[113-2, 2025]
"Extractivist Fractures in the #Atacama Desert: An Oasis of Contradictions"

>> The article examines the socioecological ‘fractures’ emerging from lithium extraction in the #AtacamaSaltFlat, a massive, high-altitude saline formation on the Chilean Andean #Mountain Range, and one of the world’s richest #lithium reserves. Conceptualized as an ‘oasis of contradictions,’ the Atacama’s territory is simultaneously, a site for the global ‘green’ transition and a space of deepening #dispossession—where transnational demands for lithium collide with Indigenous territorialities.

https://journals.openedition.org/rga/15648
#Chili #extractivism #IndigenousPeople

"#Canada’s northern plan and NATO’s Arctic Sentry are turning the (#Arctic) region into a new battleground and impeding #Indigenouspeople’s persistent efforts to preserve their homeland for peace and #sustainable development." https://ricochet.media/climate/carneys-plan-to-militarize-the-melting-arctic-threatens-peace-at-the-top-of-the-world/

#cdnpoli #NWT #Nunavut #Yukon #militarization #mining #extractiveIndustries #colonialism

Truth & Reconciliation, Alberta UCP style.

#abpoli #cdnpoli #IndigenousPeople

1814 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
#history
#WarOf1812

An author notes that Indigenous people's "firm attachment to our interest is a circumstance which adds greatly to our means of defending and securing our Canadian possessions"

https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32284/288
Pg. 241

#MilitaryHistory #IndigenousPeople

See also: Indigenous-British Relations Pre-Confederation
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aboriginal-european-relations

Another reason that #ElonSucks! [Spoiler alert -- #Starbase city is expanding!]

From 2022: Defending #NativeAmerican #SacredSites From #ElonMusk and #SpaceX

By Frank Hopper
Dec 21, 2022

"The #CarrizoComecrudo Tribe of Texas is suing to protect the tribe’s #AncestralLand.

"From an observation deck near the top of his South Texas rocket launch tower, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and self-proclaimed proponent of free speech, looks northward to South Padre Island, home to many ancient village sites of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas.

"In a video published last May to the YouTube channel Everyday Astronaut, Musk is seen looking over the tower’s railing and down at a 'farm' of huge rocket fuel storage tanks filled with liquid oxygen and methane gas. These will service weekly launches of SpaceX’s massive #SuperHeavy and #Starship orbital launch vehicles in 2023.

"Musk surveys the land from the gleaming metal launch tower, looking down on an #ecosystem filled with #EndangeredSpecies, such as #Ocelots and Kemp’s #RidleySeaTurtles. To the east, he sees the waves of the Gulf of Mexico crashing on #BocaChicaBeach, the site of the Carrizo Comecrudo creation story. To the northwest just a few miles away is #GarciaPasture, an #ArchaeologicalSite containing the remains of a #PreColumbian village nearly a thousand years old.

"Musk wears a black T-shirt with 'Occupy Mars' emblazoned across the front, as if his #corporate conquest and #colonization of space were some sort of righteous protest. As he stands atop his multibillion-dollar mountain of #ToxicMachinery, he cannot see the Indigenous people below who have come to offer tobacco to their ancestors.

"Musk doesn’t see them because, according to the Carrizo Comecrudo, he is blind to the concerns of the #IndigenousPeople who fought and died for the land he now occupies."

Read more:
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2022/12/21/sacred-site-spacex

#ProtectTheSacred #ElonMusk #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism #OccupySpaceX #TwoHeartedPeople