After airing a video of Indonesian troops torturing West Papuans, Survival International suspects the government of Indonesia as the culprit in the latest cyberattack against their website... more →
The Dominion has obtained documentation of NGO collusion with the Canadian government in excluding First Nations from major environmental accords. As I noted in my post on the orthodoxy of radicalism, those who view activism as a career are always willing to sell out principles they profess to protect. As predictable and controllable entities, the... more →
The Dine and the Appalachians speak different languages, but share a foe in Peabody Coal. In West Virginia, Peabody ships their mountaintops away on coal trains; in Arizona, Peabody pumps their water away in coal slurry pipelines. In a proposed water rights settlement with the Navajo Nation, Peabody is exempt from any limits. Is it... more →
After visiting many old and several very new institutions of learning, as a person trained in the western academe I can use the very tools of western critical social analysis turned back upon the very places that opened my mind to critique of power relations in the first instance. Critical theory suggests that for power... more →
Watching the movie Avatar leads to many Indigenous perspectives on many contemporary issues, including the irony of a movie made for mass production and profits that speaks to enduring issues of colonisation, invasion, destruction of ecosystems, and disrespect to land, people, and the creatures who inhabit and make up the consciousness of a PLACE. Not... more →
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