Macklemore talks about Colonisation, LandBack, Palestine, Indigenous struggles, and movement building and more. On LandBack For The People S2 Ep. 2 Can’t wait to see/hear any collaborations with indigenous rappers/Hiphop artists.
Rosebud Sioux Tribe announced it has joined three other Lakota tribes in banning South Dakota Republican Trump supporting Governor Kristi Noem. The tribal council said it decided to ban Noem in solidarity with the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Fourth tribe bans Gov. Kristi Noem
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was banned by a fourth tribal nation on April 11
We Want to be Free: An Interview with Klee Benally
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Blackfire Live 2007
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An end to plunder and pillage: how a First Nations nature reserve became a model for the world
Thirty years ago, when the people of Haida Gwaii blockaded logging roads in British Columbia, few foresaw the result – the remarkable Gwaii Haanas agreement that has reshaped how to manage contested areas
Murray, Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk, who is Canada’s independent special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites, told ICT that she and her staff face an onslaught of hate from extremists who deny that First Nations and other Indigenous children were forced into residential schools to strip them of their culture, family and beliefs, and that many of them died there.
Orange Shirt Day: Canada faces rise in residential school denialism
Hate speech and confrontations are growing over the truth about missing children, graves and genocide
A Inuit MP has refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament in Copenhagen and instead spoke in her native Inuit language, frustrating uncomprehending lawmakers and highlighting strained relations between Denmark and Greenland.
Greenlandic MP refuses to speak Danish in parliament debate
Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam gives seven-minute speech in native Inuit language and refuses to repeat in Danish
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August 15, 2022
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RCMP Pepper Spray Three Land Defenders in a Show of Excessive Force
Unceded Wet’suwet’en Yintah (Smithers – BC) – On Friday August 12 around 4pm, land defenders were followed and harassed by police while enroute to their private residence on Gidimt’en yintah. The police proceeded to use excessive force by arresting 2 land defenders and pepper spraying each arrestee and one other. One of the victims of this violent assault had already been placed in hand cuffs behind their back before being pepper sprayed. This police escalation happened outside the residence of one of the victims who is a young Indigenous Land Defender, and far from any Coastal GasLink worksite. This is a blatant example of the targeted harassment that the RCMP and the CIRG has inflicted on the Wet’suwet’en and their supporters.
On July 13, 2022, the Gidimt’en Checkpoint launched a civil suit against the RCMP, CIRG, the Minister of Justice for BC, Coastal Gaslink Pipeline and private security contractor Forsythe for hundreds of instances of trespass, harassment, and intimidation tactics. The Department of Justice is asking for more time to respond, but while they stall, the RCMP are now escalating their violence against unarmed land defenders.
“Pepper spray has been misused by CIRG against crowds of land defenders at places like Fairy Creek; there is no reason why it is needed against three unarmed people driving to a private residence. This is a big escalation in police intimidation tactics against Wet’suwet’en land and water protectors,” says Sleydo’.
“This police attack targeting Indigenous people who live on the Wet’suwet’en yintah comes as people are preparing for a big cultural gathering with elders and children on the territory in August, and is clearly meant to intimidate and prevent Indigenous people from conducting our ceremonies on the land. We remain part of the Wedzin Kwa, the sacred river, that we are protecting from colonial invaders. This won’t deter us from doing what is right, upholding our own laws that have been in place for thousands of years, protecting our land and standing up for future generations.”
The Coastal GasLink project violates Wet’suwet’en rights and title, and lacks consent of Wet’suwet’en Hereditary chiefs, who have been resisting the project for a decade.
