Comments on: Oil Company Sending Workers to Uncontacted Tribes’ Territory http://intercontinentalcry.org/oil-company-sending-workers-to-uncontacted-tribes-territory/ For the People, the Land and the Truth Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:17:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Billy Jack Douthwrighthttp://intercontinentalcry.org/oil-company-sending-workers-to-uncontacted-tribes-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-4759 Billy Jack Douthwright Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:34:16 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/?p=3460#comment-4759 It must be obviously true about Stephen Harper as well as the cadre of interested parties whom he is supported to be representing, though actually what is also even more seriously great in the turn of events caused by those interests is this complete U-turn having taken place among women's solidarity movements right here. The women, their fundamental rights and responsibilities to maintain society, the indigenous women's claim of title to the lands-territories, is suddenly politically more powerful as the legal framework realities set in, in large part has been achieved through the urgency of a necessary backlash against Harper led ideology-policy, so this is in the end great/was due/is a new day! Not to be sounding a tone of optimism that overlooks the critical realities & challenges though... I've since learned a most startling statistic which is that a recent study has found that pregnant Inuit women report smoking marihuana at a rate of 60(something-can't remember exactly)%, and above 50% consume alcohol, both statistics during pregnancy... wide use of marijuana in the high arctic? and alcohol? Who is responsible for it even being there?... I think that Canadian/colonial policy actions and/or inactions should aptly have a word definition change applied from a word like 'statistic' being more appropriately represented by 'sadistic'. It must be obviously true about Stephen Harper as well as the cadre of interested parties whom he is supported to be representing, though actually what is also even more seriously great in the turn of events caused by those interests is this complete U-turn having taken place among women’s solidarity movements right here. The women, their fundamental rights and responsibilities to maintain society, the indigenous women’s claim of title to the lands-territories, is suddenly politically more powerful as the legal framework realities set in, in large part has been achieved through the urgency of a necessary backlash against Harper led ideology-policy, so this is in the end great/was due/is a new day!
Not to be sounding a tone of optimism that overlooks the critical realities & challenges though… I’ve since learned a most startling statistic which is that a recent study has found that pregnant Inuit women report smoking marihuana at a rate of 60(something-can’t remember exactly)%, and above 50% consume alcohol, both statistics during pregnancy… wide use of marijuana in the high arctic? and alcohol? Who is responsible for it even being there?… I think that Canadian/colonial policy actions and/or inactions should aptly have a word definition change applied from a word like ’statistic’ being more appropriately represented by ’sadistic’.

]]> By: Ahnihttp://intercontinentalcry.org/oil-company-sending-workers-to-uncontacted-tribes-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-4739 Ahni Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:32:24 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/?p=3460#comment-4739 BTW, thank you for taking the time to make all these comments, Billy Jack. You're giving me alot to think about. BTW, thank you for taking the time to make all these comments, Billy Jack. You’re giving me alot to think about.

]]> By: Ahnihttp://intercontinentalcry.org/oil-company-sending-workers-to-uncontacted-tribes-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-4738 Ahni Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:14:27 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/?p=3460#comment-4738 I haven't heard about the complaint, myself, but I'm definitely aware of the health situation in Canada. I've written about it a few times, eg http://intercontinentalcry.org/public-health-report-quietly-released-in-canada/ though, I admit, I should be writing about it alot more. I just get so drawn in to these struggles.As for Harper, he's a hypocrite and a racist, pure and simple. He's done everything in his power to undercut women's rights in Canada: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/02/08/HarperWomensRights/index.html not to mention the environment. And indigenous rights (in Canada and globally) and the rights of disabled people. He's even forced the shut down of a human rights group in Canada that was doing good work around the world. And to top it off, they were Christian! http://www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/2010/02/harper-government-behind-cuts-christian-organization-kairosThe list could go on and on with this guy. He's straight out of the 1860s. I haven’t heard about the complaint, myself, but I’m definitely aware of the health situation in Canada. I’ve written about it a few times, eg http://intercontinentalcry.org/public-health-report-quietly-released-in-canada/ though, I admit, I should be writing about it alot more. I just get so drawn in to these struggles.

As for Harper, he’s a hypocrite and a racist, pure and simple. He’s done everything in his power to undercut women’s rights in Canada: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/02/08/HarperWomensRights/index.html not to mention the environment. And indigenous rights (in Canada and globally) and the rights of disabled people. He’s even forced the shut down of a human rights group in Canada that was doing good work around the world. And to top it off, they were Christian! http://www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/2010/02/harper-government-behind-cuts-christian-organization-kairos

The list could go on and on with this guy. He’s straight out of the 1860s.

]]> By: BJ Douthwrighthttp://intercontinentalcry.org/oil-company-sending-workers-to-uncontacted-tribes-territory/comment-page-1/#comment-4735 BJ Douthwright Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:13:54 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/?p=3460#comment-4735 I started to jot my personal comment & then got distracted by several of the other posts here on Intercontinental Cry, and coming back to this story, the situation being another self-evident circumstance of indigenous rights being violated with threatened genocide already reported as likely to occur... just wondering about something perhaps unrelated, which is that so many of the posts on IC are about indigenous lands, displacement in the face of the environmental degradation and mining interests of "transnational corporations"~~~ I believe it is good & great to have this focus & yet just want to add in a mention about the serious issue of indigenous health care standards in "North America". Are readers aware of the way a current Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has been handling a complaint against Canada's Federal Government Agency 'Indian and Northern Affairs' INAC, concerning INAC's chronic underfunding of health care provided to aboriginals? Similarly the topic of Stephen Harper having made an announcement in Davos that Canada wants to provide generous funding to third world women's poverty issues while it under funds these same provisions within its own claimed territories, which amounts to racial discrimination to boot... I started to jot my personal comment & then got distracted by several of the other posts here on Intercontinental Cry, and coming back to this story, the situation being another self-evident circumstance of indigenous rights being violated with threatened genocide already reported as likely to occur… just wondering about something perhaps unrelated, which is that so many of the posts on IC are about indigenous lands, displacement in the face of the environmental degradation and mining interests of “transnational corporations”~~~ I believe it is good & great to have this focus & yet just want to add in a mention about the serious issue of indigenous health care standards in “North America”. Are readers aware of the way a current Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has been handling a complaint against Canada’s Federal Government Agency ‘Indian and Northern Affairs’ INAC, concerning INAC’s chronic underfunding of health care provided to aboriginals? Similarly the topic of Stephen Harper having made an announcement in Davos that Canada wants to provide generous funding to third world women’s poverty issues while it under funds these same provisions within its own claimed territories, which amounts to racial discrimination to boot…

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