Young Gwich’in Girls, Midway Lake Music Festival, near Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories • Photo by Adam Jones As the world contemplates with horror the United States’ recent policy of separating immigrant and refugee children from their parents and detaining them for attempting to cross the border, it is important to
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Canadian Dimension: Palestine and the Dakota Access Pipeline: Time to globalize BDS
From Pipelined: Photographing the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests video published on YouTube August 19, 2016 by Take5ND. The current struggle by Indigenous peoples of North America against settler-colonial economic projects is becoming an opportunity for the world to embrace Indigenous rights through the Palestinian BDS movement on a global scale.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Resistance towards Resilience: Suicide and the Settler Colonial State
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The community of Attawapiskat Cree Nation has called for a state of emergency over suicide attempts that have taken place en masse, a call that the Government of Canada has yet to respond to. We n…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Harper government and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Illustration by Latuff As the 67th year remembrance year of the Palestinian Nakba passes and federal elections in Canada approach, there is one aspect of the Harper government that will be remembered regardless of the election outcomes: his unequivocal and unwavering support for the state of Israel. The Harper government’s
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Understanding indigenous struggles against settler colonialism and international law
Photo by Marius Arnesen On April 17, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day should be seen as a day of global solidarity for all indigenous peoples seeking freedom and self-determination while living under settler colonialism. It reminds us of the predominance of indigenous peoples living in the prison industrial complex and its overarching
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