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Tribal Rights Group Protests Tata Lease Renewal at DC Office

Jharkhand Asmita Bachao Morcha Demands PESA Implementation Key Points: Jharkhand Asmita Bachao Morcha stages protest against Tata lease renewal process Activists accuse tribal MLAs and ministers of compromising indigenous interests Group warns of intensified agitation if PESA law remains unimplemented JAMSHEDPUR – Jharkhand Asmita Bachao Morcha conducted a strong demonstration at the district…

Tribal Rights Group Protests Tata Lease Renewal at DC Office

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Ecuador’s Indigenous People Are Fighting Neoliberal Austerity in the Streets - Left Voice

The indigenous protests in Ecuador are bringing thousands of people to the streets to protest austerity.

Last week, Ecuador’s indigenous movement, mainly from CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador), called for massive protests against a fuel price increase. Indigenous communities are facing the consequences of an extractivist policy that hands over their territories via mining contracts to corporations that raise fuel prices, in an oil-producing country.

For the past 10 days, all around Ecuador, streets have been barricaded, and massive protests have stopped the economy. The main roads into the capital, Quito, have been blocked off, and the country is now facing food and fuel shortages. 

The protesters are demanding that President Guillermo Lasso freeze the price of gasoline, declare a moratorium on small farmers’ bank debts, reinforce labor rights to cut job insecurity, stop privatizations of the public sector, and limit oil and mining expansion into indigenous lands.

At first Lasso’s government tried to portray itself as “democratic” and to show a “willingness to listen” to popular demands. However, Lasso has not backed down, and refuses to dialogue with the protesters.  

He has accused the indigenous movement of trying to destabilize the country and of committing “terrorist acts.” As a consequence, the leader Leonidas Iza was arrested and taken away in an unidentified car, and it took several hours before his transfer to another city was made public — all this in an attempt to tamp down the movement. Iza was released in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but prosecutors opened a case against him, which will go to trial on July 4.

Lasso called for a state of emergency in six provinces, including a nighttime curfew in Quito. On Sunday, police took over an indigenous cultural center in Quito to use as a base to repress the protest — a slap in the face to the indigenous protesters.

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Indigenous protesters arrested after refusing to leave B.C. legislature meeting room

Indigenous protesters arrested after refusing to leave B.C. legislature meeting room

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A small group of Indigenous protesters was arrested at the B.C. legislature in Victoria Wednesday night after refusing to leave a meeting room inside the building.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Indigenous Relations said Minister Scott Fraser had invited the group to meet in the Rattenbury Room earlier Wednesday after a request from a larger group of protesters outside. Interim Green…

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