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• Davao tribal small scale miners in grave risk

  
  durianburgdavao — Authority: 135
  Mining bureau rapped for allowing mining in landslide prone area By ROGER M. BALANZA The government is pushing indigenous peoples into small scale mining in Compostela Valley to the valley of death, by identifying mining sites for them that have a history of deadly landslides. The Mines and Geosciences Bureau ...
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• Abies amabilis

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 136
  Botanical Name : Abies amabilis Family: Pinaceae (Pine family) Common Name: Red Fir, Pacific Silver Fir, Cascades Fir Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pinophyta Class: Pinopsida Order: Pinales Genus: Abies Species: A. amabilis Habitat: North-western N. America – Alaska to Oregon.   High mountain ...
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• Native American film - No More Smoke Signals

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 118
  Please come to the Fellowship of Reconciliations national headquarters in Upper Nyack, NY on Sunday, January 10, 2009 for the next segment in the Phil Greenspan Film Series. We will be screening No More Smoke Signals , an award-winning film by Fanny Brauning, at 2:00 p.m. The screening will be followed by a spirited ...
  4 days ago

• Climate talks, forest agreement in little danger of creating a better world for nothing*

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 654
  Stall, confusion and indecision reign in the UNFCC COP15 summit in Copenhagen according to negotiators for both developed and developing nations, with the possible exception of the REDD+ agreements, which are intended to reimburse poorer countries for preserving existing forests. The last publicly available drafts ...
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• Cameron’s Staggering ‘Avatar’ Awes the Skeptics

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 739
  The film industry has produced no shortage of spectacles over the last hundred years, from “Ben Hur” to “Star Wars.” In terms of technological sorcery and visual wonder, James Cameron’s “Avatar” now ranks chief among them. Related Entries December 15, 2009 U.S. Contemplates More of the Scarcely ...
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• Once Again, The New York Times Reminds South Dakota About Its Own Reservations

  
  Middle Border Sun — Authority: 470
  With the exception of Indian Country Today in its prime and sometimes from South Dakota Public Broadcasting and the Rapid City Journal , youd really never know that a chunk of our fellow citizens live on Indian reservations and that often times, that existence is bleak and mean. Image via CrunchBase As my ...
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• Census 2010: Further thoughts

  
  American Red Tory — Authority: 99
  … occasioned by Native American students in Idaho and an ‘08 MSNBC piece on the increasing profile of ‘mixed-race/multiracial’ folks, what with Obama and all. Posted in government, Native Americans, race, social justice Tagged: 2010 U.S. Census, aboriginals, American Indians, American Metis, biracial, ...
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• Monoplists, Public Policy and Indigenous Rights

  
  Fourth World Eye — Authority: 129
  The World Trade Organization is essentially the world’s “chamber of commerce” sanctioned by states’ governments to regulate public policy. It is now quite commonly accepted in the assemblies of government that when public policies (health, education, economic, human rights, indigenous rights, etc) prevent ...
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• An ontological or foundational critique of power

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 124
  There is an astounding level of hypocrisy in academia.  Critiques of power abound, while individual academics make containers of themselves, waiting for the manna of power, in the form of tenure, publication and prestige, to fall into open, waiting hands.  The abjection of powers failure to act equally abounds.  ...
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• Indigneous People reclaim their names

  
  Forest Policy Research — Authority: 117
  “This is bringing us back up to more modern times,” Kulesha said Friday. “This is what the islands are named; they’re Haida Gwaii. The confusion is the fact that some maps say one thing, and other maps say another. So now, it’s official, and that’s great.“B.C.’s Queen Charlotte Islands have officially ...
  2 weeks ago

• Online Petition: I Respect Human Rights- Human Rights Day 2009

  
  The Voice of the Taino People Online — Authority: 114
  Takahi Guaitiao (Greetings Relatives): December 10, 2009, marked the 61st anniversary of the U niversal Declaration of Human Rights , the first global enunciation of human rights. These are basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. Examples of these rights include but are not limited to ...
  2 weeks ago

• worth looking

  
  Shmohawk's Weblog — Authority: 103
  I don’t often point people toward blogs. StageLeft, Rob Schmidt’s Newspaper Rock (and Blue Corn Comics) come to mind. Add this site to my short list of “must see” blogs.Posted in Aboriginal peoples, Africa, Canada, Climate Change, Environment, human rights, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous rights, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Guyanese Indigenous Organization Changes Leadership

  
  The Voice of the Taino People Online — Authority: 114
  Georgetown, Guyana (UCTP Taino News) – The Guyanese Organization of Indigenous Peoples (GOIP) has changed its leadership recently and is now being run by an Interim Executive Committee . The new Committee office-bearers include Dr. George Norton (Chief), Mary Valenzuela (Deputy Chief), Colin Klautky ...
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• Obama Administration Approves Oil Drilling in Arctic

  
  CENSORED NEWS — Authority: 429
  Arctic oil drilling plan approved 10 Dec 2009, 7:08 PM Photo: Inuit/Red Oil By Red OIL COPENHAGEN -- Alaska Natives from the Chukchi Sea, in Copenhagen for the Climate Talks, are reeling today after an announcement that the Obama administration has approved Royal Dutch Shell Plcs (RDSa.L) plan to drill for ...
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• Around Latin America

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 136
  - In good news from Guatemala, this past week, an army officer was convicted for his role in the disappearance of eight indigenous villagers in 1981 . Colonel Marco Antonio Sanchez was sentenced to 53 years in prison, and three of his subordinates also received prison sentences. While this isnt the first ...
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• Indigenous peoples affected by climate change, climate talks

  
  Oxfam America Blog — Authority: 495
  Indigenous leaders at the Copenhagen talks remain guardedly optimistic that the human rights of their peoples will be recognized in an international climate agreement. They’re just not particularly upbeat that it will happen here. “Human rights should be an integral part of any climate response: the right to ...
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• Indigenous innovation at vanguard of climate change

  
  OurWorld 2.0 — Authority: 120
  While international communities discuss and predict the potential impacts of climate change on the world at large — sea-level rise, coastal erosion, more intense storms, increasing avalanches and landslides, for example — these effects are already a grim reality for indigenous peoples and local communities around ...
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• Obama administration reps meet with many faiths at PWR

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 432
  Members of all faiths reached out to one another at the Parliament of World Religins. Photo by John David Miller, Parliament of World Religions. Showing openness to diversity in American religion, members of the Obama administration met at the Parliament of World Religions Dec. 6 with 50 members of multiple ...
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• COP15: The Rights of Indigenous People

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 133
  A short video taken just outside the NGO exhibition hall at the Bella Center this morning of a demonstration to help raise awareness of climate change and the rights of indigenous people: Further reading on indigenous peoples rights and climate change: Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change ...
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• media cheerleaders

  
  Shmohawk's Weblog — Authority: 103
  Interesting conversations on Montreal radio this morning. It even became the “question-of-the-morning” on CBC Radio between the host and the regular gaggle of journalists who do sports, traffic and entertainment, business reports. They debate among themselves some issue that they think people will jump on, react ...
  2 weeks ago

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