About Intercontinental Cry

Intercontinental Cry (IC) is a grassroots journal for the global Indigenous movement. We provide news, videos, petitions, commentary and action alerts to make sure you know what's going on; and hopefully do something about it.

In a climate of constant racism and aggression, Indigenous Peoples are struggling around the world to reclaim their lands, defend their cultures and to quite literally survive.

There are literally thousands of these struggles taking place around the world today, but you won't know it by looking at NPR, the Associated Press, CNN, or any other major news source available to you. The same goes for most progressive news sites who are more interested in following trends than reporting on what's actually happening in the world.

Intercontinental Cry was founded in response to this lack of representation and fair coverage. We are, in no uncertain terms, a grassroots journal for the global Indigenous movement.

Who's behind IC?

Please scroll to the bottom of this page for a complete overview of volunteers associated with IC.

How are you funded?

IC is entirely funded by its readers, through single donations and a monthly sustainer program.

To date, we have never received any grant money or financial support from governments, corporations, religious institutions or non-profit groups.

What exactly do you do?

Our main focus is producing authentic journalism for Indigenous Peoples; however, as our visibility has increased, we have extended our mandate to further provide organizations and individuals with research and intellectual support.

We also are undertaking various side-projects, including an Indigenous Peoples Directory and a Translation Project.

What is "Intercontinental Cry?"

It's a bit of a mouthful, but the idea is too strong to ignore. Indigenous Peoples maintain that we come from the land just like any stone or blade of grass. There is no line separating us from any other life on Earth.

At the same time, Indigenous People and their territories are actively targeted by governments and corporations.

In a highly disturbing twist of logic, governments and corporations simarly see no distinction between us and the land. We are both held as objects either to be used or discarded be it to fulfill the needs of the corporate state or conceal the social, economic, cultural and political conflicts implicit in modern colonized society.

The "Cry", then, is threefold. First, it is the historical trauma that manifests today through the destruction of the environment, the intentional erasure of land-based cultures, and the voluntary abandonment of traditional identities. A cry of loss, fear, and desperation.

Second, it is the world-wide movement to defend the land, to empower ourselves, and to reclaim our cultures and identities before they are gone forever. A cry of hope and necessity.

Third, it is the natural sense of deprivation that stems from the culture of the colonized---an isolated and broken way of life that supplants the natural order to merely survive for another fiscal year. A cry for life and death.

While IC is little more than a Journal--an archive of contemporary indigenous activism-- it is infused with these notions. IC is for the People, the Land, and the Truth.