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Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day By Supporting Indigenous Resistance Above photo: Jenna Pope. This weekend, celebration of Indigenous People’s Day will replace the federal holiday, Columbus Day, in at least eight states and over 130 cities in 34 states. Along with the toppling of Columbus statues and the removal of a racial slur as a name […]
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‘We Have To Be Ever More Vigilant’ About The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
September 21st, 2020 
Awake Goy Above photo: Protesting against pipelines in Canada. The standard in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is Free, Informed and Prior Consent. Creative Commons. Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples took 25 years of diplomacy until 144 nations agreed to sign it on September 13, 2007. Nations around the world are […]
New Fossil Fuel Projects Meet Indigenous Resistance
September 20th, 2020 Awake Goy By Randall Hyman, Truthout. September 19, 2020 Above photo: Navajo Tribal Council Member Daniel Tso and Mario Atencio of Diné CARE study a map of oil leases in the Nation’s Eastern Agency. The Bureau of Land Management’s new guidelines will allow up to 3,000 more frack wells in the Greater Chaco region. Randall Hyman. New Mexico – […]
Brazil: ‘Free Land Camp’ Demand Indigenous Land Demarcation
April 25th, 2018 Awake Goy Daily movement news and resources. Popular Resistance provides a daily stream of resistance news from across the United States and around the world. We also organize campaigns and participate in coalitions on a broad range of issues. We do not use advertising or underwriting to support our work. Instead, we rely on you. Please […]
The Indigenous Community that Rebelled Against Narcos, Thieves, and Politicians … and Won
April 24th, 2018 Awake Goy CHERAN, MEXICO (Report) — On the road leading into this hardscrabble town in Mexico’s southwest corner, there stands a checkpoint staffed by heavily-armed guards, clad ominously in balaclavas, or ski masks. This scene is not particularly unusual for this violence-plagued country, but Cheran is no ordinary place: seven years ago this month, the mostly […]
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No Comments »This Indigenous Man Accidentally Meets Outsider, Which Ends His 10 Year Long Fight For Survival
April 11th, 2018 Awake Goy World is full of “Un-Contacted” People The world is full of various people. People belonging to different ethnicities, different culture, different caste, etc. In this modern era, everyone is connected through one social medium or the other. But there are people who still don’t fall into this bracket of connected and contacted people. There is a […]
Posted in World News Tags: accidentally, fight, indigenous, meets, outsider, survival, which No Comments »Israel Destroys the Homes and History of Palestine’s Indigenous Bedouin
March 3rd, 2018 Awake Goy BIR-AS-SABA’, NAQAB (Analysis) — The Naqab region is assumed to be an integral part of the apartheid state of Israel. However, like all other parts of historic Palestine, it was taken by force and occupied since 1948, when the Zionist state was established. For the last seven decades its indigenous people, the Palestinian Bedouin who […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: bedouin, destroys, history, homes, indigenous, israel, Palestine No Comments »Indigenous Woman Occupying WA State Capitol Lawn Arrested
January 14th, 2018 Awake Goy Indigenous Woman Occupying WA State Capitol Lawn Arrested Above Photo: From Earthfirstjournal.org In the pre-dawn hours of the fourth day of an indigenous-led occupation of the State Capitol grounds in Olympia, WA, one Native American woman was taken out of a “tarpee” (a contemporary teepee) and arrested by state patrol troopers, while 3 other occupants were […]
Indigenous Women Activists Occupy Washington State Capitol
January 12th, 2018 Awake Goy Indigenous Women Activists Occupy Washington State Capitol Above Photo: Climate activists also disrupted the opening session of the legislature [Austin Smith/Courtesy of 350 Seattle] Seven indigenous women and several earth defenders have occupied the Washington State Capitol to address climate change and native treaty rights as the state legislature opens for session. The native women, who come […]
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January 11th, 2018 Awake Goy Indigenous Women Occupy Washington State Capitol Lawn Above Photo:The indigenous group and their supporters are calling for the state to respect native treaty rights [Austin Smith/Courtesy of 350 Seattle] Sitting in a tarpee erected outside the Capitol Building in the US state of Washington, seven Indigenous women and their supporters have vowed to stay put. They will […]
Duke University Gets Corporate Mining Gift To Help Exploit Indigenous People Of Peru
