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	<title>Mother Earth Journal &#187; indigenous</title>
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	<description>Environmental journalist Terri Hansen reporting American Indian Tribes &#124; Indigenous Peoples:  Culture &#124;  Climate Change &#124;  Sustainability &#38; Adaptation &#124; Environmental Justice &#124; Environmental Health &#124; Environmental and Climate Disasters</description>
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		<title>UN: Thirty-four Colombian tribes face extinction</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/un-report-thirty-four-colombian-tribes-face-extinction/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/un-report-thirty-four-colombian-tribes-face-extinction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the UN Commissioner for Refugees warns at least 34 Colombian tribes face extinction due to continuing violence on their lands.]]></description>
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		<title>Seattle police officer slays Native woodcarver for whittling</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/05-seattle-police-officer-slays-native-woodcarver/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/05-seattle-police-officer-slays-native-woodcarver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrol officer guns down talented Native woodcarver John Williams for using carving tools, leaving the community stunned, and outraged.]]></description>
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		<title>Bushmen denied water, launch appeal</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/09/01-bushmen-denied-water-launch-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa's High Court denies Bushmen their right to a well on their lands inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, while Botswana's president describes their way of life as 'an archaic fantasy.']]></description>
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		<title>Proposals of “Peoples Agreement” included in texts for UN negotiations</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/17-proposals-of-peoples-agreement-included-in-texts-for-un-negotiations/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/17-proposals-of-peoples-agreement-included-in-texts-for-un-negotiations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main proposals of the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Right of Mother Earth were incorporated in the UN document for consideration in the next round of negotiations.]]></description>
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		<title>NAJA&#8217;s 2010 Media Awards &#8211; Indian Country Today wins six</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/najas-2010-media-awards-indian-country-today-winner-of-six/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/najas-2010-media-awards-indian-country-today-winner-of-six/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Native American Journalists Association honors the year's best journalism with their 2010 Media Awards. ]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous rights: Maya in Belize, San in Botswana both get ambiguous outcomes in court</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/05indigenous-rights-jerry-reynolds/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/08/05indigenous-rights-jerry-reynolds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 28 in Belize, the high court delivered a verdict in favor of customary Maya land rights. On July 21, an ocean away, the high court in Botswana ruled against San water rights in the parched Central Kalahari Game Reserve. By Jerry Reynolds.]]></description>
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		<title>Iroquois Nationals salute FIL World Lacrosse Championships</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/iroquois-nationals-salute-fil-world-lacrosse-championships/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/iroquois-nationals-salute-fil-world-lacrosse-championships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team salutes the Federation of International Lacrosse, their leadership, the coaches, staff and support groups, and the players, who carry on the honor of their nations and the spirit of this game.]]></description>
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		<title>England says &#8220;no&#8221; to Iroquois Nationals on travel waiver</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/england-says-no-to-iroquois-nationals-on-travel-waiver/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/england-says-no-to-iroquois-nationals-on-travel-waiver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oren R. Lyons, honorary chairman of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team expresses disappointment that their talented team could not travel to compete in the world championships on their Haudenosaunee passports - essential, like the game of lacrosse invented by their ancestors, to their identity as a sovereign people making their way in the world community. ]]></description>
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		<title>Iroquois Nationals have not withdrawn from championships</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/iroquois-nationals-have-not-withdrawn-from-championships/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/iroquois-nationals-have-not-withdrawn-from-championships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team has not withdrawn from the 2010 Federation of Lacrosse World Championships. The team is ready to depart once the United Kingdom issues their clearance to travel.]]></description>
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		<title>In Kenya, national politics of Mau Forests Complex trickle down to Ogiek</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/in-kenya-national-politics-of-mau-forests-complex-trickle-down-to-ogiek/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/in-kenya-national-politics-of-mau-forests-complex-trickle-down-to-ogiek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[16,000 Ogiek - Indigenous Peoples - live in East Africa's largest forest, the Mau in Kenya. So do a similar number of settler families and a few absentee politicians who gained their land holdings illegally. Some of these same powerful figures in Kenya recruited police and local accomplices to tear down Ogiek dwellings. The illicit “land grabbers” plant wheat on Ogiek traditional lands, and Ogiek houses are in the way. By Jerry Reynolds.]]></description>
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		<title>Klamath Restoration Begins</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/klamath-restoration-begins-2/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/klamath-restoration-begins-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal agencies initiate environmental review of plan to restore rivers, farms, and communities of the Klamath Basin. By Craig Tucker.]]></description>
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		<title>Iroquois Nationals still waiting for British officals to review applications for entry</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/16iroquois-nationals-still-waiting-for-british-officals-to-review-applications/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/16iroquois-nationals-still-waiting-for-british-officals-to-review-applications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team continues to work through diplomatic channels to try to resolve issues with the British Consulate to allow the team to travel and compete for the 2010 World Lacrosse Championships. By Valerie Taliman.]]></description>
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		<title>Passport fiasco creates critical delay for Iroquois lacrosse team bound for World Games</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/iroquois-lacross-team-delay-for-world-games/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/07/iroquois-lacross-team-delay-for-world-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Iroquois team is competing in the World Lacrosse Championships in England - the “Olympics” of lacrosse. But after 20 years traveling on Iroquois Confederacy passports, the State Department and Dept. of Homeland Security suddenly want to approve their clearance through U.S. Immigration, causing the team considerable worry that any delay will cost them the win. By Valerie Taliman.]]></description>
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		<title>California&#8217;s Marine Life Protected Areas process scapegoating native cultures, tribal members say</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/06/californias-marine-life-protected-areas-process-scapegoating-native-cultures/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/06/californias-marine-life-protected-areas-process-scapegoating-native-cultures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tribal members and the Coastal Justice Coalition say Marine Life Protected Act Initiative would allow for deep water drilling but ban tribal gathering. They want tribal rights and uses deemed outside the scope of the state's authority and the initiative process.]]></description>
