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

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Gendarmerie Royale

May 22, 2012

Back in January when Canadian Prime Minister Harper and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver demonized environmentalists and First Nations opposed to government plans to violate the Canadian constitution and international…

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Hank Adams Reader

May 21, 2012

Perhaps it’s a holdover from 1950s TV Westerns where Indians were savages that had to be killed in order for the settlers to turn the wilderness into a garden. Then…

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The Time That Has Come

May 19, 2012

When the Zapatista uprising appeared in world media in January 1994, it wasn’t out of the blue; Mayan communities had been holding assemblies to discuss the ramifications of armed defense…

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Deforestation & Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

May 18, 2012

SBSTA Session Bonn, Germany – Indigenous Peoples’ concerns on Deforestation The International Indigenous Peoples’ forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) is meeting in Bonn, Germany during the current intergovernmental session where…

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Legitimizing Theft

May 18, 2012

The Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, presenting at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues recently, made a case against the UN World Intellectual Property Organization as a monopolistic manifestation of…

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International Intervention

May 17, 2012

Karla E. General examines the conflict between the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and US law. In the wake of the Ninth Circuit decision that desecration of…

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Fascist Infrastructure

May 16, 2012

Writing at Black Agenda Report, Dave Lindorff examines the National Operations Center through which the White House directs the coordinated efforts of federal, state and local police against Occupy. Also…

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UN Challenge

May 16, 2012

Aborigines request United Nations peacekeepers to protect them against aggression by the Australian Government.

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A Lucrative System

May 13, 2012

Sometimes, the overwhelming violence in Mexico due to the drug trade can be bewildering, especially when innocent civilians, human rights activists and journalists are brutally murdered. But this violence, of…

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Anti-democratic Offensive

May 10, 2012

As the United States Departments of State and Defense gear up for a new round of destabilization campaigns in South America in 2013 and 2014, the second generation of democratic…

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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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