January, 2007

• Zapatista, the Other Campaign, and Gathering in Oventik

  

  January 19, 2007  1,478 views 0 Comments Share

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  The following was written and submitted by Zig Zag, a member of Intercontinental Cry: Here’s a report on a recent trip to mexico i made. You can post it if you like. The Zapatista, the Other Campaign, and the Gathering in Oventik The 13th Anniversary of the 1994 Zapatista New Year’s Day Rebellion From December 30, 2006, to [...]

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• Tyendinaga: for the Return of Culbertson Tract Lands

  

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  Here are a couple of stories about what’s been happening with regard to the ‘Culbertson’ tract of land, a part of Tyendinaga (Six Nations) Territory. Updates and background information will follow. Tuesday January 15, from ocapblog.blogspot.com Tyendinaga: Update on the Fight for Return of Culbertson Tract Lands The Culbertson Land Tract The Culbertson is a tract of land, [...]

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• Australia: Law must be upheld by all sides

  

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  FIFTEEN years after the royal commission, the appalling handling of the death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee has reignited controversy over policing in indigenous communities. The Palm Island police station was destroyed in the riots following his death in 2004. In the past week there has been rioting against police in two other remote indigenous communities. [...]

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• Is another world possible without the women’s perspective?

  

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  The World Social Forum must represent the best of the new world not the patriarchal worst of the old. By Patricia Daniel, www.opendemocracy.net The seventh annual gathering of the World Social Forum brings the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and other progressive forces from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, north America, [...]

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• Haiti – Truth Made Law

  

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  Haiti Justice – Investigators, human rights groups, journalists, members of Congress and national leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean have made serious allegations that the U.S. Government played a key role in the February 2004 overthrow of constitutional President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, by supporting his armed and unarmed opponents, weakening the government through a development [...]

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• Non-indigenous in a Post-Colonial North America

  

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  The following is a discussion started by a member here, which originally took place within our old forum. Eventually an essay will be put together based on it. May 17, RevolutionReversal: hey folks, this is a discussion I’ve been wanting to start for sometime, its quite hypothetical and idealists, nonetheless an important question for myself. So [...]

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• Autonomy and self-determination

  

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  The following is the first essay in a compilation of three essays and two declarations by Indians of the northern Sierra of Oaxaca, which can be found here: Communality and Autonomy Autonomy and self-determination: The past and future of and for our peoples. by Jaime Martínez Luna translation by George Salzman and Nancie Davies Note:. Where a term may [...]

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