The need for an international tribunal that tries crimes against the planet
This is an institution that I have long felt should be established. When you see the carcass of an elephant with its face and tusks hacked out, it is a murder scene, not some petty wildlife crime. The Alberta tar sands are unquestionably an ecocide. Where can such crimes be held accountable ? Here is …Read More
#74 : A Moving Family Saga of Three Generations of Tibetan Women
And here’s a picture of Yangzom with her mother and grandmother. She’s an actor and a prominent activist for the Tibetan cause.
We got talking about Tibet. The recent news is horrible. A young woman immolated herself in Eastern Tibet, the Chinese are forcing all Tibetans to be educated in Chinese. The magical spiritual culture of …Read More
#73 : The Magnificent Mesnak
This is a article I wrote for BBBB.
by Alex Shoumatoff
A long-time contributing editor of Vanity Fair and the editor of DispatchesFromTheVanishingWorld.com, Shoumatoff has been advocating for traditional peoples all over the word for forty years.
I was deeply affected by Mesnak, the first full-length feature film and fully native production about Canada’s North, and …Read More