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This week @ rabble.ca: Pull the plug on Harper
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06 Jun 2014
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Unfair elections are just the beginning -- Stephen Harper is threatening our very democracy. Together, we can pull the plug on Harper. Have you signed up to be a monthly supporter? Help us get the word out about what's really going on. Support rabble.ca today!
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Have you been following Duncan Cameron's reports from Europe? Read his latest on the state of the European project after the European Parliamentary elections and watch for more in the upcoming weeks!
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March to Protect Our Sacred Waters from Tarsands Oil
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Militarist Bumkum / Paul Craig Roberts
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Paul Craig Roberts
Did you know that 85 to 90 percent of war’s casualties are non-combatant civilians? That is the conclusion reached by a nine-person research team in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The deaths of soldiers who are fighting the war are a small part of the human and economic cost. Clearly, wars do not protect the lives of civilians. The notion that soldiers are dying for us is false. Non-combatants are the main victims of war.
Keep that in mind for July 4th, which is arriving in six weeks.
July 4th is America’s most important national holiday celebrating American independence from Great Britain. On July 4th, 1776, America’s Founding Fathers declared that the Thirteen Colonies were no longer colonies but an independent country in which the Rights of Englishmen would prevail for all citizens and not only for King George’s administrators. (Actually, the Second Continental Congress voted in favor of independence on July 2, and historians debate whether the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4 or August 2.)
In this American assertion of self-determination citizens of Great Britain were not allowed to vote. Therefore, according to Washington’s position on the votes in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine–the former Russian territories of Donetsk and Luhansk–America’s Declaration of Independence was “illegitimate and illegal.”
On July 4th all across America there will be patriotic speeches about our soldiers who gave their lives for their country. To an informed person these speeches are curious. I am hard pressed to think of any examples of our soldiers giving their lives for our country. US Marine General Smedley Butler had the same problem. He said that his Marines gave their lives for United Fruit Company’s control of Central America. “War is a racket,” said General Butler, pointing out that US participation in World War I produced 21,000 new American millionaires and billionaires.
When General Butler said “war is a racket,” he meant that war is a racket for a few people getting rich on the backs of millions of dead people. According to the article in the American Journal of Public Health, during the 20th century 190 million deaths could be directly and indirectly related to war.
190 million is 60 million more than the entire US population in the year that I was born.
The only war fought on US territory was the war against Southern Secession. In this war Irish immigrants fresh off the boat gave their lives for American Empire. As soon as the South was conquered, the Union forces were set loose on the Plains Indians and destroyed them as well.
Empire over life. That has always been Washington’s guiding principle.
America’s wars have always been fought elsewhere–Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Philippines, Japan, Germany, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Somalia. Washington even attacks countries with which the US is not at war, such as Pakistan and Yemen, and engages in proxy wars. The article cited above reports: “The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Not a single one of these wars and military operations had anything whatsoever to do with defending the US population from foreign threats.
Not even Japan and Germany posed a threat to the US. Neither country had any prospect of invading the US and neither country had any such war plans.
Let’s assume Japan had conquered China, Burma, and Indonesia. With such a vast territory to occupy, Japan could not have spared a single division with which to invade the US, and, of course, any invasion fleet would never have made it across the Pacific. Just as was the fate of the Japanese fleet at Midway, an invasion fleet would have been sitting ducks for the US Navy.
Assume Germany had extended its conquests over Europe to Great Britain, Russia and North Africa. Germany would have been unable to successfully occupy such a vast territory and could not have spared a single soldier to send to invade America. Even the US superpower was unable to successfully occupy Iraq and Afghanistan, countries with small land areas and populations in comparison.
Except for its wars against the South, the Plains Indians, Haiti, Spain, Panama, Grenada, and Mexico, the US has never won a war. The Southern Confederates, usually outnumbered, often defeated the Union generals. Japan was defeated by its own lack of military resources. Germany was defeated by the Soviet Union. The allied invasion of Normandy did not occur until June 6, 1944, by which time the Red Army had ground up the Wehrmacht.
When the allies landed in Normandy, three-fourths of the German Army was on the Russian front. The allied invasion was greatly helped by Germany’s shortage of fuel for mobilized units. If Hitler had not allowed hubris to lead him into invading the Soviet Union and, instead, just sat on his European conquests, no allied invasion would have been possible. Today Germany would rule all of Europe, including the UK. The US would have no European Empire with which to threaten Russia, China, and the Middle East.
Presbyterian Church votes on targeted divestment: A turning point?
