Business Week | Sitting atop a black-rock outcrop near a grassy mountaintop in Colombia, Roberto Perez, the political chief of the U'wa people, gazes over the world that he and his ancestors have inhabited for thousands of years.
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Kera Chikara - Ancestral and Sacred Territory of the U'wa People
Association of U'wa Traditional AuthoritiesDecree No. 1088 of 1993 - Resolution of Register No.
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.
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.
Democratic Party Trick Becomes Treat for U’wa Tribe Environmentalists Continue to Hound Gore for His Silence
Washington, DC – Halloween trickery by the Democratic National Committee backfired today when a lawyer who had claimed to represent the U’wa people, and who used that platform to endorse Al Gore, was forced to admit that indeed, he did not represent the Colombian tribe.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
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
GORE EXPOSED! ‘Flashers’ Expose Al Gore’s Ties to Big Oil and Its Threat to the U’wa People
San Francisco; Los Angeles - Al Gore ‘flashers’ made surprise visits to Gore campaign offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles to expose the truth behind the vice president’s ties to Occidental Petroleum and the company’s assault on the rights of the U’wa people of Colombia.
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
200 Activists Occupy Al Gore's Washington State Office Demand Gore Take a Stand for the U'wa of Colombia
Olympia, WA-Some 200 activists occupied Al Gore's offices for six hours yesterday demanding the vice president take a stand against Occidental Petroleum's drilling project on the U'wa people's sacred lands in Colombia. Mr.
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.
Decree Number 1088, 1993 Registry Resolution Number 003, February 1997. Minister of the Interior Communique to the National and International Public Kera Chikara - Ancestral and Sacred Territory of the U'wa People
The U'wa People want to make known the National and International Public the repressive nature of the public forces, military, and anti-riot police who are, on a daily basis, physically and morally assaulting members of the U'wa community who are living on the Santa Rita and Bellavista Farms in Cedeno, Toledo, North Santander
Decreto No. 1088 de 1993 Resolución de registro No. 003 de febrero de 1997. Dirección genera de asuntos Indígenas Ministerio del Interior COMUNICADO A LA OPINION PUBLICA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL Kera Chikara - Territorio Ancestral y Sagrado U'wa
El Pueblo U´wa damos a conocer a la Opinión Pública Nacional e Internacional las actitudes represivas por parte de la Fuerza Pública ejército y policía antimotines quienes a diario están agrediendo física y moralmente a los miembros de la comunidad U'wa que se encuentran usufructuando los predios Santa Rita y Bellavi
Slick Oil George W. Bush's Toxic Money Pipeline
Pratap Chatterjee | Early last October, every member of a ninth grade girls track team and the freshman the football team at suburban Houston's Deer Park High School's north campus returned from practice reporting severe breathing problems.
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TheStandard.com | Democrats win on some key issues, there may be little difference between Democrats and Republicans. But when it comes to the Internet, Democrats beat the GOP hands down. In Philadelphia, a handful of political Internet sites were shoehorned into Internet Alley, a desultory corner of an air-conditioned media tent.
US Oil Firm to Drill in Indian-Claimed Colombia Land
Reuters | Bogota - A U.S.
Celebbrities Call on Gore to Take Action to Save Colombia's U’WA People "A Question of Integrity"
Los Angeles, CA – In another sign of escalating pressure on Vice-President Gore to sever his ties to Big Oil, several prominent actors and musicians have urged the presumptive Democratic nominee to immediately take action as to defend the U’wa people of Colombia.
Outside the Hall
U.S. News | Street protests at the Democratic convention remained peaceful for a second straight day Monday, as an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 demonstrators marched a mile from Pershing Square to near the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Gore Faces Embarrassing Protests About Family's Occidental Shares
The Wall Street Journal | Los Angeles - For the past six months, Vice President Al Gore and his representatives have engaged in quiet talks with environmental activists over the activists' demands that Mr.
Protest Against Corporate Control of Democracy: Activists Highlight Al Gore's Ties to Big Oil Gore: OXY Out of U'WA Land! DNC OPENING DAY - RALLY, MARCH IN THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES
What: Rally and mass march in the streets to protest the corporate influence over the Democratic Party and Al Gore's ties to Occidental Petroleum.
US, Colombian Ecologists Kidnapped by Suspected Rebels
Reuters | Bogota - A group of 25 Colombian environmental researchers and an American professor were kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels as they studied wildlife in a war-torn corner of northwest Colombia, colleagues and the army said on Thursday. U.S.
Video Exposes Tropical Forest Destruction in Bolivia: Environmental Groups Call on US Agency to Cancel Loan to ENRON/SHELL for Gas Pipeline Dramatic Aerial Footage Available Upon Request See Video, Photos and Letter to OPIC (July 12 2000)
Washington, DC - In a meeting yesterday, environmental organizations Friends of the Earth-US and Amazon Watch called on George Muñoz, the President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to withdraw its $200 million loan for the Enron/Shell Cuiaba gas pipeline from Bolivia to Brazil.
Gore Should Speak Out Against Oil Drilling Despite the Fact that Voters Rank Honesty the Most Important Trait for Presidential Candidates
Olympian | (July 4 article) Al Gore continues to deceive us about his relations with big oil."It takes somebody who is independent from big oil to take on big oil, and I'm independent from them," he stated.
Protest Exposes Truth Behind Gore's Slick Big Oil Connections Prelude to DNC: Protests Inaugurate Gore's Move to Arco Plaza
Los Angeles, CA - In a precursor to the upcoming Democratic National Convention protests, environmental and social justice activists from Action Resource Center, Colombia Action Project, and Amazon Watch demonstrated yesterday outside Al Gore's new Los Angeles campaign headquarters at ARCO Plaza, exposing the Vice President's
Al Gore, Environmentalist and Zinc Miner
Wall Street Journal | "The lakes and rivers sustain us; they flow through the veins of the earth and into our own.
Communique to the Public Opinion
Saravena, Colombia - General strike in solidarity with the U'wa people against the excessive andarbitrary use of public force, genocide, ethnocide, and ecocide promoted by theColombian national government and Oxy against the U'wa indigenous culture.We have completed with dignity the second day of our genera
Comunicado a la Opinion Publica
Saravena, Colombia -Paro civico en solidaridad con el pueblo U´wa, contra el salvajismo y arbitrariedad de la fuerza publica, el genocidio, etnocidio y ecocidio promovido por el gobierno nacional y la OXY contra la cultura indigena U´wa.Cumplimos con dignidad nuestro segundo dia de paro civico; donde la verdad
Occidental's Oil Project Ignites More Violence Against Peaceful Tribe in Colombia Gore Family Continues to Profit from Occidental Stock Despite Abuses
Moving quickly in the wake of US Senate approval of a military aid package, Colombian armed forces attacked two hundred non-violent U'wa Indians over the weekend. The U'wa have been blockading the road to a site where Occidental Petroleum plans to begin drilling for oil for months.
Riot Police Disperse Indians Protesting Oil Exploration
The Associated Press | Bogota, Colombia - Riot police on Saturday broke upa road blockade by Colombian Indians protesting oilexploration by a U.S. company. A representative of the U'wa Indian tribe claims two of theprotesters were shot by police.
