Last Updated on September 25, 2018
Indigenous Peoples are leading some of the most important struggles of our time. They’re confronting the destructive practices of the mining, logging, oil, nuclear, coal and hydro industries. They’re preventing biotech firms from contaminating our food supply and agribusiness firms from privatizing our water.
And that’s not even the half of it. Out of pure necessity, Indigenous Peoples are challenging the world’s paramilitary groups, drug cartels, militias, and nation states for systemic human rights abuses and other transgressions. And all the while, they are bringing languages back from extinction, closing the book on hundreds of historical injustices that we’ve never heard of and defending what few pristine ecosystems we have left.
But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the news. That fact is, most editors and publishers aren’t interested in telling stories that involve Indigenous Peoples. In many cases, they believe that you don’t you care enough to know. Others think they won’t get enough new facebook likes out of it.
For more than a decade, IC Magazine has been picking up the stories that so many others let fall through the cracks. We are the only indigenous rights investigative news outlets with a global focus. And we need your help. Despite covering more indigenous struggles than all other Canadian media combined, we’re hanging on by a thread. Until we can find some responsible foundations to back us, we only get what you can give.
Please stand with us. With even the tiniest of donations, you can help secure the space we all need to inform ourselves and remain responsive to these unheard threats and challenges.
Across the world right now, Indigenous peoples are facing a renewed assault on their lands, rights, and ways of life.
From extractive industries pushing deeper into ancestral territories, to governments rolling back hard-won protections,
the threat is global—and it is growing.
What makes this moment especially dangerous is how little attention it receives.
Stories like this are disappearing in real time. Mainstream media
barely covers it and the coverage is fragmented. The public is left without the context
needed to understand what is truly at stake.
That is exactly why IC Magazine exists..
For more than 20 years, IC has reported on Indigenous struggles worldwide — consistently, independently, and without compromise.
We don’t follow news cycles; we trace patterns. We don’t sensationalize; we provide context.
And when the world looks away, we stay focused.
But this work is increasingly difficult to sustain.
We refuse to lock our reporting behind a paywall. We don’t sell access through subscriptions.
And we don’t answer to advertisers. IC Magazine survives solely because readers like you choose to
support independent Indigenous journalism.
Please donate today if you can. Every contribution helps us to continue this crucial work.
Thank you,
John Ahni Schertow
Founder and Editor in Chief