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In 3 weeks, the Presbyterian Church votes on targeted divestment. Help us back up our allies in a remarkable interfaith coalition: every dollar you give this week will be doubled.
We know how many Jews and allies support divestment - now we need to show it.
Can you give $36 now?
In less than a month, the nearly 2 million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) will vote on an important set of resolutions setting official policies regarding Israel and Palestine.
The biggest will be on a resolution to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett-Packard - all companies notorious for profiteering off the Israeli occupation.
And our allies inside the church need your help.
Can you give $36 or even $72 today to support our interfaith, on-the-ground-organizing?
Thanks to two committed JVP donors, every dollar you give this week will be doubled up to $10,000.
The Israel Lobby is pouring untold sums into a fear-mongering campaign to scare Presbyterians into a "no" vote - including offering commissioners all-expense-paid trips to Israel, and threatening to end longheld interfaith relationships.
JVP is part of an interfaith team working around the clock. Our rabbis, Young-JVP leaders, board members, and staff leaders are standing hand-in-hand with Presbyterian activists and Palestinian allies so that, after more than a decade of study and debate, the church takes this courageous step towards real peace in 2014.
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When my son was diagnosed
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There's a new petition taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in signing it:
Service Canada: Change EI eligibility requirements to help parents of critically ill children who are diagnosed very young.
By Samantha Rudolph
Barrie
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My son Lawrence is the sweetest, bravest almost-2-year-old you'll ever meet. In January, Lawrence was diagnosed with leukemia. He knows something's wrong but he's not quite old enough to understand what's happening to him or why we have to go to Sick Kids hospital all the time. He trusts me and his dad completely to protect him and make sure he gets better.
We're doing our best, but because of an unfair loophole in the program that provides EI benefits to parents of critically ill children we're having a much harder time coping with the full time care our son still needs. In theory, EI benefits for parents of critically ill children are great, BUT you can only receive them if you worked 600 hours since you were last on EI. The problem is, when Lawrence was born I took maternity leave and was therefore on EI. I started up at my job with the YMCA in September, but Lawrence was diagnosed in January after I had worked only 425 hours.
I've paid into EI for a decade prior to taking maternity leave, but because I only worked 425 hours since coming back from leave my application for EI as a parent of a critically ill child was rejected. If Lawrence had been diagnosed a month later we would not have had this problem.
As soon as he was diagnosed our lives turned upside down and our costs skyrocketed. We basically lived in Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto for a month and now we have to travel back and forth from Barrie to Toronto for chemo all the time. When Lawrence is scared I need to be there with him. It's been impossible to work. We have a certificate from Lawrence's doctor as well stating that he needs full time parental care for at least 35 weeks.
Who are the Enbridge 21?
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The federal government could approve or reject Enbridge’s pipeline and super tanker plan in weeks or days.
This is the moment to tell BC’s 21 Conservative MPs that they have to choose: Enbridge or BC.
The federal government is about to decide whether it will approve or reject Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline and supertanker plan.
Right now, the 21 federal Conservative MPs in British Columbia, and their leader James Moore[1], have a choice to make: they can join the unprecedented coalition of people who are defending BC from Enbridge, or they can gamble BC’s coast - and their own political future.
This is a crucial moment to focus on these 21 Conservative MPs. Please join thousands and click here to tell them that they have to choose: Enbridge or British Columbia.
The Enbridge pipeline and supertanker project is an irresponsible threat to the communities, First Nations and coastal economy of Northern BC.
BC’s 21 Conservative MPs can apply pressure to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to listen to the majority of British Columbians and reject Enbridge’s pipeline and super tanker proposal.
Let’s flood them with messages from people - especially people in their own ridings - to let them know that if they choose Enbridge they will pay a steep political price and be forever known as the “Enbridge 21.”
Click here to send your message.
This is about more than a pipeline, it’s about the future we want for BC.
Do we bet our economy on rip-and-ship industries that have gone boom and bust over and over again? Do we keep building on a foundation of broken promises to communities and First Nations? Do we look the other way as knowingly lock future generations into a path that leads to catastrophic oil spills and runaway global warming?
Or, do we take a step back from this rigged table and create a new plan that brings people together as citizens to hold government accountable, strengthen our democracy and create a clean energy economy that’s built to last?
The 21 Conservative MPs have one last chance to do the right thing. They need to hear from you today. Please click here to tell them to say no to Enbridge: http://www.enbridge21.ca/
Help us stop Harper's election fraud
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Stephen Harper is bent on ruining Canada, and we are trying to stop him. If you want to stop Harper too, then I need to ask you to do something. Right away.
