Author: American Zapatista

My friend Meitei has been arrested.[I don’t post anywhere very often, but I posted this on dkos early this morning and am very encouraged by the response. This is an emergency situation, please take action here at Booman...

Roy Sesana, representative of the Gana Bushman just won the Right Livelihood Award. The Gana are being forced off of their Kalahari homeland by the government of Botswana. Below is the speech he gave when he accepted the...

About three years ago I heard about this crazy American guy who was living with the Akha people in the hills of Thailand. His wife was Akha, his kids were Akha and he, after thirteen years, was now pretty much Akha. He would...

This past Sunday, at about four in the morning, the first of four buses filled with Huaorani men, women and children arrived in Quito, Ecuador. They had come from deep in the Amazon. To reach the buses they traveled for days by...