Still Struggling

We were born into an unjust system; we were not prepared to grow old in it.

—Bernadette Devlin

Indigenous Film Festival

Indigenous Peoples Film Festival to be screened in Valparaiso, Chile. Intended to give voice to indigenous filmmakers, the festival hopes to counter racist state propaganda used to marginalize indigenous communities and to justify murder of indigenous activists throughout the world.

Obama’s Betrayals

The list of Obama’s betrayals is getting too long to contain. Anti-Indigenous, anti-union, anti-gay, anti-poor; pro-Ponzi, pro-war. What’s left?

Stir It Up

Following President Obama’s lead, Governor Schwarzenegger proposes turning California into Argentina. Everything for the criminal banking industry, nothing for the working poor. Time to stir it up!

Coming of Age

During my last semester in high school, we celebrated the first Earth Day. The following month, four students at Kent State University were murdered by the National Guard while protesting the Vietnam War. That summer, at Sicks Stadium, we saw the final concert played by the legendary rock star Jimi Hendrix in his hometown of Seattle.

War as a Game

As Veterans for Peace holds hearings on atrocities committed by US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, some veterans are holding protests against seducing American children into the military through deceptive campaigns and recruitment centers that portray war as a game. Meanwhile, suicides mount among returning veterans unable to cope with what they’ve done.

Into the Future

The evolution of tribes into multicultural entities embracing each other as well as non-tribal peoples, holds promise not only for the continuity of indigenous cosmologies, but also for the future of institutionalized generosity. Through networks of conservation, these rivers of promise disperse the humanizing nutrients of cooperation and reciprocity across the landscape, extending endurance of philanthropic philosophies into the future. A task that kindles faltering hope among increasingly cataclysmic circumstances.

Going for Gold

Notorious Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold, in cooperation with the government of Papua New Guinea, recently evicted the indigenous population of Porgera Valley by burning the homes of 200 families and marching them at gunpoint from their homeland.

Dismantling D.C.

By now it should be clear that the government of the United States will never willingly support the public good. Rather, it will continue to take our taxes and give us nothing in return. Given this fact, if we want to prosper, we will have to find new ways to keep it out of our pockets. Dismantling much of the federal government would be a good start.

Putting the US on Notice

The death of an Irish private security guard in a shootout with Bolivian police, as reported in today’s Irish Times, includes mention of his Hungarian accomplices in what appears to be a mercenary squad hired to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales. Last May, as reported in The Real News Network, Bolivia deported the US ambassador for funding ruling class rebels trying to overthrow Morales by violence and murder of his indigenous supporters. At the Organization of American States summit this week, Latin American leaders made it clear to the new US president that they were not going to tolerate further US interference in their countries.