The following from Indymedia: Mohawk Political Prisoner Challenges Jurisdiction of Colonial Courts By Fiona BeckerIndymediaNovember 30th, 2006 Over 50 people packed the Cayuga courthouse on Wednesday for Trevor Miller, a Six Nations Mohawk of the Turtle Clan, as Trevor declared to the court that the colonial Canadian system has no …
The following about an action in Montreal earlier today… MONTREAL, NOV 24 2006. — Over twenty people held a demonstration this morning to disrupt a press conference given by Stephen Harper at the Montreal General Hospital, in front of a hand-picked audience of young Conservatives from McGill University. Despite heavy …
Heads up: journalist Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has written about Canada’s Highway of Tears – the stretch of road in northern “British Columbia” where so many indigenous women have been disappeared over the past decades. Since 1988 over 500 indigenous women have “gone missing” across Canada. Victims of racism, victims of …
This from today’s Hamilton Spectator: Six Nations women lay claim to windmills by John BurmanThe Hamilton Spectator(Aug 19, 2006) Two Six Nations women title holders have laid claim to a $27-million green power wind farm project near Shelburne.  Kahentinetha Horn, who lives at the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal and another woman …
For the second time in two years a group calling itself the Initiatives de Resistance Internationaliste (Initiatives of Internationalist Resistance – IRI) has claimed responsibility for an armed attack within the province of Quebec.Very little is known about the IRI. In December 2004, just as President Bush visited Ottawa for …
I can remember when some radical anti-racists were still willing to argue that “human rights groups” like B’nai B’rith Canada should be considered allies. Their staunch Zionism, chummy relationship with the police, and other political misdeeds were of interest only to “sectarians.” Well, those days are long gone, for as …
The following just arrived in my email box – as you may have noticed i have been out of town for over a week, and thus have not been able to keep up my regular blogging. My apologies for letting the ball drop – the context for the below is …
I don’t think i had ever seen as many Lebanese flags as at yesterday’s rally against Israeli aggression in downtown Montreal. More than 500 – perhaps as many as a thousand, i can’t be sure because of how the crowd was spread – showed up to protest the ongoing carnage. …
The following regarding repression at Grassy Narrows from Peace, Earth and Justice News: Ontario Police Raid Earth Justice Gathering and Grassy Narrows Blockade:Â Â 17 arrests reported Zoe BluntRainforest Action Network July 16, 2006 Â Â The latest reports say more than fifty police officers have blocked the roads leading to and from the …
Last Thursday, July 13th, people from Grassy Narrows First Nation were joined by members of a number of environmental groups in escalating their blockade – targeting the Trans-Canada Highway for one day. (For more information of the Grassy Narrows blockade see my post earlier today.) They were able to keep …