http://www.lepanoptique.comLe RSS du Panoptique12enunehttp://www.lepanoptique.com/page-article.php?id=133&theme=histoire&Langue=enFri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Author bio: Kevin Annett is a community minister in Vancouver who lives and works with Native and low-income people. An award-winning filmmaker and author, Kevin helped establish the International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada, and is an advisor to numerous indigenous groups. The campaign to expose the hidden history of genocide in Canada opened a new front recently, when hereditary Squamish Chief Kiapilano ordered the churches that directed the horrific Indian residential schools off his territory, and his followers began a series of occupations and protests to enforce his eviction order. In this article, Kevin Annett describes some of the history of the residential schools, and why the churches and Government of Canada are responsible for intentional crimes against humanity. http://www.lepanoptique.com/page-article.php?id=130&theme=politique&Langue=enFri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT French Polynesia is one of the few remaining territories to depend on the French. This dependency benefits from a unique status, with many long-standing militant Independentists among its current leaders, yet the project for the creation of an independent country, Tahiti Nui (1), has met with mitigated success. One of the principal justifications of continued dependency is the financial support that France guarantees its “overseas countries.” The sums granted to French Polynesia are mainly compensation for the nuclear testing carried out between 1966 and 1996. French Polynesia is thus torn between independence and French aid. http://www.lepanoptique.com/page-article.php?id=131&theme=environnement&Langue=enFri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Bio: Erin is a doctoral student in communication studies. Stories have a role to play in environmental debates and problem-solving because they help to engage a wide range of voices and perspectives. Literary writing in particular provides a means of exploring the nuances and complexities of environmental issues. In this context, how might stories enable us to re-imagine our ways of living in response to large-scale environmental imperatives such as climate change? http://www.lepanoptique.com/page-article.php?id=128&theme=sciences&Langue=enFri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT How many planets are there in our solar system? This would be a relatively easy question, were we to forget the demotion of Pluto to minor planet status in 2006. What about the planets outside of our solar system? Could any of those planets support life as we know it here on earth? http://www.lepanoptique.com/page-article.php?id=132&theme=arts&Langue=enFri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT Terrorism has ruined the fiction market, according to publishers. The book-buying public descends on titles like The Post-American World and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, and fiction is cast once again as something pleasant and childish to be put aside when things get serious. Author and sculptor D. L. Alvarez, writing from the margins of literature, puts the lie to our generic bias.