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Silencing Dissent – From Ronald to Donald

"On August 30, with assistance from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Whatcom County (WA) prosecutor obtained a warrant to access confidential information on the Red Line Salish Sea (NoDAPL) indigenous treaty rights activists’ Facebook page."

The Best Lecture You Will Ever Watch on “Conservation”

"That hot afternoon in Amboseli; I experienced my road to Damascus. I realized that I was part of a system that had no respect for the very bedrock on which it stood. I was a qualified black face put in place to smooth over fifty years of exploitation in two and to create a pleasant backdrop that would allow for the renewal of this insidious arrangement."

Standing Rock: Profusion, Collusion & Big Money Profits [Part 2]

"Most vitally, this series contrasts the tiny amounts of money spent at the grassroots against the vast sums spent at the 'business' end of the non-profit industrial complex where personal data helps behavior-change B-corporation executives exercise the will of corporate philanthropists, corporations, and imperialist governments."

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."

Earth Economics

“The implementation of payment for ecosystem services,” Morningstar observes, “will create the most spectacular opportunities that the financial sector has ever witnessed.”

Netwar at Cherry Point

A Special Report: Netwar at Cherry Point | White Power on the Salish Sea - by Jay Taber

WATCH: Recognition Politics | A Lecture on Resurgence by Taiaiake Alfred

"The essence of being part of a resurgence movement comes out of that kind of feeling; it's rooted, it's accountable, and it's transformative. Those are the three things that I think define the difference between resurgence and the other alternatives out there for what decolonization and colonization ; basically recognition politics, and, hate to say it, reconciliation...."

Fourth World Eye | Public Relations Puppets

"In commenting on the difficulties of Fourth World nations to develop independent of colonial structures like the UN, Dr. Rudolph Ryser — Chair of the Center for World Indigenous Studies — once remarked that where a people lacks the ability to develop politically, they remain unable to advance their own social, economic and human rights. He went on to say the age of colonialism has prevented the emergence of politically strong Fourth World nations, and that the UN promises to permanently lock these nations into a cage of political subjugation."

Tar Sands Action & the Paralysis of a Movement [PART III OF AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT] [Unravelling the Deception of a False Movement]

Published September 23, 2011 by Political Context: http://bit.ly/n8KiGL and Canadians for Action...

How Many ‘Big Greens’ Endorsed the People’s Agreement of Cochabamba?

Answer: None. From April 19th – 22nd 2010 the first World People’s...