Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Canadians are all going to be affected by the Harper Government handiwork on many levels. In the news right now of course the Chief Theresa Spence Hunger Strike and the ever growing ‘Idle No More’ movement are, as they say, trending. The pressure on PM Harper
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Cowichan Conversations: Idle No More “Our Last Best Hope”
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor Kevin Logan contributes posts to Cowichan Conversations occasionally and they are most appreciated. In the following piece Kevin provides an in depth look at the Chief Spence Hunger Strike and the role of the Idle No More movement. If you want an in depth look see, pour
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Great Confusion
Well I think it's safe to say that it was quite a day in my home and native's land eh?As if the great Ojibwa Mishipeshu of Lake Superior was thrashing its tail around and causing a great confusion. Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she won't be at a meeting Friday between First
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Harper Is Losing It Over Chief Theresa Spences’ Hunger Strike
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Like night follows day the somewhat predictable PM Stephen Harper has let the dogs out regarding the growing “Idle No More’ movement and the continuing hunger strike being waged by Attiwapiskat Chief Theresa Spence. A dedicated anti aboriginal bigot Stephen Harper’s Government UN Ambassador John McNee obediently voted
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Solidarity with IDLE NO MORE and Chief Theresa Spence
Solidarité avec Chief Theresa Spence & Idle No More / Solidarity with IDLE NO MORE and Chief Theresa Spence *BRING DRUMS AND PERCUSSION* On Friday January 11th, 2013, stand in solidarity with Chief Theresa Spence and all First Nations. January 11, 2013 1-3pm 1001 Place Jean Paul Riopelle Between Square
Continue reading350 or bust: Idle No More Challenges Enbridge’s Pipedreams
“Everything that we do to water, we do to life because water is life. It’s not just us – we are all connected, we have to protect everything that lives, that shares the earth that we do…Idle No More is about us standing up and speaking up. We have never
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Daniel Wilson discusses how Stephen Harper’s antipathy toward First Nations is making a failure of his time in office: On the global stage, he stood almost alone in opposition to 144 other countries in voting against the United Nations Declaration on the Rights
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Angry Canadians
Gloria Galloway reports in the Globe and Mail that hope is fading for those who believed Friday’s meeting between native leaders and Stephen Harper would put an end to the Idle No More protests: Idle No More organizers will hold their own Friday meeting for chiefs that were not invited
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Idle No More and the Racist Backlash
As the great rising continues, I see that a Global TV crew has been kicked out of Attawapiskat. A Global News crew was escorted off the Attawapiskat reserve in northern Ontario and threatened with arrest after trying to do a story on living conditions in the community. And while on the one
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Shifting The Focus
Deloitte-Touche did as requested, and the reaction was predictable. Tasha Kheiriddin writes: The audit is out, the verdict is damning. As reported by CBC News, an independent assessment of six years of transactions on the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation reserve reveal “no evidence of due diligence.” Auditors Deloitte and Touche
Continue reading350 or bust: Idle No More Challenges Canadians’ Commitment to Truth & Reconciliation
As I write this, Chief Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat Cree First Nation has been fasting for 28 days as she awaits a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Last week, without acknowledging Chief Spence or the growing Idle No More movement, Mr Harper agreed to a meeting with Canadian
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Labellium, Labellia, Labellioooo
Because if you will not uphold Canada’s foundations, the entire house of cards will come tumbling down around us, eagle feathers, wheat sheaves, and all.
Continue readingImpolitical: Late night #IdleNoMore
Great moment at 1:45 mark where an eagle flying overhead an #Idlenomore rally in Vancouver is captured on film. Also, check out the 2:20 mark, but of course.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Cons and the Big Smear
Well it's not in the Book of Chaos, the 200-page handbook the Cons once put out to disrupt the opposition, and shut down committees.But it clearly comes from the same cesspool of depravity.From the same Con operatives who brought you Stephen Harper's catalogue of dirty tricks.And it's filthy instructions couldn't
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: For #IdleNoMore, support and prayer from Kobe, Japan (PHOTO)
From Kobe, Japan, an expression of support and solidarity for hunger striker Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence and the phenomenal #IdleNoMore grassroots movement for Aboriginal rights and sovereignty: This photo: Photo via Facebook And these words: Today , we gathered together to pray in Kobe Japan. We hope this prayer can reach to Chief Theresa
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Michael Harris discusses the impending moment of truth for the Cons in owning up to their substantive failures toward Canada’s First Nations: Whether it’s Canada’s natives or its health ministers, Stephen Harper’s preferred place for his opponents is under his thumb. He has
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Sounds of Resistance
Well say what you like about Stephen Harper. Call him the Crime Minister or the devil himself.But nobody can deny that he’s consistent eh?One moment he’s waging a war of wills with a starving woman who represents some of the poorest people in Canada.Or boasting about the eleven thousand government
Continue readingdrive-by planet: C-45 and the targeting of Indigenous peoples: Idle No More
Stephen Harper stayed on the sidelines as Idle No More swept Canada from coast-to-coast-to-coast. He has now agreed to meet with a delegation of First Nation chiefs, including Theresa Spence, the Attawapiskat chief who is on a fast. In speaking of the relationship with First Nations, Harper waxed eloquent: “The
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Harper government bills that enraged First Nations, Theresa Spence, and birthed #IdleNoMore
Yesterday, Idle No More, the grassroots movement for Aboriginal justice, flexed its muscle with peaceful blockages of bridges and border crossings across Canada. Dr. Pamela Palmater, an indigenous activist and chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, says #IdleNoMore is pushing back at the aggressive assimilation agenda of the right-wing Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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