Indians occupy sacred glen

For over two weeks, indigenous peoples and supporters have occupied Glen Cove, a “sacred gathering place and burial ground that has been utilized by numerous Native American tribes since at least 1,500 BC,” located on the outskirts of Vallejo, California in the Bay Area. The occupation of Glen Cove comes after years of attempts to halt the desecration of the area by the local recreation district (GVRD), which wants to develop it in to a public park….

…On one side of this struggle sit the upper class: comprised of the developers, the government, and their police. For them, Glen Cove is simply a piece of land that is waiting to be developed and “improved”—

On the other side is the resistance; those who have occupied the land and dedicated themselves to protecting it. They’ve erected communal kitchens, information tables, and a sacred fire and meeting space. These brave occupiers daily face down police and city workers…

We are humbled by so many Native people who despite literally 500 years of genocide, enslavement, and poverty, continue to fight back against a system that resigns them to reservations, disease, addiction, and the almost complete annihilation of their history and culture.

via Occupy Everything!.

Occupation continues.. UPDATES http://protectglencove.org/

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Israel to evict Bedouin village

By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours UMM AL-HIERAN, Israel, May 9, 2011 (IPS) – As plans to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village to make way for a new, Jewish-only town move forward in Israel’s Negev desert, the Bedouin residents have submitted a motion for the right to appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court.

Located about 30 minutes from the major town of Beer Sheva, Umm al-Hieran is one of many so-called “unrecognised” Bedouin villages peppering the Negev area that don’t receive basic services or infrastructure from the Israeli state.

via MIDEAST: The Indigenous Become Squatters – IPS ipsnews.net.

Deemed dispensible — New Internationalist

Deemed dispensible

by Sokari Ekine |… Everything is expendable – people, animals, language, customs,

Boa Snr and Professor Abbi, photo from BBC website

the death of a language and death of a people

livelihoods – when these get in the way of a development for profit…

..A few days ago I received an email alert from the Guardian telling me that the last female rhino had been killed in Krugersdorp Park in South Africa. After hacking its horn, the female was left to bleed to death – cruelly and coldly. I feel unforgiving towards those that did this horrible thing. Last year 129 rhinos were killed and in the first six months of 2010 another 136 have already been killed – all for their horns.

rhino killed South Africa, photo from the Guardian

This particular rhino, who I have decided to call ‘Skylady’ is survived by her ‘distraught’ calf who is now living with two other orphans of mothers killed in this way.

I am trying to think of how I can connect this death, borne of greed and a desire by men to experience some mythical sexual pleasure, to other acts of violence against women, children and men. Both animals and humans have been displaced for the same reasons by transnational corporations, corrupt governments and wars over national resources.

There are hundreds of endangered mammals, birds, fish and reptiles; probably the most worrying are the disappearing bees, without which we and every other living creature may also disappear sooner than later. Bees are seriously important:……./continued

via Deemed dispensible — New Internationalist.

Repsol Mata. We expose the Spanish oil criminals

REPSOL KILLS

…The Oil Industry has always used the planet like toilet paper. Due to opur global dependency on oil, the purchase of poliutical complicity, and agressive marketing penetration, the energy corporations can act with complete impunity.

In fact the repeated accidents, spills and extreme toxicity of the industry, along with the criminal participation in military conflicts around the planet, are silenced by the bought-out mass media and the saturation publicity of the energy giants….

Repsol Mata

Ja fa anys que la indústria petroliera usa el planeta com un paper de wàter. La dependència global d´aquest recurs, la compra de voluntats polítiques i la agressiva penetració publicitària fa que les corporacions energètiques actuin amb completa impunitat. De fet, els repetits accidents, vessaments i la insoportable nocivitat d´aquesta indústria, així com la participació criminal en conflictes bèlics arreu del planeta, són silenciats pels mass-media comprats per la publicitat dels consorcis del petroli.

Campanya Pobles Indígenes i Petroli >

Bolivia ofrece a las petroleras más de 1,5 millones de hectáreas en áreas protegidas y territorios indígenas… /cont

La carretera del TIPNIS facilitará el avance petrolero en la Amazonía boliviana. /cont

Yurakarés, Moxeños y Chimanes se oponen al proyecto repsolmemata

Marc Gavaldà

El proyecto de carretera de 300 km atravesará el corazón intacto del Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure. Repsol, que ya operó en la zona y fue denunciada por las comunidades, se beneficiará de la apertura de accesos…. /cont