By Febna Caven
“In a gentle way you can shake the world”--Mahatma Gandhi
News & Articles
 January 8, 2013
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 January 7, 2013
On December 20th, activists protesting an open-pit coal mine in Phulbari, Bangladesh dumped coal at the entrance to mining company GCM Resources in London. |
 December 26, 2012
The highly anticipated December 21, 2012 has come and gone. With no darkness that spanned 4 days, no intervention of intergalactic Pleiadians coming to save us and no cataclysmic clash of Nibiru/ Planet X with Earth, the 13th b’aktun ended peacefully to give way to the start of another new cycle. |
 December 21, 2012
"Today is the beginning of a new era" -- Alma Gloria Temaj Morales, Mam Maya spiritual guide from Guatemala |
 December 21, 2012
The federal task force operating in Mato Grosso will double this week to ensure the removal of illegal occupants from Marãiwat |
 December 14, 2012
December 6, 2012 was the deadline for removal of illegal invaders in the Xavante Indigenous territory of Marãiwatsede in Mato Grosso state. The invaders remain and the situation continues to be very tense in the region. |
 December 11, 2012
Nasako Besingi, the director of Struggle to Economise Future Environment (SEFE), one of our coalition partners on the ground in Cameroon, was arrested November 14th along with five others in the town of Mundemba, Cameroon. |
 December 11, 2012
On November 15th, two more political prisoners were released from jail after more than six months in prison without evidence against them. |
 December 10, 2012
Officials have called the approval of the open-pit mine “unlikely” during this government’s tenure, which will last until late 2013 or early 2014. |
 December 9, 2012
Indigenous Peoples’ organizations all over the world are appalled that Russian authorities represented by the Ministry of Justice have suspended the activities of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON). |
