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.
Related rabble.ca story:
Indian Ocean islanders in 44 years of colonial limbo
In 1966, England was all about the soccer, the Labour Party and the Beatles. The country had just won the World Cup and things were swinging with 1960s euphoria and happiness.
But it was also the year which marked the commencement of an exercise to depopulate the Chagos Islands, a coral archipelago in the Indian Ocean, approximately 1,600 km north-west of Mauritius. The indigenous community were soon to have their homes taken away from them in a shameful act of latter-day colonial vandalism.
A most important gathering: Determining the future for us all
On January 24 a gathering will take place in Ottawa that will define a point in our shared history where, as a nation, Canada will either succeed or fail. Personally, I am not optimistic. As leaders of indigenous heritage pack their bags for one more effort to achieve peace and friendship with fellow Canadians through negotiations with the Federal leader they may be completely unaware that this is a make-it or break-it moment.
Marginalization doesn't happen by accident: Colonialism and violence from the state
Jan 27 2012 - 7:00pm
Jan 27 2012 - 9:30pm
Location
1400 Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver V6B 5K3Canada
Phone:
778-782-3593
49° 17' 3.0084" N, 123° 6' 43.5024" W
See map: Google Maps
This talk by Jessica Yee takes up the question of why Indigenous women are five times more likely to die of violence than any other race of women in Canada and how this can be understood in light of state violence, inaction and complicity.
This event is free.
Registration capacity is 100 people.
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