November, 2006

• United States opposes declaration on Native rights

  

  November 23, 2006  1,114 views 0 Comments Share

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  by: Valerie Taliman / Indian Country Today NEW YORK - The stage is set for a showdown at the United Nations between countries favoring adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples and a handful of nations - including the United States - that are actively opposing it. The U.N. General Assembly, comprised [...]

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• Aboriginals snubbed. Canada only government to participate in Hobbema

  

  November 19, 2006  974 views 0 Comments Share

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  By CP.HOBBEMA -- A United Nations seminar on international treaty rights ended yesterday with frustration that so few governments chose to participate. "Yes, it is frustrating and disappointing, somewhat," said Willie Littlechild, regional chief for Treaties 6, 7 and 8 in Alberta and an organizer of the seminar in Hobbema, 87 km south of Edmonton. [...]

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• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples May Be Derailed

  

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  INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ CAUCUS, UNITED NATIONS General Assembly, 61st Session NEW YORK 13 November 2006 COMMUNIQUE The Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus held an emergency meeting this morning due to a report that a few States will take procedural actions to derail the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This report is evidenced by [...]

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• Canada tries to bribe African states at UN to delay UN Declaration

  

  November 17, 2006  998 views 0 Comments Share

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  November 17, 2006 - by Joseph Quesnel -- Canadian representatives at the United Nations are attempting to bribe African member states in order to buy their support for a motion to delay final passage of the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights at the General Assembly in New York, alleged the chief of a prominent Manitoba [...]

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• Neskonlith Anti-Treaty Brochure

  

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  We are the Indigenous Peoples of our Territories! We have never given up our responsibilities for our land and our peoples. We cannot move away from that fundamental position and our beliefs and let our future generations down. We therefore reject the policies and processes of the federal and provincial governments, such as the federal [...]

  Filed Under BC treaties • Canada • fee simple • Indigenous Peoples • Neskonlith

• WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Market For Africa

  

  November 15, 2006  1,208 views 0 Comments Share

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  This sounds like something the YesMen would do. Fact is though, this is just business as usual - Ahni At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa that took place on Saturday, November 11, the WTO announced the creation of a new, much-improved form of slavery for the parts of Africa that have [...]

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• Oaxaca, Mexico. The APPO are not terrorists.

  

  November 14, 2006  1,565 views 0 Comments Share

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  It's not usually my style to take on anything that 'conservative people' would say, but today I was introducing myself to the world of blogging and I stumbled upon the following the article that I really had to respond to. My commentary follows... Monday, November 06, 2006 Oaxaca, Mexico: President Fox to crawl in gutter [...]

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