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Inside USA - The Other Hawaii - Sept 26 - Part 1


This week Avi Lewis visits the people behind the native movement for self-determination in Hawaii. Well over 200 years old the movement has recently been gaining on strength.
Archive footage courtesy of www.namaka.com.

Inside USA - The Other Hawaii - Sept 26 - Part 2

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2009 Goldman Prize for South & Central America: Wanze Eduards & S. Hugo Jabini from Pikin Slee Village and Paramaribo, Suriname:


Wanze Eduards and S. Hugo Jabini, members of a Maroon community originally established by freed African slaves in the 1700s, successfully organized their communities against logging on their traditional lands, ultimately leading to a landmark ruling for indigenous and tribal peoples throughout the Americas to control resource exploitation in their territories.


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Logging vs. tradition
Suriname, located within the larger Amazon Basin, has opened up its immense tropical forests to extractive industries, all of which operate without local consent or oversight. It is the only country in the Americas that does not recognize indigenous or tribal peoples’ rights to own and control their traditional territories. Indigenous and tribal peoples who live in Suriname’s tropical forests comprise approximately 20 percent of Suriname’s population of 450,000.

The tribal peoples are Maroons, the descendants of African slaves who won their freedom and established autonomous communities in the rainforest between the late 17th and mid-19th centuries. The Saramaka are a specific group of Maroons that live in 9,000 square-kilometers of rainforest. In 1963, they lost almost 50 percent of their traditional territory to a hydroelectric dam built to power an Alcoa bauxite factory. Many Saramaka were displaced and remain in resettlement camps to this day. Others established new villages on the Upper Suriname River. In the late 1990s, the Surinamese government allowed logging companies to set up speculation projects and camps in the region, against Saramaka wishes. Further, extensive flooding caused by faulty creek bridging rendered a large area useless for traditional agricultural and other activities, thus depriving the Saramaka of an additional 10 percent of their territory.MORE



2 Suriname Men win Global Environmental Prize

The Goldman Foundation said Eduards and Jabini helped changed the law so that prior and informed consent of indigenous groups will be required for major development projects throughout the Americas.

"They saved not only their communities' 9,000 square kilometers (nearly 3,500 square miles) of forest, but strengthened the possibility of saving countless more," the San Francisco-based group said in a statement.

Suriname's government, which had previously granted concessions to Chinese logging companies without notifying the indigenous tribes, announced in January 2008 that it would abide by the judgment of the Costa Rica-based court.

Officials with President Ronald Venetiaan's New Front coalition did not return calls Monday.

Jabini, who is studying law at the University of Suriname, said there has been no illegal clearcutting by Chinese companies since 2003 in the Saramaca's territory in the sparsely populated country. He said he hopes to protect his people's rights in the future, and is heartened by the number of young Saramacans who "now have a strong belief in the legal battle."

"The law has not changed yet in Suriname, so the government can always give a new (logging) concession. We have to pay close attention," he said. "We live with the forest, in the forest. We must protect it."


The Rise of Peoples' Rights in the Americas: The Saramaka People Decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (You need to sign in to see this article.)
Abstract:
The Saramaka People v. Suriname decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognized the right of a non-indigenous minority group to the natural resources within its lands. Three factors make the decision significant: First, it affirms that certain tribal groups are more akin to indigenous communities than they are to other ethnic, linguistic or religious minorities in terms of the rights they possess. Second, the holding adopts an evolving principle of international law and makes it a binding norm in the Americas, enunciating a test to guide future interpretations of Article 21 of the American Convention. Finally, the Court's incorporation of peoples' rights into its analysis renders the decision a topical contribution to current debates on the meaning and scope of these rights.