I worry that we have underestimated just how far Stephen Harper is prepared to go.
Stephen Harper is entrenching his personal power – even if it means attacking our very democracy and fair elections. And now, he is making his next move – and it’s absolutely frightening.
Is Harper getting ready to steal the next election?
Please, let me warn you: I am very serious. Harper is forcing through a new law that will make it easier for his party to engage in dirty tricks that confuse voters and bar people from voting – and no one will even know when he’s done it.
Mic, we need to stop him. We have a plan. You and I can save Canada from Stephen Harper, but I need you to help rabble.ca reach Canadians – to tell them what is really going on.
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rabble.ca has assembled an amazing team – and we have developed a plan to counter Harper’s attack on democracy. Your donation will allow us to put that plan into place – before it is too late.
It’s your choice. If you put this email aside, and don’t take action, right away – Stephen Harper wins.
Or, you can make a financial contribution to allow me to launch our plan, and help save Canada. It’s that clear.
Let me share a short story proving why rabble.ca is so essential, and why your support will make a difference.
You see, as rabble.ca’s publisher, every day I receive cutting-edge analysis and reports from our writers across Canada.
They have been tracking Harper’s so-called “Fair Elections Act” which is being pushed through Parliament. Most of the corporate media’s coverage of the act has been focused on stiffer voter ID requirements for people to be able to vote. Those are worrisome enough.
But a few weeks ago when I was in our Parliamentary bureau, I read the report from rabble.ca’s own Ottawa political reporter, Karl Nerenberg. It left me cold.
“That's not what the Fair Elections Act is, in truth, all about,” reported Karl, referring to the voter ID issues. “But Harper's team may have suckered those with grave doubts about [the act] – into focusing on the ID and vouching issue.”
Buried inside Harper’s bill are more powerful provisions that serve as a “sneaky and malicious attack on investigators' chances of ever catching the robocall culprits, or any future similar cheaters.”
In fact, it prevents Elections Canada from even alerting Canadians about voter fraud when it comes to its attention.
Our rabble.ca president, Duncan Cameron, agrees, “The party that practised voter suppression has introduced voter suppression legislation: the Cheat to Win Act.”
This is the brilliant analysis that makes rabble.ca so essential. This is how we can uncover what’s really behind Harper’s schemes.
Facebook is listening to you. Literally.
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Facebook just announced a new feature to its app, which will let it listen to users’ private conversations through their phones’ microphones. Tell Facebook to stop invading our privacy!
Facebook just announced a new feature to its app, which will let it listen to our conversations through our own phones’ microphone. Talk about a Big Brother move.
Facebook says the feature will be used for harmless things, like identifying the song or TV show playing in the background, but it actually has the ability to listen to everything -- including your private conservations -- and store it indefinitely.
Not only is this move just downright creepy, it’s also a massive threat to our privacy. This isn’t the first time Facebook has been criticized for breaching our right to privacy, and it’s hoping this feature will fly under the radar. No such luck for Facebook. If we act now, we can stop Facebook in its tracks before it has a chance to release the feature.
Facebook says it'll be responsible with this feature, but we know we can't trust it. After all, just a few months ago Facebook came under fire for receiving millions of dollars for working with the National Security Agency’s PRISM, a wide-scale and highly controversial public electronic data surveillance program -- something its CEO Mark Zuckerberg initially denied. This is also the company that lied about its now-scuttered Beacon program -- an advertisement system that sent our “private” data from external websites to Facebook.
It seems like every few months, there's another big Facebook privacy scandal, and yet the social media giant is pushing this new app anyway. Why? The information it gathers by listening to its 1.2 billion users worldwide can be sold for huge profits to advertisers and corporations looking for better information on consumer tastes and preferences.
Facebook is acting in the best interests of its bank account, not its users. This has gone too far -- we have to stop it now.
Making Google Maps accessible
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There's a new petition taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in signing it:
Google Maps: Help people with mobility challenges. Make your maps accessible!
By Randy McNeil
Vaughan
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Multiple sclerosis landed me in a wheelchair in 2006. Suddenly a too-narrow door, or one step outside of a restaurant turned the daily activities I had always taken for granted into huge obstacles. When most people plan to go to a restaurant they don't have to worry about whether they'll actually be able to get in the door to meet their friends, or whether they'll be able to get into a bathroom stall. Many of us just choose stay home rather than face these challenges - there's got to be a better way.
