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Category: Resisting Colonialism

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Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Towards a Practice of Decolonization

North America’s state and corporate wealth is largely based on the subsidies provided by the theft of Indigenous lands and resources. Colonial conquest was designed to ensure forced displacement of Indigenous peoples from their territories, the destruction of autonomy and … Continue reading

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Globalization, Genocide and Resistance

Click here to listen to Ward Churchhill’s Opening Remarks and a Question and Answer period from an event in Toronto, Canada on January, 17, 2002. Ward Churchill is an enrolled Keetoowah/Cherokee, Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of … Continue reading

A 4-part series on Canada’s Relationship with Native North America

This series of the Long Term Memory Radio Project is for non-profit use only and is distributed through CKUT or available on the world wide web at www.radio4all.net. Read through the summary for the different episodes below and click here … Continue reading

CKUT Radio: Indigenous Resistance at Kanehsatake

Click here to listen to a one hour documentary produced at CKUT Radio in Montreal, which explores the ongoing indigenous struggle on the Mohawk territory of Kanehsatake. In recent months the indigenous community of Kanehsatake, located just outside of Montreal, … Continue reading

When Race Burns Class: “Settlers” Revisited

EC: In the early eighties you wrote Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat, a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking … Continue reading

We Can Do This: Direct Action against Global Capitalism and US Imperialism: An interview with Ingrid Chapman

Ingrid Chapman has been involved in direct action organizing for the past 4 years. At 23, she has helped pull off successful mass actions, worked with thousands of activists around the country and bases her work in the question, “How … Continue reading

Stateless and Deported: An Interview with the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees

For over a year, the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees has been working in Montreal to stop deportations against these members of an already stateless and oppressed community.  The coalition’s political campaign and case work has afforded some … Continue reading

Towards Social Justice: Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Martinez and the Institute for MultiRacial Justice

“Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Martinez is a national and international treasure. Her life and work provide a model of internationalism and solidarity, as well as local organizing. ‘Think globally, act locally’ was her practice long before the slogan was created. From work … Continue reading

the healing journey as a site of resistance

“Addressing our individual and collective suffering, we will find ways to heal and recover that can be sustained, that can endure from generation to generation” (hooks, 1995, 145). I am real. I am a woman who, as a child, was … Continue reading

Playing With Children’s Lives A Tried and Tested Tactic for Australian Government

“I regard this as one of the most disturbing practices I’ve come across”, Australia’s Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, Philip Ruddock told media at the time. He was referring to an incident last 7 October which never … Continue reading

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