Posts of: Jay Taber

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Berkeley Students Divest Berkeley student senate votes in favor of UC divestment in US companies supporting the Israeli military.

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I was just reading a casual exchange between some British and Portuguese bloggers, and they mentioned how every town and village in their respective countries has citizen’s advice centres, where…

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Amazonia for Sale, the online film from Peru, documents the fight of the Awajun and Wampis to defend their territory from the Peruvian government and mining companies. Using Internet videography,…

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As I stood along the Sacapulas bridge rail, I glanced up and was startled to see a fully armed military patrol in camouflage gear marching toward me,. The line grew…

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The extension of citizenship rights to peoples that have been dispossessed and subsumed by the very States that are granting these rights is simply a form of internal colonialism. Indeed,…

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Mirjam Hirch, in her 2005 essay Tajik and Turkmen Traditions of Health in Uzbekistan, describes the distinct tribal identities within the fabricated states of Central Asia, and how the suppressed…

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Mexican Army and police increase harassment of Zapatista communities in Chiapas. Ethnic cleansing in preparation for ecotourism and biofuel plantations includes burning the Mayan villages.

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Electronic Intifada examines how European Union trade preferences support Israeli aggression in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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The new colonialism in Africa sounds a lot like the old plantations of America.

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First Nations in British Columbia set up blockades to protect their water resources from municipal and industrial extraction.