As California prepares to vote on the legalization of marijuana, Bolivia explores new popular uses for coca. Both demonized by US agencies profiting from police and military actions against them,…
read moreIn February 2010, Bety Carino, a Mixtec organizer from Oaxaca spoke at the Frontline Defenders conference in Dublin, Ireland about the aboriginal struggle against the free trade invaders in Mexico….
read moreIN EACH VILLAGE WERE GREAT HOUSES SOME SEVENTY FEET BY FIFTY FEET OF CLEAR ROOF SPAN, WITH GRACEFULLY FLUTED POSTS AND BEAMS, IN THE HOUSES THERE WAS WEALTH — NOT…
read moreAs the Mapuche political prisoner hunger strike enters the deadly phase, Dawn Paley of The Dominion documents how Canadian corporations and the World Bank have aggravated the conflict against indigenous…
read moreShell Oil denounced for undermining indigenous peoples human rights in order to profit from UN climate change protocols. Shell, Chevron, and the Clinton Foundation are funding REDD initiatives aimed at…
read moreUnder former president Uribe of Colombia, recently appointed by the UN to investigate Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Colombia’s indigenous peoples experienced horrific atrocities. Terrorized by the Colombian…
read moreLaura Miller writes at Salon about the US government’s betrayal of the Navajo in order to mine, mill and dump uranium. With a lethal legacy of carcinogenic land, water and…
read moreWhen ever privileged male voters in the United States believe their status and privileges are about to be challenged, they turn on the economically weakest with a vengeance. “Wealth has…
read moreFast-track mining contracts in Palawan, backed by the Armed Forces of the Phillipines, may be illegal, but they are also indicative of the underlying reality obscured by UN biosphere designations,…
read moreIn his talk Indigenous Resurgence and Traditional Ways of Being, University of Victoria Professor Gerald Taiaiake Alfred examines the fundamental challenges facing indigenous peoples and their friends in confronting the…
read moreThe 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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