At around 9AM on June 3, 2014, approximately 16 cops from the Vancouver Police Department raided a house in East Vancouver under the pretext of investigating six mischief charges related to graffiti tags dating from June, July, and October of 2013. The four residents of the house, and one guest, were removed one by one by police aiming pistols at them. One person inside the house looked out their bedroom window and saw a cop pointing his pistol at him.
(RCMP tactical officers scope the situation during Oct. 17, 2013, raid on Mi’kmaq Warrior anti-fracking camp. APTN/File)
By Jorge Barrera, APTN National News, May 30, 2014
The Canadian military used its counter-intelligence unit to monitor the aftermath of last October’s RCMP raid on a Mi’kmaq Warrior Society-led anti-fracking camp in New Brunswick in preparation for the eventuality the situation went “sideways,” according to internal document obtained by APTN National News.
The Federal Public Ministry (MPF-Ministério Público Federal) received complaints from the Xikrin Indigenous People who yesterday (May 25) were received with grenades and rubber bullets upon attempting to enter the Belo Monte construction site to talk with representatives of Norte Energia S.A., responsible for the construction project. According to the reports, approximately 20 indigenous persons went, peacefully and unarmed to the site, to call for the fulfillment of the indigenous conditions [stipulated in the construction contract].
Continue reading Indigenous people Denounce Aggressions at Belo Monte construction site (brazil)
17th May 2014. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned, and demands an investigation into the actions of the security guards and their employer landlord for shooting at, and holding at gunpoint, indigenous people who were to occupy their ancestral land in Quezon, Bukidnon.
Continue reading Paramilitaries Shoot at Tribe Over “Forest Reserves” in Philippines
La multinacional italiana en parte estatal Eni construye actualmente una refinería de biodiesel cerca de Venecia. El aceite de palma vendrá del sudeste de Asia donde se deforestarán 180.000 hectáreas de selva. Por favor, únase a la petición al gobierno italiano y a la empresa.
Continue reading Italia devasta la selva para fabricar combustible
With a population of only 160,000 Bougainville has managed to close and keep closed one of the biggest copper mines in the world. Despite having to fight the Australian-armed Papua New Guinea (PNG) army, they have held their ground for twelve years with home made guns made out of water piping and planks, scavenged mine trucks and petrol made from coconuts.
Continue reading Winning the War, Losing the Peace: Ecological Revolution Flounders on Bougainville (2003)
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Dozens of protesters have caused tens of millions of dollars in damage to vehicles, equipment and buildings at a nickel mining site in New Caledonia, as anger boiled over at a chemical spill into a local river.
Continue reading Locals Attack Nickel Mine, Burn Machines, Shoot Cops After Effluent Spill in New Caledonia
Unravelling the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate.
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. This report, prepared in April 2012, gives a full description and analysis of MIFEE and profiles of the companies involved.
Continue reading An Agribusiness Attack in West Papua
After two years and two months of peacefully blocking the entrance to U.S.-based Kappes, Cassiday & Associates (KCA) El Tambor gold mine, local residents of San Jose del Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc were violently evicted by Guatemalan Police forces in order to introduce heavy machinery inside the industrial site. Led by the local women, members of the La Puya resistance prayed and sang until they were faced with tear gas. Numerous locals were injured and detained.
Continue reading Violent Eviction of La Puya, Guatemala Peaceful Mining Resistance
Today residents of the town of San Bartolo Ameyalco, Mexico resisted the diversion of their natural spring well. Around 100 to 120 people were injured in what has been over a year long struggle to keep the towns spring from being diverted and overused.
Continue reading Town of Ameyalco, Mexico Resists To Save Their Water (en/it)