Help Stop the TransCanada Pipeline!Please plan to watch this webcast tonight from 6-8 pm (CST). We will be talking about the Keystone XL pipeline, the Canadian Dirty Tar Sands, aka Blood oil. CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIVE - 6-8pm CST Please plan to watch this webcast tonight from 6-8 pm (CST). We will be talking about the Keystone XL pipeline, the Canadian Dirty Tar Sands, aka Blood oil. And then sign the petition here. IEN's Marty Cobenais will be one of the speakers. Other Speakers Include: Paul Blackburn, Plains Justice Duane Hovorka, Nebraska Wildlife Federation Ernie Fellows, Nebraska Landowners for Fairness Ken Winston, Nebraska Sierra Club Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska If you miss it - no worries - we will be posting the entire two hour video on our website! In light of the unbelievable disaster that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico - to the PEOPLE, WILDLIFE, and FUTURE of the viability and health of that vast region, it is even more imperative that we get serious and fight for CLIMATE JUSTICE for all! 
Click here to download/print this poster. (print size: 8.5 x 14)Given that S.3516 Title: Outer Continental Shelf Reform Act of 2010 which serves to limit new offshore drilling leases through more stringent regulation- IEN offers this widget that tracts the contents and the progess of this bill: Protestors rail against oil pipelinesCrowds in Smithers watched as more than 100 protesters marched Friday afternoon from the Ministry of Forestry building on Tatlow Road and continued marching down Main Street to the CN Building on Railway Avenue.  Their topic of contention: Pipelines. "We don't need no - CN Rail pipe!" the protestors shouted. "Hey! Enbridge! Leave our lands alone!"  First Nations from as far as Ontario, North Dakota and Alberta joined members of the Unist'ot'en of the Wet'suwet'en, who organized the march to protest the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Protesters also voiced their opposition to a natural gas project by Kinder Morgan, a North American transportation company that plans to transport natural gas from Alberta to BC using CN Rail lines.  "We're standing up for our salmon, our wildlife, and our wild areas," spokesperson Sue Deranger said. Deranger is a member of the Chipewyan Nation in Athabasca, Alberta, where the oil sands are. "My nation has been destroyed by the tar sands," she said. "We didn't know. But you know what's coming, so let's stop the pipelines!" Deranger said that oil sands development has spread cancer throughout her community. A nine-year-old boy died from brain cancer last month, a death she attributes to the oil sands. Friday's protest was the first in a series of planned protests, Freda Huson, spokesperson for the Unist'ot'en people in the C'ilhts'ekhyu Clan, said. The Unist'ot'en Chiefs have never ceded rights to that land, and they will continue to fight, she said. The protests are a good way to show support for all surrounding nations, Huson added. Wayne Thom, who watched the protests march down Main Street, said he fully supported the protest. "We don't need that pipeline," he said. "It will destroy the region."  Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) releases its Four Principles for Climate JusticeRead the: Four Principles for Climate Justice. (pdf)Indigenous Peoples must call for the most stringent and binding emission reduction targets. A growing body of western scientific evidence now suggests what Indigenous Peoples have expressed for a long time: Life as we know it is in danger. Western scientists tell us that climate change is accelerating, and that changes are happening faster than expected. New scientific information made available since the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report shows that changes in ocean acidification, melting of permafrost, and ice melting are happening much faster than projected by the IPCC. Objectives must be made to reach stabilization of GHG concentrations at 300 ppm and to limit temperature rise to 1.0 degrees centigrade, based on pre-industrial levels, noting that emissions must peak in 2015. The Petition expresses, in the strongest possible terms, your demand that the results of the Cochabamba People’s Accord, as presented to UNFCCC - AWG-LCA Chair Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe (Zimbabwe)and Vice-Chair Mr. Dan Reifsnyder (United States) in an April 26th submission by the Plurinational State of Bolivia, be given the highest possible consideration during the Twelfth Session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) in Bonn, June 1-June 11, 2010. As signers to the Petition, we have