As dominant society venues for participation in UN climate change talks go virtual, indigenous peoples are getting real. Jay Taber, Rudolph Rÿser and Renee Davis provide historical perspective on the…
read moreAs President Obama announces his plans for accelerated development in Africa, one is reminded that a quarter of the Earth’s mineral resources are located there, including substantial oil reserves. As…
read moreTaking Down the System Writing in Orion magazine, Derrick Jensen argues that piety is a dead end. Saving the planet, he says, requires taking down the system.
read moreNo governments hold Canadian corporations accountable for murder.
read moreThe crackdown on Uyghurs in China, like the systematic brutality of Israel toward Palestinians, betrays the promise of universal human rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948. More recently,…
read moreWith little notice and almost no public debate, Iraq
read moreExercising Treaty Rights The Umatilla tribe in Oregon has reached an agreement with the US Forest Service to graze tribal cattle on lands governed by their treaty rights. As the…
read moreAccording to indigenous peoples worldwide, surviving climate change requires reliance on the resilience and adaptability of indigenous customary laws, not the exclusionary laws of commerce developed by corporations seeking monopolies….
read morePowering Down Le Monde diplomatique looks at the false promise of biotech, and the sobering reality of powering down.
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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