Leaders of indigenous heritage pack their bags for one more effort to achieve peace and friendship with fellow Canadians.
colonialism
Attawapiskat and colonialism: Seeing the forest and the trees
If you can cut through the racism, ignorance, and half-baked opinions of pundits, politicians and sound-bite media, most folks will realize that Attawapiskat and many other First Nations have been labouring under the repression of colonialism far too long.
The antidote for poverty is self-determination and no one can give you that. You have to stand up and take action yourself to make it happen. Colonialism does not give way on its own; it must be defeated through vigorous and enlightened opposition.
Wikileaks: Colonial limbo a deliberate attempt to keep islanders from homeland
Paradise lost for a U.S. military base.
Related rabble.ca story:
Wikileaks: Colonial limbo a deliberate attempt to keep islanders from homeland
Six months ago, I wrote a piece for rabble.ca describing the appalling treatment of the people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean by the British government.
The islands were purchased by the government of Britain in 1966 from Seychellois Chagos Agalega Company, with the initial intention of running them as a U.K. government-owned plantation enterprise. This proved less profitable than the establishment of Cold War strategic military bases, so the islanders were removed.
Telling the truth about Thanksgiving
Does anyone ever wonder when "Columbus Day" will no longer be a nationally "celebrated" holiday? I mean really and truly -- when do y'all think that will happen?
In my opinion, it's not as if the information does not exist out there which explicitly states that no, Columbus was never even near the continental mass of what's now known as "America". The "great" navigator that he was didn't even know where he was going and never washed up here -- ever.
What he did do with the full backing of the voyage was ensue genocide, apartheid, and colonization -- all whose affects are deeply entrenched in existing assimilative federal policies, hierarchical societal structures, and the realities of Indigenous communities here and around the world.
Indian Ocean islanders in 44 years of colonial limbo
The people of the Chagos Islands were removed by the British government in the 1960s to make way for U.S. bases -- and the people remain stuck.
