Mohawk Ben Powless Photos Kari-Oca Rio+20 Brazil

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Indigenous Environmental Network
Ben Powless, Mohwak, Clayton Thomas Muller, Cree,
Tom Goldtooth, Dakota Dine', with Indigenous.

DEFENDING THE RIGHTS OF NATURE
Indigenous Peoples are gathered at the Kari-Oca Indigenous Peoples gathering during Rio+20 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, defending Mother Earth and the Rights of Nature, as the world's governments and corporate profiteers gather at the UN Conference on Sustainability, June 2012.
Photos by Ben Powless, Mohawk, Indigenous Environmental Network.
Thank you Ben Powless for sharing with Censored News!

All Nations Great Peace Gathering July 15-20, 2012

Emergency All Nations Great Peace Gathering

Eagle’s Nest – July 15 -- 20, 2012

Time: July 15, 2012 to July 20, 2012
Location: Kanata building
Street: 440 Mohawk Street
City/Town: Brantford Ontario

Emergency “Great Peace Gathering” calls to all Nations:

As you are probably aware, there are many new conflicts arising from the creation of new imposing laws being implemented within North America that will pose a danger to our Mother Earth and her natural resources more so now than ever. In Canada and in the USA, we have the tar sands and pipeline dangers and Plan Nord amongst many other Government and privatised projects, stealing more sovereign traditional lands and waters from our Peoples within North America until there will be nothing left for the seven generations to come.

Read more: http://decolonizenorthamerica…
Phone: 1-519-774-0850
Event Type: talking, about, solution, to, true, decolonization, with, the, nations
Organized By: Christelle J, Nicole Lebrasseur, Barbara Henry – Cayuga Nation Barb Garlow – Cayuga Nation Cheryl Squire – Mohawk Nation Cathy Walker – Anishinabek Nation
Latest Activity: 18 hours ago

Owe Aku, Treaty Nations and the 3rd UN Seminar on Treaties

June 16, 2012

Chief Oliver Red Cloud

By Kent Lebsock, Owe Aku International Justice Project
Censored News
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/06/owe-aku-treaty-nations-and-3rd-un.html

Owe Aku International Justice Project is sending a delegation to the 3rd UN Seminar on Treaties Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements at United Nations Headquarters in Geneva from July 16-17, 2012.  The delegation will be led by the Eyapaha of the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council, Alex White Plume.  The Itancan of the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council is Chief Oliver Red Cloud. 
We would like to reach out to other treaty nations about your plans for the Treaty Seminar.  We also thought it might be valuable if we had an opportunity to discuss alliances and present a common front on recommendations that include mechanisms within the UN system, as well as the use of an advisory opinion on the International Court of Justice, for treaty resolution.  If this would be of interest, please let us know and we can try and create a space for us to talk. 
For your review and comment we are attaching a background paper on the historical recommendations of the Treaty Seminars as well as other comments concerning treaty resolution issues.
Prior to July 6th, we will distribute a draft of our Treaty Seminar paper in the hopes of positive support from the brothers and sisters of nations that stand upon their treaties.  In addition to treaty nations, it is crucial that non-treaty nations recognize that ignoring treaties with self-determined Indigenous nations is the same as ignoring all of the rights set out in the declaration.  When they attempt to dismiss our treaties, they will also attempt to dismiss any of the other rights contained in the Declaration.
Document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/97316025/3rd-UN-Seminar-on-Treaties-by-Matt-With-Kent-Edits
Thank you.
Kent Lebsock
Director
Owe Aku International Justice Project
    for Lakota Treaty Justice & Advocacy
oweakuinternational@me.com
646-233-4406
646-395-1617 (fax)

on the web at www.oweakuinternational.org
"Either stand with the people or with the colonists. It's not really that complicated."

3rd UN Seminar on Treaties by Matt With Kent Edits

Amazonian Communities Occupy the Belo Monte Dam Site to Free the Xingu River

Three hundred indigenous people, small farmers, fisherfolk, and local residents occupied the Belo Monte Dam project, removing a strip of earth to restore the Xingu's natural flow and "freeing the river." Participants gathered in formation spelling out the words "Pare Belo Monte" meaning "Stop Belo Monte" to send a powerful message about the devastating impacts of the dam on the eve of the UN Rio+20 Summit. Their message is that projects that destroys livelihoods and the environment and that violate indigenous rights cannot be called "Clean Energy". They are demanding the cancellation of the $18 billion Belo Monte dam project.
Photo Mitchell anderson
https://picasaweb.google.com/amazonwatchmedia/AmazonianCommunitiesOccupyTheBeloMonteDamSiteToFreeTheXinguRiver#5754314474903524594