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FSC: Virtual program explores right relationships with Indigenous peoples (copy)

Winona Daily News 08 Dec 2021
Toward Right Relationship With Native Peoples” from 6 to 8 p.m ... and World Council of Churches, is designed to help participants increase awareness of these impacts, recognize them in themselves and institutions, and explore how to begin taking actions toward right relationship with Indigenous peoples. People are also reading….
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UBCO study on Indigenous cannabis use rattles legal retailers

Castanet 08 Dec 2021
It's been three years since cannabis was legalized in Canada and the University of British Columbia Okanagan is now looking at cannabis use among the Indigenous peoples ... The study authors are also looking for Indigenous Peoples, "if you self-identify as ...
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In southern Colombia, Indigenous groups fish and farm with the floods

Mongabay 08 Dec 2021
The new report provides the most detailed and comprehensive account to date of the sustainable food systems of Indigenous peoples ... “Indigenous peoples’ wisdom, traditional knowledge and ability to adapt provide lessons from which other non-indigenous societies can learn,” Anne Nuorgam, chair of the U.N.
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Helping Indigenous restaurant workers in the languages they speak

The Los Angeles Times 08 Dec 2021
South L.A.-based CIELO, or Comunidades Indigenas en Liderazgo, is a women-led organization advocating for Indigenous people — including restaurant workers — through the languages they speak ... “And that’s why we started the Undocu-Indigenous Fund.” ... “The Indigenous peoples have always been putting food on our table.”.
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National Early Childhood Strategy announced for First Nations children

NIT 08 Dec 2021
SNAICC is the national peak body representing the interests of Indigenous children and families ... “Indigenous-led solutions will ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people have every opportunity to live happy and healthy lives, strong in their culture and identity.”.
photo: AP / Alessandra Tarantino
Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021
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Meeting between Canadian First Nations and pope postponed

The Associated Press 08 Dec 2021
TORONTO (AP) — A meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and Canadian Indigenous people who were abused at church-run boarding schools has been postponed because of the new coronavirus variant ... the Indigenous groups and Canadian Catholic bishops said in a joint statement.
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Outback Australia and the Information Wars

Quillette 08 Dec 2021
... and forcing people into the camps ... But it certainly is indigenous people themselves in Australia saying these things.” ... Nothing can ever go wrong! The indigenous people we’re bringing here? Well, they weren’t allowed to leave their homes to get food.
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Understanding key to jab push

NIT 08 Dec 2021
Yamatji Noongar woman Sharon Wood-Kenney, who has been part of a team holding information sessions with Indigenous people in Perth about vaccinations, said many of the sessions were spent discussing why people did not want to get vaccinated ... Ms Riley told the National Indigenous ...
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Should mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences be repealed?

Castanet 08 Dec 2021
These reforms have been long called for by advocates, who have argued that current measures perpetuate systemic racism in Canada's justice system, leading to disproportionately higher rates of imprisonment for Indigenous peoples, Black Canadians, and those struggling with substance use and addiction.
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Free Northeast from a law that gives licence to kill

The Times of India 08 Dec 2021
Yet, immediately after the British departure, the Union of India imposed the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) on the indigenous people of Northeast India on September 11, 1958.
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U.S. "democracy summit" to bring divisions: Philippine expert

China.dot.org 08 Dec 2021
MANILA, Dec ... "While their innovation was a factor, much of the wealth of the liberal Western 'democracies' was created by militarily taking over the land of the indigenous peoples and resources of other nations," Ong said ... Enditem .
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Aeta families get presents from CIAC

Sun Star 08 Dec 2021
The project is part of CIAC’s corporate social responsibility program, especially so that we targeted the indigenous people near the Clark Freeport Zone as beneficiaries of our modest assistance during this season of giving,” CIAC President Aaron Aquino ...
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Voice of the People, Dec. 8, 2021

Atlantic City 08 Dec 2021
It includes the contributions of women, it includes the contributions of Black and Indigenous people, it includes the contributions of immigrants, all of which have been long overlooked. It also teaches some parts of the past that people are not proud of, but which are still part of history.
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280 Aeta families get CIAC's season of giving

Manila Bulletin 08 Dec 2021
(CIAC) employees and Angeles City Mayor Carmelo Lazatin Jr ...The project is part of CIAC’s corporate social responsibility program, we targeted the indigenous people near the Clark Freeport Zone as beneficiaries of our modest assistance during this season of giving,” Aaron Aquino, CIAC president, said ... .
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Philippine think tank: Biden's 'Democracy Summit' polarizes the world

People Daily 08 Dec 2021
A renowned Philippine think tank said the upcoming U.S.-proposed "Summit for Democracy" will polarize the world and intensify divisions ... Really?" Ong said the U.S ... He noted that many Western countries, to a great extent, have accumulated their wealth by "militarily taking over the land of the indigenous peoples and resources of other nations." ... .
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