Google Maps has the ability to help people with disabilities across the world. Currently Google Maps has different options -- you can add traffic info, bike info or weather info to your maps. People with mobility challenges like me need Google Maps to include an accessibility option so that we are able to find out where we can go!
No one wants to discriminate, but accessibility isn't something most people have to think about ever, thankfully. Most of the time I just need to point out why something is inaccessible for people in wheelchairs and people spring into action. I'm hoping that's the case with Google. After all, their motto is: don't be evil.
Weekly Indigenous news on rabble.ca
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rabble.ca weekly e-news for May 30th, 2014
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This week @ rabble.ca: Together we can fight Harper's plan
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30 May 2014
Hey rabble readers!
Stephen Harper has attacked our democracy and fair elections for long enough. Together, we can save Canada from Harper's Conservatives. We need your help to reach more Canadians -- to tell them what's really going on. Please help rabble.ca stop Harper's election fraud plan by supporting us with a monthly donation. Sign up now and get a free subscription to This! Magazine as our thanks!
There's two weeks to go before the Ontario election, and political discourse has many progressives feeling demoralized. A contentious election strategy that has the Ontario NDP campaigning from the right has created divisions among the left and raised fears of a Hudak-led PC victory. What are the options before election day? Find what you need to know on our Ontario election page.
There's a race...
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Francis Praying at the wall
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Action Alert
When the Holy See Saw for Itself
Join over 10,000 others in thanking Pope Francis, and help inspire other leaders not to look away
During his recent trip, the Pope was criticized for spontaneously stopping his motorcade and bowing in silent prayer at the massive concrete wall that separates thousands of Palestinians from their land. His “mistake”? Praying at a symbol of violence, segregation, and gut-wrenching injustice while the whole world was watching.
In just a few days, we passed our initial goal of 10,000 signers to thank the Pope for this moving act which produced an image the world will never forget.
Can you sign and help us reach our new goal of hand-delivering 15,000 names to the Vatican next week thanking Pope Francis? If we don’t speak up now, Pope Francis may yield to criticism and decide it is easier to look away.
Click here: www.ThankYouPopeFrancis.org
Pope Francis stunned the world by instructing his driver to pause by the wall, perhaps drawn by the spray-painted plea, "Pope, we need someone to talk about justice."
The words had been written only moments before. One day earlier, young Palestinians had also covered the gray behemoth with messages to the Pope, only to find the wall painted over just hours later. Until the moment the Pope arrived, it seemed that Palestinian voices were once again to be silenced.
Through their will and perseverance, these Palestinians refused to be silenced. And Pope Francis, breaking with the pattern of other world leaders, chose not to ignore their voices, but to amplify them.
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Reminder: Sierra Club BC Open House is this Thursday
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Don't miss the Sierra Club BC Open House!
Don't forget the Sierra Club BC New Faces, New Spaces Open House is this Thursday in Victoria!With the Enbridge decision due any day now and new programs like our Summer Day Camps rolling out we've got lots to talk about.
You can chat with Executive Direct Bob Peart, Communications Director Tim Pearson, Campaigns Director Caitlyn Vernon and Major Gifts Manager Michelle Johnson. As well you'll have the chance to meet our dynamic YELP team - these environmental leaders of tomorrow will tell you all about the exciting projects they've done this year.
Please drop by, enjoy some wine and cheese and enter to win great door prizes including
- Adrenaline Zip passes
- Refresh Day Spa Mani-Pedi gift certificate
- One night accommodation at Accent Inns
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[CFSC-E-News] From the UN Permanent Forum to synthetic biology - June e-news
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Hi Friends!
We are pleased to bring you the June e-news with the following items:
- CFSC at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues;
- Synthetic biology;
- Children and family of the incarcerated;
- Ethical reflections on fracking;
- CFSC's website spring cleaning;
- Quaker records now on Ancestry.ca; and
- International Conscientious Objectors Day.
A reminder that Meetings are encouraged to submit brief items about their work to the e-news. We don't have the ability to publish items about everything individual Friends are active in, but we are happy to share news about work being undertaken by your Meeting so that Friends from across the country can learn more and connect. Contact us with any questions or to submit items any time.
All the best,
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Let Premier Clark know: stand firm on Enbridge!
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Take Action on Enbridge
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Any day now, the federal government will be making a decision on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, a project that would bring oil tankers through the world-renowned Great Bear Rainforest.Will the federal Cabinet approve this dangerous proposal, and put B.C.’s salmon, jobs, coast and climate at risk? We don't know for sure. But even if the federal government gives Enbridge the thumbs-up, this fight is far from over.
