Following a wave of protests by local Aymara campesinos that left one dead earlier this month, Bolivian President Evo Morales agreed to revoke the permit for the Mallku Khota mining project in PotosĂ department.
The Syrian National Council and allied Free Syrian Army are portrayed as the sole leadership of Syria’s revolution—as Kurdish nationalists and left-wing parties as well as jihadis have refused to accept their umbrella.
One person was killed and 23 wounded as Colombia’s army retook a base that had hours earlier been occupied by protesters in Cauca department. Indigenous protesters armed with sticks ejected soldiers from the base.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg discusses the struggles of the Quechua of Peru and the Tuareg of Mali—the first threatened by global capitalism, the second by the global jihad.
Brazil’s government reaffirmed a court decision calling for return of usurped lands to the Xavante indigenous people. When Xavante protested at the Rio+20 summit, local ranchers blocked roads and burned bridges.
A US Navy ship fired at a fishing boat off the United Arab Emirates (UAE), killing one—as Iran again threatens to block the Strait of Hormuz and the UAE opens a new pipeline that strategically bypasses the choke-point.
Ecologists held direct actions against Scottish Coal’s Mainshill Open Cast Coal Site and BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia—as miners from Asturias marched on Madrid against planned mine closures.
Islamist factions pushed secular Tuareg rebels out of their last foothold in breakaway northern Mali. With a sharia state now in place, the UN Security Council is weighing a request for military action by West African nations.
Belgrade Women in Black held a public vigil to commemorate the Srebrenica massacre on the 17th anniversary of the worst single atrocity in the Bosnian genocide July 11. Banners read “We Remember Genocide of Srebrenica” and “Solidarity.” Photo: Women in Black See… Read moreBelgrade Women in Black remember Srebrenica
Riot police sealed off the streets of Haliut town in Inner Mongolia June 19, as traditional Mongol herders launched a protest march in response to what they call a government-backed land-grab of their ancestral grazing areas. Under a new “Five-Year… Read moreTraditional herders protest in Inner Mongolia
Plans by China’s government for the “resettlement” of the country’s last remaining nomads over the next five years have sparked protests in Inner Mongolia, with traditional Mongol herders accusing authorities of land-grabbing.
After marching by the hundreds in Bogotá, displaced Embera indigenous people won a pledge from Colombia’s government to return their lands usurped by paramilitaries—as an Embera leader was assassinated in CĂłrdoba.
