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Government to take over mudflow responsibility

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:56:39 +0100

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Fri, 06/19/2009 11:54 AM | East Java The House of Representatives and the Sidoarjo Mudflow Management Agency (BPLS) have agreed that the government should take over the responsibility for the mudflow tragedy from Lapindo Brantas Inc.

NIGERIA - Army bombs communities

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:28:54 +0100

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) destroyed at least two Chevron pipelines in Nigeria's Delta state. The Nigerian army's Joint Task Force responded to the bombings by launching counter attacks affecting thousands of community members. I have seen over 5000 people displaced, over 2000 people looking for where to hide and 1000 people dead, said Dr. Chris Ekiyor, the leader of the Ijaw Youth Council.

[AlertOilwatch] NIGERIA - ERA Statement on Ogoni Victory against Shell

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:40:36 +0100

Press Release June 9, 2009 Saro Wiwa: Victory of Ogoni, an indictment of Shell, says ERA The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has described the outcome of the landmark suit instituted by Ken Saro Wiwa Jnr and other Ogonis accusing Shell of complicity in the execution of author and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni leaders in 1995, among other human rights abuses, as a significant milestone in the search for justice in the bloody oil fields of the Niger Delta.

URGENT SUPPORT needed for indigenous people

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:10:44 +0100

Please disseminate this information as widely as possible A bloody World Environment Day in the Peruvian Amazon Indigenous organizations call for support from the international community On April 9, local communities began what they call an indefinite strike hroughout the Peruvian Amazon region to protest the Peruvian Congress' failure to review six government decrees that endanger the rights of indigenous peoples. These decrees were issued by the Presidency in the framework of the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement signed with the United States, and pave the way to opening up the Amazon region to socially and environmentally destructive industries such as mining and oil exploitation.

ALASKA - REDOIL Press Release

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:04:54 +0100

Alaska Natives call for strongest possible climate protection at Anchorage Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change. For immediate release: April 20, 2009 Contact: Faith Gemmill, REDOIL Executive Director, 907-750-0188 Faye Gallant, REDOIL Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Program, 207-232-4226 Shawna Larson, REDOIL/ACAT Mining Organizer 907-841-5163