CERD’s letter highlights failures to address Indigenous rights, and asks a series of questions about how the State proposes to protect Indigenous rights in future.
The above CERD request should be boiler-plate process for all these neo-colonial confiscations of natural areas from Indigenous peoples. Defining such areas as "Park" is middle-class New-Speak for "nothing to see here," this land is supposedly safe from development, meanwhile the topic of Indigenous never comes up. The default situation is that the land is just taken - but instead, the default situation must be that the land belongs to the peoples who live there.
Here, is supposedly another 30 million carbon "credits" sold - and the reduction in world CO2 level as a result has been _____? With the introduction of carbon "credits", there are now 3 ways to buy Hope: join a religion, buy a lottery ticket, or buy carbon credits.
The above CERD request should be boiler-plate process for all these neo-colonial confiscations of natural areas from Indigenous peoples. Defining such areas as "Park" is middle-class New-Speak for "nothing to see here," this land is supposedly safe from development, meanwhile the topic of Indigenous never comes up. The default situation is that the land is just taken - but instead, the default situation must be that the land belongs to the peoples who live there.
Here, is supposedly another 30 million carbon "credits" sold - and the reduction in world CO2 level as a result has been _____? With the introduction of carbon "credits", there are now 3 ways to buy Hope: join a religion, buy a lottery ticket, or buy carbon credits.