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At the G20 Stephen Harper outlined to the media during a press conference that:

"We also have no history of colonialism. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but none of the things that threaten or bother them,"

rest of story:
The Banana Peel

Michele Bollinger examines the federal authorities' politically biased decision to keep political prisoner Leonard Peltier behind bars.
International Socialist Review
August 27, 2009


Leonard Peltier
THE U.S. Parole Commission has once again denied parole to American Indian activist and renowned political prisoner Leonard Peltier. After languishing in prison for 33 long years for a crime he did not commit, Peltier has been condemned by the U.S. government...

Began my Friday night art crawl with the Visionary Arts Festival in the beautiful, beautiful Oakland campus.
Saw this great piece from Etta Cetera.
I remember seeing her work earlier this year at the Art All night Festival. Her work is an installation of a jail cell and letters she’s written to politicians and world leaders. Seems like she gets it.

There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them.

If the indigenous folk complain, well, just shoo-them away. Shoo-ing methods include: bulldozers, bullets, crooked politicians and fake land sales.

But be aware. Lately the Natives are shoo-ing back. Last week, indigenous Peruvians seized an oil pumping station, grabbed the nine policemen guarding it and, say...

Its that time of year: when we celebrate my arrival on this planet form yon far…..
And I’m sure you share in my amazement that I have survived this long.
To celebrate this momentous occasion I was hoping we could all do a little bit of good in this world.

I am inviting you to make a donation however large or small to one or all of the following charities.:

Native American Rights Fund (NARF),
founded in 1970, the is the oldest and largest nonprofit...