Comments on: KIFN Members Given Six Months. http://intercontinentalcry.org/kifn-members-given-six-months/ For the Land, the People, and the Truth. Mon, 12 May 2008 01:03:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Christine Anne Smith http://intercontinentalcry.org/kifn-members-given-six-months/#comment-2303 Christine Anne Smith Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:37:08 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/kifn-members-given-six-months/#comment-2303 GREED BEFORE HONOUR  Shame on the bullies! I have a nice back yard. If someone came into it and tried to change it I would definitely protest with loud colourful language. Shame on the Ontario Government and other governments who allow Aboriginal communities to be bullied.  What kind of people made those decisions? Why is the extractive money making behavior of a company that only cares about profit favoured over peaceful use and exchange between the land and the people? Why are all of our other cultures protected and not the Aborignal ones? When will commitments to diversity, human rights, and democracy for all be truly honoured?  The Anishinabek and other Aboriginal Nations have resided in the area for more than 7000 years. The cultures are very ancient and rich. This is an important part of our collective culture as a Canadian nation. Why are we not protecting this? The wealth is not in a few heaps of metal clawed out of the sacred land. The wealth is in the People.  Premier McGinty made a promise to improve relationships with Aboriginal people in Ontario. Being of Irish decent, you think he would know better than to support an outside force in taking over a peoples’ land and will.  The trust of your people is worth more than a few fists of cash. If you make a promise you should keep it!  GREED BEFORE HONOUR  Shame on the bullies! I have a nice back yard. If someone came into it and tried to change it I would definitely protest with loud colourful language. Shame on the Ontario Government and other governments who allow Aboriginal communities to be bullied.  What kind of people made those decisions? Why is the extractive money making behavior of a company that only cares about profit favoured over peaceful use and exchange between the land and the people? Why are all of our other cultures protected and not the Aborignal ones? When will commitments to diversity, human rights, and democracy for all be truly honoured?  The Anishinabek and other Aboriginal Nations have resided in the area for more than 7000 years. The cultures are very ancient and rich. This is an important part of our collective culture as a Canadian nation. Why are we not protecting this? The wealth is not in a few heaps of metal clawed out of the sacred land. The wealth is in the People.  Premier McGinty made a promise to improve relationships with Aboriginal people in Ontario. Being of Irish decent, you think he would know better than to support an outside force in taking over a peoples’ land and will.  The trust of your people is worth more than a few fists of cash. If you make a promise you should keep it! 

]]> By: Alex Corey http://intercontinentalcry.org/kifn-members-given-six-months/#comment-2263 Alex Corey Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:26:20 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/kifn-members-given-six-months/#comment-2263 I am of European decent and live on in Maliseet territory.  If Canada ever expects to live up to its own rhetoric about respecting cultures, our government will have to acknowledge the material basis of racism; that the genocide of this continent will continue as long as the rights of aboriginal people to self-determination for their people and land are not respected.  The wishes of a mining corporation should not supersede the rights of the people indigenous to the land, yet Canadian domestic and foreign policy continues to promote the wishes of mining corporations.  To all First Nations defending your land, I am moved by your courage, conviction and persistence in the face of our oppressive government that seeks to force you into submission.  I feel powerless to help as my letters to government are ignored and we all go about our daily lives while you are being targeted and jailed.  I am deeply sorrowful that your rights are not respected.  I will continue to inform people in my area of how our government and corporations continue the theft of your land and attempting to force you to adopt European-capitalist culture as has been the pattern for over 500 years. I am of European decent and live on in Maliseet territory.  If Canada ever expects to live up to its own rhetoric about respecting cultures, our government will have to acknowledge the material basis of racism; that the genocide of this continent will continue as long as the rights of aboriginal people to self-determination for their people and land are not respected. 

The wishes of a mining corporation should not supersede the rights of the people indigenous to the land, yet Canadian domestic and foreign policy continues to promote the wishes of mining corporations.  To all First Nations defending your land, I am moved by your courage, conviction and persistence in the face of our oppressive government that seeks to force you into submission.  I feel powerless to help as my letters to government are ignored and we all go about our daily lives while you are being targeted and jailed.  I am deeply sorrowful that your rights are not respected.  I will continue to inform people in my area of how our government and corporations continue the theft of your land and attempting to force you to adopt European-capitalist culture as has been the pattern for over 500 years.

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