing and […]
Above Photo: The bail hearing for Molly Wickham, Sleydo’, continues this morning in Prince George court. Amanda Follett Hosgood. Among Those Still In Jail Is Molly Wickham, Sleydo’. Ten people remain in custody in Prince George after a bail hearing for those arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory last week went overtime Monday. Most of those released agreed to a condition that they not return to the Morice West Forest Service Road, the area where Coastal GasLink’s 670-kilometre gas pipeline is under construction from northeast B.C. to Kitimat. Photojournalist Amber Bracken and filmmaker Michael Toledano’s conditions allow them to return to the territory, where […]
Above Photo: Dan Loan The RCMP arrested 15 people on Thursday November 18 as the land defence struggle against the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline on Wet’suwet’en territory in northern British Columbia continues. Gidimt’en land defender Sleydo’ says: “[The RCMP] came with intent and the ability to kill people and seriously harm people.” Those arrested included two Elders, a journalist and three legal observers. Gidimt’en Checkpoint tweeted at 12:39 pm PT: “Legal Observers arrested by RCMP at 44KM on Gidimt’en territory. Legal observers act as legal witnesses, documenting incidents of police misconduct or violations of the rights of protesters.” According to […]
Above Photo: Haudenosaunee supporters ride a Coastal GasLink excavator as they help to close the road in Gidimt’en territory on Sunday, Nov. 14. Amber Bracken / The Narwhal. When the pipeline company failed to act on an immediate evacuation order, land defenders decommissioned a service road, cutting off access to project sites and work camps housing more than 500 individuals. Wet’suwet’en land defenders and supporters say inaction from B.C. and Canada left them no choice but to enforce an eviction order against Coastal GasLink workers and deactivate road access to the project, a pair of measures that have prompted the provincial […]
Above Photo: Palestinian farmer Elayan Shami, 62, stands near his field in the West Bank village of Battir. (Sebastian Scheiner / AP) The “Seam Zone” Israel Claims That Security Is The Only Reason It Denies Palestinians Access To The Seam Zone, But Data Obtained By MintPress Shows That Fewer Than 1% Of Permits Were Denied On Security Grounds. Occupied West Bank — Taysir Amarneh, a farmer whose land is located west of Israel’s notorious apartheid wall, has been waiting 30 minutes for Israeli soldiers to open Gate 408 so he can enter his fields. The military is supposed to open the checkpoint […]
Above Photo: A portion of a map that erases the borders Colonial powers drew, and shows instead the Indigenous territories, treaties and languages of North America. (Native Land Digital) Many events these days begin with land acknowledgments: earnest statements acknowledging that activities are taking place, or institutions, businesses and even homes are built, on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples. And many organizations now call on employees to incorporate such statements not only at events but in email signatures, videos, syllabuses and so on. Organizations provide resources to facilitate these efforts, including pronunciation guides and video examples. Some land acknowledgments are carefully […]
Above Photo: Protestors gather at Ihumātao in July 2019. New Zealand’s Māori are using occupations to reclaim land taken from them by confiscation or inequitable purchases. Phil Walter/Getty Images. An Unstoppable Movement. Since 1975, Māori have been able to reclaim land through a tribunal – but its reach is limited and now they are exploring other options. Two years ago, a small pocket of land three kilometres from Auckland’s international airport became the most prominent site of a struggle by Māori, New Zealand’s indigenous people, to reclaim land confiscated by the crown more than 150 years ago. Ihumātao contains evidence of New […]
Protecting From Coastal GasLink Fracked Gas Pipeline. Gidimt’en land defenders are presently mobilizing on their unceded territory within the province of British Columbia in Canada to protect an archaeological site from the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline. Earlier this month, The Tyee reported that the area at risk is a ridge near Lamprey Creek. Downstream the creek flows into the Morice River (Wedzin Kwa to the Wet’suwet’en) at a traditional village site called Ts’elkay Kwe Ceek. And upstream are sites at McBride and Collins lakes that contain house pits, also evidence of past occupation. The article highlights: “To the Wet’suwet’en, this site holds […]
General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) has unveiled a new type of AJAX combat vehicle, which features a Brimstone guided missile system. A new variant of the Ajax vehicle is called the Overwatch and developed by General Dynamics Land Systems-UK in collaboration with European missiles maker MBDA. As noted by the GDLS, the MBD’s Brimstone long-range weapon integrated onboard an ARES vehicle utilizing its state-of-the art Electronic Architecture, which is installed across the AJAX FoV and enables the rapid insertion and integration of new technologies and capabilities. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – “The AJAX family can fulfil a large number […]
