October, 2006

• Now united, bands say blockades are not out of the question

  

  October 31, 2006  1,079 views 0 Comments Share

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  Natives: Now united, bands say blockades are not out of the question Ian Bailey, The Province Published: Sunday, October 29, 2006 B.C. risks native protests, uncertainty and a black mark on its reputation before the 2010 Olympics -- all due to flaws in the present treaty process, natives are warning. Chiefs, elders and representatives of [...]

  Filed Under BC treaties • blockades • Canada • Lheidli Tenneh • movements • neoliberalism

• BC, Canada wants to buy a ‘tiny northern B.C. Indian nation’

  

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  B.C. gov't, natives ink treaty worth more than $76 million Miro Cernetig mcernetig@png.canwest.com CanWest News Service; Vancouver Sun Monday, October 30, 2006 VANCOUVER -- A historic treaty worth in excess of $76 million is being proposed with a tiny northern B.C. Indian nation, awarding the 320 Carrier Indians a share of the province's salmon fishery, [...]

  Filed Under band councils • business • Canada • fee simple • Lheidli Tenneh

• Oaxaca Solidarity: EZLN Announcement; CIPO-RFM Statement.

  

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  A Call from the Zapatistas: Oaxaca Is Not Alone Shut-Down of Roads, Highways and the Media on November 1; General Strike Called for November 20 By the Sixth Commission of the EZLN, The Other Mexico October 30, 2006 Message from the CLANDESTINE REVOLUTIONARY INDIGENOUS COMMITTEE-GENERAL COMMAND of the ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION MEXICO. October [...]

  Filed Under APPO • CIPO-RFM • Indigenous Peoples • Mexico • Oaxaca • Zapatista

• The Haitian Arawak Movement

  

  October 29, 2006  3,780 views 1 comment Share

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  The Haitian Arawak Movement is anything but new. On the contrary, it is quite old; more than 500 years old. It started on December 5, 1492, when one of the world's most wicked and evil man, Christopher Columbus, and his savage companions (the Spaniards) set foot on our shores, the beautiful island of Quisqueya/Haiti. Our [...]

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• Neo-colonialism ratified at Pacific Islands Forum

  

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  Today Pacific Island nations at the Pacific Island Forums have welcomed and endorsed the Pacific Plan, a blueprint for neo-colonialism in the south Pacific. The Governments of Australia, the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, [...]

  Filed Under colonialism • neoliberalism • WTO

• An Alternative to Jihad and Occupation in Iraq?

  

  October 26, 2006  1,173 views 0 Comments Share

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  August 30, 2006 Not sure who to support in the Middle East? As usual, solidarity is complicated - especially when distance, language and cultural barriers and the fog of war conspire against getting a good, clear look at what is really going on. Despite our desire to have US imperialism confronted and defeated, the Jihadist [...]

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• EZLN: A Meeting with the Tohono, O’odham, Navajo and Cherokee

  

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  By Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos The Other Mexico October 26, 2006 Bueno, Compañeras and Compañeros: First we just want to thank the Monroy family, who is receiving the Sixth Commission and the Karavana’s compañeros, who are giving us lodging here, in… Rancho el Peñasco is it called? Thank you Compañeros and Compañeras. And thank you to [...]

  Filed Under Cherokee • Indigenous Peoples • Navajo • Oodham • sovereignty • Zapatista