walk4justice update July 10-from Rose H

Subject: walk4justice update July 10-from Rose H
I would like to take this time to thank you for your on going support of
the walk4justice 2008 event. I have officially left the group as of July
2, 2008 but would like express the best of the luck and wish to all the
remaining walkers. May the creator bless [...]

Two marchers injured in vehicle collision at Walk4Justice

Pair leave hospital after learning they’d have long wait to see a doctor
Clara Ho, The Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - The Walk4Justice to commemorate murdered or missing women in Alberta was sidelined Thursday evening when the car leading the march was T-boned by a truck pulling a trailer, injuring two people.
About 17 marchers were heading to Edmonton [...]

Canada Itself Exists As An Occupation of First Nations’ Territory

-from Upping The Anti
Introductory remarks for Indigenous Struggles Solidarity Day, June 28 in Sudbury
By Clarissa Lassaline
Good morning. Bonjour. Anni. Welcome everyone.
Today’s activities have been initiated by a local group called Sudbury Against War and Occupation (SAWO). We are a mixed group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous folks concerned with all forms and consequences of war and [...]

SHAWN BRANT RELEASED FROM CUSTODY

After 62 days in jail, Shawn Brant has finally been released from
custody! Shawn was being held on trumped up charges alleging he had
assaulted a white local businessman during recent road blockades aimed
at stopping a development planned on stolen Mohawk land. The blockades
succeeded inconvincing the developer to back off.

Picket action in Vancouver for John Graham, indigenous prisoner of war

Coast Salish Territory, Vancouver, Canada
On June 26, 2008, the one year anniversary of indigenous warrior John Graham’s imprisonment in Vancouver and the 33 year anniversary of the Incident at Oglala, about 20 people, Native and non-Native, picketed and gave out leaflets in solidarity outside of the Ocean Plaza office tower in downtown Vancouver where, at [...]

Walkers seek justice for missing women

Lori Culbert, Vancouver sun
Gladys Radek will be thinking of her niece Tamara Chipman, who vanished along the Highway of Tears, when she leaves Vancouver today to walk to Ottawa to demand justice for missing and murdered women.
She and other walkers planned to gather with supporters this morning at Trout Lake for a send-off breakfast before [...]

St’at’imc Native Youth Movement International Statement: No 2010 Olympics on Native Land!

-from mostlywater.org
(Post Far and Wide)
Statimc Native Youth Movement Warrior Society
St’at’imc Nation, Tsalalh Territory
Re: 2010 Olympics
To Whom It May Concern[:]
Please accept this letter as a declaration of opposition to the upcoming [Vancouver/Whistler] 2010 [Winter] Olympics set to take place within traditional St’at’imc Borders. Many members of our Nation, including children, youth, elders and land users do [...]

National native leader supports calls for ‘Lost Boys’ inquiry

(I met Sam McGillivray on the lawn of the Manitoba legislature this week.
I was walking by and saw his tent, and my first thought was ‘holy shit, it’s the cross-canada tent city campaign come to life!’ I went up to meet him, and it turns out Sam is spreading the word on the horrible treatment [...]

Walkers get the boot from city streets

(Yesterday was obviously police oppression day in the CRD. First I read news of Saanich Police using helicopters to look for homeless people, now I read about the Victoria Police disrupting the beginning of an important and sacred journey for my friend Rose and the other First Nations women involved in the Walk For Justice. [...]

What does the Mohawk cultural resurgence at Tyendinaga have to teach us about Aboriginal youth suicide prevention?

By Jonah Gindin
Briarpatch Magazine
June/July 2008
When it’s truly alive, memory doesn’t contemplate history, it invites us to make it. -Eduardo Galeano.
On June 29, 2007, Mohawks from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory near Belleville, Ontario, erected blockades on the Canadian National rail line, local Highway 2, and Highway 401-the busiest thoroughfare in the country. This marked the second time [...]