Indigenous Land Defenders Shut Down Port Access By Ben Miljure, BC CTV News. November 29, 2020 Indigenous Land Defenders Shut Down Port Access2020-11-292020-11-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/port-e1606662201587.jpg200px200px Vancouver, BC – A group of Indigenous land defenders have taken over the intersection of East Hastings Street and Clark Drive in Vancouver, blocking one of the access routes to the Port of Vancouver. About 75 people first gathered at Grandview Park as part of a national week of action promoted by Indigenous leaders hoping to call attention to a number of issues including climate change and systemic racism. “This is what we have to do. We […]
Indigenous Women Lead Land Struggle Against Wealthiest People In The US November 29, 2020 Indigenous Women Lead Land Struggle Against Wealthiest People In The US2020-11-292020-11-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/shinnecock-e1606662605105.jpg200px200px Above photo: Warriors of the Sunrise addressing media after the lighting of a ceremonial fire to kick-off Sovereignty Camp 2020. While the United States shudders in the shambles of another election year, whether from a collective sigh of relief or fear of what’s to come, a different system of governance blooms in a swath of woodlands jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. This sandy shoreline now part of what is called Long Island has always been home […]
Trump Administration Is Rushing To Mine Sacred Tribal Land By Carly Nairn, Ecowatch. November 26, 2020 Trump Administration Is Rushing To Mine Sacred Tribal Land2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/donotenter.png200px200px Above photo: Members of the San Carlos Apache Nation protest to protect parts of Oak Flat from a copper mining company on July 22, 2015 in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images. In yet another attack on the environment before leaving office, the Trump administration is seeking to transfer ownership of San Carlos Apache holy ground in Oak Flat, Arizona, to a copper mining company. The administration pushed to finish the environmental review […]
Secwepemc Land Defenders Kanahus Manuel And Isha Jules On Trial By Brent Patterson, Peace Brigades International. November 20, 2020 Secwepemc Land Defenders Kanahus Manuel And Isha Jules On Trial2020-11-202020-11-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/kanahusarrest.png200px200px Canada – Secwepemc land defender Kanahus Manuel has tweeted: “I need some media to report on my trial begins Mon Nov 23 in Clearwater so-called bc.” On October 19, 2019, Manuel and Tiny House Warrior land defender Isha Jules were charged by the RCMP with mischief when they told construction workers that they did not have consent from the Secwepemc peoples to flag on Highway 5 near Moonbeam Creek, about 60 kilometres north […]
Alice’s Nightmare In Drone Land October 30, 2020 Alice’s Nightmare In Drone Land2020-10-302020-10-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/alice-e1604073384195.jpeg200px200px New York – On Thursday, 33 people from New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts organized by Upstate Drone Action blocked the gates at Hancock Air Field near Syracuse, NY. Prior to Thursday’s action, activists released this statement: “And why are we going to Hancock AFB on October 29? Our country has gone down the rabbit hole — racially, spiritually and economically. COVID 19 has exposed the Pentagon and the Federal government’s inability to do their job: to aid and protect our people. In fact the government has helped spread COVID, […]
Police Use Violence Against Land Defenders At Land Back Lane By Christopher Curtis, Ricochet Media. October 23, 2020 Police Use Violence Against Land Defenders At Land Back Lane2020-10-232020-10-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/landback-1-e1603483999139.jpg200px200px Above photo: Police fire rubber bullets, use Taser during confrontation at Land Back Lane. Failed arrest attempt leads to police retreat, barricades of burning tires. Six Nations, Ontario – An argument between police and land defenders erupted in violence Thursday when officers tried to arrest someone outside a protest camp on Haudenosaunee territory. Witnesses say police fired at least six rubber bullets and tasered a young man after someone threw a rock at […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States will be the first country to land people on Mars and the first to land a woman on the Moon, US President Donald Trump said. “America will land the first woman on the Moon and the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars, we’re getting very close,” Trump said at his campaign rally in Janesville, Wisconsin on Saturday. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that his company was on track to launch its first uncrewed mission to Mars in four years, using the Starship reusable vehicle. According to […]
