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Author: endofempire79 Added: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:33:49 -0800 Duration: 102http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com presents another clip as part the "Why Are Things Falling Apart?" series. In this video, Jerry Mander discusses indigenous views of oil and resources, and how corporations overpower them.

http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com presents another clip as part the "Why Are Things Falling Apart?" series. In this video, Jerry Mander discusses indigenous views of oil and resources, and how corporations overpower them.

The word, 'sorry', has different meanings in Australian English and Aboriginal English. So what did Prime Minister Rudd's historic apology, made earlier this year, actually signify for the Indigenous Australians to whom it was offered?

People & Power looks at the impact the US military build-up on the western Pacific island of Guam is having on the indigenous Chamorro population. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: aljazeera people power guam US american military chamorro indigenous western pacific island china base Added: July 15, 2008

There are only some twenty people still fluent in the Adnyamathanya language of the Indigenous people of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. But they are teaching many others, passing on their cultural heritage to all who are willing to learn. (This year's NAIDOC Week is being celebrated 6-13 July. NAIDOC celebrates the survival of Indigenous culture and the Indigenous contribution to modern Australia.)

In the jungles of eastern Nicaragua where the Miskito Indians live, an indigenous people with a proud martial past are feeling the direct effects of climate change. With unpredictable weather wreaking havoc they're waging a grim battle for survival. Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo travelled to Waspam to see the devastation. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: nicaragua teresa bo indigenous aljazeera Added: July 8, 2008

In the first program in our 15th anniversary season, we revisit the handback of Uluru Kata-Tjuta National Park to its traditional owners. In a special ceremony at Uluru in October 1985, the then Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen and the Aboriginal Affairs Minister presented the title deeds to the traditional owners despite the opposition of the Northern Territory government. 'Our Spirit Becomes One' was produced by Ursula Raymond for the tenth anniversary of the handback and won the Louis St John Johnson award for best radio journalism. Produced by Ursula Raymond Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this program includes the voices of people who have passed away. [first broadcast 21 October 1995]

Gone for a song

Deborah Rose discusses indigenous and Western understandings of nature through the exploration of a seminal story from each of these two radically different cultural spheres. This talk was part of the Raimond Gaita-curated 2008 Wednesday Lectures series, whose theme is "Rethinking Our Place in Nature".ACU National, Melbourne. June 2008(Part 1 of 2) Click here for Part 2

Deborah Rose discusses indigenous and Western understandings of nature through the exploration of a seminal story from each of the two radically different cultures. This talk was part of the Raimond Gaita-curated 2008 Wednesday Lectures series, whose theme is "Rethinking Our Place in Nature".ACU National, Melbourne. June 2008(Part 2 of 2)

The senior Rirratjingu clanswoman who died suddenly and prematurely last month has been remembered as a protector of Yolngu culture and a tenacious fighter for the right of Yolngu to speak their own language in tandem with English, a way of thinking known as 'both-ways' education. We pay special tribute to this great Yolngu educator, linguist, translator and public intellectual. Awaye! has obtained permission to broadcast excerpts from the memorial service to Dr Marika held recently in her community of Yirrkala. Also in this program, we sit down in Darwin with the new chief executive of the Northern Land Council, Kim Hill. He has a big job ahead of him trying to act in the best interests of traditional owners across northern Australia. But the former ATSIC Commissioner says he has no magic potion. And the artist Vernon Ah Kee talks about Aboriginal beauty in his portraiture.

Words of hope and prayer by Indigenous model Junal Gerlach, of Rapid City, South Dakota.

Yara Brasil mostra um pouco da realidade dos povos indigenas no Brasil. Um dia o Homen vai descobrir que dinheiro nao se come.musica: Amiga Terra de Giselle Sprovieri. Author: brasilianskkvinde Keywords: Danmark Yara Brasil Indios amazonia brazilian indians desmatamento natureza sofrimento etnias indigenous Added: June 25, 2008

Part 1: 60 minutes_ Featuring: Tonya Gonnella-Frichner Onandoga Nation Alex Ewen, Flying Eagle Woman Fund Steven Newcomb, Sycuan University Nicholas Robinson PROFESSOR OF LAW_Pace University Gail Small Northern Cheyenne Nation Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan_ Onondaga Nation of the Six Nations In honor of Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa work in theSovereignty of the indigenous people and as side panel event of the The Seventh Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. NY,NY April 2008 Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, 1999 "Since the time that human beings offered thanks for the first sunrise, sovereignty has been an integral part of Indigenous peoples' daily existence. With the original instructions from the Creator, we realize our responsibilities. Those are the laws that lay the foundation of our society. These responsibilities manifest through our ceremonies ... Sovereignty is that wafting thread securing the components that make a society. Without that wafting thread, you cannot make a rug. Without that wafting thread, all you have are un-joined, isolated components of a society. Sovereignty runs through the vertical strands and secures the entire pattern. That is the fabric of Native society." Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, 1999.

