Supporting Native Youth Leadership :+: Climate Justice :+: Moving Towards a National/Tribal Oil Change :+: Energy Justice :+: REDOIL Alaska Network :+: Stopping the Mentality of an Industrialised Machine that Mines to the Ends of the Earth :+: Water is Sacred-Water is NOT a Commodity :+: Silent Toxic Poisons :+: Biopiracy-Biocolonialism :+: Permanent Culture and Sustainable Farming :+: Earth Homes :+: Community-Based Renewable Energy :+: Trainings and Our Power Camps for Native Resistance and Organizing :+: We Only Have One Mother Earth.
Honor the Earth is a re-granting organisation, with IEN and Indigenous Women's Network as board member organisations. HTE also has an Energy Justice initiative, promoting renewable energy initiatives in Indigenous lands.
ACAT is our contact on toxic and environmental health issues in Alaska. They have a Northern Contaminants Program, studying toxic body burdens of Alaska Natives. Contact Shawna Larson, ACAT/IEN: ientoxics@igc.org
The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology.
First Nations Environmental Network (FNEN) is one of IENs contacts in Canada. FNEN is still active from a grassroots level. This web site is outdated, but it has good contacts of First Nation activists involved with environmental justice and rights of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. Steve Lawson is the contact.
INTERNATIONAL INDIAN TREATY COUNCIL (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands. The IITC focuses on building Indigenous Peoples’ participation in key U.N. systems.
Sustainable Nations Development Project has emerged in response to the need present within the Native community for culturally based, community managed sustainable energy and housing development.
The Western Shoshone Defense Project is organized to affirm Newe (Western Shoshone) jurisdiction over Newe Sogobia (Western Shoshone homelands) by protecting, preserving, and restoring Newe rights and lands for present and future generations based on cultural and spiritual traditions.
Music
Movies
DRUMBEAT FOR MOTHER EARTH - Produced by Indigenous Environmental Network and Greenpeace, 1999. Awarding winning film. Toxic chemicals are the greatest threat to the survival of indigenous peoples. Bullfrog Films is the distributor, http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/ Contact IEN for comp video's for Indigenous communities.
HOMELAND. A film that profiles four Native environmental justice cases in the U.S. IEN and Native Movement were advisors to the film. Honor the Earth also assisted with this project.
Climate Change/Global Warming is a Human Rights Issue to Indigenous Peoples - DEMAND CLIMATE JUSTICE! OPPOSE Carbon & Emissions Trading: The concepts of Trading HOT AIR cannot be translated into Indigenous language.
MONTREAL LARGEST MARCH ON CLIMATE JUSTICE, December 2005, Montreal, Canada, United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change. IEN and other CJ activist groups organized a grassroots peoples parallel convergence centre as an alternative to the corporate-governmental meeting. Pictures of the March.
For more info on the EXPOSE EXXON CAMPAIGNCLICK HERE
(Above)Documentary of the toxic pollution of the Ponca reservation in Oklahoma by a Taiwanese corporation, Continental Carbon. Respiratory illnesses. Our Power Action Camp being planned there in Spring 2007.
(Below) Dene from Buffalo River First Nations Defend Their Lands - "By Any Means Necessary"
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Books
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (^..^) Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples (^..^) From the Ground Up:Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement(^..^) All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (^..^) Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations (^..^) Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact (^..^) Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization
Established in 1990, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) was formed by Native grassroots demanding environmental and economic justice in our traditional homelands. IEN has a traditional Indigenous spiritual foundation. Indigenous peoples from Turtle Island (North America) and globally are confronting many challenges. Changes in the environment, climate, globalisation and rapid economic development threaten our communities on both a local and global level. The survival of indigenous culture, language and community continues to be affected by a modern industrialised world - which lacks respect for the sacredness of Mother Earth. As "caretakers" of Mother Earth, it is our Indigenous peoples - from our Elders to our Youth - that need to take responsibility to protect the natural environment, to generate awareness of traditional ecological knowledge and take action to promote models for sustainable community development.
IEN is a network of Indigenous peoples working on environmental justice including protection of sacred areas, developing a line of resistance against mining and fossil fuel development and other unsustainable energy development, providing an indigenous face to the global issues of climate change and global warming and organizing with youth and elders to undo the colonial disease of internalized oppression that is holding our people back from building sustainable communities based upon traditional knowledge.
IEN PROGRAM and PROJECTS
MINING CAMPAIGN, Robert Shimek, ienmining@igc.org
NATIVE ENERGY & CLIMATE CAMPAIGN, Jihan Gearon, ienenergy@igc.org
CANADIAN INDIGENOUS TAR SANDS CAMPAIGN, Clayton Thomas-Muller, ienoil@igc.org
"ROAD OF DESTRUCTION" ON DENE, CREE and METIS' LANDS in NORTHERN ALBERTA, CANADA.
