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[Link] Climate Change Is Violent. Should the Fight Against It Be, Too?
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Peaceful protest isn't curbing the rapidly worsening crisis. Some activists say it’s time to attack the actual tools used to destroy the planet. Violence can be a flimsy word—so broad as to be devoid of meaning.
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[Link] Tennant Creek Aboriginal leaders say $80m aid package prompted by toddler's rape is being misdirected
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
John Fitz Jakamarra and the other members of Tennant Creek's Apurtu traditional owner group feel the Central Australian town is descending into chaos.
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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] 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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[Link] Indigenous Peoples of Oaxaca in Resistance Against Contemporary Colonialism
Read: 15/8/2021 itsgoingdown.org
Communique from the Oaxacan Assembly in Defense of Land and Territory on the continued Indigenous resistance against contemporary colonialism To the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and the World As Indigenous peoples, movements, organizations, and unions of this geography called Oaxaca, those who inhab
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[Link] An Oil Company Paid Police $2 Million to Defend Its Pipeline From Protests
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Calgary-based oil giant Enbridge set up a fund called the Public Safety Escrow Trust in May, 2020 as part of its permitting process for the Line 3 pipeline route, which carries tar sands oil from Edmonton, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.
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