Part 2: 48 minutes_ Featuring: Alex Ewen, Flying Eagle Woman Fund,Earl Tulley, Vice President Dine Care,Gail Small Northern Cheyenne Nation In honor of Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa work in theSovereignty of the indigenous people and as side panel event of the The Seventh Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. NY,NY April 2008 Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, 1999 "Since the time that human beings offered thanks for the first sunrise, sovereignty has been an integral part of Indigenous peoples' daily existence. With the original instructions from the Creator, we realize our responsibilities. Those are the laws that lay the foundation of our society. These responsibilities manifest through our ceremonies ... Sovereignty is that wafting thread securing the components that make a society. Without that wafting thread, you cannot make a rug. Without that wafting thread, all you have are un-joined, isolated components of a society. Sovereignty runs through the vertical strands and secures the entire pattern. That is the fabric of Native society." Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, 1999.

Novelist and translator David Treuer is helping to compile the first practical grammar of the Ojibwe tongue of his tribe -- one of the 90 percent of human languages that could be endangered in this century. Treuer describes an unfolding awareness of aspects of his personality, of a sense of what brings him joy, an understanding of what makes him human -- that the Ojibwe language distinctly conveys.

Pompey Raymond is an Aboriginal tracker from the Northern Territory. He was taught to read tracks from his father who first told him to practice on a goanna. Noel Nannup is a former national park ranger who reckons it's our job to care for everything. Also in this program, we join a group of Tasmanian Aboriginal men who are the first in 160 years to make a bark canoe like that used by their ancestors to navigate the waters between the outer islands. Their design and construction so ingenious that medical imaging technology had to be used to unlock its secrets.

On NEWSREAL, people -- not corporations -- make the news! NewsReal is a monthly joint project of Free SpeechTV (http://www.freespeech.org) and the Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml ). Each program covers actions taken in local communities, by ordinary people, to address critical issues like the war, air and water pollution, reproductive rights, homelessness, for-profit prisons, sweatshops, racism, police brutality, indigenous struggles, and more. Please keep sending in submissions and spreading the word to videoactivists you know! Each episode airs on Free Speech TV over the Dish Network to a national audience. http://www.newsreal.indymedia.org http://newsreal.indymedia.org/produce... June 2008 Indymedia Newsreal runsheet: Dooda Means No! Producer: Marcos Ramirez http://newmexico.indymedia.org The story of native opposition to a new coal power plant near Desert Rock, New Mexico. Special Newsreal Message Producer: Steev Hise http://newsreal.indymedia.org A reminder to activist videographers that Newsreal is a great opportunity to get videoactivist work out to the world. Impacts of the Wall Producer: Steev Hise http://arizona.indymedia.org Details, according to experts from Texas, Arizona, and California, of what environmental effects there will be as a result of the ongoing and impending construction of the U.S./Mexico border wall. Boundary Conditions Producer: Steev Hise http://www.panleft.org A video collage about borders, with live music accompaniment. Public Access producers, community screeners, and IMCs (Independent Media Centers) are encouraged to screen or air NewsReal. To obtain the show on a regular basis, please contact Pepperspray Productions at pepperspray@riseup.net.

This time last year debate was raging across the country after the release of the Little Children are Sacred report, which revealed harrowing details of child sexual abuse in Northern Territory Aboriginal Communities. Almost overnight the federal government launched the Northern Territory Emergency Response, sending in the army and doctors to carry out mass health checks in 73 communities. But report co-author Rex Wild says not all has been well with the intervention.

Antibiotic resistant golden staph infections in the general community Sometimes there are headlines in the media of outbreaks of MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureaus) in hospitals. But there is also plenty of MRSA in the general community in Australia, which may have been brought about by living conditions in socially disadvantaged groups, particularly remote Australian Aboriginal communities. The effect of antibiotics in the treatment of rhinosinusitis A group of researchers in Switzerland has looked at the effectiveness of antibiotics to treat sinusitis. Glucose lowering therapy in type 2 diabetes A large group of international researchers have investigated the effect of intensive therapy in lowering the glucose level in relation to cardiovascular events.

