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Convergence Against Corruption
Joshua Tree reports from Cancun, where federal police harassment of the Mayan caravan has failed to prevent indigenous leaders from mobilizing an international convergence of indigenous communities against the corruption…
Read moreCashing In on Climate Change
Damian Carrington looks at Cablegate, realpolitik, and dirty tricks by the US State Department in undermining global action on climate change. Exposing examples of threats and bribes by Hillary’s henchmen,…
Read moreVicarious Vitality
A while back, I wrote about Zuni Pueblo protector societies that maintain barriers against unhealthy influences on their people. More recently I came across another metaphor in the Apache Mountain…
Read moreTech Tonic
Cablegate, the Wikileaks exposure of State Department conspiracies for lying and spying, does not spell the end of secret government in America, but it is a beginning. By hosting a…
Read moreFront Lines
When the American company Bechtel tried to privatize water in Bolivia, they helped to foment an indigenous peoples’ rebellion. That rebellion, in turn, established an indigenous head of state who…
Read morePositive Change
Ecotrust Awards will be presented in Portland Oregon today to four innovative indigenous leaders from western Canada and the US. Working in health, education, communications and political organizing, the recipients…
Read moreOaxaca Libre
The indigenous communities of Oaxaca have been engaged in a life and death struggle against a corrupt and ruthless state for decades. In the aftermath of the 2006 rebellion, native…
Read moreHigh Honors
On November 16 in Albuquerque, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development bestowed honors on ten recipients for contributions in governance, including the international tribal environmental restoration initiative, Coast…
Read moreThe Wrong Lesson
One of the myths deposed by the Wikileaks US State Department embassy cable cache is the notion of diplomacy as a benign exercise above the fray of dirty dealing that…
Read moreMuskeg Mayhem
Ben Powless reports from the Alberta Tar Sands, where Environment Canada’s blind faith in Canada Natural Resources Limited allowed the oil company to discharge toxic tailings onto the muskeg where…
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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