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Our Right to be Human and the Need to be Humane
Yeah, this latest column/commentary of mine came out Dec. 31, in the Lincoln County Leader. You have to understand my method, though: while I am a full-fledged communist, I have to navigate my local community. I have already been banned from teaching in the k12 system, at the local community college. I am an unemployable […]
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Brazil: Guarani Leader Killed in Attack on Indigenous Community
Vicente Fernandes Vilhalva, a spokesman for the Guarani Kaiowá people was shot in the forehead by gunmen who attacked his community. © Aty Guasu/Survival International While Indigenous land rights are under scrutiny at the COP 30 in Brazil, in the Sunday morning darkness on November 16, attackers descended on an Indigenous community far to the […]
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The Architecture of Avoidance
“Since my life as a prisoner has begun, I have heard of some white men who said they owned my land and my home. I don’t believe they do. I have never given any consent to such ownership. The land belongs to my people and to our children.”1 “We were taught that God’s laws are […]
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The Ancient History of Socialism in North America
Monday was Indigenous People’s Day, when much of the United States celebrates a murdering, enslaving, profiteering, imperialist Italian sailor mercenary and missionary who couldn’t tell one continent from another, wisdom from ignorance, or value from waste. I was born and raised and have mostly lived in the eastern United States, and yet when I hear […]
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Canada’s Recognition of Palestine and the Enduring Logic of Colonial Erasure
Newspaper: The Rights of the Palestinian People “The only way to stop this evil [loss of land], is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land as it was at first, and should be now — for it never was divided, but belongs to all for […]
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India: Police Raid Indigenous Village inside Tiger Reserve
Forest Department officials break down the shelters of Jenu Kuruba people who had reclaimed their old village inside Nagarhole Tiger Reserve. This morning more than 250 police, forest guards and tiger force members raided a village which Indigenous people had reclaimed in a tiger reserve six weeks ago. The security forces tore down seven forest […]
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India: Evicted Tribe Re-occupies Their Homes inside Famous Tiger Reserve
Jenu Kuruba families begin their long-awaited re-occupation of their ancestral homes inside the Nagarhole National Park. They carried photos of loved ones who had died after the village was evicted, so they too can return to the forest. ©Sartaz Ali Barkat/ Survival A group of Indigenous people who were evicted from their ancestral village in […]
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Hold onto Your Ethical and Intellectual Integrity with All Your Might
In the face of an avalanche of brain-numbing and spiritual-lobotomizing wrong “truths” and miseducated citizens, it is still incumbent upon the misinformed, ill-informed and uninformed to attempt to learn. Deep learning deploys a set of lenses that takes the complexities of contradictions and not-so-self-evident truths and focus into some sense of why “they” are where […]
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Brazil: 5 Years on, Amazon Guardian’s Killers Still Escape Justice
Paulo Paulino “Lobo” Guajajara, Guardian of the Amazon, was killed in an ambush by loggers in his people’s territory, Arariboia. © Sarah Shenker/Survival International Five years after the killing of Paulo Paulino Guajajara, an Indigenous Amazon Guardian who was gunned down by illegal loggers, his family still waits for justice. Paulo’s death was widely covered […]
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