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	<title>Mother Earth Journal &#187; human rights</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>Cell Phones Run Amok, Ready To See Through Walls, Your Clothes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/05/13/cell-phones-run-amok-ready-to-see-through-walls-your-clothes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 01:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers At UT Texas Tap Into Terahertz Spectrum For Consumer Use To See Though Walls, Clothes, and Into Bodies Even As Researchers at  Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico Discover Terahertz Waves Destroy Human DNA By Unzipping Human Helix Strand.]]></description>
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		<title>TREATY RIGHTS RECOGNIZED BY THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/22/treaty-rights-recognized-by-the-organization-of-american-states/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/22/treaty-rights-recognized-by-the-organization-of-american-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 20th, a historic consensus decision adopting strong language on Treaty Rights was taken by the States attending the 14th session of negotiations for the proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Washington DC.  The proposed Declaration has been under negotiation by Indigenous Peoples and the 35 member States of the Organization of American States since 1995.]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing Past Stalking Interference to Commit Journalism</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/02/pushing-past-interference-to-commit-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/04/02/pushing-past-interference-to-commit-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See "The Blog."]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas reindeer mystery as world’s largest herd plummets</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world's largest reindeer herd, which roams the vast tundra of Quebec and Labrador in eastern Canada has plummeted in size. The local indigenous people blame the spread of massive industrial projects in the area.]]></description>
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		<title>Portland Indian Leaders Share Release of &#8220;The Native American Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/5487/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/5487/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we celebrate National Native American Heritage Month, Portland's Indian Leaders Roundtable via a press release say they are excited to share the release of “The Native American Community in Multnomah County:  An Unsettling Profile” – the most widespread study of an urban Indian community, in this case, Portland, Ore. 

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		<title>&#8220;End the Secrecy!&#8221; Says Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/21/end-the-secrecy-says-sarstoon-temash-institute-for-indigenous-management/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/21/end-the-secrecy-says-sarstoon-temash-institute-for-indigenous-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management Demands Explanation for US Oil Company’s Return to National Protected Land]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental disasters]]></category>
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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>Drug Traffickers Overrun Guard Post Set Up to Protect Uncontacted Amazon Indians</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/08/15/drug-traffickers-overrun-guard-post-set-up-to-protect-uncontacted-amazon-indians/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/08/15/drug-traffickers-overrun-guard-post-set-up-to-protect-uncontacted-amazon-indians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian guard post protecting Indians who have never had any contact with others and who were filmed for the first time from the air earlier this year has been over-run, and ransacked by heavily-armed suspected drug-traffickers.]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental health]]></category>
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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>One of Amazon&#8217;s Last Nomadic Tribes Struck By Epidemic</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/one-of-amazons-last-nomadic-tribes-hit-by-epidemic/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/one-of-amazons-last-nomadic-tribes-hit-by-epidemic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An outbreak of respiratory disease struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes, which has already seen their numbers decimated by flu and malaria. Around 35 Nukak-Maku, including nine children, were admitted to a hospital well over capacity in the Colombian Amazon, leaving some in make-shift beds.]]></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>Peru in shock move to abolish uncontacted tribe’s reserve</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/11/peru-in-shock-move-to-abolish-uncontacted-tribe%e2%80%99s-reserve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The survival of the uncontacted tribe whose images caused a worldwide sensation is jeopardized by the Peruvian governments' plans to abolish a reserve that protects their territory. Peru reversed their plan in early June. Their Culture Ministry has promised to protect the tribe's reserve.]]></description>
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		<title>Data from hacked computer (mine)</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/04/my-hacked-compute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My computer is hacked. Someone got physical possession, installed their own modems, and took possession, or ownership, and made me a user deceptively called "Owner Administrator." HiJack This programming has been altered, it will no longer run a system scan. SpyBot setting have been altered. My Avast Pro Internet Security has been altered.]]></description>
