IC Magazine (Intercontinental Cry)

A Publication of the Center for World Indigenous Studies

https://intercontinentalcry.org

IC MAGAZINE KEEPS AN EAR TO THE GROUND AND A FINGER ON THE PULSE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES MOVEMENT.

 

Excerpted from intercontinentalcry.org website:

 

“Uncompromising Integrity

For the past 10 years, IC Magazine has stood at the forefront of the Indigenous Peoples movement. Operating as a publication of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, we have published more than 3,000 articles detailing the rights, needs, interests, hopes and the contemporary challenges that face the world’s Indigenous Peoples. Preferring to offer ground-breaking coverage that is ignored by other media, IC alone examines the dynamics of the movement, and the concepts critical to its success.
Indigenous Peoples tend to be the world’s most vulnerable stakeholders in terms of: shouldering the effects of industrial pollution and climate change, political disenfranchisement in issues of resource management, land rights and self-governance, and being disproportionately represented in the victimizing trends of corporate (ir)responsibility. Compounding such monumental challenges, remains the reality that these struggles are often comprehensively ignored by mainstream and alternative media. When they are mentioned at all, the coverage tends to be sterile, biased, and often trite and condescending.

This failure of media helps to maintain a climate of impunity for governments, corporations, paramilitary groups and others who would seek to exploit, harm or extinguish the rights and bio-cultural legacies that Indigenous Peoples hold; indeed the media’s silence provides the illusion of consent such parties use to justify their actions.

Without the dedicated mission of IC working to amplify the voices and strengthen the efforts of all Indigenous Peoples around the world, with a careful and conscious effort to represent them honestly and respectfully, we have few alternatives.

News outlets and international forums for solidarity must emerge to occupy this space in coverage where there has historically been a vacuum; IC Magazine is poised on the leading edge of fulfilling this role. As the collective pulse of the movement grows stronger, so will our efforts to remain a dependable source of authentic and independent media in service of the collective interests of Indigenous Peoples and Nations across the globe.”