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The “Good Life”

by: Heather Burns - printed on 01-31-2001

“Where are you from?” People often ask me.

“I’m from here, Oregon.” I answer. It’s part of the truth.

It’s too difficult, most of the time, to explain that part of me is from Africa. I’m white and don’t have any sort of “strange” accent so I can usually pass for a typical US American (if such a thing exists). But, the truth is that I spent six years of my life before the age of 18 in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), West Africa.

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Tribal treaties

by: Isaac Vanderburg - printed on 10-10-2001

Without being there, it’s hard to picture. There were some fifty-seven chiefs, headmen and delegates with names recorded phonetically: Pee-oo-pee-u-il-pilp, Wat-ti-wat-ti-wah-hi, Kole-kole-til-ky, or with names translated to Spotted Eagle, Red Wolf, George and Jason. And there were eleven U.S. delegates, politicians and translators, whom was named James Doty, another, William Craig,all eleven had names like that.

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Ancestral Voices: Rediscovering two cultures in ruins

by: Ben Muse - printed on 09-11-2002

In the thick, green jungle of the Peten region of northern Guatemala lies one of the great cities of the worldÂ’s memory; Tikal, once a bustling city with towering pyramids housing the bones of deified leaders and a burgeoning acropolis, sits half excavated form the decay of the jungle.

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Independent Media: Defender of freedom and democracy in this world of evil

by: Tyson Lazzaro - printed on 03-27-2002

Disclaimer: The CIA had no input into this article. Prior to writing this I have met with no pentagon officials, FBI Agents, or received any directives from the pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence regarding what I should print here.

Independently published media is quickly becoming the last bastion of truly free press in a medium filled with cooperate lapdogs and official line propagandists aiming to mold you into complacent Orwellian drones, thinking only in "acceptable" parameters.

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New York Attack causes mixed emotions

by: Meighan Doherty - printed on 09-26-2001

Photographs capture moments in time unlike any other artistic medium. Throughout history there have been many images that have spoken volumes about memorable events from the past, such as photographs from the Great Depression, Watts, Columbine, and the Oklahoma City bombing.

The photographs from the recent attacks on America are no different from any other historical photographs in that the images one sees in those pictures will leave a lasting impression on us for years to come.

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Reflections of Women and Terror

by: Jeff Gauthier - printed on 09-25-2002

The function of terrorism is to place its survivors in a state of continuing fear and self-monitoring. To bring about this state of affairs, the terrorist act must be both specifically targeted and randomly executed.

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