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Activism - Fidelity Gets Out

Boston Phoenix | Fidelity Investments is no longer the prime target of a campaign to halt oil drilling in the Colombian rain forest, but two other New England-based companies may soon take the investment giant's place.

Colombian Tribe Steps Up Battle against Occidental

Reuters | New York - Colombia's U'Wa Indians, a 5,000-strong tribe fighting to keep Big Oil out of their corner of the rainforest, have stepped up their campaign to bury California energy company Occidental Corp. (NYSE:OXY - news).

Campaign Launched Against SANFORD BERNSTEIN for 'Unethical' Investments in Oil Project on U'wa People's Sacred Land Groups Call on Company to Divest from Occidental Petroleum

San Francisco, CA-U'wa Indian chief Roberto Perez joined activists from environmental and human rights organizations today to launch a grassroots campaign against the largest investor in Occidental Petroleum (OXY), Sanford Bernstein & Co. for its involvement in an oil project on the U'wa's land in Colombia.

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Una vez más el Pueblo U'wa rechazamos la actitud avasalladora de la Oxy, porque esta pretende seguir desconociendo la Soberania de nuestro Pueblo Milernario y por tanto de la legitimidad de nosotros los U'wa con respecto a los Territorios Ancestrales que hoy pisotean los agentes de la Multinacional Occidental de Colombia Inc

Plan Colombia: Fumigation Threatens Amazon, Warn Indigenous Leaders, Scientists

Inter Press Service | Washington - The spraying of chemical herbicides to destroy coca fields in southern Colombia could seriously threaten the rainforests and wildlife of the Amazon and the health of indigenous and small farming communities, warned scientists and indigenous leaders here.As part of a 1.6 billion dollar US emergency aid pack

U.S Anti-Drug Aid Endangers Indigenous Communities and Amazon Biodiversity

Washington, DC - Indigenous leaders and scientists held a press conference today warning that aerial fumigation of drug crops with chemical herbicides could seriously threaten the health of Amazonian communities and ecosystems that are among the most diverse in the world.

U.S. Grows Killer Fungus to Fight Heroin

New York Post | A secret U.S.-funded biological weapon to wipe out the heroin trade is in the final stages of development, raising fears in the scientific community that a monster germ will wreak an "ecological catastrophe."For the past two years, scientists funded by the U.S.

Key House Leader Withdraws Support for Colombia Aid Plan

The New York Times | Washington — Representative Benjamin A. Gilman, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, has abruptly withdrawn his support from the decision to funnel $1.3 billion in mostly military aid to Colombia, arguing that the United States is on the brink of a "major mistake."Mr.

Colombia Oil Pipeline Pumping Again After Bombing

Reuters | Bogota - Colombia's second-largest crude oil export pipeline was up and running again Thursday after the latest attack in a record-breaking campaign of bombings by Marxist rebels, the state oil company Ecopetrol said.

Participacion Indigena en la Conferencia de las Partes Sobre Cambio Climatico

La Haya - En la 6ta Conferencia de las Partes sobre Cambio Climatico que se esta desarrollando en la ciudad de La Haya, Holanda, hay una participacion de representantes indigenas provenientes de 22 paises de diferentes partes del mundo representando 28 pueblos diferentes, con ecosistemas muy fragiles y que ya estan sufriendo

DECLARATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ON CLIMATE CHANGE

The Hague, November 11-12, 2000 I. PREAMBLE We, the Indigenous Peoples of our Mother Earth, as partners with in the United Nations Family, have collectively developed our rights, responsibilities and aspirations in international law and formal declarations, including the U.N.

Occidental Drills on Tribal-Claimed Colombian Land

Reuters | Bogota - Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) began drilling a long-delayed test well Friday in a potentially oil-rich corner of Colombia, where U'wa Indians have threatened mass suicide to defend what they claim as ancestral lands.

U.S. Oil Co. Drills Near Indian Land

AP Online | Bogota, Colombia - In a step a Colombia Indian tribe says spells death for its culture, an American oil company began test drilling on Friday just outside the tribe's reservation, the state-run oil company announced.Leaders of the U'wa Indian tribe have protested the Occidental Petroleum Corp.

Test Well in Colombia's Samore Block Due this Year

Reuters | Bogota - U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) will begin drilling a long-delayed test well this year in northeast Colombia's Samore block, a disputed area claimed as tribal lands by U'wa Indians, a company official said Thursday.The $40 million, 15,000-foot (4,570-meter) Gibraltar-1 test well had been

Plan Colombia's Herbicide Spraying Causing Health and Environmental Problems

InterPress Service | Nueva Loja, Ecuador - The military's fumigation of coca plantations in Colombia with the herbicide glyphosate, part of the government's anti-drug trafficking fight, is causing environmental damage and health problems in neighbouring Ecuador's border provinces.

Claiming to be Green Party Supporters, They Said They Were Protesting Presidential Candidate Al Gore's `Tacit Approval of Exploratory Oil Drilling in Colombia.' Activists Crash Demo Offices Cops Arrest, Cite and Release Group Found Chained Together

Mercury News | More than a dozen self-described Green Party activists were arrested Thursday after storming the Democratic Party's San Francisco headquarters and chaining themselves together with bicycle locks, police said.Authorities responded to an emergency call from the Democrats' offices on 10th Street, South of Market, from som

Greens Stage Sit-in at Gore Campaign Office in Oil Protest

Washington Washington Times | Hundreds of environmentalists yesterday commandeered Al Gore's campaign headquarters in Olympia, Wash., to protest the vice president's ties to Occidental Petroleum, which plans to drill for oil on sacred Indian grounds.Ten protesters were arrested during the seven-and-a-half-hour standoff, police said.

(Transcript of Today's Presentation by U'wa Legal Representative to International Journalists Follows) U'wa Leaders Present the Colombian Government with Proof of "Royal Land Titles" Granted by the King of Spain Colonial Titles Could Negate O

Bogota, Colombia - U'wa Indigenous leaders on Thursday presented the Colombian government with archival evidence of colonial titles from 1661 which the U'wa claim uphold their soil and subsoil rights to their ancestral territory.

"Emission Reduction Efforts Farcical" Says Indigenous Leader

"Developed country proposals to buy the right to continue polluting the atmosphere by planting more trees makes a farce of the climate change negotiations." said Hector Huertas, an indigenous leader from Panama on behalf of the newly christened Forum of Indigenous Peoples and other Local Communities on Climate Change on the o