The Judgement Novemeber 2007:The Indigenous Peoples Right to Property in International Law: Samarka People v. Surinam, Inter_American Court of Human rights (PDF) 16 pages


Twelve Saramaka Clans (Lös) - Case of the Saramaka People v. Suriname: Documentation in date order (most recent first)
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Inside USA - Angela Davis - 03 Oct 08 - Part 1


Put on the FBI's 'Most Wanted' list when she was just 26, Angela Davis became an enduring symbol of 1970's Black Power. She joins Inside USA to discuss incarceration in the land of the free, capitalism in a time of economic crisis and what it means to be the face of Black Power in a supposedly post-racial US.


Inside USA - Angela Davis - 03 Oct 08 - Part 2


Inside USA - The Other Hawaii - Sept 26 - Part 1

This week Avi Lewis visits the people behind the native movement for self-determination in Hawaii. Well over 200 years old the movement has recently been gaining on strength. Archive footage courtesy of www.namaka.com


Inside USA - The Other Hawaii - Sept 26 - Part 2
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Riz Khan - Native American Rights - 10 July 08 - Part 1


Riz Khan - Native American Rights - 10 July 08 - Part 2
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There is so much good stuff in this carnival that I have trouble picking out my favourites. And frankly. I haven't even gone into the archives myself, its been people on my friends list who have been pointing out the awesome!

Anyway, for fun and info, lets do some categories and start with histories:

Via: [livejournal.com profile] coffeeandink we find [livejournal.com profile] veejay who writes of Awesome people you have never heard of and

Black Slaves and Settlers in the US West

[livejournal.com profile] spiralsheep posts on In which there are African-American women and voting, an illustrated guide In short, there were African American suffragettes!Funny how my history books ignore that....

In addition to In which non-white people fought for Britain

and about Bessie Stringfield, 1911-1993, pioneering Jamaican-American motorcyclist to say nothing of Wiiliam Cuffy: (1788-1870), black Briton, born disabled, professional tailor, beloved husband, trade unionist, Chartist, British politician, and Tasmanian politician; became a leader of the Chartist movement, which was the first mass, working class, political movement in the industrialised world. Dear Lor' in heaven but HE was a busy man. I get tired just THINKING about him!



From [livejournal.com profile] oursin comes IBARW Day IV: some useful resources which more web resources that can be used to find out about the Histories of Black and Asian Peoples in Britain.

[livejournal.com profile] wolfinthewoodJohn Faw, lord and earl of Little Egypt makes me blink. I had no CLUE that ancestors of today's Romany were from India. But the fact that when they first came to Europe they were received with pomp and ceremony as Lords and Kings? Lor' don't times change.

[livejournal.com profile] mercuriosity sketches out how Asian Americans went From Yellow Peril to Model Minority and provides a couple of good links


[livejournal.com profile] oyceter drops knowledge and history in order to counteract the derailing tactic used in so many Heroes discussions: But Japan is racist too!


[livejournal.com profile] wolfinthewood introduces us to an example of ‘jest-biography’ in The Life of Black Tom

[livejournal.com profile] the_red_shoes exposes The Myth of The Crying Indian Commercial

[livejournal.com profile] teralogist points out a couple of riots that seem to have been written right out of the historical record in Things that are forgotten Turns out that whites have a history of rioting from time to time. Who knew?

[livejournal.com profile] commodorified writes an entry IBARW: In which I wibble and do not come to the point. Assuming I have one., but still manages to drop an astonishing about of history into our heads anyway.



Veering off LJ a bit, we end up at the National Library of Australia where we see thatWhite Australia has a Black History': Sources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in the National Library of Australia




Also, Zuky writes about The unexamined Propaganda of Political Correctness

She/ He also has a Series called the Chinese American Experience: Part One: Exclusion and the Driving Out

Part Two: Wong Chin Foo,

Part Three: Donaldina Cameron

Part Four: Paper Sons and Daughters

Anna Mary Wong

and there should be a part six coming soon.

and finally from The Black Agenda Report we get this The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist image of Africa


WHEW! THAT was a lot. I can't help it, LOADS of stuff interest me. But, have at it and enjoy!

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