COP16 shut the doors on Indigenous peoples and impacted communities while welcoming with open arms profit-driven business, industry, and speculators. Hope, however, lay in the alliances built among Indigenous and social movements from North and South, as seen when Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma, and other Indigenous peoples from the North, were invited to participate in a Mayan ceremony.
by Allan LissnerThe Dominion is a monthly paper published by an incipient network of independent journalists in Canada. It aims to provide accurate, critical coverage that is accountable to its readers and the subjects it tackles. Taking its name from Canada's official status as both a colony and a colonial force, the Dominion examines politics, culture and daily life with a view to understanding the exercise of power.