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Interview with Gord Hill

Jaggi Singh has interviewed Gord Hill, a Native Warrior of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation and author of 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance, about the Assembly of First Nations, the National Day of Action, the influence of the life and death of Harriet Nahanee, the legacy of Oka, the meaning of the …

Fag-bashing in Quebec City, Boneheads Fingered

Not much to say, other than news reports on a young guy getting beaten up by four boneheads as he left a gay bar in Quebec City last Sunday night. Note of course that the police say they don’t really have a problem with the boneheads, as they’re “only” implicated …

USSF Panel on the the SF8

A Special broadcast of Hard Knock Radio featuring a panel on the San Francisco 8 – with Cynthia McKinney, Kathleen Cleaver, Soffiyah Elijah and Claude Marks – from the U.S. Social Forum. While there are some funny moments – i.e. Kathleen Cleaver comparing the overthrow of Allende to the “overthrow” …

Killer Lesbians Mauled by Killer Court, Media Wolfpack

The following from my comrade Susie Day arrived in my inbox yesterday: KILLER LESBIANS MAULED BY KILLER COURT, MEDIA WOLFPACK Four more Black girls just went bad. Young, 19 to 25; from Newark or surrounding neighborhoods; “troubled” families; having babies while in their teens – you’ve heard it all before. …

King Hatshepsut, the Female Falcon

Hatshepsut, female king of Egypt Bear with me – this may seem a bit off-topic: Tooth brings lost Egyptian queen to lightJONATHAN WRIGHTREUTERSCAIRO – A single tooth has clinched the identification of an ancient mummy as that of Hatshepsut, Egypt’s most famous queen, who ruled about 3,500 years ago, the …

Innu Youth Attack Quebec Provincial Police

  Youths Attack Patrol Car by Jean-Guy Gougeon Protest against the chief’s decision to call on the Quebec Provincial Police to temporarily replace the Innu police, fifteen youths destroyed a QPP patrol car in the Ekuanitshit (Mingan) community Sunday morning. Six of them appeared in court on Tuesday. Around 5:30am …

June 29th: National Aboriginal Day of Action

Tomorrow is the National Aboriginal Day of Action, and it’s something you will not have read about on this blog so far. Which is just because there’s to much to say, and i’m likely not the person to say it, mainly because i’m not on top of it all! For …