July 3, 2009 by Jay Taber.

After two centuries of European colonization, the indigenous Inuit of Greenland prepare for independence from Denmark.

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July 2, 2009 by Jay Taber.

Cashing In on Climate Change

The upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine looks at the role Goldman Sachs has played in creating economic havoc over the last two centuries. As the favored financier of President Obama’s career, the heavyweight of capitalism is now positioning itself to capitalize on yet another Ponzi scheme: carbon-market trading. Using taxpayer funds from the banking bailout scandal it in large part caused, Goldman Sachs is prepared to take advantage of this golden opportunity to cash in on the climate change crisis.

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July 1, 2009 by Jay Taber.

The assumption of lineal progress limits our conceptual appreciation of what is the most dynamic aspect of human evolution in the world today. While tribal governing entities have relied on conservation, cooperation, and reciprocity to maintain internal stability for millenia, they have now extended these values into network society. Pan-tribal global solidarity in confronting the anti-indigenous axis of state institutions, markets, and transnational criminal enterprise has emerged with support from civil society. The new alliances and organizing strategy of the indigenous peoples’ movement may turn much social theory on its head.

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June 21, 2009 by Jay Taber.

The Andean revolution of indigenous peoples against neocolonial violence under the rubrics of Free Trade, the War on Drugs and the Global War on Terror — all US imperial inventions — is anything but spontaneous or reactionary. Rather, it is the result of extensive research, education, and organizing by indigenous peoples to liberate themselves through unified effort.

The 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was not a gift from the First World to the Fourth World, but an acknowledgment of the moral and historic legitimacy of indigenous self-governance and culture. The liberation now taking place in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile is an achievement of the World Indigenous Peoples’ Movement which began thirty years ago in British Columbia, when global indigenous leaders first gathered to build an international network of solidarity.

Today’s actions by indigenous communities have deep roots of consciousness.

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June 20, 2009 by Jay Taber.

Self Defense

The million plus indigenous peoples of Colombia plan to establish a 100,000-member pan-tribal police force to protect indigenous communities from armed violence by the army, vigilantes, guerrillas and drug-dealers.

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June 19, 2009 by Jay Taber.

Welcoming Criminal Enterprise

In 2003, the United States and Israel bullied Belgium into abolishing universal jurisdiction used to prosecute war criminals and perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Today, the United States, Israel and China are pressuring Spain to do the same. The plan of these perpetrators of international crimes is logical: if no country will hold them accountable, they can continue to act with impunity; the world then becomes a welcoming place for transnational criminal enterprise.

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June 18, 2009 by Jay Taber.

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.

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June 17, 2009 by Jay Taber.

IPS News notes that the US-Peru Trade agreement is driving the state violence against indigenous communities.

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June 17, 2009 by Jay Taber.

Obama’s Human Rights Scorecard:

Indigenous Peoples — F
LGBT Peoples — F
Unions — F
War and Peace — F
Health Care — F
Education — F
Govt Corruption — F

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June 16, 2009 by Jay Taber.

Colonial Roots

Michela Wrong talks about the corruption of Kenya, the role of the World Bank in sustaining African tyrants, and the colonial roots of the present pattern of political relationships.

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