ECUADOR: Indigenous reject talks to end protest

The indigenous group leading mass protests in Ecuador on Friday rejected an offer of direct talks from President Lenin Moreno to end days of deadly protests against fuel price hikes.
"The dialogue that he's seeking lacks credibility," the indigenous umbrella group CONAIE said in a statement, adding that it would negotiate with the government only when a decree to remove fuel subsidies has been "repealed."
Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/20191012-ecuador-indigenous-group-rejects-talks-to-end-protests

March on Enbridge to Protect the Sacred: Stop Line 3 Minnesota

Call to Action: March to Protect the Sacred!

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March on Enbridge to Protect the Sacred
by the Movement to Stop Line 3 (Minnesota, USA)
9 October 2019

Antidote Zine

Next Monday, 14 October 2019, is Indigenous People’s Day, a national holiday in the United States formerly known as “Columbus Day.” The commemorative subject of the holiday was only recently changed (and still not recognized in several states)—and only as a result of active anti-colonial struggle, by the survivors of genocide fighting to preserve their histories, cultures, experiences, and their very existence in the face of violent attempts by colonial society to erase them completely.

Yucca Mountain: Radioactive Racism Targets Western Shoshone in Congress

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Photo: Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps, and Native Community Action Council's Ian Zabarte, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 2018 at the "Zero Hour" youth climate rally.

By Beyond Nuclear

Censored News
Statement by Ian Zabarte
Principal Man, Western Shoshone

Radioactive racism is not progressive! Urge your Congress Members to oppose dangerously bad high-level nuke waste dumps!

Even though "Nevada Is Not a Radioactive Wasteland!", U.S. House bill H.R. 2699, the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019, was nonetheless recently rammed through the Environment and Climate Subcommittee on a voice vote, without so much as a peep of opposition. Democrats hold the majority in the U.S. House, and thus are in charge of this subcommittee. Subcommittee Democrats include several members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. But H.R. 2699 would rush the opening of the Yucca Mountain dump in Nevada, targeting Western Shoshone Indian land, where decades of nuclear weapons testing already caused fallout of hazardous radioactivity over a very large region. It would even significantly increase the amount of high-level radioactive waste that could be buried there, thus increasing the number of Mobile Chernobyl and Floating Fukushima shipments, by truck, train, and/or barge, through most states, scores of major urban centers, and the vast majority of U.S. congressional districts, bound for the dump (see 2017 documents here for road and rail route maps).

Inspiration in the Borderlands: On the Road to Arivaca

The Sasabe store on the border, where a fancy frontier border crossing station
looms like an oasis in the clouds with few border crossers.
The outhouse at the store costs $1. Don't be tempted.