Indigenous Peoples' Land Life Knowledge Collective

Our land, lives and knowledge systems are sacred. Respect our ways of living and stop colonising us.

[Indigenous Peoples' Land Life Knowledge Collective @IndigenousLLK]

Sijimali - known to its people as Tijmali, is the sacred abode of Tij Raja.
For generations, Adivasi & Dalit communities have lived and protected the land as their kin. Hundreds of perennial streams originate from Sijimali, nourishing the lives of all beings.
This is the trailer of our film 'The Mali and The Parasite' which documents the journey of 'Ma Mati Mali Surakhya Mancha' an assertive collective of the people of Sijimali, Majingmali and Kutrumali, covering more than 50 villages in the foothill lands of Rayagada and Kalahandi districts of Odisha.
In 2023, Vedanta was granted mining lease for the extraction of bauxite from Sijimali hills.
What followed was not just a resilient struggle to protect land and forests, but a battle to protect the indigenous / Adivasi / tribal vision of life-worlds.
In Sijimali, public hearings happen surrounded by barbed wires under police watch, Gram Sabha resolutions are faked and corporate-state nexus play dirty games to manufacture consent ....
But the women stand guard to protect their forests, hills, streams, lands and Tij Raja.
And people assert a truth :
Extraction of forests, hills and streams is destruction and to manufacture consent for the same is genocidal.
This is not just a story about people resisting mining, but a story of land and forests as life worlds for people who are its kin.
📷 Stand with the people of Sijimali .... Stand with Tij Raja !!!

[Indigenous Peoples' Land Life Knowledge Collective @IndigenousLLK]

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On the eve of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, more than 2000 people attended a protest rally and public meeting at Rayagada district headquarters town in the southern region of Odisha state in India.
The protest rally celebrated indigenous peoples' power and their resistance to mining, militarisation and state repression on indigenous peoples' movements. The protest rally was attended by women, men, youth and children from five different indigenous peoples' movements. The main demands, which were also submitted in written form to the Rayagada District Collector including:

## Immediate cancellation of all mining leases to companies like Adani, Vedanta and Aditya Birla.
## Withdrawal of all false cases against leaders of all indigenous peoples' movements
## Investigations into forced and fake Gram Sabha (village council) resolutions showing peoples' consent to mining
## Immediate and effective implementation of self governance laws in all indigenous regions.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Decolonisation #land #life #knowledge

[Ground Zero @pcfsgroundzero]

TOMORROW, we will ZERO IN on #OperationKagaar!

Meet our speakers from Revolutionary Students Front - India, @_facam, IPLLK, & @ILPS_Official 📢

Register NOW! ✒ https://t.co/3nAW6fgl64
1:30PM Delhi🇮🇳 | 4PM Manila🇵🇭 | 10AM Geneva🇨🇭
#StopOperationKagaar #StoptheBombings

[Indigenous Peoples' Land Life Knowledge Collective @IndigenousLLK]

𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 “𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐊𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐑”
𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 “𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐇𝐀𝐍-𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐫”
𝐏𝐔��𝐋 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐏𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐀𝐁𝐔𝐉𝐇𝐌𝐀𝐀𝐃
𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐒
𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐁𝐎𝐌𝐁𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒
𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫.

https://t.co/X9Kmx99qAs

[PCFS 🇵🇸 @PCFSGlobal]

PH peasant leaders call to #StopOperationKagar in solidarity w/ rural people in Central India. @PCFSGlobal is one with the peasant movements in the PH & Central India vs the militarization of rural communities and its enabling laws.

READ MORE: https://t.co/sOd7L39as7

[ILPS Commission 10 @ilpscomm10]

LOOK: Anti-imperialist activists join the Global Day of Action to Stop Operation Kagar.

[Pranab Doley @PranabDoley19]

A national network, Community Network Against Protected Areas call out @assamforest for bloods in their hands. Killings and Fake Encounters by Assam Forest Department in Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary https://t.co/xO2wyteqfd via @countercurrents

[The RAI @RoyalAnthro]

~ Thursday's Plenary ~
Anthropology and Education Conference

𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻: 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁

Introduction & chair: Hugh Brody

Discussants
Gyal Lo
Rajaraman Sunderasan
Lorna Williams

Full plenary abstract: https://t.co/vKFydCjc5s

[The RAI @RoyalAnthro]

Anthropology and Education Conference

~ 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 ~

As part of the Anthropology and Education Conference we offer two film sessions per day.

Find the full programme here: https://t.co/2i5nItB998

[InSAF India @IndInsaf]

Appeal to all Rights Activists and organisations to ensure #Adivasi WHRD Suneeta Pottam’s security while in police custody in #ChhattisgarhPlease read statement with details of arrest below @RelatorDd
@IndiaUNGeneva
@Survival
@londonmining

[Indigenous Peoples' Land Life Knowledge Collective @IndigenousLLK]

KISS signing MoU with Adani.

https://t.co/uP4Xi2wTWF

[SouthAsia Solidarity @SAsiaSolidarity]

Mega boarding schools like Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) are funded by the environmentally criminal #AdaniGroup

[SouthAsia Solidarity @SAsiaSolidarity]

Mega boarding schools like Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) are funded by the environmentally criminal #AdaniGroup

[Indigenous Peoples' Land Life Knowledge Collective @IndigenousLLK]

@rosammat @saumyaranjanna @XaxaSpeaks @DollyKikon @r_gov11 @radicalanthro @PranabDoley19 @pranavmenon19 @nandinisundar @VikalpSangam

[Indigenous Peoples' Land Life Knowledge Collective @IndigenousLLK]

The policy of assimilating indigenous communities by putting their children in boarding schools has been increasingly disproved and abandoned, most publicly throughout North America, Australia and Canada since the 80s. In India, this history and its dangers are little known, with relatively little awareness of how residential schooling is being used as laboratories of de-indigenisation of Adivasi communities. This disguised growth of extractive schooling of Adivasi children has now reached an unprecedented scale, with many similar manifestations of the cultural genocide that have evoked resistance elsewhere. Boarding schools for Adivasi children, more particularly in mineral-rich regions, have almost become a rite de passage to becoming a part of an extractive society, and not a means for achieving social justice

Mega boarding schools like Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), in Odisha, India not only receive large amounts of capital from corporations that wrest control over Adivasi lands, but have emerged as nodal agents for extractive corporations and Hindutva organisations to engineer indigenous identities and agencies to justify India's booming neoliberal economy.

[Pranab Doley @PranabDoley19]

Community leaders and stewards of their spaces would be in conversation .@ICCAConsortium @Survival @aippnet @glorious_gluten @clifroz @EleoFanari @LongoFiore @m_ogada @chikikothari

[Indigenous Peoples' Land Life Knowledge Collective @IndigenousLLK]

https://t.co/l4CuyiBkeg

[Laura Pipolo (Terzani) @L_PipoloTerzani]

Todays exclusionary practice of Protected Areas are rooted in colonial occupation.
European colonisers brought their hunting tradition (killing for pleasure/sport), a strong market economy & advanced firearms resulting in over-hunting and wildlife loss.
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[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

India could destroy a remote tribe by building new Hong Kong
https://t.co/YxOruEWWkt

[Indigenous Peoples' Land Life Knowledge Collective @IndigenousLLK]

A powerful interview with indigenous activist and scholar from Kaziranga @PranabDoley19 where he exposes the dark underbelly of militarized conservation.

A must-read:
https://t.co/AEhTSvyHso