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Nazis at Caledonia

While most of the people who have demonstrated against the Six Nations Reclamation outside Caledonia are your run of the mill settler chauvinists, content to believe the oh-so-convenient racist myth that this land all belongs to them, there have also been some fascists and neo-nazis spotted. The relationship between settler …

[Movie Review] Songbirds, a Musical Documentary about Women in Prison

Songbirds, a film by Brian Hilllyrics by Simon Armitage, music by Simon BoswellUK / 2005 / Betacam / 62 min / englishContact: Sue Collins, Century Films, Studio 32, Clink Street Studios, 1 Clink Street, Londres SE19DG Angleterre. T: +44-207-378-6106 F: +44-207-407-6711 | sue.collins@centuryfilmsltd.com | www.centuryfilmsltd.com i saw Songbirds somewhat by …

Political Horror

Heads up: if you like horror, the Onionā€™s AV Club has a list of ā€œHorror Films of Left-Wingersā€ and ā€œHorror Films for Right-wingersā€ which takes about three minutes to read. Before i had this blog i tried (and pretty much failed!) to write something about the politics of zombie movies …

Gymnaslaerer Pedersen (Comrade Pedersen)

GYMNASLAERER PEDERSEN (COMRADE PEDERSEN) (PI) Norway / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 110 min / Dir.: Hans Petter Moland, Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Ryg, Jan Gunnar RĆøise, Jon Ƙigarden, Stig Henrik Hoff, Silje Torp FƦrevag, Fridtjov SĆ„aheim In 1968, it seemed as if all of …

Capitalism and Prisons

Part I All matter possesses the property of reflection, i.e., the ability to react and reconstruct itself internally under external influences. Therefore reflection must always, and can only, take place between two or more bodies interacting on one another. For example, as a result of the chemical composition of iron, …

2006 World Film Festival in Montreal

Shit iā€™m not very happy! Been out of town for over a week, just got back, and just saw that there was a sale on tickets to the 2006 World Film Festival in Montreal butā€¦ the sale ended yesterday!!! Major drag, as this is one of the few Montreal festivals …

[Three Way Fight] Defending My Enemy’s Enemy

The following essay by Matthew Lyons comes from the Three Way Fight blog. Lyons is co-author (along with Chip Berlet) of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, as well as numerous essays and articles about repression and the far right in America. Iā€™ll add some of my own …

Grassy Narrows: A Community Resisting Genocide

The ongoing Reclamation at Caledonia has given us settlers another of those periodic reminders that this land is not our land, and that this whole colonial enterprise called Canada is not a done deal yet. Far from it.But of course this is not a matter of just one community encroaching …

June 13th Caledonia Media Roundup

my apologies that this post is not formatted us mine usually are… blogger seems to be workinge exceedingly badly these days, the word plug in hit or miss, and half of the time it seems that i cannot connect to the site… The main news in Caledonia/Six Nations over the …

June 11th Media Update on Caledonia

The following from the Six Nations Confederacy Council: Attention News Editors CALEDONIA, ON, June 10 /CNW/ – The actions which occurred at the Six Nations Reclamation site and within the town of Caledonia today are very disheartening. The Haudenosaunee are a people of peace and do not condone violence of …