Indigenous education and boarding schools Indigenous communities are sending their children to boarding schools in the hope of a better education. Who is Michelle Obama? Barack Obama has made his history by becoming the Democrat nominee designate for this year´s US Presidential elections. Community Idol 2008: Consumer Activity Network We've been hearing about Australia´s most innovative community organisations - all finalists in the Community Idol Competition being held in Melbourne this week as part of Our Communities Conference.

Benoit Cafard of "Smash Media!", Toulouse Indymedia, interviews Mallory Knodel at 92.2 Canal Sud on April 8, 2008.The subject is Indigenous Voices, a monthly community gathering at Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City to address Indigenous issues around the world through film, discussion, and action.The monthly event, Indigenous Voices, has branched from the successful radio show "First Voices Indigenous Radio", hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse on WBAI, New York.

Northern Michigan University Indigenous 2008 Earth Day Summit Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard: Indigenous Peoples, women and children are all thought of as expendable commodities We have lost any sense of the sacred. (Marquette, Michigan) - Many of the rich around the world view Indigenous Peoples, women and children as expendable commodities, said Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard during Northern Michigan University 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit. Hubbard added he fears for the future of mankind and the planet because we have lost any sense of the sacred. NMU PhotoVictor Steffensen performing on the didgeridoo at the Indigenous Earth Day Summit. The summit was a two-day event to gather and discuss ideas on how to obtain and share traditional ecological knowledge from Indigenous elders and put it in to practical use.--- The summit was held on Earth Day 2008 on the NMU campus in Marquette, Michigan near the shores of Lake Superior. The two-day summit - the first of its kind at NMU - was April 22-23. Photo by Ms. Aim e Cree Dunn, NMU Center for Native American Studies, Adjunct Instructor The summit keynote was the Australian Aboriginal Delegation (Barry Hunter, John Hunter and Victor Steffensen). The delegation is bringing the Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways project to Native communities in Michigan.--- The other keynote presenter was Garry Morning Star Raven , a traditional Ojibwe teacher from Manitoba.--- Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard of Munising, Michigan was part of the Panel II discussion. Rev. Hubbard said some Christians condemn Native American spirituality. He said that amounts to spiritual terrorism. I think we have here two different forms of religion, said Turtle Island Project Director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard. And it s this religion of my ancestors that I participate in that I think really has been the problem. I think we have to come to understand that religious consciousness evolves just like anything else does, Hubbard said. It's not just the material world that evolves but also our cultural world evolves and the realm of the concept evolves. Rev. Hubbard, who is pastor of Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising, Michigan, said Christians should wake up and begin listening to Earth-based cultures. We are going now, as a people - there was a time from prehistorical religions to historic religions - the religions of the book Judaism, Christianity, Islam - to this historic period, Hubbard said. Now I think that religious consciousness is transending to this transrational understanding of spirituality. Hubbard said that as part of this transrational understanding of spirituality is an appropriation of this knowledge and spirituality of Earth-based cultures. So its not going back, it's not criticizing buts it's learning from one another, Hubbard said. It's very difficult because Euro-American people have had power for so long its subconscious to us, Hubbard said. We don't even realize how imperialistic we are, Hubbard said. It's very difficult for us to understand that - to get in contact with our own badness - because we have been projecting that on other people for so long it's very difficult for us but we have to do this now. Photo courtesy: johntrudell.com --- Rev. Hubbard, who co-founded the TIP, quoted ideas from well-known Native American author and activist John Trudell. I think we have to be open now to what John Trudell called spirit making and escape. I love this idea. My spirit needs to make an escape from my religious consciousness. Hubbard said that one of the ways my spirit has been greatly helped to make this escape from the techologic mining process that we all go through - is because of the grace of God. I got to become friends with many people who extended friendship to me and taught me how to listen - taught me about myself and taught me these great learnings and teachings and wisdom that can come from our brothers and sisters - who still - despite their painful history at our hands that still goes on today. The racial and cultural genocide that still goes on today inside this country - they taught me how to transcend myself and how to get to this other higher level of spiritual consciousness, he said. And I am very grateful for that, Hubbard said. Responding to a question from the audience, Dr. Hubbard said some religions even resort to violence in proclaiming