Posts of: Jay Taber
Illuminating the Rift
The difference between appearance and substance is illuminated by the rift between those who support the corporate state while retaining social security and civil rights (liberals), and those who wish…
Read moreBreaking the Blockade
Mondoweiss reports that German Jews have joined the international effort to break the Gaza blockade.
Read moreA Racial Framework
International conventions and domestic legal prohibitions against discrimination based on perceived racial difference are arguably useful tools in promoting equality, even if academia and the moral theatrics industry sometimes mischaracterize…
Read moreUS Human Rights Record
The United Nations Human Rights Council is accepting testimony pursuant to a review of the human rights record of the United States. Indigenous peoples, governments and organizations are encouraged to…
Read moreWhat Have They Gained?
As Zoe Blunt observes in The Dominion, colonial relationships between Canada and its First Nations are exacerbated by projects like the Vancouver Olympics. Desperate for funding to meet basic needs,…
Read moreCWIS Notes
Center for World Indigenous Studies Fellow Mirjam Hirch has been accepted to present a guided poster presentation at the 20th International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) World Conference…
Read moreOlympics Train Wreck
Jules Boykoff examines the publicly-financed corporate franchise called the Olympics. Criticized for dozing native lands, doubling homelessness and militarizing public space, can the Olympics still pretend to preserve human dignity?…
Read moreAnti-Indigenous Development
Consistent with the exclusion of indigenous peoples from UN talks on climate change, Canada and the other Arctic states plan to keep indigenous nations out of their upcoming summit on…
Read moreAbandoning Dominance
As the Celtic nations of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland negotiate the demise of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, bedrock nations in the Americas and elsewhere still…
Read moreDefending Autonomy
The Chilean Mapuche have established an autonomous legal defence unit to protect their political prisoners and community activists from police brutality. Working with the United Nations and NGOs like Amnesty…
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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