grave concern, that the ‘Note by the Chair’, officially known as ‘Text to facilitate negotiations among governmental Parties’ to the UN climate negotiations, released on May 17th, 2010, acknowledges the invitation for Nation-States to make submissions but then relegates the Bolivian submission to a miscellaneous document. This is in direct contrast to the full integration of the Copenhagen Accord, a document which we as signers to the Petition would like to remind the Chair and Vice-Chairs, was not adopted by the delegates to COP-15, with the only agreement being to ‘take note of’ this non-binding, non-negotiated, document. The Petition we are asking you to sign represents both people who were directly engaged in the development of these proposals in Cochabamba, where over 35,000 people from 140 countries gathered in April, 2010, as well as those who were there in spirit and support the outcomes; we also represent the voices of social movements, indigenous peoples, affected peoples and civil society organizations from around the world. The deliberate exclusion of the full 87 articles of the Cochabamba People’s Agreement violates assurances that were given stating all representations by Nation-States would be treated equally, as well as direct statements by the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, made to social movement representatives in the presence of Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, on May, 7th, stating that there was no preference for one submission over others. By signing the Petition, (click here to sign the petition) you would stand in solidarity with our Brothers and Sisters who are presently suffering from the consequences of climate change, with those as yet unborn who will suffer from our inaction, and with all living beings and Mother Earth; we therefore commit to remain vigilant in our pursuit of climate justice. Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network FOUR PRINCIPLES for CLIMATE JUSTICE“Industrialized society must redefine its’ relationship with the sacredness of Mother Earth”Following the Indigenous Environmental Network’s participation at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth and participation in the development of the Bolivia Cochabamba Peoples’ Agreement and proposed Universal Doctrine of the Rights of Mother Earth, IEN has developed the Four Principles of Climate Justice. READ or Download the complete: FOUR PRINCIPLES for CLIMATE JUSTICE (pdf) People's Voices Needed in Climate Talks / Escuchar voz de los pueblos sobre cambio climaticoTarget: United Nations / Naciones UnidasSponsored by: World People's Movement for Mother Earth / Movimiento Mundial de los Pueblos por la Madre Tierra This is the pronouncement of the World People's Movement for Mother Earth, which demands that the United Nations climate change negotiations be inclusive, transparent, and equitable, and incorporate the proposals presented by the World People‚s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in order to find real solutions to the climate crisis and save humanity and our Mother Earth as we know it. Sign the Petition Este es el pronunciamiento del Movimiento Mundial de los Pueblos por la Madre Tierra, que reclama un proceso de negociaciones sobre cambio climatico en Naciones Unidas, incluyente, transparente y equitativo, que incorpore las propuestas de los pueblos que han sido presentadas como resultado de la Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre Cambio Climatico y los Derechos de la Madre Tierra, para alcanzar soluciones reales a la crisis climatica, y salvar a la humanidad y a nuestra Madre Tierra como hoy la conocemos. Firme la peticion World People’s Conference on Climate Change
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For all current and past news read our Newsletter Archives and signup for IEN OnlineNews:  We send out a monthly edition along with press releases and action items as needed. NEW SEARCH FEATURE: Enter keywords below.Click here to view News & Campaign Archive Page (under construction). July 2010Rethink Alberta - Take the Pledge! Rethink Alberta is brought to you by an international network of citizen and indigenous groups that oppose the expansion of the Alberta Tar Sands and advocate for its cleanup. Go to the Website - Take the Pledge. IEN is part of this network. From the EPA: On-Demand Video Training Materials Lawmakers Oppose Canadian Pipeline The massive pipeline, known as Keystone XL, would allow Canada to export an additional 1.1 million barrels a day of oil to the United States. The United States currently imports 1.9 million barrels a day from Canada. Canadian oil sands are expected to become America’s