Indigenous Voices

Indigenous Sovereignty & the Rights of Nature in Local Governance.

A Panel Discussion at the Cascadia Rising bioregional confluence event at Portland State University in 2014. Panelists included Aurolyn Stwyer, Treothe Bullock, Paul Cienfuegos and Lucy Marie. Here's the text about this Panel Discussion from the conference program: This panel seeks to explore the positive and problematic intersections between Indigenous Sovereignty strategies and rights-based organizing [...]

Fighting Coal Transport Through the Pacific Northwest: Reform and Revolution.

KBOO Radio's Joe Meyer produced this series of interviews in 2012. The show lasts 29 minutes. Oregon and Washington have dramatically reduced coal-powered energy generation. As a result coal companies are pushing to export tens of millions of tons of coal from Montana and Wyoming, through Pacific Northwest ports, to Asian markets. The coal would [...]

The Six Nations: Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on Earth

The folks at RatHaus have created this extraordinary selection of source materials about the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, and the foundational role that they played in the creation of the United States of America. Here's just the opening paragraph and Table of Contents of this amazing resource! ... The people of the Six Nations, [...]

Corporate Personality and Human Commodification

by Peter d'Errico   At the top of the city in a glass-chromed room an attorney assures the board of directors that the corporation is the person against which any or all action may be taken, not against each and every director joint or several. The multiheaded person exhales dry-iced victory as counsel backs out [...]

Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois and the Rationale for the American Revolution

Bruce Johansen's book, originally published in 1982, is now out of print, but can be read in its entirety HERE. Here's an excerpt from the book's Introduction: This book has two major purposes. First, it seeks to weave a few new threads into the tapestry of American revolutionary history, to begin the telling of a larger [...]

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