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

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Wholistic Medicine

Wholistic Medicine

October 3, 2008

While the dominant discourse relies on codes and categories that separate for ease of analysis, Indigenous models of knowing rely on awareness of the whole. This awareness is spoken through…

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A Nihilistic Tradition

A Nihilistic Tradition

October 3, 2008

In Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia, Melissa Farley observes that, “In order to normalize prostitution in everybody’s culture, postmodern theory helps to keep the real harms of prostitution, pornography and…

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Maintaining Inequality

Maintaining Inequality

October 3, 2008

In Learning from South Africa, Palestinian activist Haidar Eid and South African activist Savera Kalideen claim that on all counts Zionism is worse than Apartheid. Able to avoid UN Security…

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Community Mental Health

Community Mental Health

October 2, 2008

In the initial issue of the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Bulletin, scholars from around the world look at international mental health in all its dimensions. From Kabul, Naysan Adlparvar…

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Armageddon in our Time

Armageddon in our Time

October 1, 2008

Violent, right-wing pentecostals have a horrific track record in the Fourth World, enabling genocide by undermining traditional indigenous beliefs and practices. Now, this religious-based violence is poised to make a…

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Multimedia Communication

Multimedia Communication

October 1, 2008

Photosynthesis Studio in San Francisco has donated a folder in its digital online portfolio to help me convert some of my written commentary on democracy, human rights and the world…

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China Attempts to Stifle NGO Statement on Tibet

China Attempts to Stifle NGO Statement on Tibet

September 29, 2008

This report demands widespread understanding and recognition. I offer it in full. Monday, September 29, 2008 1:03 AM From: “Tibetan UN Advocacy” <contact@tibetatun.org> To:dramyeis@yahoo.com China Attempts to Stifle NGO Statement on Tibet (Phayul)…

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Liberating Mother Earth

Liberating Mother Earth

September 29, 2008

Mario Murillo writes in Colombia Journal of the struggle for the defense of indigenous rights in Colombia. Enduring brutal repression by the US–backed Colombian military and National Police, the indigenous…

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Learning to be More

Learning to be More

September 28, 2008

In Motion Magazine interviews Raymundo Sanchez Barraza about the indigenous intercultural system of informal education in Chiapas, Mexico. In A University Without Shoes, Barraza explains that saying no to established…

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Time to Help

Time to Help

September 27, 2008

Ending Colonialism Latin American leaders support Morales at the UN, where Bolivia’s president has taken the lead in ending colonialism against indigenous peoples of the world. You can help. We…

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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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