Last Updated on December 26, 2015
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Since 2004, your friends at Intercontinental Cry have kept an ear to the ground and a finger on the pulse of the Indigenous Peoples movement. Even though our volunteer editors and writers operate on a threadbare shoestring, we’ve been able to produce more international indigenous rights news than every other alternative news outlet in Canada combined.
In the last month alone, we exposed the human rights abuses that took place inside the World Indigenous Games–a North America first. We took a close look at Canada’s widely censored history of sterilizing indigenous women. We pointed to America’s ongoing effort to enfranchise Native Hawaiians. We examined the Koshares and the appropriation of Native American dance. And we called attention to a crucial victory for Ogoni Farmers in a Dutch Court, the emerging threat of oil in Guyana, a massive indigenous caravan in the Philippines, a cruel attack on a Garifuna land defender in Honduras and the impressive move by the Wampis to create their own autonomous government in Peru.
This doesn’t even scratch the surface of our work. Over the past 11 years, we’ve published more than 3000 articles, produced two documentary films, and released half a dozen independent magazines.
We urgently need your support to continue this work in 2016. After 51 days of campaigning, we’ve only been able to raise 10% of our starting budget for the new year. That means we have just 7 DAYS LEFT to raise enough money to cover our basic operating expenses and expand our work so that we can fully cover the stories of the world’s Indigenous Peoples and Nations.
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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
