News BeepSep 21, 2025

Inside Ninga Mia, a forgotten community in the shadow of Kalgoorlie the city of gold

There’s an eerie silence in Ninga Mia. It’s palpable, like a heavy fog. The paint on the playground…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #aboriginalcommunityhousing #aboriginalhousing #AboriginalLandRights #AU #Australia #indigenoushousing #indigenouslandrights #kalgoorlienews #ningamia #Perth #perthnews #superpit #wanews #WesternAustralia #westernaustraliannews
https://www.newsbeep.com/136375/

JPS_LindbergAug 6, 2024

#TuesdayColumn: Between farmers clearing land with guns and fire in #Brazil, and occupational forces committing #EthnicCleansing, it's not hard to imagine that #LandOwnership might not have been the best idea... #IndigenousLandRights #politics #writing

This Dirt of Mine:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2024/08/06/this-dirt-of-mine/

This Dirt of Mine

Let us talk about land, may we? This Sunday evening past (4th August 2024), a militia armed by Brazilian farmers cut through a cordon, with violent intent, and set fire to an encampment of indigeno…

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Show threadanna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Jul 17, 2024

These efforts, including a proposed amendment to #Brazil 's Constitution that would legalize Marco Temporal, threaten to undermine #IndigenousLandRights and accelerate environmental destruction in the #Amazon.

As Brazil stands at a crossroads, the international community’s support and vigilance are crucial in ensuring that Indigenous rights are upheld and the Amazon rainforest is preserved for future generations.

- #AmazonWatch

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Indigenous Rights Under Siege: Brazil’s New Battle for the Amazon and Cultural Survival | Amazon Watch

As Brazil stands at a crossroads, the international community's support and vigilance are crucial in ensuring that Indigenous rights are upheld and the Amazon rainforest is preserved for future generations​.

Amazon Watch
Radical AnthropologyNov 25, 2023

The #Ogiek people fight #eviction from their traditional homes in the #Mau forest #Kenya.

'The latest wave of evictions, which began on November 2, affected more than 1,000 of the Ogiek, a community that has been predominantly hunter-gatherers for centuries in the area in and around the forest.

“As I know it myself, we have lived here for 174 years,” Wilson Ngusilo, a chairperson of the Ogiek council in Narok County in southwest Kenya, told Al Jazeera. “I buried my father on this land at the age of 105 years, and I am personally 69 years old myself. I have known this as my home and don’t know where I am supposed to go.”

#IndigenousLandRights
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/24/kenyas-ogiek-people-fight-on-against-eviction-from-mau-forest

Kenya’s Ogiek people fight on against eviction from Mau Forest

The Ogiek have been accused of encroachment and deforestation in a place they consider home by Kenyan authorities.

Al Jazeera
SubtleBlade ⚔️Sep 21, 2023

#Brazil supreme court rules in favor of #IndigenousLandRights in historic win

Court voted against #agribusiness-backed attempt to prevent communities claiming land they did not physically occupy in 1988
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/brazil-supreme-court-indigenous-land-rights-win

Brazil supreme court rules in favor of Indigenous land rights in historic win

Court voted against agribusiness-backed attempt to prevent communities claiming land they did not physically occupy in 1988

The Guardian
VICE World NewsApr 11, 2023
Indonesia is the world’s leading nickel producer, propping up the globe’s electric battery supply. But the industry is increasingly coming at a high cost for indigenous groups.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxj8wm/uncontacted-tribe-threatened-i
#indonesia #Environment #uncontactedtribes #landrights #Indigenouslandrights #HUMANRIGHTS
‘They Will Die’: Tesla-Linked Mining Project Is Devastating One of the World’s Uncontacted Peoples

Indonesia is the world’s leading nickel producer, propping up the globe’s electric battery supply. But the industry is increasingly coming at a high cost for indigenous groups.

sparker 🥑Jan 26, 2023
"The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs, and ecosystem destruction inside and outside its borders, new research finds." #lithium #mining #IndigenousLandRights #EV #water #waterislife https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-vehicles-lithium-consequences-research
Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc

By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining

The Guardian