On Monday April 28th, 2008 Indigenous Warriors on Coast Salish Territory blocked a vital intersection used for commercial shipping to the United States. The action was done in solidarity with the Tyendinaga Mohawk community. Five Warriors from Tyendinaga had been arrested and attacked by the OPP days before. SWAT teams and paramilitary units were on Tyendinaga Territory surrounding dozens of other unarmed Warriors who were peacefully occupying a rock quarry claimed to be on their territory.

The students at the college of Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin recently collected about two tons of electronic waste and 23 pounds of pharmaceuticals as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.

The collections brought to over four tons the amount of electronics (e-waste) recycled by members of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin as part of the challenge involving over 100 projects in eight states across the Great Lakes Basin thus helping the EPA exceed its goals many times over of one million pounds of e-waste and one million pills.
During the hours of the actual collection on campus, the students learned they had also been awarded a major recycling grant.
In both cases, they were the only tribal college out of numerous participants.
The collection was one of several Earth Week projects sponsored by the tribe including several by youngsters and teens at the tribal school.
The story includes a video detailing the college project and numerous photos.

Many updates following the action in Tyendinaga including the latest:

• Video from the barricade
• Statement from OCAP's Sue Collis on Shawn Brant's Arrest

The lead defense lawyer for the Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal had some choice words to describe UN Human Rights head [and former Supreme Court of Canada "Justice"] Louise Arbour: "Louise Arbour is a war criminal..."

On February 16th, 2008 there were a nation wide series of events to protest the North American Security & Prosperity Agreement signed [between] Vicente Fox, George Bush and Paul Martin.

On August 15th, 2007 there was a forum held in Victoria, BC, to educate the public on the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico signed in May of 2005 by the leaders of Mexico, the US and Canada.

Never fear, Diebold promises to uphold their commitment to carrying on the election sham right to the end. An excellent piece of satire from The Onion.

Two Warriors from the Native Youth Movement (NYM) have just completed a 20 stop speaking tour against the 2010 Winter Olympics planned to be held in unceded Coast Salish Territories.

As you all probably remember, back on August 20, 2007, several hundred protesters gathered in Montebello (Quebec) to protest the Leader's Meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)...[S]everal actual protesters who were attacked by the riot police were arrested. One of those protesters -- Leila -- chose to defend herself and take the charges against her to trial. Her trial will be this JUNE 12, 2008 at the "Palais de Justice" in Hull, Quebec...Please read [the] callout [below] for how you can support Leila as she faces trial.

Fire in the Niger Delta

Hundreds of women have gone missing or have turned up dead in this Mexican border town just across from El Paso, Texas. Many women fear that the perpetrators act with impunity from local officials. Many of the women have been raped, their bodies mutilated.

There are a great number of parallels to be drawn between this situation and the missing women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Brasscheck TV

[Forward by Joan Malerich]

CNN has Norman Solomon on to talk about the vices of GE-owned NBC. But, Solomon doesn't stop with NBC, he heads on to ABC and eventually hangs out CNN's dirty laundry.

Anarchist action figures were discretely placed on store shelves at Target and Wal-Mart stores across San Francisco, waiting for unsuspecting consumers to pick them up this holiday season.

[Thanks to the anonymous person who posted this. You made my day! -ron]

Annie Leonard

A new short film released today online takes viewers on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration — exposing the real costs of this use-it and lose-it approach to stuff.

The Story Of Stuff Challenges American Consumerism Just In Time For The Holidays

KILL BILL 43!

A gang of ruthless global corporate yakuza fronted by the evil Falcon are out to DESTROY DEMOCRACY! Can the Deadly Viper Highway Assassination Squad, in league with hundreds of thousands of angry citizens and one raging granny, save the day?!