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

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The Big Battle

The Big Battle

August 18, 2014

Lummi Nation of Northwest Washington state is leading the fight by Coast Salish First Nations in Washington and British Columbia against the fossil fuel industry’s plan to turn their waters…

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Blind Eye to Genocide

Blind Eye to Genocide

August 18, 2014

Genocide against the Indigenous Ache people by U.S. ally, Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (1954-1989), will be tried before an Argentinian federal court. Well-documented reports of mass murder, rape, enslavement…

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Time to Abolish NATO

Time to Abolish NATO

August 18, 2014

Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire discusses why it is time to abolish NATO and dismantle the military-industrial complex that is eroding freedom worldwide. As war crimes by the U.S./UK/NATO axis…

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Red Skin, White Masks

Red Skin, White Masks

August 18, 2014

Daniel Tseghay’s review of Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Sean Coulthard illuminates the fraud of reconciliation, characterized by the accommodation forced on Indigenous nations by modern states. This violent…

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Kurds, Dulaim and US Airpower

Kurds, Dulaim and US Airpower

August 16, 2014

We are witnessing the breakup of Iraq and the emergence of Kurdistan in northern Iraq (and in Turkey, and Syria) and possibly autonomous Dulaim with their 5 million people in…

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Netwar in the Northwest

Netwar in the Northwest

August 16, 2014

The Native American rally in Seattle, to protect the Salish Sea from fossil fuel export developments in Washington and British Columbia, is a sign that Netwar in the Northwest is…

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Fourth World Center Stage

Fourth World Center Stage

August 15, 2014

If you have been reading the news online, viewing on the television or listening on the radio you may notice that Fourth World nations are at the center of major…

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UN Dishonest Broker

UN Dishonest Broker

August 10, 2014

The announcement by the UN Secretary-General on this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples that indigenous peoples can act as “powerful agents of progress” belies the fact that the…

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Constitutional & Customary Indigenous Governance

Constitutional & Customary Indigenous Governance

August 6, 2014

Joint Statement drafted by CWIS with endorsements from eleven Fourth World governments from Argentina, Burma, Mexico, Nigeria, and the United States of America. The Statement with recommendations for the recognition…

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Netwar in the Big Apple

Netwar in the Big Apple

July 30, 2014

Wall St. vs the Indigenous Peoples Movement published at Counterpunch.

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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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