An Amazon Culture Withers as Food Dries Up Britain is accused of flouting international law by dumping toxic industrial and medical waste in Brazil and Ghana, the Times of London reports. Brazilian...Ruin Saami sue the Swedish state on hunting- and fishing rights Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food—Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences: Report to Congress

Yvonne Liu Green Jobs for Navajo Youth: Q & A with Nikke Alex Nikke Alex, the youth organizer for the Navajo Green Jobs and the Black Mesa Water Coalition, talked with us for a few minutes... Co-founder of Black Mesa Water Coalition, she works to protect the local groundwater supply, the sole source of the area's drinking water, which is currently being depleted for mining purposes.

Green Jobs March On: Navajos Lead First Nations With Historic Green Jobs Legislation The bounty of green job dreams is one step toward becoming a reality on the Dinetah-Navajo Nation. Thanks to the... "There was a lot of mistrust there." "(The NGOs) spent years of building alliances," said Skrelunas. "A lot of NGOs are saying we can't just fight the nation but we have to collaborate now, too." MORE

Colorlines Native Americans Win Rights to Water For years, more than 40 percent of Navajo Nation residents had to transport their water to their homes from off-reservation sources. But President...Raises Complex Law of the River Issues Navajos elated with water settlement bill Also: H2-WHOA! Australian town bans bottled water sales Weekly meatless days official in Ghent, Belgium

thanks hari_mirchi ! Street Farmer Edible equity EPA to rebuild uranium- contaminated Navajo homes Investment in energy/weatherization job creation: a model to build on Seeding a green revolution The Body Burden A piece of the green pie

Indian leader forced into exile as President labels protesters ‘savages’ The President of Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation AIDESEP, Alberto Pizango, has been forced into exile after he was charged...are also believed to have died. Peru’s President Alan Garcia has labelled the indigenous protesters ‘savages’, ‘barbaric’, ‘ignorant’ and ‘second-class citizens’. MORE Survival International

More potentially good news from Peru: Peruvian Prime Minister Yehude Simon(along with his entire cabinet, will resign... Can anyone please translate the accompanying video?

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Disputed Peru land laws suspended Indians have been blocking roads to protests against the land laws Peru's parliament has suspended two...between the presidency and indigenous groups. The recent protests were the worst violence seen in Peru in a decade. Indigenous groups say more than 100 protesters cannot be accounted for.

[Note: this is about white shenanigans and therefore somewhat tangential to the stated intention of this community but I'm posting because I believe it contains valuable information for the purposes of...to limit the chance that something like this will happen again. [There's also a BBC radio programme on this subject accessible to Brits and possibly people elsewhere via the links on the webpage.