Welcome back to the rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!
This week the Crown-First Nations gathering was on a lot of bloggers’ minds — why is Harper leaving early, will this actually bring about change, can First Nations be given a voice this time? Time will only tell, but it seems like our bloggers may be forecasting a grim future.
Also on the docket, our bloggers tackle issues of gentrification in Vancouver, pornography and health, Stephen Harper and Iran, and Generation Why and zeitgeists.
Read, relax and enjoy — and let us know what you think!
Meghan Murphy discusses another facet in the pornography debate — use of condoms — and if this potentially hides the issue of disrespect to women and if health and safety are really this initiative’s target, in The world according to porn.
Activist Communique: The legendary Mandy Hiscocks is a tribute by Krystalline Kraus to new rabble.ca blogger Mandy Hiscocks and her community-organizing politics both on the inside and outside of the prison walls that currently confine her (but don’t define her).
Need a breakdown of Canada’s relationship with her First Peoples? Bernadette Wagner has all that information and more including why Harper will be “ducking out early” from the Crown-First Nations gathering in On ending colonialism or one reason why the Northern Gateway pipeline must never proceed.
Derrick O’Keefe states that “Harper has it completely backwards” in his views of Iran and the events of nuclear war, suicidal regimes and oil embargoes in Stephen Harper and the threat of war on Iran.
Atleo-bureaucrat summit: How bad does it have to get? by Pamela Palmater analyzes the history of government relations with Indigenous lands, resources and people in regards to the First Nation-Crown Summit and Harper’s broken promises.
Haitians demand compensation from the UN to the people who have contracted cholera allegedly from MINUSTAH soldiers who have been nothing but a “brutal, ineffectual and polluting force” in As UN denies responsibility for cholera outbreak, Haitian victims protest and launch lawsuit by Roger Annis and Travis Ross.
The gentrification of Vancouver and its once ignored communities continues on, as a newly imagined high-end building has been proposed right in the centre of Vancouver’s working-class heart in Gentrification of Mount Pleasant: Developers, displacement and real estate’s new frontier by Sean Antrim and Andrew Witt.
Roaming reporter Karl Nerenberg questions the legitimacy of the First Nations-Crown summit and if it will actually bring about change it has promised in Hill Dispatches: Can First Nations become subjects rather than objects?
Steffanie Pinch recounts useful events, tips and guides for everything from student activism, to fighting language oppression, to lived experiences by drug users in this week’s Activist Toolkit weekly roundup: Drop fees, anti-oppressive language, harm reduction, Miss G Project workshops.
Karen Foster asks the question: “Do today’s young people share a zeitgeist, a ‘spirit’?” in The zeitgeist of Generation Why.
Photo courtesy of Sean Antrim and Andrew Witt.
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