Land Grab Universities By Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone, High Country News. October 14, 2020 Land Grab Universities2020-10-142020-10-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/landgrantcoll-e1602685537544.jpg200px200px Above photo: Michigan State was the first land-grant institution in the U.S. Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. On August 29, 1911, a Yahi man known as Ishi came out of hiding near Oroville, California. He had spent decades evading settlers after the massacre of his community in the 1860s and had recently lost the last of his family. Whisked off to the University of California’s anthropology museum, he was described by the press as the “last wild Indian.” […]
One Of The Best Climate Solutions Is Giving Indigenous People Their Land Back By Eric Holthaus, The Phoenix. October 13, 2020 One Of The Best Climate Solutions Is Giving Indigenous People Their Land Back2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/decol-e1602616876489.png200px200px Above image: Original art for The Phoenix by Laila Arêde. Decolonization means decolonization. On Indigenous People’s Day, we should remember that returning stolen land is a necessary step towards climate justice. The work of our time is both slow and fast, rapidly transforming human society in the short and long term simultaneously. That can’t happen without re-examining our relationships with each other and with every other living thing […]
First published October 5, 2020 San Diego Union-Tribune By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Montana Governor Steve Bullock BILLINGS, Mont. — The governor of Montana on Monday asked a judge to block three sweeping land use plans that would open most U.S.-owned lands in the state to energy development, saying the documents were made invalid after the Trump administration’s public lands boss was removed for being in the post unlawfully. A judge last month ousted Bureau of Land Management Deputy Director William Perry Pendley after he served as acting director of the agency for more than a year without receiving a confirmation […]
College Chastised For Dumping On Sacred Land By Sebastian Echeverry, Long Beach Post. October 5, 2020 College Chastised For Dumping On Sacred Land2020-10-052020-10-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/site-protest-e1601922904523.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Michelle Castillo, a Native American community leader at Puvungna when crews were dumping dirt in 2019. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova. A state department tasked with preserving historic landmarks recently criticized Cal State Long Beach for depositing soil and debris from a construction zone on a parcel of land called Puvungna that is sacred to local Native American tribes. Construction to expand student housing near the site sparked outcry, protests and a lawsuit from tribal leaders last year. And in […]
Housing Activists Claim Victory In Fight For Community Land Trust By Philadelphia Housing Action. September 27, 2020 Housing Activists Claim Victory In Fight For Community Land Trust2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/philly-e1601224359128.jpg200px200px Above photo: Hughe Dillon for Philly Voice. Philadelphia Housing Action claims victory after 6 month direct action campaign forces City to relinquish 50 vacant homes to community land trust. In largest self-organized housing takeover in the country, 50 homeless mothers and children to remain in 15 vacant city-owned homes, homeless protest encampments to take additional houses. On Friday, September 25, Philadelphia Housing Action and the City of Philadelphia reached a tentative agreement to resolve […]
An aircraft carrying Vice President Mike Pence, known as Air Force Two, was forced to turn back and land after it reportedly collided with a bird over New Hampshire shortly after take-off. The plane struck a bird soon after taking off from New Hampshire’s Manchester Airport on Tuesday following a Trump campaign event, a White House official told NPR’s Tamara Keith, adding that “out of abundance of caution, Air Force 2 returned safely back to Manchester.” A White House official confirms to me that “upon takeoff, Air Force Two struck a bird. Out of abundance of caution, Air Force 2 returned safely […]
The Indian government said last year that it would turn the state-backed telecom giant BSNL into a profit-making entity by selling off its properties, which are valued at approximately $67 billion. Senior officials from the telecom department say that revenue rules are being flouted in the process, causing a loss of $2.71 billion to the states. The Indian government’s plan to financially revive the loss-making telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) through the monetisation of its countrywide portfolio of properties has evoked ire among officials from the Department of Telecommunication (DoT). At least two high-ranking officials from the Department of […]
