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How We Are Helping RIGHT NOW:  February 2022 Share Tweet Forward Dear , Whether it’s saving thirsty wildlife from severe drought in Kenya or rushing emergency funds to give an orphaned rhino calf life-saving care, you supported us through it all this month - our work to help animals would not be possible without your generosity. Here’s how your donations made a difference in February: Kenya Phase I of ASI’s plan implemented in drought-stricken Kenya as water trucks deliver life-saving water to wildlife.  A devastating, year-long drought is ravaging the African nation of Kenya. Rising temperatures due to climate change are undoubtedly the culprit. Countless wild animals, suffering from a severe lack of food and water, have died.    Recently, we informed you of our plan to deploy emergency water trucks to the region. Thanks to your donations, our team successfully carried out Phase I of this operation. 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A female cheetah was to be relocated to the park (where her future breeding partner is a resident) to expand the genetics of the cheetah population in the area. We needed to obtain and fit the collars as soon as possible, so we reached out to you for donations and you responded generously.    With your support, ASI was able to purchase the two tracking collars needed by SANParks. The female cheetah, who has had her new collar fitted by our expert wildlife team, will be relocated soon. Her future breeding partner, the male cheetah who is already at MZNP, will be fitted with his new collar shortly. By collaring the two cheetahs, we will be able to track and monitor the health and wellbeing of this genetically important pair and ensure they have the best chance of starting a family. Mpumalanga, South Africa Orphaned rhino calf receives emergency life-saving antibiotics, oxygen therapy, and 24-hour care. We recently received news that Aquazi, an orphaned rhino calf who is being rehabilitated at the Care for Wild Sanctuary (CFW), had taken a sudden turn for the worse. After Aquazi’s security guards noticed his breathing was labored, they rushed him to the intensive care unit (ICU) where he immediately received critical care. The young rhino remained in ICU, fighting for his life. For Aquazi to stand any chance of survival, he needed to receive costly antibiotics, oxygen therapy, and multiple X-rays. We pledged our support to CFW but we couldn’t do it alone. Thanks to your unwavering support, ASI was able to ensure the rhino calf received everything he needed to continue his epic fight for survival. Life-saving antibiotics, 24-hour care, and oxygen therapy were all provided for the rhino calf, who now remains under the watchful eye of the expert team at CFW, and will continue along the path of rehabilitation. St Helena Bay, South Africa Good news from the Owl Orphanage In December of last year, we told you about seven baby barn owls who were found alone in a nest, starving and dehydrated. They were rescued by the Owl Orphanage where, almost two months later, all seven are thriving! They have learned how to fly and have started to hunt. All seven owls have been put on slow release and Jacques Nel of Owl Orphanage estimates that it will be a few more weeks until they live independently.    Your donations helped to provide round-the-clock care and specialized food for these baby owls. Without this support, they would have been unlikely to survive their critical early weeks as orphans. Birds of prey are disappearing alarmingly fast, and we are grateful that your support helped us to preserve seven precious lives. Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe High-tech drone successfully delivered to the Bumi Hills Anti-Poaching Unit (BHAPU) Recently, we told you about BHAPU, a group that works around the clock to protect 3,500 elephants from poachers in the Lake Kariba region. They are severely underfunded and we reached out to you for help in supporting their critical work. BHAPU had set their sights on securing an anti-poaching drone, a powerful tool in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade. With the help of your generous donations, ASI managed to supply BHAPU with the much-needed drone to help protect the diminishing elephant population of the region from poachers. This will make a massive difference to their patrols, helping them spot poachers from the sky, stop them in their tracks and provide damning evidence in court. From The News Desk: At ASI, we are committed to making a difference to animals on the ground, and we also strive to stay abreast of the latest wildlife conservation news. Rekambo Chimpanzees Seen Using Crushed Insects to Treat Open Wounds A group of wild chimpanzees has been observed treating wounds of their own and others by applying crushed insects to the injury site. Read more… Whaling in Iceland May Finally Be Banned by 2024 Commercial whaling could soon be banned in Iceland after demand for its whale meat dramatically declined in recent years. Read more… Are Hippopotamuses to Become Belated Victims of Cocaine Lord Pablo Escobar? Thanks to a dead drug lord, Colombia is now home to the “biggest herd of hippos outside of Africa,” says veterinarian and conservationist Carlos Valderrama (BBC News). Read more… Independent: Pangolin Kidnapped and Held to Ransom in Congo Amid Fears of ‘New Trend’ in Wildlife Crime An endangered pangolin has been taken hostage by a group of rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who sent a ransom request to conservationists for the animal’s release. Read more… Mozambican Poaching Gang Leader Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison In a significant victory against wildlife poaching in Africa, a Mozambican judge has sentenced notorious rhino poacher and gang leader, Admiro Chauque, to 30 years in prison. Read more… As always, we are deeply grateful for your generosity in helping us to fight for the survival of animals in peril. Our partnership with you makes it possible for us to make a difference by protecting wildlife and wild spaces around the world. 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#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #CANADA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman - Struggle for Territory: Racism, Class and Solidarity in the Defense of Six Nations Territory [Part 1] (ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation]

