November 19, 2008

Australia's thought-provoking Apology

Okay, I am merely nine months late in commenting on the breakthrough apology that Australian PM Kevin Rudd offered to the indigenous peoples of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:41 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

May 04, 2006

Evo makes his move

I want to express my good wishes to Evo Morales and the people of Bolivia as they try to take back some control over their country's mineral wealth. It looked...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:18 AM | Fulltext link (23 comments)

July 31, 2005

Counter-insurgencies and large-scale incarceration

Today I finished writing a long article I've been working on for a while, about the role of large-scale incarcerations in colonial counter-insurgency campaigns... Well, that was was sort of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:19 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

July 05, 2005

Settler societies, indigenes, culture, language

Jonathan, Shirin, and I have been having a really interesting interesting discussion down here about issues of culture and power in settler societies. In the course of the discussion there...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:43 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

February 20, 2005

Fences and indigenous peoples

JWN reader Scott H., who is part Lenni Lenape, sent along a reference to this AP story out of Oregon yesterday, which tells of yet another attempt to fence in...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:02 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)