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

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All over there are People Starving to Death

All over there are People Starving to Death

February 7, 2008

Shocking figures. There are over one billion people who are dangerously obese in the world. At the same time there are people who simply do not have anything to eat….

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Curbing Criminal Behavior

Curbing Criminal Behavior

February 6, 2008

In his now classic paper on fundamental forms of social organization, Tribes Institutions Markets Networks, RAND’s David Ronfeldt lays the foundation for further discussion on the dynamics of conflict over…

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Economic Warfare

Economic Warfare

February 5, 2008

In the early 1990s, Daniel Junas, an expert on Reverend Moon’s political operations, proposed that Moon might have gotten his start with funding from Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi was named in the…

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Hard to Imagine

Hard to Imagine

February 4, 2008

Yesterday, the Seattle Times ran an article about tribal healing projects undertaken to deal with the multi-generational community trauma resulting from the brutality of American Indian boarding schools in the…

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Africa’s States Crumble

Africa’s States Crumble

February 2, 2008

Kenya is aflame with internecine tribal warfare. Sudan is split between the Arab controlled government, the Dinka, Fur, Nuba, and Nubian peoples. Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, the Congo, and Chad have…

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Essential Services

Essential Services

February 1, 2008

In 1994, the premier human rights activist support research center in the US closed its doors due to lack of funding. At the last minute, as phones were about to…

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Nations open door to Energy Independence

Nations open door to Energy Independence

January 29, 2008

Guest Contributor: Laura Killian, CWIS Associate Scholar Obtaining clean energy and working towards independence from fossil fuels has, up until recently, been a far off, expensive notion for small communities….

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The Colonial Agenda

The Colonial Agenda

January 29, 2008

With the US, Canada, and New Zealand comprising the only member states of the UN officially opposed to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, it is not surprising…

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Closing Ranks

Closing Ranks

January 27, 2008

The Guatemalan delegation threatened to remove the consultative status of the International Indian Treaty Council. It was a very aggressive reaction. They probably thought that if they could kill twenty…

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Good Old Days

Good Old Days

January 25, 2008

(The e-mail text below is from my Sto:lo friend Darryl E. Bowles, who grew up in the woods near Elwha, Washington in the 1930s, and is now a retired seafarer…

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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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