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Headlines : InternationalThe U.S. Role In Indigenous Exploitation
With countless global examples of the exploitation and destruction of indigenous people and their land, the discussions of indigenous issues at the U.N. are not only newsworthy, but pertinent to the survival of hundreds of millions of human beings. While the United States continues to block efforts in the international arena to include native peoples in important political and economic decision making that holds unwavering implications for their continued existence on this planet, it is the job of the people to stand in solidarity with the struggling indigenous masses to assure that the power structure of government and corporate tyranny will not finally complete their historic genocide of native people everywhere.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from CounterCurrents
When it comes to reporting important international events in which the United States plays an enormous role, the mainstream corporate media is once again fulfilling its propagandistic function to protect elite interests by refusing to cover the facts and issues.
Over the past couple weeks, thousands of delegates have been meeting at the United Nations for the Seventh Session of the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). Representing over 370 million indigenous people worldwide, the forum serves as an arena for addressing pressing issues that indigenous people face across the world with a special focus on the most imperative current crisis: global climate change.
Although it went virtually unreported in the U.S., last September, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the “historic” U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Among other things, the declaration calls for nation-states to include and seek approval from indigenous peoples and nations in the constructing and implementation of any policy or “project affecting their lands or resources.”
The U.N. member states voted overwhelmingly in favor of the declaration with a vote of 143 in support and four opposed. Not surprisingly, the four nations opposed to the declaration, Canada, The United States, New Zealand, and Australia, stand…
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If you are into re-instating human sacrifices to Quetzaquatl and return to feeding young virgins to angry volcano gods, I’m with you genius’s all the way. Personally I don’t like being hated by complete strangers because some politically correct boob wrote an article that required them to hate me. I’m a low income white male who was born, raised and live in the U.S.
I think you are reading waaay to much into the article. Angry much? This is an argument about property rights, nothing more.
As another white male, I prefer my sacrifices the old fashioned way. If it isn’t on a wooden stake, it just ain’t right.
I believe that these subjects are linked directly but I do appreciate your opinion. Personally, I wrote the 1st 2 lines for a laugh as well as making a point. :)
P.S. Loved the wooden stake! lol.
Oh! forgot. My reference is mostly to the entrance of the Europeans to North America, Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo, effects of NAFTA and the yellow-dog journalism about white and black Americans performance in the work place. Read up on how Dole Pineapple kept their labor costs low in Hawaii. Also, this “we owe them” b.s. is just another avoidance tactic for the U.S. corporate world to keep from dealing with labor disputes. We can thank Ronald Reagan for setting us up for that one.