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Native Americans arrive in Paris: Climate solutions and Nature Tribunal

Sunday, November 29, 2015 13:21

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Indigenous and women’s delegations arrive in Paris for COP21, with solutions, prepared for their Rights of Nature Tribunal

By Brenda Norrell

Photo: Kandi Mossett offers prayers today in Paris at site of tragedy.

Courtesy photo.

Native Americans from the United States have joined Indigenous Peoples from around the world with their prayers, and message of peace, at COP21, the United Nations Climate Summit, in Paris They have brought another message: “Leave it in the ground.” Native Americans have had enough of being the victims of dirty coal-fired power plants, oil and gas drilling, fracking and mineral mining.

On the Navajo Nation, Dine’ live with the strewn radioactive rocks from Cold War uranium mines, which their children play on. They breathe the dirty coal of Peabody’s Coal on Black Mesa, where Dine’ continue to resist relocation. They breathe the gases from the coal-fired Navajo Generating Station, which lights up Phoenix and Tucson, and pollution from two other coal-fired power plants, while many Dine’ live without running water and electricity. Now, Dine’ live with the US EPA’s toxic gold mine release poisoning the San Juan River. It means traditional farmers watch their crops died.

In North Dakota, the lands have been devastated by oil and gas drilling and fracking. Kandi Mossett, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, is in Paris at COP21 to tell the story of her people. She is there for the children and future generations.

“This is COP21, how many more are you going to have?” asks Mossett, referring to the failure of the world’s leaders to make any substantial difference in the poisoning of the planet. She is among the frontline grassroots activists in the delegation from the Indigenous Environmental Network.

In South Dakota, Lakotas fight uranium mining and the poisoning of their scarce water. Throughout Indian country, Native Americans battle new schemes to steal their water, with backdoor political schemes known as “Indian water rights settlements.” Further, they battle the machinations of Arizona Sen. John McCain, who recently sneaked a land exchange into the defense bill which would turn sacred Apache land into a massive copper mine.

Now, women have risen to the forefront in climate justice.

In Paris, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN International) is hosting a dynamic panel of Indigenous women speaking on climate change solutions in Paris on Sept. 7.

The International Rights of Nature Tribunal will meet in Paris December 4 –5. Hosted by the Global Alliance for the Right of Nature, the Tribunal is a citizen-created initiative that gives people from all around the world the opportunity to testify publicly on destruction of the Earth and their communities.

Back home, Indigenous People face violence in their homelands, as oil and gas and other temporary mine workers destabilize Native communities with drugs, sex crimes and violence. Meanwhile, globally — from Guatemala and Peru to Brazil and throughout the Amazon — mining companies continue to carry out assassinations, rapes and disappearances of Indigenous Peoples who oppose mining. These mining companies are primarily by Canadian and US owned corporations.

While global leaders with their bank accounts and posturing in Paris make the headlines, Indigenous Peoples are in Paris to tell the truth of the people.

Indigenous women WECAN in Paris

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/11/cop21-paris-schedule-womens-earth.html

Indigenous Envrionmental Network in Paris

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/11/indigenous-environmental-network.html

December 7, 2015 - 13:00 to 18:30

Paris Marriott Opera Ambassador Hotel, 18 Boulevard Haussmann 75009 Paris

Speakers to date include:

Vandana Shiva - World renowned activist, Founder of Navdanya Institute, India
Mary Robinson - President, Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice & former President of Ireland
Patricia Gualinga - Indigenous Kichwa leader from Sarayaku, Ecuador
Josefina Skerk - Vice President of the Saami Parliament, Sweden
Fleur Newman - Programme Officer and UNFCCC Gender Focal Point representing the UNFCCC Secretariat, Germany
Gloria Ushigua - President of the Association of Sapara Women, Ecuador
Neema Namadamu - Director of SAFECO & WECAN DR Congo Coordinator, Democratic Republic of Congo
Casey Camp Horinek - Ponca Nation elder & representative of the Indigenous Environmental Network, USA
Aleta Baun - Conservationist & anti-mining activist of West Timor, Indonesia
Kandi Mossett - Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Climate & Energy Campaign Organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, USA
Jacqueline Patterson - Director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Environmental & Climate Justice Program, USA
Geneviève Azam - Scientific Council Member, Attac France
Eriel Deranger - Communications Manager of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Canada
Angelina Galiteva – Founder, Renewables 100 Policy Institute, USA
Natalie Isaacs – CEO and co-Founder, 1 Million Women, Australia
Mary Louise Malig - Campaigns Coordinator & Research Associate with the Global Forest Coalition, Philippines
Thilmeeza Hussain - Founder of Voice of Women, Maldives
Naomi Ages - Climate Liability Project Lead, Greenpeace USA
UNFCCC Women & Gender Constituency Representative
Sally Ranney – co-Founder, Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network, USA
Osprey Orielle Lake - co-Founder and Executive Director, Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network, USA

Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 29 years, serving as a writer for Navajo Times and a stringer for AP and USA Today during the 18 years she lived on the Navajo Nation. After being a longtime staff reporter for Indian Country Today, she was censored and terminated. She then created Censored News, focused on Indigenous Peoples and human rights, now in its fifth year.

Source: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/11/native-americans-arrive-in-paris.html

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