Posts of: Jay Taber
Impeding Impunity
Issues facing Ogoni people in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, a documentary by Al Jazeera: Al Jazeera – People in Power: Democracy Delta-Style (Part 1) Al Jazeera – People in Power: Democracy…
Read moreColonia
Pepe Escobar of Real News reports on The Rise of Neo-fascism in Bolivia, and the implications for anti-indigenous violence in 2008.
Read moreLasting Scars
Hardly a family in East Timor was untouched by the Indonesian invasion in 1975. In the occupation, a third of the nation may have died from bombing, starvation and systematic…
Read moreCurbing Criminal Behavior
In his now classic paper on fundamental forms of social organization, Tribes Institutions Markets Networks, RAND’s David Ronfeldt lays the foundation for further discussion on the dynamics of conflict over…
Read moreEconomic Warfare
In the early 1990s, Daniel Junas, an expert on Reverend Moon’s political operations, proposed that Moon might have gotten his start with funding from Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi was named in the…
Read moreHard to Imagine
Yesterday, the Seattle Times ran an article about tribal healing projects undertaken to deal with the multi-generational community trauma resulting from the brutality of American Indian boarding schools in the…
Read moreEssential Services
In 1994, the premier human rights activist support research center in the US closed its doors due to lack of funding. At the last minute, as phones were about to…
Read moreThe Colonial Agenda
With the US, Canada, and New Zealand comprising the only member states of the UN officially opposed to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, it is not surprising…
Read moreClosing Ranks
The Guatemalan delegation threatened to remove the consultative status of the International Indian Treaty Council. It was a very aggressive reaction. They probably thought that if they could kill twenty…
Read moreGood Old Days
(The e-mail text below is from my Sto:lo friend Darryl E. Bowles, who grew up in the woods near Elwha, Washington in the 1930s, and is now a retired seafarer…
Read moreChief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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