[IPSM] Mission Statement: The Fourth World is Right Here

[Macdonald Stainsby]

I will send out two separate calls; there are two projects with one general 
appeal for assistance here...

The primary goal is the solidarity work with various nations, most 
specifically of the far north. Though I love to hitchhike and tell the 
stories therein, and will, that joy has nothing to do with a struggle for 
basic survival. As such, the separation, though as difficult as for a first 
worlder working with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine, 
will remain a top priority. I shall be leaving for the road, first stop, 
Kahnestake, Mohawk territory, around May 20-- in the meantime, it's 
fundraising, planning and outreach (as well as odd jobs and any work to be 
found).

with all my solidarity,
--Macdonald

March 27
Mission Statement

The Fourth World is Right Here:
Surviving the Nation Called Canada

from:
http://independentmedia.ca/survivingcanada/

A traveler to Canada will often remark immediately that this country is such 
a wonderful place. Even if they are able to get into something resembling 
the backwoods-- that is, away from the concrete world they are shown in 
cities to the fake plastic parks such as Banff, Whistler, Mont Tremblant or 
even Kluane in the Yukon-- they still see little of what this country wants 
to keep hidden. Canada is a free market country, and as such has massive 
poverty, homelessness, unemployment, illiteracy and more social ills that 
fall under a system that prioritizes capital above all else. Also, this 
state has massive racism, violence against women and children, drug and 
alcohol abuse and other social pathologies. These pathologies are enough on 
their own, but their greatest expression is in Indian Country, that dirty 
secret that Canada has turned from an embarrassment into a way to sell their 
tourists trinkets.

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I intend to visit several different nations who have current threats to 
their very survival as a people. I will hitchhike from Montreal, zig-zagging 
across Canada westward, stopping in Vancouver before heading directly north, 
where the greatest threats to both indigenous and environmental survival are 
taking place: in the Northwest Territories and Yukon. The survival of all 
indigenous nations is almost always intimately tied up with the health of 
the environment that we are all a part of, not masters over.

-- 
to help with supplies (digital camera, internet connection, etc) please go 
to the webpage and click on the PayPal button. Anything greatly appreciated!
http://independentmedia.ca/survivingcanada/

If you can offer secondary web-hosting, links, other promotion or any other 
additional assistance in lieu of financial contributions, please do not 
hesitate to contact me.
-- 

Macdonald Stainsby
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In the contradiction lies the hope
	--Bertholt Brecht.