[news] Hoping Against Hope?

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A review of a new audio documentary about the struggle against colonialism In Canada

A recently released audio documentary finds that in today’s Canada, Indigenous communities are “beset with record levels of suicide, high infant mortality rates, rampant sexual exploitation, epidemic levels of gas-sniffing, and alcohol, drug and solvent abuse. Furthermore there is an over-representation of Indigenous people in the prison system and chronic levels of desperate poverty.” These findings aren’t much different from what’s occasionally found in media headlines, but the root causes the documentary points to and the solutions it proposes are radically different from anything found in mainstream discourse.

  


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URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/18050