Brazil's Indigenous Women at Biodiversity Convention in Colombia

Indigenous women leaders from Brazil and WECAN at the UN Biodiversity Convention in Colombia today

'We are the Guardians of the Planet'

Deputy Célia Xakriabá (Xakriabá), Federal Deputy in Brazilian Congress in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and co-founder of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (ANMIGA), Brazil (Screenshot Censored News)

Indigenous Women from Brazil: Calls for Action to Protect Biodiversity, Indigenous Rights and Climate

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 24, 2024

CALI, Colombia -- Indigenous women leaders from Brazil defending their rivers, forests and people, spoke with courage and the fire of their ancestors at the United Nations Biodiversity Convention.

"We sing because when we sing together, we don't feel that we are alone," said Deputy Célia Xakriabá, Federal Deputy in Brazilian Congress, and co-founder of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality.

"All of our lands, all of our rivers are being murdered," Xakriaba said during the press conference today of Women's Earth and Climate Action Network.

Colombia's Indigenous Demand Ancestral Knowledge is at Forefront of COP16 Biodiversity Convention

Colombia's Indigenous Demand Ancestral Knowledge is at Forefront of COP16 Biodiversity Convention

Indigenous communities from different regions of Colombia march in the southwestern city of Cali to demand that their ancestral knowledge on conservation be taken into account at the UN biodiversity summit, COP16, which is being held in the city.

Watch video by AFP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWUjFLE1AY4

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 24, 2024

The United States is the only United Nations member state that has not ratified the Convention on Biodiversity. While 197 countries arrive in Cali, Colombia for the COP16 Biodiversity Convention, the U.S. is engaged in war crimes and genocide in Palestine.

In the U.S., the team of Biden and Interior Sec. Deb Haaland plans to desecrate the Hualapai's sacred ceremonial water with a lithium mine; is promoting lithium mining digging into the Paiute Massacre Site at Thacker Pass; is allowing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon threatening Havasupai's aquifer and poisoning their medicine plants with radioactive dust; allowing dumping radioactive ore and global radioactive waste in White Mesa Ute's community; is bulldozing the ancient village sites, burial places and medicine plants of Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache for a wind energy project; plans a massive copper mine from San Carlos Apache sacred Oak Flat; and plans to increase the radioactivity in the Pueblo homelands with increased plutonium production and storage at Los Alamos Labs in northern New Mexico.

Women Lead at United Nations COP16 Biodiversity Convention in Colombia

Women's Press Conference screenshot by Censored News

Women Lead at United Nations COP16 Biodiversity Convention in Colombia 

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 22, 2024
Video https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1z/k1z1e5wzg9

CALI, Colombia -- Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, is at the United Nations COP16 in Cali, Colombia today. "The Ponca Nation is on the ground here at COP16 in Colombia, trying to raise up the issue of false solutions to the climate crisis, like carbon credits and biodiversity credits that are killing nature," she said, adding that fossil fuels must be phased out.

"My people are suffering from environmental genocide," Casey said during the press conference today, "Rights of Nature: A Systematic Solution to Protect Biodiversity."

Casey, introducing herself with her Ponca name, said, "I'm a Ponca woman from the occupied territory of the United States, an area called Oklahoma, that was a POW camp for all the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island at one point."

Casey said ConocoPhillips and all of the extractive industries, are mass murderers killing her people, and killing our Mother Earth. They are poisoning the air, poisoning the rivers and the Ponca people.

    Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca

Describing the scam of carbon credits, she said carbon credits are a way for fossil fuels to continue what they have been doing for a hundred years. Buying into the carbon credit scam is the same as saying: "We give you permission to murder life on Earth and Earth herself."

Carbon credits give corporations the power to continue to pollute the frontline communities, as in Ponca, where the air, water and earth is already defiled.

"Don't give them permission to buy carbon credits."

"They are killing life on Earth."

The Ponca Nation is the first Nation in the United States to pass a statute around the rights of nature, among the nations of the world that have followed Ecuador's lead. 

"If you eat, if you drink, if you breathe, you are a part of nature, and nature is a part of you," she said.

"We are inseparable from nature."

Casey Camp-Horinek is the Ponca Nation Environmental Ambassador and Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) board member and project coordinator.

Mohawk Nation News 'Invasive Species'

 New today at Mohawk Nation News. Read the article at MNN

https://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2024/10/22/invasive-species/

Mohawk Mothers at Supreme Court: The Power to Protect Children: Their Graves and Those Yet Born

Kahentinetha at Supreme Court of Canada. Film screenshot by Censored News

Mohawk Mothers at Supreme Court: The Power to Protect the Children, Their Graves  and Those Yet Born

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 2O24

OTTAWA -- "We wish we had seen our children who were taken from us, we wanted to see them grow up among us, but we couldn't, because we never saw them again," Kahentinetha said in front of Canada's Supreme Court.

Mohawk Mothers, Kanien’keha:ka Kahnistensera, filed a motion at the Supreme Court of Canada on Oct. 15, requesting a panel of experts to oversee and protect the graves at McGill University in Montreal.

Protect Ha'Kamwe: Stop Big Sandy Lithium Mine Protest Walk, Sat., Oct. 19, 2024

Protect Ha'Kamwe' Stop Big Sandy Lithium Mine Protest Walk

"Water is Life!" Hualapai say as they march today to protect their sacred ceremonial place Ha'Kamwe' from a lithium mine. 

Photo  courtesy Hualapai Cultural Resources