Indigenous peoples
Court orders Dakota Access Pipeline to be shut down for environmental...
6 Jul, 2020
A legal challenge has at least temporarily achieved what months of protests through a frigid North Dakota winter couldn’t pull off: shutting...
Native American protesters blocked the road leading up to Mount Rushmore...
The protesters were sprayed with pepper spray and 15 people were arrested during the demonstration on Friday
By Ashley Collman
4/07/2020
A group of mainly Native American...
Indignation in Colombia amid spree of assassinations and the rape of...
The wave of assassinations and acts of sexual violence carried out by security forces and paramilitary groups against Colombian civilians in the past week...
Brazil’s Reckless COVID Response Threatens Indigenous Survival
May 26, 2020
As Brazil sees more than 800 deaths in 24 hours and nearly 400,000 confirmed cases, we look at COVID-19’s devastating impact on...
Canadian Barbarism
Ottawa Drags Feet on Letting Cuban Doctors Help First Nations ‘Get Ahead of’ Health Crisis
8.04.2020
Jerry Daniels, grand chief of the Southern Chiefs' Organization (SCO),...
Remembering the heroism of activist Berta Cáceres four years after her...
by Vijay Prashad
This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Feb 29, 2020
On July 15, 2013, the Civic Council of...
Brazilian Indigenous Leader Davi Kopenawa: Bolsonaro Is Killing My People &...
December 04, 2019
Democracy Now! sat down with indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa, one of this year’s Right Livelihood Award honorees along with the organization he...
The Global Assault on Indigenous Peoples
by Kenn Orphan
March 4, 2019
“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” – Arundhati...
The origins of the United States of America, the Joker and...
«At its root, capitalism not only meant slavery and white supremacy but also the ethos of the gangster. » (Gerald Horne)
By Franklin Frederick
The film...