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Help Stop a Man-Made Disaster in Ethiopia
The Gibe 3 Hydro Dam threatens to destroy the livelihoods of 500,000 Indigenous People. A group of international NGOs have launched a campaign to stop a disaster-in-the-making: the Gibe 3 Hydro Dam on Ethiopia's Omo River. The "fatally flawed" project threatens to destroy the food security and economies of roughly 500,000 Indigenous People in Southern [...]
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A Thousand Suns
This is the trailer for the film A Thousand Suns by the Global Oneness Project. You can watch the full film at www.imdb.com A Thousand Suns tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has remained remarkably [...]
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Underreported Struggles #12, March 2008
In February we saw 'civil society' start to demand corporations abandon oppressive and destructive practices. Well, that trend continued through March; unfortunately, it seems to have been more chest pounding than anything... It was as if everyone sat around a campfire, talking about far off things while a fire raged a foot to their backside. [...]
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Festival of a Thousand Stars
The Festival of a Thousand Stars is a celebration of music and culture for Southern Ethiopia, home to more than 55 distinct Indigenous Peoples. It is held every December in Arba Minch, the centre of the Rift valley. In the video below you will find footage from the 2005 festival which brought together 500 performers [...]
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Underreported Struggles #11, February 2008
It was pretty much 'business as usual' for the month of February. Corporations continued acting as innocent third parties while Governments continued to demand indigenous People allow the theft of their lands and destruction of their cultures without question. "It's in your best interests," we're told. "It's for the greater good." Amidst this however, there [...]
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Underreported Struggles #10, January 2008
Things are getting worse for the world's indigenous people. It's no longer a matter of a few companies doing whatever they want to gut a region at the direct expense of a culture, or about some government that's more than willing to crush down a people so the company can do it without interruption. The [...]
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Ethiopia – We are infected by a virus, the cure is Unity
We must realize that we are infected by a widely spreading virus which requires one shot to cure--that shot is our UNITY - By Obang Metho, January 27, 2007 What lessons have we Ethiopians learned in 2006? Perhaps more than we realize! I will start with myself. As you all know, I, Obang Metho, am [...]
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