First Nations quit tar sands monitoring program

Posted on May 3, 2014 by admin

The only local First Nation still participating has quit, charging that the program has ignored their perspectives and concerns ... [click title to continue]

Six Nations council gives Enbridge an earful

Posted on April 9, 2014 by admin

"I don't really want to get into the phrases of your PR. There are these spills in our territory. I want to hear what you're doing about that." ... [click title to continue]

Ambassadors of the First Nations tar sands resistance

Posted on March 9, 2014 by admin

In 1885, Louis Riel wrote, "My people will sleep for one hundred years" and then wake up. In Canada's tar sands, that renaissance has begun. ... [click title to continue]

Defenders of the Land: An Indigenous program for self-determination

Posted on March 3, 2014 by admin

We are sovereign nations. We have the inherent right to self-determination. We will determine our own destinies in accordance with our own customs, laws, and traditions – not in a way dictated to us by Canadian and provincial governments. ... [click title to continue]

Keystone XL Pipeline Will Not Cross Lakota Lands!

Posted on February 9, 2014 by admin

"In recognition of our responsibilities to protect Mother Earth, Native peoples will not allow this pipeline to come across our treaty areas." ... [click title to continue]

Clearing the Plains: Canada’s politics of starvation

Posted on February 6, 2014 by admin

Highly-recommended reading on Canadian genocide. "The narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest." ... [click title to continue]

After Rio: Building a genuine Quebec, Canada and First Nations alliance

Posted on July 7, 2012 by admin

The great popular march in Rio was celebrating at the same time as an unprecedented meeting at which notably the policies of extractivist expansion of the governments of Quebec and especially of Canada were decried. ... [click title to continue]

Victoria rises up against the tar sands, pipelines, tankers, capitalism and colonialism

Posted on April 17, 2012 by admin

By Joan.Russow Peace, Earth, Justice NewsApril 15, 2012 Hundreds attended the rally against pipelines and tankers. Victoria, April 15, 2012. Photo: Sandra Cuffe Over 2000 people rallied at the Legislature and then walked to Centennial Square where there were panels and workshops. It was clear that this event is a beginning and foreshadowing of the solidarity resistance to come. There were passionate ... [click title to continue]

BP operations in Tar Sands ‘could soon be illegal’, First Nations tell Shareholder Meeting

Posted on April 12, 2012 by admin

Indigenous Environmental NetworkApril 12, 2012Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) teams up with UK Tar Sands Network and Gulf Coast representatives to send clear message to BP shareholders that tar sands is a risky investment.The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) has been campaigning for the last two years against BP’s entry into the Canadian Tar Sands. Clayton Thomas-Muller from IEN has ... [click title to continue]

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