Indigenous peoples

Stop line 3: Women Water Protectors and their Battle Against the Pipeline in Minnesota

April 25, 2021 UNAC Editor Environment, Indigenous peoples, Resistance, Tar Sands Pipleline

by Bronwen AE, published on Socialist Action, April 19, 2021 The Biden Administration announced in early April that it will NOT force the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to shutdown despite an order by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg to complete his court-ordered Environmental Impact Statement. In Standing Rock Sioux Tribe et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers et[…]

Nicaragua: Building The Good Life (Buen Vivir) Through Popular Revolution

April 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Nicaragua, Socialism

by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, March 28, 2021 As I traveled in Nicaragua on the recent Sanctions Kill delegation, one thing was clear, social transformation (revolution) requires both political power and participation by the people. Without political power, revolutionary programs will not have the material resources they require. Without the participation of the people, revolutionary programs, even with[…]

Washington’s Role in Berta Cáceres’ 2016 Murder in Honduras

April 4, 2021 UNAC Editor Environment, Imperial greed, Indigenous peoples

by Ted Kelly, published on Workers World, March 29 2021 It has been five years since the assassination of Berta Cáceres — an environmental activist from the Lenca people, a founder and leader of the Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras. Though some of her killers have been identified and convicted, the governments and corporations that hired and[…]

Greenwashing Acts of Land-Grabbing

March 20, 2021 UNAC Editor Africa, Biofuels, Global Economics, Indigenous peoples

by Phoebe Holmes, published on Consortium News, March 15, 2021 Mozambique has been labeled by pro-capitalist actors as one of the most “promising” African countries for an economically successful biofuels sector. The country’s apparent underutilization of its agricultural landscape, and combined abundance of low-cost labor, aligns perfectly with the biofuels investment profile devised by international institutions such as the World Bank.[…]

Apache Stronghold Forces U.S. Government Retreat

March 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Action!!, Indigenous peoples, Lawfare, Native Americans, Resistance, Western Apaches

by an Anonymous Guest Offer, published on Workers World, March 9, 2021 Apache Stronghold Makes U.S. Government Retreat Causing 9th Circuit Denial of Emergency Injunction. Case Still proceeds on Expedited Basis OAK FLAT, AZ — This afternoon [March 5] the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Apache Stronghold’s appeal of U.S. District Court Judge Steven Logan’s Feb. 12, 2021, ruling.[…]

What the New York Times Left Out of the Picture on Venezuela

January 10, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Imperial Wars, Indigenous peoples, Venezuela

by Michelle Ellner, published on CodePink ‘Pink Tank’ Blog, January, 2021 On December 8th, The New York Times published its celebrated “Year in Pictures” article. It showed two pictures from Venezuela, one displaying confrontation and the other despair, thus making it seem as if the country is living some kind of dystopian nightmare. As a Venezuelan-American and a photographer, I[…]

Prayer Walk Demands Justice for Native Man Assaulted by U.S. Feds

January 3, 2021 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Rights of Opressed Peoples, Uncategorized

Published on TeleSUR, January 2, 2021 The Red Nation condemns the brutalization of Darrell House by National Park Service rangers on Tiwa Territory (Albuquerque, New Mexico). Native groups have taken to Petroglyphs National Monument in Tiwa Territory, commonly known as Albuquerque, New Mexico, to demand justice for Darrell House, a native man who was brutally tasered by rangers of the[…]

Stand with the People of Nigeria #EndSARS

November 7, 2020 UNAC Editor Africa, Indigenous peoples, Nigeria, Resistance, Statement, U.S. Aggression

Statement from Pan-African Community Action (PACA) & the U.S. Out of Africa Network We are clear that at the root of escalating brutal and lethal repression in Nigeria is the economic and political alienation born from decades of Western neo-colonialism and an unsustainable global economy. The government forces shielding a comprador class in Nigeria are intensifying police repression against valiant[…]

Reclaiming Africa’s Early Post-Independence History

November 5, 2020 UNAC Editor Africa, Austerity, Economics, Imperialism, Indigenous peoples, Neocolonialism

by By Adebayo Olukoshi, Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei, Aishu Balaji and Anita Nayar in Accra, Ghana, published on Consortium News, October 30, 2020 In 1965, Kwame Nkrumah described the paradox of neocolonialism in Africa, in which “the soil continue[s] to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.” He captured what continues to be an essential feature[…]

Palestine is the Test

October 18, 2020 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, US Hypocrisy

by Susan Abulhawa, published on Workers World, September 24, 2020 The following is a lightly edited transcript of a Sept. 19 talk by Palestinian novelist and Workers World Party member Susan Abulhawa during a “Free Palestine! No Normalization with Colonization or Occupation!’ webinar sponsored by WWP. [WWE] We’ve known for years that the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and[…]