Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-sixth session
Commission on Human Rights,
Fifty-sixth session, 19 March – 27 April, 2001
Agenda item 11, Civil and Political Rights
Written intervention submitted by the International Indian Treaty Council
a) Torture and Detention
The International Indian Treaty Council, along with thousands of human rights organizations and leaders around the world, expresses our shock, dismay and profound disappointment that outgoing United States President William Clinton refused to grant Executive Clemency for American Indian Political prisoner and human rights defender Leonard Peltier. Mr. Clinton failed to take a stand for justice and human rights by granting clemency to Mr. Peltier, although he gave of clemency and pardons to 140 other prisoners, including some of his own former business partners, on the final day of his presidency. Read more
TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS DELEGATION SPEAKS OUT AT THE LEHMAN BROTHERS SHAREHOLDERS MEETING IN NEW YORK CITY April 2001
Anonymous Hopi Traditional,
VOICES FROM OUR ANCESTORS AND OUR GREAT CREATOR
I am from Hopi Nation. We have come here to talk to Peabody Mining Company about coal and water. Traditional and priesthood people don’t want this mining. The Hopi prophecies say that we have to protect land and life. If we don’t protect our beautiful Earth- our Heaven, our Mother, We will suffer with her. All over the country water will be contaminated and the air will be polluted. Living creatures will die from poisons left by industry. Peabody is also depleting our precious water resources. This is what Peabody is doing to the land in Arizona. Read more
Supreme Court rejects Navajo case
Navajo families and activists disputing an agreement which would move them off Hopi tribal land in Arizona had their freedom of religion challenge rejected by the Supreme Court on Monday. Read more
Anonymous Hopi Traditional
VOICES FROM OUR ANCESTORS AND OUR GREAT CREATOR
I am from Hopi Nation. We have come here to talk to Peabody Mining Company about coal and water. Traditional and priesthood people don’t want this mining. The Hopi prophecies say that we have to protect land and life. If we don’t protect our beautiful Earth- our Heaven, our Mother, We will suffer with her. All over the country water will be contaminated and the air will be polluted. Living creatures will die from poisons left by industry. Peabody is also depleting our precious water resources. This is what Peabody is doing to the land in Arizona. Read more
A delegation of 12 indigenous leaders from the traditional Dineh, traditional Hopi and traditional Lakota nations visites Lehman Brothers in New York City
The following is a synopsis prepared by the organizers of the friendly takeover of Lehman Brothers. Be sure to check out the Pacifica archives (www.pacifica.org) for the Democracy Now show (nationally syndicated pacifica morning show) which aired April 3rd, 2001, featuring Roberta Blackgoat, Chief Joe Chasinghorse, Leonard Benally and Arlene Hamilton. Read more
Supreme Court rejects Navajo case
Navajo families and activists disputing an agreement which would move them off Hopi tribal land in Arizona had their freedom of religion challenge rejected bythe Supreme Court on Monday. Read more
