RESOURCE AND SANCTUARY: Indigenous Peoples, Ancestral Rights, and the. Forests of the Americas
Dominique
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Date: March 16, 2010
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Date: February 17, 2010
Recent attempts by the South African government to relocate Blacks have met with strong protest from those targeted for removal and their supporters. Last December, 2,000 Bakwena, residing in Magopa, were given seven days to vacate their village and move to a new homeland. After seven days, government officials gave the order to bulldoze village churches and schools. |
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Date: February 11, 2010
Cinema has emerged as the most alluring and expensive communications medium of the century. No other art form has been disseminated so effectively, or has appeared to transcend so many national and cultural boundaries. Unlike other art forms, films are created solely for mass distribution. Every member of every audience can witness "the real thing." Television technology and exhibition entrepreneurs have introduced cinema to both rural and urban audiences in many developing countries. However, most cinema distributed internationally is produced in the United States and Europe. |
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Date: February 11, 2010
Tourism is the world's second largest export earner, generating approximately US $79 billion annually. Only the oil business generates more. |
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Date: February 9, 2010
Newly independent and socialist, the Seychelles are striving for social reform and nationalized industries. Yet tourism, Seychelles' major industry, threatens nationalist ideology and socialist ambitions. It has spawned an array of economic, social and cultural contradictions. |
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Date: February 9, 2010
Coal deposits in Big Mountain, Arizona are at the root of the present controversy surrounding U.S. policy towards Native American land claims and relocation programs in the area. |
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Date: February 9, 2010
The Kurds, a group of approximately 18 million people, are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. |





