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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of ‘a Few Bad Apples’by Carol Tator and Frances Henry. Published by University of Toronto Press, 2006 In their book Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of ‘a Few Bad Apples’, authors Carol Tator and Frances Henry – and contributors Charles C. …
Nice to see Heather Reisman challenged for her financial support for terrorist attacks on Arab peoples in the Middle East. Watch the video and see members of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid confronting her at a Ralph Nader book-signing, over her financial support for Jews who volunteer to go to …
i missed this article last week, giving details of where the legal suppression of the World Tamil Movement is at. While i do not know enough about the WTM or about the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) to stake out and defend a position, i think …
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 …
The following from Vancouver: The police raided the former office of the Anti-Poverty Committee Thursday night, under the pretext of looking for the Olympic flag that was stolen by the Native Warrior Society nearly a month ago. The office, located in a DERA building, has not been used by the …
Balcony Rapist to be releasedWhy men rape and why women’s resources are cut need attention, argues ’80s victim Toronto Star, Feb 23, 2007Betsy PowellCrime Reporter Jane Doe has mixed feelings about the release from prison of the man who raped her more than 20 years ago, saying that focusing on …