 A text by Jeff Shantztranslated by us and divided into several parts. The article

brings interesting reflections on the support practices of Whites and Whites
during the struggles of defense of the territory of the First Peoples. He points
to the need for a real debate in order to allow more effective complicity beyond
the "politics of allies". Within White and non-Indigenous communities, activists
may challenge the forms of racial unity constructed (the homogeneous bloc) within
the dominant group. They and they can instead raise points of convergence between
class struggles and dominated social groups against the dominant. For example,
establish links between the condition of workers, women, racialized people,
LGBTQ+ people, green people, ...and those of Aboriginal people. Shantz observes
that this form of solidarity was less common during the 2006 Grand River
struggle, with non-Indigenous activists more often preferring practices that were
less involving in some way. Through this, it is always a question of recognizing
the position of privilege of non-Indigenous people and of not taking the place of
the main actors and main actresses in the struggles. But, in this line of tension
with privileges, it is also not a question of using fallacious pretexts to step
aside and free oneself (white privilege is also that) from forms of militant
action of solidarity desired by Aboriginal activists. non-Aboriginal activists
more often prefer practices that are less involved in some way. Through this, it
is always a question of recognizing the position of privilege of non-Indigenous
people and of not taking the place of the main actors and main actresses in the
struggles. But, in this line of tension with privileges, it is also not a
question of using fallacious pretexts to step aside and free oneself (white
privilege is also that) from forms of militant action of solidarity desired by
Aboriginal activists. non-Aboriginal activists more often prefer practices that
are less involved in some way. Through this, it is always a question of
recognizing the position of privilege of non-Indigenous people and of not taking
the place of the main actors and main actresses in the struggles. But, in this
line of tension with privileges, it is also not a question of using fallacious
pretexts to step aside and free oneself (white privilege is also that) from forms
of militant action of solidarity desired by Aboriginal activists. it is always
about acknowledging the privileged position of non-Indigenous people and not
taking the place of the main actors and actors in the struggles. But, in this
line of tension with privileges, it is also not a question of using fallacious
pretexts to step aside and free oneself (white privilege is also that) from forms
of militant action of solidarity desired by Aboriginal activists. it is always
about acknowledging the privileged position of non-Indigenous people and not
taking the place of the main actors and actors in the struggles. But, in this
line of tension with privileges, it is also not a question of using fallacious
pretexts to step aside and free oneself (white privilege is also that) from forms
of militant action of solidarity desired by Aboriginal activists.

In the first presented part of this text, Shantz explains the context of the
development of this struggle by situating it in the systemic and historical
relations of domination of the Canadian state.

Photo de Fred Thornhill /Toronto Sun files
On February 28, 2006, members of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy
(Haudenosaunee) claimed 40 hectares of land belonging to their community. The
land, which was then in the midst of construction, incorporated into a new
residential development, had been sold to developer Henco Industries, despite the
fact that the government knew that it was land that was the subject of claims.
when he permitted their sale. Additionally, the government did not properly
follow the procedures specified in its own "Grand River Notification Agreement."
Signed in 1996]to adequately inform Six Nations of the actions, with their
impacts on the environment and other aspects, undertaken in the area in question.

The ongoing battle of the Douglas Creek Estates site is part of an ongoing
struggle over the territories of the Haldimand Tract, originally granted to the
Six Nations by the British Crown in 1784, following the 1783 Treaty of Paris
which ended the American Revolutionary War, in recognition of Six Nations support
for the British during the war with the Americans. Under the original grants, the
Haldimand Tract was granted to the Six Nations, Gayogohó:no' (Cayuga),
Onyota'a:ka (Oneida), Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk), Onöñda'gaga' ( Onondagas),
Onöndowa'ga (Senecas) and Skarù•re? (Tuscaroras); the British ceded control of
nearly 950,000 acres of traditional beaver hunting grounds. Both the British
Crown and later the Canadian government, however, early on supported the illegal
sale and theft of land and wealth belonging to the Six Nations. In some cases,
government officials, or "Indian Agents," simply sold the land themselves as if
it were theirs for personal gain.

