[Bloquez l'empire!] Responses to the residential schools apology; Counterinsurgency in Chiapas (No One Is Illegal Radio, July 2008)

[No One Is Illegal Montreal]

*No One Is Illegal Radio reports about the frontline struggles for justice,
dignity and self-determination by migrants, refugees and indigenous peoples.
On the JULY 2008 edition of the show, we hear from:*

*JANIE JAMIESON*, of the Six Nations Grand River Territory & *STUART MYIOW
JUNIOR,* of the Mohawk Traditional Council of Kahnawake, speaking out about
the "slap in the face" of the recent Canadian government apology for
residential schools.

and

*MIGUEL PICKARD* and *ANTOINE LIBERT* of  the Centre for Political and
Economic Investigation for Community Action (CIEPAC) in San Cristobal de las
Casas, about the increasing counter-insurgency and militarization of
Zapatista communities in Chiapas.

*--> LISTEN to the JULY 2008 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio here:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=28007*

Background:


*"A slap in the face": Responses to the residential schools apology*

This past June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood up in the
Canadian House of Commons to offer a formal apology to former students of
native residential schools, a federally organized and funded program,
intended to "kill the Indian in the child". Harper described his apology as
"a positive step in forging a new relationship between aboriginal peoples
and other Canadians [that] will contribute to a stronger Canada for all of
us." Others have described the apology as a slap in the face, and a
continued act of racism on native peoples.

For a critical native perspective on the apology, No One Is Illegal radio
producer Sarita Ahooja interviewed two indigenous activists: Janie Jamieson
of the Six Nations Grand River Territory and Stuart Myiow Junior of the
Mohawk Traditional Council of Kahnawake.

Janie speaks about her now deceased mother who was a survivor of residential
schools, analyzes how the perpetrators of residential schools crimes will
never be brought to justice, and describes the continued theft of native
land and resources, including recent threats to send in the Canadian Army
into Six Nations. Meanwhile, Stuart criticizes the Assembly of First Nations
and band councils who have accepted the apology, and challenges non-natives
to get educated about the reality of colonialism on Turtle Island.


*Militarization and Counterinsurgency in Chiapas*

In recent months, counterinsurgency efforts have intensified in Chiapas,
Mexico, where the indigenous-based Zapatistas launched an uprising for
justice and dignity on January 1st 1994. For insight into the
government-sponsored counterinsurgency and militarization, Montreal-area
solidarity organizers Tatiana Gomez, Tamara Herman and Aman Verma have
recently produced a radio series interviewing frontline activists who
accompany and observe Zapatista communities in San Cristobal de las Casas.
We play interviews with Miguel Pickard and Antoine Libert who address the
escalation in April and May of military convoys, bases and interventions in
several communities, as well as the role of the Canadian and USA governments
in the ongoing repression.

*--> LISTEN to the JULY 2008 edition of No One Is Illegal Radio here:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=28007*
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