Posts of: Jay Taber
Native Hawaiian
The American Bar Association supports the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act.
Read moreFive Hundred Years
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has again ruled against the government of Mexico for abuses committed against the indigenous peoples of the State of Guerrero. As throughout the region…
Read moreCelts in Spain
Causa Galiza, the pro-independence initiative of Galicia, has launched a challenge to the legal framework of the Spanish Constitution. Citing the undue limits imposed on Catalan national autonomy in northeastern…
Read moreOutside the Realm
Coast Salish nations gathered recently at Swinomish to discuss action on their international effort to restore the resources of the Salish Sea. Part of their discussion with each other, as…
Read moreAcademics v Apartheid
South African academics mobilize the boycott against the apartheid State of Israel.
Read moreA Judicious Orientation
I was thinking the other day about the Public Good network, and tried to pinpoint what it is that energizes the individuals that comprise this milieu. In terms of intellect,…
Read moreDetermining Dialogue
The limited focus by the state of Chile on development dialogue for indigenous territories is disrespectful toward the inherent owners dispossessed by Chilean colonialism, and is an impediment to plurinationalism….
Read moreScourge of the Jungle
In the news last week for teaming up with Chevron and the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation in support of REDD initiatives to turn indigenous peoples’ forests into corporate plantations, Shell…
Read morePerilous Passage
In their video From Tar Sands to Tankers, Green Planet Productions examines the perilous passage of the proposed Enbridge pipeline, a project that would turn Northern British Columbia into The…
Read moreCoca Colla
As California prepares to vote on the legalization of marijuana, Bolivia explores new popular uses for coca. Both demonized by US agencies profiting from police and military actions against them,…
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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