Two Indigenous Leaders Assassinated in Brazil

By Democracy Now!
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In Brazil, two indigenous leaders were killed Saturday. Firmino Guajajara and Raimundo Guajajara were riding on a motorcycle when they were shot and killed by unidentified gunmen. The two were killed while returning from a meeting with Brazil’s electric utilities company Eletronorte and the Brazilian National Indigenous Foundation, where they had been advocating in defense of indigenous rights.

Dine' Medicine Men's Formal Objection to Desecration of Dook’o’oosliid, San Francsico Peaks

DINE’ MEDICINE MEN ASSOCIATION FORMAL STATEMENT OF OBJECTION 
December 4, 2019 
US Forest Service and Arizona Snowbowl Agassiz Chairlift Replacement and Upgrade Proposal

To: Cal Joyner, Regional Forester, 333 Broadway Blvd SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102

Responsible Officials: Calvin Joyner, Regional Forester
Laura Jo West, Forest Supervisor Coconino National Forest
Previous Comments: Dine’ Medicine Men Association
provided previous comments on August 30, 2019

We are continually discriminated against by federal agencies as they require us to reply in black and white, with a foreign language that is not our own and does not convey the full depth of our concerns.

Background

The Dine’ Be’ Nanagha’ Yee’ Da’Aho’ta’ (Dine’ Medicine Men Association, Inc.) is an established non-profit organization incorporated with the Navajo Nation since the early 1970s. We are an established and recognized organization of the Navajo Nation, we neither function with remuneration, nor as an established operation with specific sites. We are a membership of traditional apologists, spiritual Dine’ hataalii (healers), prophets, cultural educators, wisdom keepers, medicine people, elders and traditionalists who have come together willingly to maintain, protect and promote the Dine’ way of life, intellectual knowledge, right to self- determination and the fundamental right to worship the Great Spirit according to our sacred (holy) protocols.

Chileans Take to the Streets on Day 50 of the Mobilizations

A jubilant crowd as red flares, fires and lasers light up Plaza Dignidad, formerly known as Plaza Italia. Photo by Orin Langelle/GJEP

Photo by Orin Langelle/GJEP

Alternative to COP 25 in Chile: People's Summit Exposes Root Causes and Rises in Defense of Environmental Protectors

PHOTOS: CUMBRE DE LOS PUEBLOS–PEOPLE’S SUMMIT AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM AND FOR A PLURINATIONAL CHILE

  Posted on December 6, 2019 by Anne Petermann

  

All photographs by Orin Langelle

Peoples Summit 2019

Monday 2 to Saturday 7 December,

University of Santiago de Chile

https://globaljusticeecology.org/photos-cumbre-de-los-pueblos-peoples-summit-against-neoliberalism-and-for-a-plurinational-chile/

Global Justice Ecology Project and Biofuelwatch attended and presented at this important event, planned when the COP25 UN Climate Summit was still scheduled to take place in Santiago. The statements and workshops at the Cumbre were very radical and focused on identifying and addressing the root causes of the crises we are facing and strongly opposes the neoliberal false solutions we are being confronted with. Thanks so much to our allies at OLCA for inviting us to take part in this powerful event.

No Commodification of Nature

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The Peoples Summit, which is convened year after year, brings together organizations and social articulations from various territories and sectors of the world to share experiences and promote alternative solutions to the system and strengthen global organization and local action to curb the socio-environmental catastrophe.