Navajo and Mohawk in Bali challenge World Bank carbon scam

By Brenda Norrell

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

Photo by Jihan Gearon/IEN

BALI, Indonesia -- Navajo and Mohawk representatives of the Indigenous Environmental Network are now in Bali at the 13th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Jihan Gearon, Dine’ Navajo Nation, IEN energy & climate campaign organizer and Benjamin Powless, Mohawk, Six Nations, Ontario, Canada, IEN youth representative, are gathered with other Indigenous Peoples and taking on the world's super powers and carbon scam.

Gearon, writing from Bali, said, "What I am saying is that Indigenous People need a much bigger and better seat at the table. Our communities and livelihoods are the first affected by climate change. We are also the most affected by the unsustainable solutions being proposed to solve climate change – nuclear power, clean coal, carbon sequestration, reforestation, carbon trading, etc, etc, etc. Yet, instead of having real input in the UNFCCC process, we have to spend our time picking through words. And while we’re busy doing that, those people who want to sacrifice us to put some dollars in their pockets, make the decisions. "
Read more ... http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/12/navajo-and-mohawk-in-bali-challenge.html

Bali: Indigenous Peoples protest exclusion at climate talks

Indigenous Peoples protest being barred from Bali UN Climate Negotiations. Photo by Ben Powless, Mohawk, Indigenous Environmental Network youth representative, from Ontario, Canada.
Read article:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2007/12/indigenous-barred-from-un-climate.html
Bali protesters say World Bank's carbon tricks are aimed at profits as usual:
http://www.newconsumer.com/news/item/3259/

'Vigilant Ones,' Navajo group opposes line of credit for casino

'Vigilant Ones,' Navajo group opposes line of credit for casino
Ha'a'da'a Sidi Group Files Intent to Sue to Protect Navajo Sovereignty and Assets
Window Rock, Navajo Nation -- Current and former Navajo leaders, social and environmental activists, medicine people, and concerned citizens filed a notice of intent to institute a lawsuit Dec. 4, 2007. The suit seeks an injunction as well as to declare invalid the implementation of legislation authorizing the Navajo Nation President, Controller, and Attorney General to enter into a $100 million line of credit with JP Morgan CHASE and other banks, to finance gaming within the Navajo Nation...Read more...
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/12/vigilant-ones-navajo-group-opposes-line.html

Bush-wacked: Ninth Circuit reconsiders ruling on Sacred Peaks today

Navajo Council Speaker Morgan continues strong support for San Francisco Peaks

PASADENA, Calif. – On Dec. 11, 2007, the fate of Doko’oosliid (The San Francisco Peaks) will come before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena , CA . The Courts granted the U.S. Forest Service and an Arizona ski resort the opportunity to challenge a recent decision that favored Native American tribes, Navajo Council Speaker Lawrence Morgan said in a press statement today.
Speaker Morgan said, “It is very unfortunate that this case is being reconsidered. As Navajo people, as Diné people, we all consider our mountain to the west, Doko’oosliid (The San Francisco Peaks) very sacred.”
“As I traveled here to Pasadena , I could not help but reflect upon a song that is ever so popular entitled ‘ America the Beautiful,’” Speaker Morgan said. “‘America the Beautiful’ is reflective of our cause today – a cause to protect our sacred sites. The song ‘ America the Beautiful’ was written by Katherine Lee Bates in 1904 and has been an American theme ever since. Morgan explained that the lyrics remind him of Doko’oosliid. When people were singing about liberty then, they were seeking religious freedom. This is similar to the challenges that we face as Indian Nations today.
"Many non-Indians arrived here in the Americas , because of the religious persecution that they were experiencing. Their mass exodus from the old world to the new world represents their desire to seek freedom to worship who they want, what they want, where they want, when they want, and how they want. These same privileges should be afforded to the First Americans. Their pilgrimage then is no different then our fight to sustain our way of life today.
Read Speaker Morgan's press statement ...
http://www.navajo.org/News%20Releases/Joshua%20Lavar%20Butler/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20120907%20Follow%20up%20to%20Hawaii%20Trip.pdf

American Indian Airwaves, Dec. 12, 2007

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"UC Berkeley Revisited, Sacred Sites and Human Rights, and DHS' 30-day Ultimatum to Relocation"Part 1: UC Berkeley Revisited: Arrest and Struggle for the Ancestors
Lalo Franco (Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Nation), First Nation Representative of the Native American NAGPRA Coalition (NANC) ( http://nagpra-ucb-faq.blogspot.com/ ) provides us with an update on the University of California, Berkeley's (UCB) Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology continued engagement of exiling of the second largest collection of indigenous ancestors and sacred objects in the United States, institutionalized racism, and the NANC October 5th, 2007 demonstration. Part 2: Sounds from the Panel Discussion on Sacred Places and Human Rights Cindi Alvitre (Tongva Nation) Cindi Alvitre discussed the continuous daily struggles of the Tongva Nation, the first people of Los Angeles County, and Q'Orianka Kilchner discussed the plight and struggle of the Peruvian indigenous peoples fight against Globalization, oil and mine resources companies rape of mother earth, ecocide, and genocide. Part 3: Forced Relocation: the Continuing Saga of the Militarization of the Texas-Mexico Border, Dr. Elosia Garcia Tamez (Lipan Apache Nation). From the El Calaboz region in Texas, Elosia discusses Michael Chertoff's, Department of Homeland Security, recent 30-day ultimatum to binational indigenous peoples living along the Texas-Mexico border to voluntarily "relocate" or be "relocated."
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