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Always a Good Day
My friend Darryl, a Sto:lo storyteller and retired seafarer living in Spain, once told me of growing up in a logging camp on the Olympic Peninsula where his grandmother was…
Read morePromoting Murder in America
Contrary to public opinion, promoting murder is not protected by the U.S. Constitution. Nor is it protected by tax exempt status, as in the case of charitable trusts and organized…
Read moreWholistic Medicine
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…
Read moreA Nihilistic Tradition
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…
Read moreMaintaining Inequality
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…
Read moreCommunity Mental Health
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…
Read moreArmageddon in our Time
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…
Read moreMultimedia Communication
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…
Read moreChina Attempts to Stifle NGO Statement on Tibet
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)…
Read moreLiberating Mother Earth
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…
Read moreChief 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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