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Underreported Struggles for April

May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment | 625 views 

The short-lived trend of corporate social responsibility came to a grinding halt in April, reminding us yet again that they have no intention of changing voluntarily, atleast, not as long as their wants take precedence over rights and the needs of others.

And of course it was business as usual for Nation States - especially Canada, America and Bangladesh, who jumped at the chance to attack Indigenous people and illegally invade and usurp their lands.

Now for the depressing truth: In the coming months, there will be more invasions and offensives, more arrests and abuses, more …



Arawak nation to open North American consulate

February 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment | 724 views 

Arawak nation to open North American consulate
www.caribbeannetnews.com
January 27, 2007

WASHINGTON, USA: The first peoples to suffer the consequences of Columbus’s arrival in the ‘New World’ are boldly stepping into the 21st century.

As of February 4, 2007, Taino-Arawak Elder Cyril Taylor will become the Honorary Consul of the Lokono-Arawak Nation of South America to the First Nations of North America.

The appointment was made by Damon Gerard Corrie, inheritor of the now ceremonial Hereditary Chieftaincy of the Eagle Clan Lokono-Arawaks, and well-known Barbados-based Amerindian rights activist, who has not been a stranger to controversy over the last 14 years.

When asked if all …



The Haitian Arawak Movement

October 29, 2006 | One Comment | 869 views 

The Haitian Arawak Movement is anything but new. On the contrary, it is quite old; more than 500 years old. It started on December 5, 1492, when one of the world’s most wicked and evil man, Christopher Columbus, and his savage companions (the Spaniards) set foot on our shores, the beautiful island of Quisqueya/Haiti. Our ancestors quickly understood that those savages, to whom they had offered hospitality, given gold and diamonds, were here to steal their land and enslave them. Consequently, the fearless cacique Caonabo and his warriors yelled: Aya Bombay! (we’d rather die than live as slaves!).

Our ancestors decided …



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