indigenous rights
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‘A New Pandemic’: Coronavirus Threatens Indigenous People In The Amazon As Fire Season Nears
When the Amazon Rainforest burns, illegal loggers and miners are typically to blame. In the past, indigenous communities would patrol their lands every week or fortnight to find criminals looking to loot the forest. These patrols”usually made up of two to six men”deterred illegal land-grabbers from deforesting indigenous territories, which may cover as much as…
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Canadian Police Raided Indigenous Territory To Make Way For A Pipeline
In Canada, indigenous rights and climate justice advocates are holding protests all over the country, blockading trains, ports, streets, bridges and other transit. Things escalated on Tuesday when protestors blockaded a major rail line connecting Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal halting traffic and forcing nearly 250,000 Via Rail passengers to cancel trips. Students are mobilising, too,…
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Why Indigenous Youth Were 2019’s Climate Warriors
If there was any year to honour the youth, 2019 sure as hell would be it. Around the world this year, young people took to the streets and demanded their governments take action to address climate change. Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has been held up as the face of the new youth movement, but…
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‘We Are Nations:’ What Environmental Justice Looks Like For Indigenous People
Climate reporting often overlooks indigenous peoples’ position on the front lines of the climate crisis. Though expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure and other environmental injustices. What would a reconceptualisation of environmental justice that centred indigenous perspectives look like?