January 10th, 2018 Awake Goy Duke University Gets Corporate Mining Gift To Help Exploit Indigenous People Of Peru Above Photo: From Transcend.org. A healthcare worker collects a small blood sample from a Peruvian toddler as part of a large-scale assessment of human health around a (historically) protected area (but now) slated for gold mining and oil and gas drilling. 3 […]
Canada: Indigenous People Are Not Your Incompetent Children
January 8th, 2018 Awake Goy Canada: Indigenous People Are Not Your Incompetent Children Above photo: Artwork by Rolande Souliere. When my sister and I were in high school, we thought it was funny to tell our non-Native boyfriends ridiculous things about the rez and see what they believed. We lived on the Six Nations reserve about 25 kilometres southwest of […]
Why Back Pain Doesn’t Exist Within Some Indigenous Cultures
December 21st, 2017 Awake Goy Next Story Many people, especially in the Western world, suffer from pack pain, and very few treatments or medicines seem able to put this ailment to rest. Most seem designed to temporarily treat the pain rather than address the cause. I have found, however, that a regular routine of stretching works wonders to combat this […]
Canada Engaged in Widespread Surveillance of Its Indigenous Communities
December 8th, 2017 Awake Goy Researchers and journalists have begun to reveal the extent to which Indigenous activists and organisations in Canada are subject to surveillance by police, military, national security intelligence agencies and other government bodies. While security agencies have long looked beyond ‘traditional’ national security threats and set their sights on activists – even in the absence of […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: Canada, communities, engaged, indigenous, Surveillance, widespread No Comments »Indigenous Elder Shares Powerful Words of Wisdom For All Governments & Corporations of the World
November 19th, 2017 Awake Goy Next Story “We are part of Creation, thus, if we break the laws of Creation we destroy ourselves. We, the Original Caretakers of Mother Earth, have no choice but to follow and uphold the Original Instructions, which sustains the continuity of Life. We recognize our umbilical connection to Mother Earth and understand that she is the source […]
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November 15th, 2017 Awake Goy Something subtle happens when the spokeswoman of the Indigenous Council of Government travels through the Zapatista communes or caracoles in the state of Chiapas. Since the beginning of her tour on October 14, we were able to witness, for the first time in 23 years, Zapatista militants and sympathizers greeting a civilian with welcoming […]
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November 3rd, 2017 Awake Goy By Derrick Broze An endangered indigenous community has reiterated their willingness to die while defending the Brazilian Amazon rainforest against mining operations. Several new reports indicate that the Waiãpi tribe of the Brazilian Amazon remains committed to opposing future mining projects on or around their land. The Waiãpi’s reserve is in the rainforest near […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: Amazon, brazilian, defend, fight, indigenous, prepared, tribe No Comments »Indigenous-Led Protest Shuts Down Banks In Seattle
October 27th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Four people are locked to two tripods blocking business at the 5th and Olive Bank of America. SB Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. At 11 o’clock this morning, four people chained themselves to a […]
Uprooting Colonialism: The Limitations Of Indigenous Peoples’ Day
October 10th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: 1992, March in Ohlone lands Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. Declarations, Disconnect, & Decolonial Recuperation As momentum has accelerated for occupying forces to issue declarations of “Indigenous Peoples’ Day (IPD),” we can’t help but […]
A US Charity Is Helping Big Business Take Indigenous Peoples’ Water In Mexico
October 10th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: An empty water jug in Puebla. Photo: Tamara Pearson. Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. US religious charity Living Water claims it is trying to help the poor, but in reality it is only increasing […]
Posted in World News Tags: Business, charity, helping, indigenous, Mexico, peoples, water No Comments »U.S. Based Charity Is Robbing Mexico’s Indigenous Communities of Water
October 5th, 2017 Awake Goy October 4, 2017 By Derrick Broze A religious charity based in the United States claims to be helping the poor, but in reality, Living Water is contributing to a shrinking water supply for Mexico’s indigenous communities. A report from Open Democracy details a disturbing system of corporate and state privilege and theft […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: based, charity, communities, indigenous, Mexico, robbing, water No Comments »In Neoliberal Putsh, Brazil Auctions Off Indigenous Lands, Public Utilities To Foreign Interests
