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The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Culture of Resistance, Indigenous Autonomy, Featured

The disturbing history of how conservatorships were used to exploit, swindle Native Americans

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This story first appeared in The Conversation. By Andrea Seielstad. Pop singer Britney Spears’ quest to end the conservatorship that handed control over her finances and health care to her father demonstrates the double-edged sword of putting people under the legal care and control of another person. A judge may at times deem it necessary to … Continue reading The disturbing history of how conservatorships were used to exploit, swindle Native Americans →
The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Culture of Resistance, Indigenous Autonomy, Featured

Brazil court upholds ban on missionaries trying to contact isolated Indigenous

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This story first appeared in Mongabay. by Fernanda Wenzel Brazil’s highest court has upheld a ban on missionaries entering reserves that are home to isolated and recently contacted Indigenous people during the pandemic. The decision comes in response to a lawsuit filed by Indigenous organizations against a law passed in July 2020 that allowed missionaries to … Continue reading Brazil court upholds ban on missionaries trying to contact isolated Indigenous →
The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Human Supremacy, Agriculture, Toxification, Repression at Home, Culture of Resistance, Building Alternatives, Indigenous Autonomy, Featured

Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai‘i

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This article first appeared in Yes! magazine. By LIBBY LEONARD There are four things you should know,” says David Fuertes to the youths he mentors. “You should know your origins, because your ancestors have paved the way. You should know your values and connect in those values, because that’s going to drive you to make … Continue reading Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai‘i →
The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Culture of Resistance, Listening to the Land, Featured, Agriculture, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change

The Problem

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This is an excerpt from the book Bright Green Lies, P. 1-7 By LIERRE KEITH “Once our authoritarian technics consolidates its powers, with the aid of its new forms of mass control, its panoply of tranquilizers and sedatives and aphrodisiacs, could democracy in any form survive? That question is absurd: Life itself will not survive, … Continue reading The Problem →
The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Featured, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land

Our Health Depends on Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Plants That Are Rapidly Being Destroyed

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This article originally appeared in Common Dreams. The decline is one of the effects of the industrial modernization that is supposed to have brought increasing comfort, health, and advanced knowledge into our lives. By JOHN BUELL Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – While mainstream media celebrate the remarkable development in record time of vaccines … Continue reading Our Health Depends on Indigenous Botanical Knowledge and Plants That Are Rapidly Being Destroyed →
Culture of Resistance, Indigenous Autonomy, Featured, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Direct Action, Indirect Action, Noncooperation, Lobbying, Protests & Symbolic Acts, Obstruction & Occupation

“People vs. Fossil Fuels’’: Winona LaDuke & Mass Protests Call on Biden to Stop Line 3 Pipeline

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This piece was first published at Democracy Now!     By AMY GOODMAN In response to the completion of the contested Line 3 pipeline, which is now reportedly operational, thousands of Indigenous leaders and climate justice advocates are kicking off the “People vs. Fossil Fuels’’ mobilization, an Indigenous-led five-day action of civil disobedience at the … Continue reading “People vs. Fossil Fuels’’: Winona LaDuke & Mass Protests Call on Biden to Stop Line 3 Pipeline →
Featured, Climate Change, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Indigenous Autonomy, Obstruction & Occupation, Protests & Symbolic Acts

Settlers Have an Obligation to Defend Treaty Rights, Too

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This article originally appeared in YES! Magazine. BY ALEC CONNON & ERIKA LUNDAHL Shanai Matteson, a 39-year-old White settler, sat in the stuffy overflow room watching the packed Public Utility Commission meeting, along with more than a hundred others, in St. Paul, Minnesota, in June 2018. Over several hours, she listened as dozens of people—Native elders, local … Continue reading Settlers Have an Obligation to Defend Treaty Rights, Too →
Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land, Movement Building & Support

Ayoreo appeal to Inter-American Commission to save their forest from destruction

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This article originally appeared in Survival International. Featured image: The Ayoreo have previously blocked the trans-Chaco Highway to draw attention to government inaction over the destruction of their forest. © GAT/ Survival The survival of the last uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is at stake. Indigenous people living in a South American forest with one … Continue reading Ayoreo appeal to Inter-American Commission to save their forest from destruction →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Toxification, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Direct Action, Indigenous Autonomy, Movement Building & Support, Lobbying, Protests & Symbolic Acts

CALL TO ACTION: OCTOBER 9th-15th WEEK OF ACTION #ALLOUTFORWEDZINKWA

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Original Press Release Cas Yikh of the Gidimt’en Clan are counting on supporters to go ALL OUT in a mobilization for the biggest battle yet to protect our sacred headwaters, Wedzin Kwa. We have remained steadfast in our fight for self-determination, and we are still unceded, undefeated, sovereign and victorious. In January 2019, when Gidimt’en … Continue reading CALL TO ACTION: OCTOBER 9th-15th WEEK OF ACTION #ALLOUTFORWEDZINKWA →
Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Colonialism & Conquest, Repression at Home, Indigenous Autonomy, Movement Building & Support, Obstruction & Occupation

Line 3 Resistance has continued in Minnesota and around the Country

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Over the past three weeks Line 3 resistance has continued in Minnesota and around the country. Since our last weekly recap… The harm Line 3 has already caused Minnesota’s land and waters became more clear… The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced that it had ordered Enbridge Energy to pay $3.32 million for breaching an aquifer … Continue reading Line 3 Resistance has continued in Minnesota and around the Country →