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[Link] Indigenous Nation Stopped BC Social Workers From Apprehending Child, 6, on Their Land

Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com

Leaders and community members of Gitxsan Nation gathered in northeastern B.C. on Saturday evening to block social workers from apprehending a 6-year-old girl and “end the tragic legacy of our children being stolen.”

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[Link] New Program Lets Settler Canadians Pay ‘Rent’ to Indigenous Communities

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

Payments are calculated based on property value or monthly rent: renters are encouraged to pay the equivalent of 1 percent their monthly rent, while homeowners can opt to pay the equivalent of 1 percent of their property taxes per month. Businesses can pledge 1 percent of their profit. 

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[Link] Queensland police refuse to remove traditional owners occupying Adani’s coalmine site

Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Queensland police have told a group of First Nations people occupying the site of Adani’s Carmichael coalmine for the past five weeks that they have no intention of removing them from the area “at this time”.

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[Link] A Mexican Cartel Was Driven Out of Town By Indigenous Vigilantes Called ‘El Machete’

Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com

PANTELHO, Mexico - As smoke curled from neighboring buildings that had been ransacked and torched the day before, a couple of thousand Indigenous people armed with makeshift weapons gathered around city hall to hear their leaders speak.

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