Bristol Bay Outrage as Trump EPA Scores Backroom Deal With Pebble Mine
Featured image: Bristol Bay Leadership at a press conference in Dillingham, AK on Pebble & EPA settlement. by United Tribes of Bristol Bay / Intercontinental Cry DILLINGHAM, AK –Bristol Bay leaders are outraged by the Pebble Limited Partnership and...
Letter From the Shuar Arutam People to the Country and The World
To my Shuar brothers and sisters, to the indigenous peoples of the Amazon and Andes, to the men and women of Ecuador and the World.
As many of you know,recent days have been very dangerous for our people. These days have not yet ended and are, indeed, probably only the beginning of a great territorial dispute initiated by the National Government against the Shuar Arutam People.
By Blood and Fire: Mining and Militarization in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Before dawn on Dec. 21, 2016, dozens of police raided the headquarters of the Shuar Federation (FISCH) in the Ecuadorian Amazon and arbitrarily detained its president, Agustin Wachapá. The indigenous leader was thrown to the ground and repeatedly stamped on and ridiculed beneath the boots of police in front of his wife. The police then razed the Shuar Federation’s office—turning over furniture and carrying away computers. According to the indigenous leader’s wife, her husband was taken away without any kind of explanation. An arrest warrant for Wachapá was never presented.