Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Events are happening faster than we can write articles on, so we’re switching to a summary format for some articles. Some subjects may be too uncomfortable to read. We ask you to use discernment in your choice. Skirting the meme war does not affect the subjects we cover; only the sources we use to cover […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca From protesting to building tiny houses, Indigenous women are the on the front-lines of change. Below are 2 posts illustrating their courage. Women are the Face of Mohawk Resistance Christopher Curtis, Montreal Gazette, March 1, 2020 https://popularresistance.org/women-are-the-face-of-mohawk-resistance/ On the front lines of the Indigenous resistance movement, it is young women — born after the […]
Pipeline Dispute: Ministers, Wet’suwet’en Chiefs Reach Proposed Agreement The Canadian Press, March 1, 2020 https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/pipeline-rail-blockade-agreement SMITHERS, B.C. — A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief and senior government ministers say they have reached a proposed arrangement in a pipeline dispute that has prompted solidarity protests across Canada in recent weeks. Federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and British […]
“On February 6, Unist’ot’en members watched on social media as the RCMP mounted a dramatic raid before dawn. . . arresting six people. “But rather than serving to quell the resistance, the arrests inspired a wave of solidarity protests and transportation blockades across Canada.” Elsewhere, the Pope and Greenpeace are pleading for protection of the […]
I am a supporter of the Wet’suwet’en people in their struggle for territorial sovereignty. By Jennifer Ditchburn, The Narwhal, February 21, 2020 https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-loves-the-rule-of-law-unless-were-talking-indigenous-rights/ Last October, an international celebration occurred in the verdant coastal community of Bella Bella, B.C. Members of the Heiltsuk Nation finally opened their Gvakva’aus Hailzaqv, their Big House, a red and yellow […]
“The sad fact is that since non-Indigenous peoples arrived on Turtle Island, Indigenous peoples have been “economically inconvenienced.” “Moreover, their lands have been desecrated – plants, animals and land no longer have sanctity, but rather they are treated as mere commodities to sell or to create the next job. “Academics and philosophers concerned about the […]
As the RCMP retreats from the Wet’suwet’en blockades, the delicate trust it is building with Indigenous women remains at risk By Jula Hughes and Elizabeth Blaney, The Globe and Mail, February 20, 2020 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-rcmps-involvement-in-the-wetsuweten-blockades-crisis-puts/ Jula Hughes is the dean of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University. Elizabeth Blaney is the director of […]
I must say that the issue of negotiating with Canada’s native population strikes a chord with me. And my interest in what is happening only increases over time. Yes, I know that their protest is shutting down Canada’s rail line. I guess that’s what it took to get us to listen. When the situation is […]
Canada’s Prime Minister is cutting his overseas trip short to start dialogue about the protests over the Translink pipeline, Indigenous lands and their rights. The list of grievances is long and has been ongoing for years. National Chief Perry Bellegarde speaks his mind below, February 16, 2020: Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, February 15, 2020, […]
‘We’re working apart but together in solidarity for the Wet’suwet’en land defenders,’ organizer says By Desmond Brown, CBC News, February 15, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gta-protesters-ontario-rail-blockade-1.5465525 Protesters gathered at a rail yard in Vaughan, Ontario, on Saturday, vowing to continue the pop-up protests in solidarity with the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en who oppose a natural gas pipeline […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca If we look to the Universal Law of Balance – As Within So Without – what do “the pipeline” issues in Canada represent metaphorically? In the bigger picture without, the pipeline can – and often does – represent the control and greed of the elite furthering their agenda, indiscriminately extracting Gaia’s natural resources. So […]
Canadians are protesting, and it’s about a lot more than a pipeline, as the post below says. A fire is lit on the legislature steps in Victoria, BC, the Granville Street Bridge in Vancouver was shut down, the intersection at Cambie and Broadway was blocked, and a sacred fire lit there, as well. Broadview Wet’suwet’en […]
Pipeline Protests Spread from Coast to Coast But it’s the railway protests that have galvanized the most attention across the country By Tyler Dawson, National Post, February 12, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/rt5hwxx EDMONTON — As protests against a natural gas pipeline through the interior of British Columbia continued across the country on Wednesday, two Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs […]
A formal request for judicial review submitted with the B.C. Supreme Court argues B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office extended the permit for Coastal GasLink pipeline without considering the findings of the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. [Allegations are being made that the construction camps promote sexual violence and may be linked to the […]
Strength From Grief: How Aboriginal People Experience the Bushfire Crisis Bhiamie Williamson, Jessica Weir, & Vanessa Cavanagh, Yes! Magazine, Jan. 23, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/rv5njmf How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees, and destroying ancestral and totemic plants and […]
