Indigenous Activists Tom Goldtooth & Eriel Deranger on the Link Between Colonialism & Climate Crisis

Democracy Now! is broadcasting live from COP27, the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where hundreds of activists protested outside the plenary hall Thursday to demand climate justice. We speak to two Indigenous activists and land defenders at the summit, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger and Tom Goldtooth. "It is frontline communities, land defenders and Indigenous peoples that have experienced the loss of our territories at the hands of oil and gas and extractivism," says Deranger, executive director of Indigenous Climate Action and member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. "Colonialism has to be addressed in these hallways, and there's been lack of political will around that," says Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network and member of the Diné and Dakota nations.

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Tribes were talking about climate ABUSE in the 1970s. Still, no one talks about using LESS, only using OTHER. From e-battery and wind turbine waste and pollution, to horrific pollution in China from making "enriched" soil for solar panels, nothing has changed. An audience member at an event said, we were hoping you all would save us. Even as we were being exterminated, we taught crop rotation, treating animals with respect, growing crops that environment naturally sustained in their native geography, and using only what you needed. Never did we "teach" monoculture, waste and water pollution by farmers, who are worst offenders, the horrors of animals born into Agribusiness, and placing rice paddies in the middle of the California desert. Yet native peoples, as always, pay the highest price.

[michaelgnit]

Your guests are telling the truth. How many treaties signed by the US Government have been honored? I think this is a great question it will tell the public how seriously the US Government take their commitments.

[sallycasas]

The indigenous people of the world are having to live through the plunder that corporations cause for the sole purpose of grabbing profits over considering human life. Compassion, transparency, integrity and accountability for all!

[patriciahayes]

Again, thank you for bring me the stories that no others seem to be carrying/caring for the disenfranchised and our mother earth.

[Safaura]

I love how much you cover indigenous voices

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Thank you Democracy Now and Amy Goodman, for your coverage.

[louannwaters]

Water is Life 💦 I stand with the indigenous people! Prayers up🙏

[mazeratifox]

Don't worry I heard the same thing..he sat on my lap 😅🤣. Glad he cleared that up btw 🙌🏾. Serious issue tho def needs help 🙏🏾.

[keithdixon]

Thank you Democracy Now Great Reporting Amy Goodman very informative.

[robertrichard]

The Indian was a natural conservationist. He destroyed nothing, great or small. Destruction was not a part of Indian thought and action; if it had been, and had the man been the ruthless savage he has been accredited with being, he would have long ago preceded the European in the labor of destroying the natural life of this continent (Turtle Island). The Indian was frugal in the midst of plenty. When the buffalo roamed the plains in multitudes he slaughtered only what he could eat and these he used to the hair and bones.
I know of no species of plant, bird or animal that were exterminated until the coming of the white man.
--Chief Luther Standing Bear,
Oglala (Teton) Sioux
American Indian

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Love and respect Mrs. Amy Goodman. TRUTH-whether it hurts or not.

[SacClass]

It's true, Inka colonialism ravaged what is today Peru's environment. Their civil war in particular was environmentally destructive, spanning not just Peru, but modern-day Ecuador, too.

[AR-]

Please cover more tribal/water/land/resource exploitation in NA and from all over the world too!

[sculptingus]

Thankfully I got this this morning!
Thankfully your part of a Legacy that will bring Light within the Heart of everything..Indigenous people are Earth's most beautiful life form more beautiful..well our lives, my life, our families. The most beautiful people are the people we Love. Though above there are Feather Rose's dancing before the fields, to treelines, paths that have been created since the beginning of Time.
Listening again and again. We must!
Imagine
Imagine
For here within our States is a power supply of a People who are the Pondorosa Pines the Cottonwoods and Pinions in ways of this land. In ways that at last the Day is theirs. Listen to songs that have been here since way before. Inspired from this Time where of course tbe leaders of this future are such as these. Yep! Goodness is the fuel that brings us above the waves.

[jeremiahjoseph]

It was a honor to meet Joye at the stop MVP rally we had at the capital this past September. Her voice at that rally was one I will always remember…

[tabianamoto]

not for nothing but Amy looks AMAZING - truly she loves being out and about! Amazing reporting~

[danishaffer]

I really like his shirt, Tom Goldtooth has style.

[patland]

Thank you so very much for this interview.

[danielvalleduarte]

I encourage anyone on YouTube to seek out and listen to Indigenous leaders & storytellers speak about their history and philosophy.

[melokulekumalo]

Kabila langu ni Balanta na Zulu. European Colonialism is a global issue. The U.S. and Africa have been greatly affected. I am pleased to see this interview. Great work on multiple levels. Ubuntu Ma'at Ase'🙏🏿