primary source of imported oil this year. Anti-Tourism Oil Disaster Billboards Debut in Four U.S. Cities Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: False Solutions to Climate Change – Available now! Download your copy now - FREE! Oilsands 'much worse' than BP spill: U.S. campaign BP's Well May Leak for 55 Years or More Into the Gulf of Mexico? Mangroves disappearing faster than land-based forests Save the Caribou - Stop the Tar Sands What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here's what they knew. Petition for emergency order under the Species at Risk Act to protect woodland caribou in northeastern Alberta Gulf oil spill could push Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe to the point of no return Oka crisis 20th anniversary march held BP gets break on dumping in lake 15 Gulf Oil Spill Myths Henry Red Cloud Returns to Native American Reservation, Starts Business and Renewable Energy Training Center Native American Tribal Lands Could Produce 17.5 Trillion Kilowatt Hours of Electricity From Wind and Solar Power TAKE ACTION: Tell the Federal Government to turn down Taseko Canadians want just and sustainable development not fake lakes and abuse of Aboriginal rights! Blowout near Conklin shoots steam and bitumen into the air Climate Camp Cymru to take direct action on coal Canada: The Saudi Arabia of the North? Canada's road to becoming a petro-state is lined with lies, greed, and pollution. Do Oil spills in Africa not matter? Seas of Denial "These are difficult times," Tiokasin Ghosthorse of the Lakota Nation from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, told me. "These are difficult times, and I consider it a great honor to be alive during these times." June 2010Clayton Thomas-Mueller: Presentation at Shout-Out for Global Justice at Massey Hall in Toronto on June 25thNative activist takes oil sands protest to Toronto Indigenous Groups Lead Struggle Against Canada’s Tar Sands A group of lawmakers are calling on the Obama administration to take a closer look at the significant environmental impacts of a proposed massive pipeline that would carry Canadian tar sands oil 2,000 miles from northern Alberta all the way down to refineries in Texas and tankers off the Gulf Coast. Tar sands mining emits three times more greenhouse gas pollution than traditional oil and has come under heavy criticism from environmental and indigenous groups. Democracy Now!’s Mike Burke speaks to Clayton Thomas-Müller, a Canadian indigenous activist with the Indigenous Environmental Network. News from the USSF!
The following videos were made possible by Earthcycles.net from the USSF 2010. Filmed and broadcast by Earthcycles.net to UStream for disemination worldwide. May 2010Health and Oil in Canada The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Reconsidered ENGOs sign over right to criticize, companies continue to log caribou habitat Alaskans bring tales of their battle with oil disaster Obama suspends oil drilling in Arctic Ocean ExxonMobil shareholders in Dallas to vote on Alberta oilsands resolution A Great Urgency - To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders A Message From Chief Arvol Looking Horse Boreal Forest Conflicts Far From Over Mainstream enviros, timber industry shut First Nations out of "historic" deal April 2010Enbridge Pipeline Spill East of Deer River On Earth Day, we need to rethink our way of life - Living Green - BradentonHerald.com Leonard Peltier: Indigenous People and the Environment BBC News - Oil rig blaze off Louisiana leaves at least 11 missing U.S. to review stance on U.N. indigenous rights text Bolivia: Sovereignty and the Rights of Mother Earth Indigenous groups sent to occupy Amazon dam site: chief - Yahoo! News Brazen Posturing -- New Internationalist Blog News - VIDEO: how tar sands activists took on BP - The Ecologist Petropolis BP brass faces rebellion over oilsands - thestar.com RBS in battle with the Cree First Nation over dirty oil development project on tribal lands - Herald Bolivia climate change talks to give poor a voice | Environment | The Guardian Bolivian Government Outlines Strategy for International Climate Negotiations Climate change and the rights of Mother Earth BP IS GOING BACK TO BLACKClick here to read the news and watch the latest video: Bloody OilMarch 2010Syncrude Muddies The Waters The Na’vi Take On the Tar Sands LaDuke advocates action Native tribes run risks storing nuclear waste “Alberta Clipper Pipeline” appeal filed in Leech Lake Tribal Court Fundy lobster deaths blamed on pesticide As Obama Pushes “Clean Coal,” Jeff Biggers Tracks History of Destructive Mining in “Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland” |
