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Rape and canadian colonialism

Human Rights Watch has accused Canada’s federal police of intimidating and even sexually assaulting aboriginal women and girls in the province of British Columbia. In a scathing report, which was released on Wednesday, the rights organization documented numerous accounts of women and girls in the province’s indigenous communities finding themselves …

Henry Aubin on the Police Murder of Robert Dziekanski

cellphone-video of an RCMP murder:Robert Dziekanski was killed on October 14 inVancouver International Airport Pulling the plug on Taser deathsINCLUDING A CAMERA on the electric-shock weapon would help clear up questions on its use HENRY AUBIN Everyone is appalled by the tragic death of a man in Vancouver after police …

[Press Release] Why Did British Columbia Sentence Aboriginal Elder to Death?

“What we need is [an] Aboriginal Malcolm X to put some pride back into these lost souls.” – Elder Harriet Nahanee, 1995 This just is: Fellow Aboriginal activists and concerned non-indigenous citizens demand answers regarding the death of Harriet Nahanee as a direct result of her incarceration On February 24, …

Criminalization and Violence Against Sex Workers: the Context Behind the Pickton Trial

canada’s disappeared have a gender:pictures of women who have gone missingfrom missingpeople.net On January 26th CKUT’s radio show Off The Hour interviewed Sue Davis of Prostitution Alternatives Counseling and Education Society and Jenn Clamen of the International Union of Sex Workers. Sex trade workers’ struggles against violence and criminalization make …

Native Youth Movement Warrior Targeted & Arrested at Anti-Olympic Protest in Vancouver

Three Native Warriors were targeted and arrested yesterday during a protest against the 2010 Winter Olympic Games planned to take place in Vancouver/Whistler, KKKanada.NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT WARRIOR TARGETED & ARRESTED ATANTI-OLYMPIC PROTEST IN VANCOUVER, BC, KKKANADA “THE INDIAN WARS ARE NOT OVER” (February 13, 2007, …