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A Renewed Legal Battle Against DAPL
By Mike Faith, Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Originally Published by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe In 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s peaceful and principled opposition to a new crude oil pipeline crossing our ancestral homelands and our water source captured the world’s attention. Although the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has been operating…
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Native Hawaiians Sue Governor, Fight Against Telescope on Sacred Lands
For four days over 1000 Native Hawaiians have been standing ground to block an access road to Mauna Kea, a mountain regarded as one of the most sacred places in Hawaii, to protest the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on sacred land. “From time immemorial through the present, Native Hawaiians view, revere, care…
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ICHR to Hold Hearing on Suppression of Indigenous Resistance to Extractive Industries – Requested by over 70 organizations from Canada, Mexico & the US
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) recently announced that it will conduct a hearing on the Suppression of Indigenous Resistance to Extractive Industries in North America. The hearing was requested by the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC) and the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program and is supported by over 70 national and international…
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IACHR to hold hearing on the right to indigenous resistance to extractive industries: requested by more than 70 organizations from Canada, Mexico and the United States
SOURCE: Originally published by the Water Protector Legal Collective, North America, translated into Spanish by Awasqa. Bismarck, ND – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) recently announced that it will hold a hearing on the suppression of indigenous resistance by extractive industries in North America. The hearing was requested by the Water Protector Legal…