Toward a World that Works for Everyone
City of Vancouver website: https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/rezoning-for-new-indigenous-led-housing-project-approved-by-council.aspx Proposal addresses urgent need for urban Indigenous-led and managed new permanent social and supportive housing, and shelter beds in the Downtown Eastside. We are pleased to be working alongside the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society and BC Housing to put reconciliation into action. ~ Mayor Kennedy Stewart, February 17 2021 […]
How One Interior Designer is Helping — with Her Invoices Interior designers typically serve the 1%. Jessica Helgerson wants to turn that on its head. By Aimee Rawlins, Fast Company, February 10th, 2021 https://www.fastcompany.com/90602613/how-one-interior-designer-is-fighting-homelessness-with-her-invoices “The one percent” is most often used as a pejorative, shorthand for elite, out-of-touch vultures who prey on the working class. […]
By Kathleen Dean Moore & Robin Wall Kimmerer, Yes Magazine, November 5th, 2016 https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2016/11/05/the-humvees-and-the-white-horse2014two-futures/ Right here, between the barricades on a North Dakota highway, is a pivotal confrontation between two world views, two futures. Two lines, facing each other on a North Dakota highway. On one side, concrete barriers protect a row of armored vehicles […]
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 […]
