DoomsdaysCW<p>Violence and Repression: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Algeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Algeria</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nicaragua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nicaragua</span></a> Appeal to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedNations</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalSurvival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalSurvival</span></a>: "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LatinAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LatinAmerica</span></a> is one of the most dangerous regions to be an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> defender. Three out of four assassinations of environmental defenders take place in Latin America. Indigenous defenders face a double threat: defending rights and being Indigenous."</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> <br>July 17, 2024</p><p>GENEVA -- "The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GoldMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoldMining</span></a> in Russia has driven <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> from their homes and poisoned their rivers. In Nicaragua, the assassinations and imprisonment of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> has fractured families and communities, presenters told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. </p><p>"In Algeria, the people have barely survived 3,000 years of violent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonization</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>.<br>'Other people should not undergo what we have experienced – which is the case now in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>,' said the representative from the Algeria Association, Learned Society of scientific research, religious and mystical bodies. Describing the genocide in Algeria, he said France has thousands of bones and craniums of the people in French museums. </p><p>"An Indigenous woman from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Khakassia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Khakassia</span></a> Republic in Siberia described the coal and gold mining: 'Coal is mined, despite mass protests, the government used land, private property for this, and citizens were driven out of their homes.' Now, she said, the conditions are no longer good for livestock breeding, which is their way of life. </p><p>"'The government is only interested in the presence of natural resources -- but we are a resource ourselves,' she told the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedNations</span></a>. </p><p>"'Our language is disappearing, and we only have one school in the republic where the language is taught. We are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Khakas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Khakas</span></a> but we do not govern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Khakassia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Khakassia</span></a>.' </p><p>"'Nothing has been done to protect our land. The main priority is the mining for materials.'</p><p>"'I also note the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shors</span></a> are suffering from gold mining, they have territory for traditional nature management created by the Republic of Khakassia, traditionally they are fishers and hunters and so on.' </p><p>"'However, companies are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/polluting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polluting</span></a> rivers, and this water should be used for vital needs. This water flows through villages, however it is polluted, but companies do not put an end to their activities."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07/violence-and-repression-indigenous-from.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07</span><span class="invisible">/violence-and-repression-indigenous-from.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeRights</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deforestation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreedKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreedKills</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopEcocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopEcocide</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopIndigenousGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopIndigenousGenocide</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environmental</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopKillingForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopKillingForests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousLand</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeLand</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcoJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InformedConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InformedConsent</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousSovereignty</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a></p>