Tag: indigenous
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Rio Xingu
from the forests to the favelas, DEVELOPMENT HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT THE THE LAND OR THE PEOPLE. PLEASE TAKE A WATCH- FULL VERSION OF THE DOCUMENTARY NOW ONLINE.
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The Tale of the Last Tongue
Ayapaneco, an indigenous language found in Mexico, is at risk of dying out as the only two speakers refuse to speak to each other.
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REPAIR nations, REPARATIONS
found this one in the backlog of my stickies: just heard the most ridiculous argument about Gaza: “would you want us to give back the US to the Native Americans?” … well actually YES. GIVE BACK PUERTO RICO. GIVE BACK ALASKA. GIVE BACK HAWAII. – while you’re at it.
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Brazilian loggers ‘tied eight-year-old Amazonian tribe girl to a tree and burned her alive’
a little girl ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ profit profit profit
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A different (from western) relationship to the land
“oil should not be taken out of the ground PERIOD.” -indigenous resistance in colombia–(in contrast w/the modern industrialized western world) a whole different relationship to the land
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The Bloody Flow Of Oil…
here are some of the facts we shared last week: In a rainforest area roughly three times the size of Manhattan, Chevron carved out 350 oil wells, and upon leaving the country in 1992, left behind some 1,000 open-air, unlined waste pits filled with crude and toxic sludge. Many of these pits leak into the water […]
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The 4th Principle
an excerpt from Noam Chomsky’s interview with Jaime Martinez Luna, desde Oaxaca, Mexico “… but rather to a relationship with the land that is not mercantile, a relationship of sharing and caring. That is, humans are linked to the land not only for organic sustenance, but also for spiritual and symbolic sustenance… Obviously in a […]
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Transnational to Translocal, Rooting and Recovering
I’m rejecting all these concepts of “Localism”… localization… everything makes a lot of sense UP TO ONE VERY IMPORTANT POINT: what about communities that identify transnationally? immigrant families? our folks who never really pictured themselves being “here” permanently? who were forced out, exiled, dreamnt of the “dream” til they realized it was a nightmare, two-stepping […]