The above is a video recording of Ward Churchill Speaking On Colonialism as Genocide at Concordia University in Montreal last Wednesday, recorded by Maximilian Forte on Vimeo. i was tabling so i missed the talk, which makes me extra-grateful to have this video available. i certainly don’t agree with …
An excellent response to Prime Minister Harper’s recent “apology” to Indigenous people on behalf of the canadian state: An Historic Non-Apology, Completely and Utterly Not Accepted The Maze of Rhetoric We hope our title is sufficiently unequivocal to convey our reaction to the events of Wednesday June 11, 2008. Maybe …
No Olympics on Stolen Land! Great Lakes & East Coast Speaking TourWith Kanahus Pellkey from the Native Youth Movement and Dustin Johnson With the 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to occur on unceded Coast Salish, St’at’imc and Squamish territory in two years, the spectacle surrounding them continues to wreak havoc on …
On September 13th there was another violent confrontation in Caledonia between Indigenous people defending their land and settlers defending what they consider their property. Initially the settler media reported that Sam Gualtieri, a 52-year old man who was “trying to build a house for his daughter” in Caledonia, had been …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Forwarding the following, regarding a Montreal march as part of the National Day of Action: MARCH OF SOLIDARITY WITH FIRST NATIONS OF CANADAFor the NATIONAL DAY OF ACTIONMontreal, June 29th. 2007, 12h00 Noon This NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION is an opportunity for First Nations and Canadians to stand together in …
Quick heads up: last week Amnesty International released a report on sexual violence against Indigenous women in amerika. i have not had a chance to read Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA, but you all can do so as it’s online.From …