Saturday, October 20, 2007
Subverting Solidarity
Comprising the sole overt opposition to the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights last month, the CANZUS cabal (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States) may have inadvertently tipped its hand. As ruthless practitioners of neocolonial experiments in undermining indigenous sovereignty, the gang of four have generated widespread interest in both the world indigenous movement as well as the unsavory new methods of undermining aboriginal unity.
In the months to come, we anticipate informative exposes of this cabal's instruments of subversion as well as the instruments of liberation wielded by such bodies as the newly-formed League of Indigenous Nations. While we wait for additional articles like Rudolph Ryser's analysis on the Western Shoshone v United States of America, this might be a good time to become acquainted with existing international law and procedures for protecting the human rights of native peoples.
If things go as we suspect, the ongoing colonial conflict in the Pacific Rim is likely to heat up soon.
In the months to come, we anticipate informative exposes of this cabal's instruments of subversion as well as the instruments of liberation wielded by such bodies as the newly-formed League of Indigenous Nations. While we wait for additional articles like Rudolph Ryser's analysis on the Western Shoshone v United States of America, this might be a good time to become acquainted with existing international law and procedures for protecting the human rights of native peoples.
If things go as we suspect, the ongoing colonial conflict in the Pacific Rim is likely to heat up soon.