Take action today! Ask the Premier to stand up for B.C. families and communities, and put a stop to the Enbridge pipeline and tankers project!
British Columbians have already said “no” to Enbridge, in no uncertain terms. Coastal First Nations have said no. Municipalities have said no. Kitimat said no in a recent plebiscite, despite Enbridge’s massive public relations campaign.
The B.C. government said no in its final submission to the review panel last year. It is critical that Premier Clark know British Columbians expect her to stand firm and continue to reject the Enbridge pipeline and tankers project, even if the federal government approves it.
The Dark Side of Brazil: Police teargas Indians at anti-World Cup protest
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Hundreds of Brazilian Indians are protesting against the World Cup this week, marching in the streets of Brasília and around the capital’s Mané Garrincha football stadium, calling for their lands and lives to be protected.
Yesterday Indians brandishing bows and arrows and carrying signs reading ‘FIFA NO. DEMARCATION YES!’ were teargassed by police. Watch a video clip here.
There is mounting anger at the government’s failure to recognize and protect their lands, vital for their survival, while spending millions of dollars on hosting the World Cup.
The protestors who are from several tribes have forced FIFA to close the stadium, and to cancel its trophy display.
A delegation of 18 indigenous protestors met the Minister of Justice yesterday. Indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara, national coordinator of the Association of Indigenous Peoples (APIB), said, ‘We are here to show that without our land, we are chained up. We are imprisoned. We are here to demand our rights.’
The Guarani tribe, Brazil’s largest, suffers extremely high malnutrition and suicide rates as their land has been stolen to make way for vast sugar cane plantations. Their leaders are frequently targeted and killed by gunmen acting for the landowners.
They are calling for their land to be demarcated as a matter of urgency before more lives are lost, and for the cancellation of a series of draft bills which, if passed into law, would drastically weaken their, and other tribes’, control over their lands. Those in the Amazon are calling for a halt to the many hydro-electric dams being built on their land.
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Sierra Life: An invitation to walk the walk, in the classrooms and on the streets
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Sierra Life: An invitation to walk the walk, in the classrooms and on the streets
Kids Need Nature!
A petition of almost 2,500 names was presented at the B.C. legislature this week, asking that environmental education not be slashed from B.C. classrooms. You can still submit feedback on the proposed new curriculum until the end of June. Read on to learn more.
Do you See What I See?
Tom Martin writes about the profound effect of seeing the Alberta tar sands firsthand, and invites us all to join a healing walk in Victoria on June 28 in solidarity with First Nations and the Keepers of the Athabasca's Tar Sands Healing Walk in Fort McMurray.
Premier Clark: Stand Firm on Enbridge
Any day now the federal government’s decision on the Enbridge pipeline is expected. Whether or not the feds give the thumbs-up to this dangerous proposal, the answer is still no here in B.C. Ask Premier Clark to stand firm on her five conditions and keep Enbridge's pipeline from ever being built. 
Featured Event
Convergence 2014. Protecting Our Sacred Waters from Tar Sands OilThe Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs is organizing a march and rally in Vancouver on June 8, World Oceans Day. Stay tuned for details and pass it on!
Find other events in your area.
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Survival attacks photographer Jimmy Nelson's portr
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The work of famed photographer Jimmy Nelson, creator of coffee-table book “Before They Pass Away”, has been attacked in a new exposé by Survival International Director Stephen Corry as ‘hubristic baloney’ which presents a false and damaging picture of tribal peoples.
Nelson writes that his recent $150 book of “portraits” of tribal people was motivated by the desire to “search for ancient civilizations… and document their purity in places where untouched culture still exists”. The “cultures” he found are supposedly “unchanged for thousands of years”.
But Corry denounces the work as a photographer’s fantasy, bearing little relationship either to how the people pictured look now, or to how they’ve ever appeared.
The photos of Waorani girls from Ecuador, for example, portray them shorn of the clothes that contacted Waorani routinely wear, and wearing “fig” leaves to protect their modesty, which they have never done (previous generations of Waorani women wore a simple waist string). Corry writes that Nelson not only presents a fictionalized portrait of tribal people, but glosses over the genocidal violence to which many of the tribes pictured are being subjected, and even pretends that such tribes can be “saved” from the “inevitability” of “passing away” simply by being photographed.
The photos of Waorani girls from Ecuador show them wearing ‘fig’ leaves to protect their modesty, which they have never done.
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Indigenous Peoples Reject Bill C-33
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