
2017-04-28 00328-tod-011577 Bloodroot
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2017-04-28 00328-tod-011577 Bloodroot
NIKON D7100 – ƒ/5.6 1/500 105mm ISO400 – Cannon River Wilderness Area, MN

Children in Tuba, April 16
H., our close friend from Hebron, knows the regional head of the education department personally, and arranges a meeting in order to convince him to be flexible, because the army will not return to its accompaniment duties in the foreseeable future. After this meeting, H. reports to me that the refusal is still in full force. I advise H. to try again, insisting that according to international law, every child has the right to go to school. H. gets back to the department head, and he finally agrees.
A. receives the happy news from me that very evening. The children are excited. The next day, A. cannot drive them – he is the only driver with a highway-legal car in the village, and a critical patient must get to the hospital. A. shares with me the fact that he would not be able to take the children consistently. One time someone is ill, another time he must drive residents to lodge a complaint (all this time, settlers harass the villagers of Tuba and Maghayir al-‘Abeed), and in general – since the children study only 2-3 days a week…
I feel that I’m becoming a nag, having pressured poor A. over the school issue again and again, and finally, during our umpteenth nightly call, I let go. I understand the pressure under which young A. has to function, and say to him: “My dear man, I realize your situation. You bear a disproportionate amount of responsibility. I am only sorry for the children. They want so much to get back to school and see those classmates who have already come back. But let us let go and pray that the next school year will bring a new reality, Inshallah.” The next day, A. called me: “I am taking the children to school. True, children must go to school. I’ll do my best.”
On the morning of Sunday, April 21st, three girls and two boys festively prepare their school outfit and rise on , to reach the school which they have missed for 4 months. A call from A. stops them before leaving: the Israeli army killed 10 Palestinians in Tulkarem. A general strike has been declared throughout the West Bank.
In the evening, the children prepare their clothes again, and get up excited the next morning to go to school. On Monday morning a call from A. holds them back again: the Jews’ Passover holiday has caused the army to close off all passage to and from Yatta, and the teachers cannot get to school.
In the evening, with the determination of children refusing to give in, they prepare their clothes again. Perhaps tomorrow? In the morning they are excited again. At noon on Tuesday the 23rd, I met them at a-Tuwani. They finished a day of school. A. Waited for them at the center of the village in order to bring them home. In fact it was another day of total closure [due to Passover], but A. who spoke with the teachers in the morning said the teachers recommended they begin to walk and he would pick them up on their way to school, and so he did. A. the wizard.
And I – when I saw the children and their happy smiles and enjoyed their warm hugs, I was flooded with their deep gratitude flowing to me, to A., to the world; although they have so little, it seems to them that the whole world is theirs, and seeing this I need no further words…
Erella, on behalf of the Villages Group
Editor’s note: on Friday April 12th, a youth from a settler outpost near Ramallah went missing. The next day he was found dead, presumably murdered. Settlers all across the West Bank went on a violent rampage starting the day of the disappearance, with the military more often aiding and abetting rather than do its legal duty and protect residents. The attacks are ongoing…



If you can’t be in Toronto, PLEASE POST A PHOTO OF YOUR OWN PROTEST SIGN! #ProtestBarrickGold

Their AGM is online this year, but we’ll still be at their office sending the message that their harms to communities + environment don’t go unnoticed!
Communities around the world will be taking action to show how Barrick Gold systemically ignores their concerns about the violence of its operations on their land, water & lives!
Despite Barrick Gold’s President/CEO Mark Bristow’s claim that “recognizing & respecting human rights have long been a fundamental value” for Barrick Gold, people living near Barrick operations round the world tell a different story!
In Alaska, Indigenous communities strongly oppose Barrick’s Donlin gold mine project because they believe it would harm their traditional lands and livelihoods, and an Alaskan judge expressed concerns over its potential impacts on water quality!
In Tanzania for over a decade, Indigenous communities have reported the use of excessive force by mine security and forced evictions from Barrick Gold mining operations, and there have been three international lawsuits related to these allegations!
Activists contend that the Barrick Gold agreement with the central government of Pakistan to extract gold and copper from the Reko Diq mine is illegal and locals in Balochistan’s Chaghi district did not consent to this project!
Communities in Marinduque, Philippines, affected by Barrick Gold’s mine have claimed environmental impacts on their rivers and there have been numerous legal attempts to hold the firm responsible!
In Porgera, Papua New Guinea, for decades, communities have protested Barrick Gold mine waste disposal practices and mine security’s alleged excess use of force and sexual assault against local villagers!
Cortez mine expansion faces stiff opposition from Western Shoshone land protectors who see the project on their ancestral lands, known as Newe Sogobia, as cultural and spiritual genocide!
“Barrick has spilled toxic chemicals into the water of the Jáchal River multiple times, while operating in the heart of the San Guillermo Biosphere Reserve. The solution is for the company to leave.” – Domingo Jofré, Asamblea Jáchal No se Toca, San Juan, Argentina
Barrick Gold’s mega-mines are HUGE and all gold mining uses toxic substances! This has led to contamination of water sources! The water from the Odiel river was PROHIBITED for HUMAN CONSUMPTION, and more recently for IRRIGATION. Mining contamination is so bad that it is making it IMPOSSIBLE to build a necessary RESERVOIR…
The mega-mining corporations LIE to the populations in both Peru and Argentina. There was never MERCURY in the Jachal River until BARRICK began to extract gold in its VELADERO mine. The most dangerous thing in the VELADERO spills is the MERCURY that contaminates the Jáchal River! Communities in Jáchal have documented and denounced five toxic spills at Veladero mine that they say has irreversibly damaged the local ecosystem and raised concern with the UN!
We ask that the process initiated by Barrick Gold to achieve the removal of a GLACIER located in the heart of the Andes Mountains in the town of Barreal, department of Calingasta, San Juan, Argentina is CANCELED immediately!

