Isaac From The Great Lakes on truth and reconciliation
Preparing for an APTN interview and thinking about purple Ju-Jubes, Isaac Murdoch takes a moment to share his thoughts on reconciliation.
Category: Truth and Reconcilation
Canada’s problems with the Law
By Michael Keefer | 20 November 2013. Rob Ford, now universally referred to as “the crack-smoking mayor of Toronto,” continues to astonish us—not just because he can’t open his mouth in public without bullying, lying,...
Justice and Legality: The sisters of Antigone
By Michael Keefer Canada does seem to be having persistent problems with the law. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in its Delgamuukw and Marshall decisions, in 1997 and 1999, that First Nations peoples...
Mohawks Become First Tribe to Take Down a Federal Dam
By MARY ESCH, ASSOCIATED PRESS HOGANSBURG, N.Y. Dec 11, 2016 A century after the first commercial dam was built on the St. Regis River, blocking the spawning runs of salmon and sturgeon, the stream...
That which speaks to us
By Kelly MacNaughton I have a deep frustration at the lack of knowledge amongst our people. I have always felt a need to ‘fill in the gaps’, when I see that someone doesn’t have...
Datejie Green on organizing equality
TORONTO – Datejie Green speaks about her involvement in the major international conference “Organizing Equality” and its possibilities for bringing a wide range of social justice activists together in dialogue and action. The conference will...
Colonialism at Costco
By Kelly MacNaughton ANCASTER – I recently had a horrifying incident occur to me on an outing to purchase phones for my husband and I at a Costco in Ancaster, Ontario. The young man...
Amai Kuda “We can do it!”
https://youtu.be/00rR6iOhd-Y ‘We Can Do It’ is a call to action! It is a call to revolution! Created by Amai Kuda to promote the Decolonize NOW! movement and the Divest to Decolonize campaign, the song...
(re)occupied: #OccupyINAC and British Columbia’s 1975 Militant May
By Sarah Nickel When approximately thirty members of the Idle No More and Black Lives Matter movements entered the Indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAC) office in Toronto on April 13, 2016 to protest government...
Behind the scenes at #OcupyINAC
TORONTO – Gary Wassaykeesic recently sat down with Real Peoples Media to tell the story of how INAC Toronto was occupied and what led to the #occupyINAC movement. Wassaykeesic explains the linkages of the movement...