they are the superior religion. Judaism is an inherently ethical religion except you have to be a Canaanite, Hubbard said. You may get your ass kicked or your head cut off but basically it's OK, he said. But sky Gods and cultures that worship sky Gods are traditionally barbaric. Read the Old Testament. Wow! Talk about patriarchy. But we are in a war, Hubbard said. It is not a war of my choosing but we are in a war. I truly believe that it is a war for our hearts and our minds, he said. Answering a question from those gathered, Rev. Hubbard said even today it s controversial to speak about the core beliefs of Jesus like poverty, social justice, and other issues. Rev. Hubbard knows first hand the reaction that comes when you speak about the poor while criticizing some modern day entities that are part of creating a two-class system due to an incident at his church. However, he encouraged those present to keep fighting for racial and environmental justice. We have to continually fight, Hubbard said. It's multi-generational. We fight against great principalities and powers, he said. It's amazing. If you stick your head up out of the foxhole just a little bit and you start speaking on behalf of the poor - those bullets are flying, Hubbard said. Hubbard said the incident start when I said something about a corporation. I said we created these corporations and political structures that aren't moral entities because if you are a moral entity you have to say things like: I'm sorry. I made a mistake.' You have to admit your humanness. When's the last time your heard a politician ever admit a mistake unless they were forced to? I did not have sex with that woman - I did not inhale - yes I smoked but I did not inhale. I said some corporations are like this too - they are not moral entities because they cannot do these things like apologize, Hubbard said. Well, good Lord that's attacking a sacred cow, he said. There's a guy in my congregation who just went ballistic - who quit the church because he had spent his entire life benefitting from, working for, a non-moral entity, he said. I did not say all corporations were liked this - I just said some corporations are like this, Hubbard said. Well that's all you have to say. And you start talking to Euro-American people about the reality of Native American peoples - in my world, Hubbard said with a look of exasperation while shaking his head and pointing to another audience member who had a question. Rev. Hubbard said Americans - and all people who call Earth home - need to protect the environment. He said we have lost the sense of the sacred - a lesson that can be learned from Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples. I understand this because I feel desperate, Hubbard said. What John Trudell was talking about is the same way - we've lost our way. Photo courtesy Public Broadcasting Corp. PBS.org--- We do not have any spiritual sense because we have lost any sense of the sacred, Hubbard said. Photo of Mircea Eliade courtesy:http://autori.humanitas.ro/eliade--- A great historian of the religions Mircea Eliade who was at the University of Chicago where I for many years - I did his funeral, Hubbard said. Mircea Eliade had this notion that in order to have a hierophany - an experience of the sacred - you have to have sacred space, he said. If this Earth is not sacred to you - which it isn't to Mickey Mouse - then you can't have an experience of the sacred, Hubbard said. I deal with people every day in my congregation who have lost or are losing any sense of the sacred. And it's not only - like you were saying this relationship between Earth and women - and the earth and man. If you do not have power in a capitalistic society - you become part of - and you are thought of in terms of the Earth. Concerned about the future of the human race, Dr. Hubbard said the rich look down on the poor. He said humans should not be measured by wealth. Women who have less economic power, children who don't have any power at all unless somebody gives it to them - Indigenous communities - you are all thought of as expendable commodities. I m Greg Peterson and you re watching Turtle island TV --- Related links: --- Watch Rev. Hubbard s entire presentation and others on Panel II: Indigenous Earth Values and Philosophies http://mediasite.nmu.edu/NMUMediasite/Viewer/Viewers/ViewerVideoOnly.aspx?mode=Default e Cree Dunn Center for Native American Studies, Adjunct Instructor Indigenous Earth Day Summit Project Coordinator 906-227-1397 NMU Center for Native American Studies homepage: www.nmu.edu/nativeamericans 2008 Indigenous Earth Day Summit page: http://webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/Calendar/IndigEarthDaySummit.shtml Office: 906-227-1397 Fax: 906-227-1396 --- NMU Environmental Science Program (summit co-sponsor) http://webb.nmu.edu/Departments/Geography/index.shtml Dr. Ron Sundell Environmental Science Program, Director 906-227-1359 --- NMU Office of International Affairs (co-sponsor) http://www.nmu.edu/iao/ --- Summary of Turtle Island Project websites: TIP Main website: http://www.turtleislandproject.org Other TIP News Sites: http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle Turtle Island TV - Video sites: (blipTV) http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/ (youtube) http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse (myspace) http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject --- Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways project: http://www.tkrp.com.au NMU media meet