The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) is launching a Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign (CITARS Campaign). The CITARS Campaign is part of IEN’s bi-national Native Energy and Climate Justice Campaign that links local energy and climate impacts to national and international policy changes. The CITARS Campaign will be focused on building the knowledge and capacity of First Nation and Metis communities collective leadership to engage in policy making decisions in environment, energy, climate and economic policy. Clips from an interview with Celina Harpe, an elder in the Cree community of Fort Mackay, about 40km downstream from Suncor and Syncrude plants on the Athabasca River. She describes the increase in cancer, the lowering of the water levels on the river, and the disappearance of wildlife in the area. www.oilsandstruth.org
Recently IEN took a fact finding trip to the Tar Sands Development in Northern Alberta, Canada. We participated in the "Everyone is Downstream Conference" in Edmonton and the next 3 days went into the heart of First Nation territories to witness the destruction of a tar sand industry raping our Mother Earth. This video is of the session our new IEN Tar Sands Campaigner facilitating the closing session at the Edmonton activist conference.
PHOTOS
Photos of two events: 1) Black Mesa Water Coalition 2006 organizing march on the Navajo reservation on the issues of Peabody Coal Mine Company and the protection of the water aquifer; and 2) the IEN delegation at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photos are from the historical march organized by various peoples movements from around the world. It was estimated that over 20,000 people participated.
VIDEOS OF THE "ROAD OF DESTRUCTION" OF FOSSIL FUEL AND MINERAL EXTRACTION SURROUNDING THE NORTHEASTERN REGION OF DINE' (Navajo)TERRITORIES and SOME VIDEOS OF DINE" GRASSROOTS RESISTANCE OF YET ANOTHER PROPOSED POLLUTING COAL FIRED POWER PLANT - THE DESERT ROCK POWER PLANT!!!!
PHOTOS OF THE DOODA! (NO!) DESERT ROCK COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT RESISTANCE. .....
For Info on the Dooda! Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant Resistance
CLICK HERE
Doodá Desert Rock Radio: Hear the Voices from the Vigil 87.9 FM (35-mile radius) OR Listen on-line by CLICKING HERE
WESTERN SHOSHONE PROTEST OF US GOVERNMENT, JUNE 2006
June 2006 - WESTERN SHOSHONE PROTEST OF THE US GOVERNMENT OPERATION "DIVINE STRAKE" that planned for the detonation of 700 tons of explosives in an experiment designed to study ground motion and shock waves set off by bombs. This planned detonation was planned in the traditional homelands of the Western Shoshone Nation.
"There is nothing divine about something that is built for destruction of life," said Carrie Dann, a member of the Western Shoshone. "It is just another weapon of destruction.
The Protest was a VICTORY - the US Gov. held back the testing!
To read the full article, CLICK HERE
GRASSY NARROWS FIRST NATIONS, Ontario - CANADA's LONGEST OCCUPATION-BLOCKADE OF A LOGGING ROAD
The people of the Pit River Nation, from Northern California, come down to San Jose to protest Calpine, an energy corporation that is threatening to build a power plant on the land of the Pit River nation. Protesters give Calpine an eviction notice at their company headquarters in downtown San Jose, California. Contact: Contact: Mark LeBeau 916.801.4422; James Hayward 530.410.2875; Morning Star Gali 510.827.6719; Radley Davis 530.917.6064
The following is a video on the You Tube of one of the largest mobilization of activists on climate justice issues. This was in Montreal in December 2005.
Never forget all the sacrifices that our ancestors made for our people to be here today, all the blood sweat, tears and pain that they went thru, so are traditions, values, beliefs and culture would survive, if we ain’t doing the same then are ancestors died in vain!
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
DiggingRoots is in the following categories this year for the Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards:
★ Aboriginal Entertainer of the Year ★ Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year ★ Best Album Cover Design ★ Best Folk/Acoustic CD ★ Best Pop CD ★ Best Producer/Engineer ★ Single of the Year
WHO CAN VOTE? - Aboriginal & Non-Aboriginal people can vote in the APCMAs. This is an online GLOBAL internet event.
What up all you kickass people. Please take the time to add our toyota music rock the space music mix tape to your myspace by pushing the grab this button. You vote by adding our slammin mixtape to your site. You guys are seriously our favorite people. I come home from work everyday in a shitty mood. I hate my job. But every time I get on here, I leave with a smile. That’s you guys. You pick me up when I’m down. I would like to do the same. Vote for us so we can put out some good quality music. We will win 10,000 dollars in fender equipment and signed to myspace records. The ten grand in fender gear would help alot. Sorry for being slow with the comments lately. We’ve bin recording for this contest. Thanks, Your biggest fans. AOV ps we love you
The SF Youth Commission wants you invite you to come to a FREE Youth Concert called Youth Fest. The event will be held on the 18th of July (Saturday) at Civic Center Plaza, 355 McAllister From 12:00pm to 6:00pm.
We have a list of performers coming…
Big Rich, San Quinn, Young Bari, Ise Lyfe, Brwn Bflo, Mystic, Never Stop Learning Crew, Better Better Boys, The Giants, Hung Dynasty, La Kausa, and a few more.We got DJ Casanova keeping the music flowwing. We will have different cultural performers. There will be food vendors, different community based organizations will be tabling as a resource fair, Live Graffiti Art. We will be giving out Youth Warrior Awards to highlight youth in San Francisco who have made improvements in there life as well as helping out the community and a lot more...Its FREE TO ATTEND!
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 2 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
WHAAAAAAAAAAT UP!!! Just sayin what up to our favorite mother fuckers. We are in the middle of recording for the myspace toyata music mix tape contest. First place gets a record deal with myspace and alot of fender gear. You decide who wins. We will keep you posted. ~ Lead, lead your life, lead it twice, but live it your own way~ Your biggest fan, Reeper Valentine
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