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

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Driving to Extinction

Driving to Extinction

June 7, 2009

Fossil-Fueled Mobility This paper on the Western Amazon describes the relatively intact bioregion as one of the, if not the, most biologically diverse areas on the planet. It also describes…

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Deadly Conflicts in Peru’s Amazon

Deadly Conflicts in Peru’s Amazon

June 6, 2009

Indigenous groups do not want to accept plans that could completely change the way they hunt for food and raise crops. Development of the Amazon is a matter of life…

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Perpetuating Poverty

Perpetuating Poverty

June 6, 2009

Obama Supports Genocide While Obama does a photo op in Germany with President Merkel commemorating the Jewish Holocaust, the Obama Administration back home continues to block recognition of the rights…

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Indigenous Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being

Indigenous Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being

June 6, 2009

On March 23, 2009, Kanienkeha (Mohawk) Educator, Author and Activist Gerald Taiaiake Alfred took part in the Simon Ortiz and Labriola Centre Lecture series on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community….

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Social Disintegration

Social Disintegration

June 5, 2009

Separation from Reality Four decades later, Guy Debord’s 1967 treatise Society of the Spectacle remains one of the most profound analyses of modern humanity. Oblivious to the deepening separation of…

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Christian-Islamist Alliance

Christian-Islamist Alliance

June 3, 2009

Shining a Light Nicolas Dot-Pouillard examines the Anti-American, Anti-Israeli, Christian-Islamist alliance in Lebanon, and its potential for redefining national interests in the Middle East. Making sense of the multiplicity of…

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Confluence

Confluence

June 1, 2009

Later this month, I’ll be visiting Sacajawea State Park, at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers in Washington state, to see the memorial designed by Maya Lin and…

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Fight Against President Garcia Laws Intensify

Fight Against President Garcia Laws Intensify

June 1, 2009

Natives in Peru recently intensified protests they

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Mother Earth

Mother Earth

May 30, 2009

Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) was interviewed on Democracy Now this week. As Congress was busy making pollution deals with coal and oil lobbyists, IEN was busy at…

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42ND BIAFRAN INDEPENDENT ANNIVERSARY DISRUPTED

42ND BIAFRAN INDEPENDENT ANNIVERSARY DISRUPTED

May 30, 2009

Mazi G.S.A. Okoro makes a plea to the world to arise and intervene. Stay informed about Biafra at http://%{domain_name}/FGE/biafra/

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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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