Posts of: Jay Taber
Principles of Organizing
Learning to use communications technology, while valuable, should not be overemphasized at the expense of learning the principles of organizing. While computer-based research and education has expanded our access to…
Read moreNorthern Ireland
Northern Ireland Assembly votes to take over policing and justice from UK. Westminster to facilitate transfer by mid-April.
Read moreAdios Yanquis
Latin America shuns Canada and the US. Establishes alternative organization to OAS.
Read moreA Plan of War
When Michel Chossudovsky wrote his seminal book The Globalisation of Poverty, the dismembering of Yugoslavia was still underway. As a project of globalization, the orchestrated monetary attack on the socialist…
Read moreIdentity of Possession
A while back, I wrote about the fabric of identity, and if insufficiently authentic, how it can unravel. In our consumer society, identity is closely associated with possession, and as…
Read moreJewish Responsibility
Chas Freeman discusses Jewish collective denial and the responsibility of Jewish diaspora for apartheid in Israel, where the “aggressive amorality of the Israeli state is now the source of an…
Read moreWar in the Andes
From 1980-2000, the government of Peru fought a civil war against indigenous guerrilla fighters in the Andes mountains. Last year, the Peruvian government fought to a standstill with the indigenous…
Read morePride of Warriors
Pride of Warriors, a documentary about the West Papuan independence movement, is scheduled for release this year. You can watch the trailer here.
Read moreTribal Health
In Progress Can Kill, Survival International examines how imposed development destroys the health of tribal peoples, and how the continuity of culture and land base is the path of return…
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.
access here