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

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Episcopal Church Repudiates Doctrine of Discovery

July 26, 2009

In a first-of-its-kind action in the Christian world, the national Episcopal Church has passed a landmark resolution repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery and urging the U.S. government to endorse the…

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Chinese Hack Film Festival Site

July 26, 2009

Chinese hackers have attacked the website of Australia's biggest film festival over a documentary about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. Content on the Melbourne International Film Festival site was briefly replaced…

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Nakba

July 25, 2009

Israel bans teaching history of the State of Israel from the Palestinian perspective.

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Atleo National Chief

July 24, 2009

Shawn Atleo, son of CWIS Associate Scholar Richard Atleo, has been selected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada.

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Shared Identity

July 24, 2009

One of the things the Internet has helped facilitate is a shared universal identity as members of a species under threat from man made disasters: climate change, microbial metamorphosis, and…

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Free West Papua

July 23, 2009

Indonesian military on rampage against peaceful West Papua independence movement supporters. European Parliament to discuss human rights situation.

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Protecting Traditional Medicine

July 22, 2009

The world is full of a wealth of precious knowledge. That has to be protected by all means. We are all responsible to keep this wonderful knowledge alive and vibrant….

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Raising a Ruckus

July 22, 2009

Ten years after the Battle in Seattle exposed corrupt UN agencies like the World Trade Organization (WTO), Climate Justice Action has announced its intention to disrupt the December 2009 UN…

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Israel Bans

Israel Bans “Catastrophe” Term from Arab Schools

July 22, 2009

Israel will remove from school textbooks an Arabic term that describes the 1948 creation of the Jewish state as a “catastrophe”, the Education Ministry said on Wednesday.

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Living with Nature

July 21, 2009

The two oceanic entries to Washington state’s interior are Cape Flattery in the north, and Cape Disappointment in the south. Inside Cape Flattery lies the Salish Sea, including Strait of…

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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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