October 2nd, 2017 Awake Goy Indigenous and environmental activists scuffled with security guards after attempting to enter and interrupt an auction organized by the unelected President of Brazil, Michel Temer, last Thursday. Activists were particularly incensed that the auction was set to sell ancestral indigenous lands in the state of Minas Gerais to mining interests, as well as open up […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: auctions, Brazil, indigenous, lands, neoliberal, public, putsh No Comments »US City Replaces Columbus Day With Indigenous Holiday
August 24th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Members and supporters of the Mexica Movement march across the overpass of Hollywood Freeway as they protest against Columbus Day in downtown Los Angeles, California, Oct. 11, 2015. | Photo: Reuters The small Ohioan city of Oberlin has decided to no longer celebrate Columbus Day, replacing it instead with Indigenous Peoples Day, out of […]
A Major Win for Indigenous Rights in Brazil
August 21st, 2017 Awake Goy Vic Bishop, Staff WriterWaking Times In a world of never-ending bad news for nature and Mother Earth, some good news has at last come to the Indigenous people of Brazil who recently won two separate court rulings validating their rights to land. At issue was the attempt to block the titling of lands long-held […]
Guatemala’s Indigenous Campesinos Occupy Capitol Ove Land Conflicts
August 19th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: A woman sits with her child next the barrier separating the protesters in their encampment from the Presidential Palace. All photos by Jeff Abbott. On August 8, one hundred Q’eqchi Maya families from the Department of Alta Verapaz arrived to the historic center of Guatemala City, the nation’s capital, to establish a permanent presence […]
Posted in World News Tags: campesinos, capitol, conflicts, guatemala, indigenous, occupy No Comments »Tacoma Residents And Indigenous Communities Unite To Oppose LNG Plant
August 17th, 2017 Awake Goy Above Photo: Activists marching down the streets of Tacoma, Washington on August 8. (WNV / RedLine Tacoma Community Forum) Around 250 people, mostly women, carried banners and sang with drummers while marching through the streets of Tacoma, Washington, on Tuesday. Led by Cheryl Angel, an indigenous activist present at Standing Rock last year, the demonstrators headed […]
Posted in World News Tags: communities, indigenous, oppose, plant, Residents, tacoma, unite No Comments »Indigenous Tribes In Brazil To Map Deforestation On Google Earth
July 22nd, 2017 Awake Goy A new service by Google Earth and Google Maps, reveals the levels of land clearance in the planet’s largest rainforest responsible for producing 20 percent of the world’s oxygen. The U.S.-based transnational unvelied the project “I am Amazon” in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. It aims to combat the growing deforestation and to preserve the […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: Brazil, deforestation, Earth, google, indigenous, tribes No Comments »Indigenous European Spirituality Encoded in the Folk Tradition
June 25th, 2017 Awake Goy Update on progress for Pro-European Pro-West history-culture magazine, Europa Sun, hoping to launch in August! https://t.co/OTr7X0RPXd pic.twitter.com/m1K0kZDMa0 — Volkish Folklorist (@CarolynEmerick) June 24, 2017 Over several years of studying indigenous European belief (paganism, mythology), and then studying the folk tradition (folklore, folk customs, holiday traditions, witch trial records), I began to realize that the idea […]
Colombian Gov’t Sells Out Indigenous Peoples’ Drinking Water To Western Mining Interests
May 15th, 2017 Awake Goy Wayuu indigenous woman Rosalba Castro, 20, draws water from a community well in Manaure, Colombia, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. (AP/Fernando Vergara) COLOMBIA— On Colombia’s arid Guajira Peninsula – a region famed for inspiring the magic realism of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García-Márquez – a quiet effort to eradicate the Wayuú people, Colombia’s largest indigenous group, […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: colombian, drinking, indigenous, peoples, sells, water, western No Comments »Ranchers Mutilate Indigenous People Demanding Land Back
May 7th, 2017 Awake Goy Above photo: This cellphone photo shows the ranchers on their way to attack the Gamela. A police car accompanies them. © CIMI Brazil – Thirteen Brazilian Indians have been hospitalized after a brutally violent attack by men armed with machetes in the Amazon. One man appears to have had his arms severed in disturbing photos released to Survival International. The attack […]
