Zapatistas Journey for Life through Europe featured in 'La Montana' in World Premiere

Diego Enrique Osorno with commanders Galeano and Moíses. (Facebook / Diego Enrique Osorno)

Zapatistas' Journey for Life through Europe featured in 'La Montana' in World Premiere in Netherlands

La Montana, a new documentary of the Zapatistas' Journey for Life through Europe, will be featured in its World Premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, January 25 -- Feb. 5, 2023. Filmmaker Diego Enrique Osorno was onboard when Zapatistas sailed across the Atlantic from the coast of Mexico, arriving in Spain.

Diego Enrique Osorno)

Quien reports:

The Mexican filmmaker, writer and journalist, Diego Enrique Osorno, will present his recent documentary project, La Montaña in the Harbor section of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

La Montaña, is the title of this project, which follows seven Mayan indigenous people who belong to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, known as the EZLN, on their journey across the Atlantic Ocean while recounting their stories of resistance in the mountains of Chiapas.

https://www.quien.com/cultura/2022/12/21/la-montana-el-nuevo-proyecto-de-diego-osorno-estrenara-en-roterdam

https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/

Danny Blackgoat Soars to Spirit World

Danny Blackgoat, son of Roberta Blackgoat, longtime resister to relocation and government oppression, soars to Spirit World

Danny's wife Liz Blackgoat said, "It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my beloved husband, Danny Blackgoat. He left this world sometime Sunday night, Dec 18. His transition to spirit occurred on the land, at the place that he loved the most."

Danny K. Blackgoat passed away peacefully on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, at the age of 70. He was born in Dinnebeto and grew up in the Big Mountain area. He attended Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, completing his bachelor’s degree.

Lakota Joye Braun and Ukrainian Climate Scientist Honored with Bold Activism Award

Joye Braun and Svitlana Romanko, Honored with Rose Braz Award for Bold Activism

2022 Award Goes to Ukrainian Climate Scientist, Late Indigenous Pipeline Fighter

By the Center for Biological Diversity
Dec. 22, 2022

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OAKLAND, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity today awarded the 2022 “Rose Braz Award for Bold Activism” to Svitlana Romanko and posthumously to the late Joye Braun.

Romanko is Ukraine’s leading climate scientist and a grassroots climate campaigner. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, she founded Razom We Stand and launched the Stand With Ukraine campaign with more than 820 groups. It calls on world leaders to end their fossil fuel dependence on Russia and phase out fossil fuels globally.

In the Quechan battle against lithium mining at the Salton Sea, songs carry sacred origins

Preston Arrow-weed led the battle against gold ming here on Quechan sacred land, and now battles a new monster, lithium mining, driven by corporate greenwashing for electric vehicles

By Brenda Norrell
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It is a sacred place for Quechan, where obsidian burst from the earth, their sacred stories come from here. When the U.S. government and county targeted the sacred place for lithium mining, they did not tell the Quechan Nation.

Preston Arrow-weed, who has just fought gold mining at Indian Pass, began the battle to protect the sacred here near the Salton Sea, in Imperial Valley, and where the borders of California, Arizona, and Mexico meet.

Arrow-weed said, "We must learn from the past. What good is it to replace dirty oil with dirty mining? The toxic cycle will continue. Indigenous communities will continue to be sacrificed for the 'greater good.'"

Quechan songs carry the story of their journey, and the sacred place now targeted for lithium mining near the Salton Sea, where the obsidian burst from the earth, and here are the remains of a powerful snake.

"We have a belief that something sacred happened there," Arrow-weed said at the recent Western Mining Action Network Conference in Reno, Nevada.