Toward a World that Works for Everyone
“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 […]
Two stories on the return of land to native tribes. At Long Last, Smallest Native Californian Tribe Has Land To Call Their Own Andy Corbley, Good News Network, Dec. 22, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/u4zt6p6 Although the history of Native American indigenous peoples have unquestionably been filled with hardship, the Esselen Tribe in California—maybe the smallest native tribe […]
The forces that oppose global peace, unity, and harmony fall into three types. The first type is the deep state, which chose decades ago to precipitate World War III, reduce the population to a docile 500 million slaves, and assume full-spectrum dominance over the planet. (1) The second is the authoritarian culture which enforces a […]
Voice of Freedom In Canada, we have an upcoming Federal Election, October 21, 2019. Jody Wilson-Raybould, a former member of the Liberal Party, our Minister of Justice and Attorney General, is running in my riding, Vancouver Granville, as an Independent. In the spring of this year, Jody was kicked out of the Liberal Party when […]
In the 20th century, the U.S. and Canada carried out a quiet genocide against Indigenous women through coerced sterilization. In 2019, it’s still happening. By Ankita Rao, September 9, 2019 httpss://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9keaev/indigenous-women-in-canada-are-still-being-sterilized-without-their-consent Content Warning: This story contains sensitive details about reproductive violence. S.A.T.* wanted her daughter in the room. It was the second time she’d ever […]
Reader Catherine Wite introduces us to the pathfinding work of her daughter and son-in-law in the jungles of Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. (1) They’re not waiting for the Reval! Helping to Rescue the Second Lungs of the Planet in Kalimantan by Catherine Wite, 12 Aug. 2019 In 2014 an Australian woman Frederika, her Indonesian husband Jayadi, […]
