BIMONTHLY-BILINGUAL NEWS, VIEWS, ART AND INFORMATION FOR THE INDIGENOUS & POPULAR MOVEMENTS IN THE AMERICAS AND BEYOND
with WEEKLY UPDATES

February - March 2008 Issue

FEATURED ARTIST
BLACK BEAR
Black Bear is a member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and is now living in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. He is an award-winning potter (Santa Fe Indian Market in Santa Fe, NM, Heard Museum Indian Market in Phoenix, AZ, Northern Plains Tribal Art in Sioux Falls, SD, and Eiteljorg Indian Market in Indianapolis, IN). Read

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"The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father. The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give the rivers the kindness that you would give any brother." Chief Seattle (audio)

BIMONTHLY FOCUS
Increasing United Fronts for Water and Natural Resources

CRECIENTES FRENTES DE LUCHA POR EL AGUA Y LOS RECURSOS NATURALES Read

Chiapas: Zapatistas resisten amenazas de desarrollo turístico en agua azúl

Frontera México-Estados Unidos: Presión sobre los recursos naturales de la región

Aguascalientes (México): En el Tecongo aún usan agua de lluvia, pese a vivir junto a presa

Perú - Abya Yala: Una lucha desigual: los Indígenas y el medio ambiente

El Salvador: La vida o el oro

Hawaii: US Army faces fierce fight on historic Makua

Jefe Seattle (1854): La tierra no pertenece al hombre, el hombre es el que pertenece a la Tierra

Chile: An Encounter with Chile's Powerful Pascua

 

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CHILDREN IN CRISIS

Thousands of youths, particularly impoverished children of color, are being pushed out of school and into juvenile prisons, often for minor, nonviolent offenses related to emotional or other learning disabilities.
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HOW TEENAGE REBELLION HAS BECOME A MENTAL ILLNESS Read

SPOTLIGHT


Save Panama Biosphere Reserve From Dams

 

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Youth for Human Rights

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ZNet Latin American Watch

 

Ana Davis:
Lac du Flambeau tribal members occupy building
New

Dean Suagee:
Vestiges of bayou culture disappearing in Katrina aftermath

Andrew Buncombe:
Dalai Lama: 'I am prepared to face China. I will go to Beijing'

Victor Ballinas:
Agresión impune a migrantes en el sur

Intercontinental Cry:
Benetton trying to evict mapuche from their lands

Ojarasca:
Congreso Nacional Indígena - Contra La Brutalidad Caldenorista

IUCN:
Indigenous peoples play key role in coping with climate change – IUCN

Dali Lama:
Dali Lama on 49th anniversary of Tibetan uprising

José Godoy y Ramón Vera Herrera:
Territorio wixárika: invasión perpetua con nuevos disfraces

Boaventura de Souza Santos:
Estrategia continental

Terra:
Relator dice Ciudad Juárez es punta del iceberg y denuncia explotación niños

Frente Petenero Contra Represas:
Guatemala: No a las represas

Miguel Pickard:
La necesidad de acciones radicales
para defender los derechos de los migrantes

Haider Rizvi:
RIGHTS-US: U.N. panel finds two-tier society

Proceso:
Persisten en México corrupción e impunidad: EU

Indian Country:
Assessing the past and future of self-determination

UNPO:
UNPO Condemns Exclusion of Indigenous People at Conference

Steve Russell:
Assimilation and the Borders of the Wanabi Nation

Hermann Bellinghausen:
"Preocupa" a ONG Mundial la Seguridad de Bases Zapatistas

Intercontinental Cry:
Uncontacted Tribes in Danger in the Peruvian Amazon

Jerry Reynolds:
Obama Takes a Message for Indians Into Super Tuesday and Beyond

Carol Berry:
Trial for Columbus Day Parade Protesters Ends

Enlace Zapatista:
Dejan Sin Agua a Familias Zapatistas | Comunicado

Milagros Salazar:
Perú: Trabajadores Denuncian Estafa de Empresa Maderera

Victoria Bolf & Alicia Woods:
Chile: Activists Seek International Support for Mapuche Striker

Daniel González:
A Man of the People: Reza Fights for Native Rights

Kahentinetha Horn :
Mohawks Welcome Lakota Freedom Delegation to Akwesasne Longhouse

José Manuyama:
Perú: El Bosque es Nuestra Morada

CIMI:
Indigenous Peoples Expect to Establish Plurinational States in Latin America

Brenda Norrell:
Apache Resisters in Texas: Homeland Security's Nazi Genocidal Tactics

 

 

 

 

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Past Issue:

Dec-07 / Jan-08
Criminalización de las Luchas Sociales Pueblos Indígenas
Criminalization of the Social Struggles of Indigenous Peoples

 

"La niñez y la juventud no deben perder su
capacidad de soñar. Por el contrario,
deben cultivar la rebeldía, que es
necesaria para no conformarse con
el mundo injusto y degradado
que les hemos heredado."

-Rigoberta Menchú Tum

 

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