Indigenous Peoples Assembly at US Social Forum Detroit 2010

Indigenous at US Social Forum Detroit 2010
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Indigenous Peoples focused on the inherent right of sovereignty and the struggle to protect Mother Earth will participate in the Indigenous Peoples Assembly and workshops at the US Social Forum in Detroit, June 22--26.

The convening organizations for the Indigenous Peoples Assembly on Sovereignty are the Indigenous Environmental Network; Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC), Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) and Fort Berthold Environmental Awareness Committee.

Grassroots people convening the forum are focused on poverty and building new economic alternatives, Indigenous sovereignty, climate justice and sustainability, migration, democracy and other vital issues.

Jose Matus, Yaqui, director of the Indigenous Alliance without Borders said, "Through the the help of our community network partner Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), the Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras will be participating in the Second U.S. Social Forum in Detroit. Let me know if you have friends in the movement or you work with an organization in Detroit or know of anyone attending the Social Forum for me to establish contact and networking." Jose R. Matus, Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras jrmatus@aol.com

INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY

Indigenous Peoples Assembly
Primary contact: Jihan Gearon
ienenergy@igc.org
Convening organizations: Indigenous Environmental Network; Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC), Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE), Fort Berthold Environmental Awareness Committee
THURSDAY
Location Space: DO-03C

Ecological Justice
Primay contact:
Adrienne BrownAdrienne@ruckus.org
 nancytprice@juno.com
Convening organizations: Ruckus Society; Movement Generation; Southwest Workers Union; EJCC; GAIA; Mothers on the Move; Women of Color United; Just Transition Alliance; Alliance for Democracy; Indigenous Environmental Network; Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative; Mountain Justice; Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project
FRIDAY
Location Space: D3

Tar Sands
PMA
Rhonda Anderson Rhonda.anderson@sierraclub.org
Convening organizations: Sierra Club, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rain Forest Action Network, Forest Ethics, Sierra Club Environmental Justice Program, The Ruckus Society

See all workshops:
http://organize.ussf2010.org/workshops
Schedule at a glance:
http://www.ussf2010.org/scheduleataglance

PROJECT CENSORED: Trilateral Commission Groomed Obama for Presidency

The Bush presidents and John Kerry were all members of the Yale secret society Skull and Bones, which seeks world domination.
Who groomed President Obama for the presidency? The Trilateral Commission, according to a news article in Project Censored 2010.
Source: August Review.com, January 30, 2009
Title: “Obama: Trilateral Commission Endgame”
Author: Patrick Wood
Student Researcher: Sarah Maddox
Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips
Sonoma State University
(Project Censored 2010) Barack Obama appointed eleven members of the Trilateral Commission to top-level and key positions in his administration within his first ten days in office. This represents a very narrow source of international leadership inside the Obama administration, with a core agenda that is not necessarily in support of working people in the United States.
Obama was groomed for the presidency by key members of the Trilateral Commission. Most notably, Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller in 1973, has been Obama’s principal foreign policy advisor.
According to official Trilateral Commission membership lists, there are only eighty-seven members from the United States (the other 337 members are from other countries). Thus, within two weeks of his inauguration, Obama’s appointments encompassed more than 12 percent of Commission’s entire US membership.
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http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/22-obamas-trilateral-commission-team

First Nations Demand Mining Reform in Wake of Harvard Report

First Nations Demand Mining Reform in Wake of Harvard Law Report
Independent human rights study details unjust B.C and federal mining laws
Monday June 7, 2010:
Press statement

Takla Lake Traditional Territory/Takla Landing, B.C – The BC and federal governments must heed the recommendations contained in a just-released Harvard Law School report on the impacts of an “unjust” government mining regime on Takla Lake and First Nations across BC, Chief Dolly Abraham of the Takla Lake First Nation said today.
The 200-page study was initiated and funded entirely by Harvard’s International Human Rights Clinic and is its first involving indigenous peoples in Canada. It details how mining laws are stacked against Takla Lake and other First Nations in BC, describing them as in contravention of international and constitutional law, overly favourable to industry, lacking in fair compensation, and in need of “urgent law reform.”
“I strongly support this damning assessment of the provincial mining system because I know firsthand how BC law and policy are used to avoid meaningfully addressing our Aboriginal rights, title, and community concerns,” said Chief Abraham.
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http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2010/06/first-nations-demand-mining-reform-in.html

Canada Prevents Mohawks from Returning from Bolivia with Haudenosaunee Passports

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Ten day trip turned into 29 days

Kahnawakenews
By Greg Horn • Tue, Jun 01, 2010

When a delegation from Kahnawake travelled to Bolivia last month to take part in an environmental conference they had no idea that it would turn into an exercise in self-determination and a fight for Indigenous rights. For Kanen’tokon Hemlock, Tyler Hemlock and Kahnawiio Dione a ten-day trip to the South American country turned into 29 days – most of which were spent in San Salvador, El Salvador trying to get home.

The three Kahnawa’kehró:non travelled to Bolivia as the Mohawk Delegation for the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. The Kahnawake Delegation was appointed by the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake and travelled on the Haudenosaunee Passport. Prior to their trip, the delegation went to the Bolivian Embassy in Ottawa to get visas to be able travel to Bolivia on their passports.