Mexika Resistance
Archive for March 2012
10,000 Indigenous Protestors March on Guatemala Capital | Warrior Publications
Guatemala City – An estimated 10,000 indigenous people marched on Monday in the Guatemalan capital after they walked more than 200 kilometers (120 miles) to demand a government settlement of a conflict over land. Tired and sweating, with bags slung over their shoulders and waving red pennants, the thousands of Indians and peasants, who were … Continue reading
‘Rez Life’ Is a Humane, Grim and Hopeful Portrait of Today’s American Indians < PopMatters
Recently, the New York Times reported on the Oglala Sioux tribe’s federal lawsuit against liquor dealers in Whiteclay, Nebraska, a town standing a few hundred yards from the boundaries of the Pine Ridge reservation and the South Dakota state line. Merchants there sell an average of 13,000 cans of beer and malt liquor a day, … Continue reading
Canada isn’t living up to its Treaty obligations or its responsibilities to First Nations
The Canadian government is being reminded once again of its obligations to Indigenous Peoples in Canada and its failure to live up to the standards of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
Youth for Western Civilization Dismantled at Towson University | IMAGINE 2050
According to reports on Tuesday, the Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) chapter at Towson University, Maryland, lost its status as an officially recognized student group. While YWC is an already contentious organization known for its flagrant white nationalist tendencies, its Towson chapter was, perhaps, its most bombastic expression. Known for public events such as “Straight … Continue reading
In Praise of Vine Deloria – ICTMN.com
In his groundbreaking 1969 volume Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, Vine Deloria Jr. wrote a now famous critique of anthropologists. He argued that they—as well as academics in general—were mainly interested in their own intellectual ends and were insufficiently concerned with the real-life challenges of Indian peoples. As Deloria so memorably put … Continue reading
Hilarious Youth Propagandazine ‘Conservative Teen’ Digs Up Stossel’s Anti-BIA Piece – ICTMN.com
*Mexikaresitance.com Note: This magazine looks hilarious. Unfortunately, the kids reading it lack the brainpower to see it for the joke that it is… A magazine called The Conservative Teen, an effort by the out-of-touch right to reach out and touch the nation’s young people, has been a hot topic today on blogs and social media. … Continue reading
Indianz.Com > Native Sun News: Activists plan Keystone XL hunger strike
As U.S. President Barack Obama voiced concessions to the Keystone XL tar sands, crude oil pipeline on March 22, American Indian and other activists protested in South Dakota, Oklahoma, Canada and Europe.
The Strange Conservative Brain: 3 Reasons Republicans Refuse to Accept Reality About Global Warming | | AlterNet
So the question before us on this panel is, “Will the Planet Survive the Age of Humans?” And I want to focus on one particular aspect of humans that makes them very problematic in a planetary sense — namely, their brains. What I’ve spent the last year or more trying to understand is what it … Continue reading
Indians protest in Ecuador against mining projects | Warrior Publications
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — More than 1,000 indigenous protesters reached Ecuador’s capital Thursday after a two-week march from the Amazon to oppose plans for large-scale mining on their lands. The protesters were joined by thousands of anti-government protesters in Quito, and some of the demonstrators clashed with police outside the National Assembly. Police repelled rock-throwing … Continue reading
The Making of the Great White Race – ICTMN.com
Historically, when different groups of people came into contact with one another, they offered different explanations for the phenotypic variations they saw. Because skin color was so noticeable, it was the most frequently explained trait and most systems of racial classification came to be based on these explanations. Race would later become both a classifier … Continue reading
