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Indigenous Territory & Resource Rights

AN INTERNATIONAL GATHERING TO SUPPORT MOVEMENTS FOR ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES IN HONDURAS

Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 13:11


Honduras is home to a powerful movement of indigenous peoples demanding control over their own governance, territory (meaning all that is under, on, and over their lands), knowledge (otherwise known as intellectual property), agriculture, and customs. Indigenous peoples have won title to some of their lands and promoted national land reform that has redistributed some of the heavily ownership-concentrated land.  Together with campesino (small farmer) and other sectors, they have stalled or stopped free trade agreements, hydro-electric dams, mining exploration, and logging.

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FIFTH DECLARATION OF THE CONVERGENCE OF MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS: STRENGTHENING RESISTANCE, CLARIFYING ALTERNATIVES

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 10:34


The Convergence of Movements of Peoples of the Americas (COMPA) was founded in 1999 to ensure that all voices be engaged in constructing models to global capitalism. COMPA has created spaces for indigenous peoples, small farmers, women, and others to come forth across borders to devise and advance alternatives, especially in five issue areas: indigenous peoples and lands, women, free trade, rural development, peace, and foreign debt. With its original Americas-wide membership now largely concentrated in Central America and the Caribbean, 130 members from 31 grassroots organizations just met in El Salvador. The final declaration follows.


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Defending the Commons, Territories and the Right to Food and Water LRAN Briefing Paper Series No. 2

By the Land Reseach and Action Network
Originally posted here.

On World Food Day, it is estimated that almost a billion people around the world are now suffering from hunger and malnutrition - a dramatic rise in number since the soaring food prices over the last three years.  Of these, about half are estimated to live in smallholder farming households, while roughly two-tenths are landless, another tenth are pastoralists, fisherfolk, and forest users, and the remainder live in the cities. This crisis of world hunger is set to deepen as livelihood resources such as land and water continue to be transferred from such groups to the financially powerful in ever larger areas and longer timeframes. 
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An indigenous struggle against Morales

Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/26/2011 - 12:10

MORE THAN 500 indigenous Bolivians are on the march from the eastern city of Trinidad towards the capital city of La Paz--a distance of more than 300 miles--to protest the construction of an interstate highway that would cut TIPNIS, a protected park and indigenous territory that belongs to the Yuracaré, Moxeño and Chimán peoples, in half.

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Birthing Justice: Women Creating Economic and Social Alternatives

In "Birthing Justice: Women Creating Economic and Social Alternatives," 12 women from movements around the world invite us into their lives, sharing their vision of what the world can and must become, and showing us what they and their community are doing to build that world. From Idla Martines de Souza organizing with the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil, to Emem Okon building peace in middle of a resource war in Nigeria, to Juana Ferrer and Via Campesina turning towards food sovereignty to end gender violence, each of these women have important wisdom and vision to share with us all.

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Harvesting Justice: food, land, and agricultural alternatives in the U.S.

Check out Other Worlds' new video on food, land, and agricultural alternatives throughout the Americas! This video, which includes interviews with folks from the People's Grocery, Seeds of Solidarity, Just Food, and Unite Here!, is the film component of a larger project called Harvesting Justice. Look for a full length report on food, land, and agricultural alternatives soon!

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Otros Mundos Chiapas: Another Incredible Year

Congratulations to our sister organization, Otros Mundos Chiapas, for another incredible year of movement building, research, and content creation, all at the service of creating a more just world. We are proud to be affiliated with their team and all the work they do. Please find their 2010 report below. And don't miss their new webpage containing all of their Spanish language articles, reports, and creative materials: http://otrosmundoschiapas.org/materiales/.

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Indigenous People Lead the Way to Sustainable Energy

Submitted by Other Worlds on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 11:04

Two new stories out this week highlight the ways indigenous peoples are protecting their land from environmentally destructive mining and energy projects, while leading the way towards sustainable and renewable power. On October 21st, organizers in the municipality of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala undertook a massive task: at 93 voting centers across the municipality, they consulted 98% of the adult residents about whether or not they supported mining, dams, and other destructive mega-projects in their communities. 

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Climate Change "Solutions" Threaten Land and Livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples

Submitted by Other Worlds on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 12:12

It feels like every day we learn about another bio-fuel that will wean us off of our dependence on fossil fuels and solve the problem of global warming once and for all.  It is an appealing solution, one that is sold as natural, and that wouldn't require people in developed nations to give up any of the comforts that we are accustomed to.  But the reality of bio-fuels is much less "green" than the picture presented in the media, and the people who most often pay the price of large scale bio-fuel production are indigenous people and campesinos-communities who have contributed the least to the problem of global climate change in the first place.

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