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Visiting the Unist'ot'en Spring Camp on the Building Resistance Tour | May 13 2013 | Maryam Adrangi | Partway through the Building Resistance tour, we visited the Spring Work camp on Unist'ot'en territory located just outside of Houston, B.C.

Activist Communique: Spring breezes call in Indigenous rights summer | May 13 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | This new trend was to really spread the message out and perfect the actions and tactics needed to challenge colonialism in Canada and as far away as Palestine.

Manitoba First Nations challenge Canada's record at UN | May 13 2013 | Redeye Collective | Two weeks ago a delegation from Manitoba traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to urge the United Nations to challenge Canada’s record on the human right to water.

Activist Communique: Seeking Justice for Cheyenne Fox | May 11 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | Members of Cheyenne Fox's family are demanding that Toronto police fairly look into her sudden, tragic death at twenty years of age and treat it like a homicide.

Protecting the sacred: Indigenous resistance grows strong in Keystone XL battle | May 9 2013 | Betsy Catlin, Crysbel Tejada | In January, Casey Camp-Horinek traveled the route of the proposed pipeline and her people's Trail of Tears to Pickstown, S.D., for an international treaty gathering called Protect the Sacred.

Dear Enbridge: 'I will never allow you to make me your token native poster boy again' | May 9 2013 | Maryam Adrangi | A delegation of First Nations, impacted community members and environmentalists attended Enbridge's AGM.

Making Canada work for all | May 3 2013 | Daniel Wilson | Daniel Wilson reviews two new papers from the MacDonald-Laurier Institute concerning Indigenous interests in the resource economy.

Video: Interview with Barney Williams Jr., TRC Indian Residential School Survivor Committee | Apr 30 2013 | rabble staff | In this interview, Barney Williams Jr. talks about his own personal experience in a residential school, and the healing process.

Interview with Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission | Apr 30 2013 | Greg Macdougall | Murray Sinclair speaks about the process of the Commission gathering testimonies from residential school survivors.

April 24 in Montreal. (Photo: Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada)

Residential schools: Addressing a lasting legacy | Apr 30 2013 | Greg Macdougall | This past week in Montréal was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada's Québec National Event, the fifth of seven such gatherings across the country.

Watch the rebroadcast of Violence no more | Apr 29 2013 | rabble staff | Streaming live from Toronto, this event is part of a day of programming and the 3rd installment of The Silence is broken: Now What?

Activist Communique: Violence No More – Toronto Talk on Monday | Apr 28 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | This event is part of a day of programming and the 3rd installment of The Silence is broken: Now What?

Toxic Tour to expose mining practices | Apr 27 2013 | Redeye Collective | On April 29, British Columbia’s mining companies will have a gala celebration at Canada Place in Vancouver to kick off BC Mining Week 2013. The Mining Justice Alliance also has plans for the week.

Smash the State Report: Apr. 12, 2013 - 2 - No Casino KW + Defending the Land. | Apr 25 2013 | AW@L Radio, Dan Kellar | Show starts w/ Dan's 'No Casino in KW' letter then goes to the fights against toxic/radioactive energy extraction, transportation, + storage. Indigenous battles against colonsialism too...

Retiring the policy | Apr 22 2013 | Daniel Wilson | In this blog, Daniel Wilson comments on a recent article in Policy magazine by Robin Sears, The AFN and the PM: Retiring the Missionaries.

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