When I was briefly a member of the Democratic Party in the mid 1990s, I was amused at the looks I’d get when asking why the party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner…
read moreEcotourism managed right can be a boon to indigenous communities, but the decision to capitalize on conservation has to be their own. Otherwise, tourism is just another invasion of indigenous…
read moreLast week, four indigenous leaders in Chile were sentenced to 20+ years in prison for their involvement in Mapuche activism. As the half million Mapuche of the Southern Cone continue…
read moreToday is BDS Global Day of Action against Israeli Apartheid. Check out some of the campaigns, news, and analysis surrounding the international boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions organized worldwide.
read moreFrom Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen, and Libya the untold story fundamental to the unrest is about the hundreds of indigenous nations, communities and groups that have suffered long suppression…
read moreDifferent societies and cultures respond to crisis in different ways. As Tokyo tries to downplay the threat of nuclear meltdown, the German Green Party has mobilized an anti-nuclear campaign that…
read moreReal News looks at the largest concentration of radioactivity on the planet, the spent nuclear fuel at hundreds of sites in the United States. With the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
read moreHow many times have you heard people say nothing ever changes? How often does this fatalistic attitude serve as an excuse to be lazy, cowardly, or otherwise self-indulgent, rather than…
read moreIn yet another episode of the handmaid’s tale, Harvard is hosting Christian apostles whose claim to fame is exorcising witchcraft and demonizing gays. (Indigenous spirituality is one of their targets.)…
read moreAnnie Bird reports on the latest anti-indigenous developments in Guatemala, where Mayans are being evicted from their homelands by the army and police to facilitate biofuel plantations. Repeating the colonial…
read moreThe 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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