By John Ahni Schertow
Stronger. Sharper. Still fiercely independent. After four long years of silence, Intercontinental Cry (IC) is back and more ready than ever to serve as a gathering ground for frontline stories from the Arctic to the Amazon and the Pacific to...
By John Ahni Schertow
Most Canadians assume that Indigenous journalism is either inherently biased or has no real bearing on their lives. This is largely due to two factors: Canada’s woefully inadequate education system and the apartheid-driven media landscape in which indigenous cultures, needs...
By John Ahni Schertow
Lambasting the media has become popular sport over the past few years, but it’s still exceedingly rare to see anyone point out how the media shirks its responsibility to Indigenous Peoples, preferring to perpetuate structural injustices that are older than...
By Courtney Parker and John Ahni Schertow
The spiraling rate of suicide among Canada’s First Nations became a state of crisis in Attawapiskat this week after 11 people in the northern Ontario community attempted to take their own lives in one night. The First Nation was so...
By Jay Taber
Storytelling in the Fourth World is a vital part of transmitting identity and creating community essential to maintaining resilient holistic cultures. Intercultural communications serve as diplomatic tools, while intracultural communications maintain group cohesion. Cooperation and adaptation depend on effective and...
By Jay Taber
George Manuel, chief of the National Indian Brotherhood (known today as the Assembly of First Nations), once remarked, “Assimilation is annihilation.” As president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples from 1975-1981, Manuel’s work was foundational to the Indigenous Peoples...
By Jay Taber
Like markets that seek to monopolize niches of property, institutions seek to monopolize territories of power. Contesting these monopolies of property and power are tribes and networks, both of which seek more dispersed organization of ownership and control. In the...
By Jay Taber
In 1992, when U.S. President George H.W. Bush’s White House staff David Macintosh spoke to the national Wise Use conference to congratulate American industrial leaders for their movement’s success at intimidating environmental activists, it was a harbinger of things to...
By Jay Taber
When the Zapatista uprising appeared in world media on January 1, 1994, it wasn’t out of the blue; Maya communities had been holding assemblies to discuss the ramifications of armed defense of their democratic way of life for well over...
By Jay Taber
Solidarity as a strategy — exemplified by the 1994 Zapatista/Civil Society alliance against NAFTA — made clear the power of unifying the indigenous peoples movement, the human rights movement, and the environmental movement. Taking a lesson from the iconic uprising...
By Jay Taber
As Stan Goff wrote in his 1 February 2007 essay on strategy, tactics and intelligence, Intelligence is information analyzed for its value to develop plans for action. Most of it, even in the world of government intelligence, doesn’t come from...
By Jay Taber
While the 1648 reorganization of international relations under the concept of Westphalian sovereignty held out promise as an alternative to feudalism in Europe, the modern state model agreed to there is no longer functional. If our goal is peace and...
By Jay Taber
The power of moral sanction as a penalty of conscience for violations of our sense of decency — based on a belief in the application of justice — has been essential to struggles for autonomy and dignity since the Middle...
