Posts of: Jay Taber
Precarious Platforms
As Global Voices notes, the crackdown on independent media by the Peruvian government has been mirrored by hackers and swarmers attacking indigenous rights bloggers. A good lesson about backing up…
Read moreWitness in Peru
Witness looks at social media and indigenous rights in Peru.
Read morePerilous Priorities
Pretentious Pretensions Assistant Secretary of State explains why human rights is not a priority with his boss.
Read moreGreenwashing Big Oil
The Alberta Tar Sands is the largest and arguably dirtiest, carbon-generating industrial project in human history. So how do the oil companies go about defeating the First Nations and bona…
Read moreDiversity or Death
As showcased on the Survival International website, the diversity of humanity is intimately tied to the diversity of nature. Given the contribution to climate change of predatory practices like deforestation…
Read moreRigged Against Justice
Philip Weiss discusses the significance and the shortcomings of the Goldstone Report, as well as the obstacles to Palestinian justice and Israeli accountability posed by the United States. As US…
Read moreNorton Finally Investigated
Gale Norton, former Secretary of the Interior, is finally being investigated for corruption in office. Having built a career helping energy, mining, and timber corporations steal US assets, Norton now…
Read moreFree Ride
Anti-War activists in the US could learn from their friends in the UK, whose campaign against the global arms trade is making headway in holding British companies accountable for profiting…
Read moreTla-o-qui-aht
Tla-o-qui-aht get new reserve on Vancouver Island Pacific coast near Tofino. I once visited this magical place around the corner from the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve, and am glad to…
Read moreState Schizophrenia
With the rise in consciousness of human rights instruments devised through the UN to redress the profound grievances of indigenous peoples resulting from colonialism, schizophrenic state institutional behavior has become…
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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