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Jeju Island Prisoners Set Free

Submitted by ecoterra on Sat, 11/26/2011 - 09:27
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EXCELLENT NEWS FROM JEJU ISLAND - SOUTH KOREA:

All 3 remaining detainees and all defendants were set free.

Mr. Kang Dong-Gyun, The Mayor of Gangjeong village (He only did his mayoral duties!!! www.freemayorkang.org)
Mr. Kim Jong-Hwan (Uncle Jong) - Age 57 | Villager, Peace Activist and Cook for the peace-camp
Mr. Kim Dong-Won - Age 25 | Photographer/videographer and Peace Activist (Both KIMs only assisted the mayor during the brutal arrest.)

We just received these good news from the ground:

GOOD NEWS FOR ONCE!

UPDATE ON LATEST SITUATION IN WEST PAPUA, POST MARCH 3 DEMONSTRATIONS

Submitted by Alezev on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:53
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Latest CONFIRMED information received on situation inside is as follows. This is a follow on to the previous media alerts on the demonstrations in West Papua to call for referendum.

*Abepura*

At 1000 AM East Indonesia time, MONDAY MARCH 3, West Papuan students and political figures were gathering in Abepura to demand a referendum and dialogue with Indonesian government.

STOP PRESS: WEST PAPUAN LEADERS RELEASED FROM PRISON

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:51
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AFTER INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE; VOW DEMONSTRATIONS UNTIL INDONESIA LISTENS TO WEST PAPUANS

*JAYAPURA, WEST PAPUA, MARCH 5 2008*

WEST PAPUAN leaders calling for a Referendum on the future of West Papua who were arrested by Indonesian Police for “spreading hatred against the government”, have been released without charge from Police Regional Headquarters this afternoon.

BRAZIL: Indigenous Groups Defend Constitutional Right to Land

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:49
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MIRANDA and ANTONIO JOAO, Brazil, Feb 29 (IPS) - Thousands of indigenous people in the west-central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul are living in precarious camps or small overcrowded reservations, lacking the land they need to grow the food needed to overcome high levels of malnutrition.

But despite government recognition of their ancestral land, their claims are tied up in court. Meanwhile, their community leaders face the threat of being killed for attempting to secure respect for indigenous people’s constitutional right to their traditional lands.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ VOICE SUPPRESSED AT UNITED NATIONS

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:47
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Rome, Feb. 14, 2008 - This morning Indigenous Peoples’ representatives formally withdrew from meeting of the Working Group on Protected Areas of the International Convention on Biological Diversity to protest their suppression of their effective participation at the meeting, being held at FAO headquarters in the Italian capital.

Ogiek killed like rabbits by rampant militia in Kenya

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:46
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Mon, 02/04/2008 - Realizing that the Ogiek had fled the area around Chepyuk and took refuge at Teldet and Chepkitale, the Sabaot Land Defense Force (SLDF), Kenya's most dangerous and notorious, at least 1000 men strong armed militia, has now taken advantage of the lawlessness and the commitments of the police elsewhere to hunt and kill the Ogiek like rabbits.

West Papua - urgent action request to release political prisoners

Submitted by Alezev on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:41
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Thu, 12/06/2007 - Dear all friends of West Papua,

I just want to say a big THANK YOU on behalf of my people to all of you for your solidarity and support for Freedom & Justice for West Papua!

On Friday, our West Papua Independence Day demo outside the Indonesian Embassy in London and our March for Justice to BP & Rio Tinto was the biggest ever! Because so many of you were with us you helped show all the world that we Papuans are not alone in our struggle any more.

US Missionaries Force Sterilisation of the Akha woman

Submitted by Akha on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:40
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Fri, 11/30/2007 - 09:24 — Carried out by North American missionaries, this ethnocide, is an outrage that just has to be stopped, before the extermination of the home less & land less Akha is completed. What kind of a world is this, if we just stand by and allow these so called christians! to get away with this.

Conservation refugees - When protecting nature means kicking people out.

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:36
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Mon, 11/19/2007: A LOW FOG ENVELOPES the steep and remote valleys of southwestern Uganda most mornings, as birds found only in this small corner of the continent rise in chorus and the great apes drink from clear streams. Days in the dense montane forest are quiet and steamy. Nights are an exaltation of insects and primate howling. For thousands of years the Batwa people thrived in this soundscape, in such close harmony with the forest that early-twentieth-century wildlife biologists who studied the flora and fauna of the region barely noticed their existence.

Hadzabe-Kein Bedarf nach Entwicklung

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:32
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Tue, 10/16/2007 - 12:18 — A German narrated film, about the Hadza, from the Rift valley, titled - "No need for development" this documentary from fPcN Germany describes the situation of the last hunter and gatherer in Tanzania, the Hadzabe, back in the late 1990s.

Hadzabe - Kein Bedarf nach Entwicklung ist eine Filmdokumentation von Freunde der Naturvölker e.V. und beschreibt die Situation des letzten Jäger- und Sammlervolkes in Tansania, die Hadzabe.