interview with TKRP delegation by host Sonya Chrisman: http://tkrp.com.au/index.php?option=com_content s Natural Heritage Trust. He has a B.A.S in Parks, Recreation and Heritage as well as a range of experience in land and sea management. His specialties include Aboriginal hunting and fishing rights particularly as they relate to turtle and dugong conservation and illegal commercial fishing issues. --- John Hunter is a TKRP Indigenous Land Management Facilitator for southern Queenslanda Ph.D. research scholar through Macquarie University and a professional artist. He has taught at the University of Western Sydney, Macquarie University and, currently, at the University of Queensland as both a permanent and part-time faculty member. He has various degrees including an Associate s in Park Management; a B.A.S. in Parks, Recreation and Heritage; and a Master s of Indigenous Studies in Research. His current Ph.D. work is focused on developing a Gamilaraay TKRP and Indigenous capacity building project. In addition, he plays the didgeridoo and will be bringing along an art exhibit and a display on the Stolen Generations. --- Victor Steffenson has a varied background on numerous issues such as methods of traditional knowledge recovery, application of traditional ecological knowledge in natural resource management, aboriginal history, the synergies between science and traditional Indigenous knowledge, Aboriginal culture and spirituality, and a range of contemporary Aboriginal issues --- The Turtle Island Project: Turtle Island Project founders are concerned about the environment, global warming, climate change and species extinction and its effect on Indigenous peoples because over the past 500 years humans have killed off nearly 1,000 species. TIP founders believes that species extinction and global warming are among the measures that demonstrate the dire future for Earth and humans if we don't change our attitudes. Tip points out that nearly 15,600 species are threatened with extinction, according to several 2007 United Nations reports. The U.N. reports state that almost one-third of the world's species of animals and plants are expected to be at risk of extinction within 50 years due to climate change. During the interfaith retreat for religious leaders in late 2007, TIP director Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard said it's the responsibility of clergy to speak out on social issues like the abuse of the environment and racism. Turtle Island Project founders say Euro-Americans can learn a lot from Earth-based cultures like the Celts and Native Americans. TIP co-founder rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, Indiana said the human race and the planet (therefore its wildlife) are facing a Kyros Moment that demands a change in the basic way humans view and treat the planet and its natural inhabitants. Kyros is a Greek word for occasion' or timing. Kyros is the art of seizing the moment - a combination of understood context and proper timing. Additional bio info on Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard: Lynn Hubbard, M.DIV. D.MIN., is founder and director of the Turtle Island Project (TIP) in Munising, Michigan. He is currently the minister of Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising. In addition to graduating from Valparaiso University and holding advanced degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology and Chicago Theological Seminary, Lynn has studied at the Pedagogishe Hochschule in Reutlingen, German, the Religious Studies Department at the University of Indiana, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. For many years he worked as the Associate Dean of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago. He has had extensive experience in both the interfaith and ecumenical communities, and served as the Director of Development for the Parliament of World s Religious. Most recently, in working in his capacity as spiritual director for Juvenile sex offenders, he has given national and international conference presentations on Creating Ritual Process for Juvenile Sex Offenders from a Cross Cultural Perspective.

For more than a century, tens of thousands of native Canadian children were forced to attend residential schools where they were made to adopt the customs of the country's white majority. But many say they suffered years of physical and sexual abuse. Now the government is set to formally apologise and pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to victims. Rosalind Jordan reports. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: AlJazeera Al Jazeera Canada Indigenous Native Abus Apology History Added: June 10, 2008

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Tax the chardonnay socialists Last week the National Interest put forward a controversial idea: a review of the way we tax alcohol. The idea is simple: forget about tweaking alcopop prices and start taxing products in line with their alcoholic content. In other words, the stronger the drink, the higher the tax. Alice Springs doctor John Boffa argued that getting fiscally physical with fortified wines and chateau cardboard could reduce the damage done by alcohol. But is the chardonnay set ready for a tax on wine linked to alcohol content? Possibly not, and on the National Interest today wine producers will argue that pushing up the price of wine won't solve the health and violence problems associated with excessive boozing. Do they have a point, or are we simply safeguarding the tastes of inner-suburban trendies?