With residents of U.S. territories facing a Catch-22 of sorts - denied representation in the political bodies that must act to give them representation - the courts may also help in driving change.
But what worked for the Paiter-Surui might not work for all indigenous territories facing dire threats from deforestation – as one would find if they followed those same logging trucks out of the Sete de Setembro territory and through the southern tip of the Igarapé Lourdes territory.
Recently, French overseas territories faced large-scale outbreaks: an epidemic of chikungunya fever in La Re′ union and Mayotte (2005 2006) and four successive outbreaks of dengue fever in one Caribbean island, Martinique (1995 2007).
Stocks that break the lower Bollinger band and enter oversold territory face heavy selling pressure.
And the few remaining doctors in the city's eastern territory face constant threat for simply doing their job.
The difference was that Europe's comeback kids were on enemy territory, facing a bunch of confident – perhaps in some cases overconfident – opponents and a raucous crowd.
As Kosovo prepares to declare independence — the culmination of a long and bloody struggle — this artistic rebellion underlines the challenge this small territory faces to forge a secular national identity, one that can overcome ethnic and religious resentments.
I think the Fed overreacted to inflation in the late 1990s and underreacted to economic weakness in 2001, but by 2002 the American economy was in somewhat uncomfortable territory, facing a slow recovery, low inflation, and a federal funds rate target not much above zero.
Since March 1st anyone taking more than two tins of milk powder out of the territory faces up to two years in prison, an embargo designed to retain Hong Kong powder for local mothers, amid concerns on the mainland about the safety of Chinese milk powder.
While real-life Hong Kong residents took to the streets in their tens of thousands to march for democracy, the Transformers film shows a local leader calling on central government to save the day when the territory faces an invasion by the mutant robots.