Although the Six Nations had, since long before colonization, been a
confederation of nations (and continue to be) with which the British Crown was
engaged through nation-to-nation agreements, the Canadian government violated
this status by forcibly imposing its own "Indian Act", which defines and
circumscribes the rights and institutions recognized at Six Nations to those of
an individual and those of a community. It further imposed the exclusive
sovereignty of the Crown over and against any Aboriginal sovereignty.

Originally covering 6 miles. Nearly 10 kilometres]on either side of the Grand
River and running the full length of the river, the territories were constantly
removed from the Six Nations by the Canadian government until a much smaller "Six
Nations Reserve" remained. 46,500 acres, or 4.9% of the original land granted in
the Haldimand Tract. As early as the 1830s, the Crown unilaterally determined
that the rights of the Six Nations to the territories of the Haldimand Tract were
lapsed and left them a much smaller territory as an aboriginal reserve.

These changes made today's Six Nations Canada's largest First Nation in terms of
population, with almost 11,000 people living on the reserve, confined to a small
and inadequate parcel of land. At the same time, the large and rapid growth of
town and suburban developments around the Six Nations Reserve has put incredible
pressure on the watersheds, farmlands and forests of the Grand River upon which
Indigenous Peoples depend. of the Six Nations both materially and culturally. The
Six Nations Reserve is located downstream from some of Ontario's largest urban
centers including Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo and Brantford. Public works and
services, for which Six Nations are responsible in their territories, have been
overstretched by the impacts,

Many commentators argue that the current struggle is one of Indigenous land
claim, but the Six Nations people I spoke to told me that it was the Canadian
government that was making land claims because it was clearly land belonging to
the Six Nations. Six Nations have long opposed the Crown's claims that it could
cede land in the area.

On the other hand, the Six Nations have been very clear about their intentions:
they neither currently wish, nor do they foresee in the future, taking back
previously stolen territories on which people currently reside. This is an
important point since there has been a great deal of public confusion fueled by
opponents of Six Nations who have tried to instil fear with sordid threats such
as "Natives are coming to take your land after" . The Six Nations struggle was
strictly centered on opposing new construction taking place on currently
undeveloped land.

In 1995, Six Nations filed a petition in the Ontario Superior Court regarding
nearly half of the lands whose ownership is disputed by the Crown. In 2004, the
trial was suspended, triggering negotiations on smaller subsets of cases. Little
progress has been made in these cases to date (Lawson, 2006: 12). Had the
government embarked on a more respectful and comprehensive land claims process
and honestly negotiated with Six Nations, the situation would not have been the
same today.

Indeed, the government's historic practices of breaking or ignoring its
agreements with First Peoples have continued in various ways with respect to the
Douglas Creek lands. A 1995 agreement between the Government of Canada and the
Six Nations required the completion of archaeological and ecological studies on
the disputed territories as a prerequisite for any development. While none of
these studies have been formally carried out, a preliminary excavation on the
grounds of Douglas Creek in 2000 unearthed a village dating back approximately
600 years. And yet, never a meaningful consultation of the Six Nations by the
government, as required in the 2004 protocol, has taken place to date.

With all these channels apparently closed or violated, the members of the Six
Nations understood that there was no other option to express their stakes than to
occupy the territories by themselves. Land defense dragged on, garnering little
attention outside of Indigenous communities, until the dramatic events of April
20, when the Canadian state chose its favored solution in the management of First
Peoples' land rights. In the early hours of April 20, the Ontario Provincial
Police (OPP), a racist institution whose contemporary history is marred with
violence against Indigenous communities, including the assassination of Dudley
George during the "Ipperwash Crisis raided the Douglas Creek site and arrested 16
people.

The April 20 attack by the OPP sparked a backlash against the authorities. Not
only did this event lead to the takeover of the site by an even larger and more
determined group, it also triggered a series of other solidarity actions by
Aboriginal people from other communities. The police raid, and Six Nations'
remarkably strong response to it, also drew more attention to the struggle and
encouraged many activists to take a more active part in solidarity work.

[The rest of the text is to come in the next parts]

Jeff Shantz

Translation of the blog of the Emma Goldman Anarchist Collective

http://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2022/02/lutte-pour-le-territoire-le-racisme-les.html
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