Inside Tent City 3: A Reflection on Temporary Housing Arrangements

Inside Tent City 3: A Reflection on Temporary Housing Arrangements
By Marc Weinberg, Northwest Hub
Published: August 28, 2009
Editor’s Note: Tent cities continue to be a hot topic in the Puget Sound Region. In the past month, Northwest Hub covered the Washington Supreme Court case that determined it’s a violation of a church’s religious freedom not to [...]

Are Manitoba First Nations Wasting Tax Dollars?

by Chris Johnson
So I’m watching the news, and I see this story about a house fire on a
reserve in Manitoba that killed a young boy.
Is there an overcrowding issue, the CBC asks? Many seems to think so.
And now for the Federal government’s response, courtesy Vic Toews,
Manitoba’s senior cabinet minister in Ottawa. The dishonorable Mr. Toews
suggests [...]

Russell Means on Freedom and the Republic of Lakotah

When the Law Can’t Hassle the Homeless, The NIMBY Vigilantes jump in

Police won’t lobby council to ease homeless cleanups
DENNIS HUSPENI, THE COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE
Colorado Springs police will not lobby City Council members to pass an ordinance making it illegal to store private belongings on public land, a commander said Tuesday.
The ordinance would have made it easier for police to confiscate property from homeless people who [...]

Relatives Say Leonard Peltier Beaten Following Prison Transfer

-DemocracyNow
The Native American activist Leonard Peltier has reportedly been severely beaten shortly after his transfer to a new prison. According to Peltier’s defense committee, Peltier was attacked by other prisoners after he was put into general population.
Peltier’s sister, Betty Peltier-Solano, says she believes the attack could have been encouraged by prison officials seeking to discredit [...]

Activists train to protest oilsands growth

-Edmonton Journal
Twenty aspiring activists received a lesson on how to create a human blockade by intertwining arms and legs as part of a weekend oilsands protest training conference here.
The class was one of many seminars offered as part of the conference hosted by such organizations as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club Canada and the Council of [...]

Sea Shepherd Sets Out To Stop Whale Hunt

By Zara Nicholson
A Sea Shepherd ship is on its way to intercept a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s Steve Irwin, with a crew of 40, has left Brisbane, Australia, for the Ross Sea, off Antarctica.
The ship’s quartermaster is Amber Paarman, 24, of Cape Town.
Paarman joined the ship in March [...]

America Keeps it’s Poor in Cages?

This video, posted almost two years ago, tells the story of a tent city in St.Paul Minn. Officials, worried about what our leaders and security forces in Victoria call ‘Public Disorder’ are moving people into an ‘enclosed area’, where they can be properly controlled,

11 Year Old Boy’s Dying Wish: Help The Homeless

-from Janine Bandcroft, Street Newz
Tim Harris, founder of Seattle’s street newspaper ‘Real Change’ wrote in his blog about Brenden Foster, the boy whose dying wish was to help the people at Nickelsville (Seattle’s tent city). When Brenden died of leukemia, over a thousand people visited Tim’s blog. Here’s an [...]

Overfishing pushing salmon stocks near collapse, study warns

VANCOUVER — Salmon stocks in British Columbia are on the brink of collapse largely because the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans has consistently allowed too many fish to be killed in commercial and recreational fisheries, according to a new research paper.
The high exploitation of stocks – which draws parallels with the destruction of Atlantic [...]