MNN. July 20, 2008. Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino’s fascistic actions against Indigenous people are not new. His illegal dirty tricks to trap Mohawks and Shawn Brant in particular have been developed and practiced in cop training school. He’s following an old pattern. Really old. Cops are basically well-paid thugs. We’ve seen some of the police training videos. Police are trained to instigate violence.

Way back in the Winnipeg Workers Strike in 1917 the police were found to be responsible for the violence. In relations with the Ongwehonwe, it is once again armed state forces, police or military that have caused violence and deaths time and time again. Remember the Mohawk Oka Crisis in Kanehsatake in 1990, Gustafsen Lake in B.C. in 1995, the killing of Dudley George at Ipperwash, and all of the recent confrontations at Six Nations and Tyendinaga! The violence on all occasions was started by the cops and their instigators.

MNN. July 16, 2008. Canada ’s military build-up is meant to try to attack “people of color” world wide, steal our resources and eliminate our population. There is a big recruitment campaign for Indigenous youth going on. They want 20% of the armed forces to be native. That way it will look like we approve of what they are doing. No money to heal. No money to educate. No money to pay the debt to Indigenous people. But money to kill!

The U.S. inspired "Canada First Defence Strategy" (CFDS) is basically written from a capitalistic economic viewpoint. No thought has been given to sustainable development. Canadians don’t support the military buildup. The "Strategy" is an aggressive profit-driven scheme designed to benefit career soldiers and industry.

May 1 has a special significance for the labour and anarchist movements. In almost every country of the world, except for Canada and the U.S., it is observed as International Workers' Day. Ironically, the observance of May 1 has its origins in the struggle for the eight-hour day in Canada and the US.

On May 1, 1886 there was a general strike in support of workers' demand for an eight-hour day. Most factory workers of the day were immigrants who faced discrimination both on and off the job. It was normal for them to work fourteen-hour days seven days a week. The strike was organized by the major radical labor organization of the time, an anarchist group called the International Working Peoples Association. Prominent organizers with this group were Albert Parsons, Lucy Parsons, and August Spies.

Recently the Conservative government introduced a series of amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), buried in Bill c-50, a 136-page “budget implementation bill”. This fundamentally undemocratic move sneaks in critical changes to Canada’s immigration policy without proposing any of those changes before Parliament. By making it a matter of confidence, the government forces Opposition parties to either accept them or call an election.

To All People Who Support Traditional Indigenous Peoples & Customary Governments: This is a Call for Support and an Update on Our Situation

We are known as the Algonquins of Barriere Lake (also known by our Algonquin name, “Mitchikanibikok Inik”) we are a First Nation community of approximately 500 people, situated in the province of Quebec, 3 hours drive north of Ottawa, Canada.
We, the Barriere Lake traditional people have always lived under our customary laws, which we have codified as our Mitchikanibikok Anishinabe Onakinakewin.(Barriere Lake Customary Governance Code). This is what our great grandparents left for us, for our children, grandchildren and the
coming generations. Our responsibility is to make sure that our customary laws will always be respected and protected.

There have been recent actions taking place in Montreal, Québec that leave us with more than just as hint of excitement.

Perhaps we are seeing the beginning of something new, a breath of passionate expression that has the potential to rip apart society as we know it.

Let's not jump the gun. Let's take it into our hands and experiment with the inertia of this arsenal. Everywhere direct actions are rattling the social fabric that holds all of our necks to the cutting block. With the fires burning in Ontario and Quebec, the banks broken in Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria, and elsewhere, there is nothing that seems to be able to hold back this inertia.

The Olympics are not about the human spirit & have little to do with
athletic excellence; they are a multi-billion dollar industry backed by
powerful elites, real estate, construction, hotel, tourism and television
corporations, working hand in hand with their partners in crime:
government officials & members of the International Olympic Committee
(IOC).