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	<title>Mother Earth Journal &#187; environmental justice</title>
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	<description>Mother Earth Journal &#124; Environmental journalism &#124; Terri Hansen reporting: Environment &#124; Science &#38;  Traditional Knowledge &#124; Climate, Sustainability &#38; Adaptation &#124; Environmental Health. For complete environmental coverage read This Week From Indian Country or visit Indian Country Today Media Network</description>
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		<title>Heed Ecological Insights of Tribal Peoples in Global Decisions at the COP17</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/29/heed-ecological-knowledge-and-insights-of-tribal-peoples-in-global-decisions-at-un-cop17-climate-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/29/heed-ecological-knowledge-and-insights-of-tribal-peoples-in-global-decisions-at-un-cop17-climate-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) conference begins in Durban, South Africa, Indigenous advocacy group Survival International is calling for global decisions concerning climate change heed traditional ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples.]]></description>
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		<title>Squaxin Island Tribe and Cities Strike Deal on Deschutes River Habitat Restoration</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/25/squaxin-island-tribe-and-cities-strike-deal-on-deschutes-river-habitat-restoration/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/25/squaxin-island-tribe-and-cities-strike-deal-on-deschutes-river-habitat-restoration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Squaxin Island Tribe and the cities of Olympia, Lacey and Yelm in Washington State are establishing the Deschutes Watershed Environmental Stewardship Coalition to focus on on-the-ground habitat restoration projects to jumpstart salmon productivity in the Deschutes River watershed.

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		<title>Shoreline Modifications Contribute to Salmon Loss and Decline in Western Washington</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/15/shoreline-modifications-contribute-significantly-to-salmon-loss-and-decline-in-western-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piling on Puget Sound, a three-part series by the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission looks at how shoreline modifications – seawalls, bulkheads, docks, boat ramps and the like that eat up another mile of Puget Sound shoreline every year contribute significantly to the loss and decline of salmon and their habitat.
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		<title>Wikileaks Cables Expose Chevron Lobbied Ecuador to Kill $18 Billion Environmental Case</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/24/wikileaks-cables-expose-chevron-lobbied-ecuador-to-kill-18-billion-environmental-case/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/24/wikileaks-cables-expose-chevron-lobbied-ecuador-to-kill-18-billion-environmental-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chevron engaged in a clandestine lobbying campaign of Ecuador's government to improperly shut down a historic environmental case brought by thousands of indigenous persons for contamination of the rain forest by the oil giant, ordered to pay $18.2 billion to clean up the damage, according to a series of cables written by U.S. government officials and released by Wikileaks.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed Alaska Coal Mine Divides Community, Elicits Racism</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/21/proposed-coal-mine-divides-an-alaska-community-elicits-racism/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/21/proposed-coal-mine-divides-an-alaska-community-elicits-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wishbone Hills coal mine, a controversial project proposed by the Usibelli Mine Company five miles west of the small community of Sutton, Alaska, and Chickaloon Village of the Chickaloon Tribe, is driving a wedge between local community members.]]></description>
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		<title>Olympia&#8217;s Deschutes River Restoration Rare Opportunity to Revive a  Puget Sound Estuary</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/27/olympias-deschutes-river-restoration-offers-rare-opportunity-to-revive-a-puget-sound-estuary/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/27/olympias-deschutes-river-restoration-offers-rare-opportunity-to-revive-a-puget-sound-estuary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitol Lake in Olympia, Wash., is a human creation that disrupted the biologically rich Deschutes tidal basin in 1951. Its stagnant waters attract invasive plants and animals, and harbor unsafe levels of E.coli. Fishing, swimming, and boating is no longer allowed. Restoring the estuary is still debated.]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical Spraying Destroys Amazon Forest Uncontacted Indians Relied On</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/25/chemical-spraying-destroys-amazon-forest-that-uncontacted-indians-relied-on/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/25/chemical-spraying-destroys-amazon-forest-that-uncontacted-indians-relied-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large stretch of Amazon forest relied on by uncontacted Indians for their plant and animal foods was illegally destroyed with chemical defoliant sprayed from an airplane. The 178 hectare of dead trees was discovered by Brazil's environment agency.]]></description>
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		<title>Tour operators oppose human safaris</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/12/tour-operators-oppose-human-safaris/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/12/tour-operators-oppose-human-safaris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Tour Operators in India’s Andaman islands has come out in support of Survival’s call for tourists to stop using the illegal road that cuts through the forests of the recently contacted Jarawa tribe.]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Mother Earth Gathering in North Dakota July 28-31</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/08/protecting-mother-earth-gathering-in-north-dakota-july-28-31/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/08/protecting-mother-earth-gathering-in-north-dakota-july-28-31/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Water, Energy, Climate, and the Importance of Health &#038; and Culture” theme fits the situation of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation community hosts. An oil boom has created social, economic, environmental, and cultural changes for which they were unprepared. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tribe, Conservation Groups Win Suit Against Forest Service</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/16/tribe-conservation-groups-win-suit-against-forest-service/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/16/tribe-conservation-groups-win-suit-against-forest-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has ruled that California's Six Rivers National Forest Violated National Historic Preservation Act in conducting its Orleans Timber Harvest.]]></description>
