Photos Rights of Nature Tribunal Paris

The Tribunal on the Rights of Nature began today in Paris with an Indigenous 
opening with women from Sarayaku conducting a prayer.

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Photos by Pennie Opal Plant
Dec. 4 -- 5, 2015
Schedule and more: http://therightsofnature.org/rights-of-nature-tribunal-paris/

WECAN: Women on the Ground at Paris COP21

Special Update: WECAN on the Ground in Paris During COP21 Climate Negotiations

December 4, 2015

Dear Friends and Allies,  The Women's Earth and Climate Action Network delegation is on the ground in Paris, France standing for climate justice and systemic change during United Nations COP21 climate negotiations. Government emission reduction commitments to date are not nearly sufficient given the urgency of the crisis we face. Currently, we are involved in urgent work to keep civil society observers in the room and halt attempts to remove a key paragraph regarding respecting human and labour rights, Indigenous rights, gender equality, and the integrity of ecosystems from the binding section of the agreement. While we remain engaged within the formal UN process in order to push for just, gender responsive policies and advocate against false climate solutions - our hopes lie with the people's climate justice movements organizing in magnificent diversity and strength in Paris and across the world in parallel to COP21 negotiations. Last week, more than 600,000 people in 175 countries took to the streets as part of the Global Climate March. Here in Paris, WECAN joined a human chain action that stretched across the city, and paid our respects at the Bataclan theater, site of one of the tragic attacks in Paris earlier this month. In light of this wave of global violence, we are using this moment to uplift critical intersectional narratives around war, violence, extractivism,  dangerous economic frameworks and women as peace-makers and solution bearers. We are working ceaselessly to bring the voices of grassroots and Indigenous women to the forefront of events inside and outside of COP21, and uniting with allies including the Indigenous Environmental Network, Amazon Watch and the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature to send a powerful intersectional message around Rights of Nature, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Rights of Women and Rights of Future Generations. Join us in Paris for ongoing WECAN actions and events, or follow along from wherever you are via our Facebook and Twitter pages.

Read and Share - Women's Voices for Climate Justice

The New Internationalist -  Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change at COP21 and Beyond "For the health of the earth and all generations, present and future, it is paramount that we seize this moment and recognize that there will be no effective action on climate change until women's struggles, solutions and leadership are at the forefront." - Osprey Orielle Lake, Women's Earth and Climate Action Network Click here to read Osprey's full analysis on the importance of women's voices at COP21 ORIGIN Magazine -  Women in Climate: Solutions at COP21 and Beyond What can we do right now to address climate change?  We invite you to explore this ORIGIN Magazine article 'Women in Climate: Solutions on the Road to COP21 and Beyond' to hear answers from women climate leaders Winona LaDuke (Honor the Earth), Leila Salazar-López (Amazon Watch), Farah Kabir (ActionAid Bangladesh), Jacqui Patterson (NAACP), Katharine Hayhoe (climate scientist), Lorena Aguilar (IUCN), Kristen Graf (Women of Wind Energy), Nina Gualinga (Sarakayu, Ecuador), Cindy Wiesner (Global Grassroots Justice Alliance), Neha Misra (Solar Sister), Neema Namadamu (WECAN DR Congo), Sally Ranney (WECAN) and Osprey Orielle Lake (WECAN).

Next Week - WECAN Events During COP21

Women Leading Solutions on the Frontlines of Climate Change - Paris WHEN: December 7 from 13:00 to 18:30 WHERE: Paris Marriott Opera Ambassador Hotel, 18 Boulevard Haussmann  HOW: This event is free and open to the public. English-Spanish-French translation will be available. Learn more and view the line-up of outstanding speakers here. International Rights of Nature Tribunal  WHEN: December 4 & 5 from 9:00-18:30  WHERE: Maison des Métallos, 94 Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Paris HOW: Learn more and register here.   Global Women & Indigenous Peoples on the Frontline of Climate Solutions: Forests & Renewable Energy  WHEN: December 8 from 15:00-16:30 WHERE: Observer Room 01, Blue Zone, Le Bourget HOW: UNFCCC Accreditation required - formal side event Frontline Women's Press Conference WHEN: December 8 at 18:30 WHERE: Press Conference Room 3 in the COP Media Center HOW:  UNFCCC Accreditation required

Snapshots from on the Ground in Paris

Indigenous allies lead a sunrise ceremony on the opening day of COP21

Osprey Orielle Lake speaks on a panel on Human Rights and Rights of Nature on the eve of the International Rights of Nature Tribunal

Members of MWASI - Collectif Afroféministe during the human chain action in Paris on the day of the Global Climate March

Support the WECAN Delegation at COP21 & Beyond

WECAN Latin America & Caribbean Coordinator, Kiyomi Nagumo, standing as part of the human chain action in Paris

If you've already supported the campaign to get these outstanding leaders to the climate negotiations, then take pride in the fact that their messages ARE being heard! If not, you can still add your support by donating here in solidarity with women for climate justice at COP21 and into the new year.

Thank you for your continued support of our work for climate justice and care for the Earth and all generations,     Osprey Orielle Lake and the WECAN International Team

Mohawk Nation News 'Is Onondaga a Banana Republic?'

IS ONONDAGA A BANANA REPUBLIC?

Posted on December 3, 2015

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MNN. DEC. 3, 2015. Is Onondaga a banana republic, where a corrupt violent strongman is put in by foreign corporate interests? The people live in poverty, rampant uninvestigated murders, while the dictator lives in splendor.

Lyons: “Mr. Erdogan, I can give you refuge at Onondaga for a little while!”