Toronto: Rally For Six Nations Members Arrested In Land Dispute By Muriel Draaisma, CBC.ca. September 14, 2020 Toronto: Rally For Six Nations Members Arrested In Land Dispute2020-09-142020-09-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/landback.png200px200px Above photo: Demonstrators gathered outside of the office of the Ontario ministry of Indigenous affairs near Bloor Street East and Church Street. Nicolas Haddad/CBC. Parcel of land in dispute is McKenzie Meadows housing development in Caledonia, Ont. Hundreds of people demonstrated outside of the office of the Ontario ministry of Indigenous affairs in Toronto on Saturday to show support for members of Six Nations of the Grand River arrested in a land dispute. Demonstrators carried placards and a […]
Black Families Purchased Land To Build Their Own City By Because of Them We Can. August 29, 2020 Black Families Purchased Land To Build Their Own City2020-08-292020-08-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/freedom-e1598730350364.jpg200px200px Cooperative economics at work! In Toomsboro, Georgia, a group of 19 Black families banded together to create what has the potential to be the next Black Wall Steet. Black people are resilient, we’ve had to be to thrive under systems that weren’t built for us. This resiliency has created innovative solutions to impossible problems such as racial injustices, food insecurity, and a lack of secure and safe communities. Ashley Scott, a realtor living in Stonecrest, Georgia, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107855/83/1078558374_0:0:3077:1731_1200x675_80_0_0_8746bb01adfb5766bbbdd850b392588e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008271080297198-three-katyusha-rockets-land-inside-baghdads-green-zone-no-casualties-reported/ Three Katyusha rockets have landed inside Baghdad’s Green Zone on Friday local time, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister’s press office. No casualties have been reported. The rockets were launched from the Al-Baiji area, a neighborhood in Baghdad west of the Green Zone. Between three and five explosions have been reported. The bombing is the second one within hours, according to Sky News Arabia. Earlier Thursday evening, a missile also landed inside the Green Zone perimeter, Arab News reported. According to the outlet, there have been more than 30 attacks on American interests in Iraq […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1a/1080285175_0:0:2560:1440_1200x675_80_0_0_90bda70800bc6bacc882f80e96469034.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008261080285140-land-of-heroes-what-to-expect-on-day-3-of-the-republican-national-convention/ A number of military veterans are slated to speak at the event, and it seems that US President Donald Trump himself is also expected to make “some sort of appearance”. The Republican National Convention, which kicked off on Monday, 24 August, now goes into its third day, with the speaker to close out the evening being none other than Vice President Mike Pence. Pence’s speech is expected to broach the subject of Trump’s opposition to “those protesting racial injustice, such as professional athletes kneeling during the anthem”, Reuters notes. That issue, along […]
Haudenosaunee Land Defenders Call For Peace And Safety By Brent Patterson, PBI Canada. August 23, 2020 Haudenosaunee Land Defenders Call For Peace And Safety2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/1492landbacklane-e1598185292224.png200px200px On August 20, the land defenders at 1492 Land Back Lane tweeted: “We call on our allies to continue to amplify our demand for peace and safety.” These Six Nations land defenders began a re-occupation of their territory on July 19 to uphold their right to free, prior and informed consent and in opposition to the construction of the McKenzie Meadows housing development on unceded lands near the city of Caledonia in the province of Ontario in central […]
President Trump nominated William Perry Pendley in June to lead the Bureau of Land Management, but it has never been clear he had enough support to win confirmation in the Senate. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kirk Siegler/NPR President Trump nominated William Perry Pendley in June to lead the Bureau of Land Management, but it has never been clear he had enough support to win confirmation in the Senate. Kirk Siegler/NPR Amid pressure from Democrats and some Republicans, the Trump administration is planning to withdraw its controversial nominee to head the federal Bureau of Land Management. The sprawling public lands […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a leading non-partisan professional association of physicians across the United States. Today the AAPS filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to compel the release to the public to the public of hydroxychloroquine by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). Here are two charts that show how hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness in treating the coronavirus. Via AAPS And here is another chart proving the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine. TRENDING: “Why Are You Going Out of State? I Can See It at the Airports!” -Ugh- Watch NM […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107868/68/1078686873_0:0:1862:1048_1200x675_80_0_0_60f03d192b6b22d00c7091db6bde5ee1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008031080048047-two-rockets-land-near-iraqs-taji-military-base-hosting-us-troops/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Two rockets fell in the vicinity of Iraq’s Taji military base, which is located north of the Baghdad capital and hosts US-led coalition troops, but did not explode, Al Sumaria broadcaster reported on Monday. “The security forces found two rockets near Camp Taji and in the vicinity of the district of Al Moshahda”, a source told Al Sumaria broadcaster, adding that the landing did not result in a blast. The base repeatedly comes under rocket fire attacks, as does Baghdad’s international airport and the so-called green zone of the Iraqi capital, […]
COLOGNE, Germany – The Hungarian army has taken delivery of four used Leopard-2 tanks to begin training on the weapons as manufacturer Kraus-Maffei Wegmann works on the country’s order of 44 new tanks. The Hungarian government ordered the equipment in late 2018 as part of an effort to replace its Soviet-era arms. The Leopard 2 tanks in their newest configuration, dubbed 2A7+, are slated to replace Russian-made T-72s. A total of 12 older Leopards of the 2A4 variant were part of the deal to ensure Hungarian soldiers can train ahead of the new deliveries, slated for 2023. “Hungary is modernizing its […]
On Contact: Paying The Land July 26, 2020 On Contact: Paying The Land2020-07-262020-07-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/5f1d3f0c2030271b392f1fde-e1595781451310.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to comics journalist Joe Sacco about his new book, ‘Paying the Land’. In the book Sacco travels to the frozen Canadian Northwest Territories to reveal the Dene people in conflict over the costs and benefits of the resource extraction industry and development. The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of […]
A new poll by the Cato Institute shows 62 percent of Americans feel they must censor themselves from openly expressing their political views, in some cases out of fear of losing their jobs or missing career opportunities. The fear is especially common among conservative respondents, 77 percent of whom agreed that the current political climate prevents them from saying things they believe. This week’s study showed that even among centrist liberals, 52 percent said they must censor their opinions. That compared with 45 percent in 2017, the last time the same poll was done. Back then, 57 percent of moderates said […]
Oklahoma Is – Always Has Been – Native Land By Dwanna L. McKay, The Conversation. July 22, 2020 Oklahoma Is – Always Has Been – Native Land2020-07-222020-07-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/native-tribes-gather-in-oklahoma-in-1880-from-the-national-archives-e1595432450712.jpg200px200px Above photo: Delegates from 34 Native tribes at the Creek Council House in Indian Territory, now called Oklahoma, 1880. National Archives. Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that much of the eastern part of the state belongs to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. They wonder whether they must now pay taxes to or be governed by the Muscogee. In alarmist language, Sen. Ted Cruz of neighboring Texas tweeted that the Supreme Court “just gave away half of Oklahoma, literally. Manhattan […]
Land Loss Has Plagued Black America Since Emancipation By Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone, The Conversation. July 20, 2020 Land Loss Has Plagued Black America Since Emancipation2020-07-202020-07-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/former-slaves-harvesting-for-their-own-profit-getty-e1595259351932.jpg200px200px Above: A group of escaped slaves that gathered on the former plantation of Confederate General Thomas Drayton. After Federal troops occupied the plantation these former slaves began to harvest and gin cotton for their own profit. Corbis via Getty Images. Is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership? Underlying the recent unrest sweeping U.S. cities over police brutality is a fundamental inequity in wealth, land, and power that has circumscribed black lives since the […]
Next, our film’s American cinema release was cancelled and a US TV network pulled the plug on screening it. This was after Trump International had issued a legal threat to anyone who showed the film or repeated Molly’s allegation about her water supply. The threats were enough to undermine our film’s release. Source link
Report Warns Of Unprecedented Wave Of Land Privatization By Anuradha Mittal, Oakland Institute. July 15, 2020 Report Warns Of Unprecedented Wave Of Land Privatization2020-07-152020-07-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/lans-privatization-report-from-the-oakland-institute-e1594830202326.jpg200px200px Above photo: Cover of Driving Dispossession, land privatization report from the Oakland Institute. Amidst a worsening climate crisis, the Oakland Institute’s new report, Driving Dispossession: The Global Push to “Unlock the Economic Potential of Land,” sounds the alarm on the unprecedented wave of privatization of natural resources that is underway around the world. Through six case studies—Ukraine, Zambia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Brazil—the report details the myriad ways by which governments—willingly or under the pressure of financial […]
