At UN, Indigenous
Tells ICP Guterres Hasn't Met
Them, Of Norway & Dakota
Access Pipeline
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS,
April 27 – As Citigroup's
annual general meeting of
shareholders began in Cooper
Union in Manhattan on April
25, outside a protest formed.
Casey Camp-Horinek spoke,
movingly; the Reverend Billy
Talen began a song. Periscope
here.
Inner City Press has covered
earlier Citigroup AGMs as
well, about CitiFinancial's
predatory lending that robbed
consumers and ultimately
helped trigger the financial
meltdown. What has changed
since? And what has changed at
the UN? On April 27 at an Indigenous
Forum press conference, Inner
City Press asked Rune
Fjellheim of the Saami
Parliament in Norway if that
country's sovereign wealth
fund is still invested in the
Dakota Access Pipeline. It
sounds like it is: see
Periscope video here.
Inner City Press asked the
other panel members if "new"
(112 day) Secretary General
Antonio Guterres has met with
the Indigenous Forum. They
both said that he has not,
that maybe he is "too busy."
Inner City Press told them Guterres
spokesman has said Guterres
will be back in New York on
April 27 (although as of 5:30,
his scheduled had not been
posted, nor had the UN's transcript
of its noon briefing gone
online. The day before this
protest of Citibank for among
other things funding the
Dakota Access Pipeline, Inner
City Press at the UN on April
24 asked a panel of the Permanent
Forum on
Indigenous
Issues about
the protest
and more
generally
about
corporations
which the UN
blue-washes
through its
Global Compact
and otherwise.
Video here,
from Minute
39.
Willie
Littlechild a First Nations
Cree chief from Canada said he
wasn't (yet) aware of the
protest, but that he supported
it, that is it hard to protest
at the UN. That's putting it
mildly: the US First Amendment
does not apply to and is not
accepted by the UN, which bans
protests and evicts
the Press which covers there,
without hearing or appeal. But
Inner City Press, even confined
to minders within the UN
has it has been for 14 months
and counting, interviewed
other attendees of the
Permanent Forum, and will
continue to. Watch this site.
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