by Jackie Dunham, CTV News, June 27, 2017
As organizers ramp up anticipation for Canada’s big bash honouring the 150th anniversary of Confederation, indigenous activists are rallying their own counter-celebrations.
The #Resistance150 movement was created nearly eight months ago by Anishinaabe traditional storyteller and teacher Isaac Murdoch, Michif visual artist Christi Belcourt, Cree activist Tanya Kappo and Métis author Maria Campbell while they were discussing the government’s planned festivities for Canada 150. Read the rest of this entry
In honour of Art Manuel and the integrity with which he always began with the land and honoured the grassroots people, the #Unsettling150 crew are proud to launch this video filled with Art’s words, read by his daughter Kanahus Manuel, to launch the final lead-up to the national day of action, education, and reflection. Respect to Michael Toledano for his work on this video. Please share widely.
Jocelyn Iahtail, centre, requesting the release of nine people arrested for attempting to bring teepee poles on Parliament Hill without a permit. The detainees show of their hand-cuffs inside a tent-turned-detention block. APTN/Photo
by Jorge Barrera, APTN National News, June 29, 2017
Outside the tent-turned-holding cell along the sidewalk by Parliament Hill’s East Block Jocelyn Iahtail and Elder Sophie Gunner-Sackabuskum wanted to know what happened to someone named “Crow” who they said was arrested along with nine others for trying to carry teepee poles onto the Hill grounds without a proper permit. Read the rest of this entry
Anne Solomon, president of the N’Swakamok Friendship Centre in Sudbury, said the centre’s board of directors decided they would not be celebrating the anniversary of confederation. (Markus Schwabe CBC)
N’Swakamok Friendship Centre says Canada 150 does not recognize enough of the Indigenous experience
CBC News, June 27, 2017
As the rest of the country is preparing to mark Canada 150, others plan to sit out on the celebrations.
Many Indigenous communities will not be taking part in Canada Day festivities, saying the nation has a deeper history than just 150 years, and that celebrations do not recognize Indigenous history or experience. Read the rest of this entry
A new website focusing on resistance against Canada’s 150th year anniversary celebrations is up and running. you can check it out at:
Here’s a message from the comrades who’ve set the site up: Read the rest of this entry
Within a week of them being installed as part of the Canada 150 celebration, vandals scrawled profanities across banners lining the Mercier Bridge, and tore them to shreds. (Courtesy David S. Lahache)
June 23, 2017
Within the week of the Jacques Cartier Champlain Bridges Incorporated (JCCBI) installing banners along the sides of the lanes going in and out of Kahnawake, a couple of them were targeted. Read the rest of this entry
Not sure who did the poster, but there it is…
“The executions of the Indians ought to convince the Red Man that the White Man governs” Prime Minister John A MacDonald.
The #UNsettleCanada150 Webinar will be moderated by Kanahus Manuel with presentations and discussions from land defenders Ellen Gabriel, Russell Diabo and Beatrice Hunter.
By Zi-Ann Lum, HuffPost Canada, June 13, 2017It’s all about perspective.
A coffeehouse in Grand Pre, N.S. flipped its sign earlier this week to nudge people to think deeper around the context of Canada’s 150 birthday.
To do that, the folks at Just Us! Coffee placed “MI KMAKI 13000” under the words “CANADA 150” on their signboard. Read the rest of this entry
It’s Going Down, June 13, 2017
As Canada spends half a billion dollars to celebrate its 150th year of land theft and colonial violence, Indigenous communities across Canada remain without access to clean water and endure acute poverty. Indigenous territories remain coveted by extractive industries and multinational corporations, who receive physical support from the RCMP and other agencies to forcibly steal and contaminate unceded Indigenous lands. From Oka to Elsipogtog, Canadian history shows us that Indigenous people who stand up to protect their homelands from destruction are frequently met with military force. Read the rest of this entry
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