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More Charges Laid: Clampdown Intensifies, Support Tyendinaga Mohawks!

This from the Tyendinaga Support Committee: More Charges Laid: Clampdown Intensifies, Support Tyendinaga Mohawks! (MAY 20, 2008) In the wake of recent road closures, OPP intimidation, and jailing of Mohawk community members, charges have now been laid by the OPP against at least 9 additional Tyendinaga Mohawks. These charges, according …

The Truth Behind Shawn Brant’s Latest Arrest: Racism in Ontario

The following released yesterday by Sue Collins, regarding the ongoing persecution of Shawn Brant. Shawn Brant’s Arrest ā€“ Statement by Sue Collis, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory (May 4th, 2008) Eight days ago, on Friday, April 25th, 2008, my husband, Shawn Brant, was arrested and detained on assault and weapons charges. Since …

OPP attacks Mohawk Protest at Tyendinaga

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 …

Settler Colonies

French Jesuit Mission of St. Sauveur in Acadia:corrupting the Wabanaki Nation with christianity someone emailed me asking what the definition of a “settler-colony” was… i gave a lame ass answer, but then figured i should post it here so that people can either agree with it or explain to me …

[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, …

Escaping israel

i wanted to write something about this, but as it stands i am really fucking tired and not sure iā€™m up to it… nevertheless… You see, thereā€™s this CBC article which came out last Friday about how since 2000 three thousand ā€œIsraelisā€ have sought refugee status in Canada. The way …

Kenya and the Crimes of Colonialism

Kikuyu are rounded up for internment and interrogationduring white Kenya’s “Operation Anvil”, April 24th 1954 The dirty war Britain fought to maintain its control of Kenya was tantamount to genocide. The entire Kikuyu nation (the largest national group within Kenya) was considered to be under the sway of the Mau …

Violence Against Indigenous Women: Canada’s Highway of Tears

Heads up: journalist Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy has written about Canadaā€™s Highway of Tears ā€“ the stretch of road in northern ā€œBritish Columbiaā€ where so many indigenous women have been disappeared over the past decades. Since 1988 over 500 indigenous women have ā€œgone missingā€ across Canada. Victims of racism, victims of …