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Council On Hemispheric Affairs, 01/24/2009
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Bolivian President Evo Morales.
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Since the start of the new millennium, popular movements in Bolivia have learned to mobilize en masse to form a united front of class and ethnicity to oust two presidents and reject a third candidate. Bolivians have also elected one of their own, who without strong middle class and mestizo support, probably would not have won.
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Arthur Blaustein, 11/24/2008
Make no mistake about it, this election was won on bread and butter economic issues. While John McCain and Sarah Palin focused on the rhetoric of patriotism, "trickle-down" economics, "staying the course" on Bush's tax cuts and family values; they also embraced the very economic policies that both undermine the middle class and subvert the security of American family life.
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Mohawk Nation News, 10/20/2008
The hundreds of Mohawk women who have been harassed, assaulted, threatened, abused, raped, almost killed and “disappeared” at the Cornwall Ontario border crossing are getting to the point where they must challenge the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) goons.
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Combined Sources, 07/11/2008
The answer to one of the biggest questions in Washington D.C. has been manifesting for over five months and more than 8,000 miles that span across the sacred grounds of living sovereign nations.
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David Bacon, 06/23/2008
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All photos copyright David Bacon.
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The assembly of the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, one of the poorest areas in Mexico. A large percentage of the indigenous population of Oaxaca and other states has left to work in northern Mexico and in the United States.
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Alice Gordon, 06/06/2008
Native Americans and others are about half-way through their journey along the Chattahoochee River, to walk and give thanks to the river.
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Gregory Esteven, 05/31/2008
Yesterday evening I logged onto the internet in order to check my web mail, and was caught off guard by a Yahoo! News article concerning the “uncontacted tribe” that has been discovered near the Brazil-Peru border.
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James Suggett, 04/16/2008
Mérida, April 15, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- A South American defense council to mediate regional conflicts and defend South America from foreign intervention could be concretized this year, the Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said after meeting with President Hugo Chávez in Caracas Monday.
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Prensa Latina, 10/24/2007
Ecuador needs a deep change in its power structures and the redistribution of its resources, to guarantee the rights of all nationalities, a leader of the indigenous movement Luis Macas asserted on Tuesday.
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Kimball Cariou, 06/17/2007
Canadians are often surprised by the periodic renewal of visible indigenous resistance: the Oka summer of 1990, the Gustafsen Lake standoff in 1995, the Six Nations land reclamation at Caledonia.
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People's Voice, 06/06/2007
The Assembly of First Nations calls on First Nations, Canadian citizens and corporations, to stand together to insist that the Government of Canada respond to the crisis in First Nations communities.
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People's Voice, 01/16/2007
In the early morning of New Year's Day, the Six Nations people signalled a turning point in their history by removing the lock that barred the Haudenosaunee Chiefs from the building that was the seat of their government since before Confederation.
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Sam Hammond, 10/18/2006
THE HISTORIC STRUGGLE of the Six Nations of the Grand River to maintain their ownership and control of land resulted last February in the occupation of land sold during a legal dispute process by the federal government of Brian Mulroney.
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Sam Hammond, 05/31/2006
THE SIX NATIONS blockade at Caledonia has outlasted the 1990 Oka struggle to become the longest First Nations blockade in Canada's history.
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Susan Gooding, 05/25/2006
I speak without hesitation in asserting to you that the US cannot be located in a global scene in these times of war without reference to the inseparable, irreducible geopolitics of indigenous America.
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Sam Hammond, 05/15/2006
Originally the Six Nations protesters only shut down the construction site on the disputed land to stop an irreversible development of their land and thereby force negotiations.
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People's Voice, 04/30/2006
The tense situation continues in Caledonia, Ontario, where Six Nations protesters have occupied the Douglas Creek Estates subdivision building site since February 28.
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Sam Hammond, 04/17/2006
Six Nations protesters have occupied a Caledonia, Ontario, subdivision building site known as the Douglas Creek Estates since February 28.
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Hands Off Venezuela, 10/14/2005
According to the official story, he spread the benefits of civilisation across the continent; in reality, his arrival heralded a new age of terror and genocide which took the lives of over 100 million native Americans...President Chávez has described Columbus as being "worse than Hitler" and renamed October 12th as "Day of Indigenous Resistance".
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VHeadline.com, 10/14/2005
Venezuelan government to give material and cultural support to the country's indigenous population by turning over millions of acres of land and by funding institutes to preserve indigenous culture.
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