Broad coalition writes to Ontario premier
Today RAN was part of a coalition that released a joint public letter to Ontario’s premier calling on him to implement his promises for the Northern Boreal with full respect…
Indigenous resistance gets the goods
If you haven’t already heard about Ontario’s huge announcement for the Boreal and Indigenous rights then you should REALLY check out this earlier post. Ontario’s Premier committed to protect 50%…
Huge News for Ontario’s Boreal Forest and its peoples.
The Ontario Government just announced plans to protect 56 million acres of Northern Boreal forest from all industry. The area falls entirely in the traditional territories of 36 First Nations…
Grassy Victory Articles
Check out these lengthy news pieces on Grassy Narrows’ victory in kicking the clear-cut logging corporations off their territory – an area three times the size of Yosemite National Park….
Gathering of Mother Earth Protectors, day two
An update on the Gathering of Mother Earth Protectors at Queens Park in Toronto by Judy Rebick (via their blog): Today was the second day of the Gathering of Mother…
200 Indigenous Leaders Demand Their Rights in Malaysia
Yesterday, in Kuching, our fact finding team meet with 200 leaders from Indigenous communities around the state of Sarawak. Some had traveled by boat to attend, some had traveled 8…
Malaysia: State Agency Could Use PR Training
This morning, our international fact finding team in Malaysia was scheduled to meet with officials from the Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (Salcra), the state agency that officially works…
Indigenous prisoners of conscience
Earlier this week 6 political leaders of the Indigenous Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation were sentenced to 6 months in jail for refusing to allow mining and exploration on their…
Grassy Narrows women take action
Last week women from Grassy went out to the edges of their land, near where some cutting of the forest is still taking place. One of the women sent out…
Mercenaries, Mining & Martyrs
At the end of January leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation began sentencing proceedings for contempt of court charges in Ontario provincial court. The road to this point has…