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September 22, 2021
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_ Indigenous peoples in action on five continents! And more news and
analysis from all over _

Members of the community of the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory march on
May 30, 2021, to commemorate the news that a mass grave of 215
Indigenous children were found at the Kamloops Residential School in
British Columbia. Credit, AFP / Peter MCCABE

 

* Indigenous Peoples Demand Rights, Land and Climate Justice
* Elections in the Global North
* Chiapas at the Brink
* NGOs Say Africa’s Green Revolution Has Failed
* Palestine’s Muna el Kurd: No More Diplomatic Language
* El Salvador: Protest Against Bitcoin Bill
* Hong Kong Union Coalition Shuts Down
* Frei Betto on Paulo Freire

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Indigenous Peoples Demand Rights, Land and Climate Justice

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ GLOBAL CONSERVATION DEMANDS
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_María Paula Rubiano A._ / Grist (Seattle)

ASSOCIATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF BRAZIL
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_Nick Estes_ / Pressenza (Quito)

NEW ZEALAND’S MĀORI ARE RECLAIMING LAND WITH OCCUPATIONS
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 Don Rowe / Courageous Conversation (San Francisco)

SWEDEN’S SAAMI COUNCIL: CLIMATE SCIENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
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_Haley Dunleavy_ / Inside Climate News (Brooklyn)

SOUTH AFRICA’S KHOISAN PEOPLES VS AMAZON
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_Kim Harrisberg and Thomson Reuters Foundation_ / Global Citizen (New
York)

KANIEN’KEHÁ:KA NATION: “THE LAND OWNS US”
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/ The Eastern Door (Kahnawake, Quebec)

ASIA: INDIGENOUS WOMEN, ANCESTRAL WISDOM
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/ Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (Chiang Mai, Thailand)

MAYA ACTIVIST GROUPS FIGHT TO PROTECT TERRITORIAL RIGHTS
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_Lars Åkerson_ / NACLA Report (New York)

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Elections in the Global North

MORE FROM NORWAY
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_Ellen Engelstad_ / Rosa Luxemburg Stifting (Brussels)

THE RUSSIAN DUMA
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  _Jiří Málek_ / transform! Europe (Vienna)

GERMANY’S BUNDESTAG
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 _Harald Pätzolt_ / transform! Europe

CANADA’S PARLIAMENT
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 _Paul Willcocks_ / The Tyee (Vancouver)

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Chiapas at the Brink
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Mexico News Daily (Puerto Escondido)

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation has released a statement
warning that Chiapas is on the verge of civil war. Endorsed by
Zapatistas’ leader Subcomandante Galeano, the communique denounced
the abduction of two EZLN members by a paramilitary organization at
the service of the Chiapas government led by Morena party Governor
Rutilio Escandón.

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NGOs Say Africa’s Green Revolution Has Failed
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_Open letter_ / African Arguments (London)

200 organisations call on donors to stop supporting industrial
agriculture and instead listen to farmers’ visions for an equitable
food system.

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Palestine’s Muna el Kurd: No More Diplomatic Language
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_Chiara Cruciati_ / il manifesto Global (Rome)

Muna el Kurd was just 11 years old when she returned from school to
find half of her house occupied by Israeli settlers. Now 23, she is
fighting to save what remains of her home: her family is one of 28
households in Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighbourhood in East
Jerusalem, threatened with eviction by the Israeli authorities in
favor of Jewish settler associations.

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El Salvador: Protest Against Bitcoin Bill
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_Ana Grabundzija_ / CryptoSlate (London)

President Nayib Bukele’s bill that granted Bitcoin a legal
tender status in El Salvador is yet to be enforced in September but
after the country’s distrust of the new legislation became apparent
through opinion surveys, Salvadorans started voicing their
disapproval in the streets.

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Hong Kong Union Coalition Shuts Down
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_Candace Chau_ / Hong Kong Free Press

Members of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) had
received messages in recent days making them feel they could face
threats to their physical safety if they continue operations,
chairperson Joe Wong said on Sunday when announcing the decision.

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On Paulo Freire at 100

_Frei Betto_ / Paulo Freire Centennial (London)

[_xxxxxx note: _This is extracted from a centenary tribute to the
founder of popular education, by one of the founders of liberation
theology. Both Freire and Frei Betto took part in the fight for
democracy and socialism in Brazil for decades. Translated by xxxxxx.
HEAR THE FULL HOMAGE (IN PORTUGUESE) IN THIS VIDEO
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I can affirm, without fear of exaggerating, that Paulo Freire is at
the root of the history of Brazilian popular power over 50 years,
between 1966 and 2016. Its power grew like a verdant tree, the
Brazilian left as it functioned in the second half of the 20th
century: groups that fought against the military dictatorship
(1964-1985); the Basic Ecclesial Communities of the Christian
Churches; the extensive network of popular and social movements that
emerged in the 1970s; militant unionism; and, in the 1980s, the
foundation of the CUT (workers’ unity center); of the ANAMPOS
(popular movements and unions) and more recently of the CMP (popular
movements center); of PT (party of the workers); and of MST (landless
workers movement); and of other movements, NGOs and formations.

If I had to answer the question: “Name one person who caused all
this,” I would say without any doubt: Paulo Freire. Without Paulo
Freire’s popular education methodology, there would be no such
movements, because he taught us something very important: to see
history from the point of view of the oppressed and to make them the
protagonists of changes in society.

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I first encountered the Paulo Freire method in 1963. I lived in Rio de
Janeiro, I was part of the National Directorate of Catholic Action.
When the first Paulo Freire method work groups emerged, I committed
myself to a team that gathered on Saturdays to go up to Petrópolis,
70 km from Rio, to teach literacy to workers from the National Motor
Factory. There I discovered that no one teaches anyone anything - some
help others learn.

What did we do with the workers at that truck factory? We photographed
the facilities, gathered the workers in a church hall, projected
slides and asked a totally simple question:

_— In this photo, what did you not do?_

— Well, we didn’t make the tree, the plant, the road, the water...

_— What you didn__’t do is nature. What did human work do?_

— Human work made the brick, the factory, the bridge, the fence...

_— That__’s culture. And how were these things made?_

They argued and responded:

— They were made as human beings transformed nature into culture.

Next, the photo of the courtyard of the National Motor Factory filled
with trucks and workers’ bicycles appeared. We simply asked:

_— In this photo, what did you make?_

— The trucks.

_— And what is yours?_

— The bicycles.

_— You’re not mistaken?_

— No, we made the trucks...

_— And why don’t you go home by truck? Why do you go by bicycle?_

— Because the truck is expensive and it’s not ours.

_— How much does a truck cost?_

— About 40,000 dollars.

_— How much do you earn per month?_

— Well, we make an average of $200.

_— How long does each one of you have to work, without eating,
without drinking, without paying rent, saving all your wages, to one
day be the owner of the truck you build?_

There they began to calculate, and consciously grasped the essence of
the capital/labor relation, what is surplus value, exploitation, etc.

The most elementary notions of Marxism, as a critique of capitalism,
were arrived at through the Paulo Freire method. The difference was
that we were not giving classes, we were not doing what Paulo Freire
called ‘banking education’, that is, putting notions of politics
into the worker’s head. The method was inductive. As Paulo used to
say, we, the teachers, did not teach, we helped the students to learn.

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Given the emergence of so many authoritarian governments and the
profusion of antidemocratic, racist, homophobic, macho and denialist
messages on digital networks, it seems to me of the utmost importance
to return to Paulo Freire on this centenary of his birth.

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