Settler forgetting in Saulnierville: the Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaw fishery as reminder
By Mercedes Peters One of the first things you’re taught when you’re training to be a historian in Canada is that Canadians have a memory problem. It can be a…
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Solidarity Action Day with 1492 Landback Lane and All Indigenous-Led Land Defending Demonstrations Across Turtle Island
Official Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1049347945523775/ SOLIDARITY ACTION DAY WITH 1492 LANDBACK LANE AND ALL INDIGENOUS-LED LAND DEFENDING DEMONSTRATIONS ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND Where ? Wolf Park (St-Urbain x Maisonneuve) When ? October…
Joyce Echaquan’s treatment wasn’t an isolated incident
Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman died at Joliette hospital after she posted a video of slurs said by staff right before her death. This Op-Ed appeared in the Montreal…
Orisanmi Burton on the Revolutionaries Organizing Inside Attica Before the Rebellion
From the “Prison Activism and the Organizing Tradition” panel at the Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration Conference, Dec 5th, 2019. The panel also featured Dan Berger, Steven “Stevie” Wilson, Zoharah…
How Oregon’s GOP governor teamed up with hippies to throw a festival and prevent clashes in the streets
Drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll and Republican politics converged in an Oregon forest in the summer of 1970 to pull off an unlikely scheme. It was a tense time in…