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| Women's Earth and Climate Action Network · Indigenous Women Urge Divestment in Switzerland -- 'No Fossil Fuel Financing'
By Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
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ZURICH (April 23, 2018) -- The third Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation to Europe was in Zurich, Switzerland today, meeting with UBS bank to advocate against unethical financing of fossil fuel projects due to Indigenous and human rights violations, and dangers to the health of the global climate.
Delegates are speaking out about Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access and Bayou Bridge Pipelines; Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain Pipeline; and Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline, and calling for a just transition now!
(April 24) Delegation in Frankfurt Germany today meeting w/ Deutsche Bank, protecting water, air, and climate and calling for respect for Indigenous right to free,prior and informed consent. It's time for financial institutions to be accountable and for justice to be served.
Spring 2018 Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegates comprise both frontline community leaders, and tribal officials who serve or have served in official capacities for their Tribal Nations, including - Charlene Aleck (Elected councillor for Tsleil Waututh Nation, Sacred Trust Initiative, Canada); Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle (Oglala Lakota and Mdewakantonwan Dakota pediatrician, living and working on the Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota); Michelle Cook (Diné/Navajo, human rights lawyer); Wasté Win Yellowlodge Young (Ihunktowanna/Hunkpapa of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Former Tribal Historic Preservation Officer); and Monique Verdin (Member of south Louisiana’s United Houma Nation Tribal Council and the Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative) - with Osprey Orielle Lake (WECAN International Executive Director and Delegation organizer).
CONTACT: Emily Arasim (general inquiries) – emily@wecaninternational.org, +1(505)920-0153 Michelle Cook (general inquiries) - divestinvestprotect@gmail.com Osprey Orielle Lake (urgent inquiries in Europe) – osprey@wecaninternational.org, +1(415)722-2104 Read more about the delegation: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2018/04/indigenous-womens-delegation-to-europe.html |
April 24, 2018
Indigenous Women Urge Divestment in Switzerland -- 'No Fossil Fuel Financing'
April 23, 2018
LIVE Border Patrol Agent Found Not Guilty of Murdering Teen -- Crowd Blocking Street in Tucson
Border Patrol agent shot through the border fence into Nogales, Mexico, murdering teen
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| Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz was charged in the October 2012 killing of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodríguez of Nogales, Sonora. The agent is accused of firing 16 shots through the Nogales border fence at a group of rock throwers, including Elena Rodríguez, who was hit eight times in the back and twice in the head. |
Counting Coup at the United Nations
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| 'No Warriors Forgotten' Speaking out for Justice and Freedom for Leonard Peltier |
By Tony Gonzales
AIM West
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NEW YORK -- The first week of the 17th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ended on a positive note for the work done by the delegation of AIM-WEST. AIM-WEST youth delegates Thorne LaPointe spoke under item #4; Chief Valentin Lopez spoke under item #8; and Ms. Jean Roach spoke on item #10.
The AIM-WEST delegation also conducted a side-event (workshop) on Wednesday, April 18, in the morning to a overcrowded yet up-beat room. But it wasn’t until Thursday that the voice for Human Rights Defender/ Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier was heard loud and clear under item #10 (and response of solidarity overwhelming!). So much solidarity was expressed from the floor for Leonard’s case after Ms. Jean Roach spoke that the Chairperson of the UN PFII Ms. Aboubacrine (Tuereg), had to hit the gavel several times to quiet the room! (see video at 2:32:08).
The speaker representing Leonard Peltier at the PFII, Ms. Jean Roach, who was age 14 during the shoot-out at the Jumping Bull compound in South Dakota on June 26, 1975, read her prepared statement and before completing replied to a statement lodged by the USA representative on Thursday toward the NGO International Indian Treaty Council, for speaking about the incarceration and situation of prisoner Leonard Peltier.
When governments speak in sessions like these at the UN, an NGO generally speaking, are not allowed to reply, only perhaps in an inter-active dialogue setting. The situation at the UNPFII precipitated by (the) previous intervention fortunately positioned the Leonard Peltier representative (already on the speakers list) to take the floor, allowed/compelled her to defend Leonard’s innocence in the shooting of the two agents by responding/slamming the USA statement, and challenged the USA to their own lies, lies, lies. i.e.. they don’t even know who did the shooting.
I might add for your attention; the beginning of this video’s UN PFII session the report given by the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, provides an excellent overview of the current role of extractive industries in a marriage with the military including private security systems (companies) working in tandem against human rights defenders; and worth an ear full!
Finally, at the very end of the afternoon session see a plea by a Indigenous sister from Canada to the UNPFII giving testimony of how and who killed her brother as Indian lives don’t matter!
Aho! All my relations!
Tony Gonzales
AIM-WEST director
Mohawk Nation News 'AFN Eye for an Eye Psychos'
AFN ‘EYE FOR AN EYE’ PSYCHOS
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MNN. Apr. 23, 2018. Assembly of First Nations refuse to take responsibility for their part in the genocide of their people. They and their handlers live in beautiful homes, have perfect families, with club houses that look like cathedrals
with spiraling lobbies that have alters called ATMs and banks.
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with spiraling lobbies that have alters called ATMs and banks.
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