North Sulawesi Province, Indonesia (OSM)
Three members of the Motoling Picuan indigenous community in North Sulawesi were seriously injured when a conflict between the community and PT Sumber Energi Jaya, a gold mining company operating in the area, escalated around midday last Monday, 6 January.
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Government officials are clearly shook over the recent article published by Vancouver’s Georgia Straight concerning potential sabotage against the Enbridge pipeline. That article, reposted on Warrior Publications, was entitled “Activists plot how to block new pipelines in BC.” Although there have been many calls made for civil disobedience, this is one of the first major public discussions about the potential for sabotage actions against pipeline construction.
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On January 14, 2014, Guatemalan President, and former general Otto Perez Molina, ordered troops to the Mayan municipality of Sipakapa, department of San Marcos, in western Guatemala. The armed forces arrived on behalf of Goldcorp Inc. that is trying to illegally expand its “Marlin” mine into Sipakapan territory.
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Una udienza interessante, quella di oggi, per il processo contro alcuni compagni accusati di aver fatto irruzione nella sede torinese dell’Eni nel marzo del 2011. Come sapete non ci piace molto annoiarvi con resoconti di processi, ma di questo ve ne avevamo parlato giusto due mesi fa per riportarvi una dichiarazione letta in aula e ora ve ne riparliamo di nuovo, per un’altra piccola serie di motivi.
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Achuar protesting Peru’s state oil company’s plans to operate on their land, 9 May 2013. Photograph: Amazon Watch
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Rosimah, taking part in the Action. Since December 10th she has camped out on the National Human Rights Commission back veranda. Photo: Andreas Harsono
A translation of Mongabay-Indonesia’s review of some of the clashes over access to land which arose in Indonesia during 2013, based on reports on that website. Of course it only reports a small fraction of the incidents which occurred, but still gives a good overview of the diversity of community struggles for land and livelihood, drawing on news from around the archipelago.
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Almeno 11 persone sono rimaste ferite a seguito di violente proteste scoppiate ieri, in prossimità del luogo dove sorgerà un nuovo stabilimento della Samsung nel nord del Vietnam. L’impianto si trova nella città di Thai Nguyen. Purtroppo 5 di queste persone sarebbero in condizioni gravi.
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from WW4 Report
A Corporate Mineral-Security Complex in Peru
Peru is a mining conflict country. In September of this year, the Defensoría del Pueblo (National Ombudsman Office) reported 223 social conflicts in September alone, with more than two thirds of them linked to minerals. The report also registers 196 dead and 2,369 injured in disputes over natural resources from 2006 to 2011. The database of the Latin American Observatory of Mining Conflicts (OCMAL) registers 34 cases across Peru. Even though the State has increased its presence in some mining areas and has its own Social Conflict Administration Office, the front line often becomes the ugliest side of corporate-community relations.
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A bore, a paranoiac, a madman, a watcher with no one to watch him in turn, someone it’s going to be hard to get rid of.
-Roberto Bolaño, “The Secret of Evil.”
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