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In Memoriam: Dr. Rudolph C. Rÿser, Founding Chair, CWIS

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Tom Goldtooth: Indig. Resistance to Globalization, Part 2

Tom Goldtooth: Indig. Resistance to Globalization, Part 2

November 10, 2010

Tom Goldtooth, Dine’ and Mdewakanton Dakota from Minnesota, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, at the Teach-In on Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Economic Globalization, November 2006. He speaks and…

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Sustainable Alternatives

Sustainable Alternatives

November 9, 2010

The plan by Chevron and other investors to raze a quarter million acres of the Mojave for solar development illustrates the challenge of renewable energy within an unsustainable culture. Tidal,…

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Genuine Human Frailties

Genuine Human Frailties

November 8, 2010

I just finished reading July’s People, a novel written by Nadine Gordimer in the midst of the South African civil war. Along with The Lying Days, written during the early…

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Hijacking Mythology

Hijacking Mythology

November 7, 2010

I saw War and Peace at the 2002 San Francisco International Film Festival, and was blown away. Spectacle, myth, theater, and propaganda–it’s all there in this exquisite documentary by Bombay…

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Absence of the Sacred

Absence of the Sacred

November 7, 2010

In his book The Globalisation of Poverty, Michel Chossudovsky exposes UN agencies like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank as part of the credit cartel subverting state sovereignty and…

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Forest Rescue Fraud

Forest Rescue Fraud

November 7, 2010

REDD is a Ponzi scheme using the threat of climate change to rip off indigenous peoples’ resources. If the UN was genuinely concerned about humankind, it would not have silenced…

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Obama's Death Squads

Obama’s Death Squads

November 6, 2010

While Indonesian military forces torture and murder West Papuans, President Obama decided to lift the military assistance ban to the country’s elite death squads. With the release of video footage…

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Enemy of the People

Enemy of the People

November 5, 2010

The Thought Police I began my morning reading about Tibetan journalists imprisoned and tortured by Chinese security agents for interviewing Tibetans about their cultural disintegration. The next news item was…

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Nations Versus States

Nations Versus States

November 5, 2010

A while back, Bill Weinberg wrote that the 4th World War, characterized by NAFTA and other instruments of colonial reconquest, is an extension of previous genocides against indigenous peoples–a conflict…

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Turtle Island Storyteller, the Late Vi Hilbert

Turtle Island Storyteller, the Late Vi Hilbert

November 5, 2010

The late Vi Hilbert, whose Indian name is Taqwseblu, was a member of the Upper Skagit tribe. Her life’s work was preserving the Lushootseed (Puget Salish for “Puget Sound, connected…

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Chief 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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