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Toronto-based Lido Pimienta helps to raise pandemic relief funds for Indigenous Wayuu peoples in Colombia

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When Toronto-based artist-musician Lido Pimienta performed at a Pitchfork stay-at-home concert this past April, she chose to spotlight Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu (Force of...

On Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous rights defenders remain the target of criminalization and fatal attacks

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Photo by Skyler Williams. Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The United Nations says: “On this day, people from around the...

Second draft of UN Binding Treaty on transnational corporations released prior to October negotiations

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On August 6, the second revised draft of the Binding Treaty on transnational corporations and human rights was released. The preamble to it includes the...

British Columbia grants permission for pipeline construction near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre

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Photo: Karla Tait, Unist’ot’en healing centre clinical services director, arrested by the RCMP on February 10. Photo by Amber Bracken/The Narwhal. The Tyee reports: “The...

PBI-Guatemala accompanied UVOC draws attention to climate change and dam on the Polochic River

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The Verapaz Union of Campesino Organizations (UVOC) is an Indigenous and peasant organization dedicated to the defence and promotion of access to land for...

Lockheed Martin and Boeing spin jobs argument in bid to win $19 billion in public funds for new warplanes

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This past April, Guardian columnist George Monbiot critiqued the British government's intention to buy a fleet of 138 F-35s and the prioritization of “imaginary...

Six Nations land defenders arrested by heavily armed police at 1492 Land Back Lane protest against housing development

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Photo by Real Peoples Media. On July 19, Six Nations land defenders began occupying the site of a planned housing development site near Caledonia, Ontario....

Nuclear disarmament remains an imperative 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Image by Thoughtco. On the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is imperative not to historicize the suffering of those who...

Canadian fighter jets, militarism and the human rights to water and sanitation in Iraq and Libya

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Photo: 2,000-pound GBU-10 bombs are mounted on a CF-18 fighter jet at a base in Italy before deployment to Libya in 2011. The Canadian government...

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan shares in Lockheed Martin valued at USD $2.13 million

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As of May 21, 2020, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan owned 6,283 shares in Lockheed Martin valued at USD $2.13 million. This is not new. According...
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