G20 and Aboriginal Land Rights
This Land is Still Stolen: The G20 and Aboriginal Rights The Bermuda Radiacal, 2 July 2010, “No G20 on stolen Native land,” was chanted by demonstrators throughout the week of protests leading up to G8/G20 meetings and warrior flags were flying at all the marches, whether led by environmental justice advocates or anti-poverty organizers.
And on June 24, over one thousand people flooded the streets of downtown Toronto for the Canada Can’t Hide Genocide march and rally.
The crowd did not gather on June 24 to protest the G20 so much as to reject it entirely. …………
“The Canadian government have been trying to impose section 74 in our community from the Indian Act,” says Poucachiche, which would require the community to hold band elections. “It [section 74] favours the Canadian policy on how we should govern and select our leaders.” “That will extinguish our Aboriginal title and treaty rights,”………….
the growing Indigenous resistance is a threat to something, says Thomas: It’s a threat to the pocketbooks of big business.
“Canada, the US and Australia are avoiding signing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous people,” she says. “One of the main points in that declaration is free, prior and informed consent. That means they have to respect our ability to say yes or no to development in our territories. So it’s threatening their prosperity.”
The prosperity of a few is coming at a serious cost,
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So far, the nuclear lobby has bought the hearts and minds of governments, but has not won the hearts and minds of the people. In a propaganda war, as in all wars, truth is the first victim. But there are many journalists and others out there who will counter the lies of the nuclear industry.
Today, across the world, the nuclear industry is unpopular. It is particularly unpopular with women, and with indigenous peoples. It’s unpopular with those who have suffered from it, such as the veterans who attended nuclear bomb tests, and the ‘downwinders’ who suffered from those same tests. It’s unpopular with families afflicted with cancer from uranium mining. It’s unpopular with Ukrainians and Japanese whose lives have been disrupted by nuclear disasters.
he nuclear industry is also unpopular higher up in the social food chain. Many academics, economists, scientists, and doctors are concerned about the dangers of all kinds that are intrinsic to the nuclear industry.
So who does like the nuclear industry? – careerists in the nuclear industry, careerists in politics, academia, careerists in the Murdoch media, highly paid uranium workers, communities that exist only because of mining, – (the latter can’t really afford not to support it).
The nuclear industry, following in the footsteps of the tobacco and asbestos industries will now blanket its servant mass media, and any other possible avenues – such as education, and politics, – with propaganda.
The main focus of the nuclear lobby’s propaganda? This will now be CLIMATE ACTION .
They’re spending an awful lot of money on this. Despite this huge investment in deception, the nuclear lobby is not winning.
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