Indigenist Intelligence Review

Kathleen Cleaver: The Fugitive: Why has the FBI placed a million-dollar bounty on Assata Shakur?

2009-11-07T12:20:00.000-08:00

assatashakur.orgTwenty-eight years ago, in a highly disputed trial, an all-White jury convicted former Black Panther Assata Shakur of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. In 1979, while serving a life sentence, she escaped from prison and eventually resurfaced in Cuba, where she was granted asylum and has lived ever since. But the U.S. government has continued to pursue Shakur,

Ampilatwatja Walkoff - Richard Downs & Harry Nelson

2009-11-06T15:38:00.000-08:00

"On July 14 2009 we, Elders from the Ampilatwatja community, walked out of our houses and set up camp in the bush. We are fed up with the federal government's Northern Territory Intervention, controls and measures, visions and goals forced onto us from outside. We felt we were outcasts and isolated from all decision making -there has been no meaningful consultation... We therefore have no

Fort Hood Massacre

2009-11-06T04:49:00.000-08:00

As is the usual manner of the mainstream US media and its policy attachments, much will be said/made about this horrific incident in the moments, days, and months to follow.The massacre comes at a time when President Obama looks more like his predecessor and the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are far from deescalating.That said it should also be expected that much will be made about the alleged

"Italy Convicts Former CIA Agents in Renditions Trial"

2009-11-05T03:06:00.001-08:00

MILAN - An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. government.The Americans were all tried in absentia after the United States refused to extradite them. But the verdict, the first of its kind, was welcomed by rights campaigners who have long

Indigenous Resistance in the Americas and the Legacy of Mariategui

2009-10-31T10:44:00.000-07:00

Image by nimboo via FlickrMonthly ReviewReviewed: Marc Becker, Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008), 356 pages, $22.95, paperback.Following the 2005 election of the first Indigenous president of any country in the Americas — Evo Morales in Bolivia — I commented in MRzine on the fact that many were taken by surprise by

The JIG is up! Gord Hill Threatened with Rendition by Olympic Cops

2009-10-23T22:47:00.000-07:00

This was passed on to us via IIN Investigative Blog-Journalist John John:--October 20, 2009Occupied Coast Salish TerritoryYo Weeksus,I, Gord Hill, am proud to announce yet another encounter with the Olympic police as a result of my 'controversial' statement to CBC News and my views on sabotage. This evening (Tuesday, October 20, 2009), at around 9:30 PM, I was approached by plainclothes officers

Atahualpa Yupanqui

2009-10-15T11:58:00.000-07:00

Abiding in Bolivia:English translation by El Duderino:The IndiansAmerica is a long road of the Indians.They are these summits and that valleyAnd those lost quiet mounts in the cloudAnd that golden field of maize.And the hollow between stones, and the desert stone.From all places are contemplating us the Indians,From all the high peaks they watch us.The land has been fattened with the flesh of the

Nobel Snowbel

2009-10-10T06:55:00.000-07:00

Desmond Tutu has congratulated President Obama on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.The Arch did, however, say he was surprised that Obama will receive the prize without even finishing a term in office.Thanks for noting that Arch but you are obviously being too nice to a man who has achieved absolutely f*ck-all in the months that the world has watched him waffle over Guantanamo, Iraq,

Perfect intruder or true friend? Hindsight

2009-10-06T09:56:00.000-07:00

PERFECT INTRUDER OR TRUE FRIEND? HINDSIGHTMohawk Nation Newshttp://www.mohawknationnews.comMNN. Oct. 6, 2009. This is about spies and agents in our midst. We Indigenous look at our experiences and try to put them into context. Some of us have been misled by colonial agents posing as scholars, friends, supporters or helpers. Because we don’t have all the information at the time, we don’t

He Panui tenei mo 'Explosive Expression'

2009-10-05T17:47:00.000-07:00