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From the indigenous point of view, there are only two types of land: the sacred and the desecrated. As indigenous nations defy Canada and the US over the Tar Sands and Powder River strip-mines, the...
View ArticleSurviving Obama
Every U.S. president in my lifetime owned a coup, massacre or genocide in foreign lands. For Obama, the coup in Honduras, the massacres in Libya and the genocide in West Papua stand out–not...
View ArticleResponse to Jay Taber’s column on Sycuan
This column is in response to the condescending, paternalistic and colonialist column by Jay Taber, entitled, “Report From Sycuan” that Intercontinental Cry published on March 23, 2013. I cannot recall...
View ArticleAn Act of Love
When my grandmother was born, the old-growth forests were mostly intact. Half of life on Earth resided in the canopy of these majestic forests. Now they are mostly gone. As the human population closes...
View ArticleI Scream Social
Reading the news from the World Social Forum held recently in Tunisia, I was reminded of kindergarden soccer teams, where the entire group of kids runs after the ball from one end of the field to the...
View ArticleEarth Day Every Day
As corporations and politicians engage in economic environmental extortion over North American energy export of Tar Sands crude and Powder River coal, others are weaving a new narrative for survival....
View ArticleA Crumbling Social Contract
The collapse of the modern state in terms of providing adequate social structure to meet basic human needs creates in turn numerous psychoses: economic panic, religious hysteria, and various...
View ArticleIntroducing #Fairphone the world’s first ethical mobile phone
Given the sheer amount of cruelty and violence that surrounds the production of mobile phones–whether it’s brought to you by Nokia, Motorola, Blackberry, Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony...
View ArticleIndigenous Settler? Decolonization and the Politics of Exile
“Only Hawaiians are Native to Hawai’i. Everyone else is a settler.” - Haunani-Kay Trask What are the obligations of Indigenous people living as settlers on another people’s stolen land? I have been...
View ArticleThe Ogoni: Indigenous Autonomy in an African Context
The Ogoni are a distinctive people, numbering around 850,000, in the Niger Delta region of the modern-day nation-state of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. They have a distinct culture, language, and...
View ArticleIndonesia and the Denial of Indigenous Peoples’ Existence
A recent opinion editorial from a member of Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights, Hafid Abbas, attempts to claim that there are no Indigenous People within the state of Indonesia. Abbas...
View ArticleValue for Money
Tragic comedy best describes the political theatre of Pacific International Terminals and its hired guns for a coal export facility proposal in Washington state. Even before the environmental impact...
View ArticleCorruption and Impunity: Illegal Dispossession of Indigenous Maasai Land in...
The post-independence Kenya Government has a dark history among the Indigenous Maasai people. The enactment of laws and legislations that ignored traditional land rights and land use practices have...
View ArticleControlling Minds
Under neoliberal fascism, controlling minds means controlling teachers. When teachers in Oaxaca went on strike in 2006 against government corruption, federal, state and local police hired assassins to...
View ArticleHarper Solicits Research to Blame First Nations for Murdered, Missing and...
Canada’s shameful colonial history as it relates to Indigenous peoples and women specifically is not well known by the public at large. The most horrific of Canada’s abuses against...
View ArticleDegrees of Evil: Savoring the nuances of co-optation
Mind games of the non-profit industrial complex aren't hard to decipher; the gullible simply have to decide they no longer want to be coddled by bromides, no longer treated as infantile consumers of...
View ArticleTaseko claims “misinformation campaign” in desperate last ditch effort
In the final days of the federal environmental assessment hearings for the hotly contested “New Prosperity” gold-copper mine project, proponent Taseko Mines attempted to discredit the overwhelming...
View ArticleBig Oil funds Reconciliation in Vancouver
From September 18-21, 2013, the 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' (TRC) is holding an event in British Columbia as part of its Canada-wide effort “to promote awareness and public education about...
View ArticleIUCN attempts to greenwash Shell with flawed report on oil disaster in Ogoniland
Shell Petroleum Development Company Ltd of Nigeria (SPDC), Shell for short, recently received a report titled “Sustainable Remediation and Rehabilitation of Biodiversity and Habitats of Oil Spill Sites...
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