The following is a discussion that took place within the old forum of this website and on the friends of Grassy Narrows Mailinglist. It might get a little confusing, but it was a conversation worth holding onto.

May 4, Richard: Greetings all,

As my initial post to this forum, I am presenting something I recently posted on the Friends of Grassy Narrows e-mail list. Upon seeing it there, Ahniwanika invited me to join this group and suggested that I post the message here.

Friends,

The siege of the Sovereign Nation of the Six Nations by the military forces of the …

A New Spin on Fighting for Justice
Published by Alternet, 3/10/06
http://www.alternet.org/story/32861/
By Kelly Hearn

Nigeria, 1999: Government soldiers, riding in helicopters owned by Chevron Corp., fire on villages opposed to oil operations. Colombia, 1998: The Colombian Air Force, acting in the interest of U.S.-based Occidental Oil, drops a cluster bomb on the village of Santa Domingo. In Burma, government soldiers use rape, murder and torture to silence opposition to a gas pipeline project of California-based Unocal.

High petroleum prices and rising populist anger are ratcheting up human rights pressures along the world’s remote pipelines. And from Burmese villagers to Nigerian farmers, Colombian …

By Daniela Estrada - SANTIAGO, Feb 28 (IPS) - The first Mapuche political party will be founded this year, to seek autonomy and self-government for the largest group of indigenous people in Chile. But a rocky road lies ahead.

“We want to form a political party in order to win elections and govern in the Wallmapu (Mapuche country), so as to improve living conditions and lift up the dignity of our people,” Pedro Gustavo Quilaqueo, “wiritufe” (political secretary) of the incipient “Wallmapuwen” (party), told IPS.

Wallmapuwen, which means “fellow citizens of the Mapuche country,” is aiming to become legally established in the …

The following text is a section from the book Getting Free, by James Herod. Titled “Strategies that have failed,” this particular text provides several critical insights into the ways conventional strategies have prevented us from achieving our long-term goal of ending capitalism (you could just as well say Colonialism.)

More and more people are calling ‘conventional actions’ into question today, and this text is an excellent and straightforward examination into the reason why.

to contact the author, jamesherod @gmail.com

From the Introduction of Getting Free

In listing all the strategies that have failed it isn’t my intention to denigrate the revolutionary …

The following is an article about “shared responsibility agreement” (SRA) toolkits, a scheme that encourages Indigneous Communities in Australia to hire various individuals to act on their behalf. Following is a discussion from an Australian Mailing list about the article.

The Australian, by Patricia Karvelas — INDIGENOUS communities are being advised to use professional “brokers” and threaten going to the media when negotiating shared responsibility
agreements which require them to sign behavioural contracts in exchange for funds.

A new toolkit urges indigenous communities to be “more political” and limit the power of governments through threatening to make the negotiations public.

“For …

This ten part essay by Patrick Reinsborough explores a wide range of innovative social change strategies and ideas including post-issue activism, direct action at the point of assumption and the politics of reality.

DE-COLONIZING THE REVOLUTIONARY IMAGINATION
Values Crisis, the Politics of Reality and why there’s Going to be a Common Sense Revolution in this Generation

i. introduction: post-issue activism
Our planet is heading into an unprecedented global crisis. The blatancy of the corporate power grab and the accelerating ecological meltdown is evidence that we do not live in an era where we can afford the luxury of fighting the symptoms. As is often …