DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colombia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Colombia</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> Demand <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncestralKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AncestralKnowledge</span></a> is at Forefront of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COP16" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COP16</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> Convention </p><p>Indigenous communities from different regions of Colombia march in the southwestern city of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cali" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cali</span></a> to demand that their ancestral knowledge on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>conservation</span></a> be taken into account at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNBiodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UNBiodiversity</span></a> summit, COP16, which is being held in the city.</p><p>Article by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, Oct. 24, 2024</p><p>"The United States is the only United Nations member state that has not ratified the Convention on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a>. While 197 countries arrive in Cali, Colombia for the COP16 Biodiversity Convention, the U.S. is engaged in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genocide</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Palestine</span></a>. </p><p>"In the U.S., the team of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Biden</span></a> and Interior Sec. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DebHaaland</span></a> plans to desecrate the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hualapai</span></a>'s sacred ceremonial water with a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LithiumMine</span></a>; is promoting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> digging into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Paiute</span></a> Massacre Site at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a>; is allowing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrandCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GrandCanyon</span></a> threatening Havasupai's aquifer and poisoning their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MedicinePlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MedicinePlants</span></a> with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>radioactive</span></a> dust; allowing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dumping</span></a> radioactive ore and global radioactive waste in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaUte" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteMesaUte</span></a>'s community; is bulldozing the ancient village sites, burial places and medicine plants of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TohonoOodham" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TohonoOodham</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SanCarlosApache</span></a> for a wind energy project; plans a massive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CopperMine</span></a> from San Carlos <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apache</span></a> sacred <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>; and plans to increase the radioactivity in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pueblo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pueblo</span></a> homelands with increased <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>plutonium</span></a> production and storage at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LosAlamos</span></a> Labs in northern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewMexico</span></a>."</p><p>Read more, view photos:<br /><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/colombias-indigenous-demand-ancestral.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/colombias-indigenous-demand-ancestral.html</span></a></p><p>Watch video by AFP: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWUjFLE1AY4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=AWUjFLE1AY</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaKamwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HaKamwe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoOpenPitMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoOpenPitMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteMesaMill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteMesaMill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RecycleLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ToxicWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NuclearWeapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaulNo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HaulNo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a></p>