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

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Best Novel

Best Novel

June 13, 2009

Half of a Yellow Sun With the Shell settlement for complicity in murdering Nigerian human rights activists in the news this week, I thought that readers might enjoy getting to…

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Let the Work Begin

Let the Work Begin

June 12, 2009

Restoring Community Decolonization is a spiritual battle for the restoration of community. Creating an authentic life requires consistency and a commitment to traditional ways of being. There is no easy…

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Reality in Advance

Reality in Advance

June 11, 2009

Some news stories leave one breathless, like this one about unregulated dioxin-tainted fish. Dioxin, the cancer-causing residue of the chemical industry, has long been the reason for Superfund cleanups and…

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Humanity Extinguished

Humanity Extinguished

June 10, 2009

As US oil corporations (with the eager assistance of criminalized governments) murder indigenous peoples in the Canadian Prairies, the Niger Delta, and the Amazon Basin, American consumers face a moral…

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Corporate Violence Continues

Corporate Violence Continues

June 9, 2009

There has been no greater challenge to the life, territory, culture and very existence of Fourth World peoples than that presented by the greed and impunity of unregulated resource extracting…

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Remembering

Remembering

June 9, 2009

FRONTLINE remembers Tiananmen. Do you remember Tlatelolco? How about Kent State?

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Colonial Pie

Colonial Pie

June 8, 2009

Phil Lucas, the late and legendary Choctaw filmmaker, once remarked that American Indians — after five centuries of colonialism — have learned very well how to divide and conquer themselves….

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Shell to Pay $15.5 Million to Settle Nigerian Case

Shell to Pay $15.5 Million to Settle Nigerian Case

June 8, 2009

Royal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta in…

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Driving to Extinction

Driving to Extinction

June 7, 2009

Fossil-Fueled Mobility This paper on the Western Amazon describes the relatively intact bioregion as one of the, if not the, most biologically diverse areas on the planet. It also describes…

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Deadly Conflicts in Peru’s Amazon

Deadly Conflicts in Peru’s Amazon

June 6, 2009

Indigenous groups do not want to accept plans that could completely change the way they hunt for food and raise crops. Development of the Amazon is a matter of life…

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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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