photo: Barrick Gold

Barbara Crane Navarro est une artiste, auteur et activiste française qui vit actuellement près de Paris. Pendant 12 ans, elle a passé les mois d’hiver avec le peuple Yanomami au Venezuela et au Brésil, une expérience qui a inspiré sa pratique artistique et ses efforts de plusieurs décennies pour attirer l’attention sur la dévastation de […]
Adani is executive director of Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL). He’s also the nephew of Gautam Adani, Asia’s second richest man, whose $100 billion fortune stems from the Adani Group, India’s biggest coal importer and a leading miner of the dirty fuel. Founded in 1988, the conglomerate has businesses in fields ranging from ports and thermal power plants to media and cements. Its clean energy unit AGEL is building the sprawling solar and wind power plant in the western Indian state of Gujarat at a cost of about $20 billion. Source: A Coal Billionaire is Building the World’s Biggest Clean Energy Plant – Five Times the Size of Paris – Slashdot


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Y así se va la vida, reflexiono cada anochecer, entre las tardes y las madrugadas, y me pregunto, en medio de los rumores y los silencios de los minutos que pasan inquebrantables y sin apegos, ¿acaso aproveché el tiempo y viví hoy? Y llegan, en tropel, los recuerdos del día consumido, hago el balance y pienso que en verdad pude hacer más por mí, por la gente que amo y por los demás. Miro, entonces, el álbum de mi existencia y me disgusto si en sus páginas descubro un terrible derroche de momentos -segundos, minutos y horas que, acumulados, se convierten en días, semanas, meses y años-. una pérdida de vida, porque el tiempo vale más que cualquier joya o fortuna. Y cuento los días y los años que he recorrido en el mundo y los que faltan por caminar, y detecto que cada día se acorta mi estancia aquí, en la temporalidad. Tras revisar la crueldad y el desdén con que a veces trato los instantes, días y años que recibo, me perdono cada noche y prometo que, al amanecer, agregaré notas bellas, interesantes, buenas, inolvidables, singulares e intensas a la historia de mi vida.
Source: Los momentos que se van – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga
As Israel prepares for its Rafah offensive, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to deteriorate. But the lack of media access inside the Gaza Strip means the full extent of worsening conditions are not always seen. Using open source imagery Bellingcat and our partners Scripps News examined widespread destruction of property inside the Gaza Strip and looked at deteriorating conditions there.
Meanwhile, conflict in the West Bank has continued to escalate despite being overshadowed by events in Gaza. Bellingcat and Scripps News used satellite imagery to identify ongoing expansion of West Bank settlements and reveal the heightened tensions on the ground.
You can read Bellingcat’s coverage of IDF demolitions in Gaza here and full coverage by Scripps News, here…
Source: The Hidden War in Gaza and the West Bank – bellingcat
Twenty days after more than 1,100 people were killed in a Hamas attack on October 7, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched its ground offensive in Gaza with the stated aim of destroying Hamas and bringing hostages home. As of April 12, more than 33,000 people have been killed in Gaza according to UN OCHA reports. In response to the IDF offensive the International Court of Justice issued interim measures to prevent genocide.
Systematic and widespread attacks on civilian housing and infrastructure in Gaza has been described as “domicide” by Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. He told us “Even with attacks against individual buildings, every building which is bombed or destroyed has got to be evaluated legally. Whether a building on this or that corner of a road needed to be destroyed or not…the burden is on the IDF to show that they have evidence, that they have proof and that the attack is proportionate and necessary”. It’s estimated that more than 50% of Gaza’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged and approximately 1.7 million people have been displaced since the offensive began. Bellingcat worked with partners Scripps News to investigate the alleged domicide in Gaza and the ongoing conflicts over land in the West Bank, you can watch the full documentary here…

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