BC’s controversial referendum on First Nations treaty negotiations arrived in mailboxes over the past few weeks. Citizens are being asked to register their opinions, but key groups have launched an “active boycott”
When Leonard James left a therapy session for First Nations residential school survivors in Duncan, he never expected he’d be walking all the way to Victoria to oppose the BC Liberals’ treaty referendum
Renowned Indigenous poet Chrystos reads to a packed audience at the University of Victoria
In civil wars around the world, rape is a tool of war as terrifying as any gun or landmine. What kind of civil war do we live in?
In December, the Martlet went behind the scenes to find out how strong high school activism is in Victoria and whether it is here to stay
Last Friday was Buy Nothing Day, a day to take a break from shopping at to reflect on consumer culture. But Buy Nothing Day goes deeper than that
Students at the University of Victoria are defending a UBC professor’s right to make anti-U.S. statements in the wake of the September 11 attacks, even if they do not agree with her.
Delegates to the Organic World Congress from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka visited three organic farms on Salt Spring, and came away resolved to form a united political front against genetic engineering and corporate agri-business
QUEBEC CITY – Tens of thousands of activists converged for the Summit of the Americas, the largest protest Canada has seen in decades
November 1999—Our small, five-person “affinity group,” the basic unit of social activism, was only one insignificant unit of a crowd of at least 40,000 anti-World Trade Organization marchers.
David P Ball 