Last Updated on May 13, 2014
The United States of America has always been an extremely violent country, but American broadcast media during the 1960s social turmoil over racism, consumerism and militarism was very different from what it is today. Astonishingly, the unmitigated violence of the American war in Southeast Asia and the Southern US was actually televised.
Since the 1980s, however — as U.S. racism, consumerism and militarism continued visiting extreme violence on regions like Central America and Central Africa — American broadcast media has acted as though social turmoil there has nothing to do with us. While readers of IC Magazine are aware that ethnic cleansing and genocide against indigenous peoples worldwide have everything to do with American racism, consumerism and militarism, television viewers would be hard-pressed to comprehend what is happening.
As IC and other online media develop the capacity to expose the violence of racism, consumerism and militarism in real time video, mass consciousness of Americans and other First World societies will change the way we view our duties, responsibilities and lifestyles. When this consciousness begins to significantly alter social behavior, we will know that our efforts here have not been in vain.
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
