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The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth  wrapped up its four days of non-stop working activism a little over a week ago. Located in the small Bolivian town of Tiquipaya, right on the outskirts of Cochabamba, the WPCCC was a collective effort to gather the voices of activists, indigenous people and the global community at large into a collective document.

About that attempted car bombing in New York City, police are hunting down a middle-aged white man who was caught on a security camera near the car bomb on Saturday. President Obama vowed to track down the people responsible for the attack.

On to nuclear weapons... Iran's president denies possession of nuclear weapons at a nuclear non-proliferation conference in New York City, saying there was "not a single credible proof". The conference reviews the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the UN.

Oil in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spew and  BP hasn't figured out how to plug the leak threatening a region. The oil catastrophe on the coast of Louisiana and other southern US states thickens.

Deadly Blasts hit Bangkok Protest: A series of explosions hit the Thai capital where 3 people have been reported dead, and many more injured. Just recently, the unsettled atmosphere has been heightened with anti-government protesters clashing with pro-government demonstrators.

Obama to Wall Street: 'Join Us, Instead of Fighting Us': At a speaking engagement in New York, Obama challenged Wall Street banking titans to be a part of Financial reform rather than against it.  Among those in attendance were the top executives from some of the largest banking institutions, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, met with Shawn Atleo, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations; Betty Ann Lavallée, National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples; Jeannette Corbiere-Lavell, President of the Native Women's Association of Canada; Clément Chartier, President of the Métis National Council; and Mary Simon, President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the First Nations’ right to vote.

It's hard to believe that Canada's First Nation citizens were only granted voting rights in March of 1960 in Canada, nearly forty years after Native American won voting rights in the U.S.

Danielnpaul.com explains the history of First Nations exclusion to voting rights and eventual suffrage like this: