Bioneers Conference in San Francisco and Virtually: Indigenous Speakers, Panels and Films

Bioneers Conference in San Francisco and Virtually: Indigenous Speakers, Panels, and Films

Censored News original series from talks and panels at Bioneers

Sikowis and Nick Estes: 

The Failed System, Schemes of Non-Profits and a Regenerative Future

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/05/sikowis-and-nick-estes-failed-system.html

Sisters in Defense of Amazon Rainforest

Oil Companies Bring Terror to Ecuadorian Amazon

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/05/sisters-in-defense-of-amazon-rainforest.html

Rights of Nature Attorneys Describe Emerging Movement in Indian Country

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2022/05/rights-of-nature-attorneys-describe.html

By Brenda Norrell

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Schedule and registration:

https://bioneers.org/

SAN FRANCISCO -- Today, the Bioneers Conference begins at 9 am and continues May 13 -- 15, 2022, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco and virtually.

The three-day annual conference includes Indigenous speakers, panels and films. Featured speakers today focus on the protection of the Amazon, which will be broadcast online.

Today, during the Indigeneity panels in San Francisco, Native speakers focus on healing from residential school genocide. Ohlone lead discussions today on partnerships with Indigenous in the Bay area. Kickapoo Chef Crystal Wahpepah is also featured during the Indigeneity panels today.

Native authors will be present to sign new books. Native rights, protection of the natural world, climate justice, and Native foodways highlight the Indigenous panel discussions today, Saturday, and Sunday.

Canadian Cops: Misogyny, Racism and Violence Against Women: New Report

RCMP arresting Freda Huson, founder of the Unist’ot’en healing center, to clear the way for building a gas pipeline on Wet’suwet’en land (Narwhal, 2/10/20). (photo: Amber Bracken/Narwhal) Journalist Amber Bracken was arrested in November.

THE TOXIC CULTURE OF THE RCMP: MISOGYNY, RACISM AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN CANADA’S NATIONAL POLICE FORCE

A Report by The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (May 2022)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The evidence of systemic discrimination and violence against women perpetrated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is shocking, and it is growing. This is the conclusion of a new report on Canada’s national police force issued May 9, 2022 by the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA). FAFIA says that it is time to act.

The Government of Canada is committed to “address[ing] the profound systemic inequities and disparities that remain present …in our core institutions” and to “accelerat[ing] action to reform the RCMP.” It is time for independent review and transformational change.

London Film Screening of 'Tolvanera' -- Gold Mining in Sonora Brings Death in the Struggle for Life

London Film Screening of 'Tolvanera' -- Gold Mining in Sonora Brings Death in the Struggle for Life 

by Brenda Norrell

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In Sonora, just south of the Arizona border, there is a struggle against an open pit gold mine that few have heard of. Thanks to the Zapatistas Tour for Life through Europe, and new friends in London, England, the film Tolvanera will be screened. The film tells of this struggle, and the screening brings global attention to those murdered and disappeared who have opposed it.

Caborca is 144 miles south of the Arizona border

Credit: Pie de Página The ejido (community) of El Bajío is located in the municipality of Caborca, Sonora, in the coastal region of northeastern Mexico.The ejido (community) of El Bajío is located in the municipality of Caborca, Sonora, in the coastal region of northeastern Mexico.

Plainsmen's Post provides background for the struggle and the film, in the article, "Tolvanera, When Finding Gold on Your Land is Your Death Sentence.

On the black screen voices are tense, frightened. “No, please,” begs a woman. They respond harshly: “Face down.” The journalist is recording with her phone without the armed group noticing. “Guys, we are reporters. They told us that there was an abandoned mine here and we went in to see ”. With their faces covered by ski masks with skulls and wielding long weapons, the men threaten them so that they do not return there. And the journalists leave. It was March 2018.

This is how many stories are silenced in Mexico, but in Tolvanera it is just the beginning of the documentary, selected this year at the Morelia Festival. The incident remained marked in the memory of one of those reporters, Ángel Melgoza (Zamora, Michoacán, 1992), who decided not to drop the subject and take it to the big screen. Over the years he continues to pull the thread to try to explain the complicated skein of corruption, illegality, violence and impunity that surrounds the struggle of the El Bajío ejido against the mining company Grupo Fresnillo, owned by billionaire Alberto Baillères.

Mohawk Mothers Turn to Courts in Search for Unmarked Graves at CIA Torture Research Hospital in Montreal

Kahentinetha and Karennatha are part of the group of Mohawks behind the request for an immediate halt to the redevelopment of the former Royal Victoria Hospital. PHOTO DENIS GERMAIN, SPECIAL COLLABORATION

A group of Mohawks who seek justice suspect the presence of unmarked graves at the site Former Royal Victoria Hospital

'No work until careful excavation'

By Lea Carrier
English translation from the French La Presse
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French original La Presse

Mohawks are turning to the courts to force McGill University and the City of Montreal to suspend work on the former Royal Victoria Hospital until archaeological excavations have been carried out there. In addition, they demand that Mount Royal, at the foot of which the site is located, be recognized as the “inalienable” land of the Mohawks.

“We want the truth. The whole truth,” said Kahentinetha, one of six applicants for the injunction against McGill University, the City of Montreal, the Société québécoise des infrastructures (SQI) and the Government of Canada.