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		<title>Penan Hunter-Gatherers Pushed From Rainforest to Make Way for Dam</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/15/penan-hunter-gatherers-pushed-from-rainforest-to-make-way-for-dam/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/15/penan-hunter-gatherers-pushed-from-rainforest-to-make-way-for-dam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Malaysian government is moving more than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers out of their rainforest home against their will to make way for the controversial Murum hydroelectric dam, the first in a series of twelve that will flood Penan and other indigenous villages.]]></description>
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		<title>Philanthropists and Indigenous Leaders Talk Solutions to World&#8217;s Pressing Issues</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/14/philanthropists-and-indigenous-leaders-talk-solutions-to-worlds-pressing-issues-at-ifip-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/14/philanthropists-and-indigenous-leaders-talk-solutions-to-worlds-pressing-issues-at-ifip-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Influential philanthropists and Indigenous leaders met last month at the tenth conference of the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, and came up with innovative solutions based on thousands of years of ancestral knowledge to some of the world's most pressing problems.]]></description>
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		<title>High PCB Levels Persist in Akwesasne Mohawk Fish, Lands, and People</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/12/high-pcb-levels-akwesasne-and-mohawk-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Industrial facilities built on the St. Lawrence River in the 50s turned a toxic tide on the Mohawk people of Akwesasne in central New York. Their young adults have twice the levels of polychlorinated biphenols (PCBs) as the U.S. national average. PCBs are linked to thyroid dysfunction, autoimmune disorders, and lower testosterone levels. ]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Establishes National Tribal Toxics Committee</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/31/epa-establishes-national-tribal-toxics-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/31/epa-establishes-national-tribal-toxics-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 15:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The EPA has established a National Tribal Toxics Committee, a move to allow greater input by tribal nations on issues related to chemical safety, toxic chemicals and pollution prevention, and protect their health and environment from the risks of toxic chemicals. ]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental, Fishing, Chemical Reform and Community Groups Demand Response to Gulf Illnesses</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/24/environmental-fishing-chemical-reform-and-community-groups-demand-response-to-gulf-illnesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 21:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the BP oil disaster, a coalition of 154 organizations want EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius to take immediate action to avert the growing health crisis in the Gulf.]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Peoples of Africa the Focus of Second Congressional Human Rights Meeting</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/10/indigenous-peoples-of-africa-the-focus-of-second-congressional-human-rights-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/10/indigenous-peoples-of-africa-the-focus-of-second-congressional-human-rights-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 20:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second in a series of unprecedented meetings hosted by the U.S. Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission will focus solely on the rights of Indigenous Peoples of Africa, just as they emerge into the social consensus of several African states after their very existence was denied for decades. ]]></description>
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		<title>Pueblo of Jemez Leading Way to Renewable Future, and Realities of Relocating Alaska Native Villages</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/22/pueblo-of-jemez-leading-way-to-renewable-future-and-realities-of-relocating-alaska-native-villages/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/22/pueblo-of-jemez-leading-way-to-renewable-future-and-realities-of-relocating-alaska-native-villages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pueblo of Jemez undertakes several renewable energy projects, and an overview of the challenges faced by Alaska Native villages that need to relocate because of the impacts of climate change. ]]></description>
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		<title>In Oregon: Victory For Free Speech and Anti-LNG Advocates</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/22/in-oregon-victory-for-free-speech-and-anti-lng-advocates/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/22/in-oregon-victory-for-free-speech-and-anti-lng-advocates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas County Reverses Decision to Bar Pipeline Opponents’ Participation at Earth Day Event ]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State&#8217;s Governor Criticizes Failure to Clean Up Samish Bay</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/22/washington-states-governor-criticizes-failure-to-clean-up-samish-bay/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/22/washington-states-governor-criticizes-failure-to-clean-up-samish-bay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A three-year effort to end fecal coliform pollution on the Samish River that threatens tidal shellfish beds has been declared “a failure” by Gov. Chris Gregoire.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the International Year of Forests, But Who Gets to Decide About Them?</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/19/its-the-international-year-of-forests-but-who-gets-to-decide-about-them/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/19/its-the-international-year-of-forests-but-who-gets-to-decide-about-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the havoc that deforestation is causing for biodiversity, the climate and the livelihoods of millions of forest-dependent people around the world, a critical question is, “Who gets to decide about forests?”]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury&#8217;s Toxic Legacy</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/13/mercurys-toxic-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/13/mercurys-toxic-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercury is linked to serious health problems like heart disease and neurological problems. The worst impacts are to the brain, kidneys and nervous systems of unborn and nursing babies and young children. Indigenous children from fishing communities are among the most affected. 

