Category Archives: Defending Territory
Chile: Arson at Hydroelectric Dam’s Office in Pehuenche Territory
from Resume Chile, translated by Earth First! Journal Newswire, Nov 23, 2015
Incendiary devices were used against the installations of the Hydroelectric Center of Angostura de Colbún [Sunday Nov. 15, 2015] during the night. Unidentified people burned the office and three corporate vehicles belonging to Matte, which has installed itself within Pehuenche Territory. Read the rest of this entry
Video: Kahnawake Sends Warning to Montreal Mayor Coderre
from subMedia.tv, Vimeo, Oct 15, 2015
Read the rest of this entryKahnawake Mohawks hold railway protest against planned sewage dump
Mohawks from Kahnawake protest Montreal city’s plans to dump sewage into the St Lawrence River. Photo: CBC News.
Group issues impassioned plea to cancel City of Montreal sewage dump
CBC News, Oct 15, 2015
About a dozen Mohawks from Kahnawake assembled near the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks today to voice their opposition to Montreal’s plan to dump eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River.
Akohserake Deer, one of the organizers of the protest, read a statement on behalf of the group imploring the city to reconsider the plan.
Deer declined to answer what actions the group intended to take if the dump was not cancelled. She would not say whether a railway blockade might be in the works. Read the rest of this entry
Sisters recall the brutal last day of Oka Crisis
Waneek Horn-Miller holds on to her 4-year-old sister as chaos breaks out. The 78-day siege, remembered as the Oka Crisis, ended with the army moving in to push the Mohawk out on Sept. 26, 1990. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
CBC News, September 20, 2015
Most kids spend the summer playing with friends or chilling out at home.
But when sisters Waneek Horn-Miller and Kaniehtiio Horn were just 14 and four years old respectively, these Kahnawake Mohawks were behind the lines of one of Canada’s most infamous standoffs. The media branded it the Oka Crisis but for those who were there and those who supported them, it is remembered as the Mohawk Resistance.
“My mother, Kahentinetha Horn is a native activist, old-school from the ’60s. She was there and me and my little sister ended up following her there,” recalled Horn-Miller.
Secwepemc gather for 20 year anniversary gathering of RCMP siege of Ts’Peten
Secwepemc gather at Ts’Peten for 20 year anniversary gathering of 1995 siege, near 100 Mile House, ‘BC’.
by Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe Camp, Sept 15, 2015
We are back in range. On the 20 year commemoration of the Ts’peten Standoff, the protectors, the defenders return to remind and remember. These are our war heroes, these are our war stories, we must hear them, we must listen to them, we must pass on these things to our next generations.
Never forget.
The Ka’apor of Brazil Use Bows, Arrows, Sabotage and GPS to Defend the Amazon from Logging
Ka’apor Indians stand next to a logging tractor that they discovered and set on fire inside the indigenous territory one month before. Photograph: Lunae Parracho/Greenpeace
by Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, Sept 10, 2015 (via Earth First! Newswire)
With bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous community in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what the government has long failed to do: halt illegal logging in their corner of the Amazon.
The Ka’apor – a tribe of about 2,200 people in Maranhão state – have organised a militia of “forest guardians” who follow a strategy of nature conservation through aggressive confrontation. Read the rest of this entry
Hawaii: Eight protesters arrested on Mauna Kea
Some of those arrested on Sept 9, 2015 in Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Photo: SF Chronicle.
By Gregg Kakesako, Honololu Star Advisertiser, Sept 9, 2015
State conservation officers arrested eight protesters on Mauna Kea early Wednesday morning for violating the state’s new emergency rules that prohibit camping on the mountain, a Department of Land and Natural Resources spokesman said.
DNLR officers arrested seven women and a man at a protest camp across the road from the Mauna Kea Visitors Center for being in the restricted area on the mountain.
Mexican Army Attacks Against Indigenous Communities of Ostula
Photo: Semeí Verdía via Quadratin archives
by Revolution News, July 20, 2015
The indigenous communities of Santa Maria Ostula have denounced 3 separate attacks by the Mexican army that occurred yesterday in the municipality of Aquila, Michoacán state. The attacks resulted in the death of one child, 3 others injured (2 minors) along with arrests of several members of the indigenous community and the leader of the Aquila autodefensas group, Semeí Verdía, who was the target of the Army operation.
The events began Sunday [July 19, 2015] morning around 10 AM when the Mexican Army conducted an operation to arrest the leader of local autodefensas group, Semeí Verdía, in the village of La Placita. The Army appeared at the same time at El Duin and Xayakalan, sites where the community police forces maintain checkpoints. Read the rest of this entry
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