December, 2006

• Society of the Spectacle

  

  December 31, 2006  1,272 views 0 Comments Share

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  A few years ago I stumbled upon the concept "Legal Fiction." Aside from the fact that I didn't (even remotely) trust the source who wrote of this concept, the concept itself took me for a nice walk around the world, and really helped me put things into perspective. My previous mentor felt the same - [...]

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• Haudenosaunee move back into Confederacy Council building

  

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  GRAND RIVER TERRITORY OF THE SIX NATIONS- Six Nations Haudenosaunee are pleased to announce that they will celebrate 2007 by moving back into the old Confederacy Council house in Ohsweken at Six Nations. The Council House, built in 1864 is 140 years old and predates Confederation. The building served as the council house for the [...]

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• A People’s Trade Agreement

  

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  A People's Trade Agreement From Common Frontiers April 26, 2006 In April, 2006 the Bolivian Government released a new document which articulates the kind of Trade Agreement they are looking to sign with willing countries. The stated purpose of their Agreement is: To achieve a true integration among peoples that transcends the commercial and economic [...]

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• Communique from the Zapatista

  

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  Compañeras, Hermanas: In a few days more will be Dec. 30, 2006, the start of the "Encuentro de los Pueblos Zapatistas con los Pueblos del Mundo" (Meeting of the Zapatista Villages with the Peoples of the World), which will end Jan. 2, 2007. The compañer@s of the support bases and the authorities of the autonomous [...]

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• Prentice Monster of Indian Affairs is out!

  

  December 29, 2006  1,408 views 1 comment Share

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  MNN. Dec. 27, 2006. Wow! There must be a Santa. Jim “Jonestown” Prentice got kicked out as Minister of Indian Affairs. Why? We hear the Indians were clobbering him for his “red neck” stances everywhere he went. He was committing political suicide. Big Daddy, Stephen Harper, had to hang on to all those connections that [...]

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• The Betrayal of Western Sahara

  

  December 24, 2006  1,130 views 0 Comments Share

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  International Complicity in Morocco's Repression by Simon Cunich Green Left Weekly On October 31, Morocco's allies on the United Nations Security Council-including France, the United States and Britain-blocked a motion to condemn human rights abuses against the people of occupied Western Sahara. Despite reports of Morocco's escalating repression of the Saharawi independence movement, the resolution [...]

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• Oaxaca: Contininuing Conquest, Continuing Resistance

  

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  By Sean Donahue, the Narcosphere -- In southern Mexico they say "The Spanish were the invaders, but the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Jesuits were the conquerors." Those words echo through my mind as I look at the police encampment beside the Santo Domingo cathedral in the Zocalo, the historic center of the city of Oaxaca [...]

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