Some Baffin Island communities are teaming up with an Ottawa university to study mining developments in Nunavut and the impacts they could have on nearby communities.
Last year in the evening of November 27th 2009, prominent anti-mining activist and community organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero was murdered in front of his home in the Chiapas town of Chicomuselo. He is survived by a wife and four children.
Dr Isabelle Gingras is one of the doctor from Sept-Iles, Quebec, who vow to quit her job at the hospital of the region if uranium exploration and mining were progressing. She was in Iqaluit on November 18th to talk about the health hazards of the different steps of uranium exploitation. In English (audio Inuktitut translation to be uploaded soon).
On November 18th the organization Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit introduced anti-uranium activists to an Iqaluit audience. Here Sandra Inutiq, Chairperson of the organization opens up the presentation. In Inuktitut.
I found this report done by the Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School. It talks about the impact of mining on First Nation communities, in this case specifically regarding the Takla Lake Nation in northern British Columbia.
I have uploaded both the full PDF file (287 pages) AND the report's summary (12 pages).
In this month's Underreported Struggles: 3,000 indigenous people stage a "silent protest" over a proposed Nuclear power project in India; Tibetan villagers confront Chinese workers for endangering sacred Mountain; over 41 thousand Mayans reject the exploitation of natural resources in Guatemala.
Los Guardianes de la Libertad es un proyecto documental audiovisual que presenta en la voz de líderes, brujos, curanderos y hombres y mujeres de medicina de las comunidades mas tradicionales del Amazonas central colombiano, el sofisticado sistema de manejo ambiental indígena existente, conservado por mas de 11.000 años.
"We may be ignorant people, but, excuse the term - it is not that I'd like to offend the government - he is the ignorant one who doesn't know what he is doing. 'Cause if he knew, he would've said 'no' to indiscriminate large-scale open-pit mining. He would have said 'No, let's go for other life alternatives!"
"We may be ignorant people, but, excuse the term - it is not that I'd like to offend the government - he is the ignorant one who doesn't know what he is doing. 'Cause if he knew, he would've said 'no' to indiscriminate large-scale open-pit mining. He would have said 'No, let's go for other life alternatives!"
"We may be ignorant people, but, excuse the term - it is not that I'd like to offend the government - he is the ignorant one who doesn't know what he is doing. 'Cause if he knew, he would've said 'no' to indiscriminate large-scale open-pit mining. He would have said 'No, let's go for other life alternatives!"
"We may be ignorant people, but, excuse the term - it is not that I'd like to offend the government - he is the ignorant one who doesn't know what he is doing. 'Cause if he knew, he would've said 'no' to indiscriminate large-scale open-pit mining. He would have said 'No, let's go for other life alternatives!"
Joan Scottie is an Isuma tv writer from Baker Lake. She writes about seasonal activities, life on the land, her concerns about environment, nature and culture.
