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

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Coping with Diabetes

July 1, 2012

In her graduate thesis, CWIS associate scholar Renee Davis examines the cultural use of local plants to enable coping with diabetes and generational trauma in Salish tribal communities, and how…

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Prensa Indigena

June 30, 2012

Voices Through Time video looks at recovering identity in the Peruvian Andes through the Network of Indigenous Communicators and community radio.

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Extinguishing Sovereignty

June 26, 2012

There’s a term in law to describe coercion to extract something of value from someone under the threat of the commission of serious harm. When the threatened party has already…

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Preventing Discussion

June 22, 2012

As Indigenous delegations bring their message about sustainable development to the UN conference in Rio, the Brazilian military detains hundreds of Indigenous delegates enroute. Posted in Climate Connections, Indigenous Environmental…

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Repertoires of Contention

June 22, 2012

Writing in the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, Konstantin Kilibarda examines Lessons from #Occupy in Canada. As a movement against an economic model that seeks to commodify all social relations…

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Total War

June 21, 2012

With war as America’s largest export, it should perhaps come as no surprise that warmongers with experience in government, or even the war-making industry, should end up in executive roles…

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Undermining Indigenous Liberation

June 19, 2012

The Corbett Report interviews Global Research associate Andrew Gavin Marshall about the history of foundation philanthropy established by the American robber barons — i.e. Ford, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Rockefeller —…

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Prone to Corruption

June 18, 2012

There are some general things that can be said about democracy. Democracy first and foremost is a process, but not all democracies are the same. Some disperse power broadly, while…

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The UN in Decline

June 18, 2012

In The Other UN, Le Monde diplomatique contributor Anne-Cecile Robert gives an overview of the missions of the three UN headquarters outside the one in Manhattan. Writing from Vienna, Robert…

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Green Capitalism

June 12, 2012

As Brenda Norrell notes at Intercontinental Cry, green capitalism is not the solution to the climate change crisis, it is part of the problem–allowing the profiteering countries of the world…

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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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