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	<title>Intercontinental Cry</title>
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	<description>For the People, the Land and the Truth</description>
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		<title>Stop Killing and Starvation of Samburu People in Kenya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past 8 months, the Kenyan government has carried out a brutal campaign of violence against indigenous Samburu People in north-central Kenya, using their own police and military forces as well as government-funded mercenaries from Somalia. 
The most infamous attack took place in April, when military forces sprayed a caustic chemical onto group of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/stop-killing-and-starvation-of-samburu-people-in-kenya/</link>
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		<title>WANTED: Ray Hunt, in person, in the Amazon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Yine, Machiguenga and Harakmbut communities, issued a statement this month demanding  to speak &#8216;directly&#8217; to Ray Hunt, CEO of the Texas-based company Hunt Oil. James Pliny reports.
Can you imagine oil tycoon and Bush associate Ray Hunt in the Amazon? That&#8217;s what three tribes have requested. Hunt’s company, Hunt Oil, is exploring on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/wanted-ray-hunt-in-person-in-the-amazon/</link>
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		<title>Indian and Northern Affairs Canada is no steward of the land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Auditor General of Canada, Ms. Sheila Fraser, has singled out Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) for its abysmal role as a steward of Indigenous lands. 
According to Ms. Fraser, who released her 2009 audit to the House of Commons last week, INAC, and to a lesser extent, Environment Canada, has routinely failed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/indian-and-northern-affairs-canada-is-no-steward-of-the-land/</link>
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		<title>Duta Palma&#8217;s Filthy Palm Oil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Semunying Jaya, an indigenous village in Borneo, speaks out about the destruction and deforestation of their land by the Palm Oil plantation industry. 
The Dayak village of Semunying Jaya, located in West Kalimantan, a province bordering the Malaysian state of Sarawak, has struggled for more than 20 years from successive companies destroying  their customary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/duta-palmas-filthy-palm-oil/</link>
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		<title>Paraguayan village sprayed with toxic chemicals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following an overturned eviction last week, an Ava Guarani community in Paraguay&#8217;s Itakyry district was sprayed with toxic chemicals, most likely pesticide, resulting in nearly the entire village needing medical treatment.
On November 6, at least 50 men connected to a group of Brazilian soya farmers tried to expel the community from their land.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/paraguayan-village-sprayed-with-toxic-chemicals/</link>
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		<title>Mexican High Court Rules Against Canadian Gold Mine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four weeks ago, one of Mexico&#8217;s highest courts, the ninth Tribunal of the first circuit, confirmed that an open-pit gold mine in Cerro San Pedro, a village in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, is being  operated illegally by Minera San Xavier, a subsidiary of the Canadian mining company New Gold.
A similar ruling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/mexican-high-court-rules-canadian-gold-mine-illegal/</link>
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		<title>Growing Hope in Northern Manitoba Communities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.”
In this video, Indigenous people in northern Manitoba talk about their struggle for food security and the barriers of extremely high food [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/growing-hope-in-northern-manitoba-communities/</link>
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		<title>Indigenous Guarani occupy FUNAI headquarters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Guarani communities in Brazil continue to reclaim their lands and face even more evictions&#8212;one leading to the disappearance of two indigenous teachers on Oct. 29&#8212;two days ago,  more than 50 Guarani People occupied the headquarters of FUNAI, Brazil&#8217;s Federal Authority of Indigenous Affairs, in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenous-guarani-occupy-funai-headquarters/</link>
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		<title>Underreported Struggles #31, October 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this month&#8217;s Underreported Struggles: Mexican Superior Court Orders Immediate Halt to Gold mine; Amazon mega-dams stoke new wave of Indian protests; Officer arrested over alleged killing of Awa Indians; Tahltan in Standoff over Hunting Rights; Police confront Indigenous peoples of the Didipio valley.
Oct 31 &#8211; Mexican Superior Court Orders Immediate Halt to Gold mine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/underreported-struggles-31-october-2009/</link>
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		<title>Ogieks will not be evicted from the Mau forest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is emerging that members of the Ogiek community will not be evicted from the forest after all. 
The Secretariat of Mau task force committee said last week that the Indigenous Ogieks will not be evicted from their ancestral land in Kenya&#8217;s Mau forest. 
As reported by NTVKenya, the announcement came as Prime Minister Raila [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://intercontinentalcry.org/ogieks-will-not-be-evicted-from-the-mau-forest/</link>
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