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December 2020 Enewsletter
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** More Important than Gold, Water Should Not Be Traded on Wall Street
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On December 8, 2020, several media sources reported that fresh water started to be traded on Wall Street as a commodity such as gold and wheat. A water crisis is worrisome enough, yet more alarming is the fact that our Mother Water will be controlled by a privileged group of people who will determine its value to the world. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Dev Kumar Sunuwar Appointed as Advisor to UN General Secretary on UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples
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On December 17, 2020, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appointed Dev Kumar Sunuwar, staff member at Cultural Survival, as a member of the Advisory Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples. Read more. ([link removed])
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** United States’ Human Rights Record Examined at UN Universal Periodic Review
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The United States’ review took place on November 9, 2020. Its representative led its statements by saying the country is “immensely proud of our human rights record,” an egregious but not surprising denial of the violations enumerated in Cultural Survival’s report, in fellow States’ reviews, and beyond. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Ray C. Anderson Foundation’s NextGen Committee Awards $100,000 to Cultural Survival
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The NextGen Committee ([link removed]) of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to Cultural Survival to support grassroots Indigenous solutions to climate change. Read more. ([link removed])
** Missed the Indigenizing Philanthropy Webinar?
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** Cementing Dispossession: Terror and Violence of the Brazilian Navy against Quilombola Peoples
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Displacement and human rights violations have become a tool to punish the Quilombola Peoples’ identity and reinforce structural racism and impoverishment. Read more. ([link removed])
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** Indigenous Radio Stations Coordinate Relief Efforts in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Eta and Iota in Central America
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In November 2020, many Indigenous communities in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia, southern Mexico and other territories of Abya Yala (America) were recently impacted by two category 4 and 5 hurricanes. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Cultural Appropriation: Another Form of Extractivism of Indigenous Communities
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Indigenous Peoples around the world continue to resist and reinvent ways of maintaining their lifeways in the face of the onslaught of a civilization increasingly in decline, based on the ideas of anthropocentrism, a free market, and destroying nature to quench their thirst of accumulation. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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Reclaiming What Belongs to Us - Khoi and San at Table Mountain ([link removed])
In October 2020, a group of people representing different Khoi and San Peoples gathered at the foot of Table Mountain in South Africa, where they have created a cultural space where they will stay for an indefinite period of time in an effort to reclaim the mountain.
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Migration and Urbanization - An Interview with Job Morris from San Youth Network, Botswana ([link removed])
In this podcast, we look at factors that influence the migration of Indigenous Peoples, and we explore some of the impacts of migration. Job Morris, from the San Youth Network, tells us more about urbanization and the impacts of migration on Indigenous San Peoples of Botswana.
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¿Qué pasó con los Pueblos Indígenas Nahuat Pipiles en El Salvador? ([link removed])
En este programa adaptado del artículo de opinión “La lucha para Salvar a un Pueblo; los Nahuat Pipiles de El Salvador“, escrito por Alejandro Ramiro Chan, escucharemos su historia y qué acciones están haciendo para visibilizarse. Este programa está en idioma Nahuat Pipil y también compartimos la versión en español. ([link removed])
420 Urgent Public Service Annoucements on COVID-19 Are Now Available in 130 Indigenous Languages ([link removed])
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** Keepers of the Earth Grant Partner:
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** OMIUBP Responds to COVID-19 in Guna and Ipeti Embera Communities
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Organización de Mujeres Indígenas Unidas por la Biodiversidad de Panamá (OMIUBP) rose to meet the needs and challenges in their communities. OMIUBP works to fortify, develop, and retain Indigenous knowledge with a primary focus on Indigenous women’s role in defending human and biodiversity rights of their communities. “As a result of this health crisis, we realized that it was necessary to join forces to continue supporting the communities,” says Deidamia López, president of OMIUBP. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Community Media Grant Partner:
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** Radio Sensunat: Broadcasting to Revitalize the Nahuat Language in El Salvador
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Santo Domingo operates a community radio station, Radio Sensunat, promoting Indigenous Nahuatl Pipil culture and language. Radio Sensunat is part of the Participative Radiodifusión Association of El Salvador (ARPAS) and is a tool for alternative communication to promote Indigenous Peoples’ rights and cultures. Read more. ([link removed]) En español. ([link removed])
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** Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine
44-4 Indigenomics: Harnessing the Power of Our Communities ([link removed])
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Indigenous communities are powerhouses of knowledge, abundance, resilience, and resources. In this issue, we share the stories of Indigenous entrepreneurs and leaders who are making an immense difference in uplifting their communities on their own terms, and according to Indigenous values and principles, from a place of abundance. Learn More. ([link removed])
** ¡Cultural Survival Quarterly ahora está disponible en español!
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