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The Invisiblised Struggle of an Ally: Who Will Take Notice of ORIC’s ‘Show Cause’ Letter to *KMYAC?

"... they call her “Aunty” but they’ve never share any of what you just read. No spokesperson, journalist, activist, or blogger has ever published anything outside of the two largely ignored stories I just shared with you."

WATCH: El Perro Del Hortelano [Dog in the Manger]

The film you are about to see was written by Indigenous and international artists in Peru who volunteered their time and talents because they had a story to be told. The main character, Brus, sums it up as: "Development, NGOs- another type of colonialism." With just $8,000 dollars they created the first ever cooperative film in the Amazon.

Blue-washing the Colonization and Militarization of Our Ocean

"In the 21st century, national marine momunents, marine parks, marine preserves, marine refuges, marine sanctuaries and their other iterations are instruments that empower the federal government to take land and water away from indigenous and public access, scrutiny, and trust."

May the Earth Tremble at Its Core

" In order to defend what we are, our path and learning process have been consolidated by strengthening our collective decision-making spaces, employing national and international juridical law as well as peaceful and civil resistance, and casting aside the political parties that have only brought death, corruption, and the buying off of dignity. "

US Behind Massacres in Beni, Congo

"ENOUGH operates under the umbrella of the Democratic Party’s corporate funded propaganda and influence peddling operation, The Center for American Progress (CAP)."

Wildlife Conservationists need to Break out of their Stockholm Syndrome

"Conservationists like me want a world where wildlife has space, where wild places exist, and where we can connect with the wild things. Yet time after time, like captives suffering from Stockholm syndrome, wildlife conservation NGOs placate, please and emulate the very forces that are destroying the things they want to protect."

Media Conspiracy of Silence While Colombia’s Largest Indigenous Group is Dying

"... while the press covers the shortages in Venezuela nearly every day, and in a quite histrionic fashion which ignores the complexities and subtleties of the situation there, there is almost a total blackout of the real famine confronting The Wayuu of Colombia just over the border."