04. Indigenous Media   Public Sphere Project is to help create and support equitable and effective public spheres all over the world. http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/ http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/254   Indigenous Action Media was founded on August 25th, 2001 to provide strategic media support and action to directly address issues impacting Indigenous communities. http://www.indigenousaction.org/   Global Indigenous Media (Pamela Wilson, Michelle Stewart, 2008) http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=16275 In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio CONTINUE…

Where is the tribal voice? We publicize the thoughts and voices of tribal peoples and consider them our partners. We provide a platform for tribal representatives to talk directly to an international audience. We help tribal representatives talk face-to-face with companies and organizations violating their rights. We do not claim to represent tribal peoples, unless they ask us to.   How do we achieve our objectives? We investigate the atrocities committed against tribal peoples. We are in direct, personal contact with hundreds of tribal organizations and communities (as well as many others) which give us information. These contacts are, where CONTINUE…

Survival International is a human rights organization formed in 1969 that campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples and uncontacted peoples, seeking to help them to determine their own future. Their campaigns generally focus on tribal peoples’ fight to keep their ancestral lands, culture and their own way of living. (wikipedia.org) Other Organizations that struggle for indigenous rights Friends of Peoples Close to Nature http://www.naturvoelker.org Cultural Survival http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ Interview with Survival Internationals US Director: Tess Thackara http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gErHmejy6T4

After reading a couple articles from the website of Tess Thakara, Survival International, an organization working for tribal peoples’ rights worldwide, and environmental issues. I was intrigued by an article about “uncontacted Indians From Peru”, as Peruvian I am aware of several cases of tribal’s population being threatened not only by oil and mining foreign companies but by  their own Peruvian government interested in develop and exploiting their lands to export their natural resources at any cost. After reading the article about “Uncontacted indians from Peru” I remembered a you tube video when the ex president of Peru Alan Garcia, who was a CONTINUE…