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Community groups and First Nations demand the shutdown of Enbridge's Line 92015-12-09
More than 80 organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted indigenous communities, as well as national organizations have released a statement letter to the Prime Minister condemning the rece...
Grassy Narrows' fight for rights and against clearcut logging continues despite legal setback at Supreme Court2014-07-11
Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek
The leadership and members of Grassy Narrows are disappointed by today’s Supreme Court of Canada decision refusing to recognize the special role that the federal government has in protecting our Tre...
Neskantaga First Nation Battles American Mining Goliath Cliffs in Toronto Mining Court2012-07-06
The Neskantaga First Nation is taking their fight for proper First Nation consultation in the Ring of Fire to the Toronto Mining Court.
Supreme Court to hear Grassy Narrows' legal case for Treaty rights and against clearcut logging2014-05-14
Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek
On May 15 the Supreme Court of Canada will hear Grassy Narrows' legal case for Treaty rights and against clearcut logging. The case challenges Ontario's jurisdiction to unilaterally award logging and ...
A United Lubicon Lake Nation Faces Continuing Threat of Canadian Unlawful Intervention2012-07-26
Lubicon Lake Nation
The Lubicon Lake Nation have fought multi-national corporations, environmental devastation and attempts to divide and conquer them, walking away as victors and as international champions of Indigenous...
A United Lubicon Lake Nation Faces Continuing Threat of Canadian Unlawful Intervention2012-07-26
Lubicon Lake Nation
On Wednesday, July 26th the Nation was blindsided by the Government of Canada which met with a few people outside of Lubicon territory in what they declared was a meeting to discuss Lubicon issues.
Sources Select Resources
The Blossoming of Idle No MoreJohnson, Ragina; Ward, Brian
Article
2014
The Bullet
The First Nations-led movement Idle No More emerged in Canada in December 2012 to protest legislation that threatened both the rights of First Nations and environmental protections. The movement has s...
Community groups and First Nations demand the shutdown of Enbridge's Line 9Sources News Release
Article
2015
More than 80 organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted indigenous communities, as well as national organizations have released a statement letter to the Prime Minister condemning the rece...
Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American LaborBrecher, Jeremy
Article
2016
CounterPunch
As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipel...
Disputed TerritoryThe green economy versus community-based economies
Overbeek, Winnie; Pazos, Flavio
Film/Video
2012
World Rainforest Movement
A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil, looking at what happens when so-called "green economy" projects move into the area, clearning the forest, and taking over the land.
The fight again tar sands is about more than the environmentDeranger, Eriel
Article
2015
Red Pepper
Indigenous rights defender Eriel Deranger explains how the struggle against tar sands mining is about protecting her people's rights and culture.
Guatemala 1962 to 1980sBlum, William
Article
1995
Common Courage Press
An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner NowThe Denial of My Parole
Peltier, Leonard
Article
2009
CounterPunch
Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
Indigenous Communities in Guatemala Fight Against the Privatization of Sacred Sites Abbott, Jeff
Article
2016
Upsidedownworld
In recent years, the popular tourist attraction of Semuc Champey in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz has become a point of social conflict for the indigenous Q'eqchi' Mayan communities surrou...
Indigenous Intellectual PropertySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The Leap ManifestoA Call for a Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another
Article
2015
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory. so we need to Leap.
Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project
Article
2015
A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to ...
Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining dealCanadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
Helmore, Edward
Article
2012
The Guardian
In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
The Power of Idle No MoreA Resurgent Radicalism
Dobbin, Murray
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The remarkable Idle No More movement is the biggest and most important national outpouring of grass roots aboriginal anger ever seen in Canada.
Secwepemc Tribes Fight New Mines and Old Laws in British ColumbiaSmallteacher, Richard
Article
2014
Corpwatch
Indigenous activists burned down a bridge in British Columbia, Canada, to prevent Imperial Metals from starting a lead and zinc mine on the lands of the Secwepemc peoples. Local tribes say that the mi...
Supreme Court to hear Grassy Narrows' legal case for Treaty rights and against clearcut loggingSources News Release
Article
2014
Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek
On May 15 the Supreme Court of Canada will hear Grassy Narrows' legal case for Treaty rights and against clearcut logging. The case challenges Ontario's jurisdiction to unilaterally award logging and ...
Canadian DimensionAn independent magazine of the Canadian Left, of interest to radical Left and anti-capitalist activists and interested observers.
Government Ministries & Agencies
Canadian Human Rights CommissionAdministers the Canadian Human Rights Act and is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Employment Equity Act. Both laws ensure that the principles of equal opportunity and non-discrimination ar...
Canadian Race Relations FoundationCommitted to the elimination of racism and racial discrimination, the CRRF sheds light on the manifestations of racism; provides independent outspoken leadership, and acts as a resource and facilitato...
Indian and Northern AffairsThe Department has statutory responsibilities in relation to Canada's status Indians and Inuit, as well as statutory responsibilities concerning the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories and Nuna...
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