Louis D. Brown Peace Institute

09/18/2019

Running Strong for American Indian Youth provides ten $10,000 grants each year to community non-profits who will mentor a young Dreamstarter® to implement a community changing project. The theme for 2020 is Health & Wellness. Apply by NOV 14 at https://indianyouth.org/Dreamstarter/application.

02/12/2019

09/16/2018

He remembers being a kid, growing up on the Oneida Indian reservation in Wisconsin. He remembers helping open the commodity boxes sent by the government. They were filled with canned meats, canned …

01/18/2015

http://www.lowellsun.com/opinion/ci_27340479/anti-police-movement-distorts-real-reasons-violent-behavior

Since the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson Mo., a national movement has developed that has accused our nation's police of engaging in a systematic attempt to kill young black men.

03/15/2013

Great News!!! Russia lifts suspension of Arctic indigenous org RAIPON!!!

The ministry said the organization, which represents 41 indigenous groups and more than 250,000 indigenous people across the Russian Arctic, did not comply with Russian federal law because “not all regional offices of the association are legal entities.” The ministry concluded that RAIPON’s “activit...

02/18/2013

Liberia, Papua New Guinea and the United States are among the small number of countries in the world with no policy of paid maternal leave.

How does your country measure up in the map below?

In The New York Times Sunday Review, Stephanie Coontz makes the case that gender equality has stalled in this country because "structural impediments prevent people from acting on their egalitarian values, forcing men and women into personal accommodations and rationalizations that do not reflect their preferences."

Read more from her article here: http://nyti.ms/ZleQDp

01/09/2013

pop culture cover "Wazhashi pod" by artist Ryan RedCorn, RI Vol 13.2, reprinted RI Vol 16.1, "Best of".

12/27/2012

Spread through social media and fuelled by both the current and historic treatment of First Nation communities by the Canadian government, the Idle No More movement has spread across the continent and around the globe. Within Canadian borders over 100 events have taken place, including rallies, fla...

11/20/2012

Project Survival Media is a global youth media network producing short documentaries on climate change issues. We assemble media teams all over the world to document how people are being impacted by climate change and how people are responding to it.

09/29/2012

Friday, 28 September 2012 U.S. Attorney Ken Gonzales in Albuquerque, New Mexico says 59-year-old Andrew Gene Alvarez of Wofford Heights, CA, has been indicted on a charge of falsely representing th...