Indigenous activist wins $4-million grant to boost Indigenous environmental rights
A prominent Indigenous climate organizer has received a prestigious $4-million grant to build a network that will help bolster Indigenous people’s …
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Open Letter: UBCIC in Solidarity with the Māori People – Indigenous Lands & Resources Today
Dear Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, Rawiri Waititi and the Māori Party: On behalf of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), we extend our …
Vote for Nobody
The system is geared towards the empowerment of politicians, when in reality we should be voting for no person to vote on our behalf, we should only be directly voting on matters of substance and we should be doing it ourselves.
Every country is negotiating a plan to save nature. Except the US.
CALI, Colombia — The United States is, by many measures, a global environmental leader, barring four years under former President Donald Trump. It has some of the strongest environmental laws in the world, such as the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act. The country invests billions of …
Revolution and Papacy
Pope Gregory XVI believed that, even if it were true that immediate spiritual advantages might be gained by revolt, or by the introduction of liberal …
Indigenous Sovereignty Is Under Attack as Supreme Court Bends Rules for Settlers
The Supreme Court has made headlines in recent years for a variety of controversial rulings — for gutting affirmative action, granting the president …
Why the Maori are protesting against equal rights in New Zealand
Around 35,000 thousand demonstrators descended on the capital of New Zealand this week, many of them adorned in traditional native dress amid a fluttering sea of red, white and black ‘Maori sovereignty’ flags. They were there to decry a bill looking to redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty. The …
Sovereignty for Sale
It goes way beyond tax havens and offshore banking. Enterprising countries have figured out how to put their legal systems at the disposal of corporate interests. In the past few years, a secretive consortium of technologists and investors has spent almost a billion dollars to purchase about ninety …
Digital sovereignty and data sovereignty
Digital technologies are data-driven. But who has access to the data, and who is allowed to use it? Digital sovereignty means that people can decide …
Somaliland Seeks Trump Backing for Sovereignty
Bloomberg Technology The only daily news program focused exclusively on technology, innovation and the future of business from San Francisco. Hosted …