Athabasca Chipewyan Launch Treaty 8 Challenge to Shell Canada Over Oil Sands
A First Nation whose land sits in the heart of the Alberta oil sands has ramped up its legal battle against the oil sands industrial development.
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New NWAC president brings survival experience to the table
Michele Audette’s journey in the Indigenous women’s movement began right from her birth, she insists, when her mother married a non-Native man and immediately lost her status under now-repealed sections of Canada’s Indian Act.
Keep Drug Law Conversation Alive, Say Advocates
While BC municipalities back marijuana decriminalization, others argue it should go further.
Occupy Wall Street’s Rebel Spirit: Where Next?
One year after the movement sparked, The Tyee talks to two members still fired up.
‘Power of Youth’ Unleashed
Rebel page Brigette DePape co-edits myth-busting book. Who says today’s young generation is apathetic?
Photo: Casseroles protest arrests
Vancouver police arrested seven more Casseroles solidarity protesters on June 27, with reports of sexual harassment and beatings that sent one to hospital.
CAJ AWARD 2012 FINALIST: Oil sands activism ‘in the blood’
Her parents met around Wounded Knee and later fought a mining company. Today, Eriel Deranger has returned to Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation to take on the world’s largest industrial project.
Activists protest inclusion of Israeli-backed films in Queer Film Festival
Festival says action highlights power of film to ‘inspire discussion and dialogue.’
Nations sign Save the Fraser Declaration
A 130-nation-strong declaration of Indigenous law–pledging a united front in the escalating fight against oil sands pipelines–grew two Indigenous communities stronger on July 7.
Vancouver ‘Casseroles’ arrests rise to 12 as police brutality alleged last night
Vancouver police arrested seven more Quebec solidarity protesters last night, with reports of sexual harassment and beatings that sent one to hospital.
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