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that about half of the land in Oklahoma is within an Indian reservation as stated in treaties. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that about half of the land in Oklahoma is within an Indian reservation as stated in treaties. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The Supreme Court ruled today that about half of the land in Oklahoma is within an Indian reservation, a decision that will have major consequences for both past and future criminal and civil cases. The court’s decision hinged […]
CAIRO (Sputnik) – The Saudi-led coalition has carried out over 60 intensive airstrikes on the positions of the Shia rebel Houthi movement in four western Yemeni provinces over the past 24 hours, the Houthi-controlled Al Masirah broadcaster reported. The coalition’s air force hit the province of Marib with 52 airstrikes, the broadcaster reported. Out of the total, 41 air raids were launched on the districts of Majzar and Medghal in Marib’s northwest, and nine — on the district of Al Abdiyah in its south, the movement said. According to the Houthi rebels, the Arab coalition also conducted two air raids on […]
Chicago Protest: No To The Continuation Of The Theft Of Palestinian Land By the US Palestinian Community Network. July 6, 2020 Chicago Protest: No To The Continuation Of The Theft Of Palestinian Land2020-07-062020-07-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/palestinian-rights-protest-chicao-july-2020-e1594068424627.jpg200px200px Above photo: Palestinian rights protest, Chicago, IL, July 2020. From the US Palestinian Community Network. Over 300 cars and 700 Palestinians, Arabs, and supporters gathered today in the heart of our community in the southwest suburbs of Chicago to say #NoToAnnexation, no to colonization, no to the occupation, and no to the continuation of the theft of Palestinian land at the hands of Israel. Organized by Coalition for Justice in Palestine – […]
Watch a special episode of the documentary series ‘Dagestan: Land of Warriors’, which serves as a tribute to the life of Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, the father and coach of UFC champion Khabib and Russia’s leading MMA trainer. Footage used in this film was shot in October 2019 for the fifth installment of the documentary series ‘Dagestan: Land of Warriors’. Due to the tragic death of Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, we are now releasing this episode unnumbered, as a dedication to Khabib Nurmagomedov’s father and life-long coach, unofficially named ‘The Father of Dagestan MMA’ during his life, and who will undoubtedly keep this title after […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s most prominent Animal Cruelty prevention law was enacted in 1960 and has since been strengthened. But from killing elephant by feeding them with explosive-laced fruit to various incidents of stray dog torture, the plight of animals remains largely neglected. In a barbaric incident of human brutality to animals, a monkey was hanged from a tree in India’s Telangana state. A video of the incident, filmed by the accused themselves, has gone viral on social media. The video shows the hapless monkey struggling while it’s hanged with dogs on the ground howling. Three men attacked monkeys with sticks […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Three opposition parliamentarians in Nepal had earlier put forth a motion in the House of Representatives asking to restore territory encroached upon by China through dialogue. There were also media reports quoting a “Nepali government department doc” that China had occupied 36 hectares in 4 of the nation’s northern districts. Nepal on Thursday denied media reports, citing a certain government document, that China had grabbed its land in the northern districts of the Himalayan region. In a statement, Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said no such report exists and the concerned Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107971/59/1079715976_0:274:1600:1174_1200x675_80_0_0_a8a34a599595a9d6cf37206d7fe73f87.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202006251079715433-nepal-opposition-mps-move-resolution-in-parliament-to-reclaim-land-allegedly-encroached-on-by-china/ New Delhi (Sputnik): China has allegedly encroached on 36 hectares of land in four northern districts of Nepal by diverting the flow of rivers that act as a natural boundary. The Survey Division of Nepal’s Agriculture Department reported the encroachment back in November 2019, but the K.P. Sharma Oli government put a lid on its claims. Three members of Nepal’s Parliament belonging to the opposition Nepali Congress Party have moved a resolution in the House of Representatives asking the government to restore territory allegedly encroached upon by China through dialogue with Beijing. “China has […]
