For the first time in 20 years, border communities
will not see an increase of Border Patrol agents.
Alliance San Diego
Southern Border: Organizations representing communities along the US-Mexico border are pleased with Congress’ new spending bill that focuses resources on Customs agents rather than Border Patrol agents. Continue reading Border Groups React to Omnibus Spending Bill
Daily Archives: January 25, 2014
Kenya’s Scorched Earth Removal of Forest’s Indigenous
By Matthew Newsome

NAIROBI, Jan 24 2014 (IPS) – Kenyan government security forces are forcefully evicting thousands of people, including the indigenous Sengwer tribe, from the Embobut forest in western Kenya by burning homes and possessions in an effort to promote forest conservation, safeguard urban water access and “remove squatters”.
“The Kenya Forest Guard is burning homes and belongings in the Embobut forest area. They are threatening [people] with AK-47 guns. Gunfire has caused chaos as families run to hide in the mountain forest,” Yator Kiptum, a member of the Sengwer community, told IPS.
The Sengwer people, a traditional hunter-gatherer society estimated to have a population of only 15,000, have inhabited the forest area for hundreds of years and regard the Embobut forest area as their ancestral home. Continue reading Kenya’s Scorched Earth Removal of Forest’s Indigenous