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

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Energy Imbalance

Energy Imbalance

August 10, 2015

The thermodynamics of climate chaos, due to biomass energy imbalance, is the topic of a National Academy of Sciences paper. In ‘Human domination of the biosphere: Rapid discharge of the…

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Trust Lands Cold War

Trust Lands Cold War

August 4, 2015

Judge David Avraham Voluck, Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, and Sarah Deer discuss the need to end the State of Alaska’s opposition to Alaska Native…

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Ports and Treaties

Ports and Treaties

July 28, 2015

Lloyd Zimmerman for Port Commissioner: Most Important issue over 4 years? Stewardship and restoration of Bellingham Bay. Mitigating the negative impacts of Bakken Oil Trains and Coal Trains. They are…

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Pornography

Pornography

July 28, 2015

Melissa Farley discusses the public health crisis of pornography, in particular the human trafficking that makes prostitution profitable.

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Israel's Concentration Camp-Gaza

Israel’s Concentration Camp-Gaza

July 21, 2015

Max Blumenthal writes in his column “The Next Gaza War” that more than 500,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip remain displaced by Israel’s relentless bombing in 2008 when more than…

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Forced FW Assimilation-Russia

Forced FW Assimilation-Russia

July 14, 2015

The Russian Federation along with Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Ukraine abstained from voting for or against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in…

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FW Wars & Refugees

FW Wars & Refugees

July 12, 2015

The CWIS FW Refugees project continues to monitor changes in the number of forced Fourth World refugees resulting from wars, climate change, and corporate land confiscation. As a result of…

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A Sacred Trust

A Sacred Trust

June 5, 2015

Coast Salish Nation, a kinship-based society of Washington tribes and British Columbia First Nations on the Salish Sea, announced on June 3, 2015 that they will seek a seat at…

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FW Slavery?

FW Slavery?

June 3, 2015

The third largest criminal activity in the world is human trafficking or bluntly, modern slavery.Twenty-two million to Thirty-eight million people in the world are victims of slavery–involuntary servitude. The Indian…

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Separate FW Political Paths

Separate FW Political Paths

June 3, 2015

Settler states such as Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Argentina have a difficult time comprehending why the peoples among whom they settled fail to disappear. Mexico is…

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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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