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 …
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 …
This is a follow-up on yesterday’s post, about a Mi’kmaq high school student who refused to stand for Canada’s national anthem and was subsequently kicked out of class, and later “roughed up” by other students. Yesterday i didn’t know the student in question was Mi’kmaq, because the media never mentioned …
Blockade on key highway is partly lifted CANADIAN PRESSADDITIONAL REPORTING BY KAZI STASTNA OF THE GAZETTE GRAND REMOUS – Part of a crucial Quebec highway was reopened last night following a day-long blockade by armed aboriginals protesting against forest management by the province.The SĂ»retĂ© du QuĂ©bec said the northbound lane …
Canadian Press Monday, March 12, 2007 [original article here] GRAND-REMOUS, Que. (CP) – An aboriginal group blocked off a Quebec highway on Monday to protest logging activity. Quebec provincial police said about 50 people set up the blockade around 5:30 a.m. on Highway 117, north of Ottawa. The protesters say …
There is an excellent essay about Violence & Abuse Against Indigenous Women & Children up on the wii’nimkiikaa website. Really worth checking out…
The above video is from Autonomy & Solidarity; here is their description of it… Robert Seth Hayes is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army who has been imprisoned for the past 33 years. In this audio message he speaks about the Panthers, the …
This is a short film covering the December 9th protest outside the Hamilton Detention Center to free Six Nations Political Prisoner Trevor Miller. (From Google video.) Janie Jamieson speaks about Six Nations Political Prisoner Trevor Miller, outside the Cayuga courthouse on Dec 11th, 2006. (From Google video.) Stuart Myiow speaks …
Be sure to check this out: Canada is a colonial country; by Andrew Orkin, The Ottawa Citizen Wednesday, May 10, 2006
I started off wanting to like “A Commune In Chiapas?” (This major essay about the Zapatistas, written for the English “liberation communist” journal, Aufheben, is distributed as a pamphlet by Arm the Spirit/Solidarity, Canadian anti-imperialist publishers who represent u.s. political prisoners such as David Gilbert, Albert Nuh Washington and Jalil …