[IPSM] grassy; genocide; rwanda

[Dru Oja Jay]

Various articles...

http://dominionpaper.ca/original_peoples/2005/06/21/the_blocka.html

The Blockade Between Hope and Destruction
Grassy Narrows, Abitibi Consolidated and the Canadian Governments

* by Macdonald Stainsby *

Many years before the arrival of the white man to the land of the 
Anishinabe Nation, there was a prophecy that when the white people 
arrived, they would bring the destruction of the forests and the land 
that sustains the Anishinabe people. When Montréal-based Abitibi 
Consolidated began logging the land in the late 1980s, the sound of the 
machines was enough to cause great concern for many elders.

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http://dominionpaper.ca/opinion/2005/08/16/insurgency.html

Insurgency In Occupied Alberta
A Voice From The Coffin

* by Stewart Steinhauer *

At the 2005 commencement ceremony held at the University of British 
Columbia, all of the indigenous students receiving degrees refused to 
shake hands with UBC's Chancellor, former BC Supreme Court Justice 
MacEachern. They refused because of MacEachern's use of a quote from 
Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan", in reference to the case known as 
"Delgamuuk", saying that before the "civilizing mission" from Europe 
entered the Americas, "aboriginal" peoples' lives were "nasty, short, 
and brutish". The description "nasty, short and brutish" is fairly 
accurate, but MacEachern got the sequence of events wrong.

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http://dominionpaper.ca/francais/2005/08/17/genocide_r.html

Génocide rwandais : La presse française au ban des accusés
Entretien avec Jean-Paul Gouteux

* Propos recueillis par Vivien Jaboeuf *

Le rapport de la Commission d'enquête citoyenne sur le rôle de la 
France durant le génocide rwandais L'horreur qui nous prend au visage 
est paru en mars dernier. Il dénonce entre autres l'implication 
française sur le plan médiatique. Jean-Paul Gouteux, spécialiste de la 
question rwandaise, nous rappelle la tendance néocolonialiste de la 
presse française en Afrique.