‘Property poetry’?
"Real estate is another way to say Australia."
"Kate Holden connects Turnbull’s persistence in illegally clearing vast tracts of koala habitat, and his murder of Turner, to British Enlightenment theories of property. The English philosopher John Locke, she observes, “placed emphasis on labour to morally justify the owning of property. The more work put into the land, the more settled a man was upon it. Holden traces associations between Locke’s ideas, the history of terra nullius and the “strange, morbid fixation in Australian myth of just how hard a person has to work on this land.”
"[b]y the time of Australia’s settling, the ineluctable mark of a British citizen was land ownership. It enfranchised him, gave him rights […] Land – elemental, foundational – was the desperately prized asset in a new colony. Without it, man was only an object."
"The Amazon rain forest is not virgin forest--rather it is a vast garden, cultivated by Indigenous people."
YES!
Europeans, used to a European model of land usage, arrived in the Western Hemisphere and didn't recognize that the woodlands and grasslands of North America and the rain forests of South America were not wildernesses, but managed lands.
🌍 La crisis climática afecta de forma desproporcionada a las mujeres en todo el mundo. Desde la agricultura hasta las catástrofes climáticas, las mujeres se llevan la peor parte de la degradación medioambiental. Es hora de reconocer esta injusticia y amplificar sus voces. (1/8)
🌺 Las mujeres indígenas son defensoras de tierra, preservan conocimientos tradicionales y prácticas sostenibles. Sin embargo, se enfrentan a las industrias extractivistas. Su papel en la conservación debe ser reconocido y protegido.
Today in Labor History March 1, 1954: The U.S. detonated Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. It caused the worst radioactive contamination ever by the U.S. However, this occurred after years of nuclear testing and contamination of the islands and waters around them. The U.S. detonated 23 nuclear devices on the islands from 1946 to 1958. They blew up the bombs on the reef, in the sea, in the air and underwater. They relocated islanders several times, each time to supposedly safe islands. But they neglected to provide sufficient food and water, causing starvation. When the islanders tried to catch fish to eat, or grow their own crops, they were so contaminated from radioactive fallout, that it poisoned all who ate it. Women started having miscarriages and giving birth to babies with abnormalities.
#CatLake#FirstNation (CLFN) has filed for an #injunction in the Divisional Court of #Ontario seeking to stop #FirstMiningGold (FMG) from constructing a new access road using Permits issued by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry (#OMNRF). This is against the wishes of #CLFN on whose #NativeTerritory the new road is being built. The road construction is underway at a fast pace and Ontario & FMG have refused to stop construction.
"Their own struggle for Indigenous rights and self-determination has turned the Sami into vocal advocates for the Palestinian cause.
“There is an instant urge to stand up for people who are being displaced from their homes,” Ella Marie Haetta Isaksen, a Sami activist and artist widely known for her singing, tells Al Jazeera.
"...Indigenous peoples all over the world have stood up for the Palestinian people because our bodies know the pain of being displaced from our homes and forced out of our own lands,” Isaksen says."
✊🏽 In a major victory for Indigenous and environmental rights, the Aotearoa (New Zealand) Supreme Court is letting a Māori elder sue seven of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the country - five fossil fuel companies and two dairy companies.
In response to last year’s record-breaking heat due to El Niño and impacts from climate change, Indigenous Zenú farmers in Colombia are trying to revive the cultivation of traditional climate-resilient seeds and agroecology systems.
Today in Labor History February 14, 1779: Indigenous Hawaiians killed Captain James Cook near Kealakekua, on the Big Island of Hawaii after Cook attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii.. The site is near the modern town of Captain Cook.
Academics from around the world have urged #India to cancel a huge construction project on Great #Nicobar Island, warning it would be “a death sentence” for the #Shompen#huntergatherer people who live there.
Narcos, shamans, clean water and the awakening of the Matsigenka Nation: "In Search of Yomibato" is an in-depth report by Martin Ibarrola about the new indigenous realities in Manu National Park in Peru, with support from the Pulitzer Center (and some cameo anthropologizing by yrs truly!)
Horrifying police violence, human and Indigenous rights violations in Argentina spurred by lithium landgrabbing. Environmental protestors at grave risk
Mining giant Glencore’s operations in Peru and Colombia continue to threaten Indigenous communities and cause extensive environmental damage despite the company’s public pledges to mitigate harms, according to three new reports by advocacy organizations. European banks are also among the top investors in these mines,...
Southeast Asia is home to the third-largest expanse of tropical rainforest in the world, making it a pivotal region for global efforts to address the biodiversity crisis and climate change. But intense development pressure and global consumption are transforming the region’s landscapes, fragmenting forests, degrading waterways...
New Caledonia: Kanak revolt confronts French state and settler militias - Freedom News (freedomnews.org.uk)
The revolt started a week ago in the south Pacific territory, after a series of disputed independence referenda.
Indigenous people sue over alleged Canadian secret medical experiment (www.theguardian.com)
Pictou Landing First Nation members say in lawsuit that radiologists subjected them to a secret study without their knowledge or consent
Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, and the banks funding them (news.mongabay.com)
Mining giant Glencore’s operations in Peru and Colombia continue to threaten Indigenous communities and cause extensive environmental damage despite the company’s public pledges to mitigate harms, according to three new reports by advocacy organizations. European banks are also among the top investors in these mines,...
Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia (news.mongabay.com)
Southeast Asia is home to the third-largest expanse of tropical rainforest in the world, making it a pivotal region for global efforts to address the biodiversity crisis and climate change. But intense development pressure and global consumption are transforming the region’s landscapes, fragmenting forests, degrading waterways...