Archive for the ‘rights+indigenous+aboriginal+new’ Category

Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : Land invasion forces Yanomami into local town - News from Survival

Friday, February 15th, 2008

A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.Read the full story

©P a l e s t i n e F r e e V o i c e: Palestinian Bomber Star of Israeli Film

Friday, September 14th, 2007

A Palestinian suicide bomber is the unlikely star of a new Israeli film billed by its director as an effort to destroy prejudices that fuel conflict in the Middle East.Read the full story

Soil Sample Backs Up Pole Claim

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Less than a month after sending a high-profile expedition to the North Pole, a state-run research institute claimed Thursday to have proof that a large chunk of the Arctic belongs to Russia, although the statement was met by skepticism from foreign scientists. "We obtained enough material to demonstrate that the Lomonosov ...

Native Elder/Activist Passes On…

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

July 10, 2007 (Turtle Island). Corbin Harney Spiritual Leader of the Western Shoshone Nation crossed over at 11:00 a.m. this morning in a house on a sacred mountain near Santa Rosa, CA (Turtle Island). He had dedicated his life to fighting the nuclear testing and dumping.Read the full story

Castro: US is still a ‘killing machine’

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

HAVANA - Fidel Castro said Sunday that the U.S. government continues to be a "killing machine" after revelations that nearly 50 years ago it tried to use American mobsters to kill him with poison pills.Read the full story

Perth Independent Media Centre: Howards military plan causing panic in Indigenous communitues

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

"Prime Minister John Howard has this morning admitted, in response to questions by Neil Mitchell on Southern Cross radio, that "if" it comes to taking lands away from Aboriginal communities and Aboriginal people, he will adequately compensate them", WA Rights group Project SafeCom said this morning...Read the full story