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

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Do No Harm

February 19, 2008

The Aboriginal Women’s Action Network has come out in opposition to the legalization of brothels in British Columbia to service sex tourism at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. More information about…

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Impeding Impunity

February 17, 2008

Issues facing Ogoni people in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, a documentary by Al Jazeera: Al Jazeera – People in Power: Democracy Delta-Style (Part 1) Al Jazeera – People in Power: Democracy…

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India's tribals: Caught in the crossfire

India’s tribals: Caught in the crossfire

February 17, 2008

Land. Water. Minerals. Guns. They are all connected. In India

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Colonia

February 12, 2008

Pepe Escobar of Real News reports on The Rise of Neo-fascism in Bolivia, and the implications for anti-indigenous violence in 2008.

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Lasting Scars

February 11, 2008

Hardly a family in East Timor was untouched by the Indonesian invasion in 1975. In the occupation, a third of the nation may have died from bombing, starvation and systematic…

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All over there are People Starving to Death

February 7, 2008

Shocking figures. There are over one billion people who are dangerously obese in the world. At the same time there are people who simply do not have anything to eat….

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Curbing Criminal Behavior

February 6, 2008

In his now classic paper on fundamental forms of social organization, Tribes Institutions Markets Networks, RAND’s David Ronfeldt lays the foundation for further discussion on the dynamics of conflict over…

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Economic Warfare

February 5, 2008

In the early 1990s, Daniel Junas, an expert on Reverend Moon’s political operations, proposed that Moon might have gotten his start with funding from Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi was named in the…

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Hard to Imagine

February 4, 2008

Yesterday, the Seattle Times ran an article about tribal healing projects undertaken to deal with the multi-generational community trauma resulting from the brutality of American Indian boarding schools in the…

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Africa’s States Crumble

February 2, 2008

Kenya is aflame with internecine tribal warfare. Sudan is split between the Arab controlled government, the Dinka, Fur, Nuba, and Nubian peoples. Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, the Congo, and Chad have…

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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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