Palestinian Citizens Of Israel Protest Land Grab In Negev Desert By Lubna Masarwa and Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Middle East Monitor. June 23, 2020 Palestinian Citizens Of Israel Protest Land Grab In Negev Desert2020-06-232020-06-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/negev-e1592934910396.jpg200px200px Above photo: Palestinian citizens of Israel protest in the city of Beersheba on 22 June 2020. Supplied by Yousef Jabareen. Plans to replace five unrecognised Bedouin villages with trees have been denounced as an attempt to forcibly displace thousands. Hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel protested on Monday in the Negev region to denounce the Israeli government policy of house demolitions and evacuation orders in the village of Khirbet […]
A Russian photographer sent his drone for an unusual photo op with Vladimir Lenin. Not the Bolshevik leader’s preserved body, but the name ‘Lenin’ written with trees by Soviet foresters. The pictures taken by Slava Stepanov show the name formed from pine and spruce trees. Walking among the trees, one would hardly realize they were anything special. But from the air, the letters of the 300-meter tribute are clear. This particular geoglyph was planted sometime in the 1970s in Omsk Region in southwestern Siberia near the city of Tyukalinsk. But the landscape feature is not unique. Over 50 such giant messages […]
Naga Tribes Face Loss of Land And Forest Under New Law By Robert Bociaga, Mongabay. May 28, 2020 Naga Tribes Face Loss of Land And Forest Under New Law2020-05-282020-05-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/naga-e1590687437142.png200px200px Above photo: The landscape after burning. Robert Bociaga. The Naga tribes inhabit the hills in the northwestern corner of Myanmar and northeast India. They had long been isolated from outside culture, dwelling in independent village republics. This protected them from the land grabs that have been so prevalent in the rest of Myanmar. For centuries, tribes could sustain themselves by following their own customary tenure system, deciding who can use and manage different resources. Their […]
Agroforestry Land Restoration Technique Improves Food Security In Honduras By Lorraine Potter, Forests News. May 18, 2020 Agroforestry Land Restoration Technique Improves Food Security In Honduras2020-05-182020-05-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/agroforestry-e1589816135381.jpg200px200px Above: Agroforestry from the International Network for Natural Sciences. Five years ago, farmer Damas Nunez had reached a point of economic desperation. He had decided the best option to feed his family was to flee north to the United States from Honduras, despite the risks involved. He made a farewell visit to a friend with a farm in the upper Cangrejal Valley and was astounded to see a beautiful crop of corn and a large stack of firewood, […]
Native American communities have turned out to be the most vulnerable US ethnic minorities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As some states are rushing to lift restrictions to give a boost to the economy, indigenous tribes’ pleas not to expose them to further contagion remain unheard, observes retired UN expert Alfred-Maurice de Zayas. Indigenous tribes in Alaska will be put at a grave risk of COVID-19 infection unless Governor Mike Dunleavy (R) closes this year’s $300 million Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery, which attracts thousands of non-resident seasonal workers, says a 13 May complaint submitted on behalf of the Bristol Bay Area […]
India 07:23 GMT 15.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107931/03/1079310323_37:0:1279:699_1200x675_80_0_0_e70fa52646b9844dbf3fa916248427f8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202005151079310159-prayers-to-get-rid-of-covid-19-in-indian-village-land-people-in-trouble—video/ New Delhi (Sputnik): The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the globe like a huge wave, prompting countries to take stringent measures to contain its spread. The government of India responded as well, declaring a national lockdown on 25 March. Hundreds of people in a village in the Indian state of Karnataka congregated to pray to God to help them get rid of the infectious COVID-19. The gathering was held despite the country being under lockdown and orders to maintain social distancing being in place. A video of the […]
Swedish startup ChromaWay is expanding a project aimed to make land ownership more transparent by putting records on a blockchain. With the launch of its LAC PropertyChain initiative, announced on Tuesday, the company hopes to strengthen blockchain standards, governance and protocols for land transactions in Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay. The initiative complements the LACChain initiative, a consortium of institutions across Latin America and the Caribbean aligned with the Washington, D.C.-based Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The advance also marks the second phase of a land registry project, which began in 2019 and is funded by the IDB. The project focuses on smart […]