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		<title>Peruvian Indians Take On Amazon Loggers</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/05/peruvian-indians-take-on-amazon-loggers/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/05/peruvian-indians-take-on-amazon-loggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peruvian Indians forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians’ reserve, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for action. 

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		<title>Upcoming Report: Environmental Impacts of Oregon/Washington&#8217;s Planned Columbia River Crossing</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/27/upcoming-report-environmental-impacts-of-portlands-planned-columbia-river-crossing/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/27/upcoming-report-environmental-impacts-of-portlands-planned-columbia-river-crossing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cascadia Times, a magazine of investigative journalism in the Cascadia Bioregion and the 2005 recipient of the John B. Oakes Award for the nation’s most distinguished environmental journalism, is publishing its investigation of the environmental impacts of the Columbia River Crossing. Watch for it this Earth Day.
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		<title>Pawning the Chernobyl Necklace</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/23/pawning-the-chernobyl-necklace/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/23/pawning-the-chernobyl-necklace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the world watches mesmerized at the nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan, those not at risk of radiation exposure bless their good luck and wonder what it must feel like to be the unlucky ones, who can’t escape that invisible blanket of fear. Let me tell you what it feels like...

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		<title>Vedanta&#8217;s controversial mine goes back to court</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/19/vedantas-controversial-mine-goes-back-to-court/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/19/vedantas-controversial-mine-goes-back-to-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India's Supreme Court is considering a new bid to okay Vedanta Resources' bauxite mine, blocked last year after investigators found it would destroy the Dongria Kondh tribe.]]></description>
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		<title>Court Affidavit Exposes 18 Years of Chevron&#8217;s Unethical Conduct in $9.5 Billion Ecuador Lawsuit</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/07/court-affidavit-exposes-18-years-of-chevrons-unethical-conduct-in-9-5-billion-ecuador-lawsuit/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/07/court-affidavit-exposes-18-years-of-chevrons-unethical-conduct-in-9-5-billion-ecuador-lawsuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oil Giant Attempted to "Buy or Bully" Its Way Out of Environmental Liability]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Indians Protest in London, Judge Blocks Brazil Dam</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/02/02-amazon-indians-protest-in-london-judge-blocks-brazil-dam/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/02/02-amazon-indians-protest-in-london-judge-blocks-brazil-dam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon protested in London Mar. 2, calling for an end to dams and dam construction that threatens to destroy the lands and lives of thousands of tribal peoples.]]></description>
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		<title>Uncontacted Amazon Indians Face Annihilation</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/14/14-uncontacted-amazon-indians-face-annihilation/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/14/14-uncontacted-amazon-indians-face-annihilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The home of the nomadic Awá tribe's indigenous territory in the Amazon suffered the most deforestation in 2009. Now, the last refuge of some 60 to 100 uncontacted Awá is being destroyed.]]></description>
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		<title>Chevron Finds Its Toxic Dumping Didn&#8217;t Harm a Soul in Ecuador</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/13/chevron-finds-its-toxic-dumping-didnt-harm-a-soul-in-ecuador/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/02/13/chevron-finds-its-toxic-dumping-didnt-harm-a-soul-in-ecuador/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Final Argument, Oil Giant's Tally for Clean-up is "Zero" Despite Dumping Billions of Gallons of Waste Into Amazon]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks: US embassy condemned eviction of Kalahari Bushmen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/01/20/wikileaks-us-embassy-condemned-eviction-of-kalahari-bushmen/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/01/20/wikileaks-us-embassy-condemned-eviction-of-kalahari-bushmen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secret US embassy cables released Jan. 20 said the US Ambassador to Botswana strongly condemned that government’s forced eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen.]]></description>
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