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		<title>England Bars Tribunal Rep Investigating Child Trafficking Allegations Against Church and State</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/31/england-bars-tribunal-rep-investigating-child-trafficking-allegations-against-church-and-state/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/31/england-bars-tribunal-rep-investigating-child-trafficking-allegations-against-church-and-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 00:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State representative arriving in London to address a public rally against allegations of child trafficking by church and state was arrested and deported May 30. ITCCS said the move was intended to halt the tribunal's inquiry into the matter.]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda Admits Using Force in Anti-Thatch Houses Campaign</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/30/rwandan-government-admits-using-force-in-anti-thatch-houses-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/30/rwandan-government-admits-using-force-in-anti-thatch-houses-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 05:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rwandan admits sometimes applying some force in their campaign to destroy all thatched roofed Batwa Pygmy homes after hundreds of Twitter users protested. Some of the country's most marginalized people are without homes. The Batwa, forced from their ancestral homes to create national parks free of humans, now live on the fringes of society. ]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Giant ConocoPhillips Pulls Out of Controversial Amazon Project</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/14/oil-giant-conocophillips-pulls-out-of-controversial-amazon-project/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/14/oil-giant-conocophillips-pulls-out-of-controversial-amazon-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 15:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global outrage over the risk oil companies pose to the lives of two uncontacted tribes in the northern Peruvian Amazon prompted the U.S. ConocoPhillips to pull out of the controversial oil block.]]></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>Brutal Attack on Endangered Tribe</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/06/brutal-attack-on-endangered-tribe/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/05/06/brutal-attack-on-endangered-tribe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 18:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man from the Jarawa tribe in India's Andaman Islands and one of the world's most endangered tribes was seriously wounded while trying to stop intruders intent on hunting his tribe's game. The police are treating his attack as attempted murder.]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Supports Restrictions on Portland’s Terrorism Task Force Involvement</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/20/aclu-supports-restrictions-on-portland%e2%80%99s-terrorism-task-force-involvement/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/20/aclu-supports-restrictions-on-portland%e2%80%99s-terrorism-task-force-involvement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ACLU of Oregon supports the proposal put forward by Portland's Mayor Sam Adams regarding the city's relationship with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. The proposal is consistent with the spirit of the city council's 2005 resolution, they say, and includes added safeguards that will make it stronger. ]]></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>Borneo Tribe Denied Vote in Crucial Elections</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/13/borneo-tribe-denied-vote-in-crucial-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/13/borneo-tribe-denied-vote-in-crucial-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Penan tribespeople won't vote in crucial elections in Sarawak, because they don't have hard to obtain identity cards.]]></description>
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		<title>Rwandan ‘anti-thatch’ campaign leaves thousands of ‘Pygmies’ homeless</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/05/rwandan-anti-thatch-campaign-leaves-thousands-of-pygmies-homeless/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/04/05/rwandan-anti-thatch-campaign-leaves-thousands-of-pygmies-homeless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Rwandan government program to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa ‘Pygmies’ homeless.]]></description>
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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>Amazon Tribe Losing Fish, Vital to Diet and Culture to Dam Construction</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/29/amazon-tribe-losing-fish-vital-to-diet-and-culture-to-dam-construction/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/29/amazon-tribe-losing-fish-vital-to-diet-and-culture-to-dam-construction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dam construction in Brazil's Jurena river basin is decimating fish populations the fish eating Enawene Nawe tribe need for life. Last year's plunging fish populations forced a dam construction company to buy farmed fish to keep tribal members from starving.]]></description>
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		<title>Borneo tribes: 30-year regime &#8220;has destroyed everything&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/24/borneo-tribes-30-year-regime-has-destroyed-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/24/borneo-tribes-30-year-regime-has-destroyed-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 30-year rule of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud has "raped’ their land," say the tribespeople in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo. It has destroyed their rainforests and brought "hardship and suffering."]]></description>
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		<title>Horrific Treatment of Amazon Indians 100 Years Ago Exposed</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/17/horrific-treatment-of-amazon-indians/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/17/horrific-treatment-of-amazon-indians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some 30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved, tortured, raped and starved in a 12-year period during the rubber boom, says a historic report submitted 100 years ago today.]]></description>
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		<title>Unethical U.S. Medical Studies Still a Possibility, Bioethicists Say</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/08/08-unethical-u-s-medical-studies-could-happen-today/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/03/08/08-unethical-u-s-medical-studies-could-happen-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bioethicists advise Obama's Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues that medical experiments like the recently uncovered unethical medical research that was done to 1,500 Guatemalan people could still happen today, and on U.S. soil.]]></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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