Updates about the recent confrontations at Tyendinaga and Six Nations – i apologize for not posting about this yesterday. Readers in Toronto should note the emergency rally planned for tomorrow. ——————————————————————————————– Update: Tense Standoff Continues in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory Shawn Brant Arrested on Trumped-Up Charges Once Again ——————————————————————————————– **please note …
Pig yelling at observers as he and pals wrestle protester on the ground Lots of news about the unfolding confrontation between Ontario Provincial Police and the Mohawks of Tyendinaga – this is a series of different pieces, several from the colonial media: URGENT CALL: FRIDAY APRIL 25TH 2008- MOHAWKS OF …
The following two reports from Mohawk Nation News: ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE INVADE PEACEFUL MOHAWKS AT TYENDINAGA. ANOTHER CALEDONIA STYLE DEVELOPER “CASHOUT” SCAM * View * Track April 22, 2008 – 9:37pm — Gary Two reports from MNN below… MNN. Mon. April 21, 2008. Attacks on Indigenous people continue. Canada isn’t …
No Olympics on Stolen Land! Great Lakes & East Coast Speaking TourWith Kanahus Pellkey from the Native Youth Movement and Dustin Johnson With the 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to occur on unceded Coast Salish, St’at’imc and Squamish territory in two years, the spectacle surrounding them continues to wreak havoc on …
The following from Kahentinetha Horn’s Mohawk News Network: MNN. Sept. 15, 2007. On September 13th at around 4:00 pm. witnesses saw non-native men running out, picking up weapons and going back into the unfinished house. Inside they had ambushed two Indigenous youth. The kids’ backs were against the wall. They …
From Jacqueline House, regarding the September 13th fight which left Sam Gualtieri unconscious in Caledonia: What has been happening here on Six Nations? Scano Tonight, my heart is heavy. However, I thought I would write a little of the past few days. First of all, there have been a few …
On September 13th there was another violent confrontation in Caledonia between Indigenous people defending their land and settlers defending what they consider their property. Initially the settler media reported that Sam Gualtieri, a 52-year old man who was “trying to build a house for his daughter” in Caledonia, had been …
The following is a good article by Justin Podur, posted on the Znet site yesterday, explaining the State’s campaign of persecution against Mohawk activist Shawn Brant: On August 30, about two weeks before Canada became one of only four countries to vote against a UN declaration on indigenous rights, Tyendinaga …
Juju Factory, 2007 / 35 mm / Colour / 97 min, Dir. Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo – France – Belgium. Warning: There are spoilers in this movie review! A humourous and super-clever social commentary on… exile and migration? Belgian colonialism? racism in Europe? the psychology of the …
thanks to Liberated Yet? for the pointer to this video The above video shows the RCMP pepper spraying a members of the Sechelt Nation on the Sunshine Coast (in “british columbia”) earlier this month.The scene was a welcome home parade for a kids’ soccer team who had just won a …