Nov 9-15, 2020By Bruce McIvor and Cody O'NeilThis week's edition includes land defence, colonial surveillance, racist policing, housing rights, water rights, Treaty rights and more. IN THE NEWS
Colonial surveillance of Indigenous land defenders was front and centre Racist policing was back in the spotlight COVID-19 topped headlines in Nunavut and Manitoba Housing and land protection were hot topics in the Yukon and Northwest Territories The decades-long water crisis continues at Neskantaga First Nation Land defence is ongoing at 1492 Land Back Lane A healing foundation is under way for Sixties Scoop survivors In case you missed it, check out our latest blog post on Treaty rights implementation in Mi’kma’ki and across the country by Kate Gunn QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Being under police and security surveillance has caused harm to my family relationships, and I and others have paid a high price to support frontline Indigenous nations and fight for Indigenous rights and climate justice. The RCMP’s surveillance must be exposed, but we are still waiting to receive the report into their spying activities. This is a slap in the face of Canadian democracy and the legal nation-to-nation relationship between us as Indigenous peoples and Canada.” - Clayton Thomas-Müller, Indigenous rights advocate OFF THE BOOKSHELF
“To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world--and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.” - Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982) |