According to kaia’nereh:kowa women are supposed to be in charge in our communities. In Onondaga, a nation of the rotino’shonni/Iroquois Confederacy, the federally established ‘Consiglieri’, and his ‘Don’, Oren “Te-sna-tsa-hia-ton” Lyons  threaten, banish or attack their critics. By design most of the community is on welfare. The longhouse, turned “clubhouse”, only does ceremonies to distract the people. The original great law is not followed. The corporate coded version is practiced like a religion. Vital community interests are not protected. The favored few and family members get stipends, housing, economic benefits, health and protection. The rest get nothing. The protection racket and control is based on rumor, gossip, fear and threats of banishment.

Paris COP21: “It was our duty to disrupt this enslavement event”.

Presently Lyons is in Paris at the COP21 climate conference with all the other corporate fakes mapping out the global depopulation strategy.

The CROWN is systematically dividing true kanien’keh longhouses. Hired henchmen, like the Indian Law Resource Center ILRC, help the corporate chiefs create confusion and chaos. In “Agents of Repression”, American Indian Movement, Black Panthers, Puerto Ricans and other legitimate movements were discredited and violently crushed by such tactics. The corporate chiefs’ minds are infested with owistah, based on “me”, instead of “we”.

Lyons, a Seneca, appeared in Onondaga in the early 1970’s. Other trained agents were sent into other onkwe’hon:weh communities. They were told to “Pick a side. It doesn’t matter which. Just make sure the two sides never come together again”. In 1979, Lyons,  ILRC, the feds and NYS began a “message” campaign against the real onkwe’hon:weh calling them “enemies” of the corporations. 

Lyons said, “Don’t let the rotiskenerakete get control”. He really meant, “Don’t let the men carry out their duties”.

Lyons helped set up the plan to destroy us from the inside. Some of our women were “smooched” to abandon their great law role and finger those to be attacked, removed and credibility smeared. True kaia’nere:kowa longhouses were turned into corporate religious institutions.

For years Lyons got millions and gifts on behalf of Onondaga, which were not disperse to them. He instigated banishment of his critics or deprived them of their rights and benefits. We were to be victims of trumped up and illegal tax evasion charges. Then IRS showed up and demanded unlawful taxes from the people. The Council had established a compact with NYS and the federal government to collect taxes from all the Iroquois everywhere.

The people demanded to “see the books” [the right ones]. One of the corrupt chiefs tore a small piece of paper, wrote a figure on it and threw it on the floor. “Here’s your accountability!” The businesses quit paying to the council and put the funds into escrow. Lyons and the chiefs decided those who don’t play by their rules were going to be shut down.

te-sna-tsa-hia-ton, we’re waiting for you.

In 1996 a meeting in the longhouse to discuss controlling these businesses. With their lawyer, Joe Heath, Federal Marshalls, Onondaga County Sheriff and New York State Police, the non-complying businesses and homes were burnt down, bulldozed and families banished. In 1997 the Council of Chiefs worked with the military “INDIAN Detail” to carry out a deadly attack us during the May 18th celebration of our NYS court victory against illegal taxation of our businesses. A trial is supposedly starting in January 2016 to try the New York State Police. Disclosures clearly show the chiefs’ complicity in the brutal attack. [Andrew Jones v. Superintendent NYS Police, Jan. 25, 2001, 98-CV-374].

Corporations establish and protect the federally recognized tribal councils. US and NYS want our land and resources, which we never ceded. They fear the Confederacy will assert our power. They are liable for everything they stole.

As Bob Marley laments: “Rat race. Oh, it’s a disgrace to see the human race in a rat race, rat race …” [Rat Race].

NYS Judge George Lowe.

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Indigenous Press Conference Demanding True Climate Solutions COP21

Indigenous Press Conference Demanding True Climate Solutions at COP21 Media Advisory Indigenous Environmental Network During the COP21 climate talks in Paris, Indigenous Peoples from the Arctic to the Amazon and their allies will gather to demand real climate solutions, including bottom up initiatives originating in Indigenous knowledge, culture, and spirituality. Canoe of Life What: Sunday’s press conference will include Indigenous leaders from the Americas offering solutions to stave off the worst of climate change and protect Mother Earth. The launching of a declaration calling on world leaders to keep fossil fuels in the ground, led by Indigenous peoples and signed by over 150 organizations. The signing announcement from Indigenous women leaders from North and South America of a treaty to protect Mother Earth. Presentation of the Kawsak Sacha “Living Forest” proposal from the Amazon rainforest by the Kichwa Indigenous people of Sarayaku. Indigenous flotilla on the Bassin de la Villette, including Sarayaku’s “Canoe of Life” which has traveled 6000 miles to Paris with a message from the Amazon. Indigenous spokespeople and supporting organizations including leading environmental groups will be available to the media after the press conference. A reception and cultural event will immediately follow the press event: When: Sunday, December 6th at 2 pm local time. Where: Péniche Antipode barge on the Bassin de la Villete Canal (55 Quai de la Seine, 75019 Paris, France) Who: The press conference will be held by Indigenous peoples organizations and movements including Indigenous Environmental Network; Idle No More, and the Kichwa community of Sarayaku from Ecuador. Visuals: Indigenous “Canoe of Life” from the Amazon and flotilla of at least 25 kayaks adorned with Indigenous art work representing the different Indigenous cultures participating in the event; Colorful banners and flags; and Indigenous representatives wearing their traditional attire and regalia Contacts: Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, France: +33 75 1413 823, US: (708) 5156158, dallas@ienearth.org Andrew Miller, Amazon Watch, (202) 4234828, andrew@amazonwatch.org Jonathon Berman, Sierra Club, (202) 4953033, jonathon.berman@sierraclub.org