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		<title>International Funders for Indigenous Peoples celebrates 10 years of growing philanthropy</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/2558/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/2558/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 18:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 9th IFIP conference opened with traditional indigenous blessings by local elder and councilor Levi Martin, on breathtaking Tin Wis Beach, the ancestral homelands of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation.]]></description>
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		<title>Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award Open for Nominations</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/ecotrust-indigenous-leadership-award-nominations/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/ecotrust-indigenous-leadership-award-nominations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 02:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five innovative Northwest leaders will be recognized in December by Ecotrust's Indigenous Leadership Awards, with $45,000 in award money. Nomination deadline: August 15, 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>Indegenous Peoples&#8217; Declaration: Mother Earth can live without us, but we can&#8217;t live without her</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/indegenous-peoples-declaration/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/05/indegenous-peoples-declaration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 21:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cochabamba, Bolivia - April 19-22, 2010: Over 35,000 participants take part in the first ever World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.]]></description>
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		<title>Climate&#8217;s Second Chance: the World Peoples&#8217; Conference on Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/the-climates-second-chance/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/the-climates-second-chance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of indigenous peoples and climate activists from around the world gathered in Bolivia to speak as a unified voice after the failed UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen.]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivia: THE PEOPLES AGREEMENT</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/bolivia-the-peoples-agreement/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/bolivia-the-peoples-agreement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Peoples Agreement, crafted at the Global People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, April 22 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. critical of Botswana&#8217;s mistreatment of Bushmen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/us-critical-of-botswana-treatment-of-bushmen/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/us-critical-of-botswana-treatment-of-bushmen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. State Department critical of Botswana for their narrow interpretation of a 2006 High Court ruling that grants Bushmen the right to return to their land and for their banning Bushmen access to their water borehole, needed for survival. Yet Botswana allows Wilderness Safaris to run a tourist lodge with swimming pool in the reserve.]]></description>
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		<title>UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples to consider indigenous peoples local adaptation and mitigation</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/un-permanent-forum-on-indigenous-peoples-adaptation-and-mitigation/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/04/un-permanent-forum-on-indigenous-peoples-adaptation-and-mitigation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming ninth UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues sessions in New York City April 19-30 to focus in part on the implications of climate change on indigenous peoples, and local adaptation and mitigation measures.]]></description>
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		<title>First UN &#8216;State of the World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples&#8217; report alarming</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/01/15un-state-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/01/15un-state-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first UN report on state of the world’s indigenous peoples reveals startling and alarming statistics on poverty, health, education, employment, human rights, the environment and more. ]]></description>
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		<title>It’s National Stalking Awareness Month: Native Americans stalked more than other ethnicities</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/01/native-americans-stalked-more-than-others/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2010/01/native-americans-stalked-more-than-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Native Americans, especially tribal leaders, tribal attorneys, and activists are stalked more than other ethnic groups in the U.S. January is National Stalking Awareness Month. Mother Earth Journal will focus on this increasingly sophisticated crime intended to terrorize its victims.]]></description>
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		<title>International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change to COP15</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/iipfcc-statement-to-cop15/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/iipfcc-statement-to-cop15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Final statement of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change in response to COP15.]]></description>
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		<title>Heart of Dryness: Climate Change Coping Strategies</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/heart-of-dryness-climate-change-coping-strategies/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/heart-of-dryness-climate-change-coping-strategies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought. A new book by James G. Workman.]]></description>
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		<title>Naga community voice at Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/naga-community-voice-at-copenhagen/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/naga-community-voice-at-copenhagen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the growing global climate crisis it&#8217;s indigenous communities who experience it&#8217;s worst adverse early impacts. Climate change is threatening indigenous livelihoods, culture and economy more than people of other regions. Indigenous communities around the world looked to the Copenhagen climate summit to provide solutions to their growing, catastrophic problems. But the summit left these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COP15 calling attention to indigenous rights</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/cop15-calling-attention-to-indigenous-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/cop15-calling-attention-to-indigenous-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indigenous peoples, dependent on their natural ecosystem for sustenance, livelihood and culture have front row seats to climate change as their lands experience its earliest and most devastating impacts. Yet they have little say in the 15th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations.]]></description>
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		<title>Klimaforum09 Peoples Declaration finalized, open to signatures until Dec. 13</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/klimaforum09-peoples-declaration-finalized-open-to-signatures-to-dec-13/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/klimaforum09-peoples-declaration-finalized-open-to-signatures-to-dec-13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vision of Klimaforum09, ’A Peoples Declaration’ that expresses the hopes, ideas, solutions and visions of citizens groups and social movements from all corners of the planet is completed and ready to sign on. The declaration initiated in response to fears that the official climate deal would focus on technological fixes and bias towards the rich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning Saturday, LIVE coverage from Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/09live-coverage-from-copenhage/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/09live-coverage-from-copenhage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terri Hansen begins live coverage from Copenhagen Saturday, December 12th on Indigenous Day: A rally, speeches, exhibits, videos of climate destruction already happening around the world in indigenous communities.]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous delegates from Australia head to Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/indigenous-delegates-from-australia-head-to-copenhagen/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2009/12/indigenous-delegates-from-australia-head-to-copenhagen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representatives of Australia's northern Aboriginal land councils will fly to the United Nations' climate change conference in Copenhagen today.]]></description>
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