ABOUT THE INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK
Established in 1990, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) was formed by Native grassroots demanding environmental and economic justice in our traditional homelands. IEN has a traditional Indigenous spiritual foundation. Indigenous peoples from Turtle Island (North America) and globally are confronting many challenges. Changes in the environment, climate, globalisation and rapid economic development threaten our communities on both a local and global level. The survival of indigenous culture, language and community continues to be affected by a modern industrialised world - which lacks respect for the sacredness of Mother Earth. As "caretakers" of Mother Earth, it is our Indigenous peoples - from our Elders to our Youth - that need to take responsibility to protect the natural environment, to generate awareness of traditional ecological knowledge and take action to promote models for sustainable community development.
IEN is a network of Indigenous peoples working on environmental justice including protection of sacred areas, developing a line of resistance against mining and fossil fuel development and other unsustainable energy development, providing an indigenous face to the global issues of climate change and global warming and organizing with youth and elders to undo the colonial disease of internalized oppression that is holding our people back from building sustainable communities based upon traditional knowledge.
IEN PROGRAM and PROJECTS
- MINING CAMPAIGN, Robert Shimek, [email protected]
- NATIVE ENERGY CAMPAIGN, Jihan Gearon, [email protected]
- REDOIL, Alaska Native Network, Faith Gemmill, [email protected]
- CLIMATE JUSTICE, Tom Goldtooth, [email protected] or Jihan Gearon, [email protected]
- CAMPUS CLIMATE CHALLENGE, Contacts: Western Great Lakes, Upper Plains: Kandi Mossett, [email protected] ; Southwest Region: Wahleah Johns, BMWC, [email protected]; Alaska Region: Faith Gemmill, [email protected]
- TOXICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, Alaska: Shawna Larson, [email protected]; Tom Goldtooth, [email protected]; Robert Shimek, [email protected]
- PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, Simone Senogles [email protected]
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PHOTOS Photos of two events: 1) Black Mesa Water Coalition 2006 organizing march on the Navajo reservation on the issues of Peabody Coal Mine Company and the protection of the water aquifer; and 2) the IEN delegation at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photos are from the historical march organized by various peoples movements from around the world. It was estimated that over 20,000 people participated.
VIDEO ON THE DINE' DESERT ROCK BLOCKADE!!!!
PHOTOS OF THE DOODA! (NO!) DESERT ROCK COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT RESISTANCE. .....
For Info on the Dooda! Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant Resistance CLICK HERE
Doodá Desert Rock Radio: Hear the Voices from the Vigil 87.9 FM (35-mile radius) OR Listen on-line by CLICKING HERE
IEN DELEGATION AT THE 5TH MINISTERIAL OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO), 2003, IN CANCUN, MEXICO
IEN helped organize an Indigenous Forum with Indigenous groups from Mexico. Some Indigenous groups participated in the protest rallies and others participated within the WTO meetings. Representatives of the International Indian Treaty Council , American Indian Movement, Cordillera Peoples Alliance (Philippines) , Indigenous Womens' Network, TEBTEBBA (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education) , and others participated.
WESTERN SHOSHONE PROTEST OF US GOVERNMENT, JUNE 2006 June 2006 - WESTERN SHOSHONE PROTEST OF THE US GOVERNMENT OPERATION "DIVINE STRAKE" that planned for the detonation of 700 tons of explosives in an experiment designed to study ground motion and shock waves set off by bombs. This planned detonation was planned in the traditional homelands of the Western Shoshone Nation.
"There is nothing divine about something that is built for destruction of life," said Carrie Dann, a member of the Western Shoshone. "It is just another weapon of destruction.
The Protest was a VICTORY - the US Gov. held back the testing! To read the full article, CLICK HERE
GRASSY NARROWS FIRST NATIONS, Ontario - CANADA's LONGEST OCCUPATION-BLOCKADE OF A LOGGING ROAD For more Grassy Narrows, CLICK HERE
The people of the Pit River Nation, from Northern California, come down to San Jose to protest Calpine, an energy corporation that is threatening to build a power plant on the land of the Pit River nation. Protesters give Calpine an eviction notice at their company headquarters in downtown San Jose, California. Contact: Contact: Mark LeBeau 916.801.4422; James Hayward 530.410.2875; Morning Star Gali 510.827.6719; Radley Davis 530.917.6064
The following is a video on the You Tube of one of the largest mobilization of activists